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This sounds a lot like where the article in HBR was heading and the counterpoint in Forbes discussed. This concept, though, is a lot more novel than the approach that HBR took in that the functions of IT are not marginalized but, rather, those working in that field are. As IT systems, computers, the Internet, etc. are looked at more as the tools they are and not the end itself, those working on them will be seperated from those working with them. Just like your mechanic example. Very interesting.

A good example of open sores.

Well, I'll just have to put a good word for Prof. Urton here. I most definetely wouldn't consider him a "wacko" (though I admit to being a khipu nut so my objectivity may well be questioned). He has worked on deciphering the khipu quite persistently for a couple of decades now from anthropological, archeological and ethno-mathematical angles.

Check out this article in the Harvard Gazette.

I don't know if this is what they are doing with this detector but you can use mirros to "focus" x-rays at very shallow angles.

This is how sattelite xray observatories work

More information is available with pictures at Chandra X-ray Observatory

"Yeah., well... Just keep your (insert failed human interface device here) off her, huh?"

I must be the only one that got the "Wizard" joke there. Thanks, Lucas. ;)

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~rhwu/gifs/power glove.mpeg

It may be unfair to single out IBM, though You are right there was a class action suit info however one should remember that they had an CEO (very prominent, he began an extraordinary career at IBM in 1949 and he has served as Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and being in the Bilderberg Group)who was as far away from beeing a nazi as you can get. Or was that later??...hmm yeah -81, just in time to get gates to deliver an OS(google webcache-only the cache is alive) as it says at the harvard site, they key person was Mr Opel, who was a friend of Mrs Gates. See? Networking networking networking.That should teach you to socialize more, dont sit in front of that smelly keyboard! Where was I? Right, IBM are our friends nowdays :)

I have written a small piece on software patents in the EU for Greplaw. Richard Stallman has already complained about me not being Wittgenstein enough in my language (I am talking about intellectual property for instance), but maybe you will get something out of reading Software Patents Stink. My main concern is a lack of public debate of the issue. The IT industry needs to join in before it is too late.

Best regards,

Mikael

Here are a couple of interesting articles on the effects aging has on the brain.

I found this interesting dialect survey that plots the answers to the question "What is your generic term for a sweetened carbonated beverage?" on a US map using different colors to indicate which terms were predominant in a given region...check it out:

http://hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/staticmaps/ q_105.html

I found this interesting dialect survey that plots the answers to the question "What is your generic term for a sweetened carbonated beverage?" on a US map using different colors to indicate which terms were predominant in a given region...check it out:

http://hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/staticmaps/ q_105.html

Cool, another believer in the mindbody concept. Dr. Sarno made sense of everything and his book "The Mindbody Prescription" literally changed my life for the better. Here is another good link:

http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu/handout.doc

Google cache of the above if you don't want to view a Word document

Everyone should read this stuff, whether you have pain or not. It really makes sense more than anything else.

I'm only suffering from pain in my wrists when i'm stressed, and I think it is *the* cause for it. If it was computer-over-useage, i'd have no wrists left....

I very much agree with this. Though in my experience, its not necessarilly stress on the concious level. I had RSI for a year and a half that was bad enough that it kept me from working, but I found a solution and no longer have any incidence of it. And these days I use my hands/arms all day long without a break and don't restrict myself in any way. Here are some links to the solution I used:

http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu/handout.doc

http://www.premierhealthonline.com/tms.htm

For more info, Google for: sarno tms

I normally get flamed for posting this stuff, but that's expected. That first link gives a great summary. Read ALL of it and pay attention to what it says before forming an opinion.. I'd try to summarize the ideas myself, but I really can't explain it as well as that document does. For those who don't want to view a Word document, here is a link to the Google cache.

As far as using a trademark in a descriptive context, Apple is on good ground here... they're not trying to intentionally profit by causing confusion (initial interest confusion) and they are using the name to describe their product faithfully (try dreaming up a way to say "Unix-based" without using "*nix").

1981 Playmate of the Year Terri Wells prevailed in a similar situation where Playboy was attempting to enjoin her from using the terms "playmate" and "playboy" on her website... Apple will prevail if this is not settled.

to the courts.

