Undeterred by a stream of negative PR from recent WikiLeaks revelations, the anti-piracy lobby machine once again scored favourable headlines in Australia today. In its push to get ISPs onboard for a three-strikes system to warn copyright infringers, lobby group IPAF released a study that reveals how immensely effective this would be. However, the entire press release is a cheap marketing trick with mispresented research results that actually prove the opposite.
The MPA(A) is trying to get a tight grip on piracy in Australia, mainly through affiliate groups such as AFACT. Recently published cables by Wikileaks revealed how Hollywood is secretly pushing their agenda down under.
After the failed attempt at making ISP iiNet responsible for the copyright infringements of its file-sharing customers, the anti-piracy lobby groups are now once again calling for a three-strikes system. Today a new study surfaced which, on the surface, suggests that these warnings would be very effective as a deterrent — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Looks like Victorinox didn’t to let B&R (amongst others) be the only ones digging into their own past for a new collection. Not surprisingly, they’re calling it the Classic model– via Wrist Watch Review
Musicians are set receive royalties for their songs well into their old age under a new EU ruling.
Regulations approved on Monday extended copyright on sound recordings from 50 to 70 years — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new polymer jelly could be the next big step forward for lithium batteries.
The jelly replaces the volatile and hazardous liquid electrolyte currently used in most lithium batteries.
Researchers from the University of Leeds hope their development leads to smaller, cheaper and safer gadgets.
Once on the market, the lithium jelly batteries could allow lighter laptop computers, and more efficient electric cars — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It is a rite of passage for any sufficiently advanced genetically modified animal: at some point scientists will insert a gene that makes you glow green. The latest addition to this ever-growing list — which includes fruit flies, mice, rabbits and pigs — is the domestic cat.
US researcher Eric Poeschla has produced three glowing GM cats by using a virus to carry a gene, called green fluorescent protein (GFP), into the eggs from which the animals eventually grew.
This method of genetic modification is simpler and more efficient than traditional cloning techniques, and results in fewer animals being needed in the process.
The GFP gene, which has its origins in jellyfish, expresses proteins that fluoresce when illuminated with certain frequencies of light. Poeschla, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, reported his results in the journal Nature Methods.
This function is regularly used by scientists to monitor the activity of individual genes or cells in a wide variety of animals. The development and refinement of the GFP technique earned its scientific pioneers the Nobel prize for chemistry in 2008.
In the case of the glowing cats, the scientists hope to use the GM animals in the study of HIV/Aids — via redwolf.newsvine.com
ABC has asked Apple’s iTunes to reconsider an iPhone trivia app for Spicks and Specks, after it automatically deemed its title inappropriate.
iTunes has amended the title to S***ks and Specks
, worried the word may be deemed offensive to Hispanics — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Heroin’s long journey to America’s streets begins with the planting of the seed of an opium poppy. The flower’s botanical name is papaver somniferum. The Sumerians called it Hul Gil, the ‘flower of joy.’
The flower is grown mainly by impoverished farmers on small plots in remote regions of the world. It flourishes in dry, warm climates and the vast majority of opium poppies are grown in a narrow, 4,500-mile stretch of mountains extending across southern Asia from Turkey through Pakistan and Laos. Heroin is also increasingly becoming an export from Latin America, notably Colombia — via PBS
Every time changes to the copyright monopoly are considered, the profits of major entertainment industry companies are at the centre of the discussion. Even the people who fiercely defend the right to share information freely are going to extreme lengths to argue that this will not hurt the revenues of the copyright industry. But why are these profits even relevant? Why should we care about the profits of these companies?
It is almost apologetic. Apologetic for defending the civil rights that our ancestors fought, bled and died to give us, their children and grandchildren.
Thinking about what hurts and doesn’t hurt sales misses the point entirely. A corporation’s profits must never be at the centre of policymaking, much less the centre of determining what fundamental civil liberties we have as free citizens — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Twenty-four men suspected of being held against their will have been found during a raid at a travellers’ site.
Four men and a woman were arrested on suspicion of committing slavery offences in the raid at Greenacre travellers’ site, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, on Sunday.
The men, who are English, Polish and Romanian, were found in filthy and cramped
conditions, police said.
Detectives believe some may have been there for up to 15 years — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Doris Day has become the oldest artist to score a UK Top 10 with an album featuring new material, according to the Official Charts Company.
At the tender age of 87, Day’s new record My Heart has gone in at number nine, 62 years after her debut album was released in the US — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The rewards outweigh the risks — when you’re in a group, anyway. A new USC study explains why people take stupid chances when all of their friends are watching that they would never take by themselves. According to the study, the human brain places more value on winning in a social setting than it does on winning when you’re alone.
Georgio Coricelli of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences led a multinational team of researchers that measured activity in the regions of the brain associated with rewards and with social reasoning while participants in the study entered in lotteries.
Their study appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I have switched the slogans of the brands amongst themselves, the goal of this being to give them further meaning and to create a sort of a confusion. It is surprising how logos can influence other logos. The truth is that each pair of rivals has something in common, that something which has helped them to build one identity upon the other, this way becoming the biggest brands — via Behance Network
An 81-year-old woman from Norfolk has had Do Not Resuscitate
tattooed across her chest in case she falls ill and attempts are made to revive her.
Joy Tomkins had the message tattooed, along with PTO
and an arrow on her back, earlier this year.
The former magazine company secretary said she could not bear to make beds and wash-up for another 20 years
.
Despite having a living will for about 30 years, she said the tattoo meant there was be no excuse
for error — via redwolf.newsvine.com
All over America, police have been arresting people for taking video or making sound recordings of them, even though such arrests are pretty clearly illegal. Usually, the charges are dropped once the case becomes public, and usually that’s the end of it.
But sometimes things go farther, and in two recent cases, they’ve gone far enough to bite back at the police and prosecutors involved. We need more such biting — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, introduced a new bill Thursday that aims to protect citizens’ personal information from online data breaches. The bill would also punish companies that are careless with customers’ information.
The goal of the proposed law is essentially to hold accountable the companies and entities that store personal information and personal data and to deter data breaches,
Senator Blumenthal said in a phone interview. While looking at past data breaches, I’ve been struck with how many are preventable.
The new bill, called the Personal Data Protection and Breach Accountability Act of 2011, comes at a time when online privacy and security are hot topics in Congress. The White House has also been involved in discussions around new online privacy rules and legislation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Melbourne web domain kingpin has received death threats after he blew the lid on emerging fraud campaigns.
Attackers warned Michael Gilmour that he would be killed unless he removed a series of blog articles that warned domain name buyers of a new scam sweeping the industry.
Ten days ago, a large denial of service attack from a global botnet slammed into Gilmour’s personal blog, where the articles were posted, and his business website. Both have remained under attack and offline.
Gilmour shrugged off the attacks until he noticed the death threats embedded as URLs in the attack logs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A blind, cave-dwelling fish in Somalia knows what time it is, but its day
is twice as long as ours.
Most animals have an internal body clock, or circadian rhythm, that lasts around 24 hours and is modified by the light-dark cycle of a day.
But an international team, whose research is published in the open access journal PloS Biology, shows that certain blind cave fish have a circadian rhythm that lasts almost two days — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Pb Elemental Architecture have completed the Phinney Modern house in Seattle, Washington — via CONTEMPORIST
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