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Archived Interviews::100 Most Influential Figures in Computing History

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http://www.cwhonors.org/archives/histories.htm

A genuine masterpiece Join discussion...

Submitted by SearchEngines 58 months, 2 weeks, 2 days, 8 hours ago
Tags: computers, history

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Bad news for the RIAA: Sweden Might legalize downloading

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http://torrentfreak.com/sweden-might-legalize-downloading/

Novel approach... Sweden may add charges to broadband subscriptions to, “compensate music and film companies for the downloading of their work, while legalizing the downloading of copyright-protected material,” Join discussion...

Submitted by liquidboy 62 months, 1 week, 1 day, 13 hours ago
Tags: RIAA, Sweden

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CD Sales Plummet, RIAA Gets Progressively More Emo About It

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http://consumerist.com/consumer/riaa/cd-sales-plummet-riaa-g...

CD Sales dropped 12.8 percent last year after dropping 8.1 percent in 2005. Digital downloads didn't pick up the slack, despite increasing 74.4%. All in all, the recording industry's sales dropped 6.2 percent. Join discussion...

Submitted by liquidboy 62 months, 1 week, 1 day, 13 hours ago
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RIAA gives student 24 hours

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http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=5921

RIAA are at it again... Texas high school student Nicholas Hightower, 17, his mother, June, and her sister, Rochelle, 58, are all potentially massive distributors of copyrighted online music, Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG claim... Join discussion...

Submitted by liquidboy 62 months, 1 week, 1 day, 13 hours ago
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Amazon's persists on suiing independent developer of statsaholic

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http://mashable.com/2007/04/19/petition-against-alexas-stats...

Alexa is suing Ron Hornbaker, the independent developer of Statsaholic, a popular service that allowed you to compare different sites based on their Alexa rankings. Damages may amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars, essentially “suing him into oblivion”, according to ZDNet. We think the lawsuit is ridiculous and could be settled without going to court. READ ON.... Join discussion...

Submitted by liquidboy 62 months, 1 week, 1 day, 13 hours ago
Tags: Statsaholic, amazon

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Obvious Impacts Of Climate Change In Our World

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http://overheating.blogspot.com/2007/04/impacts-of-climate-c...

I think a lot of people aren't taking into consideration the fact that many countries throughout the world get much of their drinking water from glacier runoffs. This will bring up a huge problem as studies have shown that a whopping 90% of the world's glaciers are retreating... Join discussion...

Submitted by 1greenthumb 62 months, 1 week, 1 day, 13 hours ago
Tags: climate change, global warming, weather, Effects, video

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Boing Boing: Cool new online playlist generator

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http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/20/cool_new_online_play.ht...

Opening paragraph: "I recently spoke to Joey Anuff and Will Kreth about their cool new music-related venture, Critical Metrics. (Joey is the co-founder of Suck and Will is the co-founder of Wired.) In short, Critical Metrics is a powerful song discovery system that lets you build playlists and listen to them in a pop-up player. (Try their "100 songs we love" in the upper left hand corner.)" Join discussion...