Kritik mot bristande kontroll.

Maddog Batty writes "Dave Gorman, UK comic and Flickr user, recently received a DMCA takedown notice for one of his own pictures which had become rather popular — 160,000 views + lots of comments. The takedown was in error (from a porn company) and Flickr allowed him to repost the image. However, the fallout is that all the original comments are now lost and the many links to the original picture are now broken. Sure, Flickr needed to remove the image, but shouldn't there be a way to reinstate it while keeping all the original comments and links?"

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A very small update to Lion is potentially quite important to anyone relying on Time Machine to back up and restore data.

 

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Det blir tillåtet för studenter och anställda att bära handeldvapen på universitetscampus i Colorado.

En 23-årig man har häktats som misstänkt för att ha våldtagit och rånat en annan man i en trappuppgång i Karlstad natten till julafton.

En bilfärd i hög fart i Uddevalla slutade i en trädgård, med fordonet inklämt mellan huset och ett äppelträd.

An anonymous reader writes "Engineers at the University of Utah have designed a new kind of video game controller that not only vibrates like existing devices, but pulls and stretches the thumb tips in different directions to simulate various types of movement. 'We have developed feedback modes that enhance immersiveness and realism for gaming scenarios such as collision, recoil from a gun, the feeling of being pushed by ocean waves or crawling prone in a first-person shooter game,' said the lead researcher on the project, adding he hoped the technology would be adopted in the next generation of gaming consoles."

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Parkour athletes - also known as free runners - are being used to find out how orangutans move through forests.

An inquest into the death of a woman living in a town where water was poisoned in the 1980s hears aluminium levels in her brain were "beyond belief".

”Missnöjet med Romney pyr än”.

jfruh writes "Did you hear about the study from Microsoft and IDC (PDF), declaring that adoption of cloud technologies would create 14 million jobs? Well, don't believe the hype. The study posts that, once small and medium business can use cloud products to just eliminate their IT department, they'll use those savings to hire people for their core business. It's a dubious proposition, and one that wouldn't be good news for IT workers even if things do play out that way."

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A leading neuro-pathologist has suggested people who lived in a Cornish town during a water poisoning incident should have their brains scanned to see if they have been affected.

Agency head says there are indications of unspecified "activities" at the Parchin site which inspectors want to visit.

Libyens nationella övergångsråd (NTC) har återvalt Mustafa Abdel Jalil som ledare och utsett två vice ordförande, Mustafa al-Huna och Salim Qanan.

Två explosioner inträffade i dag längs en gasledning från Egypten till Israel och Jordanien.