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SOPA Is Baaaack!

Digg / Tech Industry News  Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:29

That didn’t take long. A few days ago the news broke that the pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was put on hold until consensus was reached.

Although the announcement was rather vague, some news sites and blogs declared SOPA dead, or “shelved,” or erased from history.

Wishful thinking, because today SOPA is back in [...]


 

Kevin Schroeder's Blog: Connecting to the Zend Developer Cloud w...

PHPDeveloper.org  Mon, 11/21/2011 - 09:15

A few days ago Kevin Schroeder showed how to connect the Zend cloud services with the Zend Studio IDE.

In this new post he shows how to connect another popular IDE - PHPStorm.


 

Working To Defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act - Brandon Savage

Planet PHP  Thu, 11/17/2011 - 16:15

In the past few days, the alarm has been sounded in the technology community for us to help defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

This legislation, while well-intentioned, is crafted in such a way that it would give private companies the power to shut down other private companies, and require the government and Internet [...]


 

5.3.7 upgrade warning - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

Planet PHP  Sun, 08/21/2011 - 16:00

Due to unfortunate issues with 5.3.7 (see bug#55439) users should wait with upgrading until 5.3.8 will be released (expected in few days).


 

Data Centers Crippled By BitTorrent ‘Broadcast-Storm’

Digg / Tech Industry News  Wed, 08/10/2011 - 10:12

Following the example of OpenBitTorrent, another major BitTorrent tracker has now abandoned the resource-intensive TCP protocol. 1337x switched to a UDP-only tracker a few days ago after several hosting providers kicked the tracker out for the “broadcast storm” that resulted from the millions of connections BitTorrent users were making.


 

Google+ Has Made Twitter Boring — Here's What Twitter Should D...

Digg / Tech Industry News  Mon, 07/18/2011 - 20:28

For the past few days I’ve been hanging out in Jackson Hole with a bunch of geeks and one thing I’ve noticed over and over is how boring Twitter has gotten when compared to Google+


 

A Tinkerers Top 5 Distributions of 2010

Linux Today  Thu, 12/23/2010 - 17:04

All Things Linux: "In the last few days we've had several posts about personal top 5 favorite distributions of 2010.

Everybody has their own favorites, but, for what it's worth, here's my list."


 

Hackers Break Microsoft's Kinect Security

Digg / Tech Industry News  Sun, 11/07/2010 - 11:29

Only a few days after Microsoft launched its Kinect motion-sensing game system, hackers seem to have broken its security.


 

What happened to Directory Services?

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Fri, 09/17/2010 - 08:53

Directory

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Official Google Blog: Facts about our network neutrality

Digg / Tech Industry News  Fri, 08/13/2010 - 06:34

Over the past few days there’s been a lot of discussion surrounding our announcement of a policy proposal on network neutrality we put together with Verizon.

On balance, we believe this proposal represents real progress on what has become a very contentious issue, and we think it could help move the network neutrality debate forward constructively.