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Monday, November 03, 2003 |
No Spam law in Missouri, following on the state's success with a
No-call Registry.
I forwarded some of today's haul and will report back if there's anything
worth reporting down the line.
10:05:27 PM 
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I Need Stuff To Read. Anyone who's actually seen my apartment will scoff at this, but I need books. Lots of books. I'm going out to San Jose from the 15th through the 22nd - while I will be working while I'm there and plan... [Andrew Bayer is Dreaming of China]
I've got ideas, but I don't know you can lay hands on them in ten days' time.
9:52:42 PM
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Linda Tripp gets $600,000 privacy payout: Gives her outstanding performance evaluations. CNN via NewsIsFree: Popular Items.
The federal government Monday announced it is paying Linda Tripp and her attorneys $595,000 dollars to settle allegations that the Department of Defense violated her privacy rights when confidential information about her was disclosed during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
'cause, y'know, that Linda Tripp is a freakin' STICKLER for respecting peoples' privacy!
9:46:45 PM
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kaveh has made his last
blog entry, and left Iran for Australia.
Khodahafez! Check in again from Down Under, won't you?
4:04:34 PM
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Vietnam opts for open source (CNETAsia).
Vietnam's government wants to eliminate Microsoft's operating
system to reduce demand for pirated software
Vietnamese authorities have ruled that all government desktop computers
must run open-source operating systems by 2005.
4:04:31 PM
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From ACM Update:
New Exemptions to DMCA Fail to Address USACM Concerns
As part of a rulemaking process initiated every three years as mandated by the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Copyright Office recently created four limited exemptions to the anticircumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Accordingly, the new exemptions allow individuals to circumvent technological measures that control access to lists of sites blocked by commercial Internet filtering software (but not spam-fighting lists); computer programs or video games that use obsolete formats or hardware; computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete; and e-books that prevent read-aloud or other handicapped access formats from functioning.
During the Copyright Office's most recent DMCA rulemaking proceeding, USACM submitted comments and testified at a hearing. USACM noted that the anticircumvention provisions of the DMCA are having substantial negative impacts on the conduct of basic research in the U.S. by preventing scientists and technologists from pursuing legitimate research related to cryptography and other computer security areas. Circumventing access technologies is a legitimate technique for recognizing shortcomings in security systems, defending patents and copyrights, discovering and fixing dangerous bugs in code, and conducting forms of desired educational activities. USACM recommended that exemptions to the DMCA be provided to ensure that scientists, technologists and other individuals are not penalized for conducting research or for making other non-infringing uses of copyright protected materials. While welcoming the new DMCA exemptions, they fail to address USACM's primary concerns.
To review USACM's statement before the Copyright Office, see:
http://www.acm.org/usacm/Testimony/Simons_LOC_Copyright.htm
To review the Copyright Office's announcement of the new exemptions, see: http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
3:04:25 PM
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Five Major Publishers Announce Settlement in Copyright
Infringement Suit against Collegiate Copies
HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Pearson
Education, Princeton University Press, and Sage Publications today
announced they have settled their copyright infringement lawsuit against
Collegiate Copies of Bloomington, Indiana, and its owners, John E. Seeber
and Thomas Seeber. The lawsuit, announced in July 2003, charged that
Collegiate Copies engaged in routine and systematic reproduction of
materials from the plaintiffs' publications without seeking permission.
Collegiate Copies has agreed to pay an undisclosed amount in damages.
Additionally, Collegiate Copies will respect the copyrights on works owned
by the plaintiffs and used by Collegiate Copies, and pay the associated
reuse royalties through rights licensing agent Copyright Clearance
Center.
1:04:03 PM
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2 from BNA News:
12:03:58 PM
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Microsoft Hearing Could Conclude the Case: Appeals
Judges to Consider Challenges to Antitrust Accord. By Jonathan Krim,
Washington Post.
[W]hat makes next week's hearing unusual is that the seven
judges scheduled to hear the appeal are the ones who in June 2001 upheld
several findings of Microsoft violations but rejected a trial judge's order
that the company be broken up. They sent the case back to the lower court
with new guidelines for determining how the violations should be addressed.
. . .
The District Court's remedy will not restore competition, deny Microsoft
the fruits of its illegal conduct or otherwise satisfy this court's remedial
objectives, Massachusetts argues.
12:03:54 PM
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I've been meaning to work up a little story on the history that leads up to
me maintaining this weblog, but (as with a number of things I've been
meaning to work up) haven't gotten there yet. Among the pieces of that
story are an OpenMail distribution list, a mailing list, and a hotlist
Web page. They all precede these
first blog posts, from four years ago.
10:03:35 AM
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Boy hacker arrested over violation of computer law (Yomiuri Shimbun).
Police have arrested a 17-year-old Brazilian boy living in Tochigi
Prefecture on suspicion of violating the Unauthorized Computer Access
Law, the police said Friday.
The boy is a member of an international group of hackers responsible
for hacking into more than 1,000 Web sites in 33 countries.
. . .
The boy worked for an employment agency.
10:03:32 AM
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>From the NetFuture archive, items on:
10:03:28 AM
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Some facilitation and online dispute resolution links from Nancy White:
9:03:16 AM
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Delisting blogs from my blogroll. Today I delisted a couple of blogs from my blogroll. I thought I'd comment on why, and give them a farewell link. I delisted a medlog, Cut to Cure, because I got tired of its cheerleading for the "patients are lazy, patients are greedy, patients are stu [Learning the Lessons of Nixon]
Interesting to be upfront about it like that. I've avoided a blog roll in part just not to have to think about whether I should make any changes to it . . .
7:10:52 AM
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Oiling up the draft machine? The Pentagon is quietly moving to fill draft board vacancies nationwide. While officials say there's no cause to worry, some experts aren't so sure. By Dave Lindorff, in Salon.
7:05:56 AM
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Seafaring the Smart Way. The mariner's life has always been fraught with danger, especially in the treacherous North Atlantic. This will never change, but 'smart buoys' -- which contain information about sea conditions -- can buy a sailor valuable time. Michelle Delio reports from Portland, Maine. [Wired News]
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