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• Uninstall / Remove Webmin Software –
• Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty – OUTRAGEOUS!!! Why can technology savvy people never end up on these juries.
• BitBlinder: free, anonymous torrenting may be a reality –
• A Beginner’s Guide to Image Sharpening [Image Editing] –
• Use Automotive Window Tint to Make a Glass Desk Mouse-Friendly [Clever Uses] –
• Chinese Filter Software Opens Hacking Risk –
• 15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS –
• Lawyers plan class-action to reclaim “$100M+” RIAA “stole” –
• Swedish Pirate Party headed to European Parliament –
• Monticello, MN beats the phone company; Internet a “utility” –
• Study: P2P customers are Hollywood's best friends—really! –
• The Ultimate Drupal Toolbox: 150+ Themes, Modules & Resources –
• Dear EU: Please quit whining about browsers already –
• Canada IP battlelines: “plagiarized” report, piracy “guesses” –
• Easily put Google services on your site with Web Elements –

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• Landmark study: DRM truly does make pirates out of us all –
• 40 Exceptional “CMS Enabling” WordPress Plugins –
• Nesson speaks: Inside P2P’s “David v. Goliath” story –
• Linux Limit CPU Usage Per Process –
• Nielsen: Mobile, Online Video Hasn’t Put A Dent in TV Viewing –
• Doom + Heretic + Hexen (in your browser) = Epic Win – Time Waster –
• Conficker Keeps Growing And Growing –
• Lawyer: RIAA must pay back all $100M it has collected –
• Copyleft v. Copyright: FSF, RIAA face off in court –
• CSS3 Exciting Functions and Features: 30+ Useful Tutorials –
• Big Content appeals Pirate Bay case—damages were too low –
• 15+ programs you don’t have to miss when you switch to Linux –
• Zilla PDF to TXT Converter Plain-Texts Your PDF Files in Bulk [Downloads] –
• Another 6,400 workers to lose jobs at HP – Maybe why the quality of their computers is tanking?
• Harvard prof tells judge that P2P filesharing is "fair use" – I didn't see that defense coming…

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• France Passes Three Strikes Net Piracy Bill – One more reason to despise France…
• OffiSync mixes Microsoft Office and Google Docs –
• Fake Windows 7 Creates Botnet –
• Norwegian ISP: dig your own fiber trench, save $400 – I love my ancestors. They're so damn innovative. I would dig the trench with my bare hands to get fiber and save $400!
• Web designer opposes France's "3 strikes" law, loses job – This is outrageous! I guess free speech isn't a right in France.
• MPAA: teachers should videotape monitors, not rip DVDs – The MPAA once again shows its STUPIDITY. They only make me hate them more.
• Botnet master hits the kill switch, takes down 100,000 PCs – Wow, its not every day your computer just dies…
• ISPs' costs, revenues don't support data cap argument – I HATE ISPs!!!
• Five Best Free Data Recovery Tools [Hive Five] –
• The Pirate Bay verdict goes English, and we dish the dirt –
• Study: pirates biggest music buyers. Labels: yeah, right –
• Why no one should be shocked by The Pirate Bay verdict –
• Appeals court: no webcast for Joel Tenenbaum –
• Stimulus: Stanford's president on the $800 billion question – A very compelling read.
• Congressman: there should be a law against Internet caps! – Nice work Congressman!

