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    Cheating In The Classroom With Apple Watch

    Reading texts through the Apple Watch is cheating for dummies. Set your phone to read the texts aloud and listen through a hidden ear bud instead.
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    Crowdfunded 'Star Trek' Movie Draws Lawsuit from Paramount, CBS

    There's got to be more to it than that. What about Star Trek Renegades and Star Trek Continues? They've each done Kickstarters and even had actual cast members playing their original characters for their fan projects.
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    Kickstarter Hires Reporter To Investigate Failed $3.4M Project

    Kickstarter's cut of this project was $170,000. For that amount of money, they should have had a community manager to keep track of what was going on. They are only hurting their brand long-term if they claim no responsibility for these projects. Maybe have part of their fee go toward an...
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    Courts: Google’s Book-Scanning Project Is Fair Use

    People can already find pirated ebooks using the normal Google search. Finding particular phrases or passages in those books, not as easy.
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    The Real Reason Netflix Won't Offer Offline Downloads

    The real reason not to offer downloads is because many of the devices people use to watch Netflix don't have the storage space. Even Amazon's flagship Fire TV only has about 5GB of usable space.
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    Megaupload Wants U.S. Government To Buy And Store Its Servers

    This is what the DMCA is supposed to be for. Instead of shutting down YouTube, they simply remove the requested material.
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    Megaupload Wants U.S. Government To Buy And Store Its Servers

    The cost of preserving evidence should not fall on the company where the evidence was located. The cost to do so has been in the millions of dollars.
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    Fake Swatting Is Now A Thing

    People do worse "Pranks" than this on Youtube. It's not like this was a home invasion and viewers called the actual police and wasted their time. Give the guy a break.
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    Amazon Selling Ad Space On Shipping Boxes

    Advertising on shipping boxes seems like a huge untapped market as people move away from traditional media. Commercials aren't what they used to be.
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    Google Glass Officially Banned In Movie Theaters

    If it was up to the MPAA, they wouldn't want to provide audio access for the hearing impaired because pirates could can (and do) use it to get higher quality audio for their bootlegs. There will eventually be blind people, who will see through the use of a video camera.
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    New HDMI Stick is First Chromecast Competitor Based on Firefox

    You can pre-order a matchstick from their stickstarter for $18 and get it in 5+ months or get a Chromecast now for $35.
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    4SeTV Lets You Watch Four Live TV Channels at Once

    Their kickstarter isn't going to succeed, but it's a little suspicious half their current funds are from four people willing to pay $2,000 to have dinner with them.
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    Gaming Kickstarter By Pledging To Each Other?

    For small amounts of money, it doesn't matter. For large amounts of money, that means they potentially didn't meet their fundraising goal which is an issue.
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    eBay Shill Bidders Selling Their Services

    Ebay also has a "Second Chance Offer" where another buyer can purchase the item for their bid amount.
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    A Simple Guide to the Aereo Supreme Court Case

    Aereo costs $8, but the carriage fees the broadcast networks are charging cable companies is going to be something close to that with the expectation that the cost will continue to rise. If Aereo wins, broadcasters are going to lose out on a lot of money they are currently getting from the cable...
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