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Security Restrictions for Foreign Researchers on Sensitive Contracts
July 18, 2005“The Defense Department has proposed new restrictions on access by foreign researchers to sensitive technology useful to national security. The proposed rules would require foreign researchers to wear badges and would require laboratories to contain segregated work areas to control the scientists’ access to the technology. ” excerpt from Monday, July 18, 2005 Chronicle of [...]
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A gentle introduction to Darknets
July 16, 2005You’ve heard about the “dark web” or the “invisible web” (article – book — web directory – web search) that vast expanse of the Web that is “completely invisible to general purpose search engines” like Google and Yahoo. So what are “Darknets”? According to wikipedia a Darknet “is a private file sharing network where users [...]
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Update on UCITA
July 15, 2005New Battle Brews Over UCITA, Software Licensing Terms. by Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld, July 11, 2005. ACM Tech News notes that, “Although state-by-state adoption of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) was shot down by heavy resistance, critics contend that the act is still very influential, and the software users who led the opposition are [...]
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Geist on ICANN
July 15, 2005The battle for control of the Internet, by Michael Geist, Toronto Star, July 11, 2005. [free registration required] Michael Geist holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law and writes a regular column for the Toronto Star. In this column he breaks down the issues [...]
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New Hardware DRM Coming
July 15, 2005MicrosoftÕs OPM for the masses. by Peter Rojas, Endgadget, Jul 14, 2005. From “The Clicker, ” a weekly column on television and technology. Microsoft’s next operating system, “Longhorn,” will, according to this article, have something called PVP-OPM (Protected Video Path Š Output Protection Management), which “is the first play in MicrosoftÕs game plan to ensure [...]
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RFID? Trust Us. We’re Experts.
July 15, 2005Could broad anti-RFID laws cause problems?, by Anne Broache CNET News.com. July 14, 2005. This article discusses radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and possible limits on their use being proposed by law makers. The article reports on a panel discussion ‘designed to address the outcry from “Luddite privacy people who don’t like this new technology.”‘ [...]
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Your privacy and Google
July 15, 2005Google balances privacy, reach By Elinor Mills, CNET News.com, July 14, 2005. Google has lots and lots of information about users of Google’s search engine and other products (Gmail, Desktop Search, Web Accelerator). And Google keeps it for a long long time. Privacy advocates, this story notes, say that “…you realize Google can have a [...]
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Two Free Novels
July 14, 2005Slashdot reports “Two prominent science fiction authors have recently released their newest novels as free downloads to coincide with their in-store releases.” Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, by Cory Doctorow Accelerando, by Charles Stross
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Google Bias?
July 14, 2005Google’s Bias for Bigness. By Kelly Hearn, AlterNet, July 14, 2005. Many of us rely on Google daily and marvel at how well it ranks web pages and even long for library indexing to do as well. By definition, Google ranks popular pages (as measured by links to them) higher than less popular pages. But [...]
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Critique of the creative commons
July 14, 2005The Libre Society David M. Berry & Giles Moss have recently written a polemic critiquing the creative commons (see the extended entry for the full article). They argue that the Creative Commons project — because it relies on an “ideology and worldview that agrees too readily with that of the global ‘creative’ and media industries,” [...]
