Weekly News

Terri Schiavo's Bulimia: Not on "The Agenda" - Zeynap / Under the Same Sun, 20. marts 2005
I find it hard to believe her husband is not culpable in her bulimia, either through action or inaction.
En overset (men interessant) krølle på sagen om Terri Schiavo

The Schiavo Case and the Islamization of the Republican Party
- Juan Cole / Informed Comment, 22. marts 2005
Perfect strangers can file a case about your marriage, because they represent themselves as defending a public interest (the upholding of religion and morality).
Hvor zeynap ser på de mere personlige aspekter af sagen, sammenligner Cole forskellige fundamentalistiske aspekter i behandlingen af denne og andre sager.

Quadriplegic controls PC by mind power alone - Lester Haines / The Register, 22. marts 2005
He subsequently said of the robotic arm experience: "I was using my thoughts. When I wanted it to go left, it would go left, and, when I wanted it to go right, it would go right,"
Fremskridt på brain-interface fronten. Nogen odds på om det bliver handicappede eller militæret der får størst og nemmest adgang til disse teknologier engang i fremtiden?

Japanese enable Human Area Network - Lester Haines / The Register, 23. marts 2005
What's more, you can swap files by straight human contact, so two filesharers equipped with RadTacton devices can indulge in torrid illegal P2P activity and have sex at the same time.
En videnskabelig udvikling, der kan danne baggrund for en hel serie af dystopier.

One-Time BTK Suspect Wants DNA Destroyed - Roxanna Hegeman / Wired News, 21. marts 2005
Monnat warned: "DNA information is maybe the most intimate information about a person. There is no reason for that information to be unnecessarily in the government's files. Who knows what future use the 21st century will find for DNA?"

Firms paying too much for software, says anti-piracy group - - John Oates / The Register, 22. marts 2005
Almost eight out of ten UK businesses could be paying too much for their software licenses.
Bemærkelsesværdig undersøgelse fra en del af anti-pirat mafiaen, der viser en del af effekten af samme mafias uhæmmede hærgen.

Business school 'hack' raises ethical questions - Mark Rasch / The Register, 22. marts 2005
Indeed, the larger question is, have we yet established a sufficiently coherent set of rules of right and wrong in cyberspace to pass moral (as apposed to legal) judgment on others?
Rasch rejser interessante spørgsmål om opfattelsen af cyber-kriminalitet og forskellen på opfattelsen af gerninger i cyberspace og i den fysiske, analoge verden.

THG Interviews Pamela Jones, Groklaw Founder - Humphrey Cheung / Tom's Hardware Guide, 22. marts 2005
I figured I knew enough about the law to know what was and wasn't helpful. And I knew enough about the tech to explain it so a lawyer could understand it. So I was consciously trying to be a bridge.
Kort interview med Pamela Jones fra det meget anbefalelsesværdige Groklaw site.

Metalicensing - Grigor Gatchev / NewsForge, 18. marts 2005
On one hand, developers differ in what they want to let others do with their code, and consequently need different licenses. On the other, many licenses do not allow anyone to use the code to which they apply inside products governed by other licenses (cross-license sharing). But this problem may be solved by a special kind of license -- a metalicense.
Et forslag til en farbar vej gennem junglen af forskellige open-source licenser.

Dark matter doesn't matter, say scientists - Lucy Sherriff / The Register, 22. marts 2005
But now, Edward Kolb of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory says that Einstein "was right when he said he was wrong", according to a Reuters report.
Mulige ridser i lakken til teorien om 'dark matter'.