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Via Boing Boing Hank’s TaubmanSucks site exhaustively details the legal wranglings that ensued when he registered a domain with the same name as a mall that was under construction near him, for the purpose of posting fannish reviews of the Continue reading HOWTO: defend yourself against domain trademark shakedowns
All tricks on da WWWeb has constructed a DataRequester (Wrapper for XMLHTTPRequest) which is A JavaScript wrapper for the XMLHttpRequest object that enables the trivial implementation of dynamic interfaces without the painful necessity for a complete page-refresh to talk to Continue reading JavaScript Wrapper for XMLHTTPRequest
Economist.com | Illegal file-sharers under attack The entertainment industry is taking its battle against illegal downloading to America’s Supreme Court. But attacking the technology behind file-sharing could stifle innovation without tackling the industry’s long-term problems. Love this: The music business Continue reading Economist.com on the peer-to-peer showdOwn
via Cory @ Boing Boing: Canada’s DMCA proposal: not great, could be LOTS worse. The Canadian government has introduced its draft legislation for a “Canadian DMCA” — a suite of laws to bring Canadian copyright into harmony with the bad Continue reading Canada’s DMCA proposal: not great, could be LOTS worse
A article hightlighting the use of mass spectrometry analysis with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) is in todays Globe and Mail and applying it to the problem of processing gene (genomics) and protein (proteomics) data. The Blueprint Initiative at Mount Sinai Continue reading Mass spectrometry analysis with field-programmable gate arrays for for genomics and proteomics diagnoses
Via Scripting News: 3/24/2005, Tod Maffin (a producer on Definitely Not the Opera CBC radio’s guide to modern culture in Canada, podcaster, and all around Techno Talking head – Media Head?),reports that Canada is amending its copyright laws in favor Continue reading Canada is amending its copyright laws in favor of Big content creators