Remembering that most lawyers and judges are not all that knowledgable about programming, SCO could use 80 lines of plagerism to claim that there is a much deeper pattern of copying and paraphrasing going on (disregarding the fact that the vast majority of kernel contributers have had no access to propietary kernel code of any type). And the courts are influenced by the political environment of the time.

I've begun to view the underlying issue here as not one of SCO's ownership of particular code, but more an issue of ownership in general. There is a school of thought that believes that ownership is a neccessary aspect of all things and that things (objects, ideas, actions) only have value if they are paid for. This philosophy has been touted by such notables as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Ronald Reagan, George W Bush and his father. For the user base of GNU/Linux to not see this lawsuit as the beginning of yet another battle in the struggle to curtail the free distribution of ideas (source code are ideas) among men and women would be a mistake. If SCO were to convince the court that the 80 lines of code somehow bestowed upon the Linux kernen a taint (trade secrets) that cannot be removed, then the court may be conned into believing that the kernel is in part owned by SCO and that the distribution of the code and/or binaries should be accompanied by the paying of royalty. In addition, there has been an increasing attitude towards Free Software and Open Sourse that these ideas somehow endanger the economy of the United States (ask around, you'll see what I mean).

The difficulties that Free Software and Open Source Software pose to implementation of manditory DRM (censorship )is interpeted as a threat to not only to the distributers of movies and music but also to the political and law enforcement industries that see media as a way to shape the opinions, ideas and beliefs of the American citizenry. For an example we need only to look at the media coverage of the 2000 presidential election results and the lack of criticism over the courts refusal to mandate a meaningful recount and the subsequent appointment of a George W. Bush by 5 Supreme Court Justices.

An other example would be the casting of the DeCSS code as a "piracy tool" by virtually every news source covering the dispute, when in fact, DVDs can and are pirated without the use of the DeCSS code by software that incorporates licensed code provided by the DVD makers (Expert Guides' DVD Copy. There has been little noise from the MPAA over this tool or software like it, and no mention of such software in media coverage of the DeCSS case.

If the courts are affected by a political stance that views Free Software as somehow being "bad" (for the economy, for national security, etc), then this case is not about 80 lines of code, but about Free Software in general. If the case is decided in favor of SCO, the court may decide on a remedy that is not as simple as removing the offending code.

--ptw

to the courts.

Remembering that most lawyers and judges are not all that knowledgable about programming, SCO could use 80 lines of plagerism to claim that there is a much deeper pattern of copying and paraphrasing going on (disregarding the fact that the vast majority of kernel contributers have had no access to propietary kernel code of any type). And the courts are influenced by the political environment of the time.

I've begun to view the underlying issue here as not one of SCO's ownership of particular code, but more an issue of ownership in general. There is a school of thought that believes that ownership is a neccessary aspect of all things and that things (objects, ideas, actions) only have value if they are paid for. This philosophy has been touted by such notables as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Ronald Reagan, George W Bush and his father. For the user base of GNU/Linux to not see this lawsuit as the beginning of yet another battle in the struggle to curtail the free distribution of ideas (source code are ideas) among men and women would be a mistake. If SCO were to convince the court that the 80 lines of code somehow bestowed upon the Linux kernen a taint (trade secrets) that cannot be removed, then the court may be conned into believing that the kernel is in part owned by SCO and that the distribution of the code and/or binaries should be accompanied by the paying of royalty. In addition, there has been an increasing attitude towards Free Software and Open Sourse that these ideas somehow endanger the economy of the United States (ask around, you'll see what I mean).

The difficulties that Free Software and Open Source Software pose to implementation of manditory DRM (censorship )is interpeted as a threat to not only to the distributers of movies and music but also to the political and law enforcement industries that see media as a way to shape the opinions, ideas and beliefs of the American citizenry. For an example we need only to look at the media coverage of the 2000 presidential election results and the lack of criticism over the courts refusal to mandate a meaningful recount and the subsequent appointment of a George W. Bush by 5 Supreme Court Justices.

An other example would be the casting of the DeCSS code as a "piracy tool" by virtually every news source covering the dispute, when in fact, DVDs can and are pirated without the use of the DeCSS code by software that incorporates licensed code provided by the DVD makers (Expert Guides' DVD Copy. There has been little noise from the MPAA over this tool or software like it, and no mention of such software in media coverage of the DeCSS case.

