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  1. Value of Bitcoin "Crashes"

    Bitcoin · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the smells-like-real-currency dept. · 709 comments
    souravzzz writes with an update on the state of Bitcoin. Quoting the Ars Technica article: "Bitcoin, the world's first peer-to-peer digital currency, fell below $3 on Monday. That represents a 90 percent fall since the currency hit its peak in early June." That's still three times its value in April 2011.

  2. Anti-Piracy Lawyers Accuse Blind Man of Downloading Films

    Yro · Piracy · · posted by Soulskill · from the you-wouldn't-download-a-seeing-eye-dog dept. · 302 comments
    souravzzz writes "As the mass-lawsuits against BitTorrent users in the United States drag on, detail on the collateral damage this extortion-like scheme is costing becomes clear. It is likely that thousands of people have been wrongfully accused of sharing copyrighted material, yet they see no other option than to pay up. One of the cases that stands out is that of a California man who's incapable of watching the adult film he is accused of sharing because he is legally blind."

  3. HyperCard, What Could Have Been

    Developers · Aptech2 · · posted by kdawson · from the wild-cards dept. · 159 comments
    bobwrit sends us to Wired for a look back by the author of HyperCard, Bill Atkinson. Quoting: "HyperCard is a programming environment that can create applications as diverse as utilities and games by linking 'cards' arranged into 'stacks.' Commands are executed through a natural-language scripting language called HyperTalk... The software has been phenomenally successful and highly influential. But Atkinson feels that if only he'd realized separate cards and stacks could be linked on different people's machines through the Net — instead of cards and stacks on a particular machine — he would have created the first Internet browser."

  4. NASA's Atlantis Ready For June 8 Launch

    Science · Nasa · · posted by CowboyNeal · from the back-in-action dept. · 52 comments
    lifuchi writes "The guys and girls at NASA are at it again with Atlantis. The newly repaired space shuttle is set launch on June 8. The hail-damaged fuel tank has been repaired and is said to be a bit of an eyesore. Zee News is quoted as saying, 'Instead of being a uniform orange, it has a patchwork of white spots where technicians sprayed, scraped and filled fresh foam into the more than 4200 areas that were damaged during a freak hailstorm in February.'"