All 235 low-cost webcams supported … thanks to this man
A LONE HOBBYIST programmer sitting at his home in France is responsible for adding 235 USB webcams to the list of those supported by Linux.
Archive for December 8, 2007
US Anti-Piracy Bill Increases Penalties for Copyright
According to a group of lawmakers, 10 years in prison and a $500,000 fine is not a severe enough sentence for copyright infringement in the US. So, a new bill is proposed to strengthen civil and criminal intellectual property laws and increase penalties for offenders.
UK Govt Plans Another Inquiry Into Violent Video Games
UK Government has annunciated another probe into the effect of video games content, immediately following the already set out Byron Review.
Apple’s 14th Street Manhattan flagship store revealed [Pics]
Gary Allen, author of ifoAppleStore and frequent AppleInsider contributor, made the pilgrimage on Wednesday to site of Apple’s latest flagship retail store — soon to be Manhattan’s largest — and filed the following in-depth report, complete with revealing photos from the shop’s interior.
Light to shrink computer clusters
Supercomputers may one day be the size of a laptop thanks to research by IBM.
SAFE Act won’t turn mom-and-pop shops into WiFi cops
Despite hyperbole to the contrary, the SAFE Act that passed the House yesterday won’t force local coffee shops, libraries, and home users to monitor their network connections for illicit images.
Saturn’s ‘flying saucer’ moons built of ring material
Two of Saturn’s small moons look eerily like flying saucers, new observations by the Cassini spacecraft reveal. The moons, which lie within the giant planet’s rings, may have come by their strange shape by gradually accumulating ring particles in a ridge around their equators
Police Extend OiNK’s Bail Date and Returns Servers, Wiped!
The OiNK servers that were raided in October have been returned to OiNK’s ISP. Strangely enough all the data, and thus the evidence, has been wiped. In addition, the bail date for OiNK admin Alan Ellis, who was arrested during the raid, has today been extended unt
Guitar Hero III for wii “mono” fix to be available in 2008
Activision has acknowledged the “mono only” sound bug in Guitar Hero III for the wii and will fix it in future versions of the game. They expect to have re-mastered discs available by early 2008 and will be offering existing consumers replacement discs at no cost once they become available.
The Worlds Largest Telescopes Discover Bizarre Magnetic Star
Using four of the world’s most powerful telescopes, astronomers have found a bizarrely magnetic star with some very strange features. The star lies about 35 light-years away in the constellation Boötes.
Wikipedia black helicopters circle Utah’s Traverse Mountain
“We aren’t democratic.” That’s how Wikipedia founder Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales described his famously-collaborative online encyclopedia in a recent puff piece from The New York Times Magazine. “The core community appreciates when someone is knowledgeable,” he said, “and thinks some people are idiots and shouldn’t be writing.”
Sony to give PS3 owners Blu-ray Profile 1.1 for Christmas
Sony is said to have yet another PlayStation 3 firmware update ready for download before Christmas, with the gift for movie-loving gamers being Profile 1.1 compatibility for Blu-ray Discs. Competing format HD DVD has had support for Profile 1.1 features such as picture-in-picture, secondary audio, and local storage since its inception.
