Interstellar soot undermines the theory that a mysterious force is accelerating the expansion of the universe Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 11:26 am
Manchester United is to roll out a free desktop news service for fans that will offer video, match results and Old Trafford news in real time. By Jemima Kiss Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 11:04 am
MyBlogLog, a blogger social network acquired by Yahoo about a year ago, launched v.2 of their service tonight, with a significant new feature. You can see the MyBlogLog widget in the right sidebar of this... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 10:38 am
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's litigation campaign has met resistance from the academic community before, but now it's been taken to a whole new level: the defense of RIAA victims who are not part of the college community. First the University of Oregon lashed out on behalf of its students, then it was the University of Maine's Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic on behalf of its undergrads. Now, the University of San Francisco School of Law has taken the fight a giant step further. Its Intellectual Property Law Clinic's attorneys-in-training, working under the supervision of law professors, are going to bat against the RIAA by helping outside lawyers to defend their clients, pro bono. They reached out 3000 miles to get involved in Elektra v. Torres and Maverick v. Chowdhury, two cases going on in Brooklyn, NY, against non-college defendants. Two of the law students in the USF's legal program assisted in the research and preparation of briefs in these cases, opposing the RIAA's motion to dismiss the defendants' counterclaims. Thousands of honor students throughout United States law schools, most of them digital natives who actually understand the legal fallacies and technological missteps the RIAA is taking, and who can't wait to expose them, make a pretty good resource for the poor and middle class people trying to defend these cases."
First rumored in January, YouTube is definitely doing live video, and it’s happening this year. Sarah Meyers got the scoop (video above), transcript as follows care of NewTeeVee: Meyers: When are... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 9:14 am
Police investigating a bank card cloning scam at a petrol station found a small, drilled hole in the ceiling above a chip-and-pin machine. It is thought the hole, at a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 9:07 am
I just got word from MyKinda founder Lee Wilkins that he plans to shutdown the Eastern European blog network later today. The network launched just last September and was being bootstrapped. Earlier this... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 9:01 am
By Evan Ackerman I don’t know about your laptop, but the heat mine gives off could power a small industrial nation. Okay, maybe not, but it does a damn good job of toasting my pop tarts and rendering... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 9:01 am
Shares in the computer games company behind Tomb Raider plummeted 24% this morning after it said it would cancel 14 projects in a major restructruring. By Julia Kollewe Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:55 am
By Evan Ackerman This animated short from Pixar, entitled Lifted, was shown in theaters just before Ratatouille. If you missed out, it’s worth watching, and if you’ve seen it already, I’m... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:40 am
This interactive touch-based multiplayer game, called Firefly, is as far as I know the first example of a game designed specifically for Microsoft Surface. The premise is simple: use your fingers to corral... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:21 am
By Trabadelo, V Iturriza, I The microstructure of powder metallurgy T42 high speed steel has been analysed after isothermal annealing. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Gladkochub, Dmitry P Donskaya, Tatiana V; Wingate, Michael T D; Poller, Ulrike; Kroner, Alfred; Fedorovsky, Valentin S; Mazukabzov, Anatoliy M; Todt, Wolfgang; Pisarevsky, Sergei A Abstract: A significant portion of the continental crust of northern Eurasia is thought to have formed during the evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt at the time of accretion of continental terranes and island arcs. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Sharif, M A Sueyoshi, H Well defined porous ceramic particle/polymer matrix composites consisting of Si and nanosized ZrO^sub 2^ particles have been fabricated by the pyrolysis of phenolic resin at 1123 K in vacuum. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
The lawyers who represented two New York panhandlers in a class-action suit have been awarded more than $300,000 in legal fees. The lead plaintiff in the suit, Eddie Wise, received a payment of $100,000 in 2006 after a judge ruled that New York cannot make arrests for peaceful panhandling. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Joe Orso, La Crosse Tribune, Wis. Feb. 29--It still is unclear whether the planned addition to the La Crosse County Jail will be built to "green" certification standards, county board member Maureen Freedland said at a Clean Energy Coalition meeting Thursday night. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Beaven, Michael It is clear that we are reacting too slowly to the world around us and critically endemic problems are not being addressed.These are important times, in which our choices will crucially influence how we evolve. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
