Bill is a survivor of commercial radio and created RP to "tell the bean-counters who rule the radio biz to take that FM tower & shove it where the sun..."

What differenciates RP from other webcasters is the community aspect of the site. Users can rate and comment on the songs being played and these are fed back in to the music programming process. There is an incredible amount of potential in what he has done, I'd like to see RP put together a CD wishlist for me based on how I have rated songs in the past for instance. I sure hope the open source community gets behind it to take it to the next level.

Bill is also currently involved in quiet talks with the powers that be in Washington regarding web broadcasting. It's an interesting site to watch.

"Hackers are into intelligence, and it doesn't much matter what kind of body houses your brain," Toronto systems analyst Tamara Jovell said. "Frankly, I find it refreshing to be in a place where men get truly and totally turned on by how I think."...

"The problems are caused by some women who will date a well-known hacker in order to become elite just by association," Nartian said. "The scene whores aren't respected for what they do but for who they are doing. And it leads to men thinking we're all clueless and creates a real schism between us women and the girls."...

"I'm here to have fun, and me and my friends don't much care what the other chicks think," Kat said. "So get over your worries about being mistaken for a real woman and just lighten up, ladies."

Kat said Defcon is a single woman's "dream holiday" and insisted that with a flash of flesh she could have anything she wanted or needed.

"I don't pay for food, my room, T-shirts, anything," she said complacently. "The guys just give me stuff."

The artist nearly huffed his way out of the offices of the fledgling humor magazine. But editor Al Feldstein convinced him to try and give life to a poorly formed Mad character.

"I wanted him to make this kid into a real live kid. I wanted him to be lovable, not ugly," Feldstein said at the Comic-Con International convention, which ends Sunday in San Diego.

And in fact, IPSEC was later invented along similar lines, as an option. But part of the difficulty with implementing IPSEC is that it is too late - popular fads such as NAT and stateful inspection firewalls have been deployed too widely. Firewalls (which provide faux security at best) make real security much harder to deploy, because they require that end-systems expose too much information in the clear. Truly secure protocols (even IPSEC) don't work very well with firewalls.