http://digital-rag.com Real World Information in a Virtual World admin@pacdat.net admin@pacdat.net Copyright 2010 The Digital Rag glFusion Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:01:26 -0700 en-gb http://digital-rag.com/article.php/EarthDayAndSiteC http://digital-rag.com/article.php/EarthDayAndSiteC Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:29:21 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/EarthDayAndSiteC#comments Richard Pitt Musings on life <p>There are only two primary sources of power available to man to run our civilization: the sun, and nuclear energy. Everything else is just one or the other (mostly power from the sun) stored somehow in a form that we can eventually release it f... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/EarthDayAndSiteC http://digital-rag.com/article.php/EaglesAndEaglets2010 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/EaglesAndEaglets2010 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:24:00 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/EaglesAndEaglets2010#comments Richard Pitt Video On the Internet <p>Over the past few weeks I've been again dealing with the huge influx of visitors and new members to the <a href="http://www.hancockwildlife.org">Hancock Wildlife Foundation</a> web site - especially since their two main eagle nest cameras now h... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/EaglesAndEaglets2010 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ExcuseMeIveBeenBusy http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ExcuseMeIveBeenBusy Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:27:48 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ExcuseMeIveBeenBusy#comments Richard Pitt Musings on life <p>I really have not broken my New Year's Resolution to write something every day - I just have not been publishing it.</p> <p>I'm now the Executive Director of the Hancock Wildlife Foundation. In some ways this is good - and in others it's bad. G... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/ExcuseMeIveBeenBusy http://digital-rag.com/article.php/TelephoneVsInternetCommonCarrier http://digital-rag.com/article.php/TelephoneVsInternetCommonCarrier Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:29:55 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/TelephoneVsInternetCommonCarrier#comments Richard Pitt Copyright <p><a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4829/125/">The most recent</a> &quot;<a href="http://blog.die-linke.de/digitalelinke/wp-content/uploads/ACTA-6437-10.pdf">leak</a>&quot;(pdf) of the ACTA (Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement) neg... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/TelephoneVsInternetCommonCarrier http://digital-rag.com/article.php/MarkDonnellyPrimesOlympicCrowd http://digital-rag.com/article.php/MarkDonnellyPrimesOlympicCrowd Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:48:14 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/MarkDonnellyPrimesOlympicCrowd#comments Richard Pitt Musings on life <p><img width="300" height="213" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="right" alt="" src="http://digital-rag.com/images/library/Image/MarkDonnelly1.jpg" />All day today I've heard and seen the news talking about the wonderful actions and reactions of the... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/MarkDonnellyPrimesOlympicCrowd http://digital-rag.com/article.php/MoralRightsCopyrightLicensePublishers http://digital-rag.com/article.php/MoralRightsCopyrightLicensePublishers Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:08:14 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/MoralRightsCopyrightLicensePublishers#comments Richard Pitt Copyright <p>Sometimes you just have to push back against those who don't get it. The publishing business is in general decline. Self-publishing is rising and society is moving away from following the publisher and toward following the individual writer. So... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/MoralRightsCopyrightLicensePublishers http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ACTA-US-DMCA-Suffering http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ACTA-US-DMCA-Suffering Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:30:25 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ACTA-US-DMCA-Suffering#comments Richard Pitt Digital Rights <p>The USA passed their DMCA back in October of 1998, and it seems they've been trying to get the rest of the world to suffer along with them because they can't get rid of it.</p> <p>The leaked list of those countries objecting to opening up the c... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/ACTA-US-DMCA-Suffering http://digital-rag.com/article.php/DigitalRightsManagementHistory http://digital-rag.com/article.php/DigitalRightsManagementHistory Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:01:08 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/DigitalRightsManagementHistory#comments Richard Pitt Digital Rights <p><a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/">Defective By Design</a> - that's what their site is called, and they write exclusively about Digital Rights Management. <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/decade-in-drm">Their most recent pos ... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/DigitalRightsManagementHistory http://digital-rag.com/article.php/LifePlus50Years http://digital-rag.com/article.php/LifePlus50Years Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:35:14 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/LifePlus50Years#comments Richard Pitt Musings on life <p>The question that hit me today is: If a computer program creates music, how long does the copyright last?</p> <p>I write about copyright. It has been one of the things I've been pushed into since we had our early ISP, Wimsey. The typical length... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/LifePlus50Years http://digital-rag.com/article.php/FailingMemory http://digital-rag.com/article.php/FailingMemory Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:00:44 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/FailingMemory#comments Richard Pitt Computers in Use <p>It turns out that all the problems I've had with my computer system these past couple of months, other than the failed hard drive, have been because of a bad memory card.</p> <p>My workstation is pretty big - in both physical and computer sense... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/FailingMemory