Black Hat Organizer Unbowed
... the bug finder. Is (bug research and disclosure) considered protected speech, sort of like the First Amendment? (Should there be) an exception under Digital Millennium Copyright Act for reverse-engineering for security purposes? It would be really nice to have some kind of uniformity. (So that) peo......more...Unorthodox Chess From an Odd Mind
...lso holds a strong appeal for chess programmers. Conventional chess-playing programs, which can calculate moves deep into the future, still rely on a digital version of an opening book -- basically a lookup table dictating the right move for two million or more positions. The random aspect of Chess9......more... New Tech Protects Ancient Torahs
...chon Ot runs a newer, competing registry that's capturing its share of the Torah registration market with an entirely passive system that generates a digital fingerprint of each scroll.
Machon Ot's system, the International Torah Registry, takes advantage of the handcrafted nature of the Torahs. Tho......more... Escargot? Oui. Google? Sacre Bleu
Escargot? Oui. Google? Sacre Bleu
What's behind recent Gallic outrage over the search giant's digital library? Start with France's failure to keep pace with American geek prowess, but don't forget Europe's fears about who'll be writing the planet's history. By Bruce Gain.
By Bruce Gain
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...g culture and copyright.
Why did you decide to write a book? What message do you want to convey?
I think so many issues right now around sampling and digital media in general are kind of at a crossroads.... I was fascinated with these issues, but at the same time I felt that there hadn't been a book......more... Judging a Book by Its Contents
...ons, to wring profit out of what may well be the largest collection of electronic books in the world.
Bill Carr, Amazon's executive vice president of digital media, confirms that this is a serious attempt to sell more books.
We've been spending a lot of time thinking, 'We have this rich digital cont......more... Net Publishing Made Profitable
...finally for publishing e-books.
Engst cited several factors. Most important, he said, is offering a tangible product like a PDF file, which -- though digital -- is more concrete than Web subscriptions. Many other electronic publishers, especially magazines, lean toward subscriptions.
Payment systems......more... A Whodunit for the Digital Age
A Whodunit for the Digital Age
Suppressing a desire to read other people's e-mail? Play private eye, or voyeur, with a new e-book format that bases its plot on a string of e-mail missives, website visits and instant messages. By Kari L. Dean.
By Kari L. Dean
2:00 a.m. Dec. 13, 2003 PDT
It begins wit...more... Web Wakes Up to Hispanic Audience
...tronic intelligence. The sensors can be disguised to resemble small rocks, might be able to fly short distances and can operate for a long time using digital communications in bursts to make them impossible to detect when spread out across enemy positions, Heyman said.
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