LONG BEACH Snow Day set for 5 parks Saturday Residents are invited to attend free Snow Day events at five city parks on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Each park will have a 30-by-30-foot snow play area and two snow slides for kids 5 to 12 years old. Sleds will be provided. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Grose, Thomas CLIMATE Nearly 40 percent of the world's population lives less than 100 miles from a shoreline, areas generally defined as coastal. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Stan Finger, The Wichita Eagle, Kan. Feb. 29--The Hilltop neighborhood was hit by an arsonist again late Wednesday night -- the sixth fire reported in the neighborhood in seven weeks. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By John Stamper, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky. Feb. 29--FRANKFORT -- A long-stymied bill that would require school districts to create policies dealing with bullies will get a hearing in a Senate committee -- but not before it is amended, Senate President David Williams said Thursday. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Michael Freimann, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill. Feb. 29--BLOOMINGTON -- As befits the world of the Internet, change is coming to the user comment section of . Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
The St. Charles County prosecutor said Monday there will be no criminal charges filed in the case of the teenage girl who committed suicide after being bullied on the Internet. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Hogge, Becky REBOOT Online file-sharing should be seen as an opportunity, rather than a threat, writes Becky Hogge Two days before Valentine's Day, the Open Rights Group, the grassroots organisation that I help run, found itself swept up in a media whirlwind. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Anonymous NEW YORK: An e-mail transmission error caused by PRWeek's third- party vendor company, Adicio, resulted in user names and passwords of some registered users of PRWeekJobs.com to be sent to other users. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Shah, Aarti LinkedIn's marketing and communications professionals work together to continually hone and spread the right message about the growing professional online network. By Aarti Shah Despite growing at a remarkable speed, Linkedln has confronted some daunting coverage. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Feb. 29--Driving around town is so last century. Now I'm traveling by computer mouse. I'll stop over sometime, and by stop over I mean swing by on Google Street View and click on your 'hood. It's like Facebook, but for buildings. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By The Philadelphia Inquirer Feb. 29--An incorrect e-mail address for columnist Rick Santorum was published yesterday. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Electrum announces the release of SortSite 2.0, a one-click web site checking and analysis tool. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By McGuire, Craig In today's digital age, social media and video elements are essential. By Craig McGuire A recent survey of journalists by Adanta PR firm Arketi Group found news releases are used by 90% of business journalists as sources for story ideas. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Mayor Nelson Harris chatted privately with his buddies on city council and decided it's a bad idea to turn one-way Church Avenue into a two-way street. Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. No one will ever know now, because Harris has cut off debate. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Dell Inc.'s fiscal fourth-quarter profit dropped 6.4%, falling short of Wall Street expectations, and the personal computer maker warned that more cautious spending by customers and higher costs could... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Yahoo! owned MyBlogLog flipped the switch tonight on a major overhaul of user profile pages and now integrates activity data from other services around the web. Less than a week after a small investment... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 7:58 am
In her post Google Sites the Next Sharepoint? Maybe Not...., Sarah Perez argues that Google's strategy with Google Apps is to "subvert the IT department altogether and appeal directly to the worker." But... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 7:57 am
Here's the latest photo in my series of pictures from my travels over the years: a pair of Vash the Stampede cosplayers at ComicCon San Diego last July -- like the Incredibles cosplayers, these guys... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 7:44 am
Here's the latest photo in my series of pictures from my travels over the years: a pair of Vash the Stampede cosplayers at ComicCon San Diego last July -- like the Incredibles cosplayers, these guys had their pose all worked out and dropped into it the second I took out my camera.
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The record industry has sued over 20,000 music fans to "protect artists' copyrights." But they haven't turned over any of the money to artists (of course, they never forked over any of the money from my.mp3.com, Grokster, Napster, etc).
A contingent of prominent artist managers claims that little to none of that money has trickled down to their clients. They are now considering legal action.
"Artist managers and lawyers have been wondering for months when their artists will see money from the copyright settlements and how it will be accounted for," said lawyer John Branca, who has represented Korn, Don Henley, and The Rolling Stones, among others.
"Some of them are even talking about filing lawsuits if they don't get paid soon."
A research team from LSU, Montana and France had found evidence that rain and snow are started by bacteria who are able to catalyse precipitation at lower temperatures than grit and dust:
Dust and soot particles can serve as ice nuclei, but biological ice nuclei are capable of catalyzing freezing at much warmer temperatures. If present in clouds, biological ice nuclei may affect the processes that trigger precipitation...
But, what makes this research more complicated is that most known ice-nucleating bacteria are plant pathogens. These pathogens, which are basically germs, can cause freezing injury in plants, resulting in devastating economic effects on agricultural crop yields.
