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In one corner we have Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig speaking to LinuxWorld attendees about the Creative Commons license, and in the other we have a political party in Sweden called the Pirate Party establish a commercial darknet that lets anybody send and receive files (including copyrighted material) anonymously without being tracked or traced. …
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When Internet Explorer fails, troubleshooting can be difficult. Because it is well integrated with the operating system, it is difficult to uninstall and reinstall. Today, one machine kept displaying the following error: iexplore.exe – Application ErrorThe instruction at “0x30cb0a4f” referenced memory at “0x00000000”. The memory could not be “written”. Click on OK to terminate the …
On Saturday, August 5, 2006, a blog called “Little Green Footballs” posted a story entitled “Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut?” that revealed Reuters’ freelance photographer Adnan Hajj manipulated some photos he submitted from Iraq. Reuters eventually admitted Hajj’s wrongdoing and pulled all of his photos. But the blogging and television fallout continues. In March, I …
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When my co-worker JB took a hammer to some old server hard drives that we wanted to destory, one of them decided to fight back.
Last night, Jenny and I went to Butler’s Holcomb Observatory and Planetarium to see Jupiter. I have never looked through a telescope this big. Though Jupiter didn’t look quite a big as the image pictured here, we were able to see five of its moons.