The 1966 film “The Battle of Algiers" Tells Us a Lot About the Battle for Iraq 12/21

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The Battle of Algiers Revisited

The Battle of Algiers Revisited 09/16/2004 03:44 AM
In September of 2003 the Bush administration telegraphed their intent to use torture on prisoners in Iraq when they screened Gillo Pontecorvo's 1965 film The Battle of Algiers for officials in the Pentagon.

Film firms lose DVD piracy battle

Film firms lose DVD piracy battle 01/06/2004 09:16 AM
BBC Jan 6 2004 7:57AM ET

"Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs
- Battle Torrent"

"Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs
- Battle Torrent" 08/04/2004 03:30 PM

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Battle Torrent

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Battle Torrent 08/04/2004 09:28 AM
Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs - Battle Torrent .. proposal for making bittorrent usable

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U.S. Troops, Iraq Militia Battle Around
Najaf

U.S. Troops, Iraq Militia Battle Around
Najaf 05/23/2004 03:41 AM
Reuters via Wired News May 23 2004 8:12AM GMT

Kerry, Bush Battle Over Iraq as TV
Debates Set

Kerry, Bush Battle Over Iraq as TV
Debates Set 09/20/2004 07:05 PM
Reuters via Wired News Sep 20 2004 11:23PM GMT

U.S. Troops, Iraq Militia Battle Around
Najaf (Reuters)

U.S. Troops, Iraq Militia Battle Around
Najaf (Reuters) 05/23/2004 03:19 AM
Reuters - U.S. air strikes and heavy fighting between U.S. armored units and Iraqi Shi'ite militia in the holy city of Najaf killed at least 14 people overnight and wounded 37, hospital staff told Reuters on Sunday.

Marines, Iraq Insurgents Battle in
Falluja (Reuters)

Marines, Iraq Insurgents Battle in
Falluja (Reuters) 04/30/2004 09:10 AM
Reuters - U.S. Marines battled Iraqi insurgents on the outskirts of Falluja on Friday, shortly after the marines pulled out from some positions around the besieged town, witnesses said.

Iraq battle plan leak sparks overhaul of
cybercrime-fighting techniques

Iraq battle plan leak sparks overhaul of
cybercrime-fighting techniques 02/06/2005 01:09 AM
A probe into the leak of battle plans for the U.S. invasion of Iraq has prompted changes at the Defense Department, which is developing software tools and investigative strategies for computer crime cases that involve large amounts of data.

"Keep the Sex R-Rated, N.Y.U. Tells Film
Students"

"Keep the Sex R-Rated, N.Y.U. Tells Film
Students" 12/05/2003 10:14 PM

Silverstone set for F1 battle

Silverstone set for F1 battle 07/11/2004 06:38 AM
Ferrari say they are expecting a struggle for victory in Sunday's British Grand Prix.

Message in a Battle

Message in a Battle 12/22/2003 04:21 AM
The WP has a tale titled The Messages in a Battle about the recent growth of computer-generated battle scenes in movies, now that you don't have to pay all ...

Saudi battle goes into third day

Saudi battle goes into third day 04/05/2005 07:05 AM
At least nine people die as a gun battle between Saudi police and militants enters its third day.

Bruce: "It’s just too big a battle to
lay out of"

Bruce: "It’s just too big a battle to
lay out of" 08/04/2004 04:45 PM

The Battle for Wesnoth 0.7.8

The Battle for Wesnoth 0.7.8 05/27/2004 11:07 PM
A turn-based fantasy strategy game.

Battle of the Storms

Battle of the Storms 09/18/2004 01:56 AM
Abcnews.go.com - Fri Sep 17, 11:04 pm GMT

The Battle for Wesnoth 0.7.3

The Battle for Wesnoth 0.7.3 04/18/2004 11:08 AM
A turn-based fantasy strategy game.

Battle for Mandicor

Battle for Mandicor 01/06/2005 12:19 PM
First relase

The Battle for Wesnoth 0.8.3

The Battle for Wesnoth 0.8.3 08/27/2004 10:54 PM
A turn-based fantasy strategy game.

R2-D2 does battle with Robosapien

R2-D2 does battle with Robosapien 12/19/2004 03:03 PM
ZDNet Dec 17 2004 6:33PM GMT

Connectivity Battle

Connectivity Battle 05/01/2004 07:51 AM
For the first time in a long time I have run up against some serious hurdles getting online during this...