The Shrine of the Mall Ninja collects the posts of "Gecko45," a poster to a gun-enthusiast message-board who claimed to be a mall security guard trained in ninjitsu who had been given special dispensation to use machineguns after the saved the mayor's newphew from being sodomized near the Gap store, bravely stepping in where the local SWAT team feared to tread. The guy's claims are amazing, milk-nose-sortingly great, and halfway through he creates a sock-puppet who heralds the brave mall-cops of America, who fight the fights that the FBI are too chicken to intervene in.
I am the Sergeant of a three-man Rapid Tactical Force at one of America’s largest indoor retail shopping areas...If you want to laugh at somebody, try laughing at the sheep out there who go to the mall unarmed trusting in me to stand guiard over their lives like a God...
I tell you that we are undervalued for our beneficial effect on society at large, for the urban and suburban shopping centers see %80 of the armed violence in this nation, and why don’t the cops take care of it, because they are a bunch of wusses, and they are not man enough to put up with the danger and stress. You all who are makeing fun of me have never been threatened by jailed drug dealers, serial killers, and shoplifters, or fired at by high powered rifles so excuse me if I decide to have good weapons to protect and defend myself without all of you makeing fun of my choice, and they way I do my job!
My “Black-Ops” history ensures that you will never know about the missions I accepted in my younger days, and Vietnam still shudders when it hears the name of a an assasin so skillful and deadly, he is remembered decades later.
A family in Hatley, WI, was so fed up with the local "mailbox baseball" team that they staked out their mailbox, followed the vandals in a 100mph chase, tracked them to a gas-station, blocked them in and called the cops.
While repairing the mailbox again on Saturday, Greg Fisher suspected that it might again be targeted. Fisher, 49, and his son Dustin, 18, took watch at 2 a.m. Sunday, and their diligence was rewarded less than an hour later when a truck drove past three times. The final time, a man took a baseball bat to the mailbox.
"It was frustrating watching someone smash your property," said Greg, who was in the house when the mailbox was smashed.
Dustin, who was waiting in a car in the driveway, followed the truck for more than eight miles through Hatley and onto Highway 29. As the truck reached speeds of nearly 100 mph, Dustin slowed down after getting a partial license plate number, he said.
coondoggie points out a Networkworld story about plans for modular satellite technology which is intended to replace modern, "monolithic" devices. The project hopes to solve issues of scalability and reliability by separating the typical satellite systems and allowing the different modules to change function when necessary. Quoting: "According to DARPA such a virtual satellite effectively constitutes a "bus in the sky" - wherein customers need only provide and deploy a payload module suited to their immediate mission need, with the supporting features supplied by a global network of infrastructure modules already resident on-orbit and at critical ground locations. In addition, there can be sharing of resources between various "spacecraft" that are within sufficient range for communication. DARPA said ... within the F6 network all subsystems and payloads can be treated like a uniquely addressable computing peripheral or network device. Such an approach can provide a long sought after "plug-n-play" capability, according to the agency."
Samsung Heavy Industries, whose vessel was involved in South Korea's worst oil spill, said Friday it was donating some 107 million dollars to help victims -- which they rejected as... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 7:13 am
BEIJING, Feb. 29 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Baidu.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU), the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, today announced its intention to launch an... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 6:32 am
SAN ANTONIO, Feb 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SmartCard Marketing Systems Inc (PinkSheets: SMKG) As stated by the company, "We are pleased to announce that the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 6:30 am
EXTON, Pa., Feb. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WPCS International Incorporated (Nasdaq: WPCS) (WPCS), a leader in design-build engineering services for specialty... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 6:30 am
MOSCOW and NEW YORK, Feb. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Open Joint Stock Company "Vimpel-Communications" ("VimpelCom") (NYSE: VIP) today announced the ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 6:09 am
CHICAGO, Feb. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- New technologies and bigger incentives headline InterCall's Wholesale Partner Program. InterCall, the world's largest ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 6:00 am
Roy Doty has been illustrating books and magazines since the 1940s. I first came across his work around 1970 when I acquired an old stack of Popular Science magazines from the 1950s. He did (and still does) a regular comic strip called "Wordless Workshop," which showed you how to make something cool without using any words to describe how. That's difficult to pull off, but Doty's clear and precise drawing style was (and is) up to the task.
When we started MAKE in 2004, I was overjoyed to learn that Doty was still illustrating. I wrote him and asked if he'd like to illustrate our puzzle page. When he said yes, it was a dream come true.
To celebrate Leap Year, Doty sent out this delightful card of a Rube Goldberg-style machine designed to get you out of bed. Doty sends out a card for nearly every season and holiday. I think it's because he finds a lot of joy in life.