If the courts are affected by a political stance that views Free Software as somehow being "bad" (for the economy, for national security, etc), then this case is not about 80 lines of code, but about Free Software in general. If the case is decided in favor of SCO, the court may decide on a remedy that is not as simple as removing the offending code.

--ptw

Here are links to more Greplaw interviews that you may find interesting:

Patrik Faltstrom on IESG, IETF etc.

Don Marti on free software, patents and the Internet.

Cyberlaw profiles: Jennifer Granick.

We try to interview interesting people who one way or another affect and form Internet law and policy. Feel free to suggest people we should interview.

Regards,

Mikael

Here are links to more Greplaw interviews that you may find interesting:

Patrik Faltstrom on IESG, IETF etc.

Don Marti on free software, patents and the Internet.

Cyberlaw profiles: Jennifer Granick.

We try to interview interesting people who one way or another affect and form Internet law and policy. Feel free to suggest people we should interview.

Regards,

Mikael

Here are links to more Greplaw interviews that you may find interesting:

Patrik Faltstrom on IESG, IETF etc.

Don Marti on free software, patents and the Internet.

Cyberlaw profiles: Jennifer Granick.

We try to interview interesting people who one way or another affect and form Internet law and policy. Feel free to suggest people we should interview.

Regards,

Mikael

If you're talking about Apache, then you're not talking about streaming.

Idiot,

Since you are grossly uninformed and exceedingly stupid, let me spell it out for you. "Streaming" is defined as "A technique for transferring data such that it can be processed as a steadyÂand continuous stream." The key feature is that the data is played as it is downloaded.

Apache can very easily stream audio. It can do this running on platforms aside from Windows.

If I were as stupid as you are, I'd be depressed to.

You meant "too", moron.

W

Quite seriously, a major reason for America's economic troubles, according to the Harvard Global Competitiveness Report, is a failure of the court systems, especially in contract law.

Although the whole report is for sale, you can click through to some pdfs, and read them. Especially interesting is the Executive summary, in which [p. 19] they say that they are increasing the weighting of technological innovation, [p. 20] note that the US has fallen to #2 and Finland has taken #1.

Yet for the case of the United States [p.37], they note that the bubble has burst, and they say that technology is *overrated*. They also note that the major problems with the US are the undermined court system, now ranked around #14.

What that means is that they US hasn't just fallen to #2. In reality, the US has already fallen a good deal farther. And when you consider that superpowers *do* have more power, and therefore fall under the category of "more competitive" all other things being equal, that means that the US is really hurting, and is probably going to hurt more. Fallen, fallen, is Babylon and all that.

Now, flip over to the Cato Institute, and you can find documents [or this] where they point out that the fall Argentina's peso was engineered, and that this represented a major additional break from the rule of law. But what also hurt was that their court systems were completely corrupted, and their society had separated into two societies: the taxed and the government folks.

Well, hate to break the news, but it's looking a lot like what Argentina had, America is getting ready to eat themselves. Not that it will be exactly alike. I fully expect a blackmarket boom in Argentina, followed by [1% chance] them becoming the top economic power in the world if they are good to each other, or [99% chance] them turning military and conquering most of South and Central America, and sending a pressure hammer of refugees into North America. The US, on the other hand, I expect to slide into corruption, and be overwhelmed by said pressure hammer.

But back to the topic at hand, I don't think we can necessarily expect expert witnesses, truth, and Justice to prevail, in light of the American way.

So if you're into Linux, download all the source code you can right now, and put it on CDs/DVDs, and keep it. You may find that it is quite valuable for internal use, and public use after you're sure that it's clean. Don't let Linux depend on America, because America has different ideas right now.

Quite seriously, a major reason for America's economic troubles, according to the Harvard Global Competitiveness Report, is a failure of the court systems, especially in contract law.

Although the whole report is for sale, you can click through to some pdfs, and read them. Especially interesting is the Executive summary, in which [p. 19] they say that they are increasing the weighting of technological innovation, [p. 20] note that the US has fallen to #2 and Finland has taken #1.

Yet for the case of the United States [p.37], they note that the bubble has burst, and they say that technology is *overrated*. They also note that the major problems with the US are the undermined court system, now ranked around #14.

