Saturday, June 05, 2004

Don't Smudge The Sensor When You Press 'Play' Don't Smudge The Sensor When You Press 'Play' Posted by timothy on Saturday June 05, @05:04PM from the well-it-sure-sounds-like-a-joke dept. mattyrobinson69 writes "According to The Register, 'The RIAA wants your fingerprints.' They've teamed up with VeriTouch, who say 'In practical terms, VeriTouch's breakthrough in anti-piracy technology means that no delivered content to a customer may be copied, shared or otherwise distributed because each file is uniquely locked by the customer's live fingerprint scan.'" No details, but the article talks about a locked-down "wireless media player" to prevent such passing around. [Slashdot] Who in their right mind would buy something like this? 9:03:59 PM    comment []  trackback []

Macromedia Flash 7 licensing: The devil is in the details. Macromedia was trumpeting the news last week that a free version of its popular Flash 7 Internet client was now available for Linux. The new software gives Linux users greater access to multimedia content on the Internet than they would otherwise have. But careful readers of the licensing terms for Flash 7 urge caution for both end users and developers of Linux distributions. [NewsForge] 8:52:04 PM    comment []  trackback []

DomainKeys Milter v0.1.10 released (domainkeys-milter). Total project downloads to date: 55 Project description: domainkeys-milter is a milter-based application (for milter, see http://www.sendmail.org or http://www.milter.org) that implements the Yahoo! DomainKeys sender authentication mechanism (http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys). [Download] [Release Notes] By sm-msk@users.sourceforge.net (Murray S. Kucherawy). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 12:29:05 PM    comment []  trackback []

Finding Ken Brown's Lies. If an argument doesn't ring true, look for logical fallacies, fabrications, and distortions. If you find one, consider how it affects the whole argument. In the case of Ken Brown, he's not trustworthy when talking about the Linux kernel. [O'Reilly Weblogs] 12:24:42 PM    comment []  trackback []

More on Recent Journals Recieved Feeds.. Owen over at Overdue Ideas is doing some nifty coding with his catalog, serials, and RSS: "After a bit of a break from doing anything on this, I've now got an RSS for individual journal titles up and running. To use it you need to have the ISSN for the journal you are going to track. For example, if you wanted to be updated each time an issue of the 'The New Scientist' came in, you would point your reader at http://library.rhul.ac.uk/cgi-bin/rss-serials.cgi?issn=02624079" Very cool. The links go to the serial entry on his catalog. Great. Here is a possible next step for Owen: Link the serials to the full-text databases that his library subscribes to, so that his users can read the new articles. I'm sure this can be done because many libraries have their catalogs and fee-based databases hooked up in some way (meaning, you do a search on the catalog for a journal, and the record links you to the serials database). If you only want to keep this internal, have it password protected (library patron has to enter in his/her library card number to gain access). I think OpenURL can also be implemented but that's as far as my knowledge goes in this area. [Library Stuff] Imagine the CILP as an RSS feed... 12:09:47 PM    comment []  trackback []

Cringely, The Little Engine That Could.  The Linksys WRT54G. [John Robb's Weblog] hmmm.... 10:30:18 AM    comment []  trackback []