Dell Inc. executives say it's too early to judge the success of their latest push into the consumer PC market, but the computer maker's latest financial results show that the company still has a long way... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 5:06 am
Microsoft Corp. will cut the price of some versions of Windows Vista, the software maker said late Thursday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 5:06 am
China's top search engine Baidu.com has been sued by a local music industry group for alleged copyright violation, the second recent similar action from the industry, the group said. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 5:06 am
China's top search engine Baidu.com has been sued by a local music industry group for alleged copyright violation, the second recent similar action from the industry, the group said. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 5:02 am
Microsoft Corp. will cut the price of some versions of Windows Vista, the software maker said late Thursday. The move came a day after court filings revealed internal dissent over ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 5:01 am
An anonymous reader writes "Popular Mechanics has been getting some great access inside the labs at MIT all week, and they've gotten some interesting looks at developing technologies. Robot-assisted rehab with gaming-style controllers comes out of the biomechanics lab, blind and crash-proof UAV testing with F/X cameras is being done at the aerospace controls lab, and work on electric scooters with super-cheap assembly is proceeding at the Media Lab. Perhaps most exciting is a fight for funding while the holy grail of clean fusion power in reach at the plasma center. The article on fusion predicts, "We'd see economically feasible fusion power by 2035, at the earliest, and increasingly efficient commercial reactors somewhere in the middle of the century."
For the first time in the litigation over documents posted on the Wikileaks Web site, lawyers have appeared representing the owner of the Wikileaks.org Internet domain, John Shipton, "a citizen of Australia... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 3:36 am
spikedLemur writes "Vladimir Vukicevic of the Firefox team stumbled upon some questionable practices from Apple while trying to improve the performance of Firefox. Apparently, Apple is using some undocumented APIs that give Safari a significant performance advantage over other browsers. Of course, "undocumented" means that non-Apple developers have to try and reverse-engineer these interfaces to get the same level of performance. You really have to wonder what Apple is thinking, considering the kind of retaliation Microsoft has gotten for similar practices.
A 17-year old from East Boston, blind from birth, has nevertheless gained access to telephone company systems over and over again. It's pissing off AT&T and Verizon and making him the target of federal prosecutors and the FBI.
Julius Caesar figures out that those extra hours have added up, and he reforms the Roman calendar by adding an extra day every four years. Enter the leap year.
British scholar Susan Blackmore says that as memes -- ideas or information that copy themselves from person to person through repetition -- are evolving much like genes. In fact, Blackmore argues that humans are mere vehicles for the replication and evolution of memes.
The TED Prize event is streaming live now. I watched it last year and it was very moving. I imagine it will be again this year.
About the 2008 TEDPrize
The TED Prize was created as a way of taking the inspiration, ideas and resources generated at TED and using them to make a difference. Winners receive a prize of $100,000 each, and more importantly, a wish. A wish to change the world.
During today's session, webcast live from Monterey, California, the 2008 TEDPrize winners will unveil their wishes for the first time. Prize winners Neil Turok, Dave Eggars and Karen Armstong will be joined by singer-songwriter Vusi Mahlasela.
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. , maker of the "Grand Theft Auto" video game series, said Thursday that other companies are interested in buying it, but Take Two has not received any formal offers and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 1:20 am
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "It seems that SCO is never without a trick up its sleeve. In the new '$100 million' reorganization plan, $5 million of which is cash and $95 million credit, one of the creditors is protesting because SCO is hiding the Definitive Documents until there's no time to object. In their own words, 'The debtors are proposing to file the Disclosure Statement 33 days before the hearing, in compliance with the requirement that it be filed at least 25 days before the hearing (F. R. Bankr. P. 3017). However, it is clear that this Disclosure Statement will be inadequate for evaluating the Plan, because it will not include any of the Definitive Documents. The Debtors are proposing to file the Definitive Documents separately, and to do so a mere five business days before the hearing, which is zero days before objections are due.'"
Wired's Lore Sjöberg dives into the Legend of Zelda universe for a look at Link's boomerangs, swords, bombs and other tools of destruction. Join us each week for Lore's cartoons and his insightful, slightly warped commentary.
Author Dave Hajdu tells the story of an infamous time in magazine history in the United States in his new book, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. While today's gamers eagerly await the latest version of Grand Theft Auto, we recall a time when the ten-cent comic book was about as titillating as it got, and what the U.S. did to try to purge it.
