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US record labels starts fake “citizen’s group” to support Canada’s DMCA

A website in support of Canada’s proposed US-style copyright law looks to be a work of corporate astroturf, and signs point to the Canadian Record Industry Association (mostly composed of US record labels; many Canadian labels have left to form an independent lobby that opposes much of CRIA’s agenda) as the entity behind it. [...]

Big Xbox Live Game Sale for E3 2010 (20+ games)

It’s a good time to buy some games on Xbox Live! Coinciding with E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo), Microsoft is unleashing a some very low prices on a big selection of games (20+). Five of the games are already on sale, and almost 20 more will join them from June 16 to June [...]

Canada's DMCA, dissected

Michael Geist sez,

As expected, the Canadian government today introduced its own DMCA [ed: the US copyright law that has been in place for 12 years, resulting in tens of thousands of lawsuits against Americans without having any effect on infringement or delivering any new income to artists]. Despite a full national consultation and [...]

Canada’s DMCA, dissected

Michael Geist sez,

As expected, the Canadian government today introduced its own DMCA [ed: the US copyright law that has been in place for 12 years, resulting in tens of thousands of lawsuits against Americans without having any effect on infringement or delivering any new income to artists]. Despite a full national consultation and [...]

Eye Candy: Amazing Bilbo Baggins Dollhouse

Maddie Chambers went and built herself a super impressive looking Bag End hobbit hole dollhouse. It’s amazing. I posted a couple more pictures after the jump, but Maddie has between two and three billion on her website which you should go check out to see the whole thing. My penis? You’d [...]

All of Gopherspace as a single download

In 2007, John Goerzen scraped every gopher site he could find (gopher was a menu-driven text-only precursor to the Web; I got my first online gig programming gopher sites). He saved 780,000 documents, totalling 40GB. Today, most of this is offline, so he’s making the entire archive available as a .torrent file; the compressed [...]

Tributes to 'father of computing'

Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen lead tributes to Edward Roberts, the “father of the PC”, who died at the age of 68.

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Windows 7 is safer when the admin isn’t around

Not that we necessarily needed a report to tell us this, but the fewer privileges you afford yourself as a Windows user, the more secure your operating system becomes. Such is the conclusion of a new report from BeyondTrust, a company that — surprise, surprise — sells software for “privileged access management.” The only way [...]

Disputed Bay of Bengal island disappears under rising seas

Global warming claims a tiny island disputed by India and Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal, scientists say.

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Grotius—Conscience and Judgment

We should keep in mind that a proposed course of action may in itself be lawful, but the actor contemplating it should weigh first all the circumstances. He might conclude that it is unlawful, that it is vicious and bad. This is what the Apostle Paul means when he says, Rom. xiv. 23, that “whatsoever [...]