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The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘The Big Short.’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘The Revenant’ ‘The Martian’ completes the top three.
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This week we have three newcomers in our chart.
The Big Short is the most downloaded movie.
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are BD/DVDrips unless stated otherwise.
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| Ranking | (last week) | Movie | IMDb Rating / Trailer |
|---|---|---|---|
| torrentfreak.com | |||
| 1 | (2) | The Big Short (DVDscr) | 8.1 / trailer |
| 2 | (3) | The Revenant (DVDscr) | ?.? / trailer |
| 3 | (1) | The Martian | 8.2 / trailer |
| 4 | (9) | The Intern | 7.4 / trailer |
| 5 | (…) | Solace | 6.4 / trailer |
| 6 | (8) | Burnt | 6.7 / trailer |
| 7 | (4) | Spectre (DVDscr) | 7.1 / trailer |
| 8 | (6) | Bridge of Spies (DVDscr) | 7.9 / trailer |
| 9 | (…) | Sisters (Webrip) | 6.5 / trailer |
| 10 | (…) | Goosebumps (WEB-DL) | 6.5 / trailer |
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Die neue Version 4.4 des Linux-Kernels enthält einen freien Grafiktreiber für das Raspberry Pi und ermöglicht Grafikbeschleunigung in virtuellen Maschinen. Verbessert worden sind der RAID- und BPF-Code, geplant ist außerdem die Langzeitpflege der Version. (Linux-Kernel, Dateisystem) 
Die neue Version 4.4 des Linux-Kernels enthält einen freien Grafiktreiber für das Raspberry Pi und ermöglicht Grafikbeschleunigung in virtuellen Maschinen. Verbessert worden sind der RAID- und BPF-Code, geplant ist außerdem die Langzeitpflege der Version. (Linux-Kernel, Dateisystem) 
Vor rund zwei Jahren hat Facebook die native Windows-Version seines Messengers eingestellt. Seitdem können Desktopnutzer die Website messenger.com nutzen, wenn sie mit Freunden chatten wollen. Eine Mac-Desktopanwendung scheint jedoch bereits intern getestet zu werden. (Instant Messenger, Soziales Netz) 
Vor rund zwei Jahren hat Facebook die native Windows-Version seines Messengers eingestellt. Seitdem können Desktopnutzer die Website messenger.com nutzen, wenn sie mit Freunden chatten wollen. Eine Mac-Desktopanwendung scheint jedoch bereits intern getestet zu werden. (Instant Messenger, Soziales Netz) 
BlackEnergy was key ingredient used to cause power outage to at least 80k customers.
The people who carried out last month's first known hacker-caused power outage used highly destructive malware to gain a foothold into multiple regional distribution power companies in Ukraine and to delay restoration efforts once electricity had been shut off, a newly published analysis confirms.
The malware known as BlackEnergy allowed the attackers to gain a foothold on the power-company systems, said the report, which was published by a member of the SANS industrial control systems team. The still-unknown attackers then used that access to open circuit breakers that cut power. After that, they likely used a wiper utility called KillDisk to thwart recovery efforts and then waged denial-of-service attacks to prevent power-company personnel from receiving customer reports of outages. In Saturday's report, SANS ICS Director Michael J. Assante wrote:
The attackers demonstrated planning, coordination, and the ability to use malware and possible direct remote access to blind system dispatchers, cause undesirable state changes to the distribution electricity infrastructure, and attempt to delay the restoration by wiping SCADA servers after they caused the outage. This attack consisted of at least three components: the malware, a denial of service to the phone systems, and the missing piece of evidence of the final cause of the impact. Current evidence and analysis indicates that the missing component was direct interaction from the adversary and not the work of malware. Or in other words, the attack was enabled via malware but consisted of at least three distinct efforts.
The report stresses there's no evidence BlackEnergy or its recently developed KillDisk component was the direct cause of the outage, which so far has been shown to affect about 80,000 customers. The analysis also cautioned that evidence showing some past BlackEnergy infections relied on booby-trapped Microsoft Office documents to spread are no indication such a vector was used in the recent Ukrainian power-grid attacks. Still, this weekend's report leaves little doubt the blackout was the result of a highly coordinated hacker attack that relied on BlackEnergy as a key ingredient.
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The ever-repeated parrot statement from the copyright industry is that “authors must be paid”. This ignores the existence of Wikipedia and about three billion smartphones, and is therefore simply false.
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The parroted question-and-assertion from the copyright industry continues to be “authors must be paid” and “how will the authors get paid?”
This question-and-assertion isn’t just irrelevant, it’s also a sickening existential defense from an industry that makes sure that 99.99% of music authors never see a single cent in royalty. (A more proper question would be how a music author or composer can possibly earn a living with the copyright industry still in existence.)