Got a bone to pick with an internet adversary? Peeved at a scofflaw organization or a shady political figure? Get revenge in proper geek fashion by crafting a Google bomb.
Departing Adobe Systems Inc. CEO Bruce Chizen received compensation valued at $8.3 million in 2007 and gained another $29.6 million by exercising stock options that year, according to a regulatory filing... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 29 Feb 2008 | 12:41 am
One reason Blu-ray drives haven't shown up in many notebook PCs may be that early versions of the drives are power hogs, eating up so much battery life that you might only get halfway through a movie before needing to plug in.
One reason Blu-ray drives haven't shown up in many notebook PCs may be that early versions of the drives are power hogs, eating up so much battery life that you might only get halfway through a movie before needing to plug in.
(I'm liveblogging from TED 2008, in Monterey, CA)
Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, is a global leadership and public policy professor at Harvard. She's talking about American responses to mass atrocities and genocide.
Rwandan genocide in 1990s: 700,000 people died. The 1994, the NYT reported between 200k and 300k people had already been killed. Patricia Schroeder, US Rep from Colorado, told the paper that hundreds of US citizens were calling about ape and gorilla deaths in Rwanda, but nobody was calling about the people who were dying. "There wasn't an endangered people's movement."
Today, universities and high schools have started an endangered people's movement. Anti-genocide groups. These student driven groups have launched divestment campaigns, launched a 1-800-Genocide number. Type in your zip code and it will refer you to your representative. Genocide grades for members of congress. This movement has put bottom up pressure on Bush leadership to take action Rwanda, and it's working.
An anonymous reader brings us an Ars Technica report about a proposed bill in Tennessee which would require state-funded universities to enforce anti-piracy standards. The universities would be forced to "track down and stop infringing activity" or risk losing their funding. The U.S. Congress requested last year that certain universities do this voluntarily. Quoting: "Efforts taken by universities thus far to deter and prevent piracy have had mixed results. The University of Utah, for instance, claims that it has reduced MPAA and RIAA complaints by 90 percent and saved $1.2 million in bandwidth costs by instituting anti-piracy filtering mechanisms. However, the school revealed that their filtering system hasn't been able to stop encrypted P2P traffic and noted that students will find ways to circumvent any system. The end result, some say, will be a costly arms race as students perpetually work to circumvent anti-piracy systems put in place by universities."
The Chariot is NASA's radically new design for a lunar rover. No doors, no windows and no seats -- and each of its six wheels has independent steering.
In December, I wrote about Pangea Day, a "global film event showcasing short films from around the world," on May 10. Just now, TED released the trailer on YouTube.
Klatoo55 writes "Various artists are considering lawsuits in order to press for their share of the estimated hundreds of millions of dollars the RIAA has obtained from settlements with services such as Bolt, KaZaA, and Napster. According to TorrentFreak's report on the potential action, there may not even be much left to pay out after monstrous legal fees are taken care of. The comments from the labels all claim that the money is on its way, and is simply taking longer due to difficulties dividing it all up."
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The European Parliament just passed a proposal to treat internet censorship as a trade barrier, in particular the 'Great Firewall of China.' If passed by the European Council, the issue would be raised in trade negotiations and could lead to economic sanctions and trade restrictions for those countries unwilling to remove oppressive Net censorship." We have discussed some of the ways in which the EU, and its member countries, engage in their own brand of censorship.
thorwil writes "Brainstorm is a new site where everyone can submit and vote on ideas for Ubuntu. It's inspired by Dell's Ideastorm. By default, you see the ideas submitted by the community sorted by popularity. Each idea is accompanied by arrows so you can vote it up or down (you have to log in first). You can only click once per idea. So this is an easy way to submit ideas and see what people are really wanting."
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered flaws in the card payment systems used by millions of customers worldwide. Ross Anderson, Saar Drimer, and Steven Murdoch demonstrated how a simple paper clip can be used to capture account numbers and PINs from so-called 'tamper-proof' equipment. In their paper (PDF), they warn how with a little technical skill and off-the-shelf electronics, fraudsters could empty customers' accounts. British television featured a demonstration of the attack on BBC Newsnight."
About the 2008 TEDPrize
Rwandan genocide in 1990s: 700,000 people died. The 1994, the NYT reported between 200k and 300k people had already been killed. Patricia Schroeder, US Rep from Colorado, told the paper that hundreds of US citizens were calling about ape and gorilla deaths in Rwanda, but nobody was calling about the people who were dying. "There wasn't an endangered people's movement."
