On a related note, check out this article: Copy Catfight:
How intellectual property laws stifle popular culture from Reason Magazine. Good reading, just a bit out of date.
On a related note, check out this article: Copy Catfight:
How intellectual property laws stifle popular culture from Reason Magazine. Good reading, just a bit out of date.
Boy, I hope I didn't just violate that patent...
if hostOf(Cookie) == hostOf(currentPage){
return CookieIsFromMainPage; }
else {
return CookieIsExternalToPage; }
Patent Watch: Slashdot yesterday ran a story about IDcide, a cookie-watching program that prevents cookies from off-site being returned to the server. Consider this line from their FAQ: "IDcide's patent-pending technology automatically distinguishes between persistent cookies sent to the site you are visiting and persistent cookies that are sent to external sites."
Yesterday was actually a busy newsday, so let's catch up. I made notes :-) ...
News from Yesterday:
More Mattel CyberPatrol madness. Here are some links to understand what's going on:
- cphack Mirror and Analysis: "At a bare minimum, public institutions
should be prohibited from using any filtering software which does not make its complete block lists available for public inspection!" - from privacy_forum_notes.txt - What You Aren't Supposed To Know, like rec.games.chess is banned by this program.
- A list of other resources
News from Today:
It would seem Userland picked a really good time to upgrade ETP.com, when the network was going down anyhow! I should be so lucky!
Final proof that there will be a webcast. Now... perhaps some details... ?