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  • Pirate ISP: Anon For All

    July 28th, 2010 by Jason Lightner Posted in Communications, Computers, Internet The Swedish Pirate Party (Piratpartiet), a political party whose main platforms include copyright and patent reform, have recently taken their efforts one step further and have launched an ISP (internet service provider). Dubbed "Pirate ISP," the service seeks to offer anonymity to its users and to provide...

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  • Amazon: The Ultimate Online Marketplace

    July 23rd, 2010 by Kendall Ryan Posted in Computers, Internet It is the end of your second semester and first year of your private university. You have this pile of $1000 worth of textbooks sitting in your basement, untouched, unscathed. What do you do? You learned from first semester that you CAN actually get $.25 back for a book. (Yes this...

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Terrafugia’s Transition

July 7th, 2010 by Bea Alright so it's a little bigger than a gadget, but I thought that this blog's readers would enjoy an article about Terrafugia's Transition. You have probably already heard about this "big boy toy", but just in case you have not, it is a flying car. Or maybe it's a driving plane? I think I would classify it more as the second option. Terrafugia does not want it to be called either and would like to see it called a "roadable aircraft". Yes, at about $200,000, you too can reserve your own roadable aircraft. It is a two-seater vehicle/plane that was...

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Pirate ISP: Anon For All

July 28th, 2010 by Jason Lightner The Swedish Pirate Party (Piratpartiet), a political party whose main platforms include copyright and patent reform, have recently taken their efforts one step further and have launched an ISP (internet service provider). Dubbed "Pirate ISP," the service seeks to offer anonymity to its users and to provide financial assistance to Piratpartiet. Born out of the controversy surrounding the BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay, Pirate ISP was deemed necessary to ensure that competition flourished in the Swedish ISP market and that users who wished to file-share would be protected against the efforts of the Swedish anti-piracy lobby group,...

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Pirate ISP: Anon For All

July 28th, 2010 by Jason Lightner The Swedish Pirate Party (Piratpartiet), a political party whose main platforms include copyright and patent reform, have recently taken their efforts one step further and have launched an ISP (internet service provider). Dubbed "Pirate ISP," the service seeks to offer anonymity to its users and to provide financial assistance to Piratpartiet. Born out of the controversy surrounding the BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay, Pirate ISP was deemed necessary to ensure that competition flourished in the Swedish ISP market and that users who wished to file-share would be protected against the efforts of the Swedish anti-piracy lobby group,...

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Book Readers

June 22nd, 2010 by Ronald A. Rowe So much has been made of Amazon’s Kindle. The brand name has already become synonymous with the product, like Q-Tips, Kleenex, and iPod. And much of the hoopla is well deserved. The Kindle was a quantum leap forward in technology, accessibility, and user-friendliness. But that was then; this is now. With the introduction of more and more Kindle clones on the market, is the Kindle worth the premium price? Sometimes, the original really is better than those that follow. It’s tough to argue that any portable music device that has followed the iPod can match the...

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