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Home Secretary Requests Fingerprint-Activated iPods 262

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 30, 2007 @01:08PM from the losing-battles-to-fight dept.

John Reid, Home Secretary, has called upon tech manufacturers to improve the security on their gadgets to help with his recent push to frustrate criminals. Inviting Apple, Sony, and several others to his crime fighting summit Reid hopes to attack the rising robbery numbers in the most recent Home Office figures.

UK Think Tank Calls For Fair Use Of Your Own CDs 241

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday October 29, 2006 @11:15AM from the fair-use-i-think-it's-called dept.

jweatherley writes "The BBC reports that a UK think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, has called for the legalization of format shifting. In a report commissioned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, they state that copyright laws are out of date, and that people should have a 'private right to copy' which would allow them to legally copy their own CDs and DVDs on to home computers, laptops and phones. The report goes on to say that: 'it is not the music industry's job to decide what rights consumers have. That is the job of government.' The report also argues that there is no evidence the current 50-year copyright term is insufficient. The UK music industry is campaigning to extend the copyright term in sound recordings to 95 years."

Comment About the Waypath Project (Score 3, Interesting) 76

by mattsmigs on Saturday November 09, 2002 @10:43AM (#4631961) Attached to: Wading Through Weblogs, One Idea at a Time

For those who can't be bothered to go and read it/for when it gets Slashdotted:

What is it?

The Waypath Project is an attempt to network the weblog community, connecting weblogs that share common themes, ideas, and topics.

How does it work?

The Waypath Project's Related Weblog Navigation engine analyzes weblog entries to determine their core conceptual makeups, compares them with one another to find out how related they are, and presents you with its best guess as to what's related to your original input. This is done all automatically, using available technology.

Where does the data come from?

WP makes use of public weblog update lists, which it crawls several times each day. We use a custom spider to grab changed files from individual weblogs. We make our best effort to grab new weblog entries the same day their posted, depending on resource availability. Learn more about data selection here.

Why does quality vary?

What the Waypath Project is doing is not trivial. Sometimes Waypath results are amazingly on target, sometimes you can kind of see the thread that relates weblog entries, sometimes you're left scratching your head. We're constantly working to make results better, as time allows.

Why isn't WP open source?

The core of WP is based on a proprietary, commerical technology that Think Tank 23 has generously donated to this project. However, the tools developed by the Waypath Project will be released into the open source community as time allows.

Who funds WP?

You do, along with others. Check out the donors page for more info.

Why is this site so spartan?

This site is run by two guys in their spare time (a couple of hours each week, if we're lucky). Most of that time is spent massaging and enhancing the spider. Ater that, we spend as much time as we can making the results better. You can help by donating, so we can spend more time on everything, including adding more info to the site, if that's your thing.

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