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Saeed Malek
Saeed Malekpour wrote a program to upload photos to the Internet, an accomplishment that could cost him his life, Amnesty International reported Friday. Authorities in the Islamic Republic claimed his program was used by someone else to upload pornography and charged him with « insulting and desecrating Islam. » Malekpour, who is a Toronto resident, was arrested
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Une communauté de lecteurs
Parmi ces services, Readmill sort du lot. L’approche de la jeune startup allemande va à contrepied du reste du marché : interface épurée pour optimiser la lisibilité du texte, API ouverte pour permettre aux développeurs de concevoir des applications branchées sur le service (comme ReadMore ou le très intéressant The Book Report etc.), plug-in Kindle
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Remix, Reuse, Use, Abuse
As I wrote immediately after the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear our appeal: « Today I urge everyone to make sure that the entertainment industry does not profit from them anymore. Stop seeing their movies. Stop listening to their music. Make sure that you find alternative ways to culture. « Spread and participate in culture. Remix, reuse,
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Open
In many if not most cases, the -webkit-* properties WebKit-specific web sites are using do have -moz-*, -ms-*, -o-* equivalents. Gradients, Transforms, Transitions, Animations, border-radius, all interoperable enough to be browser-agnostic. Their web authors need only a few minutes to make the site compatible with Mozilla, Microsoft or Opera. But they never did it. Without
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90MB
I did a complete snapshot of ALL the Pirate Bay torrents, in case somebody wants to close it or something similarly crazy, he told TorrentFreak. Using this script, allisfine managed to copy the title, id, file size, seeds, leechers and magnet links of 1,643,194 torrents. Comments were not copied to keep the files as small
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Nothing to do with piracy
But, once again, let’s look at what really happened here. The key reason why the sales fell over that time was because as most people shifted online, the studios fought as hard as possible to keep movies from being sold online. Instead, they focused on a ridiculous, years-long fight over which would be the new
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Les restaurations cachées d’Urban eXperiment
UX is sort of like an artist’s collective, but far from being avant-garde—confronting audiences by pushing the boundaries of the new—its only audience is itself. More surprising still, its work is often radically conservative, intemperate in its devotion to the old. Through meticulous infiltration, UX members have carried out shocking acts of cultural preservation and
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Pas de romance homo pour SWTOR?
Tony Perkins, le président du très conservateur et très homophobe Family Research Council, part en guerre contre BioWare, la société qui commercialise le dernier jeu vidéo inspiré de la saga de La Guerre des étoiles. Parce que les personnages peuvent y entretenir des relations homosexuelles. Dans sa chronique radio du 27 janvier, Tony Perkins a
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How To Bypass The New Twitter Limitations
As we reported, Twitter announced today that it may block specific content on a country-by-country basis if required. However, it seems very easy to get around these upcoming limitations. Indeed, Twitter’s Help Center itself gives a good clue on how to bypass them very easily. Here’s a step-by-step explanation: » Worried about possible restrictions on
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Space Canuck
Two weeks ago, Ho and Muhammad launched a homemade balloon carrying a Lego passenger and four cameras. It fell back down to Earth 97 minutes later with astonishing footage from an estimated 24 kilometres above sea level, three times the typical cruising altitude of a commercial aircraft. » Toronto teens send Lego man on an