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If you stood them side by side, I'd have to guess Biden is the MS guy and Ryan is the Mac guy

Captain America would like a word with you. http://workbench.cadenhead.org/media/cap-hates-america-2.gif

Commercial support corrupts. Look at the history at Game Spot, for example. Or the fact that the financial assistance by the government (and tax payers) to GE were not covered by GE owned news agencies.

You mean like the time Wikimedia Foundation Chairman Jimmy Wales edited his own bio, in direct contravention of Wikipedia COI guidelines, to make himself look like the sole founder?

Or how Wikipedia editors increasingly invent new rules and revert new content, which serves to depress new authorship, and bias the material toward the preferred point of view of those editors?

It does not take money to corrupt an organization. But it does take money to run an organization--over $5 million per year for Wikipedia. So whether we like it or not, commerce is already playing a part and always will. IMO the big question is whether Wikipedia runs fairly and objectively, and answer is already no.

Name one other country that allows anyone to cross into its borders regardless of the reason. Not only that, but allows those illegal immigrants to demand that their language be accepted and spoken by government service workers, and even goes so far as to essentially take over a government office for a day and fly the flag of the migrants country on that office's flag pole. http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3007/mexican-flag-raised-over-us-post-office

http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3168/can-worms-created-rss

It doesn't appear, however, that AP is continuing to pursue its "hot news" claim against Drudge Retort, and for good reason. ... in National Basketball Ass'n v. Motorola, 105 F.3d 841, 844 (1997), one of the few cases to address a "hot news" claim, the Second Circuit set an exceptionally high standard for such claims to be viable, requiring, among other things, that the information be time-sensitive; the defendant be in direct competition with the plaintiff; and the continued publishing of the "hot news" would so reduce the plaintiff's incentive to produce the product or service that its existence or quality would be substantially threatened.

source.

Does this also apply if you want to use three consecutive characters from an associated press story?

AP Files 7 DMCA Takedowns Against Drudge Retort

I'm currently engaged in a legal disagreement with the Associated Press, which claims that Drudge Retort users linking to its stories are violating its copyright and committing "'hot news' misappropriation under New York state law." An AP attorney filed six Digital Millenium Copyright Act takedown requests this week demanding the removal of blog entries and another for a user comment.

The Retort is a community site comparable in function to Digg, Reddit and Mixx. The 8,500 users of the site contribute blog entries of their own authorship and links to interesting news articles on the web, which appear immediately on the site. None of the six entries challenged by AP, which include two that I posted myself, contains the full text of an AP story or anything close to it. They reproduce short excerpts of the articles -- ranging in length from 33 to 79 words -- and five of the six have a user-created headline.

Here's one of the six disputed blog entries:

Clinton Expects Race to End Next Week

Hillary Rodham Clinton says she expects her marathon Democratic race against Barack Obama to be resolved next week, as superdelegates decide who is the stronger candidate in the fall. "I think that after the final primaries, people are going to start making up their minds," she said. "I think that is the natural progression that one would expect."

If you follow the link, you'll see that the blog entry reproduces 18 words from the story and a 32-word quote by Hillary Clinton under a user-written headline. The blog entry drew 108 comments in the ensuing discussion.

I have all the expertise in intellectual property law of somebody who's never been sued, so standard disclaimers apply. But I have difficulty seeing how it violates copyright law for a blogger to link to a news story with a short snippet of the story in furtherance of public discussion.

AP feels otherwise. In a June 3 letter, AP's Intellectual Property Governance Coordinator Irene Keselman told me:

... you purport that the Drudge Retort's users reproduce and display AP headlines and leads under a fair use defense. Please note that contrary to your assertion, AP considers that the Drudge Retort users' use of AP content does not fall within the parameters of fair use. The use is not fair use simply because the work copied happened to be a news article and that the use is of the headline and the first few sentences only. This is a misunderstanding of the doctrine of "fair use." AP considers taking the headline and lede of a story without a proper license to be an infringement of its copyrights, and additionally constitutes "hot news" misappropriation.

In another DMCA takedown, AP contends that the following user comment is a copyright violation:

Well, the oil execs just put another refinery in South Dakota. Maybe they're a bunch of retards.

www.foxnews.com

Hyperion has said the project, about 60 miles south of Sioux Falls, would create 1,800 permanent jobs and another 4,500 construction jobs over a four-year period. Construction could begin in 2010.

The Hyperion Energy Center would process 400,000 barrels of thick Canadian crude oil a day, which company executives say would help the U.S. reduce its dependence on overseas oil. The company has said it will bring in the crude oil by pipeline but has announced no sp

Competition? What competition? Competition implies a different product. A different product would be the commentary associated with the story (if there in fact is any, and in some of the cases there's not). If Drudge Retort would remove the parts directly quoted from the article, or even source them properly, then you could claim AP is squashing competition. Otherwise, they're squashing people ripping off their intellectual property.

