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- Vindications: ah, the week that was
- Well you realy dont do yourself any favours.any moments of clarity you may have are lost in the sea of anti "wintel" blog rage. Maybe if you were more objective and took comments less personal then you may find life better. na, ah doesn't does I?Find me...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SCO Group Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-29
- SCO Group wins Unix copyright appeal
- I see M$ dirty fingerprintsThis BS decision is the result of M$ FUD and dirty money paid to SCO to continue annoying the FOSS and Linux in particular.Prove itI bet you cant!Was that before... or after you adjusted your tinfoil hat? Take your meds dude, it's for your own good.A...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Unix, SCO Group Inc., Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- Judge nixes fair use defense in Tennenbaum filesharing case
- In a last-minute knockout punch, delivered just hours before the latest high-profile RIAA case was scheduled to start, Judge Nancy Gertner denied a fair use defense to Joel Tenenbaum, Ars Technica reports. Tenenbaum had sought to present his fair use theory to the jury but the judge...
- Tags: Defendant, Joel Tenenbaum, Peer To Peer (P2P), Team Management, Internet, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- TurnItIn's archiving of student papers is fair use, court says
- Check out my Fair Use Blog at fairuselaw.wordpress.com iParadigms' TurnItIn.com is a service marketed to high schools and colleges in which student papers are entered into a database and then pattern-checked for signs of plagiarism. Several students in Northern Virginia came up with a clever attack on...
- Tags: Use, Factor, Archiving, Work, TurnItIn, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Wolfram Alpha: A model for data jobbing?
- Wolfram Alpha: A model for data jobbing?It's just yes or no.To review (in response to http://tinyurl.com/cel9p5)...You bet that "Kimball's ruling" would be overturned on appeal. I bet it won't. In context, this would be the ruling we're talking about: [b][i]"But in August of 2008, Kimball granted Novell's request for summary...
- Tags: Wolfram Alpha
- Discussion threads 2009-03-24
- Once more on SCO
- From this blog for January 8 2008: What's worst about [the hate mail I get when ever I comment on SCO] , however, is that the "groklaw effect" has become a significant component in the overall Linux "gestalt" - and just about everything most of that mob has been...
- Tags: Novell Inc., SCO Group Inc., Unix, IBM Corp., Open Source, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-21
- Vista Capable suit no longer a class action
- The judge overseeing the "Vista Capable" suit against Microsoft has removed the "class-action" designation from it, but also declined Microsoft's motion for summary judgment. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Class Action, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Cell phones and health risk
- Cell phones and health riskRF EnergyBack in the mid-80s I used a high-power portable radio in military security duties. A friend showed me how you could light your flashlight with no batteries in it by holding your radio near the bulb and press the transmit button. It worked!...
- Tags: Pascal, cell phone, Voltaire Inc., phone, health risk, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-12-17
- Apple won't face lawsuit over iPhone battery life
- Bloomberg is reporting that Apple won't face a lawsuit claiming that the company didn't immediately tell customers about the limited life of batteries for its iPhone or their $86 replacement cost including delivery. A U.S. District Judge in Chicago granted Apple's request that he dismiss the lawsuit on the evidence...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Lawsuit, Battery, Apple Inc., Engineering, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- In court: iPhone suit dismissed, Qwest conviction reviewed
- Lots of court action today: Apple won a summary judgment in a class-action lawsuit charging the company with deceiving consumers on iPhone batteries, Bloomberg reports. ``Apple disclosed on the outside of the iPhone package that the'' battery has ```limited recharge...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Qwest Communications Inc., Arbitration, Apple Inc., Conviction, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Defendant in key RIAA decision destroyed evidence
- Photo by Luke Gattuso Just because you win a brilliant legal battle doesn't mean you'll win the war. Back in April, Judge Neil Wake handed RIAA opponents a key victory, with a seminal decision against the recording association's "making available" theory of distribution. ...
- Tags: Theory, RIAA, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Suit over baby vid with Prince song goes forward
- Everybody agrees. Stephanie Lenz' video of her young son with Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" playing in the background was a fair use of a copyrighted work. But Universal submitted a DMCA takedown notice on the video and YouTube took it down for a month until Lenz was able to get...
- Tags: Use, DMCA, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- The Cablevision decision, part 1: Buffering is not copying
- This Cablevision decision looks like it may make its way to the Supreme Court on questions of the interpretation of the Copyright Act, so I'd like to take an in-depth look at the decision PDF. It's long so I'm dividing it into several posts. Technology First...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Buffer, DVR, Memory, Digital Video, Development Tools, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Puncturing the myth of the invulnerable OS
- I keep trying to come up with explanations for why rational technical publications continue to amplify the nonsensical research coming out of Australian security vendor PC Tools in the past few weeks. Jedi mind tricks? Post-hypnotic suggestions embedded in web pages served from the Southern Hemisphere? Sunspots? There's certainly...
- Tags: Operating System, PC Tools, Microsoft Windows Vista, Malware, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Judge decisively rejects RIAA legal theory
- A federal district judge has delivered a pretty resounding blow to a theory the RIAA has been using to win verdicts in its copyright-infringement lawsuit campaign. In Atlantic Records v. Howell, Judge Neil Wake refused the RIAA's motion for summary judgment based on the "making available" theory. ...
- Tags: Theory, RIAA, Judge, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- IT failures and social media
- Shel Israel, co-author with Robert Scoble of the influential book on blogging, Naked Conversations, recently interviewed me regarding social media and IT failures. I used the interview to consolidate my views on several IT failure-related issues. Here's a summary of the interview; the topics are Shel's, but...
- Tags: Information Technology, Social Media, Failure, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Facebook and the CIA
- In a piece of carefully researched critique, Guardian Unlimited writer Tim Hodgkinson does a masterful job unpacking the politics of Facebook, implying that the company's backer's real agenda is the realization of the original American dream: Here at last is the Enlightenment state longed for since the Puritans of...
- Tags: Facebook, Nature, CIA, Tim Hodgkinson, Corporate Governance, Blogging, Venture Capital, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Finance, Financing Startups, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- WashPo gets RIAA CD rip story wrong on Dec. 30; I got it right on Dec. 11
- When I first became aware of that clueless December 30 Washington Post article in which Mark Fisher erroneously claimed the RIAA was maintaining that ripping CDs was illegal, wanna know what I thought to myself? Well, h-e-l-l-o!! Mark, if you had only read my...
- Tags: CD, RIAA, WashPo, Keyphrase, Peer To Peer (P2P), Tools & Techniques, Internet, Management, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- What that RIAA/CD rip court brief really says
- There's a lot of misinformation floating around the blogosphere about what exactly the (hiss, boo) Recording Industry Association of America is saying in a court brief about the very act of ripping your CDs, converting them to MP3s, and then storing them on your hard drive...
- Tags: Hard Drive, P2P, RIAA, Keyphrase, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Oregon AG office to RIAA: 10 things we want to know about how you find file-sharing students
- If you think the Recording Institute Association of America is going too far in its prosecution (or should that be persecution?) of college students who file-share from time to time, you'll love the news that Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers is adding meat to the University...
- Tags: RIAA, File-sharing, Myers, Lindor, Peer To Peer (P2P), Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
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