| Coal plant for sale | | Santee Cooper is selling the design and major components for a 600-megawatt coal-fired power plant. The plant was slated for Kingsburg, South Carolina but was cancelled. I heard about this primo investment opportunity from the Sierra Club, who had been actively fighting construction of the plant. The Sierra Club's Sierra Daily have posted an ad from Power Engineering magazine promising that the hu [..] Leer nota completa |  | Publicado 25-Mar-2011 por David Pescovitz en actiontechnology
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| Complete schedule for Hackers on Planet Earth NYC July 16-18 | | Here's the full list of talks for this summer's Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference in NYC, July 16-18. You know, I've made my peace with the fact that I can't possibly get to even a tenth of the events I'd like to attend, but missing HOPE challenges my equanimity. Full List of Talks (Thanks, Aestetix!) Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to keynote 2600's HOPE conference ... Hackers on Planet [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 29-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actiontechnology
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| Speak out against secretive copyright treaty: sign the ACTA declaration! | | Mike from American University writes in with a request for signatures on a statement on ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. This is a largely secret treaty negotiation that has taken place away from the UN, among rich countries, containing many extreme copyright measures that public interest groups, poor nations, and independent creators have been excluded from participating in: "The st [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 22-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actiontechnology
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| HTTPS Everywhere: Firefox plugin that switches on crypto whenever it's available | | The Electronic Frontier Foundation and The Onion Router (TOR) project have teamed up to release a new privacy-enhancing Firefox plugin called HTTPS Everywhere. It was inspired by Google's new encrypted search engine, and it ensures that whenever you visit a site that accepts encrypted connections, your browser switches into encrypted mode, hiding your traffic from snoops on your local network and [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 18-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actiontechnology
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| Summer Hacking School for kids based on Little Brother | | Neale sez, "I liked Little Brother so much that I bought a copy for my niece and then based an entire Summer Hacking School around it. The kids were really excited about the premise of the book when I explained it to them tonight, and the fact that it's available for free in so many formats was just gravy. I put ePub and j2me versions on 5 mobile phones before they left for the night." Like all my [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 17-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actiontechnology
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| Fine art "pie-packed" | | Mike sez, "Mario Klingemann is analyzing colors within famous artwork, and then recreating the artwork with the data from the original image." Shown here, Starry Night. The Starry Night Pie Packed Measuring font ink-use by hand-drawing sample text with ball-point ... HOWTO spot a handgun, the beautiful information edition...
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| MiroConverter: turn your video into WebM | | Nicholas from the nonprofit, open video player Miro sez, "The new open-video WebM format is a real chance to move us all out of the proprietary video format mess of the current web and device world. Miro Video Converter (free and open-source, of course) is the first video converter for the WebM and definitely the easiest way to make WebM videos. We want to do everything we can to make WebM easy to [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 02-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actiontechnology
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| Canada's own PATRIOT Act | | Michael Geist sez, "The Canadian government quietly introduced its own Patriot Act yesterday, with privacy law reforms that are marketed as improving the current law but represent a major step backward. The bill would block organizations for disclosing disclosures to law enforcement to the affected individuals and it would give businesses broad new rights over workplace privacy. "In return, there [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 26-May-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actiontechnology
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| hyori lee (???) U- Go- Girl | | Hace pocas semanas les adelantábamos que esta gran cantante coreana iba a sacar un nuevo álbum (info aquí). Pues hoy les adelantamos el nuevo videoclip que sacó hace pocos días. Mi opinión de este videoclip se define en una sola palabra genial, una canción estupenda que me recordó a ala tan famoso toc toc toc [...] [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 17-Jul-2008 por takichan en actiontechnology
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