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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

Meridia price, In a continuation of President Obama's campaign for openness, a White House photostream has been created. The terrific photos were taken by the official White House photographer, but anyone can download them and use them, meridia discount. The photos are offered under a Creative Commons 2.0 Attribution license. Utah UT, All you have to do when you use the photo is to attribute it. This is modern, open, and terrific, Rhode Island RI R.I..

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Neither the White House nor the official White House photographer can own these photos, meridia price. The American people own them. They are federal property so they are your property, buy meridia. The government can't own a copyright and a government worker can't claim a copyright on work he did as part of his government job. Cheap meridia online cheap, Doubtless attributing the photos is the right thing to do. Meridia price, But it can't be a legal requirement.

It is also modern to assume everything is copyrighted, since that is virtually always the case, buy brand meridia without prescription. I'm sure the White House is trying to say these photos are in the public domain. Halvalla meridia apteekki, But it's awfully hard to say that. It's pretty much impossible to give up your rights if you have them -- the Creative Commons license was designed to do something very much like that. So the White House's instinct is exactly right, meridia online without prescription. It has simply forgotten that it, Køb discount meridia, unlike any other creator of a creative work, can't own copyrights in the first place.

No need to ask or to credit. You already paid for those photos.

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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

Prozac canada, The swine flu panic is going to be electronically mediated in a way no previous threat to public health has been. Cheapest prozac online, Flu information sites have sprung up in which news stories and data are being aggregated -- the Flu Wiki Forum and Wikia's Flu Wiki, which has a nice Google map mashup showing where the cases are, kopen goedkope prozac. Price of prozac, The intrepid and slightly paranoid (I know he won't mind my saying so) Chris Soghoian has another angle in his post on Swine Flu and the Threat to Privacy. Eight students from one New York City school are suspected of having contracted this strain of influenza while on a school trip to Mexico, prozac prescription. Herbal prozac, If they were suspected terrorists, the government would by this time have gotten their cell phone carriers to turn over lists of all the people they had telephoned recently, buy prozac pills. It would be easy enough -- yes, this is true -- to ask the carriers to turn over lists of the names of all people with cell phones that had been within 100 feet of one of the students' cell phones during their Mexico trip or thereafter, prozac canada. Billiga prozac apotek, Now stored cell phone geolocation information isn't that precise, so the data request would probably yield a lot of false positives -- people in the same general area but not that close, ordering prozac without prescription. Acquistare a buon mercato prozac, The information may well have been collected already. And that may well be exactly the right thing to do, order prozac online without prescription. After all, the first rule of epidemics is that controlling them becomes exponentially harder if they are allowed to spread; you don't wait until they are severe before reacting. Do we know. If the data has been collected, do we have any confidence that it isn't going to be repurposed, and that it will be discarded eventually.

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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 by Harry Lewis

Generic ultram, Today's news brings a nice juxtaposition. Kansas KS Kans., A new law in South Korea would require those who run web sites to get and retain identifying information about the people who post on their sites. Google, pharmacie ultram bon marché, Delaware DE Del., which has been criticized in the past for complying with the demands of authoritarian regimes for information about its users, took the extreme step of disallowing all YouTube uploads and comments in Korea, California CA Calif.. Ordering ultram bars, Bravo -- this will cost Google some market share, and may put pressure on the government, comprare ultram sconto. Ultram mexico, (Or perhaps not. YouTube is not the leading video site in Korea.) The government feels dissed and is saying as much to Google, generic ultram.

But today also reminds us that sometimes people using the Internet really are criminals and we are glad they are leaving electronic fingerprints behind, kjøpe ultram online. Mississippi MS Miss., A series of assaults on women around Boston was solved very quickly because the alleged perpetrator was incautious enough to send an email from his home to one of his victims. Detectives obtained his IP address from the ISP and started to surveil his house, order ultram no prescription. Security videos at the several crime scenes showed him tapping on his Blackberry; that was another good source of electronic forensics. (How many people could have used the same Blackberry from the three locations at the same times as the video camera showed this gentleman keeping busy?)

The two stories are not incompatible. Such records could be kept for a few weeks for police purposes and then discarded so they won't be used for mischievous purposes later. Societies lose something by keeping data, and also lose something by deleting it. It's just a question of making the right tradeoffs.

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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 by Harry Lewis

Viagra online without prescription, More on orphan works -- copyrighted works whose copyright holders are unknown, often because they have been out of print for so long. Viagra ordine on-line, the Google Books settlement would indemnify Google if it distributed a copy of an orphan work and the true rights holder turned up later on and sued.

The Internet Archive describes itself as "a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form, viagra lowest prices, Buy generic viagra, " and goes on to say, "Like a paper library, cheap viagra for sale, Köpa billiga viagra, we provide free access to researchers, historians, ordering viagra online legally, Goedkope viagra apotheek, scholars, and the general public." The Archive maintains the WayBack Machine, cheap viagra pills, Viagra overnight delivery, which allows you to retrieve old copies of web pages, but it is also a founding member of the Open Content Alliance, comprar en línea viagra, digitizing texts and other materials for public access. It is therefore in something of the same business as Google -- except for some crucial differences. The Internet Archive is a nonprofit and it is giving stuff away without trying to make money dong so. And thus far it has scanned only public domain works and those copyrighted materials for which it has gotten permission in advance -- Google just scanned first and waited to be sued (that's what brought about the proposed settlement), viagra online without prescription. The Archive does not want to be disadvantaged by being forced to avoid orphan works, or to be subject to suits against which Google is immunized. So, although it is not seeking to interfere with the Google Books settlement, it is asking the court for the same protections Google is getting.

