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A Step By Step Debunking Of US Chamber Of Commerce’s Dishonest Stats About ‘Rogue Sites’
The issues of SOPA/PROTECT IP and censoring the internet are slowly creeping into more mainstream news sources. PBS Newshour hosted a brief debate, mostly focused on the recent domain seizures. The debate was between Steven Tepp, the former Copyright… Continue reading
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The Script Tag
I got a great question from reader Josh Kreis:
I’ve noticed that on a <script> tag, there are all kinds of variations that all seem to work cross-browser. What is necessary and what isn’t?
<script>
//some javascript here
</script><script type="text/javascript">
//some javascript here
</script><script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
//some javascript here
</script><script language="javascript">
//some javascript here
</script><script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
// some javascript here
//]]>
</script>
This is the scoop as far as I understand it. If anyone…
The Script Tag is a post from CSS-Tricks
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White House’s Totally Clueless Response To Copyright Infringement: Call In McGruff The Crime Dog
The White House has shown itself to be totally and completely out of touch on intellectual property issues for a while, so it should come as little surprise that it went even further into silly town, with a big White House briefing, involving IP Czar V… Continue reading
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Court Effectively Pretends SOPA Already Exists; Orders Domains Seized, De-Linked From Search
As a whole bunch of folks have sent in a District Court judge in Nevada issued some rather stunning orders lately concerning websites that luxury brands company Chanel has argued “advertise, promote, offer for sale or sell” possibly counterfeit Chanel … Continue reading
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Questionable ‘Consumer’ Group Releases Most Misleading Report Imaginable, Falsely Claiming People Support SOPA
The supporters of SOPA/PIPA practically shoved each other aside this week to hype up a “study” released by the “American Consumer Institute,*” which claims that Americans support things like SOPA and PIPA by a wide margin (basically 80%). Of course, t… Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Determining a CD/DVD Drive’s Write Speed Capabilities under Fedora/CentOS/RHEL
Background
Here’s a quick primer on how to determine the capabilities of a CD/DVD drive you may have on your Linux laptop or desktop using the little known command wodim. In truth, wodim is actually the app behind cdrecord & dvdrecord, which are little more than aliases.
NOTE: it’s available as wodim-1.1.11-3.fc14.x86_64 in the default Fedora 14 […] Continue reading
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May The Dolphin Be Unflogged: Paskistani Government Censors Texting
The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority has taken a bold new step in the censorship arena, compiling a list of words and phrases deemed “inappropriate” for texting. This list has been forwarded to the nation’s mobile operators, making a brief appeara… Continue reading
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EU Advocate General: ‘Functionalities Of A Computer Program Cannot Be Protected By Copyright’
Back in September, Techdirt wrote about an important case that had been passed up to the European Court of Justice. It raised some key questions about creating software that was interoperable with an existing program – whether, for example, the … Continue reading
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Danish Blogger Raided By The Police For Writing About File Sharing?
As a bunch of you have been submitting, TorrentFreak recently had the bizarre story of a Danish law school student and legal blogger who had been writing a lot about file sharing… and then was raided by police who were told he ran a private BitTorren… Continue reading
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Software Developers Hate Worthless Tasks
Most software developers that I know, especially the best ones, loathe worthless tasks. This is probably true of most people who strive to do what they do to the best of their ability, but I’m not aware of any area in which this attitude is more preval… Continue reading
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