"Clear" Laptop Found, In the Same Locked Office jafo alerts us to an SFGate story reporting that the lost "Clear" Program laptop has turned up in the same office from which it was reported missing, but not in its previous location. "A preliminary i

Category :Technology | 8 views | read more | 2008-08-06 07:06:00

Tufts Tells Judge, We Can't Tie IP To MAC Addresses NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Protesting that Tufts University's DHCP-based systems 'were not designed to facilitate forensic examinations,' but rather to ensure 'smooth operations and to manage capaci

Category :Technology | 8 views | read more | 2008-08-06 04:21:00

IBM Granted "Paper-or-Plastic?" Patent theodp writes "On Tuesday, IBM was granted US Patent No. 7,407,089 for storing a preference for paper or plastic grocery bags on customer cards and displaying a picture of said preference after a card

Category :Technology | 12 views | read more | 2008-08-06 01:46:00

Patry Copyright Blog Closed I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "William Patry, noted copyright expert and Google's top copyright lawyer, has decided to close his personal blog. (For no reason that he has explained, the

Category :Technology | 9 views | read more | 2008-08-05 23:43:00

Theorists Make Quantum Communications Breakthrough KentuckyFC writes "One of the cornerstones of modern physics is Claude Shannon's theory of communication, which he published in 1948. If you've ever made a phone call, watched TV, or used a computer,

Category :Technology | 7 views | read more | 2008-08-05 21:43:00

MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech Naturalist recommends a piece up at Ars about a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the EFF, CDT, Public Citizen, and a group of 14 law professors in the case of Lori Drew, who posed as a teenage boy t

Category :Technology | 10 views | read more | 2008-08-05 19:40:00

IBM Pushing Microsoft-Free Desktops walterbyrd and other readers are sending along the news that IBM is partnering worldwide with Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell, and Red Hat to offer Windows-free desktop PCs pre-loaded with Lotus software and

Category :Technology | 10 views | read more | 2008-08-05 18:50:00

Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, Restrictive Laws A number of readers are sending in links to a video from the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference last month, in which Lawrence Lessig recounts a conversation over dinner with Richard Clarke, the former

Category :Technology | 8 views | read more | 2008-08-05 17:56:00

Friendster Going Strong In Asia, Maybe Soon In Court Dekortage writes "Remember Friendster? Long ago outrun and lapped by MySpace and Facebook, and a textbook case of social networking collapse, Friendster appears to be going strong in Asia, and has rec

Category :Technology | 11 views | read more | 2008-08-05 17:06:00

Hot Water, Hot Earth Calopteryx notes a New Scientist article on the discovery of "supercritical" water emerging from a vent in the Atlantic Ocean at 407 deg. C (765 deg. F). One of its discoverers actually said, "It's wa

Category :Technology | 8 views | read more | 2008-08-05 16:13:00