Sunday, 24 July 2011
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Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Blog - And the Longest-Running Digital Storage Medium Is...
Most storage media are but blips in the history of computers
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HTC Status hands-on (video)
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Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Minnesota Wi-Fi hacker gets 18 years in prison for terrorizing neighbors (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Minnesota hacker Barry Ardolf was sentenced to an 18-year term in a federal prison this Tuesday. Ardolf had terrorized a neighboring family for two years through a carefully planned campaign involving a hijacked Wi-Fi network to harass, frame and embarrass the next-door neighbors in every facet of their lives.
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Copyright As Censorship: Newport Television Abusing DMCA To Try To Silence Criticism
Another day, another case of someone abusing copyright law (and the DMCA specifically) to try to stifle criticism. Before we get into the details, let me be clear on one thing: as I was just discussing last week, I don't think the panics about "media consolidation" are really that reasonable in this day and age. As such, I find myself very much on the other side, philosophically, with Free Press on its new "Save The News" campaign against media consolidation. As far as I'm concerned, if dinosaur media organizations want to merge, let them. That just opens up more opportunities for upstarts. So, even as someone who isn't impressed by the campaign, I'm 100% behind them on their response to Newport Television, an operation so upset by this campaign that it's abusing copyright law to stifle Free Press' criticism.
The crux of Free Press' argument is that local TV stations are skirting media ownership rules by setting up joint operations with other channels to share costs. Basically, it allows operations to consolidate without technically being owned by the same operation. As an example, they pointed to Newport's WAWS-TV and WTEV-TV, which share services and have a consolidated news room. They included a screenshot of the two websites and logos briefly in a video discussing this. Free Press points to this video, but, for the life of me, I can't see either station mentioned or their logos anywhere.
Either way, showing a screenshot and a log in such cases is clearly not a copyright violation at all. But Newport Television not only sent a bogus cease-and-desist (embedded below) to Free Press, but also issued a bogus DMCA takedown to YouTube, who took down the video. Free Press, of course, is not one to back down and has filed a counternotice and responded sternly to Newport Television, which has just called a lot more attention to its news sharing practices, whether you think they're a good idea or a bad idea.
This is a clear case of Newport Television abusing copyright law and the DMCA, in particular, to stifle and censor critical commentary. Even if you disagree with Free Press on this issue (as I do), I at least believe they have the right to be heard. In fact, if anything, Newport Television's actions here make me more sympathetic to Free Press' position here than I would be otherwise.
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The crux of Free Press' argument is that local TV stations are skirting media ownership rules by setting up joint operations with other channels to share costs. Basically, it allows operations to consolidate without technically being owned by the same operation. As an example, they pointed to Newport's WAWS-TV and WTEV-TV, which share services and have a consolidated news room. They included a screenshot of the two websites and logos briefly in a video discussing this. Free Press points to this video, but, for the life of me, I can't see either station mentioned or their logos anywhere.
Either way, showing a screenshot and a log in such cases is clearly not a copyright violation at all. But Newport Television not only sent a bogus cease-and-desist (embedded below) to Free Press, but also issued a bogus DMCA takedown to YouTube, who took down the video. Free Press, of course, is not one to back down and has filed a counternotice and responded sternly to Newport Television, which has just called a lot more attention to its news sharing practices, whether you think they're a good idea or a bad idea.
This is a clear case of Newport Television abusing copyright law and the DMCA, in particular, to stifle and censor critical commentary. Even if you disagree with Free Press on this issue (as I do), I at least believe they have the right to be heard. In fact, if anything, Newport Television's actions here make me more sympathetic to Free Press' position here than I would be otherwise.
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Ford uses recycled tires, soy for seals and gaskets in several 2011MY vehicles
Ford and Recycled Polymeric Materials have partnered to make gaskets and seals made from recycled tires, soy, and other "biorenewable content."
Congress Condemns Belarus For Doing A Bunch Of Things It Wants To Do
Recently, the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning Belarus for various human rights violations. It lists out all the various rights violations, and some of them are certainly pretty bad, and I have no doubt that the government of Belarus is doing some highly questionable things. Yet, there's one section of the resolution that seems especially interesting, given certain actions in Congress lately:
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The Government of Belarus has restricted freedom of expression on the Internet by requiring Internet Service Providers to maintain data on Internet users and the sites they view and to provide such data to officials upon request, and by creating a government body with the authority to require Internet Service Providers to block Web sites.Fascinating. Because, Congress here in the US is currently debating two bills that seem to do exactly that as well. There's the data retention bill (disguised as an anti-child porn bill) and there's the PROTECT IP Act, which would give the government power to require ISPs to effectively block web sites. It's as if Congress doesn't even realize what it's doing and what it's saying.
