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Monday, December 08, 2003 |
Some Techie Stuff. Point/Counterpoint: Web services for collaboration P.J.: Despite what some may think, I'm about as platform-neutral as they come. But here's the problem: There's still no agreement on how presence shall be presented as a Web service. On one side are... [Andrew Bayer is Dreaming of China]
8:15:04 PM 
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Four from BNA News:
- NSW CONSIDERING LAW TO LIMIT JURY NET USAGE
The Australian state of New South Wales is considering the
introduction of a new law to ban juries from accessing
information about defendants online.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/08/1070732118621.html
- EBAY MOVES INTO DATA SELLING BUSINESS
The WSJ runs a feature on eBay stepping up its plans to sell
auction data. Among the hottest data is the average selling
prices on eBay for a wide range of products with the
information serving as the basis to determine fair market
prices.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB107083482199345500,00.html
- JUDGE ORDERS SCO TO ANSWER TO IBM
A judge has ordered SCO to show within 30 days the Linux
software to which it believes it has rights and to point out
where it believes IBM is infringing. IBM was seeking
production from SCO of two key batches of information,
including all source code and other material in Linux to
which SCO has rights, and a detailed description of how SCO
believed IBM had infringed SCO's rights.
http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5114689.html
- NET GOVERNANCE DEAL STRUCK ON EVE OF WSIS SUMMIT
Representatives have struck last-minute deals on human
rights and managing the Internet to calm fears that this
week's WSIS summit would become a battle between rich and
poor states. On Internet management, states agreed to ask
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to set up a working party to
investigate and report back by 2005, when a second summit
will be held in Tunis.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20031207_1
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/08/technology/08divide.html067.html
3:40:45 PM
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So much for the loosening some thought heralded by the release of Liu Di,
Stainless Steel Mouse:
Chinese cyber-dissident in solitary confinement
Huang was moved to a two-square-metre unfurnished cell at
Nanchong prison, south-western Sichuan province, and was forced to sleep on
the ground, Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said in a statement on
Friday.
This happened after a two-member delegation from Reporters Without Borders
tried to visit Huang in late October, and were turned down by the prison
governor, according to the group.
. . .
He has been in prison since June 2000 when he was arrested for publishing
political information on his website, http://www.6-4tianwang.com.
The website originally listed information on people who had gone missing,
but soon became a forum about people who had disappeared into police
custody, usually because of their political or religious beliefs.
The site carried reports on dissidents, the separatist movement in
north-west Xinjiang province, the banned Falungong sect and the bloody
suppression of the Tiananmen Square democracy protests of June 1989.
1:40:26 PM
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Black Hat Briefings Amsterdam Call for Papers
Papers and presentations are now being accepted for The Black Hat
Briefings Amsterdam 2004 event in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Being
held at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky May 17th - 20th, 2004. Papers and
requests to speak will be received and reviewed until March 25th.
WHAT IS THE BLACK HAT BRIEFINGS?
The Black Hat Briefings fills the need for computer security
professionals to better understand the security risks and potential
threats to their information infrastructures and computer systems.
Black Hat accomplishes this by assembling a group of vendor-neutral
security professionals and having them present candidly about the
problems businesses face and their solutions to those problems. No
gimmicks -- just straight talk by people who make it their business to
explore the ever-changing security space.
This year there will be two days of training on select topics, followed
by two days of the Briefings - each day with two tracks of speakers!
We are looking for presentations on the following topics:
- The European perspective on Privacy, Annoniminity, or DRM issues.
- Infrastructure security issues surrounding SQL, PKI, AD, or other
enterprise deployments.
- Interesting security issues surrounding mobile Symbian, WinCE, Palm, and
Java devices.
- Smart Cards, IKeys, TCA, and the issues of increasing your assurance
through trusted hardware.
- Security issues surrounding patch management, the mobile user, and
policy..
- Inside out attacks, where the threat becomes the internal user who
has run malicious code.
- Techniques and technologies to help defend against 0-Day attacks.
- 0-Day attacks. What is the current cutting edge of attack research
and bug finding techniques?
12:39:34 PM
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Compact Disc Antitrust Deal Finalized, by Sarah Coffey, AP.
Under the settlement signed Wednesday by U.S. District Judge D.
Brock Hornby, the CD buyers will receive vouchers to give them 75 percent
discounts for new compact discs, which they will receive with no shipping
or handling charges.
Some members will be eligible for as many as three discounts, said an
attorney for the plaintiffs, Michael Jaffe.
Hornby approved a $143 million settlement in a related lawsuit last July
that accused major record companies and large music retailers of conspiring
to set minimum music prices. Under that settlement, 3.5 million people are
to receive checks for $12.60 and libraries and schools across the country
will get $75.7 million worth of music CDs.
. . .
In agreeing to the settlement, the companies denied any
wrongdoing.
12:39:28 PM
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Book of life contains real DNA. New Scientist via NewsIsFree: Popular Items An encyclopedia has been published that contains 172 pages of mouse DNA, including all 60,000 known active mouse genes.
Work on a human equivalent has already begun, promising the ultimate in vanity publishing - anyone rich enough could one day pay to have their genome committed to print.
6:34:01 AM
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Gerard sez:
No CDs for the Holidays: 2003 - Make It Happen.
Think of this RIAA tactic as "random cyberterrorism with
lawyers." It stinks. It is part of the axis of evil interests determined to
control your online behavior. And it is a very dangerous precedent. What's
more, looked at from any reasonable perspective, it is merely the last in a
series of attempts by the executives behind RIAA to save their cushy jobs
and perks. That, at bottom, is all it is. This possibility that all these
lawsuits will add a dime to the royalty checks of the musicians it is said
to represent is close to zero.
If these litigation junkies at the RIAA could wake up from their money
induced dementia and smell the coffee of online micropayments and the clear
signals from Apple's online music store, they'd find billions more in
revenue than they are currently seeing from grinding out half-baked albums
and pricing them into the stratosphere.
But they can't wake up. They need to be shaken.
What I'd like to see happen, so that the RIAA and the recording industry
deeply understands that suing people at random is VERY BAD FOR BUSINESS is
a Web wide boycott on CDs as holiday gifts in 2003.
It is simple and it will be, if broadly based enough, effective. It simply
targets the one season of the year when all the recording companies are
hoping to make a killing in sales. What would happen if those sales fell
dramatically? They might get the message that while downloading music that
you don't pay for is wrong, destroying individuals financially at random is
equally wrong.
It has something to do with that old adage about: "Two wrongs don't make a
right."
Yes, just that simple and sometimes simple ideas are strong ideas.
My idea, simply put: ,br>
NO CDs FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
WEB TO RIAA: TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT.
Pass it on.
(Further
discussion.)
2:35:43 AM
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