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03/07/2008
» Wall-E is a copyright criminal
Jesse Willis went to see the new Disney/Pixar movie Wall-E and discovered that the lovable little robot is actually a dire criminal — because he undertakes a variety of copying activities (bypassing…
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02/07/2008
» Solid-state hard disks don't help battery life
Filed under: Hardware
In an interesting test by the folks over at Tom’s Hardware, solid-state drives (SSDs) suck more power than their platter-based counterparts. Why should you care?…
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» Why Zittrain's Techno-Pessimism Is Unwarranted
Ars Technica reviews Jonathan Zittrain’s new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. Zittrain is by all accounts a smart guy and an engaging speaker, and it sounds like his book…
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» Want to know if waterboarding is torture? Ask Christopher Hitchens | World news | The Guardian
Enraged by what they saw as an exercise in elegant but offensive sophistry, some of the writer’s critics suggested that Hitchens give waterboarding (which may sound like some kind of fun aquatic…
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» Believe Me, It's Torture: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
What more can be added to the debate over U.S. interrogation methods, and whether waterboarding is torture? Try firsthand experience. The author undergoes the controversial drowning technique, at the…
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» RatproxyDoc - ratproxy - Google Code
Ratproxy is a semi-automated, largely passive web application security audit tool. It is meant to complement active crawlers and manual proxies more commonly used for this task, and is optimized…
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» Wall-E is a copyright criminal
Jesse Willis went to see the new Disney/Pixar movie Wall-E and discovered that the lovable little robot is actually a dire criminal — because he undertakes a variety of copying activities (bypassing…
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» Powerset Turns Out To Not Be All That Powerful
We never understood the hype around Powerset. It was the latest in an extremely long line of startups that claimed to focus on “natural language search” — which is one of those holy grails for…
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» European Politicians Discuss 'The Blogger Problem'
Apparently this got some discussion a few weeks back, but I was just alerted to the fact that some European politicians have been debating how to handle the new media landscape that makes some odd…
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