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Sweden?s 13th Lab brings augmented reality to Apple iPad
Swedish company 13th Lab, a Stockholm-based startup has been working on its own augmented-reality-like system for the iPad that uses a complex computer vision technique employed by NASA. 13th Lab is looking to turn the technology into a platform that developers can use for AR. 
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Apple may be looking to add another iPad manufacturer
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Kleiner-Backed Katango Organizes Your Facebook Friends Into Groups For You (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch)
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Kleiner-Backed Katango Organizes Your Facebook Friends Into Groups For You — Perhaps there's something to these friend circle/list/groups after all. — As you've doubtless heard by now, Google recently launched a social network that revolves around one core idea: people want to share different things …
Monday, 11 July 2011
IPad users like to lounge in easy chairs, browse on Safari, report says
It was only a matter of time before some institution of higher learning surveyed iPad owners about the burning question: Where are you usually when you're using the tablet computer? In a bus? Bedroom? Kitchen? Hiding from your boss in...
Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/07/ipad-user-habits.html
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New radar can detect suicide bombers from 100 yards away (Yahoo! News)
Yahoo! News - The U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan face many threats every day, but none is more unpredictable than individuals willing to sacrifice their own lives to attack. Suicide bombers have been a major issue since the very earliest days of ?
HTC says smartphone bootloader unlock software out next month
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HTC will begin releasing unlocked version of its Android smartphones' bootloader code next month.?
iPhoto, GarageBand & iMovie updated in Mac App Store (Updated)
A brief moment of confusion overtook us this morning as we got reports of new versions of GarageBand (6.0.4), iMovie (9.0.4) and iPhoto (9.1.5), with minor bug fixes plus tweaks to iMovie's ability to import projects from the iOS editions of the app.
When several of us fired up Software Update to grab the new builds, the updates were nowhere to be seen -- yet our tipster was insistent that the new updates were there. Our friends at MacUpdate also had them listed... and that's where we figured out the mystery. So far, only the Mac App Store versions of the apps have been revised; the conventionally-installed iLife versions have not yet been released.
While we're sure the 'classic' updates will be forthcoming momentarily, this split-update did give us a moment's pause. As far as we can recall, this is the first time any of Apple's products have been available in newer versions on the MAS than via Software Update. Times, they are a-changin'.
Thanks, Jason!
Update: iMovie, GarageBand, and iPhoto updates are now showing up in Software Update.
Update 2: iWeb 3.0.4 and iDVD 7.1.2 are also available in Software Update.
iPhoto, GarageBand & iMovie updated in Mac App Store (Updated) originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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NPD: Video game sales boosted by content purchases
NPD says video game spending increased slightly in the first quarter, aided by sales of downloadable games and virtual content.
Source: http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/npd-video-game-sales-boosted-by-content-purchases/
Dell Alienware Get Killer Wireless-N 1103 Network Adapters
Those who are thinking of buying one of those sophisticated Dell Alienware gaming notebooks just got an extra reason to do so now that four such machines got special networking solutions from Bigfoot.Bigfoot Networks specializes in high-end solutions that connect systems to all sorts of networks and, thus, the Internet.
London could face cuts for not sharing services
City has so far made just �1.2m savings out of �300m annual target...
The London Assembly's budget and performance committee has been told that police, fire and transport authorities that do not share back office services may have their budgets cut.?
Soap Media
It's way early to handicap anything along the scale of winners and losers, but many things are already obvious. Plus has conquered the media, but what of it? Unlike Apple, which changed the media with the iPad, Google has slapped a fresh coat of paint on the social chat room that was Friendfeed and provided a reasonably safe bet that the work we put in will be accessible for some substantial time to come. Worth investing in the stream of notifications as we remodel our graphs one more time. Without the aggregation of citations, Plus is more an interactive manual for itself than anything disruptive. Google has the time and motivation to get everyone in their seats before starting the game, and we're comfortable enough waiting while we check our old familiar streams to see what we're missing. This time around, we're dealing with a platform that won't collapse when Track is turned on.
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Sunday, 10 July 2011
How Apple Led The High-Stakes Patent Poker Win Against Google, Sealing Ballmer?s Promise
"It's not like Android's free. Android has a patent fee. You do have to license patents." That was Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in an interview last year with The Wall Street Journal. At the time, Microsoft was on the verge of releasing their first Windows Phone 7 devices, and knew their best hope in the market would be to go after Android ? the same OS which quickly ran Windows Mobile into extinction. In the months that have followed, right or wrong, it looks like Microsoft is slowly but surely forcing Google's OEM partners for Android to agree with this stance. The reality is that for an increasing number of these partners now, Android is not free. It doesn't require the�licensing�fees that Windows Phone does, but it does require a patent fee. A fee paid to Microsoft, not Google, mind you. If Microsoft is able to convince (or force) Samsung to pay this fee as well, it's likely lights out for Android as a free OS, as Tom Krazit rightly points out on paidContent today. And with Microsoft and now HP offering their own rival mobile OSes backed by a vast array of patent protection, some of these OEM partners may begin to think twice about their firm Android commitments. At least, that's undoubtedly Microsoft's hope. Android as a free mobile OS that rivals iOS in terms of functionality is an�unbelievable�value proposition. But Android as an OS that requires you to pay Microsoft for each unit shipped is less so.
