Links for March 4th through March 11th [Google]
Check out these links I’ve found!
- Pillow Fight Leads To San Francisco Wanting Flash Mob Ban – Just another awesome event. I think they should flash mob the city councilmen and different times throughout the year. That would really piss 'em off!
- French anti-P2P law toughest in the world – Not good France! NOT GOOD!!! So much for the Open-Source ideals. You really can't do anything to make the world love you, can you?
- Google's new behavioral ads already raising privacy worries – I don't think it matters what my behaviors are, I'm still not going to click on adds.
- French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu – Way to go France! I like it.
- Creative Commons Add-In for Office Inserts Open Licenses Easily [Downloads] –
- Send Later for Thunderbird Adds Custom Quick-Delay Buttons [Downloads] –
- Songbird 1.1 Grabs Album Art in One Step, Runs Lighter and Faster [Downloads] –
- P2P judge smacks down "frivolous" motions from Harvard prof – I'm glad to see the judge is not taking sides. Let's hope for the best.
- Social Networking, Blogging Overtake E-mail as Chief Time Wasters –
- YouTube Pulls All Professional Music Videos In The U.K. – It's just getting worse.
- Norway's public broadcaster launches BitTorrent tracker – Rock on Norway, ROCK ON!!!!!
- Norway's public broadcaster launches BitTorrent tracker – Rock on Norway, ROCK ON!!!!!
- A week of Law & Disorder: talk like a pirate edition – Wow, at some point we're going to need to stop the legal battles and decide what we as a nation feel is right. I hope that means that Big Content doesn't get much of a say…
- Hulu kills Boxee support… again – Again, way to go Big Content. We only hate you more.
- Hulu kills Boxee support… again – What are they thinking?!?!?! Big Content continues to just piss off the customer. If it was any other market, we wouldn't put up with this crap.
- Give Up Texting For Lent, Archbishop Urges – It's an interesting plea. I definitely think balance is important, but I don't think the virtual world is that bad so long as you understand it is only possible because of real people.
- Security admin, botmaster sentenced to four years in prison – Ouch. Guess it doesn't pay to run a botnet.
- Blackout Ireland rallies support against P2P disconnections –
- MediaSentry weighed in the balance, found wanting –
- If you pirate a movie, do the terrorists win? –
Tim Seymour lives in Washington, DC. He works as a Systems Administrator for