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Unterdurchschnittliche Getreideernten, knochentrockene Böden – 2020 war das dritte durch Wetterextreme geprägte Jahr in Folge
Weather was iffy right up until the last few minutes before liftoff.
Plenty of clouds remained Sunday when SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched. [credit: Trevor Mahlmann ]
As a strengthening low pressure system crossed the Florida peninsula on Sunday, weather conditions at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station were poor all day. There were intermittent showers and plenty of lightning.
By mid-morning, SpaceX had already canceled one launch from Florida, a mission carrying five dozen Starlink satellites. But the company held out hope for getting the second flight of a planned doubleheader off on Sunday evening, and by the time the clock ticked down on the SAOCOM-1B mission, weather conditions began to marginally improve.
At 7:18 pm ET (23:18 UTC) launch-site weather had only just turned green, so a thrice-used Falcon 9 first stage took off on its fourth flight. And a historic one it was as SpaceX launched a rocket for the 100th time, and flew a rare polar corridor mission from Florida for Argentina's space agency.
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Maskenpflicht im Ganztagsunterricht ab der 6. Klasse, steigende Infektionszahlen und im Vergleich zu Deutschland zurückhaltende Kritik an den Maßnahmen
Noch wurde offenbar die Substanz nicht identifiziert, die zu einer Vergiftung von Nawalny geführt haben soll, Anfragen beantwortet die Charité nicht
Anti-piracy groups have a long memory, it appears. They don’t easily forget about their former adversaries, even those that shut down many years ago. A variety of rightsholders and reporters still flag sites such as Openload, KickassTorrents, isoHunt, Hotfile, and even Rapidshare. Perhaps they’re being sentimental but it’s high time to move along.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Many ‘pirate’ sites – we use that term very loosely here – have come and gone over the years.
Older readers may recall that Suprnova was once the leading torrent site, a brief reign that came to an end in 2004. The same can be said for other torrent juggernauts, such as Mininova, isoHunt and KickassTorrents.
In the file-hosting arena, the same process unfolded. Rapidshare was once the site to beat, a spot that was later taken over by Megaupload. Today, both sites and many others no longer exist.
While these names may occasionally cross the minds of melancholic file-sharers, the masses have moved on. However, when we browsed through Lumen’s database of Google takedown notices this week, some old giants were brought back to life.
Apparently, several anti-piracy organizations still believe the dead sites to be a threat. Below is an overview of some random findings. We will start with Openload, which disappeared just a few months ago, and work our way back from there.
Openload should still be a familiar name to most. The file-hosting service was shut down by the anti-piracy group ACE last October. The site handed over its domain names to the group and reportedly paid “significant damages”.
Today, all former Openload URLs point to a page on the ACE website where people can find out how to watch content legally. However, that doesn’t stop the DMCA notices from coming in.
In recent months, tens of thousands of Openload.co URLs were reported to Google by reporting companies. These are sent on behalf of a variety of copyright holders, including ACE members Amazon and Disney.
We totally understand that it may take reporting companies some time to adapt to the new reality, but you’d expect that it would have sunk in by now. However, things can get worse, much worse.
Let’s take a leap back to 2016 when KickassTorrents was shut down by the US Government. This came as a surprise to millions of users. However, it appears that some anti-piracy groups still can’t believe that it’s gone.
Today, more than four years later, several reporters continue to flag KAT.ph links. The majority of the recent notices are sent by MUSO, who have flagged hundreds of KAT.ph links this year alone.
When we checked the Kat.ph domain it was throwing up all sorts of security warnings, but there were no torrents in sight.
We can go even further back though. Half a decade ago, Rapidshare closed its doors. At that time the site’s traffic had already plunged as the result of various voluntary anti-piracy measures.
After five years one would think that anti-piracy outfits have all moved on, but that’s certainly not the case. Reporting companies including Marketly, Digimarc, Link-Busters, and WebSheriff, continue to report Rapidshare links.
2013 was a big year for the Motion Picture Association (MPA) as it booked legal victories against torrent site isoHunt and the filehoster Hotfile. In the years that followed both domains remained online, linking to the MPA website.
We are pretty sure that the MPA wouldn’t host any infringing content. However, the takedown notices for both domains continue to trickle in 2020. Some are even sent on behalf of MPA member Disney.
The further we go back in time, the number of takedown notices is generally lower. But Megaupload.com was still being flagged last December, after nearly eight years of downtime. This suggests that some reporting organizations may want to dust off their databases.
2012 is also where our quest stops, but not without leaving you with a head-scratcher. If we look at Megaupload, we see that Google received requests to take down 14,505 URLs.
That number is not very impressive, but the fact that more than half of these URLs were reported AFTER the site was taken down certainly is.
All in all, it’s safe to say that reporting agencies are sending tens of thousands of pointless notices, if not more. We don’t know if they all charge based on volume, but regardless, it’s a waste of resources.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Director Michael Almereyda on bringing Tesla’s rich, visual interior life to the screen.
Ethan Hawke stars in Tesla, an inventive new biopic from Director Michael Almereyda.
The world is arguably overdue for a biographical film about the eccentric Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla, and Director Michael Almereyda (Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story) has obliged with his new film, Tesla, starring Ethan Hawke. But this is not your traditional biopic. We know we're in for a very different, more dream-like, interior kind of movie in the very first scene. A woman's voice informs us that Tesla became fascinated by electricity as a young boy upon learning that the sparks he created while stroking his pet cat were the same phenomenon as the lightning in the sky. "Is nature a gigantic cat?" he wondered. "And if so, who strokes its back?"
Almereyda became intrigued by Tesla as a teenager, when he became friends with comic book artist Alex Toth, who was a Tesla enthusiast. It became a lifelong obsession. The Serbian inventor was the subject of Almereyda's very first screenplay, which the writer/director would ultimately rework, decades later, into the script for Tesla. The director has probably read just about everything about Tesla ever written.
Along with Margaret Cheney's seminal 1981 biography, Tesla: Man Out of Time, Almereyda was particularly influenced by Christopher Cooper's 2015 book, The Truth About Tesla: The Myth of the Lone Genius, which dispels many of the most popular myths and Internet rumors surrounding the inventor, as well as Derek Jarman films and episodes of Drunk History. Although Almereyda's film is serious in tone, the influence of the latter is felt in its deliberate nonlinearity and clever use of intentional anachronisms.
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Warum wurden in Schweden Maßnahmen ohne Verbote gewählt und wieso gibt es den entsprechenden Rückhalt dafür in der Bevölkerung? – Ein Erklärungsversuch
Google gets all the basics right at a decent price.
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The front of the 4a looks better than any other Google phone, no matter what the price. [credit: Ron Amadeo ]
The Pixel 4a sure has had a rough path to market. The leaks, rumors, and common sense all pointed to a Google I/O 2020 launch, but the coronavirus pandemic put a stop to that and every other major real-life gathering. Many were still hoping for an online launch, but Google ended up canceling two of its attempts at an I/O replacement event, the first due to logistics and the second out of respect for the nationwide protests against police brutality. The delay meant we had seen fully working prototypes five months before the actual release of the phone. Just like everyone else, the Pixel 4a has had a rough 2020.
Now that the Pixel 4a has finally arrived, it feels like it's built for the era. It's a cheap, functional, utilitarian design that arrives at a time when the economy is not doing so hot. This phone is just the cure for people who are sick of $1000 smartphones. You can do better, but for the price, the Pixel 4a is a great entry-level phone that won't leave you wanting for much.
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