Other news...

To "relax" a bit, I decided to write something short about ther news, while at the same time watching "Batman and Robin" on TV (the swedish 'Kanal 5' at 18:35-21:00 today, if anyone from MPA is reading - in other words, of course I wouldn't download!)

There have been at least two new BOFH episodes since I last wrote - I read them both today, and found them a bit lacking in "evilosity" considering my mood. It was still funny reding about how the 'accidentally' ***** the **** ****** :-)

In 'real news', I've seen that Captain Copyright is probably in the grey zone of copyright infringement. However, I wouldn't suggest that you look at their site if you are in any way negative minded about anything, since they may classify your negative thoughts as an insult and sue you. Of course, I'm just joking, but reading this article, it seems like the good captain hasn't exactly considered every aspect of 'his' being.

Net2Phone is suing Skype (and its owners eBay) for patent infringement. Meanwhile, a TechDirt writer asks the legitimate question "why didn't they build Skype themselves and capture all that revenue when they had such a huge headstart?". I wonder if this will make eBay join the fight for a new way of defining patents and copyright. After all, the inventors of Skype also invented the file sharing software named "Kazzaa" (I know it's old news).....

From slashdot, we see that:

• China passes Internet copyright legislation. In my personal opinion, it won't make a big difference for the rest of the world - since the copyrighted material usually comes from other sources, and the chinese who can get through the filters probably have other things to think about...
  
• Scientists have coupled brain tissue with computer chips.

A thought in front of the comp is to consider posture! Personally, I've learnt to move at least once every 17 hours - of course excluding my "every hour mouse-click"...

• Swedish companies pay higher salaries to american M.Sc. (translated from swedish newspaper, and swedish title) employees than swedish, yet the swedish civil engineers get a much higher salary than their middle east and eastern european counterparts.
  

Time for me to check out the TV news and then some private vidcasts from todays "pirate demonstrations". There's a possibility that I'll update this post afterwards