User: Zufall

A duel of copyrights, patents, and trademarks

On: Sharing Still Doesn't Hurt

It's comical to see how various groups are attempting to use the DMCA,
as well as traditional IP law, against each other, in a vain effort to control
the ideas they call "their" "intellectual property." As Benjamin Franklin said,
when someone else uses your idea, you are not diminished... you still "possess"
it as much as you ever did.

For example, see this humorous(?) dispute between a small web site and someone
claiming to represent Wired Magazine, in which everything from the DMCA,
to copyright and patent law, to the GPL(!), is invoked to assert one side
or the other's IP claims:

http://subintsoc.net/blowback_200203.php#wired2

Just goes to show how asinine these sorts of things can get.

This is an obvious (and very funny) hoax...

On: More on Internet Privacy Legislation

These are the same folks responsible for the great Create Your Own Terror Warning page...

ANd they claim to be having a legal dispute with Wired magazine.

True or not, it's very entertaining.

Here's an old surveillance system that still works

On: Recommendations for Digital Security Systems?

...or at least that's what this site claims.

It's an analog audio monitoring system put together in the early 70s, and hooked up to an early, experimental signal processing and digitizing program.

This was a DARPA - Secret Service project, and apparently the software is still kicking around. Amazing what those paleo-geeks from the age of ARPAnet were capable of...

At least he's not talking about the nat'l. ID card

On: Oracle Switching To Linux

...for the moment.

Of course, Tom Ridge could still make it happen as a Homeland Insecurity measure.