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Verboten: Google Loses German Copyright Cases Over Thumbnails (3)
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Today, a regional court in German ruled that Google is violating German copyright law by displaying thumbnail previews of copyrighted images. German photographer Michael Bernhard and cartoonist Thomas Horn had sued Google and demanded that their images be removed from Google's index. According to the judge at Hamburg's regional court, "no new work is created" by displaying thumbnails. Sponsor Google, of course, has no way of discerning whether an image in its index is copyrighted ...- Dedalus said: First, Chrome; now Image search. Was passiert?
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Os escritores mais bem pagos do mundo (1)
permalinkAvaliações das celebridades da ForbesShared by Dedalus (47)
- Dedalus said: Sturgeon's law confirmed? Almost, but not quite.
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Milan Kundera colaborou com a polícia política da Checoslováquia (1)
permalinkAo denunciar desertorMilan Kundera, escritor famoso de origem checa e autor do livro “A insustentável leveza do ser”, colaborou com a polícia comunista da Checoslováquia em 1950 na denúncia de um estudante. O testemunho do escritor resultou na condenação a 22 anos de prisão de Miroslav Dvorácek, agora com 80 anos, segundo avança a edição de hoje da revista “Respekt”.Shared by Dedalus (47)
- Dedalus said: He named names.
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Primeiras impressões sobre a nova FNAC (Centro Comercial Vasco da Gama) (1)
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Assinalando uma década de presença em Portugal, a FNAC abriu hoje ao público a sua 14.ª loja. Numa passagem rápida, ao princípio da noite, confirmei uma evidência: o negócio da FNAC passou a ser a tecnologia, os gadgets electrónicos, os iPods e os telemóveis (que já representam 59% das vendas), ficando os livros e os discos para segundo plano. No Vasco da Gama, esta mudança de paradigma (chamemos-lhe assim) é ainda mais nítida. Ao entrar ...Shared by Dedalus (47)Contribute comment -
Steal This Comic (189)
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Shared by | Balu | (40) Adam (50) Aditya Sengupta (18) Adrienne Doss (6) afreytes (23) Ahsan Navid Hussain (573) Alegrya (22) Alex Cox (11) alf (28) Alix (51) amarjeet (4) amoose136 (9) Andreas (24) Andreas (16) Andrew Terry (48) Andrew Trinh (95) ani625 (112) Arslan Zahid (173) Arvin (50) Aurélien Bompard (16) Avi (27) bddemir (21) ben (10) Ben (5) Ben (35) Benjamin Kohler (21) Bill (39) bodzasfanta (201) booyaa (20) Bramha (21) brice (32) brokekid (310) bruno boutot (16) bussiere (45) C.K. (144) Caio (36) cavorite (7) cesaracardoso (82) cgsheldon (324) chakri (22) Charles Iliya Krempeaux (31) Chirantan (41) Chris Johnson (19) Chris Pineda (6) christina (22) Chuck Lawson (41) CJ (174) Cleber (34) D-Arb (40) Damon (30) Dan (39) Dan Russell (55) David (2) Dean (42) Dean (17) Dean Mah (6) Dedalus (47) Degauss (30) dekrazee1 (7) dH (38) Dileepa (26) Dimituri (24) DJ Unagi (27) djspark (88) Dustin (24) Dustin DeKoekkoek (28) Eber (16) ephes (41) Eric (45) Eric (11) Eric Atkins (27) Eric Hoefler (11) euribates (27) Fabrizio (39) Feisal Adur (10) furlan (27) Futt (21) gabopagan (50) George Brickner (202) GG (104) Goyal (21) griffmiester (3) griflet (40) Hardeep (4) HarrySachz (26) hober (47) Jacob Bowser (4) Jakob (79) James (6) Jared Hatfield (3) Jason (53) JASon (12) Jason (41) JDAL. (21) Jeff (9) Jeff Daly (56) jhota (20) jjrussell (20) jmeallen (16) Joe Thackery (3) John Breyault (4) Josh (42) Josh Hale (3) K. Adam Christensen (16) Karol F (49) kebernet (67) keith (98) Ken Dyck (11) Kevin (49) Kevin (19) khendar (1) Kris (68) krista godfrey (5) Lantash (21) Lars / Ebi (31) Lars Trieloff (4) Le (12) Les (27) Lionel Hendricks (46) Luís Guilherme (1) Malcolm Bastien (2) Marc Beharry (38) marcel weiß (46) Mark (105) Martin Gordon (45) Matt (35) Matthew (27) Matthew (124) Maurice Svay (18) Megan (12) Meromo (12) microft (14) Mido (3) Mike Davies (7) mock (8) morberg (14) mricon (23) n8dude (64) Nathan Waters (68) Navarr (41) nbr (72) NeLaS (11) nikewong (33) Nolan Eakins (36) ojas (67) P.F. Hawkins (19) paolovalde (12) Pedro Pinheiro (23) per (17) peteresch (13) Philip V. (30) Pramod (109) PsychoPenguin (21) raddevon (30) Ramanan (10) Randy (37) Rantan (129) Rich (8) Rob M (27) Rodrigo Amaya (35) Russell McCormack (16) Ryan Handron (5) sarahintampa (74) Seany G (34) Sharjeel (24) Shea Gunther (118) Simon (30) sol (64) spiri (44) Superbunker (48) Thomas.Paine (63) Tidus (9) timothyt (120) Tom Fitzpatrick (15) tongrhj (24) Travis (19) Travis (4) Tsudohnimh (28) vanlandw (48) Veetrag (5) visik7 (27) Wayne (79) will (155) WindPower (88) yosh (38) Zach Tarr (11) Zhasper (84) ZlatkoGR (41) хорошо, мы попробуем (3)Explore read 13 notes- Andreas said: Great!
