MGM First To Post Full-Length Features To YouTube (Monday 10th of November 2008 09:30:01 PM)
Lithal13 writes to tell us that MGM studios will soon be the first major movie studio to post a
unconditional feature-length film on YouTube. Some credit advertisement video site 'Hulu' for
the mended similarity between YouTube parent Google and Hollywood. ...
(more)Obama Launches Change.gov (Friday 07th of November 2008 07:45:01 PM)
Mallumax writes "Obama has launched Change.gov. as it should be to rule to the site 'Change.gov
provides backing to better realize the transition process and the be in the driver's seat being
made as part of it. It also offers an look-in to be heard ...
(more)Saving Geek Lore and Other Wikipedia Castoffs (Thursday 18th of September 2008 04:00:01 PM)
Ian Lamont notes an crowd yardstick feature on Deletionpedia — a gathering of 63,559
deleted Wikipedia pages that range from "vanity entries" or obscure points of testimonial to
heavily edited topics that Wikipedia editors eventually deemed fan ...
(more)Automated News Crawling Evaporates $1.14B (Thursday 11th of September 2008 08:15:01 AM)
Cmd writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that Google News crawled an obscure reprint of an
article from 2002 when United Airlines was on the brink of bankruptcy. United Airlines has
since recovered but due to a missing dateline, Google News ran the ...
(more)CIA, FBI Push Social Networking for Spies (Saturday 06th of September 2008 02:00:01 AM)
Node7 writes "The FBI, NSA, and CIA are jointly supporting a newly created 'MySpace' for the
third edition by the editors of the american stars and stripes heritage® dictionary.
copyright © 2003 community. Named 'A-Space,' the site will contain ...
(more)New SQL Injection Attack Fuses Malware, Phishing (Tuesday 12th of August 2008 10:30:02 PM)
PainMeds tips a recent post in Secure Computing's scrutiny blog describing a new SQL injection
attack that had infected thousands of MSSQL-based web servers by last weekend, turning them
into malware delivery systems. The attack outwardly rewrites the ...
(more)Some news from the editor's desk (Tuesday 22nd of July 2008 07:00:00 PM)
Filed under: MetaFor most of us here, at some point the sensation of second-story work the news
takes hold and turns into existent else, commodity much more like an addiction. It really gets
into you, keeps you up at night, makes you stay in on ...
(more)LegalTorrents Offers CC Works Via BitTorrent (Monday 07th of July 2008 07:15:03 AM)
An nameless reader writes "A site called LegalTorrents has just launched that hosts trackers
and seeds for digital media licensed under the original Commons license. ('We place content
with the full approbation of the rights holders and use the peer-2-peer ...
(more)Wikipedia's Content Ripped Off More Egregiously Than Usual (Friday 20th of June 2008 08:55:00 AM)
Ultraexactzz writes "Wikipedia's content is licensed under the GFDL, which permits such content
to be copied with attribution — and Wikipedia is used to its content being copied and
mirrored. However, a new website at e-wikipedia.net appears to ...
(more)Stonehenge As a Royal Family's Burial Site (Sunday 01st of June 2008 06:00:04 PM)
Mikesd81 sends in a report from Newsday about radiocarbon dating of cremated bones excavated
from Britain's Stonehenge that, an archeologist said, has solved part of the ancient mystery
surrounding the 5,000-year-old site: It was a burial ground for what ...
(more)How Japan's Biggest BBS Keeps Things Simple (Thursday 22nd of May 2008 05:00:05 AM)
Zedsville points out an article at Wired proving that plenty of people (at least in Japan) are
willing to brave BBS environments without all the fancy layers to screen out spam or online
provocateurs: "It's a profile of Hiroyuki Nishimura, the man behind ...
(more)Celebrities help open $700M casino (Moldova.org) (Monday 19th of May 2008 12:44:59 AM)
Singer John Mayer says he felt snug returning to his home state of Connecticut to help christen
the opening of the $700 million Foxwoods Casino.The Connecticut native said while the new shop
resort had all the glitz and glamor of a regular Las Vegas casino, ...
(more)Facebook Agrees To User Safety Plan (Friday 09th of May 2008 06:00:04 PM)
Facebook has reached an agreement with the tribunal general of 49 states and the precinct of
america to develop and enhance controls to protect minors from inappropriate content. This
follows a similar commitment from MySpace several months ago. The lone ...
