My brother was interviewed on the Young Turks radio show yesterday. It’s great radio, which doesn’t make it the most exciting TV, but they do have a YouTube version. Here’s part one:
I did a couple Young Turks segments when they were starting out (pre-YouTube), and it’s a great group of people.
I’m a member of the Steering Committee advising Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez on his Wireless Miami-Dade initiative.
The Mayor’s office has been holding a series of (not that well publicized) focus group meetings on various topics.
Today’s three-hour meeting, set for 1:30pm, is on “Privacy and Security” issues, and I’ll be one of the lead-off speakers. If you’d like to attend, it’s taking place at the Stephen P. Clark Center, located at 111 N.W. 1st Street, Suite 2910, Conference Room 29-A.
The Stephen P. Clark Center, by the way, is very accessible by MetroRail: it’s the building in which the “Government Center” stop is located. To get to the 29th Floor, take the escalator down to the ground level, pass through security, then take the elevator bank on the right to the top floor. The meeting is open to the public, and covered by Florida’s rigorous Sunshine law, so you don’t even have to sign in in order to attend, despite what they’ll tell you at the front desk on the 29th floor.
Incidentally, the latest news from the staff is that they are now leaning towards a WiMax/Wifi hybrid system, sort of on the Portland model (but probably not free, rats), which given the size of the territory we’re talking about seems much more reasonable than wifi alone.
I like the idea behind The Small Print Project which intends to collect interesting (and odd) terms from EULAs (End User Licensing Agreements).
Final exam fodder for that e-commerce course?
(spotted via The Trademark Blog)
Wendy Seltzer does a great public service analyzing the new MS Vista licensing terms.
Legal Tags: Forbidding Vistas: Windows licensing disserves the user: Reading the Windows Vista license is a bit like preparing for breakfast with Lewis Carroll’s Red Queen: You should be ready to believe at least six impossible things about what users want from software.
It is unlikely that a home user looking for a computer operating system has any of these “features” of the Vista EULA in mind: The Red Queen
1. Self-limiting software
2. Vanishing functionality through invalidation
3. Removal of media capabilities
4. Problem-solving prohibited
5. Limited mobility
6. One transfer only
and a bonus,
7. Restrictions on your rights to use MPEG-4 videoDetails below. While Microsoft should be commended for putting its license into plain English, that doesn’t help to make the license restrictions any more palatable.
If you are interested in licenses, or think you might ever install Vista, read the whole thing.
Unix anyone?
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