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• Feature: What is DRM doing in my garage?

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 505
  Feature: What is DRM doing in my garage? : Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica . I never expected to stumble upon a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) story while standing beneath an unshielded light bulb in my garage, but that was before I picked up the manual for my garage door opener. I recently ...
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• Vimeo sued; have staffers uploaded infringing content?

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 505
  Vimeo sued; have staffers uploaded infringing content? : Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica . Who would want to sue Vimeo? The video-sharing site was never meant to be a hub for illicit Simpsons clips and films broken into 10-minute increments; it was supposed to be about original content and community. ...
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• Predator drones use less encryption than your TV, DVDs

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 505
  Predator drones use less encryption than your TV, DVDs : Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica . What three-letter Internet acronym best fits the bizarre news out of Iraq and Afghanistan that militants there have been intercepting US Predator drone video feeds using laptops and a $30 piece of Russian ...
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• Google working with D-Wave on what may or may not be quantum computing

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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• Google working with D-Wave on what may or may not be quantum computing

  
  Technology Blog — Authority: 170
  When we first mentioned D-Wave way back in early 2007 we immediately compared it to Steorn — less than optimal beginnings. The company was promising quantum computing for the masses and, while it did demonstrate a machine that exhibited qubit-like behavior, the company never really silenced critics who believed the ...
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• This time, it’s different: Windows Server 2008 R2 in-depth

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 161
  Lets say youre the sort of IT person whose days, evenings,and weekends are consumed by running around from point to point, trying to keepyour companys or clients computers running. Chances are very good youre still using XP onthe desktop and Server 2003 in the closet, because youre used to it, yourecomfortable with ...
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• Rumor: Apple to include new i7-980X in upcoming Mac Pro

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 161
  Regardless of recent updates to the Mac Pro line, rumors are circulating that Apple could be upgrading its pro line of desktops early next year with faster processors that sport more cores and consume less power. The information was allegedly leaked from Intel, and the new processors (codenamed Gulftown) will ...
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• Instead of patching, Microsoft limits video codec in Windows

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 161
  On this months Patch Tuesday , Microsoft issued a Security Advisory in which it detailed the steps it was taking to fix vulnerabilities in the Indeo codec, which compresses and decompresses video data, found in supported editions of Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. The newly discovered vulnerability ...
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• Comcast expands online video to all cable+Internet customers

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 161
  Comcast has opened up its On Demand Online beta—now dubbed Comcast/Fancast Xfinity TV—to all of its customers who subscribe to both the companys high-speed Internet and cable TV service. With the launch comes a handful of details that were not previously available, giving us insight into the companys plans for the ...
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• Science coverage and the new Ars design

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 161
  At first glance, a site design that focuses on shorter content—Brief and Etc. posts—would seem to be a poor fit for a science section thats rather notable for diving in deep to most content. Although there will undoubtedly be a bit of a learning curve when it comes to using the new formats for science news, I ...
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• Artists’ lawsuit: major record labels are the real pirates

  
  All Things News — Authority: 127
  Straight from Ars Technica : “Between $50 million and $6 billion may be owed to musicians and artists in Canada, but not from your run-of-the-mill file sharers. The Canadian recording industry itself is being accused of massive copyright infringement, and the list of miffed artists just keeps getting longer. Given ...
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• Tech Babble Roundup: "The Cloud" is a Lousy Name

  
  CIO - Blogs and Discussion - — Authority: 146
  This week we have one lone term, but it’s loaded: The Cloud. read more
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• No gravity, one gun, no problem: Shattered Horizon interview

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 161
  Shattered Horizon is a weird beast. The $20 first-person shooter features four maps, one gun, and takes place in space. That means there is no gravity—you can attack from any angle by using your boosters. Turn them off and move with just your inertia to become harder to spot. Its a heady, tense form of combat. Its ...
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• Weird Science consumes its young

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 161
  A taste of fatherhood: The males of many species get away without any involvement whatsoever with the raising of their young. On the opposite end of the spectrum, various sea horses and pipefish have a specialized brooding sack in which they carry their developing eggs around, providing them nutrients via a male ...
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• AT&T Wants to Charge Heavy Data Users

  
  mickerlodeon — Authority: 134
  Jacqui Cheng reporting for Ars Technica on AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega’s remarks at the UBS conference: Heavy data users may soon find themselves paying more for service if they’re AT&T customers. […] noting that a mere three percent of smartphone users suck up some 40 percent of the company’s traffic. ...
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• The Techie Geek – Episode 53 – Show Notes

  
  The Techie Geek Podcast — Authority: 99
  Email me at russ AT thetechiegeek DOT com Leave me a voice mail at 1-206-338-4483 GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home Google DNS servers are at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 OpenDNS servers are at ...
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• Week in gaming: exploit ban-happiness edition

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 161
  Microsoft has begun issuing temporary bans to players taking advantage of an exploit in Modern Warfare 2, while Infinity Ward works on a patch to fix the issue. While the servers may be kept slightly cleaner for the efforts, the amount of control Microsoft holds over owners of their consoles, and the arbitrary way ...
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• Microsoft fixes Office 2003 bug denying access to files

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 161
  On Friday, Microsoft issued a warning that as of December 11, 2009, customers using Microsoft Office 2003 have been unable to open or save Office 2003 documents protected with the Rights Management Service (RMS). On Saturday, the software giant released the following hotfixes for the issue: Office Client ...
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• Week in Apple: Chrome beta, Lala purchase, Facebook gift cards

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 161
  It has been an active week in Apple land, what with the company buying Lala, more rumors about the Apple tablet, the release of the Chrome beta for Mac, and more. Have you been hiding from the cold? Read on to catch up with this weeks top headlines: Hands on with Mac Chrome beta: incomplete but looking good : ...
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• Apple calls Nokia a copycat in patent countersuit

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 161
  Apple has filed a countersuit against mobile phone giant Nokia, asserting that it has not infringed on Nokias patents and that Nokia has, in fact, copied Apple. The 79-page court filing was made in response to a lawsuit that Nokia filed against Apple in October , wherein Nokia said that Apples iPhone made heavy use ...
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