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Nu net op RADIO 1. Interview met Guy Kindermans van Datanews. Geeft uitleg over de lock-in van IPOD. Frankrijk overweegt een wet te stemmen hiertegen zoals we al een tijdje weten. “Alle digitale rechten systemeen moeten met elkaar kunnen spreken.” Een open standaard voor DRM dus. Nu lijkt er sprake dat bij ons Spirit een [...]

I went to Infosecurity today. Take my word for it, I had my dosis of Enterprisiness. I’ll get back to that later. But this and then this really are a nice couple of WHAT THE FUCK?? OMFG Ok, you want an appetizer? public class SqlWords { public const string SELECT = ” SELECT “; public [...]

This evening on Kennedy Road I drove behind a Van with several camera’s behind and on his side. As I drove further, I noticed a “Tele Atlas Road Survey” sign on the side. Apparently, it’s one of those cars they talk about here. Must be pretty cool gear. I wonder what Belgian privacy laws say [...]

Bill Thompson: my opposition to DRM is not an opposition to copyright, or a claim that copyright is dead. But current attempts to use technology to enforce restrictions on use, restrictions that often go beyond those copyright law would demand, are unacceptable. The music, movie and publishing industries do not deserve to survive if their [...]

They call it Stories for Robots, but it might as well have been called Stories for Geeks. WTF? no RSS feed?