I-T exemption limit hiked, service tax net widened

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XP Service Pack 2 to Limit concurrent
TCP/IP connections

XP Service Pack 2 to Limit concurrent
TCP/IP connections 07/27/2004 02:43 AM

I know quite a few people that use Windows XP Professional to run FTP, WEB and Mail servers at home and at work. I have never done so and it probably violates some Microsoft license policy. But with XP SP2 those using XP Professional may be out of luck by changes Microsoft is making to the OS by limiting concurrent TCP/IP connections. I wonder if the sales of Windows 2000/2003 server go up after the release. [L ockergnome] [Bink.nu]

California seeks to limit Googles Gmail
service

California seeks to limit Googles Gmail
service 06/01/2004 05:37 AM
Ethical Corporation Online Jun 1 2004 10:18AM GMT

Apple Denies Report of Hiked Online
Music Prices (Reuters)

Apple Denies Report of Hiked Online
Music Prices (Reuters) 05/07/2004 01:45 PM
Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. on Friday flatly denied a report that the computer maker was planning to raise prices for songs bought on its popular iTunes online music store.

Yahoo's No-Limit Query Limit As Opposed
to Google's -- So What?

Yahoo's No-Limit Query Limit As Opposed
to Google's -- So What? 08/19/2004 10:41 PM
I've gotten several mails about Four Things Yahoo Can Do That Google Can't. Many people asked about the query limit, mostly two things: 1) Is there any query limit? 2)...

Prisoner Abuse Probe Widened

Prisoner Abuse Probe Widened 05/03/2004 06:54 AM
atrocities committed

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Prisoner Abuse Probe Widened
(washingtonpost.com)

Prisoner Abuse Probe Widened
(washingtonpost.com) 05/01/2004 11:01 PM
washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, May 1 -- The deputy commander of the U.S. Army's intelligence force is leading an investigation into interrogation practices at an Army-run prison where Iraqi detainees were allegedly beaten and sexually abused, officials announced Saturday. The move came amid allegations that military guards abused prisoners at the behest of military intelligence operatives.

AOL Probe Widened to 'Abetting' of Other
Firms (TechNews.com)

AOL Probe Widened to 'Abetting' of Other
Firms (TechNews.com) 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
AOL Probe Widened to 'Abetting' of Other Firms .. deeper and deeper trouble

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Quovadx CEO resigns amid widened SEC
probe

Quovadx CEO resigns amid widened SEC
probe 04/12/2004 02:02 PM
SiliconValley.com Apr 12 2004 6:41PM GMT

Experts Fear Ohio Sniper Has Widened
Zone (AP)

Experts Fear Ohio Sniper Has Widened
Zone (AP) 02/10/2004 02:52 AM
AP - A recent burst of sniper shootings along an Ohio highway has been linked to earlier shootings 25 miles to the north, leaving experts fearful that the gunman has widened his comfort zone and is looking for more prey.

Price cut exemption slammed

Price cut exemption slammed 12/30/2003 11:09 PM
Manchester Online Dec 30 2003 9:41PM ET

Level 3 wants access charge exemption

Level 3 wants access charge exemption 01/05/2004 10:25 PM
CNET Jan 5 2004 9:16PM ET

Police plea for jury exemption

Police plea for jury exemption 05/03/2004 05:22 AM
Police urge Home Secretary David Blunkett to rethink a change in the law forcing them to serve on juries.

Level 3 wants access-charge exemption

Level 3 wants access-charge exemption 01/05/2004 08:05 PM
The Internet telephone service provider asks for relief from rules determining how much telephone companies charge each other, according to a recent FCC filing.

signed memo from October widened
allowable interrogation methods in Iraq

signed memo from October widened
allowable interrogation methods in Iraq 05/22/2004 05:12 AM
Bush Cartel War Crimes Update: Memo Gave Intelligence Bigger Role 5/21 .. from the Washington Post .. such policies

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Chico sex offender may have filed for
Internet exemption

Chico sex offender may have filed for
Internet exemption 03/26/2005 09:26 AM
Chicoer.com - Sat Mar 26, 10:02 am GMT

Could the DMCA Exemption for Libraries
Lead the Way through the DRM Maze?

Could the DMCA Exemption for Libraries
Lead the Way through the DRM Maze? 04/11/2005 10:57 AM

Whenever I post anything about Apple, I’m guaranteed to get comments from Apple fans, and last week was no exception. However, Ben Karel posted some very thoughtful commentary that suggests a most interesting possibility. In my original post, I pointed to an effort to get Apple to try and help libraries circulate audio ebooks to patrons with iPods and to play nicely with others in the industry. In the comments to that post, Ben and I differed on who is to blame for the current situation, but his last comment really has my mind going.

