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  • Universal: All the music free to download

    I guess that such a title had you think that you would find the address of a pirate web site. But Universal announced the signature of a two-year deal with SpiralFrog : all the Universal catalog in free legal download. Two things are included in the deal (to explain it): The whole thing will be…

  • I say NO to the leader

    We are all in a capitalistic society where commercial companies are guided by their financial interest. A company in a monopolistic position is able to freely set its prices (at least, very independently from the consumers/customers whishes and market interests). I can’t do anything about this kind of situation, but it still opens a few…

  • Free movie: His Girl Friday

    Free movie: His Girl Friday

    Download from Internet Archive Movie information from IMDB.org Some may believe that free movies and public domain films come only from low-budgets, B series (or Z series) and cheap cinematographic efforts. This is not always the case and, today, we want to stop at one movie with famous great actors and that can be easily…

  • Native HDCP at nVidia and ATI

    Those hoping that the future graphic cards supporting HD-TV (High Definition TV) and being compliant with the HDCP encryption standard would stay easy-to-hack will have to forget about their dreams. Just one after the other, nVidia and ATI announced that they would not stay long with the graphic chipset + HDCP chipset solutions of today…

  • RyanAir solution is copied

    Yesterday, RyanAir was offering a radical solution to the terrorist threats in planes. The idea is catching up.

  • RyanAir: Fun solution to better plane security

    RyanAir: Fun solution to better plane security

    Following the recent increase of security measures in planes and airports, RyanAir low-cost airlines are really fed up with the accumulation of silly measures intended to detect would-be terrorists attempting to board planes. Check-in is longer than ever and constraints on what passengers can bring in hand-luggage are becoming frankly ridiculous. Why not go right…

  • Social bookmarking on Roumazeilles.net

    According to Wikipedia, social bookmarking is “an increasingly popular way to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources through the use of shared lists of user-created Internet bookmark lists“. Popular bookmarking services include del.icio.us, digg.com, and YahooMyWeb. If you have signed up for any of these services, you can bookmark articles on Roumazeilles.net for your…

  • The 1,000,000 Google pages meme

    A meme is a form of idea that propagates almost by itself as if it had its own life (possibly undergoing modifications and evolution). The basic principle has been first described by Richard Dawkins in his world-famous book “The selfish gene” where he draws a clear parallel between gene and meme. I had previously described…

  • On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog

    I really love this sentence that says so much about the freedom and the dangers on the Internet. The above cartoon by Peter Steiner has been reproduced from page 61 of July 5, 1993 issue of The New Yorker, (Vol.69 (LXIX) no. 20) only for academic discussion, evaluation, research and complies with the copyright law…