Internesque: 04/01/2013

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Why Watching DVDs on Linux is Illegal in the USA

Watching DVDs on Linux is illegal in United States of America; Heres why dvd in vlc without libdvdcss

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes unlocking cell phones, ripping DVDs, removing eBook DRM, and jailbreaking tablets illegal in the USA. However, there’s another surprise: simply watching a DVD on Linux is also illegal.
This is why Ubuntu and other Linux distributions don’t include out-of-the-box DVD support, forcing you to run a command that downloads and installs libdvdcss from elsewhere – not the Linux distribution’s software repositories, or they would get in trouble.
If you are an American who’s watched a DVD on Linux, there’s a good chance the DMCA makes you a criminal.

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snopes.com: Rumour Has it!

Snopes.com, officially the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a website covering urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other stories of unknown or questionable origin. It is a well-known resource for validating and debunking such stories in American popular culture, receiving 300,000 visits a day.
Snopes aims to debunk or confirm widely spread urban legends. The site has been referenced by news media and other sites, including CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC and Australia's ABC on its Media Watch program. Snopes's popular standing is such that some chain e-mail hoaxes claim to have been "checked out on 'Snopes.com'" in an attempt to discourage readers from seeking verification.

Obscure C++ Features

Here is a collection of obscure C++ features, gathered over the years by the author of the post, Evan Wallace. Hopefully you'll learn something from this page even if you already know C++ pretty well. The features below are roughly ordered from least to most obscure.

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Hosting a Wordpress Blog on Heroku with the Svbtle Theme for free

Svbtle - Wordpress Theme

I don't know about you, but since I've seen the Svbtle theme being used, I became a fan!
Its simple, and that kudos button is awesome!

So here is the article that teaches you to host a blog with this theme installed on heroku. Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages

See the article @ Unuttered Scribbles

Does Decreased Brightness Increase Your Phone's Battery Life?

How About an Experiment?

How do you measure the energy use in a phone? I’m sure there’s an app for that, but I don’t have that app. Instead, I tried something different. What if I charged my phone up to 100% battery and kept it plugged into the charger? In this case, I can assume that an increased load on the power charger is just due to an increased power use of the phone. Maybe this isn’t true, but I can assume it anyway.

Full article @Wired.com

The best websites a programmer must visit?

Quora

Programming Practice and Contest

Tutorials

Social Interaction

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Google Glass (infographic) - How it works

How does it work, Google's new Glass? Why can you see with it a sharp image-layer? How does the image overlay the image of reality? The following infographic illustrates the optical principle - very simple and easy to understand.


Google Glass Infographic

Image Courtesy- Martin Missfeldt
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