] The pharmaceutical industry cannot be trusted to develop
] new drugs for 90% of the world's sick, a Nobel prize
] winner has claimed.
]
] In an outspoken attack on drug companies, Sir John
] Sulston, who led the British element of the Human Genome
] Project, accused the industry of having a 'hidden agenda'
] of making money at the expense of curing disease.

] 'We are losing trust in science,' he said. 'Personally,
] I think an awful lot of it has to do with hidden agendas,
] and particularly this market-driven hidden agenda that
] more and more science is being funded in this way.'

Sunday Herald | Drugs firms 'cure the rich' claim

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

Two new topics are available:

Society/Media
Society/Media/Blogging

I finally remembered to add them.. :)

] From behind closed hangar doors their stealthy product
] was rolled out today.
]
] "The event is not about dreams, predictions or mockups,"
] Rutan explained in a pre-debut statement. "We will show
] actual flight hardware: an aircraft for high-altitude
] airborne launch, a flight-ready manned spaceship, a new,
] ground-tested rocket propulsion system and much more.
] This is not just the development of another research
] aircraft, but a complete manned space program with all
] its support elements," he said.
]
] Rutan makes it clear that the unveiling is not a
] marketing event.

Passenger-Carrying Spaceship Makes Desert Debut

[The Justice Department won't say what Hawash is a witness to or how long they intend to keep him.]

These aren't the only things the Bush administration won't say. It won't say why it's holding individual detainees at Guantánamo Bay; it won't disclose the factual basis for its prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui; and it won't say how many immigrants it has detained or deported in INS proceedings. It won't say how many of us are having our telephones tapped, our e-mail messages monitored or our library checkout records examined by federal agents. The administration's defenders say such secrecy is an unavoidable cost of the war on terror, but it's an orientation that predated Sept. 11 and that extends beyond the terror threat. The White House won't reveal who Vice President Dick Cheney consulted in concocting the administration's energy policy; it won't disclose what Miguel Estrada wrote while working for the solicitor general; it won't even release documents related to the pardons that former President Bill Clinton granted during his last days in office.

...

Steven Aftergood, a researcher who monitors government secrecy issues for the Federation of American Scientists, calls Hatch's proposal a "direct assault" on Congress' ability to monitor the Justice Department. "If it goes through, we might as well go home," he told Salon. "The administration will have whatever authority it wants, and there won't be any separation of powers at all."

...

With the Domestic Security Act of 2003 -- the draft legislation dubbed "PATRIOT Act II" -- the administration is apparently contemplating other ways in which it might avoid the inconvenience of operating in the public eye or answering to the federal courts.

The draft legislation, prepared by the Justice Department but not yet proposed to Congress, includes provisions that would allow federal agents to keep secret the names of individuals arrested in investigations related to "international terrorism"; expand the circumstances under which agents could conduct searches and wiretaps without warrants; and allow the attorney general to deport resident aliens in certain circumstances without any possibility of judicial review.

Another good update on the scary legislation that is both in effect and being proposed in the future. Keep getting the information out there so that more people will raise their voice - while they still can.

Dolemite

Salon | The secret society

] All funds WILL be used to provide counsel to those in
] need of it (where interz0ne may be involved).
]
] Mail funds to:
] Legal Defense Fund
] c/o Interz0ne
] PO Box 420754
] Atlanta, GA 30342
]
] Please make your checks payable to "Interz0ne Legal
] Defense Fund". Any and all amounts will be greatly
] appreciated, and properly used!

If you have some spare liquid capitol, support these folks. I know all the senior Interz0ne staff, they are trustworthy, and this will be used to protect the speech freedoms of those who are associated with the convention.. Currently, its going to be focused on the Blackboard case involving Billy Hoffman and Virgil Griffith.

I'm assuming a Paypal method of donating to the fund will be setup soon. I will inform you all when that time comes..

Interz0ne Legal Defense Fund Started

] Geeks will look at proposed network regulation and
] immediately ask "How will this affect interoperability?"
] or "Is this consistent with the end-to-end principle?"
] but non-geeks will look at the same proposal and think of
] different questions. They know what interoperability is,
] but it's just not at the front of their minds.

Slashdot | Princeton CS Prof Edward W. Felten (Almost) Live

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.

[Neoteric] will be posting recomendations, with [his] 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

arXiv.org e-Print archive

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