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{ Monthly Archives } April 2002

Article: “Data Mine Or Yours?”

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.

Nice .NET basic definitions

I was happy to find this… useful for educating people who don’t know all these terms.

International Workshop on reliable peer-to-peer distributed systems

Call for papers on reliable p2p distributed systems.

Reflections on Brilliant Digital: Single Points of Internet 0wnership

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: You may already be a loser!

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.