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

Montana (@antikx) — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:35:27 +0000

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)

Montana (@antikx) — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:00:04 +0000

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

Montana (@antikx) — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:00:06 +0000

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

Montana (@antikx) — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:00:06 +0000

Michael Geist sez,

Eye Candy: Amazing Bilbo Baggins Dollhouse

Montana (@antikx) — Sun, 09 May 2010 04:00:06 +0000

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

Montana (@antikx) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:00:07 +0000

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’

Montana (@antikx) — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:00:06 +0000

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

Montana (@antikx) — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:00:13 +0000

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

Montana (@antikx) — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:00:04 +0000

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

Montana (@antikx) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:00:10 +0000

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 [...]

Internet Explorer 9 Will Not Support Windows XP

Montana (@antikx) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:00:06 +0000

MojoKid writes “As it turns out, news this week is that the same features that made IE9’s hardware-acceleration possible probably aren’t compatible with Windows XP. Microsoft initially dodged giving a straight answer to the question of XP support but has since admitted that the new browser won’t be XP-compatible when it launches. This has created [...]

Amazon posts Kindle for Mac

Montana (@antikx) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:00:05 +0000

Buy and read e-books in OS X

Amazon has rolled out the Mac version of its Kindle-on-a-computer application, and it’s open to e-book buyers in the UK.…

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Popular Science archives, online and free

Montana (@antikx) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:00:16 +0000

Popular Science, in partnership with Google, just put its 137-year archive online, for free. You can’t yet browse by issue; rather, the entry point is a keyword search box. But yes, the ads are all there too. At left, Chatroulette, er, I mean “You See Your Party On New Video Phone” (September, 1950). Ah, [...]

Review: Fujitsu LifeBook UH900 (LOOX U/G90)

Montana (@antikx) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:00:06 +0000

The newest model in the Fujitsu LifeBook U series of mini notebooks is the UH900, a lightweight clamshell device with a high-resolution 5.6″ multitouch display, Windows 7, Intel Atom processor, 2GB of RAM, and very fast SSD. While decently configured in the US with a 1.6GHz CPU and integrated GPS, the Japanese versions of the [...]

New Graphical Interface for Ubuntu on ARM

Montana (@antikx) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:00:06 +0000

Linux is the operating system of choice for devices with ARM processors. Unfortunately problems with graphics appear in most cases. Ubuntu wants to fix this with a new GUI.

No matter if a smartphone, smart netbook or embedded device, most hardware with an ARM CPU is currently running Linux. It’s natural that Ubuntu therefore wants a [...]

Quake 3 ported to Android, shows off Droid’s graphical prowess (video)

Montana (@antikx) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:00:13 +0000

You should by now be well aware that there’s no shortage of games one can play on one’s beloved Droid, but just for the FPS old schoolers out there, how’s about a nice Quake 3 port to pass the time with? Yup, the game that defined the term multiplayer before World of Warcraft came around [...]

Ice Shelves Disappearing on Antarctic Peninsula

Montana (@antikx) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:00:07 +0000

Ice shelves are retreating in the southern section of the Antarctic Peninsula due to climate change. This could result in glacier retreat and sea-level rise if warming continues, threatening coastal communities and low-lying islands worldwide.

Research by the U.S. Geological Survey is the first to document that every ice front in the southern part of the [...]

SCOTT HORTON—A Convergence of Extremes

Montana (@antikx) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:00:11 +0000

From Jonathan Schwarz: . . .

Berlin children win right to be noisy

Montana (@antikx) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:00:10 +0000

Children in the German capital Berlin win the right to be exempt from strict laws on noise pollution.

People’s Passwords: Worst Practices (Graphic)

Montana (@antikx) — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:00:13 +0000

Analysis of the 32 million passwords exposed in the recent breach at RockYou provides further proof that people routinely use easy to guess logins. Many use the same password for everything – from their private work accounts. But how breakable is your password and what does it say about you?