Millions of people in the Netherlands will soon be able to regain access to The Pirate Bay after two local Internet providers won their appeal against the Hollywood-funded anti-piracy group BREIN. The Court of The Hague ruled today that the blockade is disproportionate, ineffective, and hinders the Internet providers’ entrepreneurial freedoms.
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« Since Netscape is no longer used and long forgotten, I thought the image of an old abandoned pirate ship would be a great idea » (via The Internet Browser Series @ Mike Roshuk)
Watch me eat – an online craze in South Korea
All 9,866,539 buildings in the Netherlands, shaded according to year of construction. Data from BAG, via CitySDK. Map made with TileMill by Bert Spaan, Waag Society, inspired by BKLYNR (Buildings in the Netherlands by year of construction).
Guests arriving at the Aloft Hotel in Manhattan or one in Silicon Valley will soon be able to do something hotels have dreamed about offering for years: walk past the check-in desk and enter their rooms by using a smartphone as a room key.
« The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities to take advantage of « leaky » smartphone apps, such as the wildly popular Angry Birds game, that transmit users’ private information across the internet, according to top secret documents ». (via Angry Birds and ‘leaky’ phone apps targeted by NSA and GCHQ for user data | World news | theguardian.com)
We don’t really think Princeton or the world’s air supply is going anywhere soon. We love Princeton (and air). As data scientists, we wanted to give a fun reminder that not all research is created equal – and some methods of analysis lead to pretty crazy conclusions
…seuls les internautes qui se connectent depuis la Norvège ont accès aux ouvrages.