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Beyong the catchy title, it is about the british implementation of the EU copyright directive. And this is actually quite relevant to my work.
[via The Register]
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Mhhhh… Cookies….
« [the] best batteries get 70w/kg. Not enough. Fuel cells aren’t going to happen this decade. Chocolate cookie is 1000w/kg; propane is 8750w/kg »
–Dean Kamen talking about life and the Segway
[via Aaron Swartz]
Much ado about nothing
So a certain someone said that someone wasn’t too enthusiastic about going to someone’s someone’s cottage in a few weeks. That second someone would just like to clear his or her name by saying that this someone is very much enthusiastic about hanging with these someones for a day or two. Just that since this so called gathering is still so far away, this someone can’t maintain the expected level of enthusiasm til then.
But just to make things clear, let it be known at this moment that this someone has self-assigned the role of bringing a cake to the gathering! Beat this kind of enthusiasm!
How CDMA won, a followup.
We already know that Qualcomm says that CDMA won.
Now the Register comments on that reality gap in a article aptly named « Qualcomm monoculture is ‘killing Ameciran wireless« .
XBox a phreaking tool?
I was talking about IP telephony restrictions the other day. Little did I realize that the XBox Live has built-in voice chat capability for games. That might end up being put to some creative use.
[via JOHO]
MS vs Logiciel libre
Another halloween memo (and the mandatory /. and news.com coverage.) and an article stating the obvious about TCO: shop before you buy into any sales pitch because your mileage may vary.
And down under…
Net censorship bill passed.
and blocking plans for web sites advocating violent protests here and here. Hey it’s a though call… Maybe they won’t have to go to Doha next time…
[mostly via BNA ILN]
Cyanophilie
Time to change the color scheme.
[via Carnet CFD]
All in one portable device
I had a conversation during lunch the other day with a couple coders and they were saying they couldn’t wait for a cell-phone-PDA-pager-camera combo that was Bluetooth-WiFi-GPRS-3G-Infrared enabled, you know, a no compromise, everything goes in thing. Oh, and it needs to be small too and have a long long battery life….
This ZDNet article says that they can dream on. Will not happen. Market not going there. I’m not sure I agree.
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Digital Divide in the US
Bridging the digital divide. A leitmotiv. Well apparently, even inside the US, people are not interested anymore.
EPIC on P2P monitoring
Protests Against University Network Monitoring
GrepLaw story about a letter (well documented in american law) sent by EPIC to education institutions regarding the pressures by the RIAA to see them adopt some form of monitoring of P2P activities
[via GrepLaw]
I’ll have to read that
Salon has a lengthy book review of The Eagle’s Shadow by Mark Hertsgaard.
I experienced first-hand what he is talking about in his book, albeit on a limited scale. The article seems balanced and quite in line with what I experienced myself. I must confess that my limited mandarin vocabulary includes « I’m not American, I’m Canadian », that would always buy me a smile… Anyways, gotta read it.
No More CDs episode 3
Now it’s the New Scientist that, despite BMG’s announcement and Macrovision’s plans, Audio CD protection is not best of ideas:
Copy Protection On CDs Is ‘Worthless’
[via Slashdot]
All Consuming
John Udell has an interesting post today. I can’t really summarize this, except to say that it’s really interesting and it’s the kind of neat trick what pulls the Internet forward.
Oh, and it makes me want to talk about books available on Amazon! I don’t know if anyone at Amazon or at weblog.com ever envisioned something like that when they put their API together. I doubt it. I think it just shows that creativity can’t be planned and that giving toys away to people will lead to wonderfully unexpected results.
Read on…
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No more CDs say Macrovision and Midbar Tech
Macrovision has announced that it will acquire Israeli company Midbar Tech, with the intention of joining the rival
anti-copying technologies from the two companies.
Macrovision and Midbar promise that by next year, CDs using
their joint copy-protection technology will include two
versions of songs – one for ordinary CD players, and one
that can be loaded onto computer hard drives.
So many good news today…