Finally, some good news. This issue affects all of us, and it relates to both intellectual property law and biomedical ethics. So, yay. Reversing a longstanding policy, the federal government said on Friday that human and other genes should not be eligible for patents because they are part of nature. via U.S. Says Genes ShouldContinue reading “U.S. Says Genes Should Not Be Eligible for Patenting – NYTimes.com”
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Facebook’s Been E-mailing Your IP Address to All Your Friends
Everything you’ve ever done on Facebook that sent a notification to someone — Facebook sent your computer’s IP address to them in the header of the notification e-mail. I just tested it on some old notification e-mails and sure enough, it’s real. It doesn’t always work — sometimes I got the “home” IP (127.0.0.1), butContinue reading “Facebook’s Been E-mailing Your IP Address to All Your Friends”
Liberian Laws Are A Secret Due To Copyright; Even The Gov’t Doesn’t Have Them | Techdirt
Liberian Laws Are A Secret Due To Copyright; Even The Gov’t Doesn’t Have Them | Techdirt.
TWC DNS Outage. Again.
Ever seeking to reinforce their appearance of ineptitude, Time Warner Cable has stopped resolving DNS requests again today. It must be that time of the month for them. One month ago to the day Forbes ran an article about how their DNS servers are still vulnerable to attack. I’ve bypassed this by using public DNSContinue reading “TWC DNS Outage. Again.”
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