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Last November, a version of New York City's rat map was made public (first-time visitors may not be able to access the map immediately; send an e-mail to ratportal@health.nyc.gov to learn the workaround). You can search by zip code or exact address for information about the number of inspections or notices of violation at a given property. The interface of the public map is a bit clunky and hard to navigate, which may be why the city is sponsoring training sessions for community groups and other interested organizations. "We do hope to make this a bit more...
Woolston, for his part, vows to fight eBay regardless of the Supreme Court verdict. One of his rejected patents was reinstated on appeal, he says, and he plans to sue eBay again. An eBay spokesman says the company has a workaround should Woolston get an injunction. Suffice it to say, this is one patent war that won't end soon...
...final footnote in the Napster story: If Napster is successful in becoming the enabler of the digital jukebox, it will most likely have to abandon the "special sauce" that made it so successful, P2P file sharing. Napster pioneered P2P as a workaround to the objections of the recording industry, which would have rather brought back disco than allow one Metallica track to be downloaded. Now that the industry has (belatedly) jumped on the musical broadband bandwagon, there's no reason for Napster to stay P2P. As users know, MP3's on Napster are often misidentified and of poor quality...
...feel like it's important for people who workaround there to know," adding that the site of thebeating was close to the Yard and near sciencebuildings in which people often work late intonight...
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