Tomalak Geret'kal

If Google had a black screen, taking in account the huge number of page views, according to calculations, 750 megawatts/hour per year would be saved.

It has come to light that workers at the Mountain View cyberfirm are routinely forced to swim the 3,000 miles between New York and Paris. Either that, or the trek otherwise seems of little consequence to those who construct the Google Maps tool.

Apple's the latest firm to realise that DRM is A Bad Thingâ„¢, as Steve Jobs urges the entertainment industry to give up on the restrictive software which nonetheless isn't capable of doing the job it's supposed to.

I wrote a few months back about web engineers worldwide fighting to stop the advance of the false notion that using getElementById shortcuts is a good idea.

Here's another example of the entertainment industry being stupid: claiming that they lose $244 million from the transfer of certain copyrighted material in China, and then in the same article admitting that the material in question isn't even available commercially in China. How can you lose out on potential sales, when there's no potential for sale?

Even if piracy is ultimately illegal, it doesn't give the industry the right to act like playground bullies. Although it's taken some time, some bodies are starting to realize this and act accordingly.

This article over at TechDirt really highlights some of the biggest hurdles that consumers run into when trying to decide on a decent ISP to subscribe to. 'Unlimited' services which really aren't unlimited, with "fair usage policies" and quiet bandwidth limits are all the rage these days… but seriously, how long can this last?

After a year of operation, the DC++ filesharing hub running within the virtual walls of the University of Nottingham's internal residential network has been scared into closure by the owners of said network.

Ever since I installed Windows Live Messenger a month or so ago I've been unable to add contacts or be added as a contact by others. For a while I was modest enough to assume people had just lied about adding me, but then some more serious requirements for adding people came up and I realised that there was a problem.

We've spent years complaining about the completely bogus stats put out by the likes of the BSA, the RIAA and MPAA about just how much "piracy" is costing them. Now the Australian government has done its own research into some of these numbers and calls them "absurd".