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- May 6th, 2009
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European internet firms must start logging communications as of today
As of today, all internet service providers in Europe are required by law to retain information about every e-mail and VOIP call made by their users thanks to the . BBC NEWS Technology Net firms start…
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Canadian anti-spam bill introduced
The Industry Minister tabled the Electronic Commerce Protection Act (ECPA) in Parliament at the end of last week. Here’s the government’s press release and backgrounder: Government of Can…
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Amendments to Alberta liquor legislation to re-permit info collection
Presuably to counteract the effects of the Information and Privacy Commissioner’s decision that bans siping licenses at bars in the province (Alberta Commissioner forbids license scanning), the…
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Geist on privacy rights buried in the fine print
Michael Geist’s most recent Toronto Star Column addresses the fine print in ISP customer agreements that purport to permit the ISP to hand customer names and addresses to the police without a wa…
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Cheating husband caught on Google Street View
The Sun in the UK is reporting that a cheating husband has been caught by his curious wife after she checked out a friend’s house on Google Street View and noticed her husband’s Range Rove…
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AdSense webmasters told to update privacy policies
Google has just sent webmasters who use Google’s AdSense a notice suggesting that privacy policies need to be updated because the ad service is going to be much more targeted. Here’s what…
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Ontario commissioner calls for "privacy filters" on whole-body scanners
The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario is calling for implementing privacy filters to mitigate part of the damage to privacy caused by whole body scanners that are appearing soon in an ai…
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Commissioner taking Air Canada to court over customer access to info
According to CanWest, the Privacy Commissioner is taking Air Canada to court over access to customer information that the airline claims is covered by solicitor-client privilege: OTTAWA — Canada…
- May 5th, 2009
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Hospital staff fired for peeks at Nadya Suleman’s files
The LA Times’ blog “Dish Rag” is reporting that fifteen employees of Kaiser Permanente have been fired and eight disciplined for looking at the medical records of Nadya Suleman (aka…
- May 4th, 2009
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Listening to Ourselves
In our last conversation I mentioned a quirky little idea about a…business I thought would be fun to start, and you encouraged me to listen to that little voice. Well, I did, and regardless…
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Fascinating correlations or elegant theories?
Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of , wrote a few weeks ago a provocative piece “”, arguing that in our Google-driven data-rich era (”The Petabyte Age”) the good old “app…
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The impact of online publishing
“I haven’t browsed a table of content in ages; I find all my papers by Pubmed searches anyway”. We have probably all heard this remark, which reflects a general trend as how online p…
- May 3rd, 2009
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Keystone Symposium - Omics Meets Cell Biology (II)
Before I carry on with a summary of the second part of the Keystone Symposium ‘. Many of the presentations given during the second part of the meeting reported findings derived from cell-based h…
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My Short Email Experiment
My email signature now contains this line at the end: Why is this email 5 sentences or less? http://five.sentenc.es/ My goal is to limit every email to no more than five sentences. The results have be…
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Most Expensive Lawsuits
Andrew’s Note: This post was sponsored by Lawsuit Funding. Robertson lawsuit against Princeton University But Princeton’s most expensive lawsuit was about the control of a multi-million d…
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Learn How to Build a Solo Law Practice
What is Solo Practice University? You might think of SPU like an educational Facebook for solo lawyers (and law students). It’s a combination of a blog community, social network, and online univ…
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File Bankruptcy With a Bankruptcy Lawyer
Free bankruptcy case evaluation: (866) 200-5729 Are you in debt over your head? If you’ve exhausted all your other options, it might be time to consider consulting with a bankruptcy lawyer. Fil…
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Starbucks Does Offer Value
A . Yes. Starbucks can offer value. A few days ago, I had a couple hours to kill while waiting for my client’s case at traffic court. I debated between Starbucks and McDonald’s. With Sta…
- May 2nd, 2009
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How to Alienate Your Vocal Supporters
But I’m not feeling the love from EchoSign right now. They let me down. But they’re alienating me. I consider myself a member of their <a rel=”nofollow” target=”_blan…
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Virtual Receptionist Free for a Month
To solve this problem, I hired a great virtual receptionist service: Ruby Receptionist. They answer promptly and professionally, saying whatever custom greeting I want. Then they connect callers to m…
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Why Lawyers Cost So Much
My motion wasn’t heard until 10:05 AM. This is why lawyers cost so much. We spend hours stuck waiting for things. How could the legal system be improved? Telephonic / webcam motions There’…
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US DTV Cutover: re-purposing spectrum is harder than you think
With just 20 days until US analog television broadcasting shuts down, the various parts of the federal government are in a dither over whether to hit the brakes to give themselves four more months to…
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Latin America Is Going Fiscal At Full Speed
The Challenge is how to Turn Economic Packages Into Opportunities that Create Sustainable Growth and Competitive Advantage Numerous market indicators already signal that the global economic crisis is…
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Slumdog Millionaire & Intelligent Urbanization
Most of India is toasting to the success of Slumdog Millionaire at the Oscars today. A staggering eight Oscars, including two for India’s most loved and my favorite music composer - A.R.Rahman. Slum…
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Chimpanzees smarter than undergraduates and college professors?
As part of our policy work, I regularly share with governments statistics, studies and other research that help to bring across the need to effect change in a country. Quite accidentally, I recently c…
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No Need to Lock Them in a Room, Mr. Secretary—Use IP
A lot has been , but the simple fact is: Agreeing on interoperability standards doesn’t need to be this hard. Incumbent manufacturers of some niche smart grid technologies based on proprietary p…
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Data Privacy – A Difficult Balance for Asia?
