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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Mon/elsewhere.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Mon/elsewhere.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb9d9ac --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Mon/elsewhere.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +<img width="200" height="141" border="0" src="http://blog.wired.com/sex/images/2007/03/26/us0714760920061212d00000_2.gif" title="Us0714760920061212d00000_2" alt="Us0714760920061212d00000_2" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;" />Elsewhere on Wired: + +* Listening Post reports that SnoCap, the MySpace music service, [tried to license Apple's FairPlay DRM technology][1]. SnoCap's CEO Rusty Rueff told Listening Post's Eliot Van Buskirk that Rueff contacted Steve Jobs about two weeks before the Apple chief issued his famous "Thoughts on Music" essay, asking him for a licensing deal for Fairplay DRM. Obviously Jobs said no. + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/03/snocap_asked_ap.html "SnoCap Asked Apple for Fairplay DRM" + +* 27B Stroke 6 says that members of Senate Homeland Security subcommittee claim that "complying with the REAL ID Act, which seeks to create a de facto national ID by requiring states to have standardized driver's licenses and share information about citizens, [will cost too much and create too many privacy problems][2] to meet a May 2008 deadline set by DHS earlier this month." + +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/senate_looks_in.html "Senate Looks into REAL ID" + + +* Bodyhack's Steve Edwards has some information on [proposed inter-species cloning][3]. Yeah it is as creepy as it sounds, from Bodyhack: "The FDA may require patients getting the sheep-human chimera-based treatments to sign similar 'I will not reproduce' agreements. The choice would then be between a potential cure and having kids. The no-kids requirement would likely remain in place until the FDA has adequate data to believe that such transplants were free of risk. To ensure no changes in the germline occurred, the FDA may be able to study the sperm and eggs of transplant recipients to determine germline changes. If not, the no-kids requirement (which could only be realistically enforced by sterilization) would present a nasty Catch-22: without the ability to look for changes in the offspring of transplant recipients, the FDA would never be able to collect the data necessary to determine the transplant's safety." + +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2007/03/chimeras_chimer.html "Chimeras, Chimeras, All Around" + +* On a lighter note, Sex Drive Daily's Randy Dotinga has [dug up a patent][4] for a "penile volumetric measuring device." Yes, that's why Google Patent Search exists. + +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/sex/2007/03/patent_suggests.html "Patent Suggests New Motto: Volume Matters"
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