I am surprised the fbi is able to function in the computer world at all. Their internal search was really bad for so long, and the fact that an FBI agent uses AOL comes as no surprise.
-Seriv
I have stop considering China a communist contury. They stop following all the values pf it. I do not consider censurship communist either. It is one screwed up political system.
-Seriv
Web Group Backs Microsoft in Patent Suit By STEVE LOHR
Published: October 29, 2003
leading Internet standards-setting organization took the unusual step yesterday of urging the director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to invalidate a software patent that the group says threatens the development of the World Wide Web.
The move by the World Wide Web Consortium puts the group squarely behind Microsoft in a patent-infringement lawsuit that the company is losing so far. A federal jury ruled against Microsoft in August and awarded $521 million to a former University of California researcher who holds the patent the Web consortium now wants revoked.
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The Web group contends that the patent based on work done by Michael Doyle, founder of Eolas Technologies in Chicago, while he was an adjunct professor at the University of California at San Francisco, was improperly granted. In a filing with the patent office, the Web consortium asserts that the ideas in the Eolas patent had previously been published as prior art, a legal term. That prior art was not considered when the patent was granted, or in the Microsoft trial, and thus the patent claims should be invalidated, the consortium contends.
In a long letter yesterday, Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium director, who created the basic software standards for the Web, said the patent office should begin a review of the patent "to prevent substantial economic and technical damage to the operation of the World Wide Web."
In his letter to James E. Rogan, director of the patent office, Mr. Berners-Lee repeatedly emphasized the wider public interest in a review of the patent. If the claims in the patent are upheld and enforced, Mr. Berners-Lee warned, "the cycle of innovation on the Web would be substantially retarded." Later, he wrote that the patent, if unchallenged, represented "a substantial setback for global interoperability and the success of the open Web."
The technology in question lets a Web browser summon programs automatically over the Internet. The programs that use this technology include those for playing music, videos and animations and exchanging documents over the Internet. The technology has become a standard feature in the software for coding Web pages, called hypertext markup language.
To comply with the court ruling, Microsoft has told several software companies and the Web consortium that it plans to make changes in its Internet Explorer browser, the on-ramp to the Web for 90 percent of computer users. That, the Web consortium warned, could force changes in other Internet media software including the Real Networks music player, Apple's QuickTime video program, Macromedia Flash, Adobe's document reader, and Web scripting languages like Sun Microsystems' Java. In addition, the standards group said, Web pages across the Internet might have to be modified to adjust to changes made by Microsoft to comply with the court ruling.
The Web consortium has representatives from many technology companies, including competitors of Microsoft. But after discussions among the consortium members, the group agreed that there was an overriding broader interest in challenging the patent, thus helping Microsoft.
"There was a real recognition that the issues here go way beyond one company losing a lot of money in a lawsuit," said Daniel J. Weitzner, director for technology and society activities at the Web consortium. "And we really are persuaded that the patent is invalid."
In the trial, Microsoft did claim that there was prior art that undermined the claims of the Eolas patent. But in its filing, the Web consortium offers different examples including pre-Internet era software like Write, a word-processing program included with the Windows 3.1 operating system, which included software for summoning and displaying other programs. That, the standards group said, is the same basic function and idea described in the Eolas patent.
A spokesman for Microsoft, Lou Gellos, said Microsoft had not seen the Web consortium's filing. "It's news to us," he said.
The lawyers representing Eolas and Mr. Doyle could not be reached for comment yesterday evening.
It is a horrible law, it should have never been passed. There are enough problems with it that it woiuld be easier to repeal it, you know, governments doing something for the people instead of big business. This is just peanuts to all the problems it presents. Just ditch it!
-Seriv
I am a "graduate" of DARE, I know more about drugs now and what they do in all respects then I did before. I think it encourged more then it discourged. The same is likely here.
-Seriv
Send them to re-education camps!! Bribing teachers to teach an agenda of the MPAA should be illegal. In fact I bet it is, but the MPAA is "above the law."