What that means is that they US hasn't just fallen to #2. In reality, the US has already fallen a good deal farther. And when you consider that superpowers *do* have more power, and therefore fall under the category of "more competitive" all other things being equal, that means that the US is really hurting, and is probably going to hurt more. Fallen, fallen, is Babylon and all that.

Now, flip over to the Cato Institute, and you can find documents [or this] where they point out that the fall Argentina's peso was engineered, and that this represented a major additional break from the rule of law. But what also hurt was that their court systems were completely corrupted, and their society had separated into two societies: the taxed and the government folks.

Well, hate to break the news, but it's looking a lot like what Argentina had, America is getting ready to eat themselves. Not that it will be exactly alike. I fully expect a blackmarket boom in Argentina, followed by [1% chance] them becoming the top economic power in the world if they are good to each other, or [99% chance] them turning military and conquering most of South and Central America, and sending a pressure hammer of refugees into North America. The US, on the other hand, I expect to slide into corruption, and be overwhelmed by said pressure hammer.

But back to the topic at hand, I don't think we can necessarily expect expert witnesses, truth, and Justice to prevail, in light of the American way.

So if you're into Linux, download all the source code you can right now, and put it on CDs/DVDs, and keep it. You may find that it is quite valuable for internal use, and public use after you're sure that it's clean. Don't let Linux depend on America, because America has different ideas right now.

Quite seriously, a major reason for America's economic troubles, according to the Harvard Global Competitiveness Report, is a failure of the court systems, especially in contract law.

Although the whole report is for sale, you can click through to some pdfs, and read them. Especially interesting is the Executive summary, in which [p. 19] they say that they are increasing the weighting of technological innovation, [p. 20] note that the US has fallen to #2 and Finland has taken #1.

Yet for the case of the United States [p.37], they note that the bubble has burst, and they say that technology is *overrated*. They also note that the major problems with the US are the undermined court system, now ranked around #14.

What that means is that they US hasn't just fallen to #2. In reality, the US has already fallen a good deal farther. And when you consider that superpowers *do* have more power, and therefore fall under the category of "more competitive" all other things being equal, that means that the US is really hurting, and is probably going to hurt more. Fallen, fallen, is Babylon and all that.

Now, flip over to the Cato Institute, and you can find documents [or this] where they point out that the fall Argentina's peso was engineered, and that this represented a major additional break from the rule of law. But what also hurt was that their court systems were completely corrupted, and their society had separated into two societies: the taxed and the government folks.

Well, hate to break the news, but it's looking a lot like what Argentina had, America is getting ready to eat themselves. Not that it will be exactly alike. I fully expect a blackmarket boom in Argentina, followed by [1% chance] them becoming the top economic power in the world if they are good to each other, or [99% chance] them turning military and conquering most of South and Central America, and sending a pressure hammer of refugees into North America. The US, on the other hand, I expect to slide into corruption, and be overwhelmed by said pressure hammer.

But back to the topic at hand, I don't think we can necessarily expect expert witnesses, truth, and Justice to prevail, in light of the American way.

So if you're into Linux, download all the source code you can right now, and put it on CDs/DVDs, and keep it. You may find that it is quite valuable for internal use, and public use after you're sure that it's clean. Don't let Linux depend on America, because America has different ideas right now.

This open formats idea is naive. You don't cut deals with monopolies, you cut their goddam welfare. Do you realize how much every single elementary school in your state if forking over to these whores? The DMV is a lame example. The schools are where they're juicing the taxpayer like crazy. If your kids have a web page at school, I suggest you go see which server they're using. Oh, hmm. Who made that decision. Oh I see, that was the district information guy. Where is he anyway? Oh, he's at a Microsoft conference in Vegas. There's so much to learn you know.

Where do you think Mac got all that money that keeps them afloat? They got so bloated off edu-welfare they went limp, pulled out and gave MS a turn to ride the train. How the hell is welfare bad for the poor, but totally justified in the case of billion dollar corporation? I still don't catch that part.

Fuck the half steppin'. Get out and vote for mandatory open source and do the right thing. Don't be a suck ass apologist with this "The right tool for the right job" bullshit.

Lectures are recorded, so that you can watch them via RealPlayer; all of the online courses have pretty active BBS discussions; the professors and TAs generally make themselves available via e-mail; and most of the courses can be taken for credit or simply audited.