“There are relatively cheap technological solutions to this particular (technological) problem. By ‘relatively’ cheap I mean less than two thousand dollars for the hardware and software infrastructure. Considering that it would probably double the number of patrons able to listen to library ebooks on their player of choice for a one-time fee amounting to a fifth of the price of a single year's subscription, said technological solutions would be a no-brainer were it not for the DMCA's prohibitions upon any and all forms of DRM circumvention.

Hmm. But wait! According to http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/usc_sec_17_000012 01----000-.html , Provision (a)(1)(B) states that the ban on circumvention of copyright-protecting technological measures does not apply to users who are ‘adversely affected by virtue of such prohibition in their ability to make noninfringing uses of that particular class of works under this title [...]’. I'm not entirely sure, but I think the next two subparagraphs essentially say that only the Librarian of Congress has the authority to [pre!?-]determine when the exemption in rule (B) applies.

So perhaps the route of least resistance is to forget about Apple entirely and instead convince the Librarian of Congress that the DMCA should count 'audiobooks in public libraries' as a class of copyrighted works deserving of an exemption to aid in noninfringing use by the majority of library patrons.

Also something to consider: the DMCA seems to focus on technologies that short-circuit the process of gaining access to a protected work. Little seems to be said about one may do with that work after having gained access.

Oh. Stupid me. The DMCA already has a built-in exemption for libraries and other such nonprofit entities, which means it looks like you're free to convert those problematic encrypted WMA files into MP3 so that the majority of your patrons will be able to access and play said files in a noninfringing manner.

No doubt a real lawyer ought to examine this, but... Problem solved?”

In the immortal words of Neo, whoa!

It's an interesting idea. So now, I’m wondering if we could really do this. After all, there’s a difference between “letter-of-the-law-right-with-a-true-loophole” and “letter-of-the-law-right, go-for-it but get-your-butt-sued-out-of-existence-and-the-loophole-closed-forever.&r dquo; Which, of course, is exactly what legislation like the DMCA is designed to do – stop you from even thinking about trying anything for which you could even remotely, possibly be sued for actually doing.

So now I’m in a pinch. Illinois LSTA grants are due in June, and this year there’s finally a "dream big" one that my organization could apply for. I’ve already pitched a half dozen ideas, two of which we’re probably going to submit and one of which a member library is going to submit. But what if we submitted a grant to actually do what Ben proposes? What would the implications be? Is it realistic? Would we still exist in a year or would the legal bills kill us? Would it ultimately open up circulation of digital files in libraries or end it forever? I'm not a fan of DRM, but I also don't want to see libraries used for illegal copying (a whole other debate). Is there an open source type of DRM for these files? I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t play one on TV, so I'd be interested to hear reactions from others on this.

Panel Revokes Aviation Exemption for
Santa? (Reuters)

Panel Revokes Aviation Exemption for
Santa? (Reuters) 09/13/2004 09:04 AM
Reuters - Has Ebenezer Scrooge moved to Utah?

Excise duty exemption for IT products to
make PCs cheaper

Excise duty exemption for IT products to
make PCs cheaper 07/08/2004 10:11 PM
Deepika Global Jul 9 2004 2:30AM GMT

The Draft Block Exemption Regulation on
Technology Transfer Agreements Is the
New Safe Harbor Less Safe?

The Draft Block Exemption Regulation on
Technology Transfer Agreements Is the
New Safe Harbor Less Safe? 05/17/2004 10:26 AM
Mondaq May 17 2004 1:36PM GMT

The sky wasn't the limit

The sky wasn't the limit 12/28/2004 02:58 AM
USA Today Dec 28 2004 7:25AM GMT

When the Sky Really Is the Limit

When the Sky Really Is the Limit 04/18/2005 08:28 AM
A little-known Brazilian jet maker has a lot of orders to fill in the finicky airline sector.

Medical Technology Leader Sysmex Selects
Metrix for Field Service Management:
Field Service Software Improves
Productivity of Service Operations

Medical Technology Leader Sysmex Selects
Metrix for Field Service Management:
Field Service Software Improves
Productivity of Service Operations 09/17/2004 02:49 AM
Metrix, Inc., a global leader in field service management software, today announced that it has expanded its fast-growing customer base to include Sysmex, a leading manufacturer of diagnostic systems for medical laboratories worldwide. [PRWEB Sep 17, 2004]

H2M Launches UK’s First Service Provider
Automation Service - Reduces Risk and
Increases Return for xSPs; End-to-end
Service Management Automation

H2M Launches UK’s First Service Provider
Automation Service - Reduces Risk and
Increases Return for xSPs; End-to-end
Service Management Automation 06/05/2005 11:19 PM
As xSPs struggle to reduce cost and stay one step ahead of the market’s maturation many are seeking an answer. With any market industrialization occurs and today this means automation. Only those service providers that automate will remain competitive and viable for their shareholders and customers – failing to automate is suicidal. [PRWEB May 24, 2005]

Loving the Limit

Loving the Limit 07/07/2004 04:38 PM
Limit orders can silence the siren call of the market. Here's how to use them.

