damien stolarz blog

Related link: http://www.cioinsight.com/article/0,3658,s=25125&a=25590,00.asp

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.

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Related link: http://www.wiltgen.net/articles/dotnet/

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

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Related link: http://research.microsoft.com/users/annemk/workshop.htm

Call for papers on reliable p2p distributed systems.

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Related link: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/0wn2.html

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.”.

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I’m not really a complaining type of guy, but I was so amused at the flurry of emails I just got to be part of to re-register a domain that was paid up for another year, that I had to post about it.

Verisign is sending out these outright lying emails, telling people to register their supposedly ALREADY EXPIRED domains. Personally I think it’s kind of cute. To help you with “what’s wrong in this picture”, I’ve red-lettered the date my domain already expired in their email. I suppose these are mistakes due to computer error- I mean, why would you intentionally decieve your customers?

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