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Court: RIAA lawsuit strategy illegal

Court: RIAA lawsuit strategy illegal 12/19/2003 01:10 PM
CNET Dec 19 2003 12:23PM ET

U.S. Court: RIAA lawsuit strategy
illegal

U.S. Court: RIAA lawsuit strategy
illegal 12/21/2003 11:53 PM
CNET Asia Dec 21 2003 10:34PM ET

US Appeals court says RIAA subpoenas are
illegal

US Appeals court says RIAA subpoenas are
illegal 12/19/2003 01:11 PM
Now, a US Federal Appeals Court has finally put a stop to the insanity, if only temporarily.

RIAA strategy illegal, U.S. court rules

RIAA strategy illegal, U.S. court rules 12/19/2003 09:57 PM
globetechnology.com Dec 19 2003 9:46PM ET

Illegal immigrants, illegal aliens and
the undocumented

Illegal immigrants, illegal aliens and
the undocumented 01/24/2004 07:13 PM
It's only used by frothing-at-the-mouth xenophobes. Not that there's a shortage of them. Google yields 242,000 Web sites where "illegal aliens" appears. ...

MSN = AIM in Holland

MSN = AIM in Holland 02/12/2004 01:21 AM
Dutch Youth Use MSN More than SMS

"Holland counts 4 million registered MSN users out of an internet population of 11 million. With 26 million MSN users for Europe all together this puts Holland far ahead of other countries.

55% of the dutch MSN population is younger than 25 years, with a fast growing group between 15-19. With an average of 49 buddies it is not uncommon for dutch youngsters to reach the maximum of 150 peers on their list. These numbers are unheard of in the United States, according to the dutch MSN marketing manager Marc Hoenke, who recently requested Ms headquarters to add to the maximum.

Dutch trendwatcher, cultural sociologist Carl Rohde of the universtiy of Utrecht says that MSN is the most common means for young people in Holland to keep in touch with peers and relatives.

Today MSN Messenger is even more popular in Holland than sms-services on mobile telephones. This is due to the growing number of households with a broadband connection on either cable or ADSL. MSN manager Joost Nienhuis beliefs that MSN has the potential to become more popular than email. He expects that Holland's MSN subscriber base will grow to 10 million users." [Smart Mobs]

150 buddies on their lists? Just imagine the social networks these kids are going to have when they enter the work force and what kinds of expectations they'll have for interacting with them!

I wonder how many of these kids use MSN or similar services to contact the library?

Holland Daze

Holland Daze 12/25/2004 06:40 PM
Chris Caldwell's .. Holland Daze: .. (Link)

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Another reason to move to Holland

Another reason to move to Holland 07/02/2004 01:23 PM

02/07/04: Dutch Parliament forces Minister Brinkhorst to withdraw support for software patents directive

Yesterday evening, July 1st, the Dutch Parliament voted to urge Minister Brinkhorst and Secretary of State van Gennip (Economic Affairs) to withdraw the Dutch vote in support of the Council of Ministers' text for the Directive on Software Patents.

The idea of allowing patents on software has been strongly criticized among SMEs, scientists and consumer organisations. They inhibit investments in Research and Development and contribute to higher prices.

This act represents an strong criticism of the Council of the EU's attempts to introduce broad patentability of software and label it as a compromise: Minister Brinkhorst, acting on behalf of the Netherlands, endorsed the Council's current proposal, which not only reiterated the terms of the European Commission's strongly criticized initial directive proposal, but went even further, directly rebuffing the clear stance assumed by the European Parliament, whichadded numerous amendments on September 24 2003 which lay down strict limitations and which express that logical algorithms and the ideas found in software cannot be patented.

This European Parliament's 1st reading asserted that patents would only be allowed for industrial inventions (e.g. washing machines) and would not be made possible for pure software. These limitations were removed in the Council of Ministers' controversal version and replaced by dummy exclusions which pose no practical limitation to what patent offices and patent attorneys want.

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[via Seth Johnson on pho list]

Football: Sweden face Holland

Football: Sweden face Holland 06/26/2004 09:39 AM
Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrik Larsson aim to beat some familiar faces when they face Holland.

Euro 2004: Holland 3-0 Latvia

Euro 2004: Holland 3-0 Latvia 06/23/2004 05:31 PM
Ruud van Nistelrooy leads Holland to a 3-0 win over Latvia and a last-eight spot.

