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Winding Down: 2005-05-08
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An idiosyncratic look at, and comment on, the week's net and technology news by Alan Lenton. Monday, May 09, 2005. Analysis: The FCC - Hubris and Legal Limits, An All Too Common Tale. What this meant was that that hardware devices should be made incapable of copying material that had this flag set, thus protecting the business models of the big media monopolies. How did this happen? How did the FCC come to exceed it's authority in this way? And how was it able to get so close to making its ruling stick?
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Winding Down: 2005-03-20
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An idiosyncratic look at, and comment on, the week's net and technology news by Alan Lenton. Sunday, March 20, 2005. Girls and Computer Games. Analysis: Girls and computer games. Nonetheless, they are in my opinion wrong. Does this mean that multi-player games designers are somehow more 'female oriented'? So, that's my theory. Of course I'm biased, after all I'm a multi-player game designer, and I'm certainly not paid to go round advising companies on how to make their games more attractive to the fe...
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Winding Down: 2005-03-13
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An idiosyncratic look at, and comment on, the week's net and technology news by Alan Lenton. Tuesday, March 15, 2005. The chilling wind of patent laws. Story: The chilling wind of patent law. I think these suites are only the start of a trend which is going to cause a lot of disruption. However, all good things come to an end, and we had the dot com bust. In other words, they are only interested in hard cash. It's going to be interesting to see what the outcome of this is going to be, because these paten...
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Winding Down: 2005-05-01
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An idiosyncratic look at, and comment on, the week's net and technology news by Alan Lenton. Friday, May 06, 2005. Homework: Manpower Retention in IT. Manpower Retention in IT: An Oxymoron? By Sunil Tadwalkar and Manjira Sen, 9pp. Definitely worth a read and contains useful information and figures to demolish ignorant HR departments and pointy haired bosses! Http:/ www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i14 tadwalkar.html. May 1, 2005. Posted by Fi Craig @ 11:33 AM. Sunday, May 01, 2005. May 1, 2005.
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Winding Down: 2005-04-24
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An idiosyncratic look at, and comment on, the week's net and technology news by Alan Lenton. Sunday, April 24, 2005. Are certificates worth the paper they are written on? Analysis: Are certificates worth the paper they are written on? I often get asked about certification for programmers, and whether it makes any difference in the job market. The answer, predictably, is both yes and no! Let me start by asking a slightly different question. Does a programming certification prove you can program? There is ...
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Winding Down: 2005-03-27
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An idiosyncratic look at, and comment on, the week's net and technology news by Alan Lenton. Sunday, March 27, 2005. Microsoft v The EU. Story: Microsoft v The EU - One step forward, two steps backwards. There's trouble at mill on the European side of the Pond. The EU Commission and Microsoft are at loggerheads again. This time the argument is over whether Microsoft is complying with the anti-trust ruling made last year. In the mean time the image of Microsoft that comes over is that of a small boy stamp...
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Winding Down: 2005-04-17
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An idiosyncratic look at, and comment on, the week's net and technology news by Alan Lenton. Thursday, April 21, 2005. WIPO Overview of WIPO Panel. Homework: WIPO Overview of WIPO Panel Views on Selected UDRP Questions 11pp. This document has been produced by WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) and is organised in a similar fashion to an FAQ, offering possible answers to common questions such as 'Can a fan site constitute a right or legitimate interest in the disputed domain name? The ownersh...
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Winding Down: 2005-06-26
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An idiosyncratic look at, and comment on, the week's net and technology news by Alan Lenton. Sunday, June 26, 2005. Data Theft: Them Rules are Made for Breakin'. In my piece on Data Theft last week I mentioned the security breach at credit card transaction processing company CardSystems Solutions, which put something like 40 million card details at risk. Well, over the last week more information has emerged about this case, with the company admitting the data was kept improperly. The processing company t...
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Winding Down: 2005-06-19
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An idiosyncratic look at, and comment on, the week's net and technology news by Alan Lenton. Tuesday, June 21, 2005. Apple and Intel chips. Http:/ www.macworld.com/2005/06/features/intelfaq/. Http:/ ct.news.com.com/clicks? June 19, 2005. Posted by Fi Craig @ 10:04 AM. Sunday, June 19, 2005. Data Theft: Once more unto the breach. Finally, at the end of this week, it was reported that security at the credit card transaction processing company CardSystems Solutions had resulted in the exposure of 40 million...
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Winding Down: 2005-05-15
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An idiosyncratic look at, and comment on, the week's net and technology news by Alan Lenton. Sunday, May 15, 2005. Analysis: In Through The Outdoor. To my knowledge this is at least the second time around this loop of outsourcing and then bringing everything back into the company - aka insourcing. So what's going on? Of course, it turned out not to be quite so easy as it was expected to be. So, while it appeared to work just fine at first, the potent mix of badly drawn up contracts (frequently lasting fo...