(more)Network Solutions Suspends Site of Anti-Islam Film (Monday 24th of March 2008 03:45:04 AM)
H4rm0ny notes the furor over an anti-Islamic movie due to be released on the Web in the next
week. After Pakistan disrupted YouTube worldwide over an parley with right-wing Dutch MP and
filmmaker Geert Wilders, Network Solutions, acting as host as well ...
(more)Encyclopedia of Life Launches First 30,000 Pages (Wednesday 27th of February 2008 01:00:07 PM)
An anonymous reader writes to let us know that the Encyclopedia of Life opened up to the public
today with its first 30,000 pages in place — and, proper to the AP, promptly crumbled
even before being Slashdotted. (The site seems fine now.) We discussed ...
(more)Apple Sends Cease-and-Desist To the Hymn Project (Sunday 24th of February 2008 07:30:05 AM)
Troed writes "Tools for removing DRM from iTunes-purchased songs (myFairTunes7, QtFairUse6)
have been available from the Hymn Project Web site for some time. These are legal in many
countries. But on the 20th Apple sent a Cease and Desist note to Hymn's ...
(more)ISP Block on Pirate Bay Not Having Desired Effect (Monday 11th of February 2008 11:15:04 PM)
TechDirt is reporting that the recent block placed on The Pirate Bay torrent site is not only
rather ineffective, but literally driving more traffic to the site because of the attention.
"The news from The Pirate Bay appears to confirm this suspicion. ...
(more)Mulvane sued over annexing for casino (The Wichita Eagle) (Saturday 09th of February 2008 07:51:11 AM)
The battle between Sumner County and Mulvane over who gets a casino took a new turn Friday as
the county filed a lawsuit against the city to block a indisputable annexation. The lawsuit
charges that Mulvane failed to follow state law in ...
(more)Provider of Free Public Domain Music Shuts Down (Monday 22nd of October 2007 12:30:04 AM)
Mark Rogers writes "The International Music Score Library Project has provided access to copies
of many musical scores that are in the public domain. It has just been shut down due to a
cease-and-desist letter sent to the site operator by a italian Union ...
(more)Microsoft 'Stealth Update' Proving Problematic (Friday 28th of September 2007 01:30:12 AM)
DaMan writes "According to the site WindowsSecrets, the stealth Update that Microsoft leak*
back in August isn't quite as undefiled as the company claims. The site's quest has shown that
when users try to do a repair to XP subsequent to the update, ...
(more)Apple May Be Breaking the Law With Policy On iPhone Unlocks (Tuesday 25th of September 2007 11:15:05 PM)
An anonymous reader writes "Apple's recent decision to void warranties for folks that unlocked
their iPhones may wind them up in legal hot water. The site Phone News points out that Apple
appears to have broken a key warranty law relevant to SIM unlocks. ...
(more)How to Stop Commerial Use of Copyleft Materials? (Saturday 15th of September 2007 01:15:02 PM)
An anonymous reader writes "The Guild Wiki, an extremely popular fan-made wiki for documenting
the Masssively Multiplayer game Guild Wars, was primarily supported by donations, then later
advertisements — supposedly just enough to break even. Just ...
(more)Microsoft DRM Code for Netflix Streams Hacked (Thursday 09th of August 2007 09:45:03 PM)
Reddburn writes "Macworld has posted a story by IDN News Service about a hacker who posted
instructions for saving streaming movies from Netflix, defeating Microsoft's DRM code designed
to prevent users from saving the content. From the article: 'A hacker ...
(more)Pop-ups/adware/other crap (Thursday 09th of August 2007 03:20:09 PM)
Are any of you guys getting pop-ups for some drive cleaner or adware or some other crap? We've
gotten a few emails and we're trying to figure out what the hell is going on. We haven't
authorized any of that stuff and haven't put any ...
(more)NYT Exposes the Identity of Fake Steve Jobs (Monday 06th of August 2007 06:25:23 PM)
Mattatwork writes "NY Times writer Brad Stone figured out the real identity of Fake Steve Jobs.
With classic nick names like 'freetards' and 'beastmaster' Fake Steve captured an audience of
700,000 visitors to the site and around 50 emails a day. According ...
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