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- 2006: "What, me organized?"
- 2007: Why Did God Make Mothers? -- Kelly, The Woman Wonders
- 2007: The brain scan that can read people's intentions
Ian Sample, UK Guardian - 2007: Imam prays to stop ‘oppression and occupation’ at Democratic National Committee meeting -- Robert, Jihad Watch
From Back in the Day
FULL SPECTRUM CULTURE
Market Invading Market —
Examples of the Market usurping the rightful authority of the Market
Category Archives: Market Invading Market
Companies Claim Right to Interfere with eBay Auctions for Charging Too Little — Greg Beck,
Consumer Law & Policy Blog
Usury for Beginners: How a Web site helped me become a loan shark. — Jonathan V. Last, OpinionJournal
A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
Peter Gutmann, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Executive Summary Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues affect not [...]
[Windows] Vista license improves, but still broken
Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing
Even as Microsoft announces that it has reconsidered the crippling restrictions on reinstalling its new operating system Vista (the original terms stated that you could only reinstall once before it locked up and died), SecurityFocus’s Scott Granneman details more damning restrictions in the Vista license. When you unwrap your copy of Vista, you “agree” not [...]
YouTube sued over copyright infringement
Greg Sandoval, CNET News
YouTube has risen pretty far pretty fast, but this is not without its problems. Here’s more links: Is YouTube a flash in the pan? – Greg Sandoval, CNET News on MSN YouTube’s new policy says: we own your content – Xeni Jardin, BoingBoing More on YouTube’s controversial new terms and conditions – Xeni Jardin, BoingBoing
WIPO meets to screw up podcasting, Barcelona, June 21
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
See also: Constitutional circumvention – James Boyle, Financial Times (HT: Barcepundit)
Typed too fast? Google profits from your typo – Leslie Walker & Brian Krebs, WaPo in the Seattle Times
Don’t Privatize the Internet.
[Continuing series called "Enemies Foreign and Domestic"]
Winterspeak at Assymetrical Information (a.k.a. janegalt.net) pipes up about the telphone and cable companies would like to get to government to make them the ultimate middle men of cyberspace. Here’s hoping that doesn’t happen. Keep the network neutral!
