Topic: COMPUTER - on February 20, 2008 at 5:30:00 PM CET
Airport security
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on February 20, 2008 at 12:12:00 PM CET
Czech police investigate railway bridge theft
Police in the western Czech border town of Cheb have launched an investigation into the theft of a four-tonne railway bridge.
"We are not sure if it was taken for personal use or for its scrap value," police spokeswoman Martina Hruskova told AFP. "It is the first time we have dealt with this type of theft."
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Topic: e-bay - on February 20, 2008 at 12:10:00 PM CET
The World's Greatest Music Collection? 3 Million Records, 300,000 CDs, 6 million+ Song Titles
From Thomas Edison to American Idol, this is the complete history of the music that shaped and defined five generations. 3 million records and 300,000 CDs containing more than 6 million song titles. It's the undisputed largest collection of recorded music in the world. About half of the recordings are new and never played, and every genre of 20th century music is represented. There are countless rare recordings worth hundreds, or even thousands of dollars each on the collectibles market. Organized and cataloged, the collection is meticulously maintained and housed in a climate-controlled warehouse. The estimated value of this amazing collection is more than $50 million.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 20, 2008 at 12:04:00 PM CET
Anti-Piracy Ads
Yesterday I rented another movie from my local videostore and planned to have a nice evening watching it. But I didn’t. Because, as all movies nowadays, it had one of those annoying anti-piracy ads before the main menu turned up. Usually they don’t let you hit the (top-)menu button while those ads are playing so you cannot skip them. Annoying enough. But the last one I’ve seen even topped that annoyance - you couldn’t even fast forward it, that button was locked out too. What. The. Hell?
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 20, 2008 at 11:58:00 AM CET
DVD Jon aims to smash digital Tower of Babel
doubleTwist, the firm founded by scourge of DRM manufacturers Jon Lech Johansen (AKA DVD Jon) last March, has released software designed to allow users to share digital media files - including copy protected content - across devices.
doubleTwist desktop allows users to "share and sync digital media without worrying about codecs and bitrates". The Windows utility will allow users to play a video made on a Nokia smartphone on an iPod or Sony PSP, for example. The software is available as a free download from doubletwist.com. The firm also released a developers kit designed to spur adoption of the technology.
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