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, 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.
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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
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.
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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.
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Image Courtesy- Martin Missfeldt
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This is a problem that’s been thrown around the Facebook recently it seems. Man, it seems so simple:
6÷2(1+2)=?
Simple until you ask a group of people what the answer is, and find
out half of us think it’s nine, and the other half think it’s one.
So what IS the answer?
Find out here!
A new way to teach and learn html/css/js. Basically, you just need to write HTML, CSS, Javascript code inside code editors and it'll record whatever you type. Other people can then "playback" your recording in a video style and learn how you made your creation.
Another part of CSSDeck is the Creations gallery (which is what it started with). If you ever made something cool with CSS/JS just submit it and we'll showcase it in the gallery. It's purely for educational and inspiration purposes.
Last but not the least, you can make testcases and share with other people who can help you out solve your coding problems. You can also collaborate with them in realtime and code collaboratively.
Site: CSSDeck
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