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Looks like the RIAA is going to take another loss because of it’s tactics. Recently some students at North Carolina State brought to the attention of the court the illegal nature of the investigations the [...]
It makes you wonder how much privacy you really have. Is there a hidden transmitter in your television? How easy is it for your phone or email conversations to be snooped?
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Ars Technica has a report about the latest RIAA strategy to get people to pay up instead of fighting the lawsuits. Now, students who feel (I dare say rightly so in most cases) that they’re being bullied by the RIAA in one of their many copyright infringement suits, had better [...]
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Well, Firefox 3 is officially released and they’ve managed to achieve a record breaking 8 million plus downloads on the first day. I’ve loaded up the Portable Apps version of Firefox 3 to give it a test drive and I have to say that by and large it’s got a [...]
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I had a disaster today. I was minding my own business getting organized for some things I was planning to write when all of a sudden with no warning at all my monitor went dark. The hard drive light kept blinking occasionally like it always does and the lights [...]
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Ever since the “format wars” between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray ended a while back with Blu-Ray coming out on top, lots of people have been pretty much assuming that it’s now safe to go ahead and start buying Blu-Ray equipment and titles without having to worry about some other format coming along [...]
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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 planes to monitor the facial expressions of passengers in order to detect terrorism and “air [...]
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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 [...]
