The Noel Humphreys IP BuzzDedicated to commentary on copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and patents and legal issues centered on software, knowledge management, outsourcing, virtual organizations, ASP's and contracts. This is NOT legal advice.Go, Judge Chin....- August 24, 2003 Judge rejects Fox bid vs. Franken book - - - - - - - - - - - - By ERIN McCLAM Aug. 22, 2003 NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday denied Fox News Channel's request for an injunction to block humorist Al Franken's new book, whose title mocks the Fox slogan "fair and balanced." U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said the book -- "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" -- is a parody protected by the First Amendment. "There are hard cases and there..http://radio.weblogs.com/0114730/2003/08/24.html#a341 More worms and viruses...- August 24, 2003 http:www.washingtonpost.comwp-dynarticlesA17672-2003Aug19.htmlreferrer=email http:www.washingtonpost.comwp-dynarticlesA23036-2003Aug20.htmlreferrer=email http:www.washingtonpost.comwp-dynarticlesA25178-2003Aug21.htmlreferrer=emailhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0114730/2003/08/24.html#a340 The Blackout- August 24, 2003 Last week's blackout in the northeast U.S. is obviously a major story for IEEE Spectrum. We've collected some of our power-grid-related and other energy articles from the past few years and made them publicly available. The general URL for the collection is We'll also be posting new articles on the blackout as they're ready. Here are the links to the individual articles that are there now. They're in chronological order, but if you have time for only one, I recommend skipping down to...http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/special/aug03/blackout.html So they sent the whistleblower to jail.....- August 24, 2003 The government doesn't like people to make trouble. If you find out about a problem with your employer's security, tell your employer. If your employer isn't interested in hearing about shut up. That's the rule. http:www.securityfocus.comcolumnists179 But here's another opinion: http:yro.slashdot.orgcomments.plsid=75168&cid=6730388http://radio.weblogs.com/0114730/2003/08/24.html#a338 SCADA...- August 24, 2003 Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition. How much more information can your organization handle Do you really want to know what you collecthttp://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200308/msg00095.html Patents create unexpected traps....- August 23, 2003 This was an unexpected patent trap for Microsoft. Patents and silent, hidden patent applications are a huge potential trap for the unwary. http:www.washingtonpost.comwp-dynarticlesA46480-2003Aug11.htmlreferrer=emailhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46480-2003Aug11.html?referrer=email |