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Friday, December 20, 2002
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It's only just begun: "The not guilty verdict handed down to ElcomSoft was a welcome relief to many, but it is only one skirmish victory in the war against the DMCA. The verdict only slimmed the DMCA down to a 399 lb gorilla and it will continue to be used by the **AAs (and others with deep pockets) to threaten companies, programmers and home computer users." [Ars Technica]
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Meaningful URLs -- Comment()
Jon's Radio tells that Craig Johnson has posted a wonderful essay: "I would argue that any environment that exposes information via URL is likely to see this kind of spontanious or seredipitous activity because it doesn't require coordination and planning. The only constraint is trust. When information is made available via URL the producer will want to trust the consumer community to not abuse the resource and the consumer will want to trust the producer is not going to disappear."
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Updated guides on the web -- Comment()
Today I updated three of my short guides, which are available on the web in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. All are written in Finnish:
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Study Seeks Technology Safeguards for Privacy: "The Pentagon has released a study that recommends the government pursue specific technologies as potential safeguards against the misuse of data-mining systems similar to those now being considered by the government..." [Google Technology News]
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FAST Fine Tunes Features: "Competition is working in the search sector. In recent months, nearly all the major engines have engineered improvements to deliver faster, more accurate results for their users." [Google Technology News]
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Quicktime 6 Becoming Mobile-Phone Standard?: "It seems like Apple's QuickTime 6 is becoming standard on some 44 million Japanese mobile phones. Apple and many other companies are pressuring hard to make MPEG-4 the industry standard for video-on-demand services in 3G cellular networks..." [Google Technology News]
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Lost weblog postings - again -- Comment()
It seems that the Radio UserLand software is becoming unstable. For the second time this week I lost postings. Fortunately, this time only postings for one day. This is small matter compared to the loss of four days on Tuesday this week. This time I made a copy of my RSS file, so it is possible to recover the lost postings. However, it is getting tedious to resubmit postings every now and then.
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