Category: Crivins Uncut (OGG)

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• SolusOS: Life Happens…Distros Die
• Cinnamon Desktop: Breaks with GNOME, finds beefed-up Nemo
• Twitter Images And The Anti-Social Social Network
• IsoHunt Resurrected Less Than Two Weeks After $110 Million MPAA Deal
• RIAA: Bitcoin Makes it Hard to Track or Seize Pirate Bay Donations
• Ubuntu’s Amazon Shopping Feature Wins Anti-Privacy Award
• Copyright levy for ISPs violates EU regulation, Belgian government says
• India plans to restrict email use after NSA leaks
• Mike Rogers: You Can’t Have Your Privacy Violated If You Don’t Know About It
• NSA reportedly tapped into Google, Yahoo data centers worldwide without telling either company

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• Why The $110 Billion Gift Card Industry Must Die
• Why Proprietary Big Data Technologies Have No Hope Of Competing With Hadoop
• Repeat a horrible lie on Twitter, pay $25,000: is that fair?

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1. Superman’s Cape by 10 Code
2. 6th Kind by Zantilla

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• Microsoft pulls some Windows Phone web ‘apps’ following complaint
• YouTube MP3 Converter Loses Court Battle But The Music Plays On
• MPAA Keeps Wanting To ‘Educate’ Others, But Why Does It Never Learn Anything Itself?
• Gov’t Contractor Uses Copyright, Fear Of Hackers To Get Restraining Order Against Open Source Developer
• Pirate Bay Downloaders Trolled By Movie Director’s Shaven Balls
• Bank Calls Customer Over Detected Bitcoin Transactions, Asking What They Were For
• Game Devs Abuse Copyright to Censor Negative YouTube Review
• Samsung fined $340,000 for faking online comments
• File-Sharing Site Was A Year-Long Pirate Honeypot

Also Worth A Read

• Fair Use(r) Survey on Fair Use practices

Tunes

1. And I think to your eyes by Marco Sciortino
2. Rise Above by Steven Presmyk

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• Argos launches own-brand budget tablet for ‘tweenies’
• Police Dramatize ‘$445 Million’ Pirate Movie Site Raid
• Here’s why it’s legal for Google and Facebook to use your face in ads
• Protests follow Google ‘endorsed advert’ change
• Twitter’s new feature lets you receive direct messages from users you don’t follow
• Backdoor found in D-Link home routers
• Are Hollywood’s Artificial Release Delays Driving Piracy?
• In furor over rape and incest porn, ebook retailers aren’t the only ones to blame
• Kobo pulls self-published books after abuse row
• WH Smith takes website offline after porn e-book scandal

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• Oracle Opens Both Barrels On Open Source Software In Military Whitepaper

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1. Psychosomatic Heart Failure by The Gasoline Brothers
2. blahblahblah by The Fumes

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• California bans ‘revenge porn,’ could punish offenders with fines and jail time
• YIFY: Hollywood Nemesis Becomes Iconic Piracy Brand
• Nielsen to measure Twitter chatter about TV shows
• Tablet buyers aren’t ditching their laptops, studies show
• GNU Hurd reaches milestone: Version 0.5 released – Bangor free software
• DOJ Hasn’t Actually Found Silk Road Founder’s Bitcoin Yet
• StopFileLockers Anti-Piracy Outfit Announces Imminent Shutdown
• Lavabit vs. the FBI: the fight for the soul of American software
• European Cloud Users Could Shun U.S. Cloud Services Altogether

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• 5 Wi-Fi security myths you must abandon now

Tunes

1. Green Eyes by Life On Standby
2. Predator by The Buddhist Punks

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Discussion

• The announcement from Valve, of the SteamOS and Steam Box, and it’s impact on Linux

Links

• Firefox and Chrome give browser plug-ins the cold shoulder
• Proxy.sh VPN Provider Sniffed Server Traffic to Catch Hacker
• LA School Gives iPads To Students; Students Hack Protection; School Freaks Out And Halts iPad Program
• Microsoft Ditches Anti-Piracy Partner After Embarrassing DMCA Takedowns
• Mozilla working on a second-screen solution that may rival Chromecast
• Underground black market Atlantis disappears along with users’ money
• 8 Reasons Valve’s Steam Machines Conquer the Living Room and 5 They Don’t
• AMD, Nvidia ramp up Linux driver support after Valve’s SteamOS announcement

Also Worth A Read

• The DOJ’s Insane Argument Against Weev: He’s A Felon Because He Broke The Rules We Made Up

Tunes

1.Brand New Life by The Soultravelers
2.Autumn Song by Townwalkers

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Discussion

• The difference between the vanilla Windows or Android experience and what people generally get is vast, we discuss the issues.
• Open source Android fork Cyanogen becomes $7m company
• Taking Android fragmentation to the next level

