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The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown
by karlcow
the chief problem with ending the satellite abuse in this country is that U.S. and Brazilian authorities simply waited too long to start. Thousands of users are believed to have the know-how to use the system. After a bust, the airwaves always go quiet for a while, but the hijackers always return.
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October 2009
September 2009
The New York Review of Ideas
by karlcow
Introducing a New Magazine About the Ideas Behind American Culture.
The Big Screen in Big D: Observatory: Design Observer
by karlcow
gigantismeEven more likely, they were gawking at a very, very large scoreboard — the 160-foot-long, 1.2 million pound, Mitsubishi Diamond Vision true HD display, that is the centerpiece of Cowboys Stadium. This is a spectacular object, this scoreboard. It cost, by itself, twice as much to build as the previous Cowboys Stadium. It is maintained via a ten-level internal scaffolding system and its use requires the services of a full-time, highly trained operations team. Its display capacity is equal to 4,920 52-inch flat panel televisions, and it is illuminated by 30 million pulsing light bulbs. In short, it makes your typical Jumbotron look like a 13-inch TV/VCR.
La tyrannie des lobbies, par Serge Halimi (Le Monde diplomatique)
by marco
August 2009
