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The new EFF Pioneer Award winners have been announced, and they are Dan Gillmor, Beth Givens, and the authors of DeCSS.
I saw Aubrey this week; she was visiting from Southern California on her spring break. We met at City Lights, and I bought a couple of books there. My Jane Jacobs book turned up at home, but, most interestingly, I picked up Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper by Nicholson Baker, which I've been reading over the past few days.
I seem to have several friends in Southern California now, which is nice, because I'm probably going to be going there pretty regularly to fight against a few of the troubles with the movies. (For instance, I'll be there on Tuesday and Wednesday, missing a bit of CFP.)
On Thursday of this week, I went to Rachel and Jeremy's place for another installment in their philosophy lecture series. This included a lecture on whether virtue can be taught (a question presented by Plato's Republic). In the ensuing discussion, I tried to distinguish several contrasting aspects of the question:
These questions reach out further into how we think about the world, and how we think about a human being.
I saw Ben on Saturday, and we walked up Bernal Hill and around the Mission.
Klaus Knopper released a new version of cloop (0.64).
Google decided to publish DMCA takedown notices it receives! They're being published at Chilling Effects, and Google's added a new feature so that, if your search results were affected by a takedown, you'll be notified and given the option to view the particular takedown letter which resulted in the alteration of your results! For example, a search for site:xenu.net scientology will show, at the bottom of affected pages, a legend showing what Google has done, and letting you find out more about who was responsible. See Don Marti's article "Google Begins Making DMCA Takedowns Public" and Google's DMCA policy. "It is our policy to send copies of all notices of alleged infringement to third parties who will make them available to the public." Wow!
Google's API was also announced and published; you can use SOAP to create your own Google applications (Googlewhacking, SROMs, reverse links, statistical analysis, much else).
Here's a suggestion that publishing virus code is wrong; I've already disagreed with that piece, long before it was written, and I can't even imagine that anybody who knows me would think that I agree. Maybe it's sufficient merely to link to it and let people draw their own conclusions about the article and what I think about it.
Large File Support is cool!
My acupuncture treatment seems to be working pretty well.
Carlos Laviola points out that there is an Internet host called 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097.org. That's slightly more digits of pi than I know.
I tried again. What about the centralized storage of health information, as Oracle was proposing to do with the Leaders system. Would Ellison want government officials to have access to personally identifiable genetic information?
"I feel like Alice has fallen through the looking glass," Ellison said. His voice rose; he was starting to get a little testy. "Does this other database bother you here? We can't touch that database because I won't be able to use my credit card. Like, I won't be able to go to the mall!" He took on the voice of Sean Penn's stoner from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." "Like, that's really disturbing. Like, don't mess with my mall experience. O.K., so people have to die over here without this, but that's not going to affect my experience going to the mall." He exhaled, and in his regular billionaire voice asked, "I mean, what the hell is going on?"
(Jeffrey Rosen, "Silicon Valley's Spy Game")
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