September 2008
92 posts
Last Chance: Tell Bush to veto the RIAA/MPAA... →
Over the weekend, under the deceptive banner of “intellectual property”, the RIAA Enforcement Bill passed with several unacceptable provisions. We have one more chance to stop this bill from becoming…
The News Vault - Outgoing Link - California... →
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is vetoing a bill to fine motorists $35 for sharing the driver’s seat with lapdogs or other animals.
Republican Assemblyman Bill Maze says the practice is distracting. He introduced the bill after seeing a woman driving with three dogs on her lap.
Schwarzenegger says he’s signing only bills that are “the highest priority for California.” And a...
Stop the MPAA and RIAA shadow government →
The entertainment industry buys off senators and in return they get gifts like the “Enforcement of Intellectual Property Act”. Though the bill was recently revised to remove some offensive…
The News Vault - Outgoing Link - PETA Wants Ice... →
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is asking the ice cream maker to begin using breast milk in its products instead of cow’s milk, saying it would reduce the suffering of cows and calves and give ice cream lovers a healthier product.
- W.T.F.?!
10 things you didn’t know you could do in Ubuntu —... →
If you’re trying to fix a problem, you might want to capture the output of a command for reproduction on a website forum, along with the command you typed to get the results. If you’re working in a terminal window, you can cut and paste, but what if you’re working at a virtual console? If you simply want to capture the result of a command, just redirect the output:
ls > output.txt 2>&1
...
TV Shark.com - Clay Aiken Admits He's Gay In... →
- Shocking.
“Without drastically altering the internet, it is also impossible for the...”
– Digg - ISP- It’s Impossible For Us to Stop Illegal P2P
WatchDon’t touch my owner’s bewbies!
Mel Brooks Reanimates Sci-Fi Parody Spaceballs →
The Schwartz is finally with us. After multiple delays, Spaceballs: The Animated Series, Mel Brooks’ tooned sequel to his Star Wars spoof Spaceballs is finally airing in the United States.
WatchMel Brooks Reanimates Sci-Fi Parody Spaceballs | The Underwire from Wired.com
Health: Grape Juice Has Similar Benefits to Wine →
The New York Times points out that nearly every benefit attributed to drinking a glass of wine each day can be had by drinking grape juice. Skip the sugar-added stuff, though, and aim for dark red or purple varieties, like those from Concord grapes, and you might just see lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
NYC Trade Center dig exposes Ice Age landscape →
NEW YORK - Crews excavating the World Trade Center site this summer for the foundations of a new skyscraper have uncovered features carved into the bedrock by glaciers about 20,000 years ago,…
ISP- It’s Impossible For Us to Stop Illegal P2P →
An ISP which was ordered by a court to stop illegal file-sharing on its network, says it simply can not. The Belgian ISP Scarlet says the court’s verdict is unworkable and after trying to slow…
“Why the hell would email have fonts? This ain’t the 90s, pal. Email is...”
– Digg - VirtualBox update brings improved performance + 64-bit
- Yeah, they don’t!
Linking to P2P Downloads Confirmed Legal in Spain... →
A court has ruled that a site providing links to P2P downloads is operating legally. The Provincial Court of Madrid ruled that Sharemula.com, a site offering eDonkey links to movies, music, software and games does not break the law. The court’s decision is final and cannot be appealed.
- Booya-kasha!
“Today, you can find countless girls in Disney Princess socks and light-up...”
– The glossy, sanitized new versions of fairy tales leave out what matters: the scary parts - The Boston Globe
Stop the RIAA from using the DoJ to do its dirty... →
Take action! Don’t let the Senate pass the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Act of 2008. Stop the RIAA from using the Department of Justice to do its dirty work.
Education: Stanford Offers Free, Full Courses... →
The Stanford Engineering Everywhere program offers online access to full courses in the school’s engineering program—including classes in computer science and artificial intelligence. Courses include lecture videos, reading lists, handouts, quizzes, tests, and even a social network for fellow online students.
