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Archive for June, 2005



Copyfight Battlefront

US Broadcast Flag to go under the radar? Act now if this concerns you!
Major Blow to Opponents of Software Patents in EU. Patent absurdity.
Canada Introduces DMCA-Style Copyright Law
New statutory blank tape levy set for Sweden. Price of a typical IPOD will rise by $10-20. New levy for blank discs undecided.

The Left Behind

The new digital divide of choice, via eirikso.com …

The Digerati
The Left Behind

Uses Firefox
Uses Internet Explorer

Knows who Doc Searls is
Already has a doctor, thanks very much

Uses RSS Reader
RSS?

Has a blog
Reads blogs (sometimes)

Reads BoingBoing (or Slashdot)
Watches the Tonight Show

Bored with Flickr
Flickr?

Gets news from Google
Gets news from Peter Jennings

Uses del.ico.us
Thinks that’s probably a p0rn site.

Uses Bittorrent
Uses a VCR

American Red Cross on IP

Via Boing Boing, Bruce Sterling …

Disclosure and Ownership of Intellectual Property. I (i) shall promptly and fully disclose to Red Cross any and all Intellectual Property, (ii) agree that all Intellectual Property shall be owned by Red Cross, (iii) agree to and do hereby assign, transfer and convey to Red Cross the entire right, title [...]

Derelict Soviet buildings

Via Boing Boing …

Abandoned is a photo base of abandoned plants, unfinished buildings, industrial sites. Most of them situated near to Moscow. By the measure of abilities, I hope to fill this photo base by a lot of any other objects and sites which exist somewhere in Russian Federation.
Source: Abandoned.ru

Another inspiring photo journey. There is [...]

Airbus Soars High

Airbus claimed victory in the battle of the Paris Air Show yesterday, dealing a blow to Boeing’s hopes of regaining the lead in commercial jet sales for the first time in five years.
Airbus is believed to have won orders for 320 aircraft worth $33.5billion, with Boeing’s sales so far announced around $16billion. They have fuelled [...]

Autopatcher XP 5.1 June

Neowin - Still the best way to get around Microsoft’s trickery with Windows Update. Think of the software pirates. Boycott Windows Update.
On a side note, I still haven’t picked up SP2. It seemed senseless at the time. Is it perhaps reasonable to assume that MS has ironed out the biggest snags by now.

Modern Views on Science

Via David Galbraith …

Only dead scientists are known to teens
Teenagers are so out of touch with modern science that they cannot name a single living scientist.
Students, aged 13-16, were asked to name a famous scientist in an online survey carried out by exam board OCR. Isaac Newton (39%) and Albert Einstein (29%) topped the [...]

Happy hour or curfews and martial law?

British towns will get a taste of martial law this summer, courtesy of the Home Secretary and a desperate Tony Blair.

Ministers have ordered the Army on to the streets to join an all-out summer campaign against anti-social drunken and violent behaviour by yobs.
Military police and ordinary uniformed soldiers will help keep youths under control in [...]

Battlefield.2.Clone-ST0N3D

So, it’s out and it’s a clone so far. But not in english? Supposedly works with the Anti-Blaxx and Daemon Tools emulators though. Keygen is out also. A cracked exe will surely arrive momentarily as another group takes a stab at this.
1.91GB all in all. I’ll stand by what I said about BF2 for the [...]

A Very Fishy License Agreement

Via Piratbyrån and Corante …

The GloFish fluorescent ornamental fish are intended solely for visual enjoyment as aquarium fish by end users who have purchased these fish from authorized resellers, and not for commercial reproduction. These fish are the subject of various intellectual property rights owned or controlled by Yorktown Technologies, Inc. (”Yorktown”), both in the [...]





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