Rock singer sues to prevent U.S. Senate candidate from using his music. Candidate says he has a First Amendment right to the song. YouTube is caught in the middle.
There’s a lot of information about many of us spread around the web and though privacy is important to discuss – there’s also another side of that coin. It can be very useful to tie together info from disparate sources about a particular individual. Today I saw a tool for finding those various profile pages that really impressed me.
Mathiasdm writes “The Invisible Internet Project, also known as I2P, has seen its 0.7.2 release (download). I2P uses multiple encryption layers, and routing through several other computers to hide both sender and receiver of messages. On top of the network, regular services such as mail, browsing, file sharing and chatting are supported. This release (and all of the releases since 0.7) is at the start of a new development period, in which the I2P developers wish to spread the word about the secure network. This new release includes performance improvements, a first edition of an experimental new desktop interface and security improvements (by limiting the number of tunnels a single peer can participate in).”
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tuna writes “A real-world test by the Dutch province of Zeeland (a very windy place) demonstrates that small windmills are a fundamentally flawed technology (PDF of tests results in Dutch, English summary). Twelve much-hyped micro wind turbines were placed in a row on an open plain. Their energy yield was measured over a period of one year (April 1, 2008 — March 31, 2009), the average wind velocity during these 12 months was 3.8 meters per second, slightly higher than average. Three windmills broke. The others recorded ridiculously low yields, in spite of the optimal conditions. It would take up to 141 small windmills to power an average American household entirely using wind energy, for a total cost of 780,000 dollars. The test results show clearly that energy return is closely tied to rotor diameter, and that the design of the windmill hardly matters.”
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travalas writes “Last year I moved to Rural Bangladesh. My work is pretty diverse, everything from hacking web apps to designing building materials. Increasingly a Linux VM on my MacBook Pro is insufficient due to storage speed/processing constraints and the desire to interface more easily with some sensor packages. There are a few issues that make that make a standard server less than desirable. This server will generally not be running with any sort of climate control and it may need to move to different locations so would also be helpful if it was somewhat portable. The environment here is hot, humid and dusty and brutal on technology and power is very inconsistent so it will often be on a combination of Interruptible Power Supply and solar power. So a UPS is a must and low power consumption desirable, so it strikes me that an Integrated UPS a la Google’s servers would be handy. Spec wise it needs to be it needs to be able to handle several VM’s and some other processor storage intensive tasks. So 4 cores, 8GB of ram and 3-4 TB of SATA storage seems like a place to start for processing specs. What sort of hardware would you recommend without breaking the bank?”
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New pirate attack thwarted in Gulf of Aden
CNN International (CNN) — NATO forces patrolling the Gulf of Aden foiled a pirate attack on a Norwegian tanker this weekend, a NATO spokesman said. Canadian, British, US vessels foil pirates in Gulf of Aden CBC.ca Nato foils Somali pirates' attack BBC News Voice of America – AFP – Reuters – Bloomberg all 1,481 news articles |
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Iran president urges full defense for US reporter
The Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran's president said Sunday that an American journalist convicted of spying for the US should be allowed to offer a full defense during her appeal, a day after she was sentenced to eight years in prison. Iran urges Islamic countries to unite PRESS TV Obama: Iran should free Iranian-American journalist Reuters UK Bloomberg – Voice of America – Xinhua – AFP all 2,586 news articles |
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Woodstock pond searched for Tori Stafford
Toronto Star Members of the OPP underwater search and recovery unit walk through a pond in Woodstock April 18, 2009 seeking signs of Tori Stafford, 8, who has been missing since April 8. April 8: A security camera captures a blurry image of Tori walking away from … Intensified search for Tori Stafford continues with no word of … The Canadian Press Police search water for missing Woodstock girl Canada.com London Free Press – CBC.ca – Edmonton Sun – Globe and Mail all 465 news articles Langue : Français |
By Sylvie Barak IT WILL BE THE year of the paranoid Android, according to Google chief, Eric Schmidt. On Google’s Q1 analyst call, Schmidt said it looked “like Android is going to have a very, very strong year” adding “the open source part of the …
surpeis writes “This snub is an attempt to point the finger at something I feel has been widely ignored in the ever-lasting debate surrounding (illegal) filesharing, now again brought in the spotlight by the Pirate Bay trial. I should state that I am slightly biased, as I have been running my own indie label for some years, spanning about 30 releases. It’s now history, but it was not filesharing that got the best of us, just for the record.” (surpeis’s argument continues below.)
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