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• Roll Your Own Streaming Media Server with Subsonic [Downloads] – Gonna have to give this a try…
• Get Your Shoes Off the Floor with a DIY Floating Shoe Rack [DIY] –
• Swedish Piracy Law Cuts Internet Traffic By A Third –
• Google yanks tethering app from marketplace – SEE!!! GOOGLE IS NO BETTER!
• Man uses 35 cable modems to provide WiFi, sued by Comcast – Ouch, this guy is gonna owe some money
• Chinese cyberespionage network runs across 103 nations – Wow, this is some scary stuff. Job security for me though…
• A New Study Say Video Games Can Improve Adult Vision – One more reason to keep gaming.
• Skype for iPhone Arrives Tuesday [IPhone] – HEY OH!!!!!
• Australian classification board website gets hacked – Give up Australia. The Hackerz are better than you.
• German cops raid Wikileaks after Internet blacklist posted – WTF! So the police are now raiding people's homes because they post a list of web addresses? Child porn hysteria is an understatement!
• Parents fight child porn threats against "sexting" teens – What a mess…
• Console is an open source, tabbed CMD alternative for Windows –
• MIT to make all faculty publications open access – Finally the big academic institutions step in and lay down the law.
• Complaint Urges Shutting Down Google's Street View U.K. – I don't understand! Why is this such a big deal to people. It's not like people aren't being photographed everyday at random. Who knows how many pictures I am in without my knowledge that are readily available on the web.
• China Pulls the Plug on YouTube…Again – Can you say "We shall overcome"?

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• Last.fm Goes Paid-Only for International Users, Kills Unofficial Mobile Apps [Streaming Music] – Bummer. Good thing I live in the US
• Boxee Adds Pandora, PBS, New API (and Fixes Hulu) [Downloads] –
• How Do I Setup a One-Way File Sync Backup? [Ask Lifehacker] –
• DoJ supports RIAA in Sony v. Tenenbaum three-ring circus –
• See, Nigerian Scammers CAN Be Friendly! –
• Locavore Lists the In-Season Food Near You [Downloads] –
• Interview: Meebo CEO on iPhone chat app, Push Notifications –
• Sentencing commission ponders extra jail time for proxy users – Another behavior vs. technology issue.
• Fugly Friday: The World’s Worst Website? –
• Web Developers: help rid the world of IE6 with a simple script –
• Start BitTorrent Downloads at Home from Any Computer with Dropbox [BitTorrent] –
• Safari hacked in a flash at Pwn2Own 2009, Firefox and IE8 follow – Ouch, that hurts a little doesn't it Apple?
• 85M Motor Yacht – Oh, I wish, I wish, I wish…
• Internet Explorer 8 Officially Released at Noon EST [Internet Explorer] –
• The Sun Also Sets? IBM Reportedly Looking to Buy Sun – Will IBM support open-source development? That's my biggest concern with an acquisition like this.

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• First rule of Internet censorship: Hide the block list – Internet censorship is a bad thing. No good can come of limiting information. Just because they can't burn the Internet like they did books, that doesn't give them the right to censor the Internet.
• Cheap International BlackBerry Calls With Truphone VoIP –
• Measuring Productivity: More Difficult for Managers –
• Google: Internet disconnection a "disproportionate" penalty – Finally, a company with some serious power weighs in on the issue.
• Apple reveals slew of new features for iPhone OS 3.0 –
• Getting free wireless in airports and hotels –
• Botnet takedown offers peek at private data repository –
• iPhone OS 3.0 event: coverage details and our wishlist –
• “I thought it was a scam”: NH woman sued by RIAA –
• Speculation Mounts with Apple Preview of iPhone 3.0 Software Next Week –
• Twitter IM support coming to Adium –
• Zuckerberg Slips Out Of The Billionaire Club –
• Labels: whatever the future of music is, it isn’t “free” –
• Self-healing polymer advance could mean scratch-free iPhones –
• iPhone 3.0 Will Be Revealed March 17 [IPhone] –

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• 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? –