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Modern community building
The Stack Exchange network is already up to 51 sites on diverse topics, from math to cooking to science fiction. Each site is a community on its own, and each community has its own needs and values. Pouring a big fat algorithm in equal measures on top of 51 different groups of people does not always work the way you might hope it would work. Maybe that?s why the super-algorithm companies (like Google) tend to suck when they try to build social applications.
Our goal as a company is to incubate each of these 51 communities?to get them to critical mass. Critical mass is that magic moment when the community has enough activity that it grows by itself.
Building communities on the Internet is a new kind of profession. There are an awful lot of technology companies, founded by programmers, who think they are building communities on the Internet, but they?re really just building software and wondering why the community doesn?t magically show up.
Stack Exchange is trying really hard not to suck at building communities. I would say we?re earning a solid B so far, but we?re working really hard at learning... doing little experiments and getting early results. And one thing we noticed is that the pure, algorithmic approach can?t possibly work for different communities: you need a political/social approach. That is, you need smart human beings to use smart human judgment and cultivate each community individually.
Or, to use a metaphor that has been on my mind, you can?t use a robot to train a puppy. Every puppy is different.
With 51 communities and a new one opening almost every week, our small team of four community managers are doing a great job but they just don?t have the bandwidth to help cultivate every site. So we depend on the most active, enthusiastic users to promote their own communities and help them flourish. But these users are usually domain experts, not community organization experts.
So what I plan to do is build a team of super-evangelists here at Stack Exchange to serve as backup. Sort of like Lady Gaga?s backup dancers, but probably without as many muscles, they are not onstage to lead; they?re there to fill up the stage with more hotness than one person can provide.
This job will be sort of like being a community organizer at a non-profit. It combines elements of marketing, PR, and sales, but it?s really something different. I don?t expect that there are a lot of people out there who already kn0w how to do this well, so I?m going to train them, personally. Not that I know how to do this, but we?ll learn together. Every workday is going to start with a huddle at 9am and a plan for the day?s activities and an intensive six hours of work. Every workday is going to end with an hour of learning... reading Kawasaki and Godin and Ries and Trout, talking with invited experts, meeting with members of the community about what worked and what didn?t worked. Everyone who joins the program (and survives for a year) will come out with an almost supernatural ability to take a dead, lifeless site on the internet and make it into the hottest bar in town. That?s a skill worth learning for the 21st century.
If you or someone you know is enthusiastic, energetic, super-outgoing (a social connector), a great communicator (capable of sending 50 personal emails in an afternoon), with some training in psychology, political science, economics, philosophy, or the humanities in general, and you?re looking for an alternative to a dead-end mailroom job at a PR agency, this is a rare opportunity... please apply.
Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job that doesn't drive you crazy? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board: Great software jobs, great people.
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BuildMobile: Building a GPS Enabled iPad Search App
Part of the appeal of mobile services is that they are relevant to where you are right now. Most phones support GPS and a connection to the network. And when you combine those you get a convenient location based service. In this example application we are going to create a backend service in PHP that an iPad application on the front end will connect to
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SQL Injection Attack - a resource
At http://searchsecurity.techtarget.co.uk/tip/How-to-stop-SQL-injection-and-prevent-data-compromises there is a free download on measures to combat SQL Injection Attack. (free registration is required).
One very important thing to note is that SQL Injection Attack is not confined to IIS / SQL Server but has occurred on many non-Microsoft systems.
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Orange skies in the early morning are a spectacular view. In the month of June, the sun rises over the dome, while in the winter, it rises between the Hancock Tower and Prudential Center �? quite a dramatic shift. The key challenge while taking this picture was the dynamic range ? the sun is much brighter than its surroundings, and even more so when it rises higher. With a few iterations in the manual mode (and the knowledge of post-processing freedom), one can take a picture that is uniformly illuminated.Source: http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N29/idt.html
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Bungie to hand Halo playlist management to Microsoft August 2
Bungie may have finished developing Halo games for Microsoft but the game developer's involvement in the Halo universe won't completely end until August 2. That's the day that Bungie has set to hand over the playlist management duties for the Halo first person shooter games to Microsoft. In a post...
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Agarwal officially CSAIL?s director
Anant Agarwal, a professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, assumed his role as director of CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) last Friday on July 1. Agarwal will succeed Professor Victor W. Zue ?76, who held the directorship for four years. CSAIL is MIT?s largest interdisciplinary lab and is home to over 900 undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers.
