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Deja vu, all over again
John Fogerty has a new album coming, including the title song whose lyrics are given below. You can hear the song on Fogerty's website. I'm not old en…
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GPL enforceable under German Law [Updated Sep. 6]
A few weeks ago, a District Court in Munich, Germany, upheld an earlier preliminarly injunction according to which the GPL can effectively become part of an agr…
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Life During Wartime
From Slate's roundup of newsweeklies: Time offers an excellent view of the end of the siege at the Imam Ali shrine. A reporter inside Najaf presents a biza…
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Week long "Fear Factor" over. World breathes sigh of relief.
Just rec'd this from Jack Ayer, who got this from a 78-year-old cousin. "On Monday President Bush said that we can't win the war on terrorism. Ye…
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Give them Zell, and then Let's Duel!
After saying that George Bush is the only person who can defend our national security and telling Democrats that they are traitors for seeking to elect someone…
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Hansen, Privacy
Markus Hansen, A Double-Edged Blade - On Trusted Computing's Impact on Privacy, Datenschutz und Datensicherheit 2004, pp. 525-528.…
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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…