Topic: MAKE - on April 9, 2009 at 12:20:00 PM CEST
Build Your Own Multitouch Surface Computer
First, some acknowledgments are in order. Virtually all the techniques used to create this table were discovered at the Natural User Interface Group website, which serves as a sort of repository for information in the multitouch hobbyist community. If you find the technology shown in this article interesting, you owe it to yourself to check out their forums, where you can participate in the development of multi-touch hardware and software.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 9, 2009 at 12:02:00 PM CEST
Google container data center tour
First presented at the Google Efficient Data Centers Summit, hosted at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA on April 1, 2009.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 9, 2009 at 11:56:00 AM CEST
Europas Stoppseiten
Nachdem es schon großartige Vorschläge für die Gestaltung einer deutschen Stoppseite gab, möchte ich die Gelegenheit nutzen und euch mal die Stoppseiten unserer Nachbarn zeigen.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 9, 2009 at 11:55:00 AM CEST
BREIN Forces NZB-Portal.nl Offline
It probably didn't help that NZB-Portal.nl, a popular Dutch newsgroup indexing site, featured Wolverine as their second most popular NZB file. NZB files point the end user to content on the newsgroups. NZB files are similar in nature to .torrent files, however, there are significant differences. NZB files mechanically point to content on the newsgroups by referencing a specific newsgroup and message IDs. Torrent files verify data using hash values. Although .torrents may be more advanced, a well organized Usenet community compensates for any bogus data on the network.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 9, 2009 at 11:54:00 AM CEST
The Pirate Bay's Anonymity Service Signs 100,000 Users Pre-Launch
Over 100,000 people have already signed up for The Pirate Bay’s new anonymity service, Ipredator, designed to hide IP addresses from the authorities, the Bay's spokesman says.
Last Wednesday, the controversial Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) became law in Sweden. Its main goal is to enable copyright holders to acquire data identifying people linked to illegal file sharing. Wired.com reported last week that internet use in Sweden dipped by 30 percent when IPRED came into force on April 1.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 9, 2009 at 11:53:00 AM CEST
Did Frank Zappa Come Up With A Business Plan For File Sharing In 1983?
Reader SunKing sends in this little tidbit that I'd not seen before (perhaps some of you have). It comes from The Real Frank Zappa Book and discusses his response to "the home taping movement" and the attempt to get everyone to rebuy their old albums on CD by proposing a system where you could subscribe to whatever genre of music you wanted and get it delivered in batches.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 9, 2009 at 11:51:00 AM CEST
U2's Manager Says No Business Models Work... But Kicking People Off The Internet Will?
A bunch of folks have been sending in the opinion piece in the Guardian written by U2's manager Paul McGuinness expressing strong support for France's approval of a three strikes law (ignoring, conveniently, that the law was passed using trickery, telling everyone the vote would happen at a later date, waiting to most elected officials had left, and then passing the law with a vote when only a few people were still around). This isn't a huge surprise, because McGuinness has gone around (loudly) blaming everyone else for the problems in the recording industry (while reaping the rewards of the more than $300 million that U2 brings in per year).
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 9, 2009 at 11:48:00 AM CEST
Sunbed grown cannabis seized by police
Police from North East Leeds made an unusual discovery when raiding a suspected cannabis factory and found the plants being grown in two large sunbeds.
Officers from the Burmantofts and Richmond Hill Neighbourhood Policing Team were executing a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act on Nixon Avenue, East End Park when they found the sunbeds, normally used in tanning salons, packed with plants.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 9, 2009 at 11:47:00 AM CEST
"Harry Potter"-Darsteller festgenommen
In den "Harry Potter"-Filmen spielte er die Rolle des dickhalsigen, großfüßigen, plattnasigen Vincent Crabbe. Im wahren Leben bekam Jamie Waylett nun Stress mit der britischen Justiz: Ermittler entdeckten im Schlafzimmer des 19-Jährigen eine Cannabisplantage.
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Topic: SEX - on April 9, 2009 at 11:46:00 AM CEST
Blowjob Fucks Helicopter Pilot
Flying and oral sex don't mix, a judge ruled Tuesday as he upheld the Federal Aviation Administration's decision to revoke the license of a pilot who allowed a busty blonde woman to perform a sex act on him as he flew her around San Diego.
The FAA took the action earlier this year after a videotape of the May 29, 2005, encounter surfaced on the Internet. Neither the identity of the videographer or the woman seated next to David Martz was revealed. However, published reports have identified the woman as a Swedish porn star.
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Topic: STRANGE - on April 9, 2009 at 11:45:00 AM CEST
Friend bites man's penis off in row
A man was rushed to hospital after telling doctors how his best friend bit his penis off in a row - and swallowed it.
Horrified Marian Milczarek, 53, from Lesna in south west Poland, was attacked following a row with his friend - apparently over borrowing a trailer.
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Topic: STRANGE - on April 9, 2009 at 11:43:00 AM CEST
Mother wins right to dead son's sperm
A judge has granted a mother's request to have someone harvest sperm from her dead son's body, so he can have children.
Nikolas Colton Evans, 21, died Sunday at a hospital after being punched and falling outside an Austin bar March 27.
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