Football: Holland into semi-finals

Football: Holland into semi-finals 06/26/2004 05:34 PM
Holland beat Sweden 5-4 on penalties after a goalless quarter-final to set up a semi with hosts Portugal.

Lindows Allowed to Use Company Name in
Holland

Lindows Allowed to Use Company Name in
Holland 05/28/2004 08:03 AM

From San Francisco to Holland and
finally back home...

From San Francisco to Holland and
finally back home... 08/22/2004 05:35 PM

So this is probably the last part of my little travelogue, so it's probably going to be a bit long and probably more than a little self-indulgent and rambling. And I've already written the whole thing once twice and then lost it due to an accidental depression of the power button on my Powerbook at an innopportune moment (and a subsequent random crash, of all things). And I'm also pretty tired and jet-lagged. So I guess some of my usual vigour might be a little lacking.

So when we'd last spoken, oh patient readers, I'd been out at a hip-hop evening at a gay bar in San Francisco that (it turns out) was being DJ'd by Ernie's bloke, although I didn't know that at the time. And after feeling a bit like everyone's dad, I'd collapsed back to the house of the most lovely Leslie and slept like one of your more sound-sleeping and reliable logs. Which was nice.

The following day was to be the last full day I would have in the city (and of the holiday) and I had a lot to pack in (which I did with varying degrees of success). I tried to start early and keep up the momentum. So first up I went off to this really big Starbucks with loads of space and wifi and about a billion Apple Users in it down on 9th and Howard to meet up with Jim Speth, the creator of iCommune and hopefully a future collaborator. So we talked for a while, which was neat and then met up with Ben Cerveny and ex-Barbelite Schlomo for an awesome, but slightly disturbingly enormous lunch (see terrifying pictures) down in a caf&eacuate; in an industrial dockland area of San Francisco.

From there Jim and Ben swapped travel buddies and Ben dropped me off near Union Square so that I could meet up with Mella and wander around the place. We got the trolley up towards Castro after roaming around downtown and then had one of the most awesome Cheesecakes I've ever had in my life (with strawberry goo) and then walked up to Haight Ashbury where Mella did some shoe-shopping. And after a slightly unfortunate delay in the centre, we again returned to Leslie's to relax and watch TV for a bit. And once we'd gone our separate ways I wandered to an evening's entertainment at "Tranny Shack" - a highly entertaining evening at a bar down on Harrison. And then bed, and muchos sleeping.

My final morning saw me wandering around the shops a little and then heading off to the airport where there was enormous and useful amounts of wifi. On the flight, I managed to watch Hellboy and sleep for seven hours (thanks for the tips, Heather) before we landed in London. And I know this is almost unbelievably interesting to you people, but then I went into work for a few hours and then I came home and then basically I went to bed!

I'm going to speed things up a bit now, because otherwise we might be here all night. So after staying up jet-lagged until around four in the morning, I got a full hour of sleep before wandering off to the airport for the next leg of my trip to Enschede in Holland with a group of other geeks to talk about geek stuff, which involved a number of interesting talks, driving around a go-karting track, avoiding foam parties in nearby clubs, watching the Olympics with Hammersley and playing Zendo.

Anyway, I'm back now, and I can't quite believe the difference that this last couple of weeks has made to me. I feel astonishingly relaxed, clear-minded and calm. Lots of the doubt and anxiety I've been stuck with over the last few months has disappeared completely and my mind seems ... well ... I guess my mind seems quiet. Peaceful. Which is all really cool and nice and everything, I guess, except now I've got a new fear - that I'm going to get as wound up and tense and unlike myself again when I return to work in the morning. And that's scaring the crap out of me.

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Holland Bans AMD's 'Virus Protection'
Campaign

Holland Bans AMD's 'Virus Protection'
Campaign 12/29/2004 01:38 AM

Anne Frank's Friend Recalls Prewar
Holland (AP)

Anne Frank's Friend Recalls Prewar
Holland (AP) 06/12/2004 03:12 AM
AP - The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager whose diary became the voice of Holocaust victims, is also to some extent the story of Eva Schloss, her childhood friend.

Good stuff and bad stuff

Good stuff and bad stuff 02/12/2004 07:25 PM
The bad stuff first: The wireless connection here sucks. It sucks less today than previously, but it is still bad. The other thing is that there are far too few power strips available, and I've on several occasions had my laptop die on me.

