Firefox 1.5 Released (Major update)
Go here to download.
Notable updates/changes:
Ability to drag tabs around within the browser.
Faster forward/back mechanism.
New automatic updater for extensions and browser updates.
Faster loading of pages.
Reordering of many menus/new preference options.
Various security improvements.
Better standards compliance.
Better ad blocking.
Download it now or I will come and make you download it.
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Music labels losing sales over DRM
Consumers hate it, but the labels keep pushing it. Have people finally had enough?

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- The Toy seems to be all the rage
- Online shopping starts today
- NBC pissy with TiVo

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Videora
Bittorrent + RSS + the “TIVO theory” = TVTad

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Top 10 Things to do to Parents/Relative’s Computers while you are at their house over thanksgiving.

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University students claim to have created the perfect paper airplane
A group of students have impressed judges but upset purists with their design, which echoes Concorde
A TEAM of young scientists has created what they believe to be the perfect paper plane.
It can fly more than 100ft (30m) and remain aloft for about 20 seconds. Most importantly, [...]

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From BoingBoing:

Sony Rootkit DRM Roundup Part III
The Sony rootkit debacle continues to gain steam, with fresh revelations of incompetence and malice every day, and with fresh news of lawsuits too. Previously, I published two [...]

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MP3 player in an NES controller
Martin ingeniously hacked an old Nintendo Entertainment Center controller to act as the chassis for an MP3 player. He even got the control-buttons to drive the MP3 player! Link (in German)

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Daemon Tools 4.0 has been released.

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Lawsuits galore against Sony over rootkit; RIAA head doesn’t get it
courtesy of Ars Technica.

The Sony rootkit fiasco just keeps getting better. Texas joins the anti-Sony lawsuit fray, and the head [...]

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