Just half the battle

Just half the battle 08/11/2004 08:12 AM
TechTree Aug 11 2004 12:18PM GMT

First Look At Battle Surgeons

First Look At Battle Surgeons 12/18/2003 11:47 AM
The cover artwork for Star Wars: MedStar I - Battle Surgeons, the upcoming Clone Wars novel by Dave Seeley is now up at the official sie, along with details on the July 2004 novel by Michael Reeves and Steve Perry starring Barriss Offee and a tiny medical unit tending to the wounded on the battlefields of Drongar. Click on the thumbnail above for the full scoop.

The Battle for Wesnoth 0.8.2

The Battle for Wesnoth 0.8.2 08/14/2004 10:40 PM
A turn-based fantasy strategy game.

The Battle for Wesnoth 0.5

The Battle for Wesnoth 0.5 10/30/2003 11:32 PM
A turn-based fantasy strategy game.

Let 3G battle commence

Let 3G battle commence 07/08/2004 10:23 PM
PC Magazine UK Jul 9 2004 1:22AM GMT

The Battle for the remote....

The Battle for the remote.... 05/10/2004 04:26 AM

THis is one of the interesting battlefields.  What world will win the remote?

Interactive TV based?

Extension to PC in your hand?

Some other fangled PVR based system?

No one knows?

Here's another entrant.

Remote: Mouse of the Digital Lifestyle?.

A few months ago, while working on a cover story for Business 2.0 (read: Do this Get Rich), I proposed an idea that a remote control type device that solved the complexity issues in the digital lifestyles was going to be a slam dunk. This was my elevator pitch for what I called, D-Mote:

As our homes fill up with all sorts of new digital electronics, PCs, PDA’s, Wi-Fi routers, home networking equipment, flat screens, and IP-based phones, consumers will have a harder and harder time connecting them all together.Most of us are still struggling with all of these gadgets. We are not ready for the converged lifestyle.That is why we need the d-mote.This is a digital remote that can automatically find and configure all the networked devices in your home.Think of it as a home entertainment network administrator for dummies.

It is a device with buttons and a small screen like on a PDA, along with both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity.What makes it so useful is that it has smart software that can help configure and manage all these devices easily, and upgrades itself automatically over the Internet as new devices and networking standards become available. The D-mote can tell users what music, movies, or data is where on which device. This will mostly be a software play, but initially will be sold as a device that will run on either a Palm or PocketPC OS and support a whole bunch of networking protocols. When a new device is brought into the home, the D-mote connects to it and configures it to work with the existing network.Well obviously the venture capitalists did not care much about the idea. Here is what they had to say.

D-Mote This startup would have developed a remote control that would automatically find and configure all the networked devices in your home, as well as manage all the digital content. Only the name was on target; the VCs demoted this clunker to the bottom of the heap. The fatal flaw? Giants like Microsoft, Sony, and others are already working on their own solutions for the problem. “Why won’t it be in Windows?” Storm Ventures’s Sanjay Subhedar asked with a chuckle.

Others were not as kind. Stewart Alsop, New Enterprise Associates quipped, “I highly recommend you guys stay editors. This territory is hard for startups, because you need a lot of capital to survive, and getting a lot of capital is difficult. Moreover even big companies have a tough time getting remotes to work.” Well with the heavyweights dismissing it, I was just a tad discouraged, and forgot about it, since more pressing issues were on hand. But this past week, the idea began to haunt me again, courtesy of some executives from Logitech, the PC peripheral maker.

Last week, the company spent $29 million in cash to buy out Intrigue Technologies, makers of Harmony Remote. Harmony Remote is a remote control that can be updated and used for controlling many devices - thanks to a CDDB type database that stores instructions for thousands of devices. Users can easily download these instructions from the Internet (Sort of like getting CD track information from Gracenote database!) and update the remote using a USB connection on a computer.

When asked why the company spent so much cash, David Henry, Logitech senior vice president of the Control Devices Business Unit said, “We believe that the advanced remote control will establish itself as ‘the mouse of the digital house’ and that Logitech is uniquely positioned to do for the emerging digital devices in the living room what it has already done for the PC.” The analysts have also chimed in.

“The market for convergence and advanced entertainment remote controls that provide simple solutions for using today’s complex entertainment systems will grow as consumers become aware of them,” said Tricia Parks, president of market research firm Parks Associates. “Our early estimates indicate that the worldwide market for these types of remote controls will be approximately $500 million in 2004, with annual future growth in double digits.”

