Month: September 2015
NORC Masters ’15 in Troisdorf
Noch bis zum 16.09.2015 kann für das NRW-Offroad-Masters 2015 am 19. und 20. September genannt werden! Die Streckenbauer des Panik Teams haben sich noch einmal mächtig ins Zeug gelegt, um den Teilnehmern eine flüssig zu fahrende und gleichzeitig technisch anspruchsvolle Strecke präsentieren zu können. Weitere Details sind unter Termine in der Ausschreibung zu finden. Wir freuen […]
LG Rolly Keyboard im Hands on: Gut gedacht, aber nicht ganz so gut gemacht
Die ideale Tastatur will LG mit seinem faltbaren Rolly Keyboard entwickelt haben. Wir haben Probe getippt – und waren etwas enttäuscht. (Tastatur, Eingabegerät)
Pirate Party Fights Norweigian Pirate Bay Blockade with Uncensored DNS
Norway is the latest country to block access to The Pirate Bay, but the country’s own Pirate Party is fighting back by launching their own public, uncensored, DNS.Last week, a local court ordered access to The Pirate Bay blocked in the country. The blo…
Norway is the latest country to block access to The Pirate Bay, but the country's own Pirate Party is fighting back by launching their own public, uncensored, DNS.
Last week, a local court ordered access to The Pirate Bay blocked in the country. The block will on the DNS level, by intercepting requests for the Pirate Bay domain names and then preventing these requests from being fulfilled.
A simple work-around would be to switch to an uncensored, public DNS server. Google, for example, offers public DNS servers that are free to use for anyone. The Norwegian Pirate Party is also coming to the rescue of Norwegians with their own public, uncensored DNS servers.
The Pirate Party DNS server will have minimal logging to protect the privacy of users, and it also supports additional top level domain names, .geek and .pirate.
The Pirate Party's co-chairman Øystein Middelthun told TorrentFreak that protesting the blockade is not just about piracy, but about making a general point on the dangers of censorship.
"The blocking order is yet another sad step down the road towards the dystopic world imagined by George Orwell. At the same time it achieves absolutely nothing of what the plaintiffs are hoping for," Middelthun told TF.
"The dangerous thing about it is that it sets a precedent. It is easy to imagine how the scope could be expanded to include other websites somehow considered immoral, and while the current technical implementation is easy to circumvent, hardening it is equally easy once society has accepted censorship in the first place," says Middelthun.
The Pirate Party UK ran into legal problems when it tried to launch its own Pirate Bay proxy, but Middelthun also doesn't expect any legal issues with their public DNS solution.
"Running a public DNS service is fully legal, so we do not expect any legal trouble. A scenario to consider is if the copyright industry, or surveillance hungry politicians, started pushing for strictly regulating DNS- and/or VPN-services," Middelthun explains.
Apple iOS 9: Neues Betriebssystem erscheint am 16. September 2015
Das neue Betriebssystem für iPhone, iPad und iPod Touch ist fertig. Apple hat einige Neuerungen von iOS 9 vorgeführt, die allerdings überwiegend mit der neuen Gerätegeneration funktionieren werden. Immerhin laufen Live Photos auch auf älteren Geräten und es gibt eine neue Beta. (iOS 9, Smartphone)
iPhone 6S und 6S Plus: Neue iPhones kommen mit 3D Touch und besseren Kameras
Apple hat zwei neue iPhones vorgestellt: Das iPhone 6S und das iPhone 6S Plus unterscheiden sich vom Design her nicht von den Vorjahresmodellen, bringen allerdings einige Hardware-Änderungen mit sich. Mit am interessantesten dürften die 3D-Touch-Displays sein. (iPhone, Smartphone)
Apple TV 4: Apps, Siri und noch mehr Apps für den Fernseher
Tablet: Apples iPad Pro ist ein 13-Zoll-Detachable mit Stift
Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 29th August 2015
The results and analysis for Blu-ray (and DVD) sales for the week ending 29th August 2015 is in. There were plenty of new releases, but none were “must-have” titles, and so Blu-ray revenue and market share continued its slide towards record lows. The w…
The results and analysis for Blu-ray (and DVD) sales for the week ending 29th August 2015 is in. There were plenty of new releases, but none were "must-have" titles, and so Blu-ray revenue and market share continued its slide towards record lows. The week's best selling title and new release was The Walking Dead: The Complete Fifth Season.
You can read the rest of the stats and analysis here
Apple Watch: Neue Modelle, Bänder und Watch OS 2
Apple hat den Veröffentlichungstermin von Watch OS 2 bekanntgegeben, ohne allerdings Neuigkeiten zum Betriebssystem zu nennen. Zusätzlich wird das Angebot rund um die Apple Watch um neue Modelle und Bänder erweitert. (Apple Watch, Apple)