May 2012
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IP-Address Can’t Even Identify a State, BitTorrent... →
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The mass-BitTorrent lawsuits that are sweeping the United States are in a heap of trouble. After a Florida judge ruled that an IP-address is not a person, a Californian colleague has gone even further in protecting the First Amendment rights of BitTorrent users. The judge in question points out that geolocation tools are far from accurate and that it’s therefore uncertain that...
April 2012
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Money Is Not Important: Check out these AWESOME... →
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So, earlier today, I asked you all for some of your best travel tips. The response was great, and here are several of the best answers. Be sure to follow these fine folks if you like their suggestion!
outlawedthinking answered: Never sleep in a Hotel/Motel. Get a Van.
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Chumby Put Down →
parislemon:
Sad day. I still have my prototype Chumby from several years back. As Nilay Patel sort of hints at, it’s interesting to think that Chumby would have been an awesome Kickstarter project. As a company though, apparently not so much.
I’ve always wanted a Chumby…
Myth, busted: You only use 10 percent of brain →
infoneer-pulse:
Good news for all those who ever had a teacher or a parent say “If you would just apply yourself you could learn anything! You’re only using 10 percent of your brain!”
All those people were wrong. If we did use only 10 percent of our brains we’d be close to dead, according to Eric Chudler, director of the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering at the University of...
"Apple iPhone Will Fail" →
parislemon:
Matthew Lynn, January 14, 2007:
To its many fans, Apple is more of a religious cult than a company. An iToaster that downloads music while toasting bread would probably get the same kind of worldwide attention.
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Don’t let that fool you into thinking that it matters. The big competitors in the mobile-phone industry such as Nokia Oyj and Motorola Inc. won’t be whispering...
Sources: current Windows Phone devices will not... →
Dieter Bohn, reporting for The Verge:
Earlier today, a developer evangelist for Microsoft was quoted as saying that all Windows Phone devices would get an upgrade to the “next major version” of the operating system. Now, a trusted source close to Microsoft tells us that is absolutely not the case, that instead there will be no upgrade path from Mango to Apollo.
If Microsoft abandon...