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Category: Social issues

  • iPhone: Property of Cisco-Linksys or Apple?

    You had been reading here that Linksys (subsidiary of Cisco) launched recently a VoIP phone named iPhone, a direct threat to the brand that Apple wants to use for its newest phone line. Now, it seems that the situation does not seem as clear-cut as it appeared initially. Immediately after Apple’s announcements, Cisco had filed…

  • Bloggers forced by US to register

    There is currently a talk in the US legislative body whose intent is to force all writers of blogs having more than 500 readers to register themselves as lobyyists or face jail time. This is the result of an amendment introduced by Senator David Vitter that is currently struggling to be transformed into law, but…

  • Sexual consent

    Responsible adults should always use sexual consent forms. Or so it seems if you want to have really safe sex. But it may lead to some really weird situations if you need assistance. Sexual ConsentDirected by Jason Reitman Not safe for Work.

  • ThePirateBay wants to buy Sealand

    ThePirateBay wants to buy Sealand

    Last Summer, you read the saga of The Pirate bay, Swedish Bittorrent tracker that was raided by the local police force upon request/complaint of the music industry majors (there is indeed a large number of links to pirated music and video on http://www.thepiratebay.org/). But after moving quickly to Netherlands, the server came back to Sweeden…

  • Everything you DON’T want to know about your kid’s sex life

    Parents usually think they know their kids and that they have a relatively good grasp of what they do and think. If you speak about kid’s love and sex life, parents are always a little less at ease, but they keep their confidence. A study from the NY Mag confirms that parents don’t know nothing.…

  • Download free public domain music

    Musopen is a community driven, online music repository started by a music and economics college student named Aaron Dunn. This site takes music that is in the public domain, meaning a work that belongs to the community, and has it recorded by individuals and college/community orchestras throughout the United States and stored online so it…

  • Best posts of 2006

    It is now the time to look back at the year 2006 and to check what you really liked in the Roumazeilles.net web site. So, here are the posts viewed the most in the past year. Is it a surprise? Canon 40D crushes 30D prices, at least, that was the rumour. But the prices went…

  • Stolen memory

    Direct from Taiwan: A truckload of DDR RAM has been stolen in Taiwan. Manufactured by Hynix, this is a job of no less than 306 millions dollars! Source: DigiTimes.

  • How to crack HD DVD?

    How to crack HD DVD?

    I was preparing a small post to talk about what I was envisonning as the future of anti-piracy measures included in HD DVD and BluRay DVD. According to me, there were two possible angles of attack: Break the AAS coding on the disc itself. Use the weaknesses of the HDCP protocol that is a requirement…