Sundance 2000 Preview. The festival opens today and goes until the 30th. Here's a two-week old Wired article.

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Generosity kicks ass.

I, too, must post this NYTimes story on ineptitude, as it has been on my mind lately. My recent awakening to my limitations certainly seems to be the crux of much of my unhappiness. Unless...

Unlike their unskilled counterparts, the most able subjects in the study, Dr. Kruger and Dr. Dunning found, were likely to underestimate their own competence. The researchers attributed this to the fact that, in the absence of information about how others were doing, highly competent subjects assumed that others were performing as well as they were -- a phenomenon psychologists term the "false consensus effect."

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The first international cybersquatting suit goes to the prosecutor, as decided by an arbitrator for the World Intellectual Property Organization.

That Usenet crypto export case has taken something of a turn--but for the better? While concessions are being made, to the delight of businesses who wish to export crypto software, the precedents being set are not the ones we're looking for.

Another domain-name-fuck-up not-our-responsibility story, this time not involving NSI directly. The problem here is not what the registration company that made the error is doing about it, but the lack of recourse for those that "rightfully" "own" the domains (that is, those that got there first).