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  • Jun
  • 26
  • 2008

Joss Stone: Piracy is Brilliant, Music Should be Shared

They are quite rare events but on occasion, artists actually encourage fans to share their music online. Singer Joss Stone has no problem doing so at all. In fact, after a recent concert in Argentina she said that piracy is “brilliant”.

@4: Actually using the term “piracy” isn’t necessary such a bad thing. “Piracy” is an invented word, without any historical ties (unless you are referring to the physical theft of CDs and DVDs…

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  • Jun
  • 13
  • 2008

Practical Screw

How to make practical “Big head” screw

How to make 2 simple virus shutdown virus: make shortcut > type: shutdown -s -t 1000 -c " text" [ ps. -t means time…u can out time to 1-1000…

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  • Jun
  • 03
  • 2008

3 People Who Are Pushing the Edge of Science

Growing electronics with viruses, finding alien life, and quantum privacy protection.

The alien life we are most likely to find will be micro?bial, Sasselov explains. In fact, he expects that the first living planet we discover will resemble what Earth looked like a billion years ago, when life had not yet evolved beyond bacteria,…

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  • May
  • 09
  • 2008

Torrentspy won’t pay $111m "Hollywood publicity stunt" court order

A day after a U.S. judge dinged TorrentSpy with one of the largest fines in copyright history, the lawyer for the torrent-tracking search engine said Thursday the $111 million judgment won't get paid.

But how much does Hollywood owe Torrentspy for increased DVD sales - due to the try before you buy mentality of the US consumer? . In the US, BRAND SPANKING NEW DVDs cost $19 on average. A sandwich, chips and a drink costs about that at most…

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  • May
  • 08
  • 2008

isoHunt tells judge it’s just another search engine

The admins of isoHunt are fighting a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the MPAA, arguing that it and other BitTorrent tracker sites should be treated no differently than a search engine. After all, isoHunt only provides links to content'just like Google.

No matter which way the ruling goes, this could prove to be an important milestone for the MPAA's fight against BitTorrent sites. The MPAA has a few notches in its bedpost, but those have come from settlements which resulted in shuttered…

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  • Apr
  • 13
  • 2008

Combat Robot Rebellion Against Human Masters in Iraq

The army’s machine-gun wielding, insurgent-slaying robot SWORDS is no longer spraying foes with hot doom in Iraq. Actually, it never got the chance to notch a single frag, and never will. Apparently, there was an incident where “the gun started moving when it was not intended to move”

@GadgetPlay: at least he was a better actor than quarterback by yogibimbi at 09:46 PM on 04/10/08 Reply by Email * @thechansen: well, they seem to actually follow the assumption that the robot can be made perfect; this is called the omnipotence…

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  • Mar
  • 06
  • 2008

Introducing the world’s smallest gun - 2 inches Long

This is the world’s smallest gun - and although it might look like a harmless toy to some it is anything but as it is capable at firing deadly bullets at a speed of 300mph.
The Swiss Minigun, being marketed as a collector’s item, is two inches long, and fires 4.53mm bullets.

It weighs in at just 0.7oz (19.8grams) and fires live and blank ammunition. The gun is the first product of the SwissMiniGun company, a gunsmiths based at La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Owner Paul Erard said that since the…

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  • Feb
  • 26
  • 2008

7 Jobs That Nokia’s Phone of the Future Will Be Good For

hahaha…thats a good analysis by wired magazine…pretty good

wow. that is really gay. wait until it morphs into a gun and everyone will be shooting each other or throwing ninja stars. i would like to see a microwave though, that would be interesting. watch it come out and attack humans in the future when…

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