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Behavioral efforts, not money, will drive energy efficiency
When it comes to reducing carbon emissions, most of the attention has focused on new technologies like renewable power and electric vehicles, as well as their associated costs. But study after study shows that we can save both energy and a significant amount of cash through the use of energy efficiency technology that’s already on the market. A Policy Forum in today’s issue of Science suggests that the bottleneck isn’t so much technological or economic as it is behavioral, and argues that the US needs to start performing tests of behavior-oriented programs.
Continue reading »Will your big-screen Super Bowl party violate copyright law?
An offhand comment the other day by a friend caught my attention—”Did you know that you can’t watch the Super Bowl on a TV screen larger than 55 inches? Yeah, it’s right there in the law.” With the Colts and Saints set to do battle in Super Bowl XLIV, this seemed worth looking into as a public service. Could it be that some of those giant flat panel TV sets now finding their way into US living rooms are actually violating copyright law?
Continue reading »Furious Copyright Holder Harasses Torrent Site Admins
Normally the issuing of a DMCA takedown request would hardly be newsworthy event, but every year a few surface that are worth mentioning. The Pirate Bay, for example, have published some of their most notable conversations with copyright holders on their site. These exchanges often started off politely but later turned into an email fight when it became clear that The Pirate Bay didn’t intend on removing any torrents from their site.
Continue reading »Tiger Woods sex scandal good for Google
Golfing is THE corporate sport and some parents encourage their kids to take it up not because of all the fresh air, but because they’ll make good connections for the future. Sort of like going to the ‘right’ school. Tiger Woods’ main claim to fame is: he can hit a little white ball around better than just about anyone else.
Continue reading »Feds Charge Three with Comcast.net Hijacking
Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge Thursday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. Defiant, in an undated photo from his MySpace profile last year. Prosecutors identified Christopher Allen Lewis, 19, and James Robert Black, Jr, 20, as the hackers “EBK” and “Defiant,” known for hijacking Comcast’s domain name in May of last year — a prank that took down the cable giant’s homepage and webmail service for more than five hours, and allegedly cost the company over $128,000.
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