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Blockbuster CEO comes out against region codes... |
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10:43 am EST, Dec 17, 2003 |
] Blockbuster Inc. president and chief operating officer
] Nigel Travis on Thursday called for an end to regional
] coding on DVDs, saying they merely create more
] opportunities for piracy. weren't the region codes supposed to prevent piracy? Oops! That was back when you needed a compliant, hardware DVD player to watch video... Blockbuster CEO comes out against region codes... |
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10:56 am EST, Dec 16, 2003 |
] What NOT to do while in the theatre when watching "LOTR:
] Return of the King": some of these are pretty funny. What NOT to do... |
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Yahoo! News - BitTorrent and RSS Create Disruptive Revolution |
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| Topic: Human Computer Interaction |
10:55 am EST, Dec 16, 2003 |
A light-tech proposal for improving the efficiency of RSS consumption, and reducing the burden on publishers wishing to offer more than abstracts via RSS. Yahoo! News - BitTorrent and RSS Create Disruptive Revolution |
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CNN.com - OPEC wants aid if world shifts to renewable energies - Dec. 12, 2003 |
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3:18 pm EST, Dec 12, 2003 |
] Delegates said that Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil
] exporter, wanted promises of aid if Kyoto spurs a shift
] to renewable energies like tidal, solar or wind energy at
] the expense of fossil fuels. Let them eat cake, I say. CNN.com - OPEC wants aid if world shifts to renewable energies - Dec. 12, 2003 |
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| Topic: Cyber-Culture |
3:17 pm EST, Dec 12, 2003 |
i want some more details, but there's nothing implicitly wrong with this model. I worry that the DRM which it requires will not be feasible under non-windows OS's or won't be as widely supported as they claim in various classes of device. also, of course, the files will be broken, that's impossible to avoid, but if this model provides enough value to users to not want to break it, that's the real point... opinions? is a referral bonus gonna be an incentive for you to adopt such a system? what other value-added features would be? New Scientist |
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How Not to Win Friends | csmonitor.com |
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7:45 pm EST, Dec 11, 2003 |
That headline is perfect. Ok, it makes fiscal sense, now that we've fucked ourselves, to not send federal dollars into foreign economies, fine. But to explicitly bar them, and then ask them to forgive the debts they're owed by Iraq? That's just incredible. We're gonna have to bust our asses to win back the rest of the world. How Not to Win Friends | csmonitor.com |
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Slashdot | Electronic Voting in the News |
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4:03 pm EST, Dec 11, 2003 |
Just a pile of links here for you folks following this issue... looks like some action may actually come of activism... Slashdot | Electronic Voting in the News |
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4:03 pm EST, Dec 11, 2003 |
neat. and pretty pix too. Warflying... |
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