Absurd Patent Claim Leads to Worldwide Boycott on Trend Micro
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dotSUB: a Polyglot YouTube Alternative
YouTube has been everyone’s favorite soap box for quite some time now. For anyone who lives in a country where TV programs are just painful to watch, YouTube is such a lifesaver. Not only is it a great source of information and misinformation, it’s also a practical platform for citizen journalism. It has been so effective in its instant gratification, and so convincing in its democracy, that we almost forget that our worshiped soap box is still controlled by a corporation that has its own interest to look out for. Not every video is treated equal. Sure, it can’t prevent you from getting on the soap box, but it can give you a defect megaphone; it can’t tell the pedestrians to go away, but it can employ warm bodies to pose as bystanders to block you from view. keep reading… »
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Comcast Launches Denial-of-Citizen Attack on Democracy
Remember those Net Neutrality videos you watched on CC a while ago? Turns out some corporation not only wants to control the Internet traffic, they want to block public forums as well. Last year Comcast, one of the biggest cable companies and Internet Service Providers in the United States, was caught injecting forged TCP/RST packets into users’ traffic to interfere with their BitTorrent uploads and downloads. FCC, or the Federal Communications Commission, therefore set up a public hearing to take place on February 25th at the Harvard Law School on a first-come, first-served basis. Based on discussions on this public forum as well as written comments from private citizens, the regulators may establish on what ISPs may and may not do. keep reading… »
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Have I Got A Story for You!
Got 20 minutes to spare? My friend Shaunessy sent me this link which I just have to share with everyone:
The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
If the video on the linked page takes too long to load, just click ‘keep reading’. Enjoy! keep reading… »
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Gmail Reveals Browsing History to Contacts as Ad Links
updates at the end of the article.
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We all know that Gmail scans your email messages for key words to display related ad links right next to your correspondence if you use the browser to access your Gmail account. Now, it looks like the ad giant might be doing more than just scanning your email messages.
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Do You Know What’s in Your Food or What’s in Your OS?
It’s the 4th Friday of the month and you know it’s time for your favorite A Gentle Introduction to Linux for Non-Geeks again! I’m going to keep this one short because one of my best friends from high school is coming to visit me for a week, and I want to tidy up my messy apartment before picking him up from the airport. As any best friends would do for their best friends, I stuffed the fridge with lots of our favorite foods and products from the supermarket. Let’s just say it’s a whole lot of sugary goodness! Since we’re both very omnivorous when it comes to eating, if it’s yummy, it’s in the cart. But for the more health conscious people the information on the food label is an essential read before any purchase. Apart from the name of the product, the address of the manufacturer, it also gives us the ingredients list and nutrition facts.
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Is Your OS telling you what to do? Or: Do You Get Ice Cream Headaches?
It’s the 4th Friday of the month and you know it’s time for your favorite A Gentle Introduction to Linux for Non-Geeks again! Did you go see the Simpsons Movie yet? We in Germany are lucky enough to see the film one day ahead of the official release in the US and the UK; in fact, some movie theaters were showing the dubbed version on the 25th already! Without telling you guys too much I’ll only say this: No it doesn’t suck at all, no it’s not the best episode ever, and yes I’d watch it another 50 times! Do you know that Ben & Jerry’s made an ice cream flavor called “Duff and D’oh-Nuts” specially for the movie premiere in Springfield, Vermont? It’s a combination of chocolate and cream stout with chunks of glazed chocolate donuts. According to Ben & Jerry’s it’s a “one-time and one-day-only” flavor, but who says we can’t make our own donut ice cream?
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