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I respond to a lot of articles that I think affect the way your personal privacy and your rights as they revolve around the DMCA. I have also advocated that you write to your respective elected official and tell them how you feel. E-Mail is fine but nothing beats a hand written letter. Below are links to both the House
I had thought Microsoft had seen the light and was going to leave the lid on CD Copy Protection. But they have gotten back in bed with the producers of music and other types of CD media. They have developed what they call The Windows Media Data Session Toolkit the full details are not available but it's attempt is to
I normally do not post links to games. But I will make a exception this time and send you over to Titoonic to play the Squares game. They have a very interesting puzzle game that will give your mind a mental workout. [Titoonic]
Planet Replay is a service I am not at all familiar with. After reading the article in Wired it made me understand why the site owner shut it down. I would be afraid also If I ran such a service with the way Media companies are in a feeding frenzy to prosecute and sue any site that helps facilitate sharing
The Hubble Telescope has produced some very amazing pictures and have caused scientist worldwide to re-think some of Sciences most puzzling questions. Recently Hubble was pointed at a star cluster many billions of light years away for a extended period the picture is simply amazing. As I sit and reflect the Earth is nothing more than Atom in the great
NASA is pushing forward and asking for significant funding from congress to fund the Nuclear Prometheus Project. Where do I sign up for flight testing can you imagine sitting on a nuclear powered rocket ;) Very interesting to say the least. [Space.com]
A lot of music Industry news is coming out of France as they have a meeting that includes all the major labels. One of the first items was a plan for the RIAA to ask any ISP who allows their users to access File Swapping Network to pay a fee. We are 4 years into the highly publicized Music File
I spent a few minutes going thru this site has a limited amount of information but it is all pretty good if you are interested in DMCA issues. [p2pnet.net]
A couple of congressmen actually understand the dilemma that we as consumers are facing. "The fair use doctrine is threatened today as never before," says Boucher. "The Digital Millennium Copyright Act dramatically tilted the copyright balance toward complete copyright protection at the expense of the Fair Use rights of the users of copyrighted material." I wish them both luck in
The EFF has started the Cruelty to Analog weblog to document the entertainment industry's attempts to close the "analog hole". Knowing the EFF this site will explode it is just kicking off we will watch it and let you know. [analog.blogs.eff.org]
Microsoft has been ordered to have Sun's version of Java installed in 120 days. Sun wanted 90 but there was a compromise made and the judge handed down his ruling. I am wondering how this is going to improve IE utilization of Java. [WinInformant]
My oldest daughter has asked only once for a cell phone. She found out from me my opinion on the matter in a hurry. When she gets old enough to date or goes shopping with her friends she can borrow mine or my wife's but I'll be damned if she is going to have a cell phone until she is
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