ElcomSoft Verdict: Not Guilty, A jury on Tuesday found a Russian company ElcomSoft and employee Dmitry Sklyarov, who was arrested during Defcon after giving a speech about his company's software which is designed to crack protections on Adobe Systems' eBooks making the ebooks more usable and portable (ie. blind users can have their computers turn thee text to speech), not guilty of criminal copyright charges under th DMCA!!!

Memorex Videoball TV, This is the one! The TV i have been waiting for. No its not lcd, led, or even plasma. Its not even flat! Its old school!!!

Captchas, are puzzles that have the property that computers can generate and grade the tests even though they cannot pass them. The researchers decided to call their puzzles Captchas, an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart. NYT (sub req) has a cool article on this research and what it may mean for artificial intelegence and encryption.

Got temp job on set of a movie! Lots of fun. Got temp job at talent management company. Lots of fun, learning tons. Looking for new stuff turn of the year. Applied to go back to school in LA at Southwestern for an LL.M. in entertainment and media law. It's the first program of its kind. Also got sworn in so I can now officially practice.

Added back search....

Back up and running. Basic style.

wow some stuff really got broke. i will be fixing as soon as time allows. : (

Record Labels Sue Web Heavyweights, Now its been a long time but if i remember correctly this type of law suit is exactly what the DMCA is to protect against. Seems that the lables are unhappy that broadband providers do not screen out and block a certain domain that enables people to dowload pirated music. Amazing!!!

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Labels Drop Suit, seems their lawyers read the same DMCA i did. Wonder why the droped the case citing that the offending web site was no longer live. Seems damages would still be available if they really had any hope of recovery in the first place. But alas maybe it just bully tactics, or worse bad lawyering!!!

Music Body Presses Anti-Piracy Case, in what may become a new legal front in its war against online copying, the Recording Industry Association of America has asked a federal court for help in tracing an alleged peer-to-peer pirate!!!

Segway Isn't Really Ginger, in the latest twist to the long-running Ginger saga, it's now being rumored that the two-wheeled device unveiled by inventor Dean Kamen last December isn't in fact the real deal. It cannot be the same thing as the much-hyped mystery invention originally known as Ginger and IT!!!

Don't Link To Us!, links to sites that attempt to impose substantial restrictions on other sites that link to them. The Linking Policy for Don't Link to Us! precludes us from requesting permission to link to a site, and compels us to link directly to the targeted page (i.e., a "deep link") rather than to a site's home page. i like these guys!!!

Ambushed On Donahue, all thoes damn shows! GTA3 revisited!!!

ISP Bans RIAA To Protect Its Customers, and so it goes, the war begins. I guess it was only a matter of time. May the best hackers code win!!!

Roaming Data Stirs Up Controversy, what cell co.s don't want you to know!!!

Intel, PC Makers Sued Over P4 Performance, the megahurtz myth and then some!!!

WiFi: EarthLink Goes Wireless, looks like their on there wayu with Boingo! But price seems not right, nice but no cigar! Hight addoption i think is gona require bundling with standard unlimited service!!!

NASA Plan To Read Brainwaves At Airports, the thought police are hear! Now i wonder since stuff stored in ram is sufficiently fixed to assert copyright is stuff in my grey matter?!?!?!

Does Schmoozing Make Robots Clever?, What? Do you think you are cle'ver!?! (in my best frenchie) AI the debate continues!!!

Judge Hits Rewind On ReplayTV Case, changing her mind and allowing the EFF to join the suit!!!

The New Pepsi/Coke, Hey look its open source drink! Thanks to Joe for sending this in!!!