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• Pirate Bay accused does remote sysadmin from courtroom during closing arguments – Boing Boing – Nice.
• IKEA Planner Visualizes Your Dream Rooms in 3D [Downloads] – For you Kendra…
• Excitement over Genachowski FCC pick… will it last? –
• Amazon’s Kindle for iPhone: First Look –
• Pirate Bay: a guilty verdict is an attack on the Internet – I'm not sure if I completely agree with that statement, but I do want to see a not guilty verdict come back.
• Greener Gadgets: Tweet-a-Watt – Another crazy use of Twitter.
• Paper + Color + Concept = 40+ Creative & Inspirational Piece of Art – Some pretty cool designs.
• eBay Scammer Wins Two Years In The Slammer – This guy obviously doesn't know how to pull off a scam.
• Survey Finds Young Germans Would Rather Ditch Cars or Spouses Than the Internet – I'm definitely right there with them. Removal of my Internet access is near the top of the worst things that could happen to me.
• Rogue apps raise concerns over Facebook's reactive policies – Another reason to HATE Facebook applications.
• Court: self-incrimination privilege won't protect password – Wow, if that's not self-incrimination I don't know what is. Yeah, I could show you where the body is, but that will get me in even bigger trouble. Same thing, right?
• Conficker-created connections could confound consumers –
• Prosecution rests case against “wealthy” Pirate Bay admins –
• Foxmarks bookmark sync service becomes Xmarks –
• Ninth Circuit rejects gov't appeal in wiretap case – Why would the Obama administration allow this to continue? What do they have to hide? Any ideas…?
• Biden Asks for Web Site's 'Number' – First 100 Days of Presidency – Politics FOXNews.com – Poor Obama… he thought Joe would be a good choice but that statement reminds me a lot of our boy W.
• Celebrate Open That Bottle Night [Wine] – I heard and NPR interview with the founders of "Open that Bottle Night". I liked the idea, probably not going to participate this year.

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• Google Cripples Android Developer Phones to Prevent Piracy – So basically the open-source phone just went closed.
• DIY Laptop Rack Hack Turns Your Monitor into an iMac [DIY] –
• John McCain to champion fair use in Jackson Browne suit? – Poor John McCain – he voted for the DMCA and now it is kicking his ass. If only he had thought further ahead…
• OneSwarm friend-to-friend P2P likely to irk Big Content, ISPs – and P2P makes a big leap forward.
• IFPI boss at TPB trial: you’re either with us or against us –
• Google joins the EU's Internet Explorer smackdown – Wow Google… I'm not impressed.
• 15 of the World’s Most Fabulous and Funky Furniture Sets – All I can say is "wow!"
• Norway Education Minister: there's no future in fighting P2P – Way to go Norway!!!
• Report: EU may order Microsoft to bundle other browsers –
• 5 iPhone apps that will make you a hero – I use 2/5. But I'm definitely adding HotStop since we are moving to DC
• As charges change (again), Pirate Bay writes a book –
• Gizmo5 – Make free internet calls from your mobile phone and computer – Home – A very interesting possibility…
• Red Hat VP explains software patent threat at Linux Expo – We are definitely seeing problems of this nature in every area directly effected by technological innovation. The law just can't keep up.
• Emergency Server Room Light – This would have been awesome to have yesterday.
• A Spartan strategy: Ars reviews Halo Wars – Too bad. I'm a big fan of Halo and I hate to see any of the titles get done poorly.
• Desktop Central packages 11 handy tools for sysadmins –

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• EU group aims to eavesdrop on Skype calls – I have to ask why? Why must the government do everything it can to spy on us!?!?! WHY!?!?!
• 10 Worst Tech Trends – So true. Tech is great when done right, but very pointless when done wrong.
• Fiamma – Fireplaces done in my style.
• EU group aims to eavesdrop on Skype calls -
• Firefox Mobile (aka Fennec) Will Sync Tabs with Firefox on Your Desktop [Fennec] -
• Mozilla demos impressive Firefox 3.1 features at SCALE -
• Broadband woes aside, US tops the world in “connectivity” -
• Record industry talks Irish ISP into blocking P2P sites – AHHHH!!!!!!! This is the first step in removing our digital freedom.
• Record industry talks Irish ISP into blocking P2P sites -
• Droppler Makes Drop.io Your iPhone’s Web Storage Bin [Downloads] – Another cloud based storage option – but I don’t think I’m going to change from Box.net.
• Droppler Makes Drop.io Your iPhone’s Web Storage Bin [Downloads] -
• LinkedIn Replaced The Resume; or 21st Century Relevance -
• Pirate Bay: survey says that 80% of our torrents are legal -