- | Balu | said: Now now, that's justifying piracy =PAre you one? aargh
- D-Arb said: Jeremy, I think XKCD hurd you.
- cesaracardoso said: xkcd na luta contra o DRM (Digital Restrictions Management)
- Bill said: Poignant. I, too, have lost every single piece of DRM-shackled music I've purchased. To play devils' advocate, though, a lot of music in the iTunes Store has no DRM, and Amazon MP3 has none at all. I'm not too keen on the whole idea of audiobooks, anyway.Oh, and I happen to believe there are cases in which it is morally okay to pirate. But that's a story for an, erm, blog post.
- Dedalus said: DRM-free or you'll be a criminal, sooner or later.
- n8dude said: So True.
- amoose136 said: That's an interesting way of putting things.
- ani625 said: yep
- Dean said: love the chart!
- vanlandw said: XKCD is the Peanuts for the 18-30 demo
- Rodrigo Amaya said: TRUE TRUE TRUE!!!
- Alegrya said: and this is why we (I mean other people) pirate their music collections
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Memeorandum Colors Visualizes Political Bias (6)
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All platforms: JavaScripter Andy Baio likes to keep up with U.S. election news at the Memeorandum news aggregator, but wanted an easy way to see if the links on the page pointed to a liberal or conservative political site—so he put together a Greasemonkey user script that does just that. Baio's Memeorandum Colors script colors sites that usually link to conservative topics red, and sites that generally link to liberal topics blue (the colors get ...Contribute comment -
iPhone Application Graveyard (18)
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Peter Hosey is maintaining a directory of apps which were rejected or pulled from the App Store. ★Shared by Alec Peden (39) Andy Mroczkowski (23) Clint Ecker (126) Dean (17) Dedalus (47) John Randall (2) Jorge (20) Leigh Jay (33) Luke Iannini (4) Oliver Beattie (52) Preoccupations (60) Scott Granneman (26) Tibor (18) Tim R (43) Vincenzo (116) Wayne (79) William Couch (36) Zeromus (2)Contribute comment -
Are You Ready for Silverlight 2? (8)
onDuring the Olympics, Microsoft's Silverlight technology was installed on over 20 million computers. Oprah uses Silverlight and Microsoft has partnered with HP to have Silverlight shipped on HP computers in the future. Microsoft seemed dedicated to spreading Silverlight 1 as far as possible this year. Now rumors are swirling that Microsoft may be ready to release Silverlight 2 as early as next Monday. Sponsor ETA: Monday, October 13, 9 a.m. PT Due to a press ...Shared by 88michael (18) AJ (298) Dedalus (47) Franklin P (65) Hisham (55) Robert Scoble (144) Tim (76) TiTi (166)
- Dedalus said: Is anybody ready for Silverlight 1?????
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ruitavares: Jörg Haider, líder da extrema-direita austríaca, morreu num acidente. Quando tentava ultrapassar um carro pela direita. (1)
permalinkruitavares: Jörg Haider, líder da extrema-direita austríaca, morreu num acidente. Quando tentava ultrapassar um carro pela direita.Shared by Dedalus (47)
- Dedalus said: Dangerous manoeuvres. Oh, the irony!
