Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Saturday, March 12th, 2005
http://www.benstanfield.c...avesdrops_.html
Our company uses AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) continuously. We're a small firm spread throughout the country, and the IM conversations we have make it possible for us to have real-time conversations with each other on the cheap. That may all change with AOL's recent change to the terms of ...
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Friday, March 11th, 2005
http://www.emediawire.com...3/emw216938.htm
Flickr has partnered with EZ-Prints to allow users to print professional quality photographs, much like Ofoto and Shutterfly.
Flickr currently has over 360,000 members and is growing at approximately 30 percent per month. The service allows people to share photos with friends and family, and also gives users the option to ...
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Monday, March 7th, 2005
http://www.gizmodo.com/ga...llet-035056.php
AllofMP3.com was under investigation recently, but has been let off the hook by the Russian DA of the South-West district, who denied IPFI’s request to open a criminal case against Allofmp3.com., because of a loophole in Russian law which allows users create copies of songs by request.
Even though the ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005
http://abcnews.go.com/Tec...story?id=468496
Peter Jennings' is doing a broadcast on UFOs.
Did you hear that? Peter Jennings' is doing a broadcast on UFOs.
I respect Jennings. He regularly is a guest on The Daily Show, and he seems to be level-headed with a good sense of humor. But really-- UFO’s?
"UFOs -- Seeing ...
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Sunday, February 20th, 2005
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin.../w220353S67.DTL
The ACLU has discovered that the army has destroyed additional photographic evidence of the mock executions and torture of prisoners-- similar to those found of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib-- in an effort to avoid another round of public outrage.
An Army specialist told investigators that similar photographs were destroyed ...
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Saturday, February 19th, 2005
http://www.tvtechnology.c...one.php?id=2755
The soon to be government sponsored mandate to control content on the public airways will be introduced this summer sparking DRM in each information appliance that can receive that signal with the flag.
Can you hear that? That is the death of Digital Television before it ever really took off.
Public ...
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Friday, February 18th, 2005
http://slashdot.org/comme...59&cid=11709630
An excellent point was brought up on Boing Boing today about a post on Slashdot. The Television Industry is concerned about viewers recording shows and are putting a stop to it in a number of ways. Sometimes they strong arm DVR producers, or convince the manufactures of DVR ...
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Thursday, February 17th, 2005
http://plasticbugs.com/index.php?p=223
In a transcendental move against crazy DRM and copyright law, Scott Moschella of Plastic Bugs stripped the DRM out of an iTunes song he won after buying a bottle of Pepsi. He then proceeded to break another law by making the song available as a free download on his site.
Not ...
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
http://www.livejournal.com/community/tds_rps/
"'Daily Show with Jon Stewart' slash fiction" [shudder]
I'm not sure what to make of this. There is something about a Stewart/Colbert rendezvous that I do not find at all appealing-- and neither should anyone else.
"Mmm." Colbert responds, pleasantly surprised and readjusting so his wakening erection can nudge ...
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
https://www.beatport.com/beatport.php
Longing for your hard to find electronica? Beatport is for you-- Like iTunes and Napster Beatport offers club tracks for the DJ set without any form of DRM to slow you down. Buy the music and do what you will.
There are thousands of tracks from hundreds of labels ...
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