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Archive for May, 2009
Pick The Perp
Pick The Perp is a fun site where the aim is to pick the perpetrator of a crime from a line up. I'm pretty good at this so far. Booking mug shots and related information is gathered from arrest records from open sheriff's web sites in the United States of America. Those appearing here have not been convicted of the arrest charge and are presumed [...]
Asus and Microsoft join forces against Linux
The campaign has kicked off with a web page entitled "It's better with Windows" showing adverts for Windows and suggesting it is a better choice for use with Asus' range of netbooks. Asus confirmed to vnunet.com that the campaign was legitimate, saying: "As a hardware vendor we have to provide both operation systems for our [...]
Obama Revises Campaign Promise Of “Change” To “Relatively Minor Readjustments In Certain Favorable Policy Areas”
WASHINGTON - In a slight shift from his campaign trail promise, President Obama announced Monday that his administration's message of "Change" has been modified to the somewhat more restrained slogan "Relatively Minor Readjustments in Certain Favorable Policy Areas." "Today, Americans face a great many challenges, and I hear your desperate calls [...]
Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology
In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates. Closing out the longest-running court case in Wikiland history, the site’s Arbitration Committee voted 10 to 0 (with one abstention) in [...]
Cambridge study: DRM turns users into pirates
A long and deep study of user behaviour in the UK by a Cambridge prof confirms that when an honest person tries to do something legal that is blocked by Digital Rights Management technology, it encourages the person to start downloading infringing copies for free from the net, since these copies are all DRM-free. Akester's new paper, [...]
Linux Unified Kernel aims to combine Linux and NT kernels
There are several ways to run Windows programs on Linux (virtualisation, WINE) and vice-versa really isn't a problem either with Cygwin, or better yet, native ports thanks to the Windows variants of Gtk+ and Qt. Still, what if Windows support was built straight into the Linux kernel? Is something like that even possible? Sure it is, and the [...]
Has ASUS given up on Linux?
At today's ASUS product showcase in Sydney, a bunch of media representatives where given a taste of the company's latest and greatest notebooks, including the new range of Eee PC netbooks. The entire range was there, from ultra-portable, touch screen netbooks to high-end, quad core Lamborghinis (I'm not joking). Even Windows Vista was [...]
Adriana Lima Is Pregnant
Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima is going to be a mom! Lima, a Victoria's Secret Angel, and her husband NBA star Marko Jaric, are expecting their first child together, reps for the couple confirm to PEOPLE exclusively. Lima is due this winter. "Adriana and Marko are overjoyed that they are expecting their first child together and are [...]
Kiwis who took the money and ran located through Facebook update
The NZ couple who took off after a bank error dropped NZ$10,000,000 in their account have been finked out by a relative's Facebook update, which tipped off authorities that they're in China. But their chances of being caught have increased after they were joined overseas by Ms Young's sister, Aroha Hurring, who posted details about their location [...]
Last.fm User Data Was Sent To RIAA By CBS
Just an update from TechCrunch on a story that generated a lot of controversy a few months back, "Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?" Now we've located another source for the story, someone who's very close to Last.fm. And it turns out Last.fm was telling the truth, sorta... Last.fm didn't hand user data over to the RIAA. [...]
I am Witness
CLEVELAND - It was the silence that was so piercing... As the ball arched through the air and carried the Cavaliers' championship hopes, it was so deathly quiet inside The Q that you could almost hear the red lamp on the backboard buzzer come to life. Then there was a wall of noise, swallowing the final horn, swallowing LeBron James' gaping [...]
Ghostbusters 3 will have the original cast
We have all heard that "Ghostbusters 3" has been in the works for many years, but now it had been confirmed that they will start filming shortly and more importantly that the entire original cast will return. That's right, long time hold out Bill Murray has agreed to join the crew one last time. He will join the already signed Dan Aykroyd, [...]
Adobe has issued a DMCA removal request for rtmpdump
I've just found out today that the author of rtmpdump has received a DMCA removal request via Sourceforge for rtmpdump which was hosted by them. This is rather curious since Adobe publicly and officially announced earlier this year that they will be releasing the specification of the RTMP protocol on its public developers site. Get your copy [...]
Have a router? The FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time in order to inspect it
You may not know it, but if you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cellphone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time of the day or night in order to inspect it. That’s the upshot of the rules the agency has followed for years to monitor licensed [...]
Social websites keeping “deleted” photos
User photographs can still be found on many social networking sites even after people have deleted them, Cambridge University researchers have said. They put photos on 16 popular websites - noting the web addresses where the images were stored - and deleted them. The team said it was able to find them on seven sites - including Facebook - [...]
Congress proposes anti-DRM law for cars
An unlikely pair of politicians... Bob Barr (Libertarian Party) and Ralph Nader (Green Party)... are jointly supporting Right-To-Repair Act of 2009 (H.R. 2057), a law that would make it legal to break the DRM on automotive systems so that independent garages can repair cars even if the manufacturers try to lock them out and then charge high rents [...]
Minimum font size for credit card “fine print”
The new US credit-card bill specifies a minimum type-size and a list of approved fonts for the terms and conditions, to replace the mind-clouding teeny-weeny eye-strain-o-rama font that normally fills a Bible-sized tome that accompanies your standard credit card. Section 122 of the Truth in Lending Act (U.S.C. 1632) is amended by adding at the [...]
