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Using Google Earth to See Destruction 194

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @10:56PM from the mr-peabody's-coal-train-has-hauled-it-away dept.

An anonymous reader writes "On Monday, an environmental advocacy group [Appalachian Voices] joined with Google to deliver a special interactive layer for Google Earth. This new layer will tell "the stories of over 470 mountains that have been destroyed from coal mining, and its impact on nearby ecosystems. Separately, the World Wildlife Fund has added the ability to visit its 150 project sites using Google Earth."

EFF Forces DMCA Abuser to Apologize 222

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @08:35PM from the depths-of-my-mothers-basement-I-stab-at-thee dept.

destinyland writes "The EFF just announced victory over a serial abuser of DMCA copyright notices. To set an example, their settlement required Michael Crook to record a video apology to the entire internet for interfering with free speech. He's also required to withdraw every bogus DMCA notice, and refrain from future bogus notices, never contest the original image again, and take a remedial class on copyright law. He'd attempted to use flaws in the DMCA to censor an embarrassing picture of himself that he just didn't want appearing online — but instead the whole thing backfired."

Submission + - First PS3s cluster created.

Submitted by on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @08:32PM

An anonymous reader writes: With the large number of available PS3s at local stores, an NC State professor put eight together to create a super computer on the cheap.

http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/2007/march/041.html

The 256 MB of RAM is considered a "constraint".

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