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Campaign Urges People To Send MPAA and RIAA Copied Currency 413

Posted by samzenpus from the counterfeiting-equipment-not-included dept.
An anonymous reader writes "In response to the still-raging MPAA & RIAA, a kind of reverse piracy campaign has arisen. The "Send Them Your Money" campaign urges pirates and landlubbers alike to send scanned images of American currency to these agencies. According to the campaign's webpage, 'They've made it very clear that they consider digital copies to be just as valuable as the original.' The operation gained fame via sites like Reddit and Tumblr, inspiring citizens of other countries to send their legal tender to the MPAA and RIAA."
Australia

Replacing the World's Largest IMAX Screen 89

Posted by samzenpus from the we're-gonna-need-a-bigger-popcorn dept.
lukehopewell1 writes "IMAX Sydney has replaced its screen — the largest in the world — at a cost of $250,000. Weighing over 800 kilograms, painting the screen took over 12 days and 350 kilograms of paint. Lifting the massive screen and installing it took a year of planning and 31 riggers. A neat photo gallery is included so you can get an idea of just how big a job this was."

Submission + - New Whitehouse petition to limit copyrights to 56 (whitehouse.gov)

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TheDawgLives
TheDawgLives writes: "Perhaps taking inspiration from two recent petitions a new petition has been created at the White House We The People site to limit copyright to 56 years. That may still be too long, but at least it's a start.
Did the RIAA and MPAA finally stir up a hornets' nest that they weren't ready for, or will the be able to bribe their way out of this one?"
Science

Submission + - Crowdsourced Map of Earthquake Damage in Annals of (tomnod.com)

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Tomnod
Tomnod writes: "On February 22 2011, a 6.3-magnitude quake centered just 10km from downtown Christchurch caused widespread damage and resulted in the loss of 181 lives. In an effort to assess the damage done, we created the Tomnod Disaster Mapper. In case you haven’t tried it out, the site shows before/after imagery from Christchurch and asks users on the web to identify damaged areas. We worked with the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and the World Bank to match this information to on-the-ground surveys and validate the crowd's work. It turns out that they’re pretty darn good!"
Google

Submission + - Google researchers propose TCP performance tweaks (infoworld.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Some portions of TCP could be tweaked to
improve web performance in today's world of relatively plentiful bandwidth and broadband connections, according to Google researchers studying web performance. In a blog post, a team member outlines four proposals for modifying TCP to reduce web latency. These proposals include increasing the initial congestion window from 3 to 10 segments (or 4.5KB to 15KB using the Ethernet MTU), and lowering the initial timeout from 3 seconds to 1 second.

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