But the cool stuff just continues: Programmable matter and quantum dots by Wil McCarthy just blew me (and probably everyone else) away with the visions of windows that move according to sunlight, wires that grow inside the walls as needed, walls that can produce any sort of light at command, quantum wells and artifical atoms, but especially the palm-sized, paper-thin über-PDA, which does *everything*, including cooling your drinks. And it all works on "ambient energy" - harvesting stray photons, sound and movement. When any physical object can have any functionality you desire, you get into some pretty interesting scenarios...

High sci-fi, mindblowing stuff - but the theory says it should work.

Software Developer based in Holland -
Perl, Apache, Linux, JavaScript for
Financial Organisation in Hollland

Software Developer based in Holland -
Perl, Apache, Linux, JavaScript for
Financial Organisation in Hollland 03/06/2004 01:57 AM
Latcom Ltd - United Kingdom (2004-03-05)

I love Ferrari stuff. Got all stuff from
cap/jackets/T-shirts etc. Would love to
go for Ferrari Laptop. What's

I love Ferrari stuff. Got all stuff from
cap/jackets/T-shirts etc. Would love to
go for Ferrari Laptop. What's 07/14/2004 08:09 AM
TechTree Jul 14 2004 12:21PM GMT

Why that mix CD might be illegal

Why that mix CD might be illegal 01/16/2004 11:03 AM
BBC Jan 15 2004 9:15PM GMT

more illegal art

more illegal art 02/15/2004 09:16 AM
So my story for the past months has been that this "war" on "piracy" will have unintended consequences -- most importantly, consequences for other creative remix forms of art. After a lecture in London, I was told by a leading executive at a major label that I was "completely wrong." That the "only" thing the record companies care about is controlling "piracy, which means copies." Apparently, Jay Z has inspired them to care more. See the latest entry at Illegal-Art.org.

Illegal or not?

Illegal or not? 07/01/2004 03:32 PM
Churchgoers get direction from Bush Campaign: The instruction sheet circulated by the Bush-Cheney campaign to religious volunteers lists 22 "duties" to be performed by specific dates. By July 31, for example, volunteers are to "send your Church Directory to your State Bush-Cheney '04 Headquarters or give [it] to a BC04 Field Rep" and "Talk to your Pastor about holding a Citizenship Sunday and Voter Registration Drive." Isn't this blatantly illegal?

Stuff I've done since I've got here...

Stuff I've done since I've got here... 08/10/2004 04:06 PM

So I got to America several hours late and was then taken off to Immigration because some American doofus with the same passport number as I (except from America rather than from the UK) had his passport stolen. Hence I had to be taken off into this little room for an hour and a half while they checked that I wasn't trying to steal American children and sell them into slavery or something. I left home at 11.30am UK time and actually got out of the airport in the states at around 9am UK time the following morning. That's a full seven hour delay! Grr! Which was annoying for me but more annoying for Kerry and Erik who were waiting for me in the arrivals lounge...

Since I've got here though, things have got much more entertaining. Let's see:

• Thursday: Flying to states, visited Rob...
• Friday: Wandered around, watched TV, had breakfast and milkshakes and stuff before going out for a few drinks and spending the whole night playing Jenga and Uno with drink around Sean's house...
• Saturday: Slacking off on the beach in Malibu, followed by fresh sea-food by the ocean and then a house party at this house around Outpost...
• Sunday: Went to Pasadena to do some shopping and stuff to the Apple store, and then went to Target and stuff and then I went out drinking and eating with Tim - a friend of Kerry's who has just done extra work on The O.C.
• Monday: Teaching a friend to build websites, followed by gentle drinking...
• Tuesday: Today! Slacking off! Writing crap on websites! Trying to work out how to get to San Francisco...

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Get my stuff done

Get my stuff done 01/02/2005 06:56 AM
David Pescovitz: This animation just nails the procrastinator's mindset and is incredibly infectious. You'll see. Link to Quicktime (Thanks, Imaginary Foundation!)

Down is Up: What This Stuff Is

Down is Up: What This Stuff Is 02/19/2004 03:38 PM
I got a lot of responses to my previous post, Up is Down, along the lines of ?oh, the Democrats?

PAM stuff

PAM stuff 07/22/2004 11:35 AM
Every so often (I guess this happens to most of us) someone comes along asking me to fix something, and I end up having to read the docs they didn't to find out how to do it. Recently, someone had an interesting problem which led to me learning a little bit about PAM, which I thought I'd share. (reposted from diary)

Car Stuff

Car Stuff 06/05/2005 11:33 PM
I added some neat reflective decals to my car.

