] A few dozen life scientists are racing to fine-tune these
] microbes physiologically, chemically, and genetically to
] produce hydrogen in a cost-effective manner with
] next-to-zero pollutants. The reward is enormous. Not only
] could it prevent further global warming, slash energy
] pollution, and strengthen the economy, but the winner of
] this race would own the intellectual property rights to
] the technology that could be at the foundation of a
] multitrillion dollar industry. In other words, the gold
] rush is on.

The Scientist :: Biologically Derived Hydrogen--Future Fuel?, Apr. 21, 2003

The statement put up by blackboard about Interz0ne

BlackBoard Inc.

The DMCA impedes the progress of science, is economically unjustifiable, and lacks the balance the Constitution requires of intellectual property legislation.

Pamela Samuelson of UC Berkeley writes about DRM in the April 2003 issue of Communications of the ACM. She has made the article freely available from her web site; no subscription is required. Note: the linked document has no DRM :)

DRM {and, or, vs.} the Law

] "All I wanted to do is tell everyone, 'Hey, this
] is a problem, and it needs to be protected,'"
] Hoffman said. "Everyone was blissfully unaware of
] how it works. I looked at it and found the emperor
] has no clothes, and now everyone's mad at me."

Billy quotes well..

] "We took the legal course because what he's
] presenting and promoting was encouraging illegal
] behavior," said Blackboard spokesman Michael Stanton.
] "He was able to tap into the wires, like anyone could
] do if they took a sledgehammer to an ATM machine."

No, and is that all you got? Stop using ATM line for every article. Its pratically a troll..

] Charles Lester, an attorney for Blackboard, said he
] is concerned Hoffman's hacking could damage the
] company's business that has taken years to build.

You know, if you suck, it is your fault. Sucking costs you market share. It reflects on your reputation.. Imagine that! Now, if you don't want researchers to find critical flaws in your technology, don't make lame technology. Or at the very least, make your technology better, don't sue the messenger..

Hell.. Just show you are doing something about it.. There are companies out there that just do a decent job of showing they are doing something, while not actually doing anything at all! You don't even have that much creativity. Went to court on the first researcher who revealed your stuff crap.. Low threshold for criticism. You want people to trust your products with money?

You don't sue, you fix! Got it! Sue no, fix yes. Make new product that dosen't suck, sell it, encourage customers to secure wires better,, buy newer units to replace older ones in risky situations, etc.. Like, actually do good for your customers.

Jacksonville.com: Ga. Tech student barred from discussing flaws in debit card technology 4/17/03

] Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey
] guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light
] Texas crude each year
]
] Gory refuse, from a Butterball Turkey plant in Carthage,
] Missouri, will no longer go to waste. Each day 200 tons
] of turkey offal will be carted to the first
] industrial-scale thermal depolymerization plant, recently
] completed in an adjacent lot, and be transformed into
] various useful products, including 600 barrels of light
] oil.
]
] In an industrial park in Philadelphia sits a new machine
] that can change almost anything into oil.
]
] Really.
]
] "This is a solution to three of the biggest problems
] facing mankind," says Brian Appel, chairman and CEO of
] Changing World Technologies, the company that built this
] pilot plant and has just completed its first
] industrial-size installation in Missouri. "This process
] can deal with the world's waste. It can supplement our
] dwindling supplies of oil. And it can slow down global
] warming."

Anything into Oil

Now here is the challenge to you, how about writing an article which
addresses the facts.

Snagged from the SE2600 mailing list.

Harvard Crimson | Swipe Card Hack Prompts Complaint

] A cluster of SARS patients in Hong Kong with unusual
] symptoms has prompted concern that the virus causing the
] disease is mutating. Doctors fear the changes are making
] the disease more severe.

Um.....not good.

New Scientist | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Remember science? Thought it was cool right? Well read what all the *current* research in hard science is doing *right* now...

Arxiv.org used to be xxx.lanl.gov, the official science pre-print server. Every physicist submits his article here *before* it's published. Makes for realtime science.

I will be posting recomendations, with my full analysis, on individual articles from arxiv soon. But for right now come bath in the healing light.

Read more about arxiv here: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000CAEA3-72CB-1E90-8EA5809EC5880000&catID=2

[werd - Nano]

arXiv.org e-Print archive

Well you can put that big heavy copy of the CRC (http://www.crcpress.com/corphistory.asp) down. !Webbook is here, it's great! Research all your favorite chemicals, play w/ neat and interesting graph data for almost any chemical you can think of.

[Sweet. This makes me happy. The CRC books are freakin HUGE, so it will be nice to have on the internet.

Chemical Formula Search

] Bioethicists and scientists contemplating the future fear
] that genetic engineering and other technologies are going
] to divide human beings into classes that may one day try
] to destroy one another.

Wired News: Will Genetic Engineering Kill Us?