“The category of advanced remote controls is in its infancy,” said Bob O’Donnell, senior industry analyst for IDC. “There is potential to completely transform this category and accelerate its growth, when you combine the convergence of the PC and consumer electronics with innovative new concepts and designs.”

But it was what Bryan Mcleod, chief executive officer of Intrigue, said that has me convinced that this is going to be a big opportunity. He said, that the company could in the future support any wireless communications standard - Radio frequency, WiFi and Bluetooth - and enhance the functionality of the remotes. In his mind, the remote ideally should be “activity based.” For instance today Harmony when told to “play movie” can dim lights of the room, turn on the DVD/home theater system, and television and basically create a whole environment.

While watching American Wedding, the phone rings, and you hit pause, the lights go up, the system idles and the movie experience pauses for a minute. This is brilliant. I think what is more brilliant is that companies like Intrigue realize that it is good to give power to the people. A smart user knows more about devices he loves and uses.The next step could be downloading the instructions from the internet for say a Roku Soundbridge, a Microsoft Media Center (Shudder!) and other motley crew of devices. I think given Mcleod’s ideas, my dumb ass pitch for a D-Mote doesn’t sound so stupid after all.

[Om Malik on Broadband]

The Battle of the X800s

The Battle of the X800s 06/23/2004 04:03 PM

The Battle of Antietam

The Battle of Antietam 04/30/2004 03:09 PM
The Battle of Antietam is the single bloodiest single day battle American history. Historically told in words, the battle illustrated in pictures [SVG required] shows jostling strategies that resulted in a loss of over 20,000 troops in 13 hours.

The Battle for Wesnoth 0.7.7

The Battle for Wesnoth 0.7.7 05/19/2004 08:44 PM
A turn-based fantasy strategy game.

Eriksson to battle on

Eriksson to battle on 09/05/2004 09:46 AM
Sven-Goran Eriksson intends to stay on as England coach, despite criticism after the draw with Austria.

Battle Torrent

Battle Torrent 08/11/2004 09:45 AM

Thanks to Dave over at Scripting News for the link. The already easy process of downloading files via BitTorrent has just gotten easier. [Downhill Battle]

Midway's Battle

Midway's Battle 12/29/2004 02:32 PM
Midway decides to make an extreme football game to compete with Electronic Arts' NFL coup.

The Battle for Wesnoth 0.7.9

The Battle for Wesnoth 0.7.9 06/11/2004 09:05 PM
A turn-based fantasy strategy game.

Big war games battle it out

Big war games battle it out 12/29/2004 07:56 AM
The arrival of new titles in the popular Medal Of Honor and Call of Duty franchises leaves fans of wartime battle titles spoilt for choice.

Battle of the Newsbots

Battle of the Newsbots 11/18/2003 04:28 PM
Microsoft fires back at Google News. As described in this article in New Scientist, MSN is trying its own version of Google News with a twist: theirs adds customized content tailored to the interests of the current reader.

Have Saber We'll Battle

Have Saber We'll Battle 10/29/2003 05:01 PM
A new Probe Droid has just launched; this week we're searching for your opinion on a new line of stunt sabers fans can actually duel with. Affordably priced, removable blades; what would you say to such a line? Look for the latest Probe Droid ballot now and cast your vote today!

The Battle for Wesnoth 0.8.1

The Battle for Wesnoth 0.8.1 08/03/2004 08:14 PM
A turn-based fantasy strategy game.

The Battle for Wesnoth 0.7.5

The Battle for Wesnoth 0.7.5 04/25/2004 12:07 AM
A turn-based fantasy strategy game.
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"Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it..."

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Download, You name it..." 12/31/2004 10:23 AM

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Music Download Battle Looms

Music Download Battle Looms 12/02/2003 10:15 PM
Industry sources tipped that the Australian version of Apple's iTunes will be available in the first quarter of 2004. By Chris Jenkins (News.com.au via MyAppleMenu)

ALL MULTIPLE P2P NETWORK FILE SHARING
SOFTWARE ARE NOT THE SAME: TrustyFiles
2.2 update adds Bit Torrent access and
delivers the fastest and most results
and download sources with 100% native
code.

