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Blogging the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty: Signal-Based Protection or Rights by Any Other Name? 2007-01-22 03:26:10 Source: EFF.org
Date: Fri Jan 19 13:02:31 UTC 2007
Author: dereks@eff.org
Subject: WIPO
The 183 member states of the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization are gathered in Geneva this week to discuss the controversial draft WIPO BroadcastingTreaty
[1]. EFF's main concern with the current treaty draft[2] - shared by the other 40 public interest groups, companies and industry groups that have submitted a joint statement[3] to WIPO this week - is that it is not limited to signal theft. Instead, it creates a set of broad and unwieldy intellectual property rights in the recording and use of fixed transmissions, which are likely to restrict the public's access to information in the public domain, preclude uses of works permitted under national copyright law, curtail consumers' use of lawfully-received programming in their home, and stifle technological innovation.
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Invisible tattoo ink for chipless RFID safe, company says 2007-01-21 23:27:27
Source: EETimes.eu
K.C. Jones
InformationWeek
01/10/2007 9:49 PM
A startup company
developing chipless RFID ink has tested its product on cattle and laboratory rats.
Somark Innovations announced this week that it successfully tested biocompatible RFID ink, which can be read through animal hairs. The passive RFID technology could be used to identify and track cows to reduce financial losses from Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (mad cow disease) scares. Somark, which formed in 2005, is located at the Center for Emerging Technologies in St. Louis. The company is raising Series A equity financing and plans to license the technology to secondary markets, which could include laboratory animals, dogs, cats, prime cuts of meat, and military personnel.
Chief scientist Ramos Mays said the tests provide a true proof-of-principle and mitigate most of the technological risks in terms of the product's performance. "This proves the ability to create a synthetic biometric or fake fingerprint with b Read more:tattoo
1984 comic mash-up on Youtube 2007-01-21 03:26:47
"The great 1984comic project is merged with Pink Floyd's album the Wall."
Mash-up by Christopher Borne found on Archive.org
Debate over crime cameras brings out the clueless in S.F. 2007-01-20 21:15:18 Ken Garcia
Ken Garcia, The Examiner
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Jan 20, 2007 3:00 AM (9 hrs ago)
Current rank: # 13 of 16,293 articles
SAN FRANCISCO - At some point in the near future, we may find out if a picture is worth more than a thousand words — maybe something to the tune of three to five years.
That's at the core of the debate over the placement of surveillance cameras in high-crime
areas of San Francisco, an issue that pits the left versus the very, very left — an ideological divide that in San Francisco is far wider than most people could imagine. And it's a gap that usually splits those who have seen or experienced crime and those who use their politics as a shield against reality.
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RAW on book burning 2007-01-20 20:59:21 RAW
Source: Indymedia.org
by quote of the day Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007 at 10:52 AM
It was with some horror, and considerable indignation . . . that I reacted to the news, in 1957, that the U.S. Government had seized all the scientific books and papers of Dr. Wilhelm Reich and burned them in an incinerator in New York City. This was only twelve years after the U.S. had fought a prolonged and bitter war against Nazi Germany and I had been raised on anti-Nazi propaganda in which the Nazi "crime against freedom" in burning books had been stressed as much as their crimes against humanity in killing people. I was astounded and flabbergasted that the U.S. government was imitating its former enemy to the extent of actually burning scientific papers it found heretical. . . .
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RAW Essence 2007-01-20 04:29:54
Source: RobertAntonWilson.Blogspot.com
Robert Anton Wilson Defies Medical Experts and leaves his body @4:50 AM on binary date 01/11.
All Hail Eris!
On behalf of his children and those who cared for him, deepest love and gratitude for the tremendous support and lovingness bestowed upon us.
(that's it from Bob's bedside at his fnord by the sea)
RAW Memorial February 2007
date to be announced
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Is 24 Propaganda? Is The Pope Catholic? 2007-01-20 00:51:53 Talking heads omit fact that U.S. government, Neo-Con ideologues met with cast members to run PR for war on terror
Source: Infowars.com
Prison Planet | January 17, 2007
Paul Joseph Watson
To coincide with the start of a new season of Fox's much vaunted 24 program, MSNBC featured a debate asking whether the lead character, Jack Bauer, was a right-wing propagandist. What the talking heads and others that defend the neutrality of the show consistently fail to omit is the fact that 24 cast and crew members met with U.S. government officials and Neo-Con ideologues to run PR for the war on terror last year.
