July 25, 2007

Flexibility is a good quality

The expression is, "If you don't bend you break." That has certainly been the case with fiber optics in the transmission sense. Bending the cable means poor or no performance. But Corning has developed a nanotech guardrail on a breakthrough fiber optic product. This keeps the light and data from escaping.

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Cuantos?

Maybe you'll rest easier knowing that 29,000 sex offenders have been booted from MySpace. Or maybe you'll wonder how many more they've missed. Where does false information fall into the picture. Do these sex offenders face repercussions? Will legislation one day reflect this technological frontier?

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Irony

Only in Sweden would you find a record label resorting to the Pirate Bay to distribute is music. The indy label Labrador Records had released a 68 track sampler for free and its servers couldn't withstand the traffic. That's where Pirate Bay steps in. I bet some poor RIAA executive just fell over dead--tomorrow he'l be turning over in his grave.

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Flyers not good enough

Skype is being sued for selling a Linux-based VOIP phone without making the source code available. Oops. I guess they forgot about the GPL2. They later started putting fliers in the packaging to inform users were to get the source code. That was apparently not good enough for the German courts though.

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Defacing Facebook

Among the 700 feeds in my reader when I returned from Scout Camp was this interesting tidbit. Facebook is being sued for allegedly stealing ideas and code from ConnectU. This will be interesting to follow. At state is a billion dollar web site, which ConnectU is hoping o control. Maybe Zuckerberg should have sold to Yahoo last year while he still could.

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