Piracy: are we being conned? : The Age with a cynical take on pro-music-biz anti-piracy “reports”. “The quality of data and analysis is very weak as its political objective is so clear. It does not use actual ABS data but data taken from Europe. It’s an elemental statistical error, it’s fudging with numbers to come out with a figure which is ‘kinda sorta’ plausible.”
(tags: piracy filesharing copyright australia the-age newspapers ifpi acta)Our 256,000 (and counting) atheists, agnostics, humanists and non-religious – The Irish Times : “The ‘non-religious’ are the largest group in the State after Catholics, according to the [2006] census.” Doubtless higher in this year’s, too…
(tags: humanism atheism religion census ireland)Dr. Neal Krawetz explains perceptual hashing : ie. TinEye and other “images like this one” search engines. nice explanation
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