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GIMP Portable 2.6.1 Released (3)
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GIMP Portable 2.6.1 has been released. GIMP Portable is the full-featured GIMP image and photo editor bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app, so you can edit your photos and images on the go. This new release updates the included GIMP to the latest release, has greatly improved launch speed after upgrading and an number of other enhancements. GIMP Portable Help, an updated GIMP Portable Background Window and GIMP Portable Photoshop Layout are ...Contribute comment -
Integrate Launchy with Wget [Download Managers] (12)
onReader Justin writes in with a clever idea for quickly launching downloads with the popular command-line download manager, wget. His method: Make wget available to Launchy, then pass the URL of the file you want to download to wget through Launchy. Here's how it works: Install Launchy. Download wget and copy the files from the unzipped folder to C:\Windows. Create a shortcut to C:\Windows/wget.exe and rename it dl. Place that shortcut in your Start menu. ...Shared by Aaron R (189) Brian Antonelli (32) bussiere (45) Compuwizard123 (43) Dedalus (47) Duane (94) JASon (12) Kwasi (81) Mick (49) MrQwest (38) Sid (28) sryo (41)Contribute comment
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Embed a Part of a YouTube Video (64)
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If you want to embed a YouTube video that starts to become interesting somewhere in the middle, there's a simple way to skip the boring part. YouTube's embedded player has a parameter that lets you specify the number of seconds that should be skipped before starting to play the video. Here's how you should edit the code: append &start=[number of seconds from the start of the video] to both URLs.<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/abcdefghijk&hl=en&fs=1&start=15"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" ...Shared by Adam (27) admin (42) AfroWhitey (42) Alex Ambrose (8) Andrew Bond (1) arturo.servin (44) Asiapan (42) b-rad (52) bitang (40) CannonGod (268) Cartwright Reed (36) Chris (11) chrisbrogan.com (38) Chuck Boyce (11) cireasa (19) Dan Dawson (15) David Poblador (9) David Poe (3) Dedalus (47) Dondado (29) Doug (12) EirePreneur (22) Evgeni L. / Reepicheep (23) gentlos (47) George Appiah (3) Gerd Leonhard (36) ggatin (32) Gustavo (7) Ha Duy Trung (5) Jamy (46) Jill (33) kelemenbandi (28) Krishnamoorthy K (13) laura (38) lishevita (25) Matthew Bibby (47) Mike F (837) Mike Harris (16) Mike Lepore (22) Ontario Emperor (122) PanMan (6) Philou (22) Pvw (19) Rachel (6) Rebecca (15) Reza Sefidgar (26) ricardo (20) Robert Scoble (144) Rolf (55) RomanZolotarev (21) Ross Dawson (7) Rubi Torres (16) Sandy Kemsley (3) Scott Clark (15) shivanand (23) Standard Society (44) steve (36) symtym (25) tapir (59) thecolor (36) Therese Hansen (6) Vero Pepperrell (20) waissa (14) 攻疼新一 (448)- Rolf said: This will be a great tool for bloggers. You can get straight to the part you want without having to listen to a whole clip. Big time saver.
- Dedalus said: Skip the boring parts.
