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Big Brother's Google's little social network that could has just gotten a boatload of games that're set to carpet bomb your productivity.
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In April, the future was looking dim for the SETI Institute's search for signs of extraterrestrial life, but a successful fundraiser means that some of its most key space-scanning equipment is back in action. After a drought of funding, SETI was forced to take the set of dishes known as the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) offline. The nonprofit immediately began a more terrestrial search for funding, and as of today has surpassed its short-term goal by raising $210,000.
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Should Facebook be afraid of Anonymous? A message purportedly from a member of the group has threatened an attack on the social networking site for Nov. 5. Tweets from another Anonymous channel claim attacking Facebook wouldn't be the group's style. But if someone really did want to wallop Facebook, could it be done? Possibly -- there are more ways to screw up a site than a DDoS blitz.
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As the mass-lawsuits against BitTorrent users in the United States drag on, detail on the collateral damage this extortion-like scheme is costing becomes clear. It is likely that thousands of people have been wrongfully accused of sharing copyrighted material, yet they see no other option than to pay up. One of the cases that stands out is that of a Californian man who’s incapable of watching the adult film he is accused of sharing because he is legally blind.
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Howard Stern spent time on his radio show Monday morning denying culpability for a pirated copy of Super 8 that had been traced back to his show. A bootleg of the J.J. Abrams alien movie had a personalized watermark for Stern, but he claims he nor anyone from his show had anything to do with it. ...

DRM is the cost of PC gaming.

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