In yet another travesty of justice that marks the DMCA, a report on CNET (also seen on other services) indicates that a Federal Judge has rules that Verizon's internet service will have to give up identifying information to the RIAA about a user who has been using the Kaaza …

This month's showing, scheduled for February 23rd at 2PM, will be the classic Lawrence of Arabia. As with last week's showing, please RSVP so that we can make sure we have ample seating.

Not surprisingly, Tom's Hardware has a very thorough review of the Linksys 802.11g access point. The short version is that it is OK for 802.11g only, but has some real problems with 802.11b.

Almost my entire LD collection will be up for bids, starting at 8pm PST (11pm EST) tonight. Wish me luck. I hope to fund the most recent phase of my DVD expansion with it.

Leave it to the UK's Daily Mail to fire the latest salvo in a war of words with the German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. At issue is the paper's right to publish a story about Mr. Schroeder's possible romantic connection with a "TV Presenter" in Germany. According to this story on …

Scientists believe they have figured out the relationship of certain proteins to the implantation of embryos, according to a story on Health Central. The parent article (paid access only) appears in the January 17 issue of Science magazine. As the scientists explain the process, attractive forces between proteins that cover …

In this interesting story in the Washington Post, the congress is appealing to a private holding company in Arlington (NTP) to let the Blackberry stay alive. Apparently, the Blackberry is in violation of patents owned by the company and now the company wants to shut the service down and license …

People are going to have mixed feelings about this, but it is probably the most exciting Space news in years. According to a report in the LA Times, and showing up in a summary on Space Today, the Bush administration is planning on including an additional $1B for funding nuclear …

An article in the New York Times today heralds the latest small blow in favor of consumers. It appears that Network Associates had a clause in the shrink-wrap license agreement that required that "The customer will not publish reviews of this product without prior consent from Network Associates Inc." According …

OK, I could be wrong here on this issue, but it seems to me that Microsoft has missed the point with their announcement this week that they will allow national governments access to their source code for the purpose of security audits. I'll admit that I may not be a …

According to this article on MSNBC, Microsoft has announced today that they have a new technology for copy protection of CD's. This will create a multi-layer CD which contains information readable by consumer devices (CD players) and differently by computers, so that copy protection mechanisms will work. I haven't found …

Since they charge for it on CD's, it was only a matter of time before the RIAA decided they needed to get more revenue by taxing ISPs. This article on Yahoo covers the latest ideas from that most loved of musical institution (tongue firmly in cheek at this point).

In the following article on PBS's website, Robert Cringely theorizes that Microsoft would do well to follow Apple's lead and lay their next version of the Windows GUI on top of a Linux base. Something tells me, that ain't going to happen, but if the old VMS guys are gone …

If you're running OS X server, you've probably noticed that certain things (basic file and mail service, basic web service, authentication) work very easily using the built-in user interface. However, if you've gone beyond these basic requirements, the nice Apple UI breaks down a bit. I've been toiling for the …

One of the smallest announcements at MWSF2003 was Apple's release of an industry-standard X11 Server. My initial impressions of this package are very good. I've done a bunch of cursory tests, mainly by using the system for "real work". First, it looks rather fast, which is nice. Xeyes tracks well …

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (my alma mater) department of library sciences has just released the results of a survey of librarians. It seems to show that libraries went in both directions on post-9/11 issues regarding privacy, the Internet, and book records. Also of interest, you can read …

According to this article The Chamberlain Group (manufacturers of upscale garage door openers) has sued a manufacturer of universal garage door openers under (among other things) the DMCA for circumventing their "copy protection" scheme. Perhaps this case is silly enough to cause the DMCA to go down? Once again, the …

An article by Wired.com provides some introductory data on Grid Computing in a technology, society, business context in it's article Grid Computing is Good for Business. An interesting read for those with interest, but not much background in Grid computing. Grid computing is the name for the resource sharing …

Despite protestations to the contrary on January 23, 1984 by Apple Computer, the rise of the Macintosh has not kept us from moving closer to an Orwellian society, at least in terms of available technology. And now, the war footing threatens to create a situation uncannily familiar to readers of …

Following up on a story posted yesterday, I found a page with information comparing the US and EU Copyright terms. There's a good summary of the copyright terms in the US and the EU available here. From this, it appears that we are basically in line with the Europeans thanks …