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It also demonstrates that movie pirates are fundamentally parasitic, not predatory. My interest in this topic came from experiencing how difficult it is to get into even very bad Sundance films. For the public, tickets are scarce and assigned by lottery, and even a press pass is no guarantee. That's why I decided to try using BitTorrent to re-create Sundance in my Park City, Utah, living room. No more cold, no more lines, and no more pesky Q&As with the director, so I reasoned. But the experiment failed. Not a single 2008 Sundance film is on any major pirate site that I could find. That might be accounted for by anti-piracy measures, but here's the kicker: There are also almost no 2007 films on leading pirate sites, and none of last year's Sundance "hits." The online pirate world and the Sundance world are, as far as I can tell, separate domains.
Back up photos on the road
Every minute of footage can fill 100MB or more of storage. To save space, you may want to edit video on the camera to remove the less interesting parts. This kind of feature is available on newer Canon, Olympus, and other cameras. It's no iMovie, but it typically allows you to trim a series of frames from the beginning or end of a clip. Create backups There's a downside to relying solely on media cards for storage: if a problem develops with your card, you could lose all your photos. Flash-memory cards are susceptible to accidental erasure and even corruption. They're also small (especially SD cards), and therefore easy to misplace. That's why it's a good idea to back up images. Here are some options: Transfer to an iPod Using the $29 Apple iPod Camera Connector, you can transfer images from a digital camera to a photo-capable iPod (except the iPod nano, alas) via your camera's USB cable (see “Image Go-Between").
Pope warns of 'seductive' science
'Man is not the fruit of chance or a bundle of convergences,' Pontiff says in reviving science-versus-religion debate ...Read the full article This conversation is semi-moderated What is moderation? | How do I report a comment? Post a comment Skip to the latest comment .
MSU is ahead of game with SEC road wins
It will be a real crazy environment," said Mississippi State senior forward Charles Rhodes.The Bulldogs have played well on the road in the SEC, but there will be nothing easy about tonight, at South Carolina on Saturday, at Florida on March 1 and at Vanderbilt on March 5. .
How the World Works
I can't help but wonder as the cost of energy and transport grows as it surely must, if we won't regret outsourcing our production capacity, and letting the skill set of our workforce atrophy. If we end up paying more for the expense of goods shipped from abroad, this won't be to our benefit in the long run. It seems short sighted to me, which on observing the American approach to economics, sounds like about what I'd expect. -- Andrew Leonard .
Seahawks guided by soft-spoken, unselfish Hemingway
Blog | Share your thoughts on both teams' run at state titles with Sports writer Terry Massey, who will be blogging during the game from Columbia. Share your photos | Upload your favorite Myrtle Beach basketball photos from this year's teams. Only at MyrtleBeachOnline.com .
UK 2017: under surveillance
CCTV is now embedded at eye level in lamp-posts to enable the use of facial recognition technology. Protest and virtual surveillance Following protests, individual demonstrators can be monitored by camera until private security contractors for the local authority in which the demo took place get a chance to question them. Helmet-mounted cameras scan the biometrics of anyone being questioned. All guards and police are also now monitored by surveillance devices in their handheld computers. Ironically, this has triggered civil liberties concerns within the police union. The report uses two "protesters", Ben and Aaron, as an example of how police might treat dissenters. When they are taken into custody by private security guards in Westminster, Ben undergoes the usual DNA swab, which is analysed instantaneously, and hands over his ID card for scanning.
It Is What It Is … But What Is It?
The latest evidence that Congress doesn't know jack about sports came when Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind., interrupted Wednesday's steroids hearing for a "parliamentary inquiry" into the origins of the phrase "it is what it is." Brian McNamee, Roger Clemens' ex-trainer and alleged drug supplier, had told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that his use of "it is what it is" during a tape-recorded conversation was his way of letting Clemens know that he was telling the truth. According to Souder, the members of the committee were not "prototypical New Yorkers" like McNamee, and were thus flummoxed by the "pivotal phrase." But as any sports fan would know—and as Chris Mottram wrote in the Sporting News—"it is what it is" is "about as specific to New York as the words the, of, and to."* In recent years, it is what it is has supplanted giving 110 percent and taking them one game at a time as the reigning sports cliché.
AMERICA'S CUP: Swiss and American clubs continue to battle over next ...
New York Supreme Court Judge Herman Cahn ruled in December that Alinghi, the sailing syndicate that represents SNG, must face a boat from Golden Gate YC in 10 months.
Judge Cahn invalidated an earlier challenge from a Spanish yacht club that the Americans had argued was a puppet organization formed expressly to give Alinghi unprecedented and unfair control of an America's Cup that the Swiss had planned for 2009.
It didn't help the Swiss cause when officials from that Spanish club amiably admitted that they were just a legal fiction that would let SNG control the event and keep the money it brings in Valencia, Spain, where Alinghi successfully defended the cup last July.
Cahn ruled last month that the Spanish club didn't meet the standards of the 1887 Deed of Gift that governs America's Cup competition.
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