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- Open source can save your life
- don't mix OSS with socialized medicineOSS is for the all the people, socialized medicine is demanded only by a small minority of craizy liberals.VA health careSince 2001, the VA has had remarkable bipartisan support for just about all the funding they needed or could handle. When the gravy train...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Walter Reed, Walter Reed hospital, open source, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers
- Photo posted on 'Skanks of NYC' blog Yesterday I wrote that a Manhattan federal judge has ordered Google to tell supermodel Liskula Cohen the identity of the blogger behind the "Skanks of NYC" blog, which brands Cohen "a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her...
- Tags: Defamation, First Amendment, Cahill, Courts, D.C. Case, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Justice says $1.9 million verdict is constitutional
- Jammie Thomas-Rasset was hit with a $1.9 million verdict for filesharing 24 songs -- roughly $80,000 per song. Is that even constitutional? Thomas-Rasset's lawyers filed an appeal saying it's not. Friday, the Justice Department weighed in with an opinion that it is PDF. Under the Copyright Act's...
- Tags: Damage, Thomas-Rasset, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- McKinnon loses more appeals on U.S. extradition
- Gary McKinnon, the Briton who allegedly hacked into 97 NASA and Defense Department computers, has lost even more pleas to avoid extradition to the U.S., Wired reports. Despite McKinnon's arguments that he suffered from Asperger's syndrome and could be at risk for psychosis, the judge ruled there was...
- Tags: U.S., U.S. Supreme Court, Britain, McKinnon, Productivity, Strategy, Security, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Supreme Court rebuffs Hollywood's attempt to block remote DVR services
- Supreme Court rebuffs Hollywood's attempt to block remote DVR servicesInteresting conceptI suppose there is little difference between a service that records what you ask it to then transmits it to a device of your choice and the ability to record locally, backup centrally and restore to a location of your...
- Tags: remote-DVR
- Discussion threads 2009-06-29
- Supreme Court rebuffs Hollywood's attempt to block remote DVR services
- The consumer hasn't often won in Washington when its interests have squared off against Hollywood's, thanks in part to the industry's strong lobbying efforts. But one institution where lobbying money doesn't come into play is the Supreme Court, and Monday's session dealt an indirect blow to the entertainment industry when...
- Tags: Hollywood, U.S. Supreme Court, Digital Video Recorder, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Building a vision for Government 2.0
- Building a vision for Government 2.0need for binding electionsIf Democracy 2.0 is only about more discussion then nothing is really going to change. We need binding elections on issues, that is, we need national ballot initiatives. In 24 states, we have ballot initiatives. Ballot initiatives permit public policy to catch...
- Tags: Government, vision, ballot initiative, NI4D, National Initiative
- Discussion threads 2009-06-03
- News to know: Bing, Twitter, Kindle, E3, Red Hat, Istanbul
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Bing is live: Nice first impression; Will Bing boost Cashback? Bing's real return: A catalyst to a...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Red Hat Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Sam Diaz, Engineering, Game Players, Sales Strategy, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Hardware, Networking
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- POTUS to SCOTUS: Leave Cablevision decision alone
- Should the Supreme Court hear networks' and movie studios' plea to consider whether Cablevision's remote DVR technology violates copyright law? The Justice Department urged no, Dow Jones reports. A federal appeals court said Cablevision could go forward with its plans to record, store and serve copyrighted content...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Copyright Law, Digital Video Recorder, Respondents, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- News to know: IBM; SAP; Microsoft; Sarbanes-Oxley; EMC
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: IBM rolls out the 'Smart Cube' with app market: Think enterprise iPod-iTunes combo Joe McKendrick: Goodbye, SOX? AP: Supreme Court to...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Craigslist, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Netbook, IBM Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Scalia gets a schooling in online privacy
- Scalia gets a schooling in online privacyI agree with ScaliaI've been saying for years now how the idea of "privacy" through anonymity on the Internet is incredibly ignorant. It's like saying that anytime I leave my house I can put on a costume and take off my car's license...
- Tags: NOW IT, Scalia, schooling, online privacy
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- 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
- Show me how you beat Microsoft in patent fight
- Show me how you beat Microsoft in patent fightDid ya see thishttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/31/bridge.microsoft/index.htmlI was told in another blog that the patent is long filenames in FAT. If that is the case then we need to sue the US Patent office for giving out false patents. If they can patent...
- Tags: software movement, patent, Microsoft Corp., TomTom, GPLv2
- Discussion threads 2009-03-31
- Supreme Court won't hear appeal in Va. antispam case
- A Virginia antispam law is now officially unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a Virginia Supreme Court decision that invalidated a state law that makes illegal all high-volume anonymous email communications. I wrote about the case back in September,...
- Tags: Speech, Anti-spam, First Amendment, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- U.S. Supreme Court rules for AT&T in antitrust suit
- The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Wednesday for a subsidiary of AT&T in an antitrust lawsuit accusing it of anti-competitive practices over high-speed Internet access. The justices unanimously rejected a claim that AT&T's Pacific Bell Telephone subsidiary had engaged in a "price squeeze" aimed at driving...
- Tags: Antitrust, AT&T Corp., Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- AMD wins approval for manufacturing spin-off
- AMD wins approval for manufacturing spin-offx86 licenseAren't you going to address the issue concerning Intel nullifying its x86 technology license to AMD, or has that been resolved?Lawyers started to work on that issue 2 years agoI think Intel has raised it a couple of times, but mainly as a FUD...
- Tags: Processors, manufacturing, Intel x86, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., x86 license
- Discussion threads 2009-02-18
- Patent wars: RealNetworks wins; Global Crossing pays up
- RealNetworks defeated a patent infringement suit that was trying to come back from the dead. Meanwhile, Global Crossing licensed a portfolio of call center patents from Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, an outfit that collects dough from a who's who of corporate America. First, RealNetworks said on...
- Tags: Patent, Global Crossing Ltd., RealNetworks Inc., Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, Katz, Ronald Katz, RAKTL, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- British ISPs block Wikipedia over album cover
- We're accustomed to the Internet being censored in China and other repressive regimes. But it's a bit disconcerting when Great Firewall techniques come to the U.K. At issue is the Wikipedia page for the Scorpions' album Virgin Killer, which features the nude image of a young girl with a glass...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Image, Wikipedia, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-12-08
- Does Drew decision criminalize TOS violations?
- Does Drew decision criminalize TOS violations?I am sorry, but that verdict was bull and it will and MUST be overturned.Yet another instance of prosecutors grasping at straws. yes, people wanted to see this chick do some time for bullying this girl verbally... but doesnt what they are doing amount...
- Tags: Free Speech, Does Drew, Does Drew decision, TOS
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
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