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, Catholic
Boing Boing & Digg today! 2007-01-22 20:07:48 Greetings everyone who found us through Boing
Boing & Digg
. Our site was down this morning due to a cache "error" on my part but is back online thanks to the quick rescue by Anarcat from Koumbit. If you've never heard of them, be sure to check them out! If you're looking for the comic, click here.
A great many thanks to Cory Doctorow for accepting my submission on Boing Boing
and to Robin for suggesting I submit in the first place. Thanks to Hilton for submitting the story to Digg. A I hope you all enjoy the first two chapters, the third one is underway.
From the age of Big Brother,
Frederic Guimont
Social Cage 2007-01-22 23:44:08
Source: Youtube.com
By: Giraz
Inspired on Orwell's 1984, Social
Cage is an accusation against our 'modern' society and its stereotyped people: everybody who prefer to accredit itself to the mass following stupid command than feel freedom to be as they are.
too much prejudges.
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The importance of archiving 2007-01-23 20:13:38
Here's a blog of a painter in Prague, Czech Republic named Jeremiah Palecek who puts up 1 painting a day. That's worth a look in and of itself, but I particularly enjoyed his posting on the importance of archiving
.
Here's an excerpt from his posting on his blog:
"This is the way the Gmail login looks today. But who remembers the original webcrawler icon? For me, while this electronic image is merely a logo, the time period in which I used Webcrawler reminds of a certain period of my life as well as a very specific period of time in which I used it. By creating these paintings of digital imagery, Im not only archiving bits of nostalgia. I'm also organizing different periods of my life. Some days when I'm visiting a page I ve been going to for years and there's been a major site overhaul I almost feel betrayed. Where is my login button? Why did they change the banner? Something that has become automatic is slowed down a bit, and suddenly that gmail page I've been using for years
Independant Journalist involved in Army's Political Speech Lawsuit 2007-01-24 19:37:24 The Center for Media and Democracy announces the launch of Defend The Press, a new coalition of journalists, public interest groups, academics and citizen activists. Defend The Press is asking the US Army to drop its subpoena of Sarah Olson, an independent print and radio journalist based in Oakland, California, in the court martial of Iraq war resister Lieutenant Ehren Watada. Olson interviewed Watada in May 2006, and in June he announced he would not go to war in Iraq, challenging its legality. Watada's Army court martial begins February 5, 2007, at Fort Lewis, Washington.
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The last step to freedom 2007-01-30 09:02:30 Just before the holidays I got rid of windows for the first time. I had already gotten rid of tv years ago but this turned out to be a little more touchy. In fact, it's still not over yet. The one thing holding me back is this file from a 3d program called Rhino. I need to have it converted into an .obj which I'm told can be opened in Rhino.
When this file is converted the whole project will run exclusively on free software.
From the age of Big Brother,
76
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Subliminal Messages Can Influence People In Surprising Ways 2007-12-31 14:12:43 Flag waving is a metaphor for stirring up the public towards adopting a more nationalistic, generally hard-line stance. Indeed, "rally 'round the flag" is a venerable expression of this phenomenon.
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DARPA's Raiding the Enemy’s Mind 2007-12-31 14:07:43 DARPA is working on a program called Adversarial Intelligence and Decision-making (RAID), a tool for semi-automated generation of enemy estimates.
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FBI's digital displays new crime tool 2007-12-31 13:59:43 The FBI
's most wanted bank robbers, violent criminals and terrorists will soon appear on 150 digital billboards in 20 cities.
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Chicago Fusion Center Gathers Vast Amounts of Data 2007-12-28 10:27:43 Chicago has a new Crime Prevention Information Center
, which began operations without fanfare months ago, launched on $1 million in...
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FBI Creates Enormous Biometrics Database 2007-12-28 09:49:43 The FBI
is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics,...
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Congress Passes Law Strengthening Open Govermnent Law 2007-12-19 07:45:43 Congress on Tuesday struck back at the Bush administration's trend toward secrecy since the 2001 terrorist attacks, passing legislation to...
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Old English 2007-12-17 09:50:44 Time, gentlemen, please
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The dominance of western music 2007-12-12 19:15:44 Karlheinz Stockhausen, RIP
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Extreme interrogation 2007-12-12 05:02:07 Hitchens on torture again
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The End Of America 2007-10-30 13:50:27
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