US Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Porn Law
June 29, 2004 at 19:44 | Tags: Free Speech, English | No CommentsThe US Supreme Court said a lower court was correct to block the Child Online Protection Act from taking effect, since it likely violates the First Amendment of the US Constitution. The COPA has been criticised by, among others, the American Civil Liberties Union.
Slashdot: Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Porn Law
FOXNews.com: Supreme Court Strikes Down Porn-Shield Law
Save the iPod Campaign
June 29, 2004 at 9:47 | Tags: IP, English | No CommentsA site called Save the iPod has been launched by Downhill Battle, Click the Vote, and FreeCulture.org. The site urges Americans to contact their politicians to stop the proposed INDUCE Act, which could make Apple criminals.
EFF Demonstrates the Harm of INDUCE Act
June 25, 2004 at 9:20 | Tags: IP, English | 1 CommentLawrence Lessig reports that the EFF has written a fake complaint about Apple for violation of the proposed INDUCE Act that demonstrates the sillyness of the act. The complaint is here (PDF).
Judge Suspected of Masturbating in Court
June 25, 2004 at 8:58 | Tags: Funny, English | No CommentsYahoo! News reports than an Oklahoma state judge has been accused of frequently masturbating while his court was in session.
Testing Mobile Blogging
June 24, 2004 at 18:57 | Tags: Mobile, English | 4 CommentsFirst mobile post. w00t! ![]()
New Strange Laws Proposed in the USA
June 23, 2004 at 19:58 | Tags: IP, English | 2 CommentsLawrence Lessig reports about new proposed US legislation. Something called the INDUCE Act, which will criminalize the act of inducing another to commit a copyright violation.
Furdlog has published the actual text and reports that the BSA supports the bill.
New “Halloween Documents”
June 23, 2004 at 17:21 | Tags: Misc., English | No CommentsOpen Source Initiative OSI - Doc11:Halloween Documents
Update: I posted a quick note about this when I saw it on Slashdot but I can’t be bothered to read it.
Basically it seems to be ESR analysing some FUD
Myndigheters källkod är offentlig
June 23, 2004 at 9:40 | Tags: Juridik, Swedish | No CommentsRegeringsrätten har beslutat att Stockholms universitets egenutvecklade databassystem, inklusive källkod och dokumentation, är offentliga handlingar. I IDG:s artikel antar man att detta kan “få långtgående konsekvenser för hela offentlig sektors möjligheter att behålla källkoden till sina databaser eller webbmotorer.”
Skype For Linux
June 22, 2004 at 10:43 | Tags: Misc., English | No CommentsThere is now a Linux version of the Skype VoIP program. The license is not very free, though.
1 4m 4n l33t h4xx0r! Or so it seems . . . ;-)
June 21, 2004 at 23:33 | Tags: Misc., English | No CommentsEveryone keeps complaining about hacking in movies. Those actors always seem to guess passwords in 15 seconds or less. Well, it’s not as unrealistic as it may seem. I just guessed a password in less than five seconds. I needed to get into the BIOS of an old computer and, to my great surprise, that required a password. I had not set that password and I was pretty sure the computer’s previous owner hadn’t. My first thought was that there was just no way for me to get that password. I would have to to remove the battery or something ( yeah “or something . . .” I’m not very l33t, am I? ;-)). Then I thought, well, I might as well use my m4d skilz and try to guess it. Hm, the name of the company that sold the computer perhaps? w00t!
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