by Joseph Forbes | Mar 23, 2013 | DATA, LAW, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, POLITICAL, TECHNOLOGY
from the still-hungover-from-sopa dept. Slashdotters may remember the launch of the Internet Defense League, a network for website owners that would allow for the replication of a media campaign similar to the one that took down SOPA. Now it plans to spring into...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 23, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, TECHNOLOGY
from the and-many-moore dept. Intel’s Pentium processor was launched 20 years ago today, a move that led to the firm becoming the dominant supplier of computer chips across the globe. This article has some original iComp benchmark scores, rating the 66MHz...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 22, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
Cloud-based subscription service for Office 365 Home Premium offers good value and convenience Microsoft has been dishing out various flavors of Office 2013 since November 2012, when enterprises with volume license plans got first access to the finished software. In...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 21, 2013 | LAW, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
from the redacted-redacted-redacted dept. The Boston Globe reports that the estate of Aaron Swartz filed a motion in federal court in Boston Friday to allow the release of documents in the case that has generated national controversy over the U.S. attorney’s...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 21, 2013 | HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, TECHNOLOGY
from the annoying-as-many-people-as-possible dept. Ian Hickson, author and maintainer of the HTML5 specification, comments about the real reasons for DRM. They’re not what you might think. Ian nails it in my opinion. He wrote, ‘The purpose of DRM is not to...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 21, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, ENTERTIANMENT, HAPPINESS, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
One of the most enduring questions in the history of online file-sharing asks whether something bad will come from downloading and/or sharing a particular product. Will the the recording and movie industries come knocking? Will the police or even the FBI take an...
