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Code of Federal Regulations: Linking to Documents: “Documents that exist within the CFR on GPO Access cannot be bookmarked. In order to link to these documents, a unique URL string must be created. This string consists of six elements: the URL of the cgi script which retrieves the document the CFR Title the CFR part …
From an EFF press release this afternoon: “A California appeals court today overturned a 1999 injunction against Andrew Bunner that prohibited him from distributing the DeCSS DVD decryption computer code, because the court found there was no evidence that DVD Content Scrambling System (CSS) technology was still a trade secret by the time that Bunner …
Help: Linking to Documents on GPO Access: “Documents that exist within databases on GPO Access cannot be bookmarked. In order to link to these types of documents, a unique URL string must be created. This string consists of three elements: the URL of the cgi script which retrieves the document the Database Name which contains …
New members of the Forbes list of “World’s Richest People”: Sergey Brin and Larry Page, each worth $1 billion. The link to the complete list is here. See also this New York Times editorial, Behind the Rise of Google Lies the Rise in Internet Credibility.
FTC Searches for a More Explicit E-Mail Warning.
From the LA Times, via BizReport, Enthusiasts Call Web Feed Next Big Thing: “The U.S. Product Safety Commission just began providing recall notices via RSS. General Motors offers feeds on topics including safety and automotive tech. And a growing number of companies use feeds to disseminate info internally.” Other beSpacific postings on RSS.
From the press release issued yesterday by Senator Conrad Burns: “U.S. Senators Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), today introduced legislation (S. 2145) to prohibit spyware, adware, and other invasive software from being secretly installed on Americans’ computers. For the first time, the SPYBLOCK (Software Principles Yielding Better Levels of Consumer …
From Secret No More: “What follows is a subject guide to thousands of FBI files (and their file numbers) that are now publicly accessible. In many cases, these files have never been seen outside the FBI.” This list is being compiled, letter by letter, by Michael J. Ravnitzky, a serious student of the Freedom of …
