Archives mensuelles : janvier 2003

Peace is also patriotic

The most widely quoted story of daypop right now (by a fair margin): The United States of America has gone mad. For those who prefer images to words, check this Word War 2.5 flash game Without commenting of why a … Continuer la lecture

Publié dans Voyages | Un commentaire

MS declares dividends

Microsoft declares their first dividend ever. Could this be related to a certain tax plan? Thanks to Fizzz for the heads up.

Publié dans Technos | Commentaires fermés

Read it and creep

Doc Searls quotes a discouraging email by a confrère who states that the Eldred decision is in the interest of IP rights owners. The author also stresses the need to own everything IP related. I don’t agree. You definitely need … Continuer la lecture

Publié dans Droit | 2 commentaires

Are DVDs copy protected?

Greplaw has a post asking if the DVD CSS can really be considered copy protection, since making an exact copy of a DVD is totally possible without knowing the encryption method. The copy will then have to be read in … Continuer la lecture

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Eldred

Eldred. 7-2. Sad day. More on Lawmeme

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On competition

I hate mod points on /.: I feel like I have a duty to give back and read the comments. Fortunately, sometimes there are little gems: Poster 1: We’ve never truly seen Google behaving in an aggressive, competitive way Poster … Continuer la lecture

Publié dans Technos | 2 commentaires

Birdiiiiiieee!

Mini-putt in Shockwave glory. Long day. Headache. Could there be less fresh air in the ventilation system when it’s -16 outside?

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Bar Code Clock

A simple javascript thing. Cute, different, simple. [via Fizzz]

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QOTD

« The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. » Bertrand Russell I want to believe… [via Quote of the Day]

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Anglicismes dans le droit positif québécois

Suggestion de la Grande Rousse, cette ressource . Au second chapitre, anglicismes. Au troisième, traduction juridique. C’est lent, mais riche. [via Les coups de langue de la grande rousse]

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Blogosphere

There are a bunch of systems around the web to see who’s linking to who, what weblogs you might like to read, who’s reading what, who’s the most prolific linker, etc. Some rely on spiders, some rely on trackback pings … Continuer la lecture

Publié dans Meta | 3 commentaires

Pioneers get the arrows, settlers get the land

Mark is angry. How angry? I migrated to semantic markup that has been around for 10 fucking years and they go and drop it. Not deprecate it slowly over time, mind you, but just fucking drop it. Which means that, … Continuer la lecture

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Icon Wars

Sans commentaires [via Fizzz]

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MS settles for 1.1 billion

MS settles for 1.1 billion in a California class action. This is not the federal anti trust case but a private class action. The settlement amounts to 30% of all the sales revenues of Microsoft in that state between 1995 … Continuer la lecture

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Who are you and what are you doing writing this?

I’ve been surfing the web for a couple minutes now, I absolutely forgot what it is I was looking for in the first place. The non-chronological history of Chimera makes it hard to retrace my steps. All I know is … Continuer la lecture

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