DRG’s Comments

• Apr 7th, 2012 @ 11:21am

  Switched to MapQuest

  on Google Maps Exodus Continues As Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To OpenStreetMap
  I had a project that required getting 780,000 zipcode-to-zipcode driving times to determine who could be recruited to visit a given hospital into a clinical trial. I programmed both Google and MapQuest queries and found MapQuest to be 5 times faster and they wouldn't charge to use it. I emailed them as requested to let them know what I was planning. They said to please only use two parallel queries at a time. Four days later I was done. My research goes on.
• Dec 7th, 2011 @ 5:33pm

  Re: Question

  on Court Recognizes Daily Groupon Deal Hunters Aren't Likely To Be Confused By Groupion's Enterprise Software
  OK, I must admit I had to read the article several times to get it straight....
• Oct 7th, 2011 @ 7:53pm

  Two questions

  on Can You Infringe On Da Vinci? Judge Seems To Think So
  OK, when I go to museums, I like to photograph the artwork I see. Many museums allow such activity but say that it can only be for personal/non-commercial use. Are they blowing smoke?
  
  Also, photographing sculpture requires the right angle, playing with light, exposure, etc. Does that make it copyrightable?
• Jul 27th, 2011 @ 5:41pm

  Patenting DNA

  on Do You Have Property Rights Over Your DNA?
  The only good thing about the early rush to patent DNA sequences is that most of them will expire before anyone gets around to needing to use them.
• Apr 30th, 2011 @ 6:44pm

  Confirmation

  on Lawsuits Filed Against Twitter, Facebook & MySpace For Confirming That A User No Longer Wanted Text Messages
  It is very easy to spoof an email. The confirmation sent to you is a way of verifying that you are the one requesting a stop to messages. Otherwise anyone could unsubscribe you from anything.
• Apr 14th, 2011 @ 2:38pm

  Medical Journals?

  on Dumbest Lawsuit Ever? HuffPo Sued By Bloggers Who Agreed To Work For Free... But Now Claim They Were Slaves
  I don't know of any medical journals that pay their authors -- some even charge for the privilege. The dozens of research papers I've published have enriched them -- can I sue?
• Feb 4th, 2011 @ 8:28pm

  Really low tech example

  on Techno-Panic Reporting: The Media Deserves No Mercy
  One of my favorites was when a Boston channel found out that you could open an ATM door with *any* card with a magnetic strip. This led to all sorts of warnings about safety and muggers....
• Aug 12th, 2010 @ 11:25am

  Re:

  on LA Times Barred From Publishing Photo Of Murder Suspect
  Yeah, a really accurate one!
• Feb 1st, 2010 @ 2:52pm

  Cause and Effect?

  on Seriously: Where Is The Link Between Copyright Infringement And Terrorism/Organized Crime
  Can we actually tell whether popularity leads to greater piracy or piracy leads to greater popularity?