In many industrialized nations, data privacy is a given. While there are occasional differences in expectations of privacy protection, for instance between the United States and Europe, or between opt…
- May 1st, 2009
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Human Flesh Search Engine
Many years ago I saw, on a whiteboard, a sentence which never left me. The sentence, written by a programmer friend, said: “Never automate sharp objects”. Although, I do not totally agree with my…
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Turning Universal Service Funds into Agents of Change
While research has shown conclusively that competition among service providers and diversity in technology platforms for connectivity are a major driver for telecom penetration, it would probably take…
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Lubbock Cycling Chic
Michael Giberson Tomorrow is the on the Texas Tech University campus. The event is part of program in which TTU art students and science and engineering students mentor middle schoolers who assemble…
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Connecticut Attorney General proposes new state energy agency to combat incentives for economic efficiency
Michael Giberson A week ago we discussed the published in the New Haven Register: A nonprofit, independent energy agency would lower prices by circumventing and short-circuiting irrational federal ru…
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A problem with market-based approaches to emission reductions
Michael Giberson Market-based approaches to regulating emissions are the new conventional wisdom, to regulation. The primary strength of market-based approaches comes from the decentralizing of compl…
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Western Swing is dead! Long live Western Swing!
Michael Giberson Turkey, Texas: Home of Bob Wills The Texas Playboys play at Bob Wills Day Bob Wills is credited along with Milton Brown with pioneering Western Swing in the 1930s. To a degree Will…
- April 30th, 2009
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What are the Legal Implications of Cloud Computing?
To say that cloud computing is trendy would be an understatement: the topic is almost inescapable in the world of computing these days. I’ve written about it from the viewpoint of open source se…
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The Closing the European Internet
Openness lies at the heart of the Internet, at every level. Indeed, the success of the Internet, and of the open services that run on top of it, was one of the first - and remains one of the most impo…
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P2P is Political
Richard Stallman has always regarded free software as about freedom, and hence inherently political. And so it’s no surprise that many aspects of openness butt against highly-sensitive areas -…
- April 29th, 2009
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Urgent: Please Write to your MEPs about Amendment 138
Sorry, it’s time to get those virtual quills out, and to ; here’s my letter: I am writing to ask you to urge your colleagues, particularly those on the ITRE committee, to vote in favour o…
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Hillary Clinton Pwns Rep. Mike Pence
Comments (11) Comments on this Entry: (Zaid on Apr 23, 2009 4:40 PM) I still think the exchange between her and Ron Paul was the best one http://ugaliberal.blogspot.com/2009/04/funny-exchange-between…
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Rally Against Bullying In School
In honor of Jaheem Herrera’s life, Beulah Missionary Baptist Church is holding an anti-bullying rally next Saturday - May 9th - at 2pm. It’s pathetic that it has taken the suicide of two…
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What are you doing?
Do you like to travel with a dog but prefer to not “check it” to the barrel of a plane? Well, here’s your solution: Pet Airways. h/t: David Sirota. Why am I not surprised to learn…
- April 28th, 2009
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Cagle’s Health Condition
AJC is reporting that Cagle is “scheduled to undergo surgery Monday to correct a degenerative spine and neck condition.” So, there ya go. Comments (3) Comments on this Entry: ( on Apr 2…
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Office Furniture-1819 style
A week or so ago, a friend and I were talking about the census and what might happen if a few districts were added to the House of Representatives. It was a good conversation, and we hashed over all s…
- April 27th, 2009
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a rumbling about X QA
As I rebooted this morning as a result of 1 two serious questions popped into my head: do any of the major core X contributors2 employ a full-time X QA person? As far as I know the answer is ‘n…
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Satellite Radio on the iPhone now a reality with Pocket Tunes
Fans who are anticipating the upcoming official (or who were disappointed when NiceMac’s iPhone app which connects your iPhone to thousands internet radio stations for a cost of $9.99. With t…
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XM Radio Online is down (again!)
XM Radio Online - this time, it seems that a massive number of people are being affected. There’s no solutions being presented, no word from the company. Nothing. The subscriber communications…
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The Dead’s spring tour to air on Sirius XM
Sirius XM will be broadcasting several shows from The Dead’s spring 2009 tour - the band’s first tour in five years - exclusively on the Grateful Dead Channel (Sirius channel 32 and XM cha…
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Jimmy Buffett’s "Summerzcool" concert tour exclusive to satellite radio
Every show from Jimmy Buffett’s upcoming 2009 Summerzcool Tour will air live on Sirius XM Radio for parrotheads nationwide starting this Thursday, April 16th. The exclusive concert broadcasts wi…
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XM gets every 2009 MLB game; Sirius comes up empty - CORRECTED
Regular readers won’t be surprised by this news: Sirius XM Radio Inc. recently announced that, once again, XM Radio will air every single Major League Baseball game for the 2009 season. Unfortu…
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Live hole-by-hole coverage of The Masters on Sirius XM
Sirius XM Radio is kicking off live hole-by-hole coverage of the 2009 Masters Tournament starting today through Sunday, on both XM and Sirius. In addition to the live play-by-play broadcasts direct f…
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2009 NFL Draft: Every pick from every round on Sirius XM
Sirius XM Radio Inc. will be airing live coverage of every pick from every round of the 2009 NFL Draft - that includes all 256 draft choices, plus expert analysis - starting on Saturday, April 25th.…