-Seriv
Venture to Offer ID Card for Use at Security Checks By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Published: October 23, 2003
mericans hate to wait. But will they pay - and submit to security screenings and even high-technology fingerprinting - to avoid the long lines snaking behind checkpoints in airports, office buildings and sports arenas?
Steven Brill is betting that the answer is yes. Mr. Brill, a journalist and entrepreneur, will announce today a new company, Verified Identity Card Inc., which will offer customers an electronic card containing data showing that they are not on terrorism watch lists and do not have certain felony convictions on their records.
If businesses, airports and government agencies sign on to the plan and put Verified's card readers at security checkpoints, cardholders would be able to zip through, avoiding the most thorough searches.
Mr. Brill, who created CourtTV and The American Lawyer and Brill's Content magazines, joins a wave of companies hoping to fill a need and make a profit as government agencies and businesses scramble to shore up defenses against terrorism.
The card, he said, could serve as a more palatable alternative to a government-mandated national ID card, which is opposed by privacy advocates and the Bush administration.
Although the idea of a voluntary identity verification network is not new, Mr. Brill's is the highest-profile effort to bring about such a system. He has enlisted the Civitas Group as an investor. Civitas is a Washington company headed by Michael J. Hershman, a security consultant. Its co-chairmen are Samuel R. Berger, national security adviser in the Clinton administration, and Charles Black, a former senior adviser to President Ronald Reagan and the first President George Bush.
Other partners include Lehman Brothers; TransCore, the company that created the E-ZPass electronic toll system; and ChoicePoint, a Georgia company that will screen the customers.
Mr. Brill declined to discuss how much money he had raised or how much the start-up of the company would cost.
He said that customer data would not be sold or shared with other companies, and the system could not be used to track customer movements from checkpoint to checkpoint. He did say, however, that the company would probably alert law enforcement officials about an applicant whose name appears on a terrorist watch list.
He also said he planned to seek an independent ombudsman appointed by a privacy rights organization to monitor the company's privacy practices.
Those promises do not satisfy Marc Rotenberg, who heads the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. "I don't think it will necessarily come as an assurance to most Americans that a Big Brother card is being minted in the private sector and not in the government," he said.
He said that the system was probably unworkable. In any case, he said, it would have to be developed and deployed in close cooperation with the government, and would thus end up sharing many characteristics with the unpopular national ID card. "If it walks like a national ID card and quacks like a national ID card, it's a national ID card."
Matt Blaze, a cryptography and security expert at AT&T Labs-Research, warned that a central database could become an attractive target for subversion. "The card has to be almost perfect or it becomes worse than useless, because it provides a single point of failure for multiple security systems," he said.
Lawrence A. Ponemon, a privacy consultant based in Tucson, said that managing privacy while providing accurate identification raises remarkably complex issues. A flawed system could, for example, unfairly bar people who should have been approved. Still, Mr. Ponemon said he was glad to see the private sector tackle the problem.
Mr. Brill said that he got the inspiration for the company while working on his book, "After: How America Confronted the September 12th Era." He said that as he worked on the book and the security i
Slashdot Mirror
I think it is quite obvious.
-Seriv
Here is my mirror. Diebold DCMA claims are bogus.
-Seriv
I am surprised the fbi is able to function in the computer world at all. Their internal search was really bad for so long, and the fact that an FBI agent uses AOL comes as no surprise.
-Seriv
I have stop considering China a communist contury. They stop following all the values pf it. I do not consider censurship communist either. It is one screwed up political system.
-Seriv
The news ticker belongs to one company? They all look the same to me. Anyway what is fox doing sueing one of their best shows?
-Seriv
The Patriot act has never served a purpose, It has been time for it to go for a long time.
-Seriv
I am hosting the full archives of diebolds memos. I will not give the url, but BRING IT ON DIEBOLD!!
