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LifestreamFirst aired by PBS on 21st of June. Private Warriors investigates the issue of the now over 120.000 private contractors who are afoot in Iraq. Even though privatization of the armed forces or supplies is nothing new, the Iraq conflict has put a new spin on it and many, even within the US government, naturally […]
Archive for June, 2005
Researchers in the UK find consumers willing to purchase pirated games and music, in spite of aggressive awareness campaigns.
Dr. Jo Bryce of the University of Central Lancashire and Dr. Jason Rutter of the University of Manchester, have determined that in spite of aggressive campaigns to persuade them otherwise, gamers generally do not see the unauthorized […]
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) aims to generate 10 times more fusion energy than the power put in and marks the last milestone before the construction of a true prototype fusion reactor.
Eventually, scientists hope that the ability to create a star on Earth will offer a near-limitless supply of energy that is safer and […]
When the US government wants to police what citizens are saying online, it pulls out the most potent weapon in its arsenal: bureaucratic regulations. The Department of Justice is currently pushing two new regs that will generate long-lasting records of what people are posting and reading. What’s particularly dirty about all this is that it […]
Via Boing Boing … “Thirteen high school students in Pennsylvania are up against felony charges for having tinkered with school-issued laptops.”
Thirteen Kutztown Area High School students are facing felony charges for tampering with district-issued laptop computers.
According to parent testimony and confirmed by an otherwise vaguely-worded letter from the Kutztown Police Department, students got hold […]
The verdict is in. The Sniper in question was convicted of manslaughter. Even though many would argue that this is not proof enough the system works. For one, Hurndall (article archive) was a British citizen, second, the sniper was a Bedouin Arab, thus more expendable.
It is the first time Israel has pursued a case with […]
The United States Supreme Court, in a unanimous ruling, disagreed with two lower court rulings. Today’s opinion agrees with the MPAA and RIAA contention that P2P developers are responsible for the infringing activities of its users. The decision is a serious setback for commercial file-sharing companies, who were hoping a favorable Supreme Court decision would […]
It never gets old to look at PeerGuardian block lists … though one can wonder if the software does in fact do more harm than good in that it also blocks a lot of legitimate peers. Never having used PG before yesterday I thought I would finally give it a try with new regulations looming […]
Hardly news anymore but I thought I ought to point out that John Pilger’s “Stealing a Nation” won the Royal Television Society’s Best Single Documentary of 2004 (15 March 2005). “Displaying refreshingly unfashionable passion and forensic skill.” I just picked up the documentary myself and it is not often one is treated to such […]
Well, up until a couple of months ago, I hadn’t heard the name “Stockholm Spectator.” But all of a sudden it’s a term I see everywhere. So what is the “Stockholm Spectator?” Well, like the Matrix you cannot be told what the Stockholm Spectator (hereby known as “SS”) is, you have to see for yourself. […]