Source: http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N29/csail.html
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Apple to Offer ?HD+? 1080p iTunes Movie Services Later This Year?
According to AppleInsider, Apple may be preparing to offer 1080p movies via its iTunes Store later this year, based on reports of film studios submitting films to Apple in a new "HD+" format at the higher resolution
Saturday, 9 July 2011
MobileMe webmail balks at political bulk mailings
Unfortunately, as originally reported by John Brownlee at Cult of Mac, it looks like Apple may be filtering out emails sent from the online MobileMe client based on content. The story is that a user was trying to send an email mentioning "Authoritarian Oppressive Regimes," and when sent, those messages would not go through to their intended recipients, with no error message back from Apple. Cult of Mac sent a few more test messages through the system, and found that simpler emails with less political messages made it through just fine.
There's a few things to note here: First, this is the web client only -- there's no indication that any emails sent via MobileMe's SMTP/IMAP interface are being blocked in this way. Second, Apple has replied to the CoM story to say that certain messages caught by spam filters may be blocked from sending through the web client, but that "Apple is not blocking MobileMe email due to political content." Anyone having a problem sending anything through MobileMe is encouraged to contact MobileMe support.
Perhaps most importantly, when Apple's rep was asked why no error message was given, there was no further comment. That's perhaps the biggest problem here -- Apple can do what it wants with its own service (even if that's to block messages based on political content, as unlikely as that actually is, a private service can do it), but Apple should at least notify users when messages are being blocked.
You could argue that Apple is trying to discourage mass email spammers from abusing the MobileMe system, and because of that doesn't want to clue spammers in on which message can and can't go through. That's a legitimate concern, but even so, if non-spammer customers are being blocked, there needs to be some way for them to be informed about the issue so it can be fixed.
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Here today, gone tomorrow, those cameras.
Surveillance cameras come and go in Lobby 10, with some frequency, it would seem.
Netflix launches unlimited DVD plan for $7.99 a month
Are you avoiding streaming services in favor of physical media? Netflix has a new unlimited DVD plan that may be perfect for you.
Source: http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/netflix-launches-unlimited-dvd-plan-for-7-99-a-month/
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Verbling Links Up Language Learners With Native Speakers Through Live Video Chat
It's a well known fact that people improve foreign language skills when interacting and communicating with other people who speak the same foreign language. Y Combinator-backed Verbling is launching today as a easy to use online conversation exchange for language learners, leveraging in-browser video chat. The site allows you to sign up and choose the language you want to learn. Since the site doesn't have a massive userbase just yet, Verbling hosts sessions as specific times daily (12 pm PT and 7 pm PT) where people can show up and chat with each other. Once you join the site during a session time, you are automatically paired with a language speaker who is fluent in the language you wish to learn. The site encourages users to talk to a number of different speakers within each session. 
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Turntable.fm: Where the DJ Is in the Next Cubicle
The music-streaming site with a social twist is a hit with techies
Source: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/turntablefm-where-the-dj-is-in-the-next-cubicle-07072011.html
Investment Floats a New Form of Wave Power
But the future of the wave energy industry could depend on the incentives introduced by the U.K. government.
An unusual sea creature is emerging from Loch Ness in Scotland: a monster-sized floating doughnut.
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Facebook dev rules tweaked after US antitrust complaint
Real beef over virtual goods
Facebook has updated its developer terms of service following an antitrust complaint to the Federal Trade Commission.?
Source: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/08/facebook_antitrust_complaint/
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Friday, 8 July 2011
Mark Cuban-Backed Device Identification Startup BlueCava Raises $1.5 Million
BlueCava, a startup that has developed technology that enables its customers to identify unique connected devices such as smartphones, TV set-top boxes, gaming consoles, computers and more, has raised $1.5 million in debt funding according to an SEC filing. Late last year, the company had already raised $5 million from billionaire investors such as Mark Cuban and oilman Tim Headington.
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Facebook dev rules tweaked after US antitrust complaint
Real beef over virtual goods
Facebook has updated its developer terms of service following an antitrust complaint to the Federal Trade Commission.?
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Moles say Mac OS X Lion to bound in next week
Updated MacBook Airs too?
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion will go on sale next Thursday, 14 July, it has been claimed.?
Source: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.com/2011/07/08/apple_lion_os_x_14_july/
A Beginners Guide to Google+
Google opened up Google+ invites to all users this morning, and if you've received an invite in your inbox, you're probably thinking - "Awesome! What do I do now?" Have no fear. We'll walk you through some of the available features that come with Google+, and the first things you should do once you get in.
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Great gear for exercising you and Fido
For dog owners intent on keeping themselves and their dogs healthy, we?ve found several products worth checking out.
Source: http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2011/07/07/7036537-great-gear-for-exercising-you-and-fido
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