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Free Market Assassination
From Kuro5hin, an amusing article about Distributed Denial of Existence (or DDoE) attacks. The premise is this: a collective fund is established in a Swiss bank account to which users who dislike another user may contribute. When the fund for a particular disliked user reaches a certain point, a contract assassin is hired through an… Read more →
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New Photos Added
I uploaded some more files to the jaani.net/ gallery. The new album contains phtographs of the University of Melbourne grounds which I took on first day of semester. More photos are yet to come. In the interim, I suggest you check out Decibel Dragon.com for some stunning photography and a most excellent site-design. That photographer… Read more →
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Quae Vide
Each Friday, I’ll try to collate a summary of interesting links, reviews, and articles upon which I have stumbled throughout the week. The links will be presented with minimum commentary, but are hand-picked for quality and categorised for convience. Here are the first Quae Vide picks. This week’s theme is science and technology. Science/Technology: Voodoo… Read more →
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Anti Anti-Spam?
The legal issues surrounding junk e-mail detection and removal continue to discourage internet service providers from employing pro-active filtering techniques. Many ISPs are concerned about being sued for filtering false-positive (incorrect) “junk” e-mail messages in compliance with the various anti-spam regulations currently under consideration in the United States. Service providers are placed in a difficult… Read more →
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Court Rebukes Detention of Children
The Family Court today ruled that detaining children is unlawful. Affirming a previous decision, Justice Strickland said he had “determined prima facie that children are unlawfully in detention and there is a real issue to be tried about that.” Counsel for the children applied for their immediate release pending a full trial which is due… Read more →
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The RIAA’s First Hurdle
Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week evinced the first signs of opposition to RIAA scaremongering. Over the past 3 months, the Recording Industry Association of America has issued 871 subpoenas demanding information from several major tertiary institutions about the use of file sharing P2P applications on their local area networks. Previously… Read more →
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Cliché of Today: Composition
Walking from the law school to the engineering precinct, my mind made a similar transition from right to left. During the reshuffle, I happened upon the following: Let every moment of existence be a well-framed photograph. Gold! This had me in stiches for several ‘well-framed’ moments. And everywhere I looked, I saw the rule of… Read more →
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Federal Court Overrules Mod Chip Verdict
In a unanimous decision, the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia yesterday overruled its previous verdict that video game console copy-protection schemes comprised a “technological protection measure” as defined in subs 10(1) of the Copyright Act. The result is to prevent the sale of so-called “mod chip” devices which circumvent said protection, and… Read more →
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Yahoo Settles Patent Dispute
Internet giant Yahoo has been the latest to defend a series of patent infringement cases filed by NCR, a United States based manufacturer of ATMs and holder of some 1500 patents. NCR’s 15 recent claims have been brought against key electronic commerce players, claiming infringement of several patents relating to methods of managing and processing… Read more →
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Equality and Law
I stumbled upon an interesting idea in one of my law lectures today: substantive equality is impossible. I say substantive (as opposed to formal) equality in the sense that measures are taken to reduce pre-existing negative social offset by actively promoting disadvantaged persons or sectors of the community. It is not possible because we cannot… Read more →