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- Copyright
- The legal ownership of a "work," which can take any of the following forms: written text, program source code, graphics images, sculpture, music, sound recording, motion picture, pantomime, choreograph and...
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- Copyright laws and piracy - Where do you stand?
- Over the months that this blog has been running weve had some really good discussions relating to copyright laws and piracy. Hardware such as portable media players and disc burners are closely linked to copyright and piracy because these devices allow people to do things with content that the...
- Tags: Copyright, Legal, DRM
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
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- Apple is not the real enemy of open source
- Apple is not the real enemy of open sourceGodwin's Law is now in effectGodwin's law: whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically "lost" whatever debate was in progress.Loser.Apple is the official NAZI PARTY of Open Source.Where is http://opendarwin.com? It's GONE.Apple SUPPORTED the whole OSx86 project, then THEY reneged- There...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Linux, Digital media, Godwin, Apple Inc., open source, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Apple is not the real enemy of open source
- Apple embraces DRMs, and any other restrictions the copyright industries want. This is at the heart of its power. Its alliance with the copyright industries has brought Apple from the brink of irrelevance to dominance of the handheld Internet and gadget markets in this decade. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Digital-rights Management, Industry, Apple Inc., Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Open Source, Linux, Strategy, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- NebuAd: Galileo or pariah?
- So, it would seem we have found the outer limits of user tracking and ad-serving. At a House hearing yesterday, NebuAd ran into universal condemnation for its plans to monitor broadband customers' web visits and deliver targeting advertising, reports News.com's Declan McCullagh. Contemptible. Goes against everything...
- Tags: Web, Advertisement, Cable Company, Internet Service Provider, Notice, NebuAd, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cable, Channel Management, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja
- Update: It would seem that Richard Stiennon agrees with me on the concept of a group of experts to advise, also on keeping away from spending ridiculous amounts of money. Cyber-terrorism... ah, what a fancy buzz word that is. Defined on Wikipedia as: "The premeditated use...
- Tags: John McCain, Cybersecurity, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions
- You know the drill. You spend thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars on higher education at your college or university of choice. But when you go to use your Internet connection or a public computer on campus, you login and it's locked down so tight, you can barely...
- Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Network, IT Administrator, Operating System, Web Site, Computer, Productivity, Web Site Development, Networking, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- The potential fallout from Apple vs. Psystar
- The potential fallout from Apple vs. Psystaranticompetitive argumentThe problem with the anticompetitive argument is that the company engaging in the activity has to command a substantial share of the overall market. Apple doesn't even have 8% of the market. Also, Psystar never even tried to license Apple's intellectual...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Psystar, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects
- Well, eight days, and a joint effort to help prevent phishing and two major arrests related to identity theft, and I feel like we've made a decent attack on the identity theft culture. Score one for the good guys for once. Just a day after reading...
- Tags: Arrest, eBay Inc., Romania, Romanian, Phishing, Identity Theft, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Open source should support Apple over Psystar
- Open source should support Apple over PsystarYou're offBSD and GPL are licensesEULA is a contractRE: Open source should support Apple over PsystarDon't get into this argument. "License not Contract" is a magical phrase used by Open Source 'backers' who want to rationalize the idea that using someone's code without permission...
- Tags: EULA, open source, Apple Inc., GPL, Joomla
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Rogue network admin still in jail on $5m bail
- Rogue network admin still in jail on $5m baildarn!I'd like to copyright some of my network admin work too! some of it is a classic that competes with Mozart's best work, while there have been another moments more, um, sex-pistols-like.RE: Rogue network admin still in jail on $5m bailwow!COPYRIGHT??? ...
- Tags: NETWORKING, network administration, jail, network
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Beatles music saved from public domain!
- Beatles music saved from public domain!To us Texas bumkins ....To us backwards Texas bumkins this reads like:"California saves beaches from public access!"It is all about GREED!Next someone will figure out how to tax ourdecendents for out death.It's about money.If there is a nickel to be made out of something, the...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Beatles, Mickey Mouse, public domain
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Beatles music saved from public domain!
- Well, thank God the money will keep flowing in to Paul McCartney. The Times reports that the EU will extend copyright another 45 years in what many people call the "Beatles extension." That's because the first Beatles recordings would have exited copyright in 2012. Actually the first rocker to...
- Tags: Protection, Public Domain, Music, Storyline, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Rogue network admin still in jail on $5m bail
- This is crazy. Perhaps literally. Terry Childs, computer network administrator for the city of San Francisco, got mad, apparently because his supervisors were trying to fire him, and created a secret root password for himself, locking out the rest of the city. Reported the SF Chronicle: ...
- Tags: City, Network Administration, Network, Terry Childs, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Silverlight suit: Microsoft's conduct is "unlawful" and "willful"
- Silverlight suit: Microsoft's conduct is "unlawful" and "willful"SilverliteSo... the point of this article is... ???Since Silverlight came from Microsoft...and Microsoft is the biggest name in software, it becomes way to easy for those jealous of Microsoft's success to tear down or discredit them with frivilous lawsuits. What if Silverlight came...
- Tags: patent, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Silverlight suit, conduct
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Improve your UI by expressing time effectively
- Your user interface may convey time for various reasons, such as through progress indicators that tell users how long they have to wait for an operation to complete. This chapter from Designing and Engineering Time: The Psychology of Time Perception in Software looks at the different ways you can...
- Tags: Addison-Wesley, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing
- Book chapters 2008-07-17
- User beware: Electronic documents can reveal far more than you want
- The WYSIWYG mentality can be dangerous when users fail to understand what underlies the visible presentation of electronic data. This chapter from Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion explores the premise that "What you see is not what the computer knows" -- focusing...
- Tags: Electronic Document, Addison-Wesley, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Book chapters 2008-07-17
- Stay safe when you pull an all-nighter: 10 self-defense tips for techies
- IT pros may be experts at protecting their systems from attack. But working late on short sleep, preoccupied with a tricky project, they may not be ready to protect themselves. Deb Shinder calls on her law enforcement background to provide techs with some self-defense basics.This download is also available as...
- Tags: Deb Shinder, Blogging, Strategy, Security, Internet, Management
- Download resources 2008-07-17
- Technology that powers Olympics on Web at center of lawsuit
- Technology that powers Olympics on Web at center of lawsuitFragmentParagraph 3 Sentance 1 is a fragment, its missing the part that we need... what the lawsuit is actually about!Nothing new here folks, move along, move along.This isn't something new here. Microsoft is always infringing on someone elses IP.Are these guys...
- Tags: Corporate communications, MS Silverlight, video, patent, lawsuit, Olympic Games, Web, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter
- Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter.....All this does is re-enforces that accountability for ones actions are almost non-existent and will only serve to encourage other miscreants to follow in this punks steps.As for the level of knowledge in the law sector... you seem about...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Web browsers, cybercrime fighter, Ringleader, cybercrime group, job
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter
- Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called "Operation Bot Roast II" bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in...
- Tags: Job, Malware, Bot, Malware Bot, PRIVMSG, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
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