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Articulate explanation of how SOPA came about, and how it might be stopped
37 days ago
by bigBrains
A redditor called BobA841908 lays out a lucid and compelling case for how SOPA came about and what might stop it: A full blackout is a reasonable response, because, in the language that is so popular with politicians, SOPA is going to result in excessive regulation that will cost jobs and likely cau ...
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Proto-maker spaces: the "New Inventors Club"
37 days ago
by bigBrains
In the Nov, 1950 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, a piece about an early iteration of the hackspace: the “New Inventors Club” where a technician would help you modify your project designs so that you could get something that worked and try to sell it without having to pay big bucks to scumbag “promote ...
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Case Dismissed Against Santa Barbara Woman Accused in Money Order Scam – ...
37 days ago
Case Dismissed Against Santa Barbara Woman Accused in Money Order Scam Noozhawk Ingram said police have no information on related cases, but the fraudulent money order scam is very common in the United States. He said Nigeria is the source of many of the scams, but it's rare that the mailings come d ...
Lionheart Group Scam ... - lionheartgroupscampreventiontoolkit.com · 1 reference
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Porous paywalls are an admission that virtually no one wants to subscribe to ...
37 days ago
by bigBrains
Clay Shirky rings in the new year with another barn-urning essay about the state of newspapers, first noting that a “porous” paywall that allows 20 free pageviews per month is a tacit admission that pretty much no one who visits the paper’s site is a potential customer for the paper’s product: To un ...
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Leica M9-P: $8k camera looks beautiful even in a Windows screen grab
37 days ago
by bigBrains
The above photo of the M9-P is how Leica’s publicist sent it to me — an uncropped screen grab. It caught my attention! The price tag also caught my attention: $7,995.00. It’s the flip side of the luxury consumer goods coin, the other face of which was explored yesterday in Rob’s post about Vertu (th ...
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Prints overcome lasers in United Kingdom.
37 days ago
by Who
Home users and businesses could favour the ink cartridges and printers for inkjet printers. Search for international data Corporation (IDC) said in a telegram to United Kingdom number-driven inkjet equipment.Western European quarterly cash IDC code peripherals. United Kingdom Tracker shows continued ...
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Call for Participation – Los Angeles Stereoscopic 3-D Showcase
37 days ago
by bigBrains
Agent X-Ray says: The Los Angeles Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH and the LA 3-D Club want you to participate in our non-competitive 3D Stereoscopic film festival. The LA 3-D Club (Stereo Club of Southern California) was established in the Greater Los Angeles area in 1955 by a dedicated group of 3D stereo p ...
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Canadian Parliament: a notorious pirate marketplace
37 days ago
by bigBrains
The IP addresses assigned to the Canadian Parliament have been implicated in several copyright-violating BitTorrent downloads. The 192.197.82.0 – 192.197.82.255 IP block was seen to be in BitTorrent swarms for movies, Windows cracks, Adobe Premiere, ripped CDs, and many other files. The IP records w ...
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Vintage space flight books blog
37 days ago
by bigBrains
Dreams of Space is a wonderful blog that celebrates non-fiction kids’ books about space flight from 1945 to 1975. But the images are so small that the creator of the blog ought to be fined by the League Of People Who Like To Download Large Images To Their Swipefile (LOPWLTDLITTS, or Lopwiltidlit, fo ...
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