Links

• Powerful New Ubuntu PC Unveiled By System76
• HP to Stock Ubuntu Laptops in 1,500 China Stores
• Microsoft Cries Google Monopoly, Irony Meters Spike
• Google ready to toss cookies as ground shifts for online ad rules
• MPAA and RIAA Teach Copyright at Kindergartens
• Labels allowed to pursue Vimeo for copyright-infringement in court
• And Here Comes The NSA-Themed Ransomware
• Goodreads’ growing pains: Attempt to curtail author bullying angers many users

Also Worth A Read

• Pirate Bay Blocking Orders Should Be Overturned Under EU Law, ISPs Argue
• NSA seeks tighter ties to tech despite issues of data-sharing
• The Virtual Path To Freezing Malware
• Pirate Party Crashes Spy Drone in Front of German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Tunes

1. Pirates by Boxing Fox
2. 5 Stars ReVolution by The Jaygles

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Discussion

• Do the NSA revelations make open source a more valuable proposal on security grounds?

Links

• Netflix Uses Pirate Sites to Determine What Shows to Buy
• Student Arrested And Charged With ‘Terrorizing’ For Shooting Classmates… With An iPhone App
• Before sale to Microsoft, Nokia was testing Android on Lumia phones
• Epic Privacy Browser blocks cookies, trackers, ads and more
• FTC to take closer look at “native advertising” trend
• Intel not to support Ubuntu’s XMir
• UK Prime Minister Appoints New Anti-Piracy Enforcement Advisor

Also Worth A Read

• Linux Development Report: Mobile Vendors Storm The Linux Bazaar
• At What Point Will The Next Generation Kill The Copyright Monopoly Altogether?

Tunes

1. The Connection by 10 Code
2. Give it to me by Paul Klason

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Links

• Police Arrest Alleged Movie Pirate Again, Along With His Brother & Sister
• Lawyer: Verizon should be able to block websites
• Comcast Threatens to Sue TorrentFreak for Copyright Infringement (updated)
• California may be first to get electronic license plates
• Private Torrent Sites Run Their Own Mini-PRISM to Share Data on Users
• Meet Titstare, The Low Point For This Year’s TechCrunch Hackathon
• Linux Support Unlikely For GOG.com
• Support 0 A.D., an Open-Source Strategy Game
• President Obama Says He Learns What NSA Is Doing From The Press, Then Goes To NSA For Details
• Latest Leak Shows NSA Engaging In Economic Espionage — Not Fighting Terrorism
• EU politicians want suspension of data-sharing deal amid new NSA spying allegations

Also Worth A Read

• Awesome Stuff: More Crowdfunding Attempts At Private And Secure Communications
• Raspberry Pi: the Perfect Home Server
• The Gray Havens Full Length Album! by David Radford

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1. The Bomb by Gidgets Ga Ga
2. Silver by The Gray Havens

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Discussion

• Is it worth us revamping kids education to suit the world they live in, instead of the world we grew up in?

Links

• Crowds Cough Up More Than $12K for Facebook Hacker
• Khalil Shreateh – Facebook Bounty by Marc Maiffret
• Are we missing life to focus on our mobile companions?
• Even suspicious email is too tempting to skip, survey finds
• India Wants To Ban US-Based Email Systems For Government Communications Over NSA Concerns
• Microsoft will still patch Windows XP for a select group

Also Worth A Read

• How to PGP encrypt, decrypt or digitally sign files via GnuPG GUI
• MPAA Criticizes Piracy Study Because It Doesn’t Like The Results
• 1 Small App, 1 Giant Feather in Linux’s Cap
• The real problem with Star Trek Into Darkness‘s bungled Blu-ray release
• #NSAPickupLines—I’d Wiretap That
• The ten most embarrassing, exploitative, soul-killing, downright dangerous tech jobs

Tunes

1. Nosso Tempo Começou by Music Box
2. The Reason by Damien Gérardeaux

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Links

• Ubuntu Edge
• Ubuntu Edge Linux mobe: ‘Made you look,’ crows Shuttleworth
• AdBlock launches crowdfunding campaign to create ads about blocking ads
• Kevin Spacey: Give Users Control, What They Want, When They Want It, At A Fair Price, And Stop Worrying About Piracy
• California moves to outlaw ‘revenge porn’
• MN Judge Refuses To Throw Out Case Against Citizen Recording Police, EMS
• U.S. School Systems Say Yes to Chromebooks
• Ballmer’s Exit Marks the End of an Era at Microsoft
• Are tech firms the new movie villains?

Also Worth A Read

• 22 Years Later, The Linux And Open Source “Cancer” Is Wonderfully Benign
• The 20 online talks that could change your life
• Not even long passwords will save you from a hack attack
• Creating Chilling Effects On Speech Is A Feature, Not A Bug, Of The Surveillance State
• Hive: A BitTorrent-Enabled Unlimited Cloud Storage Sharing Network

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1. Best Intentions – Forest Fires
2. Bridges – Skippy Dyes

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