ALL MULTIPLE P2P NETWORK FILE SHARING
SOFTWARE ARE NOT THE SAME: TrustyFiles
2.2 update adds Bit Torrent access and
delivers the fastest and most results
and download sources with 100% native
code. 06/07/2004 02:37 AM
RazorPop, Inc. announced the release of TrustyFiles 2.2 Personal File Sharing software at http://www.TrustyFiles.com. The performance-driven update cements TrustyFile’s position as the leader in Multi-P2P network software. TrustyFiles 2.2 features 100% native code and adds Bit Torrent network support. TrustyFiles continues to be FREE with NO spyware and NO additional bundled software. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2004]

Battle Not Over for File Sharers

Battle Not Over for File Sharers 12/23/2003 07:15 AM
The recent ruling preventing the Recording Industry of America from using ISPs to go after copyright offenders opens new legal avenues to those who have been sued. But beating the RIAA won't be easy. By Kristen Philipkoski.

"bitoogle :: the bit torrent file search
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Balance may be back in file-sharing
battle

Balance may be back in file-sharing
battle 12/20/2003 07:29 AM
SiliconValley.com Dec 20 2003 6:33AM ET

File-sharing battle to escalate with new
fingerprinting software

File-sharing battle to escalate with new
fingerprinting software 04/21/2004 03:36 PM
A new application that claims to be able to filter out copyrighted content from P2P networks is slated for release this week, and universities are interested. Will this put the brakes on file-trading on college campuses and other places?

Kazaa wins in European file-sharing
court battle

Kazaa wins in European file-sharing
court battle 12/19/2003 05:13 PM
The Dutch Supreme Court found for the makers of Kazaa in a battle over the legality of the file-sharing software.

Torrent 0.61

Torrent 0.61 01/27/2004 02:58 PM
An arcade game with colored tiles.

Torrent Zip

Torrent Zip 03/31/2005 11:44 PM
The project is live!

My first torrent

My first torrent 07/30/2004 03:00 AM

Thanks to Jim and Ado for setting up the BitTorrent tracker. Here is a torrent for Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture talk in Helsinki that I blogged about earlier.

UPDATE: Please standby. It doesn't seem to be working.

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Sri Lankan hip-hop mix: torrent

Sri Lankan hip-hop mix: torrent 03/17/2005 03:55 AM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing reader Lucas Emery says,

Your big article on M.I.A over the weekend reminded me that I had downloaded a mix mp3 shortly after the Tsunami disaster comprised exclusivly of Sri Lankan hip-hop. I can't remember where I originally found the mix (boomselection, maybe?) so I just made a .torrent. 58.4 Meg mp3 mix by Dr. Auratheft.

Link

Previously: M.I.A. is, well, MIA; and MIA for intergalactic overlord

CC Torrent Hosting

CC Torrent Hosting 12/17/2004 06:33 PM

Torrentocracy has announced a free BitTorrent hosting service for Creative Commons licensed content: Prodigem.

Download one of the beta torrents currently available. Send an email to Torrentocracy creator Gary Lerhaupt to request an upload account.

Update: Download all of the Duke Law School Arts Project Moving Image Contest finalists via one torrent at prodigem.

Following up on Torrent Shutdowns

Following up on Torrent Shutdowns 12/22/2004 01:40 AM
Slashdot Dec 21 2004 6:33PM GMT

It's the torrent, stupid

It's the torrent, stupid 12/22/2004 01:29 AM
Xeni Jardin: Mark Pesce rants about the recent shutdowns of BitTorrent supersites Suprnova.org and TorrentBits.com.

Hey, Hollywood! Can you feel the future slipping through your fingers? Do you understand how badly you've screwed up? You took a perfectly serviceable situation - a nice, centralized system for the distribution of media, and, through your own greed and shortsightedness, are giving birth to a system of digital distribution that you'll never, ever be able to defeat. In your avarice and arrogance you ignored the obvious: you should have cut a deal with SuprNova.org. In partnership you could have found a way to manage the disruptive change that's already well underway. Instead, you have repeated the mistakes made by the recording industry, chapter and verse. And thus you have spelled your own doom.

It's said that the best sequels are just like the original, only bigger and louder. Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves for one hell of a crash. This baby is now fully out of control.

Link (via waxy)

Xcode .torrent

Xcode .torrent 08/08/2004 02:13 AM
Apple just released an update to is Xcode development tools, but Apple's content distribution network is slow and poky, and as Danny notes, it "won't let you resume downloads using wget -c." So here's a .torrent for Xcode. Link (via Oblomovka)

Bit Torrent : An Analysis

Bit Torrent : An Analysis 12/19/2004 03:10 PM
Hardy news site, The Register, recently published a detailed analysis of the file sharing protocol Bit Torrent. Bit Torrent has received attention in the main stream news after reports that it was carrying as much as 50% of all peer 2 peer (p2p) traffic, which in tern amounted to a massive 30% of all the traffic on the internet. The paper, by Dr. Johan Pouwelse, examines the protocol and looks especially at one of the largest bit-torrent hubs, Suprnova.org. He examines how just 20 moderators solve the problem of fake files, something that plagues the traditional file sharing networks like Kazaa.

