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House committee passes 'gluttonous' Pro IP Act: So, we have a credit crisis, a foreclosure crisis, a full-blown recession and no plans on how to get out of Iraq or how to create a regional solution. So what do we need? How about an intellectual property czar and stiffer penalties for unauthorized music downloading? ...; Tags: Damage, CD, IP, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-01
The end of RIAA litigation: I spent this morning on the phone with Ray Beckerman of the Recording Industry v The People blog, who laid out why the decision is pretty much the touch of death for the RIAA's litigation strategy. Here's the scenario: The entire litigation model is based on the...; Tags: Damage, RIAA, Reproduction, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-04-30
Justice comes out against Jammie Thomas: After Jammie Thomas left court with a $222,000 judgment against her for allegedly illegally downloading music, she vowed to appeal the decision. The basis of the appeal was that the statutory fines the jury levied against her are unconstitutional, considering that the actual value of each download is only about...; Tags: Damage, Infringement, Internet, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2007-12-05
House passes patent reform, as White House voices objections: The House of Representatives handed the technology industry a big win by passing the Patent Reform Act. The bill changes the way damages for patent infringement are calculated, InfoWorld reports. Under the current scheme, damages are calculated based on the value of the entire product containing the infringing invention....; Tags: Damage, Patent, Patent Infringement, White House, MP3, ZDNet Government; Blog posts 2007-09-09
World of Warcraft damageMeters mod (zip): Compatible with Burning Crusade, DamageMeters keeps track of the damage you and nearby players does and shows the total damage as meters in a window on the screen. It makes it easy to compare the relative damage/healing output of members of a party or raid. At any time you can...; Tags: Damage, Construction; Software downloads 2007-02-02

How to stop your snoring without surgery (exe): Snoring is No Laughing Matter As innocent children armed with our trusty toolbox of crayons and markers, we often depicted a snoring person as someone lying in bed with a series of Z s casually emerging from a peacefully sleeping body. However, what we neglected to draw and again, rather...; Tags: Person, Snoring, Damage, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; Software downloads 2006-06-08

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Using satellite imagery to explore ancient Mexico: An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology RIT is using satellite imagery to peer into the ancient Mexican past. Bill Middleton, an archeologist, is teaming up with computer scientists to build the most detailed landscape map of the southern state of Oaxaca in order to learn...; Tags: NASA, Scientist, Satellite, Satellite Imagery, Bill Middleton, ScienceDaily, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-14
No Office 2007 for UK classrooms?: InformationWeek is reporting on new complaints from the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency BECTA against Microsoft's lack of support for open standards. Now that OOXML has been adopted as an ISO standard, it's hard to say where this will go; however, the agency makes the case for steering...; Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-13
UK education agency nixes OOXML: Office Open XML – the open standard with a trademark in its name – might be good enough for the International Standards Organization but it's not acceptable to British schools, InfoWeek reports. "In the context of the education system," lack of truly open standards in Office 2007 "can result...; Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Agency, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Protecting key assets (security): Key infrastructure elements must be secured against outages, damage and sabotage. Siemens offers comprehensive solutions from healthcare and power generation to water supply, transportation, and industrial production, to telecommunications.; Tags: Asset, Security, Siemens AG, Transportation, Asset Management, Manufacturing, Telephony, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Networking; White papers 2008-05-09
Data Portability: Social Infrastructure still very much wanting: In a penetrating analysis of the Facebook developers forum, 20bits shows that the participation of programmers in the discussion about the Facebook platform is rapidly dwindling, which suggests the platform itself is incompatible with the needs of the market. The fewer programmers writing for the Facebook platform, the less relevant...; Tags: Facebook, Data Portability Standard, Social Networking, Development Tools, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Poll: Post-Yahoo, what should Microsoft do?: Poll: Post-Yahoo, what should Microsoft do?What to do?It is time for MSFT to begin to produce products that actually satisfy customers, not OEMs.It is time for MSFT to give up the "Let's emulate the other guy" mode.This means no more me-too junk like Vista, Zune, Xnox, WinMobile, Spot or (the...; Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-05-05
Effect on Yahoo will be debilitating: In part one of this comment (Febuary 2/08 ) I said: Some mergers are defensive, some are driven by competitive opportunity, and others largely by management egos and investment bankers hooking for commissions. This seems to be one of the latter: Yahoo was over valued relative to its...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Heads, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Free Trade, Financial Accounting, Sales Force Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-04
Questioning IT: Questioning ITThick vs Thin.The essence of what you're saying here is that thin client is better than thick client. You don't exactly use those terms and you throw in a bit of anti-Microsoft rhetoric, but focusing on the underlying principals as you correctly recommend, this is a thick vs thin...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Thin clients, Servers, Sun Microsystems Inc., software, thin client, security; Discussion threads 2008-05-02
Does open source programming make you a criminal?: Does open source programming make you a criminal?lmao, nicely done! ntntRE: Does open source programming make you a criminal?Great post Dana! It always nice to start the day off with a good laugh.I know where this came from......but I wouldn't have even bothered satirizing the two talkbackers who were constantly...; Tags: Development tools, Does open source programming; Discussion threads 2008-04-30
Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2: Taming UAC: The User Account Control feature in Windows Vista has been known to drive normally level-headed people over the edge with frustration. If you find it annoying, you might be tempted to turn it off. According to Microsoft research, somewhere between 12 and 16 percent of all Windows Vista users do...; Tags: Program, Account, Microsoft Windows Vista, UAC, Dialog Box, OK, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-04-29
Is Psystar Mac clone using the Kalyway boot hack?: Is Psystar Mac clone using the Kalyway boot hack?I totally agree[i]But anyone who is doing actual work on a Mac should buy a Mac. And that means a kosher, Apple machine.[/i]If you are serious about your work, then you spend the money on a serious machine, (be it a Windows...; Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Kalyway installer, Apple Inc., Kalyway, Psystar, open source, Apple Software; Discussion threads 2008-04-28
Developers at fault? SQL Injection attacks lead to wide-spread compromise of IIS servers: There's been a lot of noise and violent thrashing over the last couple days regarding a flaw that was originally believed to be a flaw in Microsoft's IIS Internet Information Server, but has since been pointed out as simply a well thought out SQL Injection attack. For those of...; Tags: Developer, Password, Web Application, Server, SQL, Site, SQL Injection, Microsoft IIS Server, Attack, Programming Languages, Security, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-04-28
Microsoft: Does a Yahoo proxy war add up?: Microsoft has three clear paths to take with regards to Yahoo acquisition: It can make a hostile bid, raise its offer or walk away and hope for a better price later. Given that Microsoft's "negotiate or else" deadline passed Saturday the software giant should be making its...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-28
Insects using plants as phones: A team of Dutch ecologists has found that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects use plants to communicate. 'Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant is already occupied.' This means that by using 'green telephone lines,' the...; Tags: Phone, Interaction, Plant, Telecom & Utilities, Food & Beverage, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-04-27