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EA Sports is giving its fans a chance to have their own one-liners included in the upcoming NBA Jam for Wii. Fans can submit their one-liners at NBA Jam's Facebook page. The submission period will ...

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Michael Geist's Blog

Yesterday's post on the government's plans for the copyright bill generated widespread coverage both online and in the mainstream media. There were many notable blog posts from creators (here, here) and other sites (here, here, here, here, here, here). The media picked up on the story:
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Coy Christmas, President of BGRMods, LLC—home of the IntensaFIRE rapid-fire device for the Xbox 360 wireless controller—announced the debut ...

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also in the blog...you can go back and read other very interest material regarding C-61

in the short term, I've launched a new Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook page (distinct from the group) that can be used to keep current and learn more about what can be done as events unfold.


Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore: The iPadLock Minister?

PDF | Print | E-mail Monday April 26, 2010
Since his appointment as Canadian Heritage minister in 2008, James Moore has carefully crafted an image as "Canada's iPod Minister." Young, bilingual, and tech-savvy, Moore has expressed regular support for the benefits of the Internet and is always ready with a quick "tweet" for his many followers. Yet as my op-ed in the Hill Times notes (HT version (sub required), homepage version), according to the scuttlebutt throughout the copyright community, Moore may be less iPod and more iPadlock. As the government readies its much-anticipated copyright package, Moore is said to be pressing for a virtual repeat of Bill C-61, the most anti-consumer copyright proposal in Canadian history.
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Check Disk for Pre-Repair Process
April 24th, 2010 by bushing · 7 Comments

A faithful HackMii reader spent some time with AnyTitle Deleter and tried to clean everything odd off his Wii, and used the HackMii Installer to uninstall the HBC and BootMii/boot2. He then sent his Wii into Nintendo (of America) to try to get them to repair a noisy drive; the warranty had expired, and he just wanted to pay them to repair the drive.

After they received the Wii, they wrote him back and said that because he had unauthorized software installed (something they could not fix themselves — but more on this later), it would cost $200 for them to do any repair. He had them just send him back the Wii, and then reinstalled BootMii/boot2 and dumped the NAND and sent it to us to figure out what he had missed and anything else we could gain from the image.
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WiiMC v1.0.1

WiiMC (Wii Media Centre) is an open source media player for the Nintendo Wii. Features include:

• Ability to play virtually any video or audio format
• DVD playback, with DVD menu support
• Picture viewer
• Music player
• Online media support
• SD, USB 2.0, SMB, HTTP, and FTP support
• Attractive libwiigui-based interface, designed with the Wii in mind

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Google may have been the primary target of a sharp attack by privacy commissioners from 10 nations on Tuesday, but later that same day, the company revealed a new tool that could effectively turn the tables on those and other governments.

Specifically, the company's new Government Requests tool is designed to reveal for all to see when government agencies around the world ask Google to provide them with user data or remove certain content.
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Apr 2010 11:50 UTC

A major setback for those that claim piracy is having an adverse affect on the US economy: the US Government Accountability Office, who was tasked with reviewing the efforts to find out what, if any, impact piracy has on the US economy, has concluded that all of these studies - all of them - are bogus. Better yet - the GAO even goes as far as to say that piracy may have a positive effect on the economy.
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According to Gizmodo, it is. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS.


While Apple may tinker with the final packaging and design of the final phone, it's clear that the features in this lost-and-found next-generation iPhone are drastically new and drastically different from what came before. Here's the detailed list of our findings:
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After many hundreds of hours in front of your modded Wii, suddenly you stop in mid-swing and stare with new eyes at your skillfully-modded Wii. Something seems off. Hmmm, mods all working, your power levels are sky high…hmmm, what could it be? Aha, the plain off-the-shelf mono-colored Wii no longer suits your persona of gaming magnificence. You are in the mood for a case mod. How fortunate for you that there are a number of options to indulge that new desire to have the Wii's appearance reflect your gaming prowess.
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Wiihacks.com is the largest Wii modding and forum community providing tutorials and guides for homebrew and hardmods as well as game reviews and anything related to the Wii.

Become a Fan today !!
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Over the last few days, progress has been (or shared) on untethered jailbreaking for previously tethered models and unjailbreakable models. The iPad jailbreak was also quite successful being jailbroken ...

The recent announcement of Nintendo's newest handheld, the Nintendo 3DS, has set the internet on fire. However, Nintendo hasn't released a single ounce of information about its next system other than the fact that it'll use 3D without the use of special glasses.
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