Rupert Murdoch squares off with Obama over online piracy legislation
News Corp chief accuses White House of siding with 'Silicon Valley paymasters' as two bills go through US Congress
This from a man whose newspapers show a flagrant disregard to everyones privacy, where allegations exist that private detectives have been hired to stalk those investigating the phone tapping allegations. Rupert Murdoch, you and your entire organisation are contemptible, cynical and totally selfish trash imo.
UK US Sport Life and style Technology Environment TVShack's student founder can be extradited to US
I find it unacceptable that a crime committed in one country is being brought before a court in another country, especially one with a totally different level of punishment.
But the lesson is you should not be stupid sharing. groetjes files in this way.
'TVShack's student founder can be extradited to US, court rules
US customs agents seek to prosecute Richard O'Dwyer over TVShack, which linked to sites carrying pirated shows and films'
Extensis plug-in now supports Google Web Fonts
This is pretty cool :)
Do you use Photoshop® to design your website? Looking to spice it up with cool web fonts likeLobster or Dancing Script? Well, now you can do that and more (with over 280 font families) using Google Web Fonts right in Photoshop®.
That’s because, today, Extensis has added support for Google Web Fonts to their Web Font Plug-in for Photoshop®. Now, the entire catalog of Google Web Fonts is only a click or two away!
Web Giants Consider ‘Nuclear Option’ Blackout to Fight SOPA
What would the web be like without Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon.com, PayPal, Wikipedia or any number of other sites that you probably visit every day? That may be a possibility, as web giants begin to consider seriously a blackout of their services in protest of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Fox News spoke to NetCoalition, a trade association that represents Google, PayPal, Yahoo and Twitter, among others, and Executive Director Markham Erickson confirmed that yes, the so-called “nuclear option” is under consideration. If these companies were to take this route, all of these sites would go completely dark save for a message of opposition to SOPA censorship and instructions on how to contact your local representative.
http://www.talkincloud.com/web-giants-consider-nuclear-option-blackout-to-fight-sopa/
Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet By Jon Mitchell
Google is going evil...Google is imo officially f#$%ing up it's search productGreg Kumparak asks one of those great questions! "Why Don’t Smartphones Have A “Guest Mode”?"
Greg Kumparak asks one of those great questions! "Why Don’t Smartphones Have A “Guest Mode”?". No wonder nobody wants to handover their smartphone... and then one of the commenters adds "what about tablets?".Just how hard can it be to add this tiny functionality? Is an app enough to get this going?
Richard Stallman Was Right All Along by Thom Holwerda
Late last year, president Obama signed a law that makes it possible to indefinitely detain terrorist suspects without any form of trial or due process. Peaceful protesters in Occupy movements all over the world have been labelled as terrorists by the authorities. Initiatives like SOPA promote diligent monitoring of communication channels. Thirty years ago, when Richard Stallman launched the GNU project, and during the three decades that followed, his sometimes extreme views and peculiar antics were ridiculed and disregarded as paranoia - but here we are, 2012, and his once paranoid what-ifs have become reality.
Up until relatively recently, it's been easy to dismiss Richard Stallman as a paranoid fanatic, someone who lost touch with reality long ago. A sort of perpetual computer hippie, the perfect personification of the archetype of the unworldly basement-dwelling computer nerd. His beard, his hair, his outfits - in our visual world, it's simply too easy to dismiss him.
Hackers in space | Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship
"The first goal is an uncensorable internet in space. Let's take theinternet out of the control of terrestrial entities," Mr Farr said." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16367042 Cool idea, but I am sure even this is hackable. Anyway I wish 'em luck.
Text Messaging Is in Decline in Some Countries
Cellphone customers on Sonera, a Finnish mobile network, sent 8.5 million text messages on Christmas Eve, down from 10.9 million on the same day the previous year, Mr. Kuittinen said, citing a report by the Finnish national broadcasting service. DNA, a Finnish carrier for younger customers, also experienced a decline, with subscribers sending 5.6 million messages, down from 5.9 million in 2010.
In Hong Kong there was a steep decline in text messaging on Christmas Day, down nearly 14 percent compared to the previous year, according to Mr. Kuittinen.
Australians, too, sent fewer text messages — down 9 percent from 2010,according to Richard Blundell, an independent blogger who hashed together data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Telstra, an Australian carrier.
