“Dogged by scandal, the Los Angeles Police Department is looking beyond human judgment to technology to identify bad cops. This month, the agency began using a $35 million computer system that tracks complaints and other telling data about officers – then alerts top supervisors to possible signs of misconduct.”
I guess this answers the ancient question of who will police the police.
“Sony BMG, the world’s second-biggest record label, has agreed to pay $10m (£5.7m) and stop paying radio station employees to play its artists’ songs. The settlement follows an investigation into “pay for play” practices in the music industry, conducted by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. The probe found “air time is often determined by undisclosed payoffs,” said Mr Spitzer on Monday.”
And they blame P2P users for not buying the crap they try to cram down our throats like this… Jesus!
“Vuoden 1992 Ford Club Wagon -jenkkipakettiauto loisti autojen virityskisassa Seinäjoella Linux-pohjaisella viihdekeskuksella ja Xbox-pelikonsolilla. Tekniikasta palkitussa autossa voi katsella ja nauhoittaa tietokoneella digi-tv:tä ja dvd-elokuvia, kuunnella mp3-musiikkia tai surffailla netissä. Pakettiautossa on langaton lähiverkko kannettaville tietokoneille.”
EFFIn julkaisema EDRIn kirje Tony Blairille ja komissaareille summaa hyvin sen, missä tällä hetkellä päätöksentekotasolla mennään tuon tallennusvelvollisuuden kanssa sähellettäessä.
“Every time you search, bid on ebay or compare prices with rectifi we are paid by our advertisers, just like Google, MSN or Dealtime… except unlike our competitors we donate 100% of our profits to charity!
To get started, select search, shopping or auctions above and type what you’re looking for into the search box.”
They were experiencing some technical difficulties the day they launched the site (see Johnny’s comment below), but it’s now fixed and works just fine!
“Get inspired by these web-smart color schemes, taken from a variety of sources and updated regularly.”
“Super compact size (24mm*24mm*24mm) and weighs only 18 grams! A fully featured MP3/audio player that fits in the palm of your hand.”
Also features an OLED display, an FM radio, a built-in clock and a lithium-ion battery, which is charged when the device is plugged into a USB port. No Ogg support though.
After having found out Night of The Living Dead and a bunch of other horror classics have become Public Domain I immediately began downloading them from the Internet Archive.
PCstats.com offers a beginners guide to making DVD movies from video files using freely downloadable software, mainly IfoEdit. Because of MPEG-2 licencing issues, TMPEGEnc’s support for MPEG-2 encoding is limited, but luckily it’s not needed in the process: it’s only used to de-multiplex the mpeg file into separate video and audio files.
I’d like to have Finnish subtitles for my DVD’s, so DVD.box.sk’s guide to converting SRT files to SUP format might come in handy at some point. Could try finding one of those amateur-made translations out there or try and make my own translation. The script would be useful for that, but I couldn’t find it on the Net.
“Vulnerabilities in USB drivers for Windows could allow an attacker to take control of locked workstations using a specially programmed Universal Serial Bus device, according to an executive from SPI Dynamics, which discovered the security hole. The buffer-overflow vulnerabilities could enable an attacker to circumvent Windows security and gain administrative access to a user’s machine.”
Just plugged in Alex King’s Popularity Contest both here and on marginaali. A list of the most popular posts is in the sidebar.
“Popularity Contest is a WordPress plugin that uses page views and feedback (comments, trackbacks, etc.) to determine how popular each of your posts are (in relation to each other).”