- Virgin Media: ‘Absolutely No Possibility’ of Disconnecting File-Sharers
Virgin Media, plagued by a recent flurry of bad publicity thanks to its policy of working with the music industry to warn file-sharers, has announced today that there is "absolutely no possibility" that it will disconnect its users from the Internet or hand over their details to the music industry.
Published : 2008-07-03 Source : torrentfreak.com - Virgin Educates File-Sharers with Mistaken Envelopes
No chance of being cut off, eh?
Published : 2008-07-03 Source : www.slyck.com - Firefox Does It: Sets a Guinness World Record
Well, they wanted to set a record, and they did it. Mozilla now holds a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours.
Published : 2008-07-03 Source : www.topix.net - Government lifts solar project ban on public lands
Companies planning to build huge solar power plants in the desert will be able to file new applications to use federal lands after the Bureau of Land Management reversed its position on the issue Tuesday.
Published : 2008-07-03 Source : www.topix.net - Voyager squashes view of solar system
Scientists using data from NASAs Voyager 2 spacecraft have observed the bubble of solar wind surrounding the solar system is not round, but has a squashed shape, according to recent data published as part of a series of papers in this weeks Nature.
Published : 2008-07-03 Source : www.topix.net - Single-Sex Future Looms for Rare Ancient Reptiles
A female tuatara poking her head out of a nest. A female tuatara poking her head out of a nest.
Published : 2008-07-03 Source : www.topix.net - Remnants cannot tell a lie: George Washingtons boyhood home found
George Washington Foundation director of archaeology David Muraca, left, and GWF research fellow Philip Levy examine evidence of a fire that damaged the Washington family home in 1740.
Published : 2008-07-03 Source : www.topix.net - Diablo III From the Top Down
Leonard Boyarsky wasnt the only big Blizzard developer we spoke to this past weekend in Paris.
Published : 2008-07-03 Source : www.topix.net - Is There Fundamental Scientific Disagreement About Evolutionary Theory?
Creationists and their intellectual cousins, intelligent design proponents, keep saying that scientists disagree as to the truth of evolution, and that the field is therefore in crisis.As is common in these circumstances, some creationist claims are in fact correct, but trivially so, while the use that creationists attempt to make of the claims themselves is highly (and possibly willfully) misleading.
Published : 2008-07-03 Source : www.topix.net - Viacom Granted Access to All YouTube User Data: Court
Last night the federal court for the Southern District of New York ordered Google to hand over (.PDF) user data for all videos watched on YouTube to Viacom, stating: Plaintiffs seek all data from the Logging database concerning each time a YouTube video has been viewed on the YouTube website or through embedding on a third-party website.
Published : 2008-07-03 Source : www.topix.net - What Bacteria Can Teach Us About Surviving Global Warming
Dr. Berend Stoel from the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), in collaboration with renowned luthier Terry Borman, has put classical violins in a CT scanner and discovered that the homogeneity in the densities of the wood from which the classical violins were made may explain their superior sound production.
Published : 2008-07-03 Source : www.topix.net - Better Exercise With A Carbohydrate And Caffeine Post-Workout Meal
Recipe to recover more quickly from exercise: Finish workout, eat pasta, and wash down with five or six cups of strong coffee.
Published : 2008-07-03 Source : www.topix.net - Apple Slashes Price of SSD-Based MacBook Air by $500
Without much fanfare, Apple has made a couple of pretty significant price cuts to the MacBook Air. The total of the cuts comes to a pretty nice $500.
Published : 2008-07-03 Source : www.topix.net - Plasma, LCDs blamed for accelerating global warming
A gas used in the making of flat screen televisions, nitrogen trifluoride , is being blamed for damaging the atmosphere and accelerating global warming.
Published : 2008-07-03 Source : www.topix.net - Court Hits BitTorrent Users Who Failed to Appear
Last week, lawyers Davenport Lyons who are currently threatening hundreds of BitTorrent users with legal action, tasted victory in Central London County Court with wins in cases against four file-sharers. Fortunately, these victories mean little, as Davenport chose not to go after people who defend themselves, instead picking on people they knew wouldnt even come to court.
Published : 2008-07-02 Source : torrentfreak.com - ‘Heroes’ Producer Recognizes Benefits of BitTorrent
Half of the people who use BitTorrent do so to download TV-shows. Some episodes of popular shows such as Heroes and Lost get up to 10 million downloads. We had a chat with Jesse Alexander, the co-producer of both Heroes and Lost, and asked him what his thoughts are on BitTorrent, piracy and the future of TV.
Published : 2008-07-02 Source : torrentfreak.com - GUIDE: Using Linux to Beat Comcasts BitTorrent Throttling
For those savvy enough to have switched over to Linux, this step-by-step guide will prove once again that Linux really does offer users almost complete control over their OS. Its no secret that Comcast and other ISPs are actively throttling BitTorrent, but how to circumvent the practice is always subject to debate. Some find protocol header encryption fairly successful, others use TOR or an SSH or a VPN Tunnel to disguise their traffic. Using TOR for file-sharing is discouraged by many who think it should only used for academic or freedom of speech concerns and not to download a copy of "The Love Guru."But, as is usual, Linux users have OS control options that just arent available to Windows and MAC users.
