Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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HBO Attacking BitTorrent
HBO are trying to poison the biggest filesharing tool on the Internet: HBO is actively poisoning the BitTorrent downloads of the new show Rome. In addition to an older tactic of offering bogus downloads that never complete, HBO is now obstructing the downloads offered by other people. BitTorrent downloads are peer-to-peer, but the peers are…
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U2 on Conan O'Brien video
I am looking forward to seeing next Conan O’Brien, that featured U2 only. I am sure it will appear on BitTorrent downloads fairly soon after. I, for one, will be watching on CNBC Europe next Tuesday.
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IAEA, ElBaradei win peace prize
The IAEA and Mohamed ElBaradei have won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to limit the spread of atomic weapons. I can’t see a problem with that. Bono would have been a more controversial winner.
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Court Rules in Favor of Anonymous Blogger
A significant case, at least for US bloggers. “Because the trial judge applied a standard insufficiently protective of Doe’s First Amendment right to speak anonymously, we reverse that judgment,” Chief Justice Myron Steele wrote. Steele described the Internet as a “unique democratizing medium unlike anything that has come before,” and said anonymous speech in blogs…
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Uni
Way too busy today to get much blogging done, though plenty of news to catch up on. More soon.
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Feeds
There is something going wrong with all my feeds, I am still not quite sure what the problem is. It means that my updates do not appear on POTB or Irishblogs.ie I can’t explain it since I changed nothing on WordPress to warrant it. I will upgrade to the latest version of WordPress to see…
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It's toolbars
Toolbars? Java, JRE and Google… Well and Office too…at some point. And they are not pitting themselves against Microsoft. Yet.
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Tasteless cartoon?
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Meaning and life
I meant to post this last week but I read a very good book review in the Economist Adam Jacot de Boinod, a BBC researcher, has sifted through more than 2m words in 280 dictionaries and 140 websites to discover that Albanians have 27 words for moustacheâincluding mustaqe madh for bushy and mustaqe posht for…
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Use it or lose it
It’s a showdown and CBC look like they could lose. SHORTLY before the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) locked out 5,300 of its 9,000 employees on August 15th, Michele Sparling, the management’s chief negotiator, declared: âThis is the hill we will die on.â? Seven weeks later, those words look ominous. Many of CBC’s most familiar faces…
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