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Monday, February 23, 2004 |
 Wired. States step into the breach to fund stem cell research and attract industries of the future. Smart.
3:38:58 PM 
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WSJ reports that 321 Studios (the makers of some very nice DVD back-up software) has been ordered to stop selling its software. The movie industry doesn't like that it allows people to make back-ups of their movies (1 m people have already bought it). Of course, 321 is working on a way to circumvent the ruling by configuring the software without DeCSS and prompting users to download it from free sources online.
11:18:50 AM
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Phil Windley has a scary graph showing the trend in identity theft.
10:21:17 AM
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Columbia University and Genentech are fighting to extend patents on lucrative biotech inventions forever. I am sure someone is going to argue that if we radically extend the life of patents, we could "tax" the world for years to come (and equalize the trade balance if the technology is required to reside in the US as a requirement of the extension, to prevent multinational slight of hand). That is of course part of the unstated logic behind seemingly eternal copyrights.
10:16:21 AM
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The Asia Times reports (more):
A massive land and air military operation on either side of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is now under way, with the main goals of catching leading commanders of the Afghan resistance, as well as Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
7:42:05 AM
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© Copyright 2004 John Robb.
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