As with any experience in higher education, the quality of the professors varies; some are very responsive and active, while others don't exert themselves very much. However, if you do a little research and check out the websites for the courses as part of your research, it's possible to figure out which classes are worth the time.

Harvard Extension School: Division of Continuing Education

But yes, it is extraordinarily neat!

But yes, it is extraordinarily neat!

4 year pre-law degree at Harvard: $141,600
4 year law degree at Harvard: $194,00

Using your 8 yea education to sue someone picking out of a garbage: priceless.

There are some things money can't buy, for everything else there's always a lawyer.

4 year pre-law degree at Harvard: $141,600
4 year law degree at Harvard: $194,00

Using your 8 yea education to sue someone picking out of a garbage: priceless.

There are some things money can't buy, for everything else there's always a lawyer.

The scariest thing here about this story is that both of these dim bulbs have law degrees. Are they giving degrees away when you get enough box tops!?

No, they're selling them for tons of cash, like they have for a long time. And please, don't tell me about people failing out. That only happens to the 'not fabulously wealthy.'

note: law school links just chosen at pseudorandom. Just making a point, not accusing any one school of being any worse than any other.

I don't know what kind of work you are doing at school, but I've put together a web log chronicling my experiences using a Mac at the Harvard Business School: the Mac Experiment.

Somebody interviewed Ms. Deep? Gee, I guess I better Read Or Die...

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The Technical Overview for the W.A.S.T.E. package has been coverted into HTML, courtesy of Mr. Lucas Gonze , and it is available at http://gonze.com/waste/WASTE_Design.html

A sourceforge project site has also been set up for the W.A.S.T.E. package. The project site is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/waste/ . It may be empty for the moment, but something will be cooked up very soon.

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The file is now gone. Please mod this up so my server survives.

Use Dave Winers offer to download instead, or one of the other sources: waste.zip

News.com reports that AOL ordered Nullsoft to remove their new collaboration/file sharing tool Waste from their website. This isn't the first time this has happened, either. In 2000, AOL ordered Nullsoft to remove gnutella from their website. Fortunately they released the program under the GPL, so the source is still available.

You can thank Nintendo for that one. A company called Tengen tried to make a game (Tetris I believe) using a cloned unlicensed cartridge. The result? Nintendo sued, and won. As a matter of fact, the Tengen Tetris is a collector's item. Sega won't pursue that with the DC.

The Tengen Tetris case you're referring to was not about Tengen publishing unlicensed titles, but about who had the rights to publish Tetris. It was a big convoluted mess, in part because the Tetris creator (Sergei Kosmansomethingorother) kinda screwed up and gave rights to several people without nailing down just exactly what they can do (A can publish in Japan on PC, but not on any other platform, B can publish on anything in Europe, but not Japan and America, etc). Tengen's Tetris (aside from having a really cool two-player mode, making it more fun than Nintendo's version) is a collector because it turns out Tengen/Atari didn't have the rights to publish Tetris.

However, there was another case, Atari v. Nintendo, where Atari (Tengen) lost because they copied large portions of Nintendo's protection code without license. On the flip side, Accolade won the Sega v. Accolade case because Accolade properly reverse engineered Sega's protection code. So, the moral of the story is that if you do things correctly, you can publish your own games just fine. But screw up even slightly and you're screwed. There were lots of unlicensed developers making games and peripherals for the NES, and only Tengen/Atari got smacked down hard by Nintendo.

You can thank Nintendo for that one. A company called Tengen tried to make a game (Tetris I believe) using a cloned unlicensed cartridge. The result? Nintendo sued, and won. As a matter of fact, the Tengen Tetris is a collector's item. Sega won't pursue that with the DC.

The Tengen Tetris case you're referring to was not about Tengen publishing unlicensed titles, but about who had the rights to publish Tetris. It was a big convoluted mess, in part because the Tetris creator (Sergei Kosmansomethingorother) kinda screwed up and gave rights to several people without nailing down just exactly what they can do (A can publish in Japan on PC, but not on any other platform, B can publish on anything in Europe, but not Japan and America, etc). Tengen's Tetris (aside from having a really cool two-player mode, making it more fun than Nintendo's version) is a collector because it turns out Tengen/Atari didn't have the rights to publish Tetris.