Nevertheless, the question and assertion assume that the copyright monopoly exists with the purpose of making sure somebody gets paid. That’s not why it exists. More importantly, the question and assertion also assume that no culture, knowledge, or technology would get created without the copyright monopoly (or outside of the copyright industry).
The purpose of the copyright monopoly is clear: it’s worded quite explicitly in the United States Constitution, article 8. Its purpose is “to promote the progress of science and the useful arts”. The purpose is not for anybody to get rich, or make a living, or paid at all. The purpose is and was always to benefit the public. To generate progress, with the implicit meaning of making that progress available to everyone (or it wouldn’t be progress in any meaningful sense of the word).
Now, it has been assumed – as asserted by the copyright industry – that the only way to achieve this effect, across all fields and disciplines, is to lock the authorship up in a time-limited* monopoly. Various government officials have accepted this narrative.
The copyright industry therefore has two customers: first, it sells the idea of its unique capability of producing culture and knowledge to the government, in exchange for a monopoly when it does so. Second, it sells monopolized copies of that culture and knowledge to people in exchange for money. It’s important to realize that the copyright industry has two different sets of customers, and the first set has every reason to revisit the dishonest deal and get a new supplier.
Linux and Wikipedia (as well as other, less known achievements) show unambiguously that the idea of requiring any kind of payment for great tools, culture, or knowledge to come into being is an utter falsehood. It may be true in some cases. But the cases where it hasn’t been true have all shown that the basic premise, that the copyright monopoly is any kind of necessary, is the purest oxen fecalia.
And these projects, free in all aspects as they are, now underpin the Android operating system which powers three billion smartphones and well over half of the world’s servers in various incarnations of the GNU/Linux operating system. They support every lower- and higher-level education on the planet.
According to the copyright industry, these projects do not and cannot exist, as the authors weren’t paid.
According to reality, the copyright industry is wrong.
Let’s be clear here: the most common operating kernel for servers and mobile smartphones, which underpin the entire IT industry today, was written completely outside the copyright monopoly context with no need for anyone to get paid. The richest source of knowledge available, which underpin all college educations even if unofficially, was written completely outside the copyright monopoly context with no need for anyone to get paid.
This doesn’t mean that nobody should be allowed to sell anything. Quite to the contrary! But it can be conclusively deduced that government officials have been completely in the wrong when accepting the copyright industry’s assertion that nothing will ever get produced without a strong copyright monopoly. It can also be conclusively deduced that the business models that are based on free tools, culture, and knowledge are worth enormously much more to the economy than a manufacturing industry still trying to sell round pieces of silly data-carrying plastic when their competition ship the medialess information across the world in seconds.
Government officials should just stop buying the idea from the copyright industry that a monopoly is required for progress to take place. They should get a new deal from another supplier, and as is the case when this happens, the supplier being ditched – the copyright industry – has no say whatsoever about the new supplier or the new deal. More specifically, it’s more beneficial to a government to not hand out any kind of copyright monopoly at all, as more culture and knowledge – more progress – is created without it.
The copyright monopoly has demonstrated that it’s not just unnecessary, but downright harmful to progress, to the economy, and to civil liberties. The copyright industry should not be allowed to get away with its further Norwegian Blue parroting of “how should the authors get paid”. The question is not relevant.
Any honest business model is built without a legal monopoly in any case. Make money, good for you. But you don’t get to do so with a monopoly that cuts down on my rights, especially not with blatant lying.
*eternal
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It wowed us at the LA Auto Show, and wowed us again at CES
LAS VEGAS—If you kept a look out for it, you could find a few examples of augmented reality on display at CES this year. There were concept cars with AR heads-up displays (JVC Kenwood and McLaren Automotive had a modified 675LT with such a system), but little of it was production-ready. That's not the case with Hyundai's new virtual owner's manual.
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Bisher gibt es in Deutschland kein nationales Cert, dabei wäre es nicht schwer zu erschaffen. Ein neu geschaffenes Cert müsste jedoch eine klare Distanz zu Regierungsstellen wahren, um ernst genommen zu werden - eine lösbare Aufgabe. (
Keiner der bekannten Let's Player, sondern Sony Computer Entertainment hat offenbar versucht, in den USA Markenschutz für den Begriff "Let's Play" zu bekommen - vorerst erfolglos. (
Wer von Android zu iOS wechseln will, kann seit einiger Zeit eine Apple-App dazu nutzen. Nun soll Apple auch für den umgekehrten Weg von iOS zu Android eine App entwickeln. (
Apple hat in den USA Patentschutz für ein iPhone beantragt, das mit zwei Hauptkameras ausgerüstet ist. Damit ließen sich nicht nur Weitwinkel- und Teleaufnahmen parallel anfertigen, sondern auch Zeitlupen- und Zeitrafferaufnahmen gleichzeitig. (
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