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Rutabagas coming in nicely... BOOYAH!
Submission + - Hacker does a DIY Amiga in FPGA (hetnet.nl)
An anonymous reader writes: Developer Dennis van Weeren recently announced completion of his from-scratch completely re-engineered Amiga chipset. His PCB design is fully operational and compatible and his verilog code has been released under GPL. Will this finally give the Amiga community a new breath of life?
Feed Wired: Armed Robots Head to Iraq for First-Ever Wartime Deployment (wired.com)
Submission + - Pirate Bay earns 20,000 Euros a day (rixstep.com) 2
An anonymous reader writes: controverisal pro-piracy website the piratebay likes to portray itself as an innocent hobby site that provides a free index without censorship, but recent facts show that the site is earning up to 20,000 Euros per day from its advertising. Taking in money on this scale puts a different slant on the motives behind the Swedish filesharing site, and could open up the runners of the site to prosecution for profiting from copyright infringement.
Submission + - A history of sex.com
linuxwrangler writes: Violet Blue's current "Open Source Sex" column in SFGate covers the amusingly sordid history of sex.com. From the article's opening:
The only thing missing from the Sex.com story is a dead stripper found with a rubber alligator lodged in her throat — though, by all estimates, to add this to the URL's outrageous legacy wouldn't be a huge shocker. It would only be adding some sex to the mix — especially considering the Sex.com story includes a fugitive seized by U.S. marshals, hard-luck convicted felons hiding millions in Mexican shrimp farms and strip clubs, the fugitive's daughter caught smuggling over 200 pounds of pot, one multimillionaire dot-com scammer speed fiend with a Stanford MBA, a bizarre bid to buy Caesars Palace and a recent Tijuana gangland-style assassination attempt on a lawyer...
