Interesting CNET article,
A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous.
The U.S. National Security Agency is also participating in the “IP Traceback” drafting group, named Q6/17, which is meeting [...]
In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing…
History of the Browser User Agent String.
It was inevitable. One can now run the entire Debian distribution (ARM port) on the Openmoko Neo Freerunner. Slashdot previously covered the July 4th launch of this GNU/Linux-based smartphone, which is open down to its core, with the company providing CAD files and schematics for the phone. Openmoko released an update to [...]
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Yesterday I received a generic replacement battery that I had ordered for my Sony VGN-FS840/W laptop. When placed in the laptop the battery indicator flashes rapidly. The laptop will not turn on with the battery inserted, even if the AC cord is also used. The battery shows no charge and does not [...]
One good DRM paper deserves another. Former EFF Staff Attorney, Jason Schultz, has taken a position at UC Berkeley’s School of Law and has just posted a pre-publication paper he co-wrote with Berkeley Law Professor Pamela Samuelson entitled: Should Copyright Owners Have to Give Notice About Their Use of Technical Protection Measures? From [...]
Radiohead recently announced that fans could pick the price they’d pay for Radiohead’s new album, In Rainbows.
To check this out and support this experiment, I signed up for the download-only version and chose to pay $.99 per song, i.e., $9.90 for the 10-song album. (I used a currency-converter to figure out how much to pay [...]
On July 3rd the 9th Circuit filed its opinion in Perfect 10 v. Visa Int’l Serv. Assoc., (9th Cir. 2007). The majority (Reinhardt and Smith) takes itself to be following the recent P10 decisions from the 9th Circuit, Perfect 10, Inc. v. CCBill LLC, (9th Cir. 2007). and Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon, Inc., [...]
The Perfect 10 v. CCBill decision from the 9th Circuit on March 29 was amended last Thursday to add a footnote regarding the meaning of “intellectual property” in Sec. 230 (the CDA). It responds to a point in Perfect 10’s petitions for rehearing and rehearing en banc (which were denied) that the 9th Circuit’s [...]
I wrote an article that, in part, explained the SCO v. IBM lawsuit up to that point in time. That wouldn’t have been necessary had this history of SCO been around. Too funny.
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