Showing posts with label california. Show all posts
Showing posts with label california. Show all posts
25 July 2014

Weird California Incident Last Year Points To The Real Threat To The Power Grid (Hint: It's Not Cyberattacks)

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Via Bruce Schneier's blog , we learn of the following intriguing story published in Foreign Policy :  On Techdirt .
24 November 2013

Universities Struggle To License Their Patents, In Desperation Team Up With Patent Trolls

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A few months back, we wrote about the University of California's plan to lock up even more knowledge in the form of patents, in the...
27 October 2013

University Of California Gives Big Boost To Open Access, Still Confused About Sharing Knowledge

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Techdirt has been monitoring for a while the inexorable rise of open access in the academic world. But even against a background of major...
19 September 2013

University Of California's Latest Plan: Privatize Knowledge, Take Out Lots Of Patents -- Profit!

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At the end of last year, we wrote about an extraordinary attempt by the University of California (UC) to resuscitate the infamous "...
31 March 2013

California Attorney General Claims Foreign Companies Using 'Pirated' Software Represent Unfair Competition

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Two years ago, Techdirt wrote about the major report "Media Piracy in Emerging Economies", which explored how media and softwar...
10 February 2013

The Main Problem With Patented GM Food Is The Patent, Not The Fact That It's GM

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The acrimonious debate and serious lobbying that developed around California's Proposition 37 , which would have required the labelli...
17 June 2008

Open Voting Consortium

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Elections seem like a no-brainer for openness: after all, fairness requires transparency, and you don't get more transparent than being ...
08 November 2007

Using a Commons to Protect a Commons

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Here's some joined-up thinking : providing open access to key greenhouse figures: The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (A.B. 32) req...
19 October 2007

Microsoft's Monopoly: "Indisputably Resilient"

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Well, well : In what appears to be a surprise move, four state attorneys general who previously praised the effectiveness of Microsoft's...
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29 March 2007

Virtually There, Virtually Hair

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If, like me, you somehow didn't make it to the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference, fear not: two reporters with, er, inimitable styles did ...
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04 April 2006

Coughing Genomic Ink

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One of the favourite games of scholars working on ancient texts that have come down to us from multiple sources is to create a family tree o...
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18 March 2006

Economistical with the Truth

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The Economist is a strange beast. It has a unique writing style, born of the motto "simplify, then exaggerate"; and it has an un...
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