EU: A limit recognized?

EU: A limit recognized? 07/27/2004 09:36 AM
Stefan Bechtold writes that the EU Commission (ok, a staff report) has decided that copyright terms for recordings in Europe should not be increased beyond the current term (50 years after publication), despite the growing pressure of recording labels to increase the term to "save" (as they put it) some of the most important Rock from entering the public domain. The story is getting press in Europe. (Independent, BBC< /a>). This is an extremely important development in this battle. For once, a government-related entity has recognized the truth (or at least, not had its recognition crushed). I've already been talking to archives that are working on the idea of releasing all the recordings they can when they pass into the public domain on January 1, as a way of demonstrating the value of a wide range of work becoming available, unencumbered, for widespread use. Here in the U.S., we'll be able to celebrate the same in, um, 2019. Till then, for your listening pleasure, an oldie (first posted here last July): a 1937 radio program from the Columbia Workshop about creative works passing from the "copyright lane" into the "public domain".

FC Now: Taking It to the Limit

FC Now: Taking It to the Limit 03/22/2005 05:12 PM
How far would you go to express your passion for a particular brand? I'm talking above and beyond wearing or using it. Think about it. Would you put its sticker on your bumper? Perhaps you may even have its logo...

Google to Limit Some Drug Ads

Google to Limit Some Drug Ads 12/02/2003 01:04 AM
Google, the popular search engine, will stop accepting advertising from unlicensed pharmacies that have used the Internet to sell millions of doses of ...

More on Google Size Limit

More on Google Size Limit 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Previously we reported on speculation that Google may be hitting a size limit: standard C coding uses 32-bits of storage for numbers, which means that Google might be running out of numbers to identify new documents with. Adding further credence to this theory is the fact that Google has finally added more pages to their results, but only by using a separate supplemental index. I can't think of any good reasons to do this except to get around the size restriction....

Breaking the speed limit

Breaking the speed limit 06/05/2005 10:53 PM
This year's Indianapolis 500 race has something other than the cars going fast - think wireless.

F.D.A. to Limit Sperm Donors

F.D.A. to Limit Sperm Donors 05/20/2004 05:40 PM
Men who acknowledge having had homosexual sex within the previous 5 years will not be allowed to make anonymous sperm donations under the new rules.

Pushing computers to the limit

Pushing computers to the limit 07/25/2004 02:29 AM
Computing power has risen phenomenally in the past 40 years and new approaches could help to keep it growing.

XPSP2 will limit your max.
connections/sec

XPSP2 will limit your max.
connections/sec 07/20/2004 07:57 AM

BT to stretch DSL to absolute limit

BT to stretch DSL to absolute limit 04/19/2004 08:29 AM
Milton Keynes targeted

Next Windows to Limit USB Key, iPod Use

Next Windows to Limit USB Key, iPod Use 09/09/2004 09:00 AM

CNet is reporting that Microsoft's upcoming Longhorn version of Windows will have tools designed to help businesses prevent the use of USB keys, iPods, or any other mass storage device that can be connected to work computers, all in the interest of protecting company data. Sounds like a cluster to me, but if iron-fisted sysadmins really feel like they need to lock down USB ports, an operating system-level tool is probably better than nothing. That being said, this is, at best, just a small part of an overall security solution.

It still sounds like a case of "OMG FLOPPY DRIVES?!?!" The data still leaves the company inside the minds of the employees, too. What is Microsoft doing to prevent data loss via the brain, huh? Clearly, there is a serious security hole there. My advice is free booze after 3:30.

Read - Longhorn to put squeeze on gadgets [CNet]

Even the sky wasn't the limit for
science in 2004

Even the sky wasn't the limit for
science in 2004 12/28/2004 09:09 AM
USA Today Dec 28 2004 1:03PM GMT

New tech may limit CD burns

New tech may limit CD burns 06/02/2004 08:48 AM
ZDNet Jun 2 2004 1:40PM GMT

eMac upgraded to the limit

eMac upgraded to the limit 01/16/2004 10:58 AM
Humble 800MHz eMac has been upgraded to have 1GB RAM, 160GB hard drive, DVD±RW, dual displays and processor speed increased to 1.33GHz. Not a job for everyone, but proves that with some effort even entry-level hardware can be converted into solid workhorse.

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Netflix Queue Limit

Netflix Queue Limit 01/03/2005 05:58 AM
Ah, joy. Netflix has queue size limit of 500 DVDs. We have 496 movies in queue to be watched now. We'll be through that in about 4 years at the current pace. That's of course if we stop adding new movies and we've been adding faster than we've been watching. At least they've mostly gotten back to their 1-2 day delivery time over the last month. p.s. happy new year everyone....

FCC acts to limit digital TV piracy

FCC acts to limit digital TV piracy 11/05/2003 04:10 AM
Boston Globe Nov 5 2003 3:59AM ET
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