April 2016 – Page 126 – news.buyenne.com

Chromecast hack brings a 1978 TV into the digital age

Have an old-fashioned cathode-ray TV lying around and want to give it a new life? YouTuber Dr. Moddnstine has done just that, by taking an old color TV set from 1978, cramming a Chromecast inside the case, and hooking up a bit of hardware so that the TV turns on automatically when you use your phone, […]

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Oculus Rift customers suffer shipments delay due to component shortage

Reality versus virtual reality means “anxious” wait for Facebook headset fans.

The Xbox One controller and other accessories are hidden in a secret compartment under the tracking camera. (credit: Kyle Orland)

An unknown number of Oculus VR customers have been forced to wait a little longer for the Rift virtual reality headset, after Facebook said it had been hit by "an unexpected component shortage"—thereby delaying some of its shipments.

Oculus—in an update—promised to, er, update customers who have been affected by the hold-up within the next week.

Facebook—which last week began delivering the virtual reality units trumpeted by boss Mark Zuckerberg as "the most social technology ever"—hasn't revealed how many orders were hit by the shipments delay. Oculus said in an e-mail to customers on Saturday:

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Unix: FreeBSD 10.3 bootet von ZFS per UEFI

Die aktuelle Version 10.3 von FreeBSD bringt einen verbesserten UEFI-Boatloader, der nun auch ZFS-Partitionen startet. Die Schicht zur Linux-Kompatibilität ist deutlich ausgebaut worden und statt eines Reboots gibt es nun Reroot. (FreeBSD, Dateisystem)

WordPress Wants Statutory Damages for DMCA Abuse

WordPress.com is taking a strong stance against copyright takedown abuse. The company is recommending that the U.S. Copyright Office should introduce statutory damages and bonds to decrease the frequency of fraudulent and abusive DMCA takedown requests.

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Automattic, the company behind the popular WordPress.com blogging platform, receives thousands of takedown requests from rightsholders every year.

A substantial percentage of these notices contain inaccuracies and several are clearly fraudulent or abusive.

The company highlights some of the worst offenders in its “Hall of Shame” and has also sued takedown abusers in the past.

In a recent submission to the U.S. Copyright Office, Automattic’s General counsel Paul Sieminski explains that “enforcement robots” and the lack of human review are in part to blame for many of the inaccurate notices.

“While we recognize that the use of automated tools may be necessary with respect to some types of infringement on some types of websites, personal blogs are not the proper targets for enforcement robots.”

“Copyright holders have an obligation to consider fair use before sending a takedown notice, and robots simply cannot tell fair use from foul in any but the most obvious circumstances,” Sieminski adds.

Automattic does its best to comply with the DMCA but the company believes that more should be done to prevent this type of behavior in the future. The current regulations are not sufficient to deter the fraudulent and abusive, the company argues.

Among other changes, the company suggests the addition of statutory damages for DMCA takedown abuse, so the worst offenders can be punished appropriately.

With statutory damages, companies who are victims of DMCA abuse would no longer have to prove actual monetary harm. Instead, the law will prescribe a fixed damages amount.

“Damages from abusive notices of claimed infringement can sometimes be difficult to quantify. Thus, in order to further the goals of compensation and deterrence, statutory damages for abusive notices of claimed infringement and abusive counter notifications could be added either to section 504 or to section 1203.”

In addition, WordPress.com’s parent company suggests the introduction of bonds, as is common in other parts of the legal system. This would mean that copyright holders have something concrete to lose when they make false statements.

“Such a bond may be the only way to ensure that those who cause damage via misrepresentations are called to account for their misdeeds,” Sieminski writes.

Automattic’s comments (pdf) were submitted as part of the Government’s public consultation to evaluate the effectiveness of the DMCA’s Safe Harbor provisions. The U.S. Copyright Office will use the feedback to evaluate whether the DMCA law should be reformed in the future.

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Für HD und Internet: Unitymedia bestätigt Analogabschaltung im kommenden Jahr

Unitymedia schaltet die analogen Programmen früher ab als vorgegeben. Der Verband Privater Rundfunk und Telemedien (VPRT) fürchtet durch die Reduktion im Vorfeld für kleinere TV-Sender einen “Tod auf Raten”. (Unitymedia, Set-Top-Box)

New nonsurgical weight-loss treatment curbs hunger, melts away pounds

Early clinical data shows method safely led to sustained weight loss in obese patients.

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Battling bulge can often be a frustrating fight—with tedious calorie counting, rigorous exercise regimens, and invasive and expensive stomach-shrinking surgeries. But a new method to offload the flab promises to be a quick and simple treatment that cuts cravings and leads to sustainable weight loss.

The non-surgical procedure works using tiny, injectable beads that restrict blood flow to the part of the stomach that releases the hunger-sparking hormone, ghrelin. In a pilot clinical trial with seven severely obese patients, the method successfully curbed hunger and trimmed an average of 13.3 percent of excess weight after six months.

Though the clinical data is still preliminary and in a small number of patients, doctors are hopeful that the method, called bariatric arterial embolization (BAE), will be a safe and effective tool for slashing obesity numbers. "These early results demonstrate that BAE appears to be effective in helping patients lose a significant amount of weight in the short and intermediate term," lead author Clifford Weiss, associate professor of radiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. said in a statement. Weiss and colleagues presented the clinical results so far at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting in Vancouver.

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Uncharted 4 gameplay reveal: Jeeping and stealthing through Madagascar

Naughty Dog’s new “wide linear” system raises our hopes for beleaguered PS4 exclusive.

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LOS ANGELES—Delays, departures, and public rumblings are enough to make any game series fan apprehensive about a sequel—especially one like Uncharted 4, whose actual gameplay has been kept at arm's length ever since a December 2014 reveal.

With the game's May 10 launch looming, Naughty Dog finally put controllers in hands of the press at a private event last week. While the demo didn't include much plot or dialogue, it emphasized new ways for series hero Nathan Drake to trot the globe—some stealthier than others—and they all felt pretty fun.

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Motorola Moto X3 on the way?

Lenovo-owned Motorola may be going through a bit of restructuring, but Lenovo has made it clear that we’ll continue to see smartphones with Motorola DNA in the future… even if they wear names like “Moto by Lenovo.” And it looks like one of those new phones might be a next-gen Moto X. Indian import/export database […]

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Facebook: Oculus Rift sammelt alles

Körpergröße, Spielesammlung, Standort und die IP-Adresse: Laut den Nutzungsbedingungen von Oculus Rift stimmt der Anwender zu, dass praktisch alle irgendwie greifbaren Daten über ihn an Facebook weitergeleitet werden. Das ist wenig überraschend – ärgert aber trotzdem viele Spieler. (Oculus Rift, Soziales Netz)

Körpergröße, Spielesammlung, Standort und die IP-Adresse: Laut den Nutzungsbedingungen von Oculus Rift stimmt der Anwender zu, dass praktisch alle irgendwie greifbaren Daten über ihn an Facebook weitergeleitet werden. Das ist wenig überraschend - ärgert aber trotzdem viele Spieler. (Oculus Rift, Soziales Netz)

Captchas: Cloudflare bezeichnet 94 Prozent des Tor-Traffics als böse

Geht von Tor-Nutzern eine Gefahr aus? Das sagt zumindest Cloudflare und präsentiert Tor-Nutzern immer neue Captchas. Jetzt haben beide Seiten in dem Streit nachgelegt. (TOR-Netzwerk, Virus)