However, there was another case, Atari v. Nintendo, where Atari (Tengen) lost because they copied large portions of Nintendo's protection code without license. On the flip side, Accolade won the Sega v. Accolade case because Accolade properly reverse engineered Sega's protection code. So, the moral of the story is that if you do things correctly, you can publish your own games just fine. But screw up even slightly and you're screwed. There were lots of unlicensed developers making games and peripherals for the NES, and only Tengen/Atari got smacked down hard by Nintendo.

Again, I must disagree - that $17 billion did not simply spring forth sua sponte, which is more or less what is implied by chalking it up to "good long-term planning". Rather, I expect that a significant fraction of it originated from alumni donations and contributions, which have in turn been supplemented by returns on investments made with that alumni money. Being a postdoc yourself, I suspect that you benefit directly from such contributions in the form of fellowships and stipends and the like - in fact, according to the Harvard Graduate School Fund itself, 65% of their funding came from alumni donations. And for alumni donations, I think we can fairly read "satisfied customers".

If and when Harvard should stop producing satisfied customers, or stop producing students with the wherewithal to earn the sort of money that enables them to make such donations, that funding will inevitably dry up and blow away. And I have yet to see anyone attempt to make the case that tenure is a critical part of the student experience - rather, the focus has been on how tenure benefits faculty, and students are at best a sort of one-off consideration in that equation. If tenured faculty are not critical to the student experience at Harvard, then tenure is not critical to funding and maintaining the university on its present course, despite assertions to the contrary.

Very true, except that Random House, by-and-large, does not generate this knowledge, it merely provides the service of publication to authors.

Neither does Harvard University generate the knowledge that you produce in your work, despite your being directly employed by them - you do. Harvard merely provides you with the service of a desk and a library card. Nor does Harvard University generate the knowledge created by its faculty - it merely provides them with services designed to facilitate the creation of such knowledge. And I see no reason that Harvard should stop doing that, even in the absence of tenure.

1) As another comment mentioned, some popups are apparently delayed relative to the event that triggers the popup. A specific example may be helpful. Gator could Fedex the following service: "Five clicks after a user exits ups.com, show the Fedex popup ad." Or, alternatively, "Five minutes..." I believe I've seen signs of both of these methods. For example, if I go to an online travel site, then go to harvard.edu (for which most Gator popup ads are about education), I might well be shown a Gator popup about travel.

2) Gator does target some ads at all sites (or almost all sites). The report describes this as follows:

Testing indicates that, in addition to advertisements targeted at specific web sites, Gator also shows certain additional advertisements subsequent to user requests for numerous web sites. (Gator seems to prevent such advertisements from being displayed subsequent to user requests for certain sites, including Gator's own site and sites specified in court orders). As of May 2003, an additional 17 advertisements were placed in this category of general advertisements, including advertisements about replacement ink cartridges, cell phones, lotteries, business cards, and DVD rental. Using the testing system below, these ads can be viewed by specifying the string notrgs as the domain name to check.

See the ads in this "show everywhere" category.

Ben Edelman
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School

1) As another comment mentioned, some popups are apparently delayed relative to the event that triggers the popup. A specific example may be helpful. Gator could Fedex the following service: "Five clicks after a user exits ups.com, show the Fedex popup ad." Or, alternatively, "Five minutes..." I believe I've seen signs of both of these methods. For example, if I go to an online travel site, then go to harvard.edu (for which most Gator popup ads are about education), I might well be shown a Gator popup about travel.

2) Gator does target some ads at all sites (or almost all sites). The report describes this as follows:

Testing indicates that, in addition to advertisements targeted at specific web sites, Gator also shows certain additional advertisements subsequent to user requests for numerous web sites. (Gator seems to prevent such advertisements from being displayed subsequent to user requests for certain sites, including Gator's own site and sites specified in court orders). As of May 2003, an additional 17 advertisements were placed in this category of general advertisements, including advertisements about replacement ink cartridges, cell phones, lotteries, business cards, and DVD rental. Using the testing system below, these ads can be viewed by specifying the string notrgs as the domain name to check.

See the ads in this "show everywhere" category.

