The license plates can be ordered at www.dmvnow.com ...

Don't forget, the more people buy these license plates, the less likely it will be that terrorism will occur.

Show Your Solidarity With a 'Fight Terrorism' License Plate [JPG]

"Our main objective is to create value for copyright owners and distributors by stopping piracy on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, in turn helping them generate maximum value for music and visual content now being freely distributed."

All those bogus tracks come from these guys...

OverPeer, the anti P2P Company

Sims writes: "Since John Gilmore chooses to use my name in his imaginary history of how we got to where we are, I thought it would be appropriate to lay out the real facts. ... Perhaps Gilmore once had something to offer of value, but that does not include either political science or history. ... [Gilmore's] greedy lawyer canard ... simply reveals [his] lack of understanding of the law business.

Drama Drama Drama

IP: Response to John Gilmore from Joe Sims

"Our goal is to be able to analyze patterns and ask whether there is something unusual compared to the usual. ... There's a torrent of information being collected routinely in real time. Our goals include building a thin layer of data collection infrastructure ...

A report on the latest research at the leading edge of the counter-biowarfare effort.

Tracking an Outbreak Minute by Minute

Some innovative projects at Microsoft are described here amid an annoying, starry eyed discussion of Big Bill.

Big Bad Bill

The discussion on Kuro5hin about ICC. Lots of different perspectives offered. Of course, 50% of Kuro5hin's readers feel that US citizens should be unconditionally subject to the ICC even if they have already been convicted under U.S. law, and given that the U.S. has no representation at the ICC. So I'm not saying the overall skew here is either balanced or even particularily intelligent, but there are some gems.

kuro5hin.org || USA: we're above the law, but you're not.

The purpose of this website is to provide information related to the ongoing work of the U.S. House of Representatives in relation to the eXtensible Markup Language (XML). Under the direction of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the House Committee on Administration, the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House have worked together with the Library of Congress and the Government Printing Office to create Document Type Definition files (DTDs) for use in the creation of legislative documents using XML. As this is an ongoing project, it is important to note that the DTDs presented here have not been finalized, and may change over time. Any documents or programs created with these DTDs should be treated as beta material and not used in a production capacity.

United States Congress XML and Legislative Documents

Yahoo has launched an online music service that based on a collaborative filtering system. Obviously this is an interactive service. I wonder how the licensing works.

LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience - Music videos, internet radio, artist photos, music information, and more.

"After numerous consultations with our legal team and all kinds of internal debate, we have decided that we've gotten the DeCSS case as far as we can."

2600 Drops DeCSS case

"Major music companies are preparing to mount a broad new attack on unauthorized online song-swapping. The campaign would include suits against individuals who are offering the largest troves of songs on peer-to-peer services."

Here comes the storm.

Music labels go after song-swappers