Last week a Danish court ordered the ISP “Tele2″ to block its customers access to The Pirate Bay. The decision heated the debate on ISPs Internet filtering, and it now turns out that filtering traffic to The Pirate Bay is actually illegal according to European law.
It is much easier to criticize somebody else’s work than to create something cool yourself. But if you apply a systematic approach to criticizing, make a numbered list and prepare illustrations, it will be regarded as a fully-fledged analysis!
By wiring up DNA between two carbon nanotubes, researchers have measured the molecule’s ability to conduct electricity.
“But most of all, I came away thinking that Maxis could pull off Spore’s overwhelming scope. This game could actually live up to Will Wright’s intent, shipping on September 7. Through Spore, he could change gaming again.”
Images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the galaxy at almost 13 billion light-years away, making it the strongest candidate for the most distant galaxy ever seen
Version 6.0 of Drupal, popular social publishing platform for countless web sites, has been released. This version of Drupal is easier to use for administrators, themers and developers alike. Check out the many great new features such as an improved installer, OpenID support, drag-n-drop, actions and triggers, and better internationalization.
The 8.12 patch for Adobe Reader that Adobe released last week fixed a number of security holes
—but not before malware capable of exploiting them had been on the market for weeks. The end result is tough questions on whether it is time to consider PDF a security threat.
Well, would you look at that. The image we’re certain you’re eyes are fixated on above is indeed the first look at Lenovo’s forthcoming X300 ultraportable, and it’s being provided courtesy of Walt Mossberg. ‘Course, if we were betting souls, we’d guess that nifty office envelope won’t be bundled in, but hey, crazier things have happened.
Google’s evolved the Android UI and it looks a lot better than it did before, with animations and an overall look and feel that seems more iPhone/HipTop than Windows mobile. They keep improving like this, Android could really be great.
Young people who visit social networking sites to download music and pictures glorifying criminal street gangs can unwittingly set themselves up to be recruited by those gangs, according to law enforcement officials and youth counselors. “It’s really no different than the way Hitler recruited Hitler youth with the pageantry and the uniforms…
Reps. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Chip Pickering (R-MS) are set to introduce a bill that would force the FCC to take a long, hard look at network neutrality. The Commission would also have to (gasp) hear from the public… at least eight times
EA is releasing a separate SKU for a creature-editor edition of Spore even earlier than its September 7 game launch.
