Tuesday, July 15, 2003|
MS DRM is pure smoke. DRM in Microsoft WM9 SDK cracked using nothing but the vanilla WM9 API. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs] If this is true, then it is rather shocking, but, I suppose, not too surprizing. It is another example of MSFT doing a shell game with 'partners' that lulls them into a sense of comfort and then locks them in. 12:39:30 PM  comment []
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National Center for Adoption Law & Policy announces new online tool. The National Center for Adoption Law & Policy at Capital University Law School, located in Columbus, Ohio, today released the nation's first comprehensive online compilation and synthesis of the law of adoption. This new e-tool, available at www.adoption [JURIST's Paper Chase] 12:35:57 PM comment []
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Commodore 64 gets new guardian angel. The relaunch of the venerable PC means a subscription Web portal and a new logo, as the company responsible for its licensing moves to protect the brand. [CNET News.com] 11:17:51 AM comment []
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PortLAMP Courses: A Look Back. A look back at a great conference. I have a few thoughts on things PHP, a couple of not-so-obvious Productivity apps, and a couple of Trends. There's also a looming issue on the horizon: conferences + laptops + wireless + cheap firewire cameras (what will happen?) [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs] There is a lot of good stuff here. 11:17:24 AM comment []
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Supreme Court vs. The Supremes. File sharing is usually considered the province of music, but more substantive files are available to be shared. Thanks to the Oyez project, you can download MP3s of Supreme Court arguments. By Katie Dean. [Wired News] The Oyez project is a great resource. Reading this article, it occurs to me that more needs to be done to develop a central, recognized, directory of these sorts of things. There is so much stuff around on the net that it is difficult to find and remember all of the useful bits. For example, most every 1L gets to Roe v. Wade during ConLaw. But, how many actually get assigned the MP3 of the oral arguments? I think that the impact of such an assignment would be tremendous. 11:12:58 AM comment []
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Economist.com | MONITOREconomist.com | MONITOR Vicky Reich and David Rosenthal, respectively a librarian and a researcher at Stanford University, are exceptions. Rather than invent a better mousetrap, they are using existing technology to imitate an important function of libraries. They want to ensure that readers will still be able to access electronic academic journals even centuries after they have been published. Their project, called LOCKSS (short for “lots of copies keep stuff safe”), addresses a vexing problem that librarians face everywhere. Increasingly, academic journals are published online; many are not even available in print. As a result, libraries are losing the option of maintaining local collections—but are leery of discontinuing paper subscriptions.
Sounds a lot like what LEDA is trying to accomplish. The LOCKSS website provides more information on the system and its users. |
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