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Copyright, DMCA, E-voting Flaws, Civil Disobedience!
October 22, 2003Students Fight E-Vote Firm. By Kim Zetter. Wired, Oct. 21, 2003. A group of students at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania has launched an “electronic civil disobedience” campaign against voting machine maker Diebold Election Systems. The students are protesting efforts by Diebold to prevent them and other website owners from linking to some 15,000 internal company [...]
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20 great google secrets
October 22, 2003Tara Calishain has an article in PCMag called 20 Great Google Secrets. These tips could really enhance your searching. “…most people don’t use it to its best advantage. Do you just plug in a keyword or two and hope for the best? That may be the quickest way to search, but with more than 3 [...]
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ElectAura-Net uses body as network
October 22, 2003File this under “news of the weird”. DoCoMo researchers have demoed a 10 mbs Ethernet running over human meat rather than copper wire. Pretty soon we’ll be talking in the third personal plural (“we are borg!”) [From boingboing]
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An editorial on some of the challenges facing Apple now that iTunes has come to Windows
October 21, 2003Ars Technica: Apple’s iTunes Music Store: dissed by Microsoft, breakin’ some machines, and facing challenges by Ken “Caesar” Fisher. (10/2003). This article analyzes some of the technical issues as well as the and DRM social issues.
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Dueling Monopolies
October 21, 2003The Register Oct. 20, 2003. “Microsoft monopoly says Apple monopoly is too restrictive” By Andrew Orlowski. Microsoft warns consumers that the Windows-based version of iTunes is a “closed system.” There’s plenty of irony in seeing one monopoly accuse another monopoly of restricting users’ choices. But monopolies they both are.
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More on Massachusetts, Open Source and Open Standards
October 21, 2003The Register “Victory declared in the open source war that never was” By John Lettice, Oct. 20, 2003.
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10 Most Wanted Govdocs
October 21, 2003OMB Watch – Ideas Wanted for 10 Most Wanted Government Docs Remeber the last “10 most wanted”? http://www.cdt.org/righttoknow/10mostwanted/ OMB Watch is asking for ideas for a new “10 most wanted government documents.” Part of the announcement: As part of an effort to fight increased government secrecy, we would like your help in identifying: (1) the [...]
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Massachusetts goes Open Source
October 20, 2003Microsoft may face upheaval in open-source policy Trend ‘unstoppable’ for open standards By JUSTIN POPE. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. October 20, 2003 Eric Kriss, Massachusetts administration and finance secretary, instructed the state’s chief technology officer to adopt a policy favoring “open standards, open source” technology.
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An Alternative Compensation System
October 19, 2003Promises to Keep Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment by William Fisher. (forthcoming, Stanford University Press, 2004). Drafts of the introduction and chapter 6 (An Alternative Compensation System) of this book by Fisher, who is Professor of Law at Harvard University and Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, are available now. [...]
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Brave New Library
October 18, 2003Library Journal 10/1/2003. by John N. Berry III, Editor-in-Chief “Ominous omens in entertainment and information”
