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Playlists: Music for the Credit Crunch?
Laura Barton offers her picks, hits and misses on Music to help you get through the credit crunch (The Guardian, July 21).She first mentions The Filter (a recommendation site with Peter Gabriel amongst its founders. As the name suggests they filter music for you) who she says...
Sweden approves wiretapping law
In one of most far reaching eavesdropping plan and threatening civil liberties plan Swedish parliament has passed this draconian law which will allow government to record all electronic conversation."Sweden's parliament has approved controversial new laws allowing authorities... PayPal to Block Users With Old Browsers
"PayPal, eBay's electronic payment service, plans to take the dramatic step of locking out people using older versions of Web browsers in order to stem phishing attacks. PayPal said a "significant" group of people still use Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3, released in 1996,...Record firms seek to ban illegal downloads
"Four major record companies have brought a High Court action to compel broadband service provider, Eircom, to prevent its networks being used for the illegal downloading of music. The case is being taken against Eircom as it is the largest broadband internet service provider...Activated Lignite (HOK) for clean drinking water in Ruhr region
"The "Mulheim process" uses HOK as a high-quality filter material. In the Mulheim process, the treated HOK performs various functions. Besides the actual filtration, it eliminates substances on the grain surface such as iron and manganese which have oxidized after ozone... GMail Flaw Lets Anyone Read Your E-Mail,(and patch update)
For all Gmailers!
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September 26, 2007 | 8:06:07 AM
Hackers have revealed that your GMail account is vulnerable to an attack that allows malicious folks to keep tabs on your e-mail traffic. The attack uses... ARS TECHNICA sounds a warning.
Somehow, I don't EVER want AT&T flltering content I send or receive over the Internet. Do you? I don't think NBC would be any better. Common carrier means that the owner of the "tube" or highway or phoneline does not regulate or mess with its content. "It's no secret that...Australian Prime Minister vows to clean up Internet
Australia's right-leaning prime minister John Howard has promised to spend $189 million on censoring certain parts of the island nation's internet. The announcement was made as part of Mr Howard's federal election campaign. It targets "chatroom sex... CVS Camcorder based night vision
This is home-built night vision that was originally a CVS one-time-use video camera. I already have one that I hacked for repeated use and turned into an underwater camera, so this second one became night-vision. Curious Cephalopod Capture Creates Controversy :: Oblate Spheroid
"On a day when “Live Earth – The Concerts For A Climate In Crisis” is trying to bring awareness to the perils of the Earth going through its process of climate transition from cooler to warmer to cooler again... Smoking 2.0: A Vaporizer for Tobacco Use Only
Whilst products like these would indeed cut down on smoke, I don't think that smoke alone is the point of all those smoking bans: the banning governments are trying to increase their constituents' health levels, as...How to check if your photo camera can take infrared photos
"How to test your camera for IR capability: check if it can see beams emitted from a common infrared remote control" Flickr Filtered in Iran ,UAE: Resistance
Internet users in the United Arab Emirates and Iran discovered some time ago that their access to Flickr, the popular social networking-photo archive site had been blocked yet again, for the third time. In the UAE, the major Internet service provider, Etisalat, is the... National Academy of Engineering Announces Winners of $1 Million Challenge to ...
"National Academy of Engineering Announces Winners of $1 Million Challenge to Provide Safe Drinking Water WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today the winners of the 2007 Grainger... BoingBoing: Google "disappears" sex blogs?
"A number of bloggers who cover topics related to human sexuality say they've suddenly disappeared (or at least been deeply demoted) in Google search results. Popular "indie" blogs that deal with nonfiction sex ed or...
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