I had intended to follow up my last post with a long, informative piece about where the various cloud hosting providers were registered and where they kept their data. I had hoped to work out how to escape from the situation in which all of my personal and business data is being provided to foreign… Continue reading So, the cloud
Tag: legal
“It didn’t violate the First Amendment because Americans weren’t among the people targeted”
We've recently been told quite a lot about the activities of the US National Security Agency in monitoring internet communications. Much of it could be described as "stuff you might have feared, but that's a bit depressing to have confirmed". For people outside the US, one perhaps surprising thing is that the US government seems… Continue reading “It didn’t violate the First Amendment because Americans weren’t among the people targeted”
“Various nifty functions”
Further to the code-literate judge in Oracle v Google, via Groklaw we now have his ruling that the Java APIs are not copyrightable. It's an exceptionally clear piece of work and a good introduction to the subject. I certainly couldn't have written a better technical summary, although I'm sure there are bits that a non-programmer… Continue reading “Various nifty functions”
Speaking of learning to code
Dialogue in Oracle vs Google, between Judge Alsup and Oracle's lead counsel David Boies: Judge: We heard the testimony of Mr. Bloch. I couldn't have told you the first thing about Java before this problem. I have done, and still do, a significant amount of programming in other languages. I've written blocks of code like… Continue reading Speaking of learning to code
A dot com is an American domain
"Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign Registrar on behalf of US Authorities" (via Daring Fireball) — a gambling site based outside the US, using a .com domain registered by a non-US registrar, has had its domain seized by US authorities after prosecutors in Maryland asked Verisign, who control the top-level .com nameservers, to hand… Continue reading A dot com is an American domain
Open source licences explained
A new article about open source software licences, aimed at audio and music researchers developing their own software: http://soundsoftware.ac.uk/open-source-software-licences-explained If you notice any mistakes, please add a comment here or drop me a line.
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