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Molecular Biologist Highlights Serious Safety Concerns Over TSA Scanners

I really haven’t talked much (at all) about the “safety” concerns over the TSA’s X-ray scanner devices, because a lot of it did seem like overreactions from people who didn’t really know what they were talking about. However, there does appear to be i… Continue reading

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Supreme Court Will Review The Standard For Patent Infringement: Could Raise The Bar

We’ve been following the Microsoft/i4i patent case for a while. If you don’t remember, i4i came up with a basic system for editing XML documents and patented it. Microsoft included similar technology in Word and got sued. A court, stunningly, decide… Continue reading

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With Domain Name Seizures Increasing, It’s Time For A Decentralized DNS System

We’ve already written about the latest legal loss for The Pirate Bay, as well as Homeland Security’s new domain seizure campaign. With the former, the entertainment industry has already declared that it hopes this ruling will lead ISPs in various coun… Continue reading

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jQuery, ASP.NET, .NET and LINQ articles Link List – November 2010

Here’s a quick wrap up of the articles published on DevCurry.com in the month of November 2010.jQuery and JavaScript ArticlesRounding Numbers in JavaScript – A very common question while dealing with Math methods in JavaScript is to round numbers. Ja… Continue reading

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Apple Forces Removal Of Steve Jobs Action Figure

A Chinese company, MIC Gadget, got some attention for its Steve Jobs figurine but some of that attention came from Apple’s lawyers, who forced the company to stop selling the item. Lawyer David Canton (who pointed us to this story) does a nice job of … Continue reading

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Java’s System.identityHashCode

The java.lang.System class provides many useful general utilities including handles to the standard output stream, the standard input stream, the standard error stream, and the console as well as methods for obtaining the current time in… Continue reading

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Axl Rose Sues Activision For $20M Because Guitar Hero Shows Former GNR Guitarist Slash

How much does Guns ‘N Roses singer Axl Rose hate former guitarist Slash? So much that he’s suing Activision for $20 million because Activision included a virtual version of Slash in the latest version of Guitar Hero, despite claimed promises not to do… Continue reading

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PC Mag Responds To Legacy Recording Industry’s ‘Complaint’ Letter

We recently wrote about a bizarre and mis-targeted complaint letter sent by the bosses of pretty much every old school legacy music industry lobbying/trade group, officially sent to Ziff Davis to complain about two articles concerning Limewire alternat… Continue reading

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Companies Come Out Of The Woodwork To Claim Comcast Is Violating Net Neutrality… But Exaggerations Abound

Network neutrality gets thrown around all too often, quite frequently in misleading ways. As the NBC/Comcast merger gets closer, there were two separate claims that Comcast is violating net neutrality on Monday, probably in an effort to derail the mer… Continue reading

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Trolling As An Ecommerce Strategy? Online Store Increases Google Rank Via Obnoxious (Perhaps Criminal) Service

A few folks sent over this rather bizarre, but entertaining, story in the NY Times about a guy who operates an online ecommerce shop for eyewear out of his home office, and seems to have done quite well… in part by being a total jackass. The story i… Continue reading

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