Archive for the ‘LINKS’ Category.

Techdirt on lack of interest in legitimate music downloads

CSS diatribe

Jamie Zawinsky posts an interesting diatribe entitled CSS is BS.

Dissertation Could Be Security Threat

Dissertation Could Be Security Threat (TechNews.com)
«this George Mason University graduate student has mapped every business and industrial sector in the American economy, layering on top the fiber-optic network that connects them»

Stanford’s Wireless Authentication

Network Computing (June 26, 2003):
Authentication Gets Into Stanford

Bill Gates on Spam

CNET on PlanetLab

Matrix Reloaded Flash Mob in Osaka

Rotten Tomatoes: Matrix Reloaded in Japan

The Internet under surveillance

Orrin Hatch: Software Pirate?

Wired News: Orrin Hatch: Software Pirate?
«
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) suggested Tuesday that people who download copyright materials from the Internet should have their computers automatically destroyed.

But Hatch himself is using unlicensed software on his official website, which presumably would qualify his computer to be smoked by the system he proposes.

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More backup brains

Mike at
Techdirt
cites a bunch of other wearable brain/memory assisters at Microsoft, HP, Accenture, and of course DARPA. Today’s novelty is

DejaView’s Camwear 100
with on-demand storage of the prior 30 seconds of head-mounted video.