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New Legislation ‘To Protect Farmer IP’ Would Make It A Felony To Photograph Farms

An awful lot of you sent in this story about a proposed law in Florida that could put people in jail for taking a photograph of a farm without permission. Seriously. Not surprisingly, the “excuse” for this is that it is “needed to protect the propert… Continue reading

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Senator wants more secure Web sites for Wi-Fi use

Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on companies such as Amazon, Yahoo, and Twitter to better secure their Web pages by using the HTTPS protocol for people who access those sites via public Wi-Fi. Originally posted at News – Security

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Tolkien Estate Says Just Mentioning Tolkien Infringes; Tolkien Censorwear Appears In Response

We’ve been mentioning a bit about how the estate of JRR Tolkien has been overaggressive in trying to enforce (sometimes non-existent) intellectual property rights related to Tolkien. The estate has been like that for a while, but in the last few weeks… Continue reading

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How to Recover Corrupt jpeg and mov Files from a Digital Camera’s SDD Card on Fedora/CentOS/RHEL

Background

Have you ever had a digital camera SDD card get corrupt and become unreadable? Through the use of the handy tool photorec, all the files on the card can be recovered.

Installation

First you need to install photorec. It’s included in a package called testdisk. This package was available in the CentOS/RHEL epel repos as well as […] Continue reading

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HarperCollins Wants To Limit Library Ebook Lending To ‘Protect’ Authors From Libraries

Colin was the first of a bunch of you to send in the news that publisher HarperCollins has bizarrely decided to cripple the ebooks they let libraries lend by adding a clause in their contract that says books can only be lent out 26 times before the lic… Continue reading

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Hollywood Gone Mad: Complaining That Oscar Nominated Films Downloaded More

With the Oscars going on last night, it seems that some people just can’t keep things in perspective. For example, check out this bizarre article from Variety, saying that the wonderful attention bump from being nominated comes with a downside: that i… Continue reading

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Sans-Serif

Declaring just ‘sans-serif’ as the font-family means you’ll get Helvetica on Mac, Arial on PC, and still have the good generic keyword fallback. Continue reading

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Rob Glaser’s SocialEyes: Facebook-connected videophone

Glaser’s latest venture is a videoconferencing company with an interesting, new social dynamic. Originally posted at Rafe’s Radar

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Libyans Using Coded Dating Site Messages To Avoid Government Monitoring

A few different people have sent over this fascinating story of how Libyans have been using a popular muslim dating site to communicate about the protests in that country. It’s been widely covered how various protesters around the middle east have bee… Continue reading

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Swedish Government Helps Fund Documentary On The Pirate Bay

Even as some in the Swedish government — at the urging of US diplomats and the US entertainment industry — continue to look for ways to shut down The Pirate Bay, it appears that the Swedish government is funding part of the documentary on The Pirate … Continue reading

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