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DRM and Competition on Downstream Markets II
The recent Chamberlain v. Skylink decision (see my earlier posting) has produced quite a lot of noise in the blogosphere. Ernest Miller has published the most e…
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DRM and Competition on Downstream Markets
Over the last two years, cases in which companies used DRM technology and the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA in order to control downstream markets a…
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Terror Death Toll 47 on One Day
From Richard Cohen's column in the Washington Post: On the very day that George Bush changed his mind and said that the war on terrorism was in fact winnab…
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Sadeghi: Property-Based Attestation
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi & Christian Stüble, Property-based Attestation for Computing Platforms: Caring about properties, not mechanisms, New Security Paradigms…
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Oops! Justice Department Gets the Wrong Men
In the continuing saga of the Administration-That-Couldn't-Shoot-Straight... From CNN.com: In a dramatic reversal, the Justice Department acknowledges its…
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Shame on You, Senator Frist
Bill Frist actually had the gall to say, "Shame on you, Mr. Kerry," at the Convention, because Kerry suggested that the Administration had banned some…
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Giuliani Repeats Lies About Kerry
Per William Saletan: And referring to Kerry's claim that he voted "for the $87 billion [for postwar Iraq appropriations] before I voted against it,&qu…
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Appraising McCain and Giuliani
watched McCain and G. M was dull, and unenthusiastic. The biggest applause line was when he criticized Michael Moore. G was excited and energetic and fun--th…
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Twelve Nepalese Allegedly Executed in Iraq
From an AP report carried by the NY Times: "What sins have I committed to deserve this?'' said Jit Bahadur Khadka, the father of one of those repor…
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41 and Laura B. Slime Kerry
Both father and spouse of the current President refuse to do the honorable thing, denounce, when asked, the smears of war hero John Kerry. From the LA Times...…
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Sharing Love
Slashdot carries an interview with WikiPedia founder Jimmy Wales. Wales: "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access…
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Turning a Boat into the Attack
John Dean has a nice piece arguing that Kerry should sue for defamation, that he can demonstrate the "actual malice" needed for a defamation suit brou…