Celestial Junk (Free subscription) | yesterday
I've lost count of how many green blog crawlers have passed through here arrogantly talking about "peer review" as if it was the Holy Grail of science, the alpha and omega of rational thought. Did I mention, that each and every one of those greenies were also sitting on a big green post and rotating in the wind while they obediently spewed the "Real Climate" talking points. They...
IPBiz (Free subscription) | yesterday
Christopher Booker writes: Back in 2006, when the eminent US statistician Professor Edward Wegman produced an expert report for the US Congress vindicating Steve McIntyre's demolition of the "hockey stick", he excoriated the way in which this same "tightly knit group" of academics seemed only too keen to collaborate with each other and to "peer review" each other's papers...
Winnipeg Real Estate (Free subscription) | yesterday
FilesDirect is great for file sharing and receiving. They offer different plans that cater to the different needs you have to send large files. They 1 Vote(s)
P2P File Sharing (Free subscription) | yesterday
© dailyinvention Virgin Media has announced plans to monitor its own network traffic to look for file sharing activity. "The company announced on Thursday that it would perform a trial of deep packet inspection technology from Detica to gauge the levels of unlawful file-sharing on its network, on behalf of music companies and other rights holders... the trial, which will cover approximately...
Irons in the Fire (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
The trouble with outsourcing your marbles to the peer-reviewed set is that, if you take away one single thing from the leaked documents, it's that the global warm-mongers have wholly corrupted the "peer-review" process. When it comes to promoting the impending ecopalypse, the Climate Research Unit is the nerve-center of the operation. The "science" of the CRU dominates the "science"...
No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Today's Guardian business pages have an interesting but limited piece on Spotify this morning; one which contains two statistics which are supposed to be impressive but, erm, actually aren't. Number one: But last week the blogosphere was alight with speculation about Spotify's model, fuelled by reports in its home market that it paid Lady Gaga – through the Swedish performing rights society STIM...
Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
ACS:Law offers out-of-court settlements of "several hundreds of pounds" 15,000 suspected filesharers in the UK could soon be getting a letter from a company called ACS:Law which accuses them of sharing copyrighted material illegally, offering the chance to settle out of court for "several hundreds of pounds". The letters are due to be sent out in early 2010, and consist of accusations...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
LONDON, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- "As the person who coined the term The Digital Economy in my 1995 book of that title I do feel obliged to comment on the UK government's recently unveiled Digital Economy Bill. The bill is fundamentally flawed because it punishes Internet users who share songs. File-sharing a classic example of a disruptive technology, and we've got to get over this mindset that...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
BEAVERTON, OR (MARKET WIRE) Tektronix, Inc., a leading, worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced the launch of Scope Central, an online community dedicated to oscilloscope users. Scope Central provides design engineers with in-depth information and peer-to-peer interaction focused on the latest technologies and methodologies to advance and simplify design and...
Look At This... (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The 10 Most Outdated Tech References in Hip-Hop ( via ) 'ville.2k - the 101 Best Music Videos of the Decade The 10 Most (In)Famous Music Headlines Ever Printed Hobos or Headliners? 15 Aging Rockstars: The Good and the Terrible Bottom 10 Records: The Worst Albums Ever Recorded 11 Most Ridiculous Concert Demands By Hip-Hop Artists ( via ) Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing?...
Fibre to the home UK - Fibrevolution (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Lots of people get it. The vision of NGA, the benefits, purpose, reasons, ways to achieve it, JFDI and so on. And some really don't... Sadly, those that don't appear to get it seem to include those who really, really need to get it. These include people in government, MPs, ministers, govt departments, consultants and agencies employed by govt departments, RDAs, quangos set up to deliver on IT and Digital...
Destructoid (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
And so the cull begins ... Infinity Ward has begun to swing its giant, bloodstained scythe across the undedicated Modern Warfare 2 servers, striking down those stupid enough to try and cheat. This is one of the reasons given by Infinity Ward for moving away from dedicated servers and adopting a peer-to-peer model. At least this justification is one that seems to be sincere. "Top men are on it,"...
Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Well, at least one British political party is fed up with the spread of Islam and its impudence in the UK, and has clearly demonstrated that it intends to push back. Hopefully, this is just the beginning. LONDON // An avowed anti-Islamist has been elected leader of a major political party in Britain. Lord [Malcolm] Pearson of Rannoch was named as the new leader of the UK Independence Party (Ukip) at...
P2P Foundation (Free subscription) | yesterday
Social networking services available on the web are based upon proprietary software which have the ultimate purpose of advertisement-driven profit which implicitly demands tracking user activities. On the other hand, in order to allow people’s collective intelligence to fully develop by means of their self-organized social networks, communication in social networking software must be independent...
TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | yesterday
Most other sites would have thrown in the towel by now, but despite unprecedented pressure, somehow The Pirate Bay remains alive and in pretty good health today. As one door closes, the site morphs and adapts to find ways to stay open and possibly even stay legal. Is the site becoming more and more difficult to shut down?
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gredia | 03/09/2009
The GREDIA research project partly funded by the European Commission has just completed, making available to the Grid community tools that can be used for building and improving Grid applications. Mentioning just a few we have released: - APPEA: A user-friendly Grid application development platform - DRLS: A Distributed Replica Location Service for searching multimedia content, based on P2P overlay...
themusicvoid | 30/07/2009
Despite all the fever pitch hype surround the recent Global Gaming Factory buying The Pirate Bay and turning it into a legal service TMV has discovered that it is now highly unlikely the purchase will ever occur. TMV has learned that the Swedish bankers quoted by GGF as investing in the venture, clearly stated they would not be proceeding with any investment. TMV obtained a leaked email sent to many
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