Now that is sneaky.
Hollywood and large U.S. software companies chalked up another crucial yet little-noticed victory last week with the final approval of the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
You wouldn’t know it from a political debate veering between labor standards in Nicaragua and the evils of protectionism, but one major section of CAFTA will export [...]
A little reminder from Boing Boing that we may be seeing a shift in policy towards the Internet, all in the name of freedom and fighting terrorism. The powers that be already tried to sell the idea that piracy funds terrorism with some success and now it’s time for the notion that the free and [...]
More DRM crap.
People wanting to upgrade to Windows Vista are likely to need not only a new computer with more robust hardware, but a new monitor as well.
A US tech consultant says technology in the new version will fuzz protected digital content unless it is viewed on a monitor which has High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection [...]
Life as the result of intelligent design? That designer must have been pretty crappy. You need not look any further than Bizarro Bush and his sort. Feebleminded and susceptible to fairy tales.
Bush said Monday he believes schools should discuss “intelligent design” alongside evolution when teaching students about the creation of life.
During a round-table interview with [...]
Boing Boing.
FFII.org is the home of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, the activists who helped kill software patents in Europe earlier this summer.
Nutzwerk is a software company (they make “SafeSurf” among other products) who advocate for software patents.
Nutzwerk sent a bogus takedown notice to Teamware, who host the DNS for FFII.org, and got [...]
Via Boing Boing. Greenpeace: Monsanto files patent for new invention: the pig.
In one application (WO 2005/015989 to be precise) Monsanto is describing very general methods of crossbreeding and selection, using artificial insemination and other breeding methods which are already in use. The main “invention” is nothing more than a particular combination of these elements designed [...]
Another bad move.
Kingston’s closest U.S. border crossing will employ high-tech radio frequency technology to monitor visitors from other countries who want to enter the States from Canada – a move that alarms both a Kingston privacy expert and an immigration specialist.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said this week that the crossing between Lansdowne and [...]
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