“Also of note are ABS Brakes (Antilock Braking System Brakes), UPC Code...”
– Xbmc: XBMC ‘Atlantis’ Beta 1 Released for All Platforms
50 Incredible Hollywod Film Posters ... From... →
My jaw nearly hit the floor when a coworker introduced me to the wonderful world of Polish film posters a couple of years ago. These conceptual masterpieces put the original American posters to shame…
“We have photoshop :D Some Poles has won couple of international photoshop...”
– 50 Incredible Film Posters From Poland // wellmedicated
Child Footballers Banned From Reading Results →
Children have been banned from reading their football results in local newspapers because it makes them too competitive. Football Association laws dictate that from this season, the results of…
EFF to sue Bush and cronies over telecom spying →
The president has decreed that they can’t sue the phone companies over illegal spying on Americans, so the Electronic Frontier Foundation today will announce a class-action suit in behalf of AT&T…
Spore and more: activate against Electronic Arts →
Electronic Arts (EA) and Amazon have been the targets of a justified online rebellion the last couple weeks. The impetus for the backlash is EA’s use of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)…
The 11 best film moments of Samuel L. Jackson... →
“Say what again. SAY WHAT AGAIN! I DARE YOU, I DOUBLE DARE YOU MOTHERFUCKER SAY WHAT AGAIN!”
WatchLiveLeak.com - Super Slow Motion
12 year old boy invents new type of solar cell →
Now here’s a story that makes me feel profoundly unaccomplished: a 12 year old boy in Beaverton, Oregon recently developed a new type of 3D solar cell that makes other solar cells look inefficient by…
Man Tells Fax Spammers To Go Fax Themselves... →
…One great advantage of my VOIP provider (Primus, for anyone who cares) is that their base package includes many interesting features, including the possibility to redirect any number to another….
TV Shark.com - Cindy McCain: 'The View' Women... →
… almost everyone took a turn: Co-host Joy Behar told McCain that two of his TV ads “are untrue, they’re lies,” Barbara Walters wanted an answer on how Sarah Palin would ‘reform’ Washington, asked the couple how many houses they owned (after John didn’t have an answer last month) and Whoopi Goldberg wondered if she had to worry “about becoming a...
WatchEvery “That’s What She Said” from The Office, Ever - CollegeHumor video
History of the Rick Roll →
Rickrolling is an Internet meme involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song “Never Gonna Give You Up”. The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a Web link they claim is relevant…
p2pnet news » Blog Archive » Text messaging in... →
“Investigators did not find a cell phone belonging to Robert Sanchez in the wreckage, but two teenage train buffs who befriended him told KCBS-TV that they received a text message from him a minute before the crash.”
p2pnet news » Blog Archive » Albany State students... →
The RIAA is now on the rampage over at the State University of Albany in New York. But in yet another example of the growing disinclination of students to allow Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA to extort money under the threat of specious lawsuits, the targets have hired lawyer Richard Altman (right) to have the case thrown out.
- I was the VERY FIRST victim! Hold out my...
DirecTV: DirecTV Won't Even Show Up For Whoopi... →
- Wow! They are fast!
The News Vault - Outgoing Link - American Woman... →
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An American woman who flew to Australia and spent 10 days in a caravan park with a 15-year-old boy was convicted on Tuesday of having sex with a minor but released from jail.
“Briefly, managers and techies just don’t seem to see eye to eye very much...”
– Penguin Pete’s Blog - Explaining That Computers are Science, not Magic
Entertainment Cartels Rule. Everywhere.
They claim every time someone shares a file with someone else, a sale is lost, and that amounts to a crime of exactly the same nature as someone walking into a retail outlet and shoplifting a CD or DVD.
However, with sharing, no money changes hands, no one is deprived of something he or she used to own and a number of in-depth academic studies such as Felix Oberholtzer and Koleman Strumpf’s...
