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Lutz_:
Thanks for bringing me up-to-date, again!     :up:

KynloStephen66515:
@Stephen - thanks again for your hard work to keep a quality Tech News column coming to us regularly! :Thmbsup:
-40hz (March 14, 2010, 09:16 PM)
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Nice news update, thanks for this  :up:
-mouser (March 15, 2010, 01:48 AM)
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Thanks for bringing me up-to-date, again!     :up:
-Lutz_ (March 15, 2010, 06:39 PM)
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To all the above, Thanks for your support, but, in all honesty, it's not needed.  All I need to see, to be happy, and continue doing it, is a nice view count :D - Even if the views only hit 10-20, I would still do it, for those 10-20 people who wanted to read it.  (Any readers is a great amount haha)


15 memorable quotes from the Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde

The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde was beamed into a conference room by Skype at South by South West Interactive today to talk to interviewer Elizabeth Stark about the Pirate Bay, his views on copyright and whether the Pirate Bay can ever be fully shut down.

While Sunde was often non-specific about the issues when pressed, he did drop some gems into the interview. Here are 15 of the most memorable quotes from his interview.

On why he didn't personally attend SXSWi:

"If I come to the US I will get so sued that I won't get out of the US for quite a while."

On the threatening letters received from lawyers...Read More...
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I must admit, I found some of his 'Replies to legal threats' section on TPB rather amusing.

I don't agree with people who say he should be jailed, but I must say, I can't condone a lot of what he says/does.  He seems to live in the knowledge that nobody can touch him, and those who make a 1/2 decent effort, all fail and he will be back online within hours of being shut down! - At the end of the day though, .torrent files contain nothing illegal, its what they LINK to that is illegal (generally), so on that note, hes perfectly OK by me to keep his website up.

Can we really get done for showing people where illegal information is stored?  If so, could Google get done for listing TPB in their search engine?, Could Youtube get done for the amount of music videos (uploaded, and recorded ILLEGALLY) get done? Could any site that remotely mentions, or links to another that contains illegal data, get done?...I could go on and on but I don't want to get in to a huge rant about this!

ICANN delays decision on pornography domain

ICANN has delayed its ruling on the proposed .xxx internet porn domain until this summer.

Today, at its meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, the ICANN board voted to push a decision to its next get-together in Brussels this June, while giving its CEO and chief counsel two weeks to prepare recommendations on how to proceed with the .xxx proposal. These recommendations will then be open to comment for 45 days, the AP reports.
 

In 2005, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - the net's overseeing body - approved a longstanding proposal for a top-level domain dedicated to pornography. But after opposition from various governments - including the US, natch - it went on to...Read More...

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I don't see why such a TLD would cause such problems over @ ICANN! - This TLD would certainly make the Internet a much safer place for children and people not wanting to fall across these websites...IMO, .xxx should be FORCED upon any website containing pornographic images/video's/data, and any running on generic TLD's (.com, .co.uk, .net, .info etc...) should be given the option to either A> Move to .xxx, or B> Shut down all its operations.

This should also be used for gambling websites (.GAM) maybe? and any other website we don't want children coming into contact with (Yes, i know...Use Filters and such, but even with that in place you have no such guarantees, if you could simply filter out .xxx and .gam websites then all is good and well with the world)

I agree that some websites will go under the radar, but if .xxx was given to companies for FREE, then why would they have any reason to try go under the radar?

Can a Clown-Nosed Wand Move the Needle for PS3?

Sony put PlayStation 3 fans in a tizzy by whipping out its latest controller, which it calls the "Move." It looks a whole lot like a black version of Nintendo's WiiMote controller, only it's got this big, clown-nose ball on the end of it. That ball actually serves a purpose. The Move's motion is partially registered by a...Read More...

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As a huge PS3 fan, and a big follower of Sony, and Sony related products, I should feel bad for saying this, but, meh...I don't...

Seriously, the guys down at Sony need to get a grip on reality and bring us something new, fun, and interesting, rather than re-designing something readily available for OTHER consoles made by OTHER companies YEAR'S ago!

They say that we currently only use 15-18% of the PS3's possible power...so why not bring us something to make use of the 72-75% that we don't already use?!

Gimme 3D gaming, Gimme motion sensors...GIMME SOMETHING FUN

J-Mac:
Needed or not, thank you for the news updates, Stephen. They are very much appreciated!

Jim

zridling:
"Obama to 'aggressively protect' intellectual property"
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As the EU overwhelmingly trashed it, Obama was one of the few supporting it. From Glyn Moody:

One of the most dispiriting aspects of the ACTA saga is that practically everything has been conducted behind closed doors. What we know is largely from leaks and a few, costive hints from officials when they deign to let us little people peak behind the curtain for a millisecond or two.

http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2846

Deozaan:
On pornography on the Pirate Bay:

"Porn is useless. I compare porn to pizza: if I am really hungry I wouldn't go buy a pizza and watch it. I would eat it."
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Deja Vu: I was having a stupid/silly conversation with a friend when I was 18 and somehow we decided that "Easy Cheese Pizza" was a sexual euphemism of some sort. I can gladly say that I don't remember the details of what it was supposed to mean, but it was just strange having that memory pulled back from the deep recesses of my subconscious like that. I had completely forgotten about that for all these years until reading that analogy. Speaking of which, I have no idea what he means by that analogy. Is he suggesting that people should eat pictures?

Shuttleworth on Ubuntu
I was wondering how something like Ubuntu would/could make money. That article had some good information that opened my eyes a bit.

Gimme 3D gaming, Gimme motion sensors...GIMME SOMETHING FUN
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I'm pretty sure the PS3 Move is a motion sensor. And besides that the SIXAXXIS/DualShock 3 (or whatever it's called) have motion sensors in them as well.

ICANN .xxx TLD
I still don't get what the fuss is about that TLD. They should make that TLD available, give everyone a chance to move their .com or whatever over (whoever has the .com gets dibs on the .xxx for 30 days or something to make sure opportunists don't steal the domain name) and then .coms (and any other TLD) are no longer allowed to host porn. Seems simple enough. There will be sites that slip through the cracks, but if people can cause a DCMA takedown as easily as it seems they can then I don't see why there couldn't be a way to do something similar for having porn on the internetz where it doesn't belong. It just seems like a simple way to let people get what they want or stay away from what they don't want.

HTML5 2D
I personally don't see why you'd want to put graphics into HTML. Don't png and gif and jpg and svg already do everything you need for 2D images? Doesn't Javascript's canvas make up for what you can't do with the other image formats?

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