The Story of Shufflicious

November 15, 2005

From Mark Williams, the remarkable, aggravating, unbelievable and ultimately fascinating story of one man’s effort to launch an iPod Shuffle accessory: This is the story of one mans simple crusade to produce a stylish ipod case that isn’t a glorified condom, in the face of adversity from having no idea how to do it, erratic […]

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Lawful Access Bill Released

November 15, 2005

As expected, the Government has introduced Bill C-74 concerning lawful access, titled the “Modernization of Investigative Techniques Act”. Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada’s press release is here, and Michael Geist’s first take on the package is here.

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New Feed Burned

November 15, 2005

After a not-so-successful attempt a few months ago, and the recent adoption of a new theme, I’ve once again burned a new feedburner feed. Eternally optimistic, I’m expecting that the pointer I’ve set up will work for everyone. But to be safe, if you subscribe to this blog could you change your feed to this […]

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Primus to Cap Unlimited Access Accounts

November 15, 2005

Just a few days after BroadbandReports.com posted on the end of Usenet at Rogers, they’ve posted on the imminent arrival of bandwidth caps at Primus on unlimited access accounts. Another step to moderate the effects of the few who are particularly bandwidth heavy? At first, there seemed to mass confusion about what Primus intended to […]

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Wireless Network Neutrality

November 14, 2005

It’s probably fair to say that we’ve become accustomed to thinking about wireless networks as more proprietary / closed than wireline IP networks, largely because thus far wireless has essentially meant celullar, and cellular networks in North America have generally evolved as closed systems – in terms of interoperability of equipment, and one’s ability to […]

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Sony’s New DRM

November 13, 2005

Cory posts on a new Sony patent filing for an invention that would make a game cartidge software unplayable on any machine but the one which first read it: Sony has filed for a patent for a technology to tether a video-game to a console so that you can’t sell it, loan it out, play […]

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Are U.S. Innovators Losing Their Competitive Edge?

November 12, 2005

This is the title of a fascinating article in the NYT today on the troubling state of innovation. Gist: “The scientific and technical building blocks of our economic leadership are eroding at a time when many other nations are gathering strength,” the National Academy of Sciences observed in a report released last month. “Although many […]

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Homeland Security to Music Industry: Hands off the Computer

November 11, 2005

Copyfight notes this interesting comment from Stewart Baker, recently appointed as the Department of Homeland Security’s assistant secretary for policy: I wanted to raise one point of caution as we go forward, because we are also responsible for maintaining the security of the information infrastructure of the United States and making sure peoples’ [and] businesses’ […]

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Sony Suspends Production of Copy-Protected CDs After Rootkit Fiasco

November 11, 2005

Sony has announced a temporary suspension to its copy-protection efforts in the wake of the rootkit fiasco (imbroglio?). Details at Security Focus. Gist from the Sony statement: We stand by content protection technology as an important tool to protect our intellectual property rights and those of our artists. Nonetheless, as a precautionary measure, SONY BMG […]

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Tinfoil Hats and the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy

November 11, 2005

This abstract of a ‘study’ conducted by MIT engineering students is simply brilliant: Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we find […]

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Spy v. Spyware

November 11, 2005

A modern take on the irresistible force and the immovable object? RetroCoder, makers of the SpyMon remote monitoring program, are suing Sunbelt Software, makers of ConterSpy [sic], a spyware detector program, for detecting the SpyMon as spyware. According to the EULA, SpyMon can not be used in ‘anti-spyware research,’ and detecting it is therefore a […]

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Lawful Access ETA

November 11, 2005

Michael Geist reports that the lawful access bill is to be tabled November 15th.

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