Archive for March, 2007
Faster Patent Application Reviews
The US Patent and Trademark Office recently stated in a press release that their accelerated patent application review process is working. Obviously, this has to be good news for helping to manage the massive number of patent applications that are received each year by the USPTO. Putting some of the responsibility of the […]
Posted: March 29th, 2007 under Politics and Law.
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UNC fails to make the Final Four
I’m not sure if UNC collapsed or if Georgetown rallied really well, but regardless of the method, the outcome is the same: the Tar Heels failed to make their 17th Final Four. I really didn’t think they would lose a fast paced game that favors their style, but they couldn’t close out regulation and […]
Posted: March 26th, 2007 under Life, Sports.
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The Perception of Risk
Over spring break I went to San Francisco to be a tourist. I know that as a computer engineer or software engineer I would likely be visiting San Francisco several times over the course of my career, but there are so many touristy things to see and do there that I am sure it […]
Posted: March 23rd, 2007 under Computer Security, Life, Politics and Law, Technology.
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NFL and the DMCA
I don’t believe that I’ve commented on the DMCA here before. Mostly, my positions are already well covered in other places. However, Dave brought to my attention a case that is particularly interesting.
Basically, a law professor posted a clip from an NFL broadcast on YouTube. The NFL took steps to […]
Posted: March 23rd, 2007 under Politics and Law, Technology.
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Picture Gallery
As you may have noticed, I have added a picture gallery to this site. It is very easy to use and I hope that it will help me to add relevant pictures to my posts where they are helpful.
For those interested in the technical details, I added Gallery2 and the WPG2 plugin to Wordpress. […]
Posted: March 18th, 2007 under Website News.
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Tasting the AmeriCone Dream
The AmeriCone Dream has come to Raleigh! I mentioned the new Ben and Jerry’s flavor in a previous post, and now that I have actually tasted it I thought it would be appropriate to provide some feedback to those of you who are unlucky enough to not be able to find it.
First, for those […]
Posted: March 18th, 2007 under Life, Politics and Law.
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Privacy as the new Generation Gap
I recently read a very good article on nymag.com about the privacy as the new generation gap. Although the article focuses on the generation gap aspect of the privacy debate, probably the most interesting thing about this article to me is that it makes a very strong case for the viewpoint that no one […]
Posted: March 17th, 2007 under Life, Politics and Law.
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