Undecided » Other http://www.datarave.net/zfh An open notebook Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:05:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 End Piracy, Not Liberty – Google http://www.datarave.net/zfh/2012/01/18/end-piracy-not-liberty-google/ http://www.datarave.net/zfh/2012/01/18/end-piracy-not-liberty-google/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:05:07 +0000 John Williams http://www.datarave.net/zfh/?p=1652 [...]]]> End Piracy, Not Liberty – Google

Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S.

Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA.

The Senate will begin voting on January 24th. Please let them know how you feel. Sign this petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late.

via End Piracy, Not Liberty – Google.

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PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

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What’s really interesting about this is that there are apparently several sites out there that have done this before M.I.T., but this is a very competative bid to provide S.T.E.M. (science, technology, engineering and math) education

]]> http://www.datarave.net/zfh/2011/12/30/m-i-t-game-changer-free-online-education-for-all/feed/ 0 Every position of Rubik’s Cube™ can be solved in twenty moves or less. http://www.datarave.net/zfh/2010/08/11/every-position-of-rubiks-cube%e2%84%a2-can-be-solved-in-twenty-moves-or-less/ http://www.datarave.net/zfh/2010/08/11/every-position-of-rubiks-cube%e2%84%a2-can-be-solved-in-twenty-moves-or-less/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:26:51 +0000 John Williams http://www.datarave.net/zfh/?p=1262 http://www.cube20.org/

]]> http://www.datarave.net/zfh/2010/08/11/every-position-of-rubiks-cube%e2%84%a2-can-be-solved-in-twenty-moves-or-less/feed/ 0 McAfee TrustedSource http://www.datarave.net/zfh/2009/06/15/mcafee-trustedsource/ http://www.datarave.net/zfh/2009/06/15/mcafee-trustedsource/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:02:27 +0000 John Williams http://www.datarave.net/zfh/?p=958 http://www.trustedsource.org/query/datarave.net

According to McAfee, datarave.net does not send out emails (not entirely true…but…) If you get any email from this domain name, the odds are, it’s spam.

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It’s somewhat disturbing.  Try it out.

]]> http://www.datarave.net/zfh/2008/12/16/find-sex-offenders/feed/ 0 60 Minutes: Obama and the Presidency http://www.datarave.net/zfh/2008/11/20/60-minutes-obama-and-the-presidency/ http://www.datarave.net/zfh/2008/11/20/60-minutes-obama-and-the-presidency/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:00:42 +0000 John Williams http://www.datarave.net/zfh/?p=738

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Gizmodo gives you the raw deal on just what you get when you buy a MAC, and how far your dollar gets you when buying MAC vs PC.

Seems especially relevant in today’s economy.

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]]> http://www.datarave.net/zfh/2008/10/26/new-mac-advertisements/feed/ 0 DMCA & McCain http://www.datarave.net/zfh/2008/10/23/dmca-mccain/ http://www.datarave.net/zfh/2008/10/23/dmca-mccain/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:00:15 +0000 John Williams http://www.datarave.net/zfh/?p=694 [...]]]> Wired posted the aftermath of an exchange between the McCain-Palin campaign and YouTube.  The net-net of the article is that McCain was a signatory on the DMCA (copyright act) which places certain obligations on to content intermediaries such as YouTube.  Succinctly, if you host content, and if someone makes a claim to you that the content is in violation of the DMCA, you have 10 days to take it down or risk losing your “safe harbor” protection from lawsuit.

Apparently there isn’t much wiggleroom in the wording and as a result, YouTube is forced to (just due to the size of it’s operation they cannot review every DMCA notice they receive for validity prior to the 10 day safe harbor window) take content down first and then investigate after..  and only if the contributor objects to the removal of content.  In essence, the DMCA notification process can be abused.

And apparently some anti-McCain visitors to the YouTube website have done just that (not to mention all of those who have unlawfully had their copyrighted material “borrowed” for the McCain-Palin campaign), filing a report against the McCain-Palin campaign contributions to YouTube.

Of course, YouTube General Counsel decided to add a little snarkiness at the end of their letter back to the General Counsel for the McCain-Palin campaign (since McCain was partially responsible for the DMCA becoming law):

We hope that as a content uploader, you have gained a sense of some of the challenges we face everyday in operating YouTube

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