Update #1: The world-famous Chris Hunkele has summarized the new rules for us:
Allow owners of used cell phones to break access controls on their phones in order to switch wireless carriers.
Allow people to break technical protections on video games to investigate or correct security flaws.
Allow college professors, film students and documentary filmmakers to break copy-protection [...]
I don’t have anything intelligent to say about this other than trying to spread it’s visibility.
In a 2003 survey, 30% of female veterans reported being raped during their time in the military with 71% reporting being sexually assaulted. A previous 1995 survey showed 90% of female personnel reporting sexual