A Tiny Revolution
I don't like MT any more, but this guy is using it to spread my kind of righteous indignation.
13.10.04
Censorship in action: why I don't publish my HDCP results
It seems that Neil Fergus has broken HDCP but isn't publishing his results for fear of DMCA prosecution. Yay! I am very happy about this. Why? Becaus if he did publish they might rework it, instead now it will be much easier for DeHDCP to be useful once everyone buys into the tech and starts manufacturing devices and content Good on yer Neil!
Dave Farber & al give a big shout out to their congressional peeps about civil liberties.
EPO revokes patent on wheat
And do you want to know why? Because they didn't invent it, it was a strain that Indian farmers had developed.
I can see it now: Next up, Bill Cosby's "People Patent The Craziest Things!"
11.10.04
Morbid Tendencies: Bunny Of The Month Club
BBC NEWS | Health | Gene switch can 'turn off cancer'
The really interesting part is that the cancerous cells return to acting like normal cells. Now obviously the tumour is still there, and as soon as you stop taking the drug it becomes cancerous again, but it is a pretty cool discovery. Although you would have thought that something that turns of Myc and stops the cancer cells from growing would stop the regular ones too. I guess they were lucky and doxycycline only disrupts the mutated gene. They don't talk about how it works. More information at New Scientist
US seizes independent media sites
The BBC is carrying the story now. The amazing part about this whole thing is that it has taken so long for a major news agency to pick up this story (apologies to the SMH which picked it up on the 7th). And now, of course, since it was servers that were seized they are reporting it under the Technology section. No major dumberican services are following the story. Declan's Politech was the first place I heard about it, and it is registering on politics.technorati.com too.
10.10.04
5.10.04
Sarah McLachlan - World On Fire
Sarah McLachlan - World On Fire < - what she say.
Although spending $0.25 for a phone call to a volunteer continuity editor would have allowed someone to realize that the guitar playing and the music aren't related :)
4.10.04
Point. Shoot. Kiss It Good-Bye.
Cool artical at wired on what happens when you have several thousand digital pics on your hard drive and they are all call something like DSC00234.jpg
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