GeekSpeak for June 07, 2008

Media industry trade groups are using flawed and incomplete tactics to find copyright violators on P2P networks

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Flexplay DVDs play on standard DVD players, but once opened, will play for 48 hours before chemically destroying themselves.

3D imaging technology appears at 10 US airports with plans for more to come. Faces are apparently blurred, but body details down to the sweat on your back are visible in the images. So far not for all travelers, only if you're pulled aside. Anyone want to make some guesses as to who will be pulled aside most often? (Randomly, of course.)

OCZ's new DIY notebook is available.

Sign up to help make history for the browser expected to have 20% of the browser market by next month (July, 2008). With Firefox's new update and Safari's new Javascript engine, the browser wars are definitely heating up again.

FuelEconomy.gov can help you calculate your fuel usage.

With plans available online so you can build your own, researchers at the University of Bath have built a 3-dimensional printer/modeler that can produce components to assemble yet another 3D printer.

MIT researchers have created a new paper like material that wicks up oil and not water.

A nuclear power plant in Georgia was recently forced into an emergency shutdown for 48 hours after a software update was installed on a single computer.

AT&T's new chief technical officer, John Donovan, wants you to know that his company does not, under any circumstances, slow down BitTorrent users or throw other monkey wrenches in the operation of specific applications.

"No. Never have. No interest in it. It's never been our policy," Donovan told Wired.com when asked if AT&T engaged in packet shaping (the process of slowing down or blocking certain applications' data packets to render them less efficient).

In the "20 percent time" that Google employees have to work on projects of personal interest, it turns out that an increasing number are spending time writing open-source projects for their beloved Macs.

Google has long had a fondness for the Mac, with upwards of 6,000 of its 20,000 current employees opting to use the Mac over Windows.

It is in the 20 percent employee development time, however, where this statistic becomes interesting. At Google, development time translates into products. The more Mac-friendly employees, the more Mac-related development. The more Mac-related development, the more Google-sponsored Mac-based open-source code.