Archive for the ‘internet’ Category

BitTorrent seed farmer found guilty, faces 10 years in jail

Monday, June 30th, 2008

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A federal jury convicted 26-year-old Daniel Dove for both felony copyright infringement as well as conspiracy, the US Department of Justice announced on Friday. Dove, the last remaining administrator of EliteTorrents.com who did not plead guilty, now faces up to 10 years in prison.

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Should YouTube censor al-Qaida? - UPI.com

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., called Monday for YouTube to take down al-Qaida videos that users had posted, but the site said most of the videos his office had flagged did not contain material that violated their guidelines and rejected his request that they act to remove all material from U.S. designated terror groups.

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Firefox 3 Beta 3 Brings a New Browsing Interface

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

I haven’t tried it yet.

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iPower to the People — In These Times

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

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The perils and promise of point-and-click politics

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Antisocial Networking Gets Hip

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Online social networks are usually all about bringing together people who like the same things.

The founder of a new anti-social networking site, however, is finding that shared hates can be an equally effective bonding tool.

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Imagine All the People, Loving in 3-D

Friday, July 6th, 2007

“An active erotic imagination — sexual fantasy — is key to a great sex life,” say the sexuality experts.

“People who play out sexual fantasies online are weird, perverted loners who can’t maintain healthy sexual relationships (or even get laid) in real life,” say the media and the masses.

Curiously, people who have actually involved themselves in some form of sex online rarely subscribe to that belief. We know it’s not all unicorns and sunflowers (not that there’s anything wrong with tha

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AT&T Rigs Net Neutrality Study

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

A new study from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Nevada Reno says that net neutrality is a bad idea. Of course, that’s what you’d expect it to say. It was paid for by AT&T.

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