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Has The Megaupload Shutdown Been Good For The Entertainment Industry?
One of our most vocal (yet anonymous) critics posted an off-topic comment on a totally unrelated story mocking us for not having covered the story of how Hollywood has been saved (saved!) thanks to the shutdown of Megaupload. Of course, the reason we … Continue reading
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Feds Continue Crackdown On Poker… By Seizing The Wrong Bodog Domain
The feds domain name seizure powers seem simple enough (if of extremely questionable legality, seeing as domains involve speech which requires a higher standard to seize), so it really amazes me how badly they seem to regularly screw up in using them. … Continue reading
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Designing for Decoder Glasses, Print and Web
Michael Buchmiller of BlueHornet walks us through the process of designing a poster for tinted decoder glasses, and then bringing the same idea with a similar interaction to the web with the AnythingZoomer.
Designing for Decoder Glasses, Print and Web is a post from CSS-Tricks
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Funny How Sensitive Hollywood Gets When You Threaten To Mess With Its ‘Fundamental’ Structure
One of the key points in the SOPA/PIPA debate involved Hollywood — and the MPAA’s Chris Dodd and Michael O’Leary in particular — dismissing the worries of folks in the tech industry about the rather fundamental changes that these laws would make to b… Continue reading
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AT&T’s New Scheme To Double Charge For Data: Call It A 1-800 Number For Internet Content
Some of you youngsters may not remember what really kicked off the big “net neutrality” fight over the past few years. It was back in 2005, when then AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre suggested that internet companies should pay a second time to reach users. … Continue reading
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Analyzing the Popularity and Install Base of Various Programming Languages
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We’ve been having some discussions at work recently, trying to determine what programming languages & frameworks to use on a new project we’ll be ramping up shortly. It’s always fun to have these discussions because there really is an amazing amount of choice available today. It also can be exhausting because everyone has their favorites, […] Continue reading
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How The US Trade Rep Is Trying To Wipe Out Used Goods Sales With Secretive TPP Agreement
For a while now, we’ve been covering the gradual legal assault on the First Sale doctrine and beyond. The First Sale doctrine, of course, is what lets you resell a legally purchased book without having to first obtain permission from the copyright hol… Continue reading
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Dutch Research Reveals Wide Scope For Copyright Flexibilities In EU Laws
A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about a surprising initiative by the Netherlands to introduce new flexibilities into its copyright law. Given that leadership from the Dutch government, it’s probably no surprise that a few days later, the Dutch P… Continue reading
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How The Patent System Is Rigged To Only Expand What’s Patentable
When the numbers came out showing that 2011 represented yet another record year for patents granted, it was such a non-surprise that I didn’t even bother mentioning it. The number of patents granted just keeps going up. And yes, there were two small … Continue reading
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Viewing JavaFX 2 Standard Colors
The JavaFX 2 class javafx.scene.paint.Color includes several fields that are static Color members. I have taken advantage of the convenience of these publicly available static fields in many of my JavaFX 2 examples shown in this blog. There is a length… Continue reading
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