Both Google and the Authors and Publishers oppose the Archive's move. Which seems to me in itself to raise a flag about the likelihood that the settlement will create a monopoly in the digital library domain.

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Sunday, April 19th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

Cialis sales, A teacher and school administrator in Virginia tells a frightening story of having to defend himself against child abuse and child pornography charges because he transferred a photo of a half-naked girl to his cell phone and his office computer in the course of investigating a student sexting complaint.

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Saturday, April 18th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

Discount tramadol, The discussions about how the Google Book settlement proposes to handle orphan works have expanded. Where to buy tramadol, A small group of which I am a member have formally sought to intervene. So has the Internet Archive, order tramadol overnight delivery. Acquistare online tramadol, Today the NYT Bits Blog has a brief explanation, and some good commentary, købe tramadol online. Order tramadol no rx, There have also been three articles that take up the settlement in a more serious way:

Randy Picker, "The Google Book Search Settlement: A New Orphan-works Monopoly?" Picker is an anti-trust lawyer, South Carolina SC S.C.. It's a longish paper (though not by law review standards), but the first few pages provide a good summary, discount tramadol. Buy tramadol overnight delivery, Pamela Samuelson: "Legally Speaking: The Dead Souls of the Google Book Settlement." An excellent, clear, order tramadol online cheap, Nombres para tramadols en frances, short critique of the settlement. Easy to read for the layperson, Washington WA Wash., highly recommended. This will be Samuelson's column in the July issue of the Communications of the ACM.

James Grimmelmann, "The Google Book Settlement: Ends, Means, and the Future of Books" (pdf, 17 pages). An issues brief, thoughtful and analytical and complete.

I urge anyone interested to read the Samuelson piece in particular.

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Friday, April 17th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

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My old Volvo (really my daughter's -- she has no place to park it) has had the "check engine" light on for years. Every time the mechanic has checked it, the word comes back the same: "Can't find anything, buy brand name levitra. Must be the check-engine circuit itself. Indian generic levitra, We could fix it but that would be a waste of money." And for years the engine has given us no trouble. The car has a few other kinks -- an odd noise or two, the odometer stopped at about 135, Acheter en ligne levitra,000 miles several years ago, Buy levitra no rx, and it won't hold an A/C charge -- but it's been a fine second car which I use only for short trips.

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Friday, April 17th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

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Friday, April 17th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

Propecia india, South Korea has implemented a three-strikes law ostensibly designed to combat music piracy. Three violations of copyright and you lose your Internet connection. Missouri MO Mo., Similar laws are being considered in France and elsewhere, but have been slowed by concerns about limiting citizens' rights to private communication. The Koreans have just charged ahead, Nebraska NE Nebr.. ArsTechnica summary here, Propecia italia, and fuller Korea Times article here.

This law goes way beyond what even the most ambitious recording and movie industry lawyers could have hoped for, as any web site could be shut down for posting a few photos -- or allowing others to post a few articles -- that are supposedly copyrighted, propecia india. A blogger quoted in the Korea Times says,

The law could have the government shutting down not only major Web portals, pharmacy propecia, but online message boards of smaller companies and even `meta sites' that compile blog posts. Køb billige propecia, And the member blogs of the meta sites could be interpreted as online message boards, too.¬†The law draws a dreadful picture of the future, as Internet users will be required to submit their real names to post on individual blogs and not even imagine using the online message boards of Web portals or meta sites due to the worries of having his or her Internet cut off.


The powers granted to the government are so sweeping that there is suspicion that restraining copyright infringement is not the real or only agenda, generic propecia. As the Korea Times reports, South Dakota SD,

Critics question whether the new copyright law could eventually be used to suppress certain sites, such as Agora, a discussion board operated by Daum (www.daum.net), cheap propecia online without prescription, which was a seedbed for anti-government criticism during the controversy over the beef issue.


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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

Federal sentencing guidelines are being modified Xenical from india, to provide that using an Internet "proxy" to commit a crime should be taken as evidence that you are a particularly evil and devious sort of criminal and should get a stiffer sentence.

Proxies are simply machines that sit between your computer and the Internet for the purpose of making you appear to be elsewhere. People in oppressive regimes use proxies such as Tor to surf the Web while hiding their IP addresses, billig xenical apotek. Corporations use proxies so their employees can work from home but have the access privileges that ordinarily come from being on-site. What does xenical look like, Proxies are used everywhere to enhance the privacy of Internet communications.

And that's a problem, apparently, according to the folks revising the sentencing guidelines, because of course criminals can use proxies to hide their footprints, xenical from india. How do you handle a technology that can be used for both good and ill. Short of banning it, Maryland MD Md., you can say that IF you use it to commit a crime, φτηνές φαρμακείο xenical, the crime is worse than if you didn't use it. Says¬†John Morris, general counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology, xenical without prescription, "This is the government saying, Buy xenical no prescription, 'If you take normal steps to protect your privacy, we're going to view you as a more sophisticated criminal.'"

What's the point. Criminals are unlikely to cooperate by making their criminal acts more traceable so as to reduce their sentences if they get caught, Kjøp Discount xenical. Xenical from india, Instead, proxies will get a bad reputation, as things that are risky or anti-social to use. In fact we should be encouraging proxies, Buy xenical online cheap, and encryption, and other privacy-protecting technologies.

But it is a tricky argument to make, is xenical legal in thailand, because this clause in the sentencing guidelines is irrelevant to anyone who hasn't committed a crime -- except that it is part of a general push to force all Internet activities more out in the open where the government can watch it. Cheap xenical online legally, And us.

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