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Music vendors versus France

As most of you already know, the French government is proposing to legalize the conversion of audio media from one format to another, including media that is DRM-protected. This is a climbdown from earlier versions of the law, which would have legalized file trading in exchange for a flat-rate "culture...

Tags: legalization, digital-rights management

Blog posts 2006-03-14

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The running scandal of long-term care insurance

The running scandal of long-term care insuranceLong-term Care Insurance"With 79 million of us now headed past our warrantee expirations, the cost of caring for us is about to explode. It’s a ticking bomb under the economy, and the free market does not have an answer for it."Here's the answer: Plan...

Tags: Vertical industries, long-term care, long-term care insurance

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Telecom immunity bill advances in Senate; Dodd promises filibuster

Telecom immunity bill advances in Senate; Dodd promises filibusterA little slow on the news wires, aren't we?NEWS FLASH:[url=http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/12/dodd-filibuster.html]Reports from Wired says Dodd succeeds in his filibuster of the telco amnesty bill.[/url] The Connecticut congressman shows his balls for the citizens against the Dubya regime's latest "legalization" of unconstitutional activities....

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Telephony, Dodd, U.S. Senate, telecommunications

Discussion threads 2007-12-17

Taking down spammers: Successful spam fighting via legalization, regulation and economics

Taking down spammers: Successful spam fighting via legalization, regulation and economicsI thought regulations were bad?When I watch a certain cable news channel, one of their sponsors is a big magazine chain that tells how certain politicians want to impose regulations and that's bad.The US *did* legalize and regulate spamThe US's...

Tags: Cyberthreats, spammer, regulation, spam

Discussion threads 2007-12-08

News to know: Apple's notebook strategy; Talking malware; Vista SP1

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Talking malware with Eugene Kaspersky. David Morgenstern: Do switchers now rule the Mac? Jason O'Grady: An analysis of Apple's notebook strategy. Russell Shaw: New solution enables really, really cheap intl. calling from your iPhone OR iPod Touch. Gallery: The Big...

Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Notebook, America Online Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Malware, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Blog posts 2007-12-07

Taking down spammers: Successful spam fighting via legalization, regulation and economics

Guest post: Gadi Evron is Security Architect for Afilias global registry services and recognized globally for his work and leadership in Internet security operations. He is the founder of the Zero-Day Emergency Response Team ZERT, organizes and chairs worldwide conferences, working groups and task forces. He is considered an...

Tags: Spammer, Regulation, Client, Nothing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-07

Seeking advantage in U.S. stem cell controversy

Seeking advantage in U.S. stem cell controversyAs Yoda would sayTotally agendized, are you; matter not, the facts do.Your argument that the 73 cures are bogus comes from a disputation printed in Wired magazine (odd, I didn't realize wired was an accredited medical journal). Furthermore, wired references itself as proof that...

Tags: cure, medical research, stem-cell, stem-cell controversy

Discussion threads 2007-11-27

DRM: The hearse is right on schedule

DRM: The hearse is right on scheduleRe: Where's Apple?Right where they wanted to be to begin with.Selling iPods.RIP DRM ...DRM doesn't sell ... so much for the tail wagging the dog strategy. No amount of effort on the part of the content industry and no amount of effort on...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, recording industry, digital-rights management, Apple Inc., industry

Discussion threads 2007-08-10

Lou Dobbs and illegal immigration

This is a technology blog where Im supposed to discuss technology topics. On occasion, I dive into economic issues that relate to technology, such as antitrust, or more relevant in the case of this blog, outsourcing and skilled immigration through the H-1B visa program. Illegal immigration from Mexico and H-1B...

Tags: Outsourcing, General, Economic Policy

Blog posts 2007-05-03

Pedophiles seek community online

In the Internet stew that holds equal all things good, bad and in-between, a two-part article in The New York Times on the rise of a pedophile movement stands out as particularly hard to digest. Through Internet chat rooms, podcasts and streaming radio, pedophiles from diverse backgrounds are...

Tags: pedophile, Internet

Blog posts 2006-08-21

Veterans' data swiped in laptop theft

Veterans' data swiped in laptop theftInside Job Outside JobConvenient that the thief KNEW the laptop was at this person's house. SURE, burglary, that is just a cover up for distributing data, similar to that AOL scam by one of their employees. There is a price to be paid for info,...

Tags: Operational accounting, Notebooks, Government, laptop computer, Social Security, social security number

Discussion threads 2006-05-22

France may sanction unfettered P2P downloads

France may sanction unfettered P2P downloadsSo how does that work?"Last year, a Canadian judge came to a similar conclusion, ruling it legal to download--but not to upload--copyrighted content from peer-to-peer services."So if it's legal to download copyrighted material but illegal to upload it, how does the material get into the...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Wired Inc., grass, P2P

Discussion threads 2005-12-22

Surprise--Gates is still world's richest person

Surprise--Gates is still world's richest personAmazing just how much fraud you can get away with...Selling defective goods appears to be quite profitable for Dollar Bill. One can only hope the judicial system finally puts him in prison for life and seizes all assets that he and the other cronies at...

Tags: Litigation, Bill Gates, fraud

Discussion threads 2005-03-10

ViviClip Video Filters Basic (exe)

ViviClip Video Filters 3 Basic is a plug-in for Adobe Premiere, Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects that allows to enhance and legalize video clips independently of the editor used to assemble them. The software focuses on improving clips aesthetic, using color correction and other tools.Version 3.01 may include...

Tags: Adobe Premiere, Adobe Systems Inc., video clip, plug-in, video, software

Software downloads 2004-09-02

Governments vote against Microsoft

Governments vote against MicrosoftWhere is everyone?These talkbacks seem to have dried up. Where are the Linux and Microsoft shills? In the olden days an article like this would have drawn an immediate crowd. Maybe there are just too many of these "Linux is taking over the world"...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2004-01-22

Net flight bookings--a terror casualty?

Net flight bookings--a terror casualty?There is no "war on terror"!How terrorized can this country really be when our current government officials purposely let the 9/11 attacks take place. Bush gets numerous [i]credible[/i] security warnings, even detailing the type of attack which would occur using planes, and then goes on to...

Tags: Mr Blunkett, security

Discussion threads 2004-01-12