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Fox Sues Woman For $15M Because She Aggregated TV And Movie Scripts She Found Online

In the latest example of copyright law gone mad, it appears that Twentieth Century Fox is suing a woman for $15 million, because she aggregated various scripts she found online as a resource for screenwriters (like herself) to learn from. The key issu… Continue reading

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Who Needs COICA When Homeland Security Gets To Seize Domain Names?

By now you probably know that over the Thanksgiving Holiday, Homeland Security wasn’t just feeling up your grandmother and staring at your naked daughter at the TSA, but ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) went way beyond its mandate to seize a w… Continue reading

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Original Game Boy becomes a Web app

Imran Nazar wanted a JavaScript project: write software to emulate Nintendo’s classic game console. Today’s browsers are up to the challenge. Originally posted at Deep Tech

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Keep Margins Out of Link Lists

When building a menu or other list of links, it’s generally a good practice to use display: block; or display: inline-block; so that you can increase the size of the link target. The simple truth: bigger link targets are easier for people to click and lead to better user experience.

Let’s look at a simple list of links like this:

<ul>
   <li><a href="#">This little</a></li>
   <li><a href="#">piggy went to</a></li>
   <li><a href="#">market</a></li>
</ul>

Without any CSS, the list items will be…

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As The Pirate Bay Guys Lose Their Appeal, When Does Google Regret Not Coming To Their Defense?

As you probably already know, last Friday (while we were enjoying some much needed time off), the Swedish appeals court upheld the lower court’s ruling against the four guys the entertainment industry claims were behind The Pirate Bay. The appeals cou… Continue reading

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Battle lines drawn for 3D on the Web

Two major efforts are under way to bring 3D graphics to the Web: Flash and WebGL. It’s not clear which, if either, will prevail–but Microsoft holds the swing vote. Originally posted at Deep Tech

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No silver lining in Chrome OS delays

It seems pretty clear that Chrome OS Netbooks won’t be available in 2010. Is this something the tech industry still wants? Originally posted at Relevant Results

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Render Dynamic MetaTags in ASP.NET Page in Separate Lines

I received a mail today from a DevCurry.com reader after reading my article SEO Enhancements with MetaKeywords and MetaDescription properties in ASP.NET 4.0. Her question was as follows:In ASP.NET using code with the HTMLMeta class, we can define the H… Continue reading

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Just Because ‘National Opt-Out Day’ Didn’t Do Much, Does It Mean People Don’t Care About TSA Searches?

Last Wednesday, there was a lot of media attention paid to this concept of “national opt-out day” concerning the TSA’s new “naked scan or grope” security options. I didn’t cover that story at all. Leading up to it, I don’t think I even mentioned the … Continue reading

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My Holiday in Beautiful Panau

There is a high correlation between “programmer” and “gamer”. One of the first Area 51 sites we launched, based on community demand, was gaming.stackexchange.com. Despite my fundamental skepticism about gaming as a Q&A topic — as expressed on episode… Continue reading

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