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Ars Technica is a technology-related website catering to PC enthusiasts. Started in 1998, the site covers technology news and provides editorial and analysis. The name "Ars Technica" is a Latin phrase for "(The) Technical Arts." The main content is a blog-style presentation of news stories, interspersed with advertising. Featured articles are less frequent but go into more depth than the news stories. More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Judge sides with censored blogger against Chinese ISP - Ars Technica
Do not adjust your monitors: a Chinese government critic has won a court case against his ISP in Beijing for taking his website offline. Economics professor Hu Xingdou's ...Posted by Joey Baker -
Harvard prof tells judge that P2P filesharing is "fair use"
Should Nesson win, he will essentially legalize the sharing of all digital goods, copyrighted or not, by noncommercial users. Given that he wants to make the case about big ...Posted by Joey Baker -
Trying to solve the long-term nuclear waste storage problem
Despite the uncertainties, the authors argue that there are very real reasons to start using Yucca Mountain: 60,000 metric tons of waste, currently stored in 72 sites, "many ...Posted by Rebecca Hale -
Maybe a little evil: Google outs Indian man to authorities
An Indian man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly posting derogatory and vulgar content about Indian politician Sonia Gandhi on Google's social networking site, Orkut. ...Posted by David Cohn -
Global warming hitting hops hard
In a Nature news article this week, Nature staff writer Rex Dalton reports on how the warming climate in Northern Europe is adversely affecting the hop crop. According to ...Posted by Dale Penn -
FCC sets 700MHz auction rules: limited open access, no wholesale requirement
As Commissioner Michael Copps put it, the FCC needs to set "ground rules for how some of the most valuable spectrum on earth will be used." Around 80MHz of high-quality ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Venezuela's counter-revolution won't be televised... but it will be on YouTube
An opposition Venezuelan television station whose broadcast license has not been renewed by the government is now turning to YouTube to get its message out after its ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Disney: iTunes movie sales prove potency of format, pricing
That's the piece that the other major studios that have feared when it comes to Apple's movie prices--$12.99 or $14.99 for new films and $9.99 for older content--on the iTunes ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Experts Rate Wikipedia's Accuracy Higher Than Non-experts
A new salvo has been fired in the perennial war over Wikipedia's accuracy. Thomas Chesney, a Lecturer in Information Systems at the Nottingham University Business School, ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Google Actively Aiding Intelligence Agencies?
Former intelligence officer Robert David Steele recently appeared on the Alex Jones show to make the provocative claim that Google is currently cooperating with secret ...Posted by Fabrice Florin
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City libraries shut out of broadband stimulus money?
Millions of Americans are turning to the Internet to look for new jobs. But in many parts of the United States, public libraries are the only free provider of that crucial ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Raising a healthy gamer: seven tips for parents
Parenting is always a tough job, and video games are a tricky subject in today's families. Don't worry, we have you covered. Ars offers a no-BS guide to dealing with gaming ...Posted by Joey Baker -
Apple changes to App Store review policy worry developers
Apple sent shock waves through the iPhone developer community Thursday when it announced that it would start exclusively reviewing applications using the iPhone 3.0 firmware.Posted by Joey Baker -
Voting machine expert criticizes "clueless" industry report
The Election Technology Council (ETC), a trade group comprised of the most prominent electronic voting machine vendors, has published a paper that argues against mandating ...Posted by Mike LaBonte -
Reinventing conservatism, one tweet at a time
Conservatism has much bigger problems right now than a paucity of Twitter skills. (I say this, for what it's worth, as someone who's often classified as part of the broad ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Leave net neutrality to the FCC? No way, says senator
With the Comcast case behind us (though now on appeal), ISPs have been telling anyone who would listen that the need for preemptive legislation is over. Much better for the ...Posted by Ben Ross -
NebuAd, ISPs sued over DPI snooping, ad-targeting program
NebuAd, the company behind the highly-controversial behavioral-targeting ad platform, has been targeted itself—by a class-action lawsuit, that is. A suit has been filed in ...Posted by Ben Ross -
Road to e-voting crisis paved with money, good intentions
However, a Maryland voting activist organization, SAVEOurVotes.org, has released a report [PDF] on the costs of e-voting that (quite unintentionally) provides a useful and ...Posted by Mike LaBonte -
History Suggests Copyright Crusade Is A Lost Cause
...those who want to increase the power of copyright owners have tended to stress the similarities between copyrights and property rights. In contrast, those who who favor ...Posted by Kevin Reilly -
Fixing US broadband: $100 billion for fiber to every home
US broadband might now be widely available, but it's slow and relatively expensive. Between 1999 and 2006, the US fell from third place to 20th in the International ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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