- Standard Society said: Ohhh, ahhhh
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How to Convert Vinyl LPs to MP3s (14)
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Got stacks of Stax soul? A trove of treasures from Treasure Isle? It's remarkably easy to convert those old vinyl sides to play on your iPod. All you need is a turntable, a good audio cable and some free software and you'll be reliving vinyl's glory days in crystal-clear (and wear-free) digital sound. Got extra tips? Log in and contribute. Wired.comShared by Alex Dumitru (334) Amit Chowdhry (220) bodzasfanta (201) Christopher Yee Mon (141) Dedalus (47) Emmett (58) Gina (1) Graeme (228) jason (12) Jeff Trexler (17) Juras Vetrau (23) Scott (14) SEMaven (40) Stephanie Hicks (250)Contribute comment -
Associate Email Links With Gmail in Firefox (Natively) (15)
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The Google toolbar already provided a feature for this, but you can also do it right in the latest version of Firefox*: associate “mailto” links in web pages with Gmail, so that when you click on e.g. info@blogoscoped.com you’ll be instantly forwarded to create a new message in Google’s email client. Open Tools -> Options -> Applications, and look for the entry titled “mailto”. In the dropdown box, pick Gmail. Note this didn’t work here, ...Shared by ckaroli (48) Dedalus (47) freireag (20) gisc (33) Håkan (52) kcearns (18) Kirby Witmer (32) Kris (68) Mark (105) PiAir (85) prsm (34) shivanand (23) Varun Mahajan (17) Yu (57) Yuce (53)Contribute comment -
EXCLUSIVE: Apple to launch $800 laptop (24)
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Some Apple retailers in the United States have been given price lists for a new Apple laptop line, and there’s a big surprise: an $800 laptop. The information comes from a source we would categorize as reliable, would have access to such information, and who has been accurate in the past. According to the source, Apple retail stores have been given price sheets that list 12 price points for the new range, with prices between ...Shared by 2Bad (52) Anton Johansson (64) Augmented Web (79) Cocoy (44) Daniel Maxson (15) David (36) Dedalus (47) Donald Jenkins (6) Eugene (64) Fletcher (50) Garrett (20) Guerwan (38) Josh (22) Leon Ridge-Cooke (15) louisgray (230) Matt Pierson (51) Mike F (837) Peter (23) prsm (34) reechard (39) Rick Turoczy (277) RJO (62) Terence Washington (19) zemlanin (65)Contribute comment -
Google Says Their Results Will Be RSS-Enabled (29)
onSearch Engine Land writes that Google confirmed to them that “they’ll soon start offering RSS feeds for web search results. When it happens, the RSS feeds will be an extension of Google Alerts, which currently only allow notification by email.” Screen-scraping Google results was already easily possible but once live, RSS feeds should be a nice addition nevertheless, especially for all the tools out there which only work on RSS. There’s no specific launch date ...Shared by 4braham (14) agbiotec (53) agnes (30) AJ (22) AJ (298) Alan Dean (86) Babluit (26) Carl Fyffe (21) Cass (30) Chirantan (41) Dan Russell (55) DarkBls (50) David Poblador (9) Dedalus (47) Edwin Khodabakchian (20) Ethan (20) Håkan (52) Igor (43) mard barani (49) Mark (105) Navid (109) Peter (19) Preoccupations (60) puzo (20) ray (20) Reza Sefidgar (26) Sanket (7) Tommaso Passi (19) Yu (57)Contribute comment
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Give Android a Spin Online [Android] (51)
onCurious about how Google's upcoming mobile phone operating system Android will work? Give it a spin on a free online G1 Android emulator on T-Mobile's web site. Not all features in the emulator work, but it does give you a good idea of Android's look and feel. [via]Shared by ConceptSL (60) Aaron (81) Aaron Jamison (17) adantas (20) Adrian (23) AKMarietta (9) Ananya Walia (536) Aqeel (23) Army of Gnomes (78) Arvin (50) bkim (39) Brandon Moore (23) Cameron Hatfield (19) Christian Santos (107) Dano (9) dave (27) Dedalus (47) Diego (15) Erik J. Heels (80) Florent Solt (42) Gary Gifford Jr (69) Greg Loesch (25) javaneze (155) JBu92 (51) Jean (20) John W (25) Josh (5) jschultz (40) Laci (16) Lindsay (21) Mark (105) Matthew Tripp (278) NEEKers (13) Nicholas (26) Peli (26) psybuzz (20) Rob (24) rowlikeagirl (46) Scott (91) Sean McBride (129) snowfallsoon (5) Tao (19) timbevil (15) TO-Double-D (64) Troed Sångberg (29) trukshelly (18) Will WM (21) WindPower (88) Windy (19) wvpv (34) Yann (29)
- JBu92 said: WOOT
- Lindsay said: cool
- Cameron Hatfield said: Cool. I like the idea.
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Portuguese SHiFT 08 Promises to Discuss Blurring Of Technology Boundaries (5)
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SHiFT is an International Tech Conference happening in sunny Lisbon, Portugal this October 15 to 17. This year’s edition is devoted to “Transient Technologies”, in the sense that technology is breaking up with its digital boundaries and it’s becoming a vital part of a lot of the things we do and interact with in our daily lives. The conference itself is two days long but there will be an entire day devoted to free workshops ...Contribute comment -
318 - The Semicolonial State of San Serriffe (16)
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Nobody had ever heard of San Serriffe before April 1, 1977, when the Guardian newspaper of London published a special 7-page supplement on the 10th anniversary of that nation’s independence from Britain. The archipelago was discovered by the English in 1421, colonised by the Spanish and Portuguese and later annexed by the British, ceded to the Portuguese and later for some time a condominium between the latter two nations. San Serriffe gained its independence in ...