DNS Stuff

DNS Stuff 06/08/2004 02:11 PM
all the basics for when you can't get to a command line

RSS Stuff

RSS Stuff 01/01/2004 11:05 AM
Shelley

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WHAT'S THAT STUFF?

WHAT'S THAT STUFF? 06/26/2004 10:40 PM
to learn about what various products are made of .. Chemical & Engineering News: What's That Stuff? .. pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff.html .. collection

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My stuff is where?

My stuff is where? 01/19/2003 06:14 PM
From 0xDECAFBAD: Years ago, when I first started using email, I did indeed do this with procmail and other arcane beasties. Then, I found myself cursing that I couldn't do cross-folder searches very easily. Also, the filters and folders started...

Zip It, Don't Stuff It

Zip It, Don't Stuff It 11/10/2003 11:21 PM
Face it, Aladdin is losing ground. With 10.3, Apple has finally included core support for one of the most popular archive formats ever (ok, so they've always had core support, they've just implemented it into the Finder)! In case you haven't heard, the file extension is .zip .

Update: Added comment from Aladdin Systems.

Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign

Too much stuff

Too much stuff 02/10/2004 02:49 AM
I bought some different yarns today, you can see my MoBlog to see the ones I bought. Grrr...I'm so angry,...

Stuff

Stuff 04/12/2005 11:44 PM
Daylight Savings Time totally kicked my ass this year. My internal clock is still more out of whack than normal...

And On The Third Try... WhenU's Pop-Ups
Are Illegal

And On The Third Try... WhenU's Pop-Ups
Are Illegal 12/24/2003 01:26 PM
WhenU, the Gator-wannabe company, has been happily winning lawsuits left and right, but it seems that people just won't stop suing, and now, yet another judge has found that WhenU's adware pop-ups are illegal. In this case, as much as I think companies like WhenU and Gator are being sneaky and misleading, I think the judge was wrong. There should be nothing illegal about having such an ad pop-up if the end-user knows they installed the software that will do that sort of thing. My problem with these companies is the fact that (at least with Gator), they are incredibly sneaky in getting the application onto your computer, such that many people don't realize they've installed it. However, if people do want to install such an application that pops up ads (why? I have no clue), they should certainly be allowed to do so - as long as it's clear that the pop up is coming from WhenU.

will Apple be illegal?

will Apple be illegal? 06/24/2004 10:53 PM
EFF has mocked-up a complaint against Apple under the pending INDUCE Act.

Is Rip Digital Illegal? (No, Probably
Not)

Is Rip Digital Illegal? (No, Probably
Not) 12/24/2004 12:16 PM

Keep in mind that I'm not a doctor of law (although I retain an honorary PhD in 'Home Cookin''), but something didn't seem right to me when I read Bob Kohn's analysis of Rip Digital's CD ripping service (prompted, as it happens, by our review). Kohn—who it must be noted, is no dime store music law pundit—posited the idea that Rip Digital's service might be illegal, on the grounds that hiring someone else to do your home taping equivalent might fall outside of the scope of the owner's right of reproduction. Here's my expert opinion: Hrmmm.

But I talked to Rip Digital's founder Dick Adams, who assured me that they "architected [their] service in compliance with US copyright law," and even contacted the music industry and made them aware of their plans before they started (not that that prevents a RIAA banhammer in the future, but still). And if you think about it, who could possibly be using Rip Digital to infringe copyright, when the service only rips commercially-pressed CDs you send them and they ear mark each MP3 they send back with a code that ties it to you? You'd have to be the most hardworking pirate in the world to get around their voluntary protections—and then why would you need their service?

Is This Digital Ripping Service Legal? [BobKohn]

Illegal convergence

Illegal convergence 12/15/2003 10:29 AM
Blah, blah, blah, by now we're totally bored with this whole convergence thing -- we get it, you can stream movies and MP3s from your...

...it was illegal, but it worked well...

...it was illegal, but it worked well... 09/16/2004 08:48 PM
Mr. Sbock's Parallel Universe: "Boobs - the female front. These are the image files of the fake artist Mr. Sbock. His mission: To create strange new pics. To publish great female forms, fascinating breasts and beautiful buttocks. To show on the net what no one has seen before." And quite possibly what no one ever wants to see again. [nsfw - maybe unless you work here]

The question is - was this illegal?

The question is - was this illegal? 08/14/2004 11:54 AM
Scamming in the MMORPG Eve Online
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