Decora writes The EFF reports on a case of Internet censorship in South Korea. The blog of Professor KS Park was recently established to review the standards of Korean Communication Commission, who heads South Korea diagram censorship online, blocking about 10,000 URLs per month. The unusual thing here is that the park itself is a member of the commission, he was appointed to the post by the opposition party known as a freedom expression advocates Other committee members allowed him to make changes to his blog. now, but promised to take action against her in the future.

We’ve all been there, trying in vain to remove the caked dust on the fans inside our platforms componentry. It is mostly a futile enterprise, but here to save us from the horde of dust bunnies invade our graphics card is MSI technology dusting. Available on the company Lightning Xtreme edition of the GTX580 , soot is destroyed by this card fans spinning at full speed in the opposite direction for thirty seconds after starting. This is apparently an effective way to throw off the accumulated grime spinners and (hopefully) in a place that you can actually achieve. Unconvinced that it will work? Well, Mosey on over bub source link, and prepare you for the video evidence supplied by the fan evisceration dirt.

snydeq writes Deep End of wax Paul Venezia confused on the continued existence of the fax machine Think about what the fax is actually: .. a small device with a sheet feeder, a scanning element terrible, and a fax modem oldest operating at 14,400 bps is just over 1 KB per second -…! and people are still using faxes to send 52 pages of poorly scanned some contracts to another on analog phone lines sometimes while paying long distance charges are dreaming, Venezia writes. If something as frighteningly stupid that the fax can not live, we wonder how we are making progress all the old habits die hard, it just goes to show you: .. Bad technology is not usually the problem is the People who persist in using this technology rather than embracing alternatives far superior.

When TiVo announced its first quad tuner DVR, the Premiere Q , fans were shocked to learn that he would only be available via cable operators, and it presented a relatively small 500GB hard drive. Fortunately, the company has rectified both issues, announcing the TiVo Premiere Elite, a series quad tuner DVR 4 with 2 TB of onboard storage, which will be available through TiVo.com, Best Buy Magnolia stores and authorized installers home theater. There is no word yet on price or exact release date, as this is still pending a waiver from the FCC allows TiVo to sell the box without OTA or analog cable tuners, which makes cable Digital (or Verizon FiOS) that experience. It is also THX certified and most of the press release is devoted to focus on the nature of high-end TiVo hardware is loose. Also overlooked so far is a commercial edition of the Overview TiVo box multiroom extension, but we should get some time on their hands with this edition quad tuner soon at CEDIA 2011. For now, just check the press release, particularly after the break, and for our European readers Engadget Spanish you covered the launch of the first TiVo to Ono in Spain.

Update: The official TiVo.com / elite page is online, and reveals that the price of $ 499 service with $ 1,000 for a lifetime subscription.

We know the picture above is just as detailed as those we have looked this morning, but it has its measure of the importance however. This is a sketch of the Samsung SCH-i405 – a phone known to us that the stratosphere – as it appears in documents filed FCC approved today. The documents’ references to LTE band 13 (as well as CDMA / EVDO) seems to confirm the rumors suggesting that the above apparatus will be coming to Verizon’s 4G network, probably sooner rather than later. If you have been looking forward to a slider QWERTY Epic 4G-esque on the largest carrier in the U.S., it will be your golden opportunity. Of course, this can be a drop in the bucket compared to an impending flood of even more tempting combination .

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itwbennett sends word that Carol Bartz is no longer the CEO of Yahoo. Company CFO Tim Morse will take the responsibilities of the position temporarily. In an email to Yahoo staff, Bartz said she was fired over the phone by the Chairman of the Board of Directors. AllThingsD blog sums up the situation: [When Bartz replaced Jerry Yang], it presented an image take no prisoners and has been touted as someone with a reputation as a professional manager who could clean the place is not, as. it turned out. As Carol Bartz has streamlined some areas and made some solid hires management, performance has been significantly dented and mostly downhill. The share price has settled in at about $ 12.50 (about what it was when Bartz took over), Yahoo recent financial results have been weak, the key advertising business is in trouble, its rate attrition among engineers and others is surprisingly high and the cycle of product innovation seems clogged.

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Accepted its bid first, news tips quantr plans IPO Groupon, which triggered skepticism about its high valuation and promoted the claims of a new dot-com bubble, were put on hold amid regulatory concerns and concerns about the market volatility. According to the WSJ, When the company filed to go public in early June, he drew criticism for its high marketing costs and unprofitable operations. The company was also asked by the Securities and Exchange Commission to remove an unusual accounting metric, known as consolidated adjusted. Segment operating income, which painted a more robust performance last week, the SEC also contacted a lawyer Groupon on another matter, said a person familiar with the situation: a leak of an internal memo Groupon chief executive Andrew Mason to its staff, in which he praised the company and criticized its detractors. making public statements about the financial situation of a company during an IPO is prohibited by SEC rules.

from: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/06/necs-multisync-p241w-monitor-packs-more-e-than-your-lcd/:

We know it’s pretty hard to get excited about yet another 24-inch IPS . But if we told you that NEC MultiSync P241W was packing something special … namely, e letter No, wait, do not go. Look, it’s 1920 x 1200 e-book really serious IPS, color reproduction for professional and viewing angles for a price that is not too bad ($ 749) given the target audience. In addition to the response time of 8ms, ambient light sensor and ECO mode options, the monitor includes a USB hub with DisplaySync Pro, which allows you to use a single keyboard, mouse and monitor to two computers. The P241W will begin shipping later this month, and check the gallery below and the PR after the break for more specifications.