Lex Ferenda

I picked up copies of Kembrew McLeod’s updated Freedom of Expression: Resistance and Represssion in the Age of Intellectual Property and Christopher Finan’s brand new history of free speech in the US (this one at a third of the cover price!) today. Coming out of the store, a streetside bookseller had a copy of [...]

In other news, Harvard Square’s reputation for bookstores is well deserved. Today I bought:

Consumed - Benjamin Barber (”How markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole”)

The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties- Coombe (ethnograpic approach to authorship and copyright - author Rosemary Coombe is at York University in Toronto)

The Success of Open Source - [...]

My luggage finally arrived, almost two days later than originally scheduled. As I alluded to earlier this week, I arrived on Sunday night (later than expected) without my bag. It had gone through customs in Toronto (they make you retrieve it, bring it through and drop back on a different belt) but the [...]

Irish readers will have seen recent news coverage relating to the unfortunate Globespan passengers stranded in New York (not to mention those waiting in Knock for the sad air carriage to come and get them for their trip). I did look into Globespan flights to Hamilton (southern Ontario - relating to Toronto as Beauvais [...]

These folks.

Heuston Station according to RTÉ news this morning (subsequently corrected).

Some numbers, to add to today’s stories.
Ireland: 166 members of the lower house of parliament: 15 Cabinet members, 20 ‘juniors’, for 4m people
Canada: 608 members, cabinet of 32, plus 22 juniors, for 33m
UK: 646: 23, 90, 60m (inevitably, there are lots of layers within the 90 sub-Cabinet people).
Aus: 150: 18, 28, 20m
India: 552: [...]

Ciarán Cuffe did not write about Fianna Fáil (”deal with the devil”) “on his Bebo“. He doesn’t have ‘a Bebo’, that I know of. He does have a (good) blog, though. Look, here’s the post in question.
I know it’s a silly point, and that Bebo includes significant blogging elements, but [...]

Idiots.

Quantum entanglement is the main resource to endow the field of quantum information processing with powers that exceed those of classical communication and computation. In view of applications such as quantum cryptography or quantum teleportation, extension of quantum-entanglement-based protocols to global distances is of considerable practical interest. Here we experimentally demonstrate entanglement-based quantum key distribution [...]