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• Commented on BBC wants to encrypt "free" TV -- talking points debunked
  The BBC have posted a response to this here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/10/freeview_hd_copy_protection_a.html...
• Commented on China: State censors block all Google services
  A friend who's on holiday in China encountered this yesterday so I mirrored a copy of Vidalia (Tor + Pivoxy) for her to download. Can anyone confirm that Tor works in China or are the nodes all monitored and blocked?...
• Commented on Campaign for Guantánamo Detainee, Torture Survivor, Reaches Directly to Obama
  One of Binyam's lawyers is the truly remarkable, wonderful gentleman who is Clive Stafford Smith: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Stafford_Smith Somewhat strangely, he's not named directly in the article, even though he signs the letter they so heavily reference. (He founded and is the...
• Commented on Mark Dery on the copyfight
  Here's the link: http://www.printmag.com/design_articles/orphan_works/tabid/419/Default.aspx...
• Commented on Blog of cool old LP covers
  @Mark (or Teresa) – hope you don't mind me pointing it out, but there's a typo in the headline: it should be 'old', not 'olf'....
• Commented on Lessons Learned.
  From a technical perspective, given a choice I'd probably go for a more conservative approach: instead of deleting the posts altogether, remove any endorsement/link-benefit/search-engine-indexing from them, close the comments (if they aren't already), perhaps add an explanatory note to the...
• Commented on EFF on why artists should support the Orphan Works proposal
  Source for official details of the bill: http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/ Here's the House version: http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.5889: Here's the Senate version: http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.2913: It's not long, so whatever your opinion is, go an read it. As Cory says, there's so much FUD about this that...
• Commented on London's Spitalfields market: shoot the architecture, we take away your camera
  The following guide of UK photographers' rights is well worth a read to brush up on your knowledge: http://www.sirimo.co.uk/ukpr.php There's also an American version here: http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm Won't help you much if a guard tries to assault you and steal your...
• Commented on Geeking out over velcro-like fasteners in infant wares
  Reminds me of this: http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2007-05/invention-awards-new-velcro Wonder if it's the same product, only as a finished product?...
• Commented on Belt buckle with integrated toolkit
  How sturdy is it, Cory, and do the screwdrivers stay down in place? It looks really handy, though I skate a lot and would tend to avoid something like that as it seems like it could cause a wicked injury...
• Commented on Fine news
  Aww! Congratulations!...
• Commented on Romantics object to cover song sounding like original
  A song typically has two distinct rights: the actual sound recording (the "mechanical" rights) and the composition of the song (the "publishing" rights). These are then sub-divided and distributed appropriately; if you'd like to know how this works in the...
• Commented on British Telecom -- like sticking your head in a blender, but less fun
  Not that this'll help in Cory's case, but one the best tips I've heard for getting an engineer to your house early in the day is with the "bacon butty bribe": When you're speaking to phone support requesting a callout,...
• Commented on Man attacked by owl
  Bird photographer Eric Hosking, most famous for his shot "Barn Owl with Prey" (an truly amazing achievement for the time), lost his left eye when an owl attacked him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hosking http://www.poelking.com/wbuch/fruehzeit/erstfoto-4.jpg...
• Commented on Welcome to the new Boing Boing!
  Wow! Lovely. Everyone involved has done a fantastic job, it really shows. One tiny suggestion: make the Google search page pretty like Khoi just did for Subtraction: http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2007/0828_now_fully_co.php (Oh, and previewing a post doesn't seem to work at the moment?...