Use the example quoted in the Workbench post. He claims the article reproduces 18 words and a 32-word quote.

Hillary Rodham Clinton says she expects her marathon Democratic race against Barack Obama to be resolved next week, as superdelegates decide who is the stronger candidate in the fall. "I think that after the final primaries, people are going to start making up their minds," she said. "I think that is the natural progression that one would expect."

"Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she expects uncommitted superdelegates to begin making the choice that will decide her marathon Democratic primary race against Barack Obama soon after the Tuesday's primaries ... Clinton said superdelegates -- the party and elected officials who can vote for whomever they choose regardless of what happens in the primaries and caucuses -- will have to decide who is the stronger candidate in the fall to run against Republican John McCain ...

Similarities:

• Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Marathon Democratic race
• superdelegates will have to decide who is the stronger candidate in the fall

"Original" (only those completely unique words) from the post:

You can say it's a summary, but in any school in the world, that's plagiarism. But ooh, they're using the DMCA, so everything is evil right? Come on, guys, at least look at this crap a little bit. The AP makes their money by SELLING THEIR STORIES for other people to run. If you just run the words verbatim without paying for it, you're just stealing the service they provide for a fee to member papers.

look at this linked analysis

See that big blue thing at the beginning of his first example? that's called a hyperlink: to the AP post.

And why don't the brick-and-mortars open up at midnight, with 3 times the normal cash registers open? Because the near riot is good for business when it gets covered in the local news. There's a reason that each store stocks 12 units of the best deal, and most of the other prices are just normal sale prices... that generates an aura of crazed shopping, and a line of 200 people who are willing to stand hours in the cold -- 188 of whom will be buying products at a profit.

There's been many people who've found themselves in this ad campaign because someone else chose an invalid CC license. Probably the best known is Molly Holzschlag.

Do note however that any "grief and humiliation" should be pretty limited; those 'billboards' (bus shelters was all I could find evidence off) only appeared in Australia, never in Texas.

• http://www.daytrotter.com/article/261/bound-stems- what-youd-get-if-you-remixed-the-great-depression- with-a-choose-your-own-adventure-book-enthrallingl y-but-incorrectly-paginated
  
  "Elijah Wood once sent a signed pic to Janie and asked her to be his girlfriend. That didn't work out for obvious reasons."
  
  And check out the photos at the bottom. Totally butch!
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/60479909%40N00/246082 332/
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/60479909%40N00/246076 309/
• http://www.culturebully.com/ (butch photo)
• http://www.gapersblock.com/transmission/feature/20 06/09/bound_stems_in_so_many_words/ (butch photo at the bottom)
• http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/stories/2002/10 /14/stalkingJaniePorche.html
  
  Several choice quotes:
  
  
  • (Janie Porche from 1995): I am a 15-year-old girl who is sick and tired of wearing pink so that I can fit society's portrait of a young lady. . . . The makers of girl games need to wake up and realize that not everyone without a penis must wear makeup and chase blond surfers named Ken.
  • "It appears that Janie is a senior at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, who was on the school's golf team last year"
  • So I am female, and I am talking to another female, and she tells me that when I get married she wants to be my best man.

The title is not exhaustive, but the description clearly says: "MGM is suing the rightful owner of WarGames.com".

People have the right (or ought to anyway) to keep domains that they purchase, develop, and maintain in good faith. MGM is going to try to bully him into giving it up. They will probably succeed, and if they do, it will be because they have more clout and more money (a more expensive lawyer). Ergo, his online rights are now in jeopardy of being violated.

I bet you're glad you posted anonymously now. And to the lazy moderator who gave this guy an "insightful", shame on you. Check more carefully next time. I realize it's too much of a hassle to read TFA, but please take the time to at least read the short description on Slashdot.

One of the method hiding hidden fields using CSS was first implemented by Rogers Cadenhead of RSS Advisory Board. He has released his code for this under GPL. More at his blog
http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/3053/runni ng-online-communitys-better

Recently Adam Curry was caught changing the Wikipedia article about 'podcasting'. (You know, the amazing technology which allows you to download audio from the internet and then listen to it!!!!)

Former MTV veejay and podcasting entrepreneur Adam Curry appears to have been caught anonymously editing the podcasting entry on Wikipedia to remove credit from other people and inflate his role in its creation.

http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/2818

Not just any dot-bomb, but the dot-bomb that happened to have "microsoft's worst nightmare" on their board of directors.

For the most part your suggestions about the board membership are good, and in part one has already been implemented: He's one member out of five. As I said on my weblog, one of my goals is to help transition RSS 2.0 from a benevolent dictatorship towards a more public, participatory model. Personally, though, I think it would be crazy to push Dave out of RSS. One of the biggest reasons it has succeeded is because there was an outspoken software developer championing the protocol and promoting it tirelessly in code and on his weblog.

Instead, I recommend Janie Porche. She's literate and smiles.

However, she once cheered after reading a Jon Katz article, and thus is clearly incompatible with most Slashdotters.