CodeCon 2.0, the hackers conference started today in San Francisco and this writeup covers the presentations of the first day.

In ruling that the Bells don't have to offer their lines to competitors at regulated rates, the FCC has essentially given the high-speed bandwidth business to the phone company.

From the abstract: "For such networks where loads can redistribute among the nodes, intentional attacks can lead to a cascade of overload failures, which can in turn cause the entire or a substantial part of the network to collapse."

A paper from the Brookings Institution argues that strict copying controls are harmful to the market for music.

An IETF standard for NAT traversal - excellent.

P2P based on HTTP - this is fantastic.

The newly formed Echo Networks will offer music dowloads through a standard and open platform. Does that include Ogg/Vorbis downloads?

Artima.com has published an article by Bill Venners, Matt Gerrans, and Frank Sommers in which they explain why JUnit didn't solve their particular testing problems, and how they created Artima SuiteRunner, a free, open source test toolkit and JUnit runner.

Here's an excerpt:

Because JUnit links the concepts of running and reporting in the notion of a runner, we made Artima SuiteRunner a JUnit runner. You can use Artima SuiteRunner to run and report results of JUnit tests, just like you can use JUnit's text or Swing runners. The three main advantages of using SuiteRunner to run your JUnit tests are reporters, runpaths, and recipe files:

• A reporter collects and presents test results in a highly customizable way to the user. Examples are text, graphics, Web pages, database output, CSV files, XML, and email alerts.
• A runpath lets you load classes for your tests from anywhere with an easy- to-configure list of filenames, directory paths, and/or URLs.
• A recipe file captures and saves in a file the run properties of a particular suite of tests for easy reuse.

It's no surprize that label revenues are dropping, since consumers want MP3s but the labels won't sell them.

WiFi enabled car stereos present a new kind of file sharing network that works for you while you're stuck in traffic.