Dr Powelse notes that the major problems facing hubs like suprnova are fakes and maintaining hub availability. The availability of files on bit torrent is based on a centralised system; without it, the network fails as users cannot access the trackers. Decentralising bit torrent has already begun - Suprnova have started a project called "Exeem" which apparently has 5,000 beta testers trialling it, and has an ultimate aim of taking the best of Kazaa (a decentralised network) and merging it with Bit Torrent. Decentralisation removes the issue of poor availability at the tracker end, yet0 it also provides more scope for fake files and a reduction in data integrity at the user end.

The paper concludes that bit-torrent needs to evolve to create incentives to users to seed files. Bit-torrent as a protocol is a system that’s here to stay; it enjoys more and more usage from more main stream content providers. Yes, there is a lot of illegitimate use of the protocol, but unlike Kazaa, these users should not be allowed to over shadow the usefulness to legitimate users of the bit torrent protocol.

[Update] Since this article was published, Suprnova has shutdown as a hub for torrents. Although this cannot be confirmed, the shutdown is very likely related to legal action from the Hollywood against tracker websites; earlier in the week many other sites were taken down. The effectiveness of the takedowns could be massive; the paper below notes that when on the Suprnova mirrors went offline during their monitoring period, they saw a massive reduction in the number of users downloading files through the site.

Download: The Paper (pdf) | The Register

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Bit Torrent question

Bit Torrent question 04/09/2004 10:30 PM
Bit Torrent and the ability to download everything in one click (is this the end of Direct TV, Tivo and the music business?!).

Used BitTorrent a little bit when it first came out and was a bit underwhelmed. It didn’t work, there weren’t a lot of places to find files, etc.

I decided to take another look at it when a designer friend of mine was telling me that he has the latest version of every single piece of design software on his Mac compliments of bit torrent (yes, I know it’s wrong… not the point I’m trying to make, the point is coming :-).

Part I: I installed bit torrent and immediately noticed an amazing new trend (prob. not new to all of you) of people posting dozens of albums in one RAR file for download. Huge file sizes in the 500 to 4,000 meg size range. The last season of seven seasons of Southpark, every Nirvanna album and here is another file with every Howard Stern radio show from March in one file.

In one click you grab one really well organized, clean and deep sets of files—scary.

Part II: A couple of month ago I got the Gateway Connected DVD player. For $195 it connects via WiFi to my desktop and I can hit the My Music or My Videos button on the remote control and pull up those directories on my hard drive (in the other room).

Part III: Today I moved into my new apartment in Santa Monica and was faced with the standard $100 month cable/dish bill and I’m thinking “dang, I only watch less then a half dozen TV shows and they are all here on bit torrent… maybe I should save the $1,200 a year and just download the shows and watch them via my Gateway Connected DVD player?”

The Point/Question: How soon before you’ll be able-with one click-download every prime-time TV show or last year’s top 500 CDs in one click?!

(Note: This is not a trick question, I have yet to find a file containing that much content—however, I did find a file with last weeks top 100 singles that someone put together in one nice package).

[The Digital Music Weblog]

Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your
TV

Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your
TV 06/21/2004 07:41 AM

ShiftyGames Torrent 0.8.2

ShiftyGames Torrent 0.8.2 05/05/2004 10:52 PM
An arcade game with colored tiles.

Better Than Bit Torrent, For Internet2
Users?

Better Than Bit Torrent, For Internet2
Users? 11/18/2003 07:54 PM

Microsoft builds a better Bit Torrent

Microsoft builds a better Bit Torrent 06/17/2005 03:18 PM
Researchers at Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge have developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes the scheduling problems associated with existing distribution protocols such as Bit Torrent.

The researchers claim download times are between 20-30 per cent faster, using their network coding approach, than on systems that only code at the server, and between 200 and 300 per cent faster than distributing un-encoded information.

View: Full Article @ The Register
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The 1966 film “The Battle of Algiers" Tells Us a Lot About the Battle for Iraq 12/21

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