As you might have heard, Georgian luge slider Nodar Kumaritashvili died in luge training at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver on February 12.
The International Olympics Committee has been using copyright to suppress videos of the event.
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A lot of posts on the blogosphere are talking about the NFL’s policy regarding SuperBowl parties and how it’s actually illegal to watch the SuperBowl on a TV larger than 55 inches.
But is that really true?
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Although I mentioned the East Anglia E-mails site (http://eastangliaemails.com/) in a previous post on Climategate, that site apparently doesn’t include the non-email files.
WikiLeaks has a 120 MB ZIP file available for download that includes everything that’s been released so far relating to the Climate Research Unit scandal.
Also at WikiLeaks is one article containing Sinclair Davidson’s [...]
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A problem with Microsoft’s RMS (Rights Management Services) prevented Office users from viewing their own files. The problem only affected Microsoft Office 2003, not Office 2007.
The TechNet bulletin seemed to be phrased in a strange way:
Starting on December 11, 2009, customers using Office 2003 will not be able to open Office 2003 documents protected with [...]
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Private e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England have been released to the Internet which may change the terms of the global warming debate.
The hullaballoo started when somebody calling themselves FOIA posted a message to the Air Vent blog which offered a tantalizing ZIP file about climate science [...]
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Wired.com is reporting that TuneCore is going to partner with Amazon to offer CD’s printed and distributed on demand. TuneCore will charge only $31 per year to prepare a 10-track CD. Music lovers will buy the CD’s on Amazon’s website, and musicians will get 40% of the proceeds.
TuneCore has generate $32 million in sales in [...]
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Cory Doctorow, the Canadian blogger and science fiction writer, has come out against ISPs’ increasing efforts to throttle and control bandwith and Internet accesss.
He argues in the Manchester Guardian that:
ISPs are censoring sites that they don’t agree with for whatever reason, including striking workers’ sites. It’s also outrageous to allow a service provider to block [...]
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The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that a San Fran chiropracter is suing a local artist who wrote a bad review of him in Yelp, the crowd-sourced business review site.
The story is being discussed on Slashdot here.
The dispute was over the doctor’s billing practices, not medical care. Ironically, he’s probably damaged his business much more [...]
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Slashdot is reporting that GoDaddy, the web registrar known for racy Superbowl commercials, has shut down a Palestinian children’s web site for what a private group calling itself the “Northeast Intelligence Network” described as a cartoon promoting attacks on Israel.
Although I’m not able to evaluate the webpage in question, I’m skeptical of the ability of [...]
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