North Korea's new Red Star OS
Not only does North Korea have "its own Internet" - a national information network independent from the US-based Internet regulator - it also has an operating system, developed under by order of Kim Jong-il.
Russian student Mikhail, who studies in the Kim Il-sung University and writesAa blog from the Russian embassy in Pyongyang, has recently purchased the Red Star Operating System (OS) and tested it. Courtesy of Mikhail, RT gives you an opportunity to take glimpse at IT life of world's most closed country.
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Posted: March 3rd, 2010
at 11:04pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: myninjaplease,computers,too good to be true,web,design,internets
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Mag Plus
Posted: March 1st, 2010
at 7:13pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: computers,web,design,et cetera
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Jiabao and the Netizens
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao took part in a second annual online chat Saturday with netizens, describing 2010 as "the most complicated year" for the country.
Wen pledges to tame the wild horse that is the housing market as well as increase state spending on medical insurance by 50 percent in 2010. The Premier is looking to reform the educational ranking system and give a sense of "greater dignity" to the Chinese people.
Posted: March 1st, 2010
at 9:00am by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: web,politricks
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Eymer Drive
Comic: Life, Times, and Death of IE6
.:view the rest of the comic->via Smashing Magazine
Posted: February 20th, 2010
at 7:00am by orangemenace
Tagged with design, comics, IE6, internet, web, Microsoft
Categories: myninjaplease,computers,web,boredom killer,internets
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Ask a Lawyer: What’s Fair in Fair Use?
"Fair Use" means that even though something is copyrighted (for example, a book, picture, speech, computer program, or architectural design), you can still legally use it for things like commentary, news reporting, and education. Whether you’re engaging in "fair use" or copyright infringement depends on a combination of factors:
How you use the copyrighted material, including whether your use is commercial, nonprofit, or educational: for example, if you want to use an excerpt from Catcher in the Rye to discuss literary theory with your graduate seminar or book club, you’re golden. But, if you want to write a prequel to Catcher about Holden Caulfield for your own profit, you’re busted. Finally, if your use of the copyrighted material is transformative creating a parody (remember Jib Jab’s This Land is Your Land"?) is the classic example then you’ve added sweat equity to the material and not stolen somebody else’s flash of genius. The nature of the copyrighted work: The more fact-based a work is, the more you can fair-use it. The law doesn’t want people to be ignorant dummies, and so it doesn’t like facts being kept from them by a copyright. How much of the copyrighted work you use: like cologne and f-bombs, the less you use the better. Whether your use hurts the monetary value of the copyrighted work. One of the goals of copyright law is to give creative people a financial incentive to make cool stuff. If your use takes away that incentive, for example, by downloading free music without permission, then you’re use isn’t fair.
Going Live 1.0
Posted: January 18th, 2010
at 5:56am by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: computers,web,cell phones,gear,design,events
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China and Google Update
These are interviews in French from Aujourd hui la Chine but they are translated here. They speak openly about the significance of Google’s decision and the lack of freedom of expression in China.
Haiti Earthquake Update
Posted: January 15th, 2010
at 3:36pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: myninjaplease,web
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