Interesting copyright developments: There are attempts to create a new type of intellectual property right for proprietary collections of facts, (including recombinations of public domain data). Up until now, a partial recombination of public or private facts into a new database was generally not restricted.
I was happy to find this… useful for educating people who don’t know all these terms.
Call for papers on reliable p2p distributed systems.
This guy sounds off on the flawed security of commercial p2p trojan horse business strategies. However, he doesn’t recommend any alternatives. I think the industry has to solve the mobile code trust issue eventually, not just say “it’s a really hard problem.”.
Verisign is sending out these outright lying emails, telling people to register their supposedly ALREADY EXPIRED domains.
Bad Behavior has blocked 57 access attempts in the last 7 days.
