Links for 25-07-2008
UK copyright policing fiasco; the beginning of the end for software patents; paper-based transistors; comic-book Bardo Thodol …
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Scalzi shows how to pwn the pwn-worthy.
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“It’s unclear why exactly they are agreeing to voluntarily waste their time acting on behalf of an obsolete industry’s business model, but the misguided threats from UK politicians probably helped move things along.” YA RLY.
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“The agreement between internet service providers, the government, and the music industry to send angry letters to music fans who are downloading free music is a smokescreen, intended to obscure the crisis the record industry is facing.” O RLY?
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“If the PTO’s test is followed, the crucial question for the vitality of patents on computer implemented inventions is whether a general purpose computer qualifies as a “particular†machine within the meaning of the agency’s test.”
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“Experiments in rats show that an overactive bladder changes brain activity.” Erm, OK.
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“How did WarGames become the geek-geist classic that legitimized hacker culture, minted the nerd hero — and maybe even changed American defense policy? Related question: Shall we play a game?”
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“… the first field effect transistors (FET) with a paper interstrate layer [...] the same level of performance as ’state-of-the-art oxide based thin film transistors (TFTs) produced on glass or crystalline silicon substrates.’”
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead. In comic form. SRSLY.
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“… the gas is used in tiny quantities — but molecule-for-molecule, NF3 is about 17,000 times as potent as CO2 in warming up the atmosphere.”
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Damn, I thought I’d blanked the horrors of that Amway meeting…