From the article, "The beauty quark is also known as the bottom quark." Now I can't stop thinking about beautiful bottoms.

There is a Unison backend for Sparkleshare in development. This will combine the best of both worlds. Sparkle has been criticised for using git as a back-end, which is not very efficient for storing large files and can waste large amounts of space. Unison is lighter-weight for those who don't need the ability to roll back to previous revisions of files. So soon you'll be able to take your pick.

The best page to link to is hosted on Tor, where Sony won't be able to discover where it is located or by whom. Also, this link is the only one that contains Geohot's source code, as well as his binary: http://wdnqg3ehh3hvalpe.onion/ (obviously this only works if you're connected to the Tor network), otherwise: https://wdnqg3ehh3hvalpe.tor2web.org/

If only it were true that this makes Ireland "the first in the world". In fact there are already three-strikes laws in France, South Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan, and (though not yet fully implemented) the United Kingdom. In a sense Ireland doesn't even rate a mention against these countries, because its "three strikes" system is not law, but just the policy of a single (admittedly large) ISP.

France's law is the first and most draconian. In its original form, which did not require a court judgment before the user was disconnected it failed a constitutional challenge, but it has since been re-introduced and remains on the books.

A favourite quote of mine comes from the judgment of an Australian Federal Court judge in a case decided earlier this year, in which he said:

One need only consider the lengthy, complex and necessary deliberations of the Court upon the question of primary infringement to appreciate that the nature of copyright infringements within the BitTorrent system, and the concept of “repeat infringer”, are not self-evident. It is highly problematic to conclude that such issues ought to be decided by a party, such as the [ISP], rather than a court. Copyright infringement is not a simple issue.

No. I'm here at the IGF in Sharm el Sheikh, and this book launch was a scheduled event in a separate room dedicated for the launch at this time. Your theory might have been correct if the poster had been erected in the main session room where other discussions were going on, but this was not so.

The Consumers International IP Watch List is a counter-USTR 301 Report, released simultaneously, which lists countries according to our friendly their IP laws are to consumers, rather than how strongly those laws benefit creators. On this list, interestingly, the US is listed in the same company as China and India, countries which it strongly criticises in its 301 Report! The worst of all countries in the Consumers International list is the United Kingdom.

The IGF's official Web site is notoriously useless. A few members of the IGF community have begun a grassroots effort (under the banner of the Online Collaboration Dynamic Coalition) to produce a community Web site at igf-online.net to redress the problem. The new site already hosts a number of useful resources including a community blog, wiki, calendar, chat and needs feeds, most of which were selected for their capacity to support multilingual usage. It also features a specially-designed menu running along the top of most pages of the site, that links in external Web sites including the Secretariat's official Web site and that of the Rio hosts. By registering (or logging in with your existing OpenID) you can begin posting on the community blog, adding events to the calendar, and entering information on the wiki. Hosting of other content will be accommodated on request. Volunteers are needed to help with translating the site's content into other languages, designing a complementary set of themes, and spreading the word.