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When I first read this story I thought it just HAD to be a joke or something but it’s actually real. The EU is testing a new prototype system of cameras mounted in strategic places [...]
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That case where University of Maine students are going up against the RIAA is getting interesting. The RIAA submitted another of the ex parte (”ex parte” is legalese for “without notice”) discovery orders that they’re famous for. This time however the judge refused to go along with it saying:
I [...]
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For those who haven’t heard of it, here’s a ‘nutshell’ description of what it is from the Google Lunar X Prize website:
The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, travel 500 meters and transmit video, images [...]
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I got thinking about our viking friends from the previous entry and it occurred to me that it could easily be the premise for a movie. Yeah, I know, it’s been done before with different people instead of Vikings but it still has potential for some serious fun.
I can just [...]
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Some Scientists at the University of Copenhagen recently managed to recover Authentic DNA from 1000 year old Viking Skeletons.
According to the article this discovery means that not only is it now possible to recover ancient DNA but that the DNA in question can be analyzed much the same as modern DNA, [...]
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A couple of powerful apps that together can take care of all FTP needs.
FileZilla Server is a Windows FTP server that supports standard FTP as well as FTP over SSL/TLS for secure, encrypted connections.
The FileZilla Client program is a full featured FTP client. Like the server, it’s Freeware open source [...]
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Cornell University has come up with an Azureus Plugin called “Cubit” that I think is one of the first such that will give the ability for it to handle “decentralized approximate keyword search capabilities”.
This means that Azureus users would be able to search torrents currently available on the network. This [...]
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If you’re anything like me, you can manage to take a halfway decent photo but you might well spend hours trying to use photoshop or other tools to get it looking just exactly the way you want it to. Searching for tips for how to get better results can be [...]
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The Secret History of Star Wars is an interesting site I just ran into where you can download a 524 page ebook that goes into a lot of detail covering the inside stories of all things Star Wars. It doesn’t stay strictly with the official LucasFilm version of things, instead [...]
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I think nearly everyone has either heard of Lifelock by now or at least seen one of their commercials where the CEO is publishing his social security number because he’s so confident that the Lifelock service can protect him from identity theft.
Lifelock was recently nominated For a Webby award in the [...]
