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You’re Welcome, Tehran! U.S. Navy Frees Iranians from Pirates

shaun — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:14:26 +0000

This is how the U.S. Navy repays Iran’s bluster about attacking its ships: it saves Iranian fishermen from Somali pirates. Any time the Iranians want to thank the Navy, it’s cool.

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Wave Glider robots set out to explore the seven seas, break the Guinness record

shaun — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:14:19 +0000

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, nope, it’s Liquid Robotic’s four Wave Gliders on a mission to snag the Guinness World Record for longest distance traveled on Earth by an automaton. Setting out today from the San Francisco Bay, the autonomous sea-faring crafts will travel far and wide to gather data about the world’s oceans. Powered by the water’s movement, the vessels are fuel-free, using “flapping” wings to move forward without human command. Tricked out with various solar-powered sensors, the robots can capture location, weather, temperature, wave height, barometric pressure and more throughout their travels. The 198.4 pound machines cost between 0,000 and 0,000 each depending on how many sensors are built-in — a small price for scientists or commandeering pirates hoping to learn more about the 95 percent of ocean that has yet to be explored. Let’s just hope they don’t run into one of these guys.

Wave Glider robots set out to explore the seven seas, break the Guinness record originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hurt Locker lawsuit targets a record-breaking 24,583 IP addresses

shaun — Fri, 27 May 2011 19:14:21 +0000

It’s been almost a year since the producers of The Hurt Locker filed a lawsuit against 5,000 alleged pirates suspected of distributing the film via BitTorrent. Now Voltage Pictures has updated its complaint, adding almost 20,000 IP addresses to the list of defendants. That makes it the largest file-sharing lawsuit of all time – a crown previously held by the company behind The Expendables, according to Wired. The plaintiff has already reached agreements with Charter and Verizon to identify individual users, but no such deal with Comcast, who owns nearly half the supposedly infringing addresses. Linking those addresses with user accounts would let Voltage manage individual settlements — probably somewhere between ,000-,000 — rather than continue legal action. All of this eerily echoes the Oscar-winning film’s plot, about an adrenaline junkie who couldn’t resist downloading just one more movie. Or defusing one more bomb. We’re a little fuzzy on the details, but venture into TorrentFreak to scan for familiar IP addresses.

Hurt Locker lawsuit targets a record-breaking 24,583 IP addresses originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 May 2011 15:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Studio Suing BitTorrent Pirates Doesn’t Own the Movie

shaun — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 07:14:21 +0000

A film company suing 5,865 BitTorrent downloaders over the flick Nude Nuns with Big Guns doesn’t even own the rights to the movie, according to court documents and interviews.

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All the Best Lego Sets for 2011 [Lego]

shaun — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:14:20 +0000