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Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Troll's Claim to Own the Interactive Web | Threat...
6 saves http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/interactive-web-patent/

TYLER, Texas — After threatening web companies for more than a decade, Michael Doyle and his patent-holding company Eolas — named after the Irish word for knowledge — may be finished.An eight-member federal jury in East Texas deliberated Thursday for just a few hours before concluding that all of ...

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Harvard Law School names restroom after generous alumni
1 save http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/harvard-law-school-names-restroom...

CAMBRIDGE (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - A new trend hitting college campuses comes as a relief to some, but is downright disturbing to others. Colleges and universities, including Harvard Law School, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Colorado Boulder, are naming restrooms after generous ...

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Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web Free | Threat Level | Wired.com
27 saves http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/tim-berners-lee-patent/

The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, testified in a courtroom Tuesday for the first time in his life. The web pioneer flew down from Boston, where he teaches at M.I.T., to an eastern Texas federal court to speak to a jury of two men and six women about the early days of the web.His ...

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Harvard Introduces 'Falik Men's Room' Following $100,000 Donation From Good-Humo...
1 save http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/07/harvard-law-falik-bathroom_n_12611...

Egged on by unlikely jokester Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, a well-endowed Harvard Law School alumnus recently made a $100,000 donation to his alma mater and suggested the school name a newly-constructed bathroom after him.This week, the magnanimous donor was delighted to see Harvard Law ...

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You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You - Forbes
88 saves http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/02/03/you-will-never-kill-pirac...

Now that the SOPA and PIPA fights have died down, and Hollywood prepares their next salvo against internet freedom with ACTA and PCIP, it’s worth pausing to consider how the war on piracy could actually be won.It can’t, is the short answer, and one these companies do not want to hear as they put ...

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2012 a Big Year for MakerBot – New 3D Printer, $Millions in Funding, and Huge Gr...
3 saves http://singularityhub.com/2012/01/22/2012-a-big-year-for-makerbot-%e2%80%93...

Three years ago they had three employees and were still trying to keep their equipment from breaking down. Now MakerBot employs 75, hasmillions in funding, and 7500+ of their printers in use. The Brooklyn-based company is the epitome of a successful tech startup, all the more remarkable because ...

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Mobile Musings: How SOP Was Undone By SOPA: The Political Maturing of the Net
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Colleges sell naming rights to bathrooms | Inside Higher Ed
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For $2,000, a Dixie State College of Utah donor could have been the namesake of a porcelain castle complete with a locking door, a generous supply of off-brand toilet paper and an occasional copy of yesterday’s sports section.In a brazen effort to raise funds, Dixie State offered naming rights to ...

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True Story: Harvard Law Sells Naming Rights to Its New Bathrooms, and a Berkeley...
1 save http://abovethelaw.com/2012/02/true-story-harvard-law-sells-naming-rights-t...

This week, Harvard Law School unveiled its brand new Wasserstein Hall — a behemoth of a law building that will serve the needs of Harvard law students for generations, maybe even centuries. I was not invited to any of the gala events; my invitation must have been lost in the mail. But I can’t wait ...

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76 Brad Feld : WhatsItLike: Interviews of interesting people
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The epic warfare of the Rafael Nadal-Novak Djokovic Australian Open final - Gran...
19 saves http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7518166/the-epic-warfare-rafael-nadal-n...

You have just played the match of your life, or one of them, one of the many matches of your life, in the Australian Open final, where you fought back from the brink of defeat against one of the most dominant athletes on Earth. You fought for almost six hours, clawing at chances, screaming at ...

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Fractals of Change: Why Republicans (Finally) Opposed SOPA and PIPA
3 saves http://blog.tomevslin.com/2012/01/why-republicans-finally-opposed-sopa-and-...

Originally House bill SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and Senate bill PIPA (Protect IP Act) were bipartisan bad policy. The Senate version was reported unanimously from The Judiciary Committee and was supported not only by Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) but also by the Senior Republican on the ...

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Why Apple Should Start Making a 3D Printer Right Now - Ross Andersen - Technolog...
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Hobbyists and tinkerers are testing out the future with a technology that you're probably going to have sooner than you think.Of course, in some ways, Dawes is ideally suited to fiddling around with a 3D printer. Last year he founded Beep Industries, a startup that manufactures an external shutter ...

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BBC News - Today - Brain stimulation 'not a magic pill'
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be much cleverer than you are?Researchers at Oxford University have developed a new brain stimulation technique that could make us all much smarter.Science correspondent Tom Feilden reports that "Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation" is raising ...

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Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Censorship | TorrentFreak
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At a behind-closed-doors meeting facilitated by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, copyright holders have handed out a list of demands to Google, Bing and Yahoo. To curb the growing piracy problem, Hollywood and the major music labels want the search engines to de-list popular ...

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Michael Geist - The ACTA Fight Returns: What Is at Stake and What You Can Do
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CIRA has launched a new round of consultations on its amended plans to introduce Internationalized Domain Names. The new process will signficantly restrict the number of new domains as the dot-ca administrative agency is now proposing that the holder of a particular domain name would have the ...

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We Have Every Right to Be Furious About ACTA | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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If there’s one thing that encapsulates what’s wrong with the way government functions today, ACTA is it. You wouldn’t know it from the name, but the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is a plurilateral agreement designed to broaden and extend existing intellectual property (IP) enforcement laws to ...

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Brad Feld talks to SLP: How to be a successful Founder/CEO (and a Q&A) | Startup...
1 save http://www.startupleadership.com/2012/01/bradfeld2012/

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Please Submit ACTA to the Senate for Ratification as Required by the Constitutio...
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The Administration has opposed SOPA and PIPA due to the damage these laws could do to the Internet. But many view the Anti-Counterfeiting Trace Agreement (ACTA) to be far worse.This Administration supported the negotiation of ACTA in secret with a selected group of nations and with input from many ...

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New Petition Asks White House To Submit ACTA To The Senate For Ratification | Te...
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demanding that ACTA be brought to the Senate

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