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Submission + - Search this Calvin & Hobbes database while you

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netbuzz
netbuzz writes: ""While you can" meaning before Univeral Press has its lawyers go all RIAA on it. Universal rained on a similar site's parade, and the proprietor of "The Calvin and Hobbes Searchable Database" says he's concerned that the same fate awaits his project, which has depended on a legion of volunteers to transcribe more than 3,000 individual C&H strips, all of which are made available for a look-see — free.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1214 1"
Patents

Submission + - British Government against 'pure' software patents

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uglyduckling
uglyduckling writes: "The British Government has issued a response to a recent petition calling for 'the Prime Minister to make software patents clearly unenforcible'. The answer is reassuring but perhaps doesn't go far enough, and gives no specific promises to bring into line a patent office that grants software patents (according to the petition) 'against the letter and the spirit of the law'. The Gowers Review that it references gives detailed insight into the current British position on this debate, most interestingly recommending a policy of 'not extending patent rights beyond their present limits within the areas of software, business methods and genes.'"
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Submission + - Pirate Bay abandons bid for own nation

Submitted by tomp76
tomp76 writes: Perhaps it was all just a joke. Or perhaps The Pirate Bay, despite being one of the largest bit torrent trackers in the world, isn't really as powerful as its supporters would like to believe. That, at least, is the impression given by one of the founders in this interview. The plans for a copyright-free nation have been scaled down considerably: "We have $20,000 and we are looking at some alternatives. Really we just want somewhere we can name The Pirate Bay, so we can look on Google Maps and find ourselves there."
Security

Submission + - Sandia backhacker talks about ordeal

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An anonymous reader writes: Shawn Carpenter a former network intrusion analyst at Sandia National Laboratories says he was intimated and threatened by his supervisors after he shared information from an internal network investigation with the FBI and Army intelligence. Carpenter was fired from Sandia in Jan 2005 because of what Sandia claimed was his improper sharing of confidential information. Carpenter, says he did so in the national interest, after his back-hacking activities showed that the intruders who had broken into Sandia belonged to a Chinese hacker group called Titan Rain that had carried out similar attacks against other government and commercial networks. He recently was awarded $4.3 million for wrongful termination by a New Mexico jury. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011832&intsrc=hm_ list
Bug

Submission + - Vanishing Honeybees will affect future crops

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daninbusiness
daninbusiness writes: "Across the US, beekeepers are finding that their bees are disappearing — not returning while searching for nectar and pollen. This could have a major impact on the food industry in the United States, where as much as 14 billion dollars' worth of agriculture business depends on bees for crop pollination. Reasons for this problem, dubbed "colony collapse disorder" are still unknown. Theories include viruses, some type of fungus, poor bee nutrition, and pesticides. TFA is in the New York Times (login may be required)."

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