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The Canadian DMCA

If you think the Canadian style DMCA may be a bad idea like I do, you may want to head over to www.digital-copyright.ca which has a Wiki up with a petition [http://www.digital-copyright.ca/phpwiki/?PetitionForUsersRights] for you to get involved.

Juliana Hatfield - in exile deo

[http://www.rounder.com/index.php?id=album.php&catalog_id=6589] Juliana Hatfield - in exile deo [http://www.rounder.com/index.php?id=album.php&catalog_id=6589#]> Now 36, Hatfield has clearly had some revelations about both life and her art. “Time and age

The Power Of The Windows API

Seems that the Windows API is the reason its so hard to sway people from Windows.> "The Windows API is so broad, so deep, and so functional that most ISVs would be crazy not to use it. And it is so deeply embedded in the source code of

Microsoft Canada Piracy News?

Turns out you can get all your piracy news [http://www.microsoft.com/canada/piracy/news/default.mspx] direct from Microsoft Canada.

Google Seeks Out Syndication Feeds

Google's search bots are now on the lookout for RDF(RSS 1.0) and ATOM feeds, but not RSS 2.0 Feeds. RSS 2.0 is by far the more popular of formats, so why is it not searched for? Dave WIner thinks [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/

iTunes Music Store Finally Available Globally

I'm going to start this entry off with a quote taken from an exec at Walt Disney Records when they announced exclusive deal with Apple the other day to put up the entire catalog of Disney tunes to the Apple music store:> "We chose to deliver

WinXP SP2 Security Technologies

I was going over what is new [http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2chngs.mspx] in Windows XP SP2 (due out in May) for work and I came across this little tidbit of info:> Microsoft is working with microprocessor companies to help Windows support hardware-enforced execution protection

Big Gaping Hole in TCP

NISCC Vulnerability Advisory 236929 [http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2004/236929/index.htm] has this to say about a new TCP DOS attack.> The discoverer of the practicability of the RST attack was Paul A. Watson, who describes his research in his paper “Slipping In The Window: TCP

Our Voices Were Heard

We speak and TechTV listens [http://leo.typepad.com/tlr/2004/04/the_people_have.html]! Thats what we learned this week.> I'm very pleased to say that thanks to your overwhelming show of support and to a strong desire on both our parts to come to

I am Svend and I have your ring

The National reports [http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040415.wsven0415/BNStory/National/] that Svend Robinson - one of the few NDP [http://www.ndp.ca] MP - snapped over "stress and emotional pain" and swiped a ring at a public auction last Friday. Svend continued "