Published : 2008-07-02 Source : www.zeropaid.com - Textbook Torrents - Download Textbooks for Free
BitTorrent tracker site helps college students battle high-priced textbooks. Theres a cool BitTorrent tracker site I heard about yesterday called Textbook Torrents that offers almost 6,000 different college textbooks for download in the .PDF format. "There are very few scanned textbooks in circulation, and thats what were here to change," says a welcome message on the site. "Chances are you have some textbooks sitting around, so pick up a scanner and start scanning it!" It has textbooks available in a wide variety of categories like law, medicine, political science, and computer engineering as shown below.
Published : 2008-07-02 Source : www.zeropaid.com - MPAA to Use Military Strength" Video Streaming Encryption
Approves use of DreamStream and its 2048-bit "military strength" anti-piracy encryption technology to protect content streamed to viewers online. The MPAA has taken an additional step to prevent pirates from copying digital streams of online content with news that it has approved the use of Dreamstream, a 2048-bit "military strength" encryption technology. "We are very excited to have the MPAA stand behind our technology," said Ulf Diebel, chief development officer for DreamStream. "The MPAA understands the need to be proactive - rather than reactive -- in addressing the chokehold that piracy has on the motion picture industry. Their recommendation is not something that Hollywood will take lightly.
Published : 2008-07-02 Source : www.zeropaid.com - ISPs to Ban P2P with New European Telecom Package?
An new European-wide package for ISPs has been discussed before, but new amendments could turn European Internet Service Providers into copyright police. Perhaps the only good news out of this is that network neutrality activism may get a new boost in Europe. The disturbing report comes right out of todays posting on EDRI.org, a European Digital rights activism website. The amendments just about speak for themselves and can be found here.
Published : 2008-07-02 Source : www.zeropaid.com - Microsoft Unveils Subscription Based Office
Its yours* for $69.99 a year.
Published : 2008-07-02 Source : www.slyck.com - Tongue Drive System Helps Severely Disabled Have More Independence
A new assistive technology developed by engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology could help individuals with severe disabilities lead more independent lives.
Published : 2008-07-02 Source : www.topix.net - Tell Edfu Excavation Yields Ancient Egypt Infrastructure
A University of Chicago expedition at Tell Edfu in southern Egypt has unearthed a large administration building and silos.
Published : 2008-07-02 Source : www.topix.net - Seeking Partners, Microsoft Continues Yahoo! Pursuit
Despite numerous assertions from both companies that theyve "moved on," and even a statement from Bill Gates indicating a Yahoo! deal is unlikely, it appears Microsoft continues to pursue Yahoo!, somewhat like a spurned suitor pursuing his ex-. The latest in the continuing soap opera: a report that indicates that Microsoft is in talks with other companies, searching for partners for a new run at Yahoo!.
Published : 2008-07-02 Source : www.topix.net - Microsoft Office Subscription Service Set to Launch
Remember Albany, the beta version of Microsofts subscription-based version of Office and Windows Live OneCare that I wrote about in mid-April? Well, Albany is now Equipt, but you wont find it in the state of New York: for now, starting in mid-July, youll find it only at Circuit City.
Published : 2008-07-02 Source : www.topix.net - How the pharaohs were fed
Egypts best-known excavations usually focus on the glittering mummies and grand monuments of the pharaohs, but for something completely different, travel up the Nile to Tell Edfu: The archaeologists digging there have uncovered ruins that shed light on the administrative and agricultural foundations of ancient Egypts riches.
Published : 2008-07-02 Source : www.topix.net - Obsessive fuel savers risk safety for economy
Its a good idea, of course, to try to save on fuel. The problem comes when people who dont know what theyre doing seize on what they think are the principles of hypermiling, leading them to adopt dangerous tactics, such as driving too slowly in traffic, tailgating larger vehicles or "drafting" (driving in another vehicles slipstream to reduce wind resistance) too closely, rolling through stop signs or making turns without using the brakes.
Published : 2008-07-02 Source : www.topix.net - "Natural" Trans Fat Not Harmful Like The Artificial Kind
Hydrogenation, the process used to convert oil into solid trans fat by adding hydrogen, occurs in nature also. Bacteria in animals’ stomachs hydrogenate the fatty oils from animal feed, for example.
Published : 2008-07-02 Source : www.topix.net - 117 degrees in L.A.? Experts see future shock
During the European heat wave of 2003 that killed tens of thousands, the temperature in parts of France hit 104 degrees. Nearly 15,000 people died in that country alone. During the Chicago heat wave of 1995, the mercury spiked at 106 and about 600 people died. In a few decades, people will look back at those heat waves "and we will laugh," said Andreas Sterl, lead author of a new study and a scientist at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute. "We will find (those temperatures) lovely and cool."
Published : 2008-07-02 Source : www.topix.net - Going 3G? Turn Your Old iPhone Into an iPod Touch
Its somewhat of an obvious idea, but not confirmed, until now. Since AT&T will allow any iPhone users to get the new pricing on the iPhone 3G, no matter where they are in their contract, many may opt to snag a new 3G version and de-activate the old one.
Published : 2008-07-02 Source : www.topix.net