Ben Edelman
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School

1) As another comment mentioned, some popups are apparently delayed relative to the event that triggers the popup. A specific example may be helpful. Gator could Fedex the following service: "Five clicks after a user exits ups.com, show the Fedex popup ad." Or, alternatively, "Five minutes..." I believe I've seen signs of both of these methods. For example, if I go to an online travel site, then go to harvard.edu (for which most Gator popup ads are about education), I might well be shown a Gator popup about travel.

2) Gator does target some ads at all sites (or almost all sites). The report describes this as follows:

Testing indicates that, in addition to advertisements targeted at specific web sites, Gator also shows certain additional advertisements subsequent to user requests for numerous web sites. (Gator seems to prevent such advertisements from being displayed subsequent to user requests for certain sites, including Gator's own site and sites specified in court orders). As of May 2003, an additional 17 advertisements were placed in this category of general advertisements, including advertisements about replacement ink cartridges, cell phones, lotteries, business cards, and DVD rental. Using the testing system below, these ads can be viewed by specifying the string notrgs as the domain name to check.

See the ads in this "show everywhere" category.

Ben Edelman
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School

1) As another comment mentioned, some popups are apparently delayed relative to the event that triggers the popup. A specific example may be helpful. Gator could Fedex the following service: "Five clicks after a user exits ups.com, show the Fedex popup ad." Or, alternatively, "Five minutes..." I believe I've seen signs of both of these methods. For example, if I go to an online travel site, then go to harvard.edu (for which most Gator popup ads are about education), I might well be shown a Gator popup about travel.

2) Gator does target some ads at all sites (or almost all sites). The report describes this as follows:

Testing indicates that, in addition to advertisements targeted at specific web sites, Gator also shows certain additional advertisements subsequent to user requests for numerous web sites. (Gator seems to prevent such advertisements from being displayed subsequent to user requests for certain sites, including Gator's own site and sites specified in court orders). As of May 2003, an additional 17 advertisements were placed in this category of general advertisements, including advertisements about replacement ink cartridges, cell phones, lotteries, business cards, and DVD rental. Using the testing system below, these ads can be viewed by specifying the string notrgs as the domain name to check.

See the ads in this "show everywhere" category.

Ben Edelman
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School

This example is real, not fabricated! I saw it in Gator's configuration files, which I've preserved for posterity, and also confirmed it with a hands-on test.

Ben Edelman
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School

This example is real, not fabricated! I saw it in Gator's configuration files, which I've preserved for posterity, and also confirmed it with a hands-on test.

Ben Edelman
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School

This example is real, not fabricated! I saw it in Gator's configuration files, which I've preserved for posterity, and also confirmed it with a hands-on test.

Ben Edelman
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School

I don't know if this says anything about the crowd reading Slashdot, but I noticed that most of the post here are in regards to physics or genetics texts. Anyone know of any good books in other fields? I noticed a sore lack of texts in chemistry being thrown out, and to be honest, I'm embarrassed that I can't think of any to recommend other than textbooks. The only consolation I can offer is to point Slashdot readers to a gentleman I had the opportunity to hear speak today on the subject of forming nano and mesoscale structures via self assembly. These techniques could be used for all manner of things, but most interestingly, as a means of creating 3D circuitry without complex fabrication. The circuits would literally assemble themselves. Very cool stuff and possibly the next great revolution that scientists will hand over to engineers. I'm rather proud after having heard this man speak that I am doing work in the same field.

I think what you'll see happen in this case is that it will be granted cert in the 14th circuit, but they will kill it with a pocket veto before it grandfathers in a relatively new concept like the GPL.

Calling this particular piece, speculative as it may be, the sign of a new "low" for Scientific American - unless you personally have also published extensively in the field - may be premature.

-renard

The "400 captured asteroids" aren't called moons, not because they are asteroids, but because they are not moons, i.e. they are not captured. They are Trojans that orbit the sun (not Jupiter) with the same period as Jupiter. And there's over 1600 of them.

This move attempts to put power back in the hands of CNN and places like "the register". The register, really is nothing more than a weblog... and poorly written one at that.

Of course they will rejoice that Google is seeking to destroy the democratic power of a million internet voices, cross-linking, meme-propagating. Articles like this one have scared the pants off of media giants. Recently, the New York times blasted "technology" as the real source of "deceptive journalism".