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...While privacy advocates applauded the broad-reaching rules, health care providers balked at the requirements, arguing that following such strict protocol would hurt them financially, and that waiting for written permission could conceivably delay a patient's treatment - even fatally...
...talks on the Kyoto Protocol in the Netherlands in November, the negotiations in the end were unsuccessful because the EU and the U.S. could not agree to limits on greenhouse gasses. Do you think that this sort of disagreement will become more or less common in light of the documented possibilities of climate change...
McCarthy: I personally am optimistic about future resolution of the commitments under the Kyoto Protocol. I can roll the clock back a year and a half, when there was discussion of putting off the sixth conference of the parties that was held in The Hague for two reasons. One was [that] our reports were not going to be out. And the second was the U.S. election. However, when people thought about it, they said, 'We'll know pretty well what's in your report even though it won't be finalized and after all the U.S. election will have occurred...
When the Ninth Circuit found Napster liable for contributory infringement, it fortunately reiterated the Supreme Court's standard that devices capable of substantial non-infringing uses are still legal. The Napster protocol, which is merely a set of instructions for sending and receiving files, is no more illegal than the Windows "copy file" function. Beneficial, content-neutral technologies can easily be hijacked by pirates who find them useful, but they should not be banned for that reason alone. Otherwise, VCR's and tape decks would have been banned long ago for contributing to copyright infringement--as they almost were until...
...cost of this constant monitoring will be measured in lost innovations. What engineer would have been willing to design the content-neutral HTTP protocol that undergirds the Web if it had been viewed with the same suspicion as the content-neutral OpenNap protocol is today? Both protocols are capable of non-infringing use, and new ways of sharing information, regardless of the motives of their developers, offer the potential for vast social benefits...