Archive for September, 2004
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004
People to look to for futher reading on intellectual property, especially copyright and patent.
John Perry Barlow
Wrote the influential Economy of Ideas in 1994 which is a great introduction to some of the issues facing intellectual property. I read it in Wired back then, and remember that it fascinated me but ...
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2004
Technology Advances Sports Coverage
Some of you may have noticed the innovative technology provided by the US Open coverage. Watching a few matches I was impressed by the computerized slow motion rendering of close calls that redrew the ball and the lines and eliminated everything else. Apparently they also had a ...
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2004
This proposed legislation would make it illegal for any company to develop products which are capable of digital copyright infrigement if a significant market demand is generated by individuals with the intent to use the product primary for such infringement. Imagine a world where photocopiers and VCRs are illegal because ...
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Monday, September 13th, 2004
Speaking of mud slinging in politics, perhaps this explains how George got really good at playing dirty. Anyone who knows the sport of rugby (somewhat akin to mud wrestling) will be particularly appalled!
I like to think of one's sports persona as reflecting one's character. In a recent book about the ...
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Monday, September 13th, 2004
Minority Reporting
It seems that going to war was a politically and economically sound decision for the Republicans. A pre-emptive war seems like a risky political gamble and reminds me of Minority Report (or "Wolfowitz's Report"). Furthermore when the war turns out to be based on misinformation and degenerates into incredibly ...
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Sunday, September 12th, 2004
Wired News: Better Science Through Gaming: Enormous quantities of data generated by automated techniques in genetics and proteomics have led to an unprecedented requirement for tedious data mining. Here is an interesting product, Genesifter, that makes the task more manageable and fun too! Cool, would love to hear from ...
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2004
So I was inspired by a article by a friend of mine in thinking about his post: Science is easier from the outside. Given my background in experimental evolutionary biology I thought maybe I would throw a few comments his way, then my few comments combined to form something which ...
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