-Seriv
Web Group Backs Microsoft in Patent Suit
By STEVE LOHR
Published: October 29, 2003
leading Internet standards-setting organization took the unusual step yesterday of urging the director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to invalidate a software patent that the group says threatens the development of the World Wide Web.
The move by the World Wide Web Consortium puts the group squarely behind Microsoft in a patent-infringement lawsuit that the company is losing so far. A federal jury ruled against Microsoft in August and awarded $521 million to a former University of California researcher who holds the patent the Web consortium now wants revoked.
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The Web group contends that the patent based on work done by Michael Doyle, founder of Eolas Technologies in Chicago, while he was an adjunct professor at the University of California at San Francisco, was improperly granted. In a filing with the patent office, the Web consortium asserts that the ideas in the Eolas patent had previously been published as prior art, a legal term. That prior art was not considered when the patent was granted, or in the Microsoft trial, and thus the patent claims should be invalidated, the consortium contends.
In a long letter yesterday, Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium director, who created the basic software standards for the Web, said the patent office should begin a review of the patent "to prevent substantial economic and technical damage to the operation of the World Wide Web."
In his letter to James E. Rogan, director of the patent office, Mr. Berners-Lee repeatedly emphasized the wider public interest in a review of the patent. If the claims in the patent are upheld and enforced, Mr. Berners-Lee warned, "the cycle of innovation on the Web would be substantially retarded." Later, he wrote that the patent, if unchallenged, represented "a substantial setback for global interoperability and the success of the open Web."
The technology in question lets a Web browser summon programs automatically over the Internet. The programs that use this technology include those for playing music, videos and animations and exchanging documents over the Internet. The technology has become a standard feature in the software for coding Web pages, called hypertext markup language.
To comply with the court ruling, Microsoft has told several software companies and the Web consortium that it plans to make changes in its Internet Explorer browser, the on-ramp to the Web for 90 percent of computer users. That, the Web consortium warned, could force changes in other Internet media software including the Real Networks music player, Apple's QuickTime video program, Macromedia Flash, Adobe's document reader, and Web scripting languages like Sun Microsystems' Java. In addition, the standards group said, Web pages across the Internet might have to be modified to adjust to changes made by Microsoft to comply with the court ruling.
The Web consortium has representatives from many technology companies, including competitors of Microsoft. But after discussions among the consortium members, the group agreed that there was an overriding broader interest in challenging the patent, thus helping Microsoft.
"There was a real recognition that the issues here go way beyond one company losing a lot of money in a lawsuit," said Daniel J. Weitzner, director for technology and society activities at the Web consortium. "And we really are persuaded that the patent is invalid."
In the trial, Microsoft did claim that there was prior art that undermined the claims of the Eolas patent. But in its filing, the Web consortium offers different examples including pre-Internet era software like Write, a word-processing program included with the Windows 3.1 operating system, which included software for summoning and displaying other programs. That, the standards group said, is the same basic function and idea described in the Eolas patent.
A spokesman for Microsoft, Lou Gellos, said Microsoft had not seen the Web consortium's filing. "It's news to us," he said.
The lawyers representing Eolas and Mr. Doyle could not be reached for comment yesterday evening.
It is a horrible law, it should have never been passed. There are enough problems with it that it woiuld be easier to repeal it, you know, governments doing something for the people instead of big business. This is just peanuts to all the problems it presents. Just ditch it!
-Seriv
Better not point it at windows, stinky!!
-Seriv
I think it is becuase it is restricting information from the public, there are some odd laws regarding gov. websites.
-Seriv
aren't there laws that stop the government from blocking that sort of thing? I could be wrong, but that could be illegal.
-Seriv
He is going to have a hard time saying he wasn't in the hands of lobbyists ever!
-Seirv
One reign of terror is coming to an end, and a new one is about to begin.
-Seriv
only one I found, I understand what you mean, maybe use wine?
-Seriv
That is a rip off, I don't want to pay for some pricy thing if I am going to have to pay more for CD-Rs!!
-Seriv
Here it is, the classic Don't copy that floppy. A grim picture of what is to come.
-Seriv
I am a "graduate" of DARE, I know more about drugs now and what they do in all respects then I did before. I think it encourged more then it discourged. The same is likely here.
-Seriv
Send them to re-education camps!! Bribing teachers to teach an agenda of the MPAA should be illegal. In fact I bet it is, but the MPAA is "above the law."
-Seriv
Sounds a little fishy. *shoots self for being so stupid*
-Seriv
I know of the documents and after reading the stuff Why-War is doing, I decided to mirror them here. Fight Diebold!!
-Seriv
Venture to Offer ID Card for Use at Security Checks
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Published: October 23, 2003
mericans hate to wait. But will they pay - and submit to security screenings and even high-technology fingerprinting - to avoid the long lines snaking behind checkpoints in airports, office buildings and sports arenas?
Steven Brill is betting that the answer is yes. Mr. Brill, a journalist and entrepreneur, will announce today a new company, Verified Identity Card Inc., which will offer customers an electronic card containing data showing that they are not on terrorism watch lists and do not have certain felony convictions on their records.
If businesses, airports and government agencies sign on to the plan and put Verified's card readers at security checkpoints, cardholders would be able to zip through, avoiding the most thorough searches.
Mr. Brill, who created CourtTV and The American Lawyer and Brill's Content magazines, joins a wave of companies hoping to fill a need and make a profit as government agencies and businesses scramble to shore up defenses against terrorism.
The card, he said, could serve as a more palatable alternative to a government-mandated national ID card, which is opposed by privacy advocates and the Bush administration.
Although the idea of a voluntary identity verification network is not new, Mr. Brill's is the highest-profile effort to bring about such a system. He has enlisted the Civitas Group as an investor. Civitas is a Washington company headed by Michael J. Hershman, a security consultant. Its co-chairmen are Samuel R. Berger, national security adviser in the Clinton administration, and Charles Black, a former senior adviser to President Ronald Reagan and the first President George Bush.
Other partners include Lehman Brothers; TransCore, the company that created the E-ZPass electronic toll system; and ChoicePoint, a Georgia company that will screen the customers.
Mr. Brill declined to discuss how much money he had raised or how much the start-up of the company would cost.
He said that customer data would not be sold or shared with other companies, and the system could not be used to track customer movements from checkpoint to checkpoint. He did say, however, that the company would probably alert law enforcement officials about an applicant whose name appears on a terrorist watch list.
He also said he planned to seek an independent ombudsman appointed by a privacy rights organization to monitor the company's privacy practices.
Those promises do not satisfy Marc Rotenberg, who heads the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. "I don't think it will necessarily come as an assurance to most Americans that a Big Brother card is being minted in the private sector and not in the government," he said.
He said that the system was probably unworkable. In any case, he said, it would have to be developed and deployed in close cooperation with the government, and would thus end up sharing many characteristics with the unpopular national ID card. "If it walks like a national ID card and quacks like a national ID card, it's a national ID card."
Matt Blaze, a cryptography and security expert at AT&T Labs-Research, warned that a central database could become an attractive target for subversion. "The card has to be almost perfect or it becomes worse than useless, because it provides a single point of failure for multiple security systems," he said.
Lawrence A. Ponemon, a privacy consultant based in Tucson, said that managing privacy while providing accurate identification raises remarkably complex issues. A flawed system could, for example, unfairly bar people who should have been approved. Still, Mr. Ponemon said he was glad to see the private sector tackle the problem.
Mr. Brill said that he got the inspiration for the company while working on his book, "After: How America Confronted the September 12th Era." He said that as he worked on the book and the security i
Is that their are people with these cards before who could bypass security while us poor shmoes have to go through security!!
-Seriv
or view images of what it can do Here.
-Seriv
you can see a picture of it here, the link provided above. And a techTV spot of it.
-Seriv