May 2010
2 posts
Most File Sharers Would Pay For Legal Downloads →
An anonymous reader writes “Two separate studies from Australia and Holland give the lie to corporate entertainment industry claims that file sharers are unprincipled thieves out to rob the honest…
Air Force Treating Wounds With Lasers and Nanotech →
An anonymous reader passes along a piece up on Wired’s Danger Room about advanced medical tech that’s being used in the military, but is not available generally due to the lack of FDA approval….
April 2010
10 posts
Ireland May Be Next To Censor the Internet →
An anonymous reader writes “According to the Irish Times, the government of Ireland — the country that recently made blasphemy a criminal offense — has had extensive talks regarding the censorship of…
Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's... →
Attorneys for Dominica Juliano claim that she was burned and developed psychological problems after a store clerk aimed a hand-held price scanner at her face. Store attorneys say their scanners uses…
US government finally admits most piracy estimates... →
Surprise! A Government Accountability Office review of piracy studies finds that they are largely guesses, based on untested assumptions. Is this what content owners thought they were getting when…
Crowdsourcing the Department of Public Works →
blackbearnh writes “Usually, Gov 2.0 deals mainly with outward transparency of government to the citizens. But SeeClickFix is trying to drive data in the other direction, letting citizens report and…
OpenTTD 1.0.0 Released →
Gmer writes “Eming.com reports that OpenTTD, the open source clone of the Microprose game Transport Tycoon Deluxe, has reached a milestone. OpenTTD 1.0.0 has been released 6 years after work started…
Wikileaks Releases Video of Journalist Killings →
linguizic writes “Today Wikileaks released a video of the US military firing large caliber weapons into a crowd that included a photojournalist and a driver for Reuters, and at a van containing two…
Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs →
Hugh Pickens writes “Science Daily reports on a study that has determined that young men who smoke are likely to have lower IQs than their non-smoking peers. In the study, conducted with 20,000…
Space Shuttle Destruct Switch →
Computer Problems →
Anti-Piracy Lawyers Vandalize Wikipedia Page →
March 2010
13 posts
Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In... →
CyberDragon777 writes “Ubuntu’s future 10.10 operating system is going to make a small, but contentious change to how file sizes are represented. Like most other operating systems using binary…
Big Content: stopping P2P should be "main focus"... →
The new “IP czar” in the White House has just gotten an earful on how to do her job from big rights holders. It includes a single-minded focus on “online copyright theft” and an embrace of filtering,…
Child Receives Trachea Grown From Own Stem Cells →
kkleiner writes “Doctors at the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) along with colleagues at the University College London, the Royal Free Hospital, and Careggi University Hospital in Florence have…
Neptune May Have Eaten a Planet and Stolen Its... →
jitendraharlalka noted a piece about the origins of Neptune. There is a theory now that it once ate a super-earth in the outer solar system, and kept its moon as some sort of macabre trophy to make…
Bill Would Require Public Information To Be Online →
Andurin writes “A bill that was introduced in the US House of Representatives last week would require all Executive Branch agencies to publish public information on the Internet in a timely fashion…
$99 Moby Tablet As Textbook Alternative →
Taco Cowboy writes “Marvell’s Moby tablet will be an always-on, high performance multimedia tablet capable of full Flash support and 1080p HD playback and supporting WiFi, Bluetooth, FM radio, GPS…
3-D Printer Creates Buildings From Dust and Glue →
An anonymous reader writes “D-Shape, an innovative new 3-D printer, builds solid structures like sculptures, furniture, even buildings from the ground up. The device relies on sand and magnesium glue…
"Moot" Working On Reboot of 4chan... →
Hugh Pickens writes “Nick Bilton has an interesting interview with Christopher Poole, known online as ‘Moot,’ founder 4chan, a jumble of content, hosting anything from pictures of cute kittens to…
Permanent Undersea Homes Soon; Temporary Ones Now →
MMBK writes “Dennis Chamberland is one of the world’s preeminent aquanauts. He’s worked with NASA to develop living habitats and underwater plant growth labs, among other cool things. His next goal…
Here Come the Linux iPad Clones →
CWmike writes “You can now pre-order an Apple iPad; but do you really want to, asks Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. ‘I mean, I get why you’d want an iPad. I’d like one too,’ he writes. ‘But,’ he says,…
11 Things You Didn't Know You Could Watch on... →
It’s a fact that everyone loves the PuppyCam, except for those few people with an abnormal hatred of puppies. (And, frankly, we don’t speak to those people.)
IBM Press room - 2010-03-09 IBM and Stanford... →
“Today’s announcement may have sustainability implications across a wide range of industries including biodegradable plastics, plastics recycling, healthcare and microelectronics.”
Ubuntu Gets a New Visual Identity →
buntcake writes “Canonical has launched a new visual identity for the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Ubuntu is shedding its previous brown look and adopting a more professional color scheme with purple…
February 2010
10 posts
IBM Claims Breakthrough Energy-Efficient Algorithm →
jitendraharlalka sends news of a claimed algorithmic breakthrough by IBM, though from the scant technical detail provided it’s hard to tell exactly how important the development might be. IBM…
Scaling Algorithm Bug In Gimp, Photoshop, Others →
Wescotte writes “There is an important error in most photography scaling algorithms. All software tested has the problem: The Gimp, Adobe Photoshop, CinePaint, Nip2, ImageMagick, GQview, Eye of…
What Happens In Vegas Happens In Afghanistan →
theodp writes “After the morning commute from his Las Vegas apartment, Air Force captain Sam Nelson sits in a padded chair inside a low, tan building in Nevada, controlling a heavily armed drone…
ACTA Internet Chapter Leaked — Bad For Everyone →
roju writes “Cory Doctorow is reporting on a leaked copy of the ‘internet enforcement’ portion of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. He describes it as reading like a ‘DMCA-plus’ with…
PA School Spied On Students Via School-Issued... →
jargon82 writes “A Pennsylvania high school is using laptops they issued to students to spy on them in homes and outside of school. According to a class action filling the webcams and microphones in…
Google Gives $2 Million to Wikipedia's Foundation →
Google has opened up its charity wallet once again. This time, the search giant has donated $2,000,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs and maintains Wikipedia.
Operation Titstorm Hits the Streets →
schliz writes “Hacker group ‘Anonymous’ is organising international, real-life protests of the Australian mandatory internet filter this coming Saturday. Protests will take place in major Australian…
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Avoin vastine Kaisa Rastimolle Iron Skyn tekijöiltä. Osuu täysin naulan kantaan.
Europarlamentti torjui pankkitietojen... →
Europarlamentti on torjunut kiistellyn sopimuksen eurooppalaisten maksuliikennetietojen luovuttamisesta Yhdysvalloille. Helmikuun alussa voimaan tullut väliaikainen sopimus salli Yhdysvaltain…
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