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Viacom, 'Decimated By Piracy,' But Its CEO Got The Biggest Raise Of Any Exec Anywhere | Techdirt
from the just-saying... dept We keep hearing about how "piracy" and the internet are somehow "destroying" the old legacy content players, but the evidence for that seems lacking.... especially in Hollywood. We already saw how Warner Bros. was cheering on its record-setting quarter, while complaining about how it just can't compete with piracy. And now we've got reader Don, passing along the news that Viacom chief Philippe P.
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The bullshit response from my Senator after writing her about the Protect IP act. : technology
Mobile: Stanford researchers outsmart captcha codes
Nov 03, Technology/Internet Real schemes learnability: Accuracy of Decaptcha using KNN vs the size of the training set. Logarithmic scale. Image: Elie Bursztein, Stanford University (PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford researchers say that captcha security codes, asking Internet sign-up users to repeat a string of letters to prove the users are human, can be thwarted, and they have successfully defeated captcha at big name sites such as Visa, CNN, and eBay as proof.Friday - March 30, 2012 This may come as news to owners of 4G smartphones, but the Internet apparently isn't fast enough and needs to speed up. Google and Microsoft have submitted separate proposals to accomplish this. Google's SPDY proposal defines and implements an application-layer protocol that reduces latency and seeks to replace parts of the HTTP protocol. It is already being used by Mozilla and Twitter.
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Following hours of debate, the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as CISPA, easily passed the House of Representatives this evening with a vote of 248 for, 168 against. The vote was bi-partisan, though more Democrats voted against, while more Republicans voted in favor of the legislation. Prior to the CISPA's passage, House Members approved a number of amendments, many of which provide further limits… Read MoreSecurity
Stallman: Did I say Jobs was evil? I meant really evil • The Register
As if Richard Stallman's first pot shot at Steve Jobs didn't cause enough outrage, the founder of the Free Software Foundation has decided to clarify his stance – with some more criticism . Apple products digitally handcuff their users, Stallman observes. And the fact that they are pretty just makes it worse. According to the bearded firebrand, the important thing to remember about Jobs is how he directed those who are still alive: the billionaire iPhone baron told Apple staff to "make general purpose computers with digital handcuffs more controlling and unjust than ever before". "He designed them to refuse even to let users install their own choice of applications — and installing free (freedom-respecting) applications is entirely forbidden," wrote Stallman.
Modern society is ruled, dominated, and slavishly beholden to one of mankind’s most simple machinations: The binary digit. What will be the next analog device to fall victim to binary, and what does it mean to have just a handful of fiber optic cables carrying the sum of human civilization?
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Without Linux, Life as we Know It would be IMPOSSIBLE Here is why, how, and who:... Neal Stephenson is a very, very important person, according to him. Speaking before a packed lecture theater at MIT yesterday, Neal Stephenson worried that the gloomy outlook prevalent in modern science fiction may be undermining the genre's ability to inspire engineers and scientists.
3D Printing Now Lets Us Manufacture Blood Vessels, Organs, Cloth Until recently, 3D printers were slow, expensive and somewhat limited to... AFP: Japan plans floating wind farm near nuclear plant. Japan plans to build a floating wind farm near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant...
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A peine le dernier jeu Saint Seiya disponible qu’il est déjà temps de penser au prochain. Mais attention, cette fois, vous ne revisiterez pas pour la douzième fois le Sanctuaire, ses courants d’air et ses flèches au pif. C’est de la nouvelle série animé dont il est question : Saint Seiya Omega , qui se déroule après la saga Hades.
March 15, 2012 This month's update covers AMD's new Radeons HD 7750, 7770, 7850, and 7870 graphics cards, along with the disappearing Radeon HD 6950 and 6970. Plus, we consider the value of Nvidia's GeForce GT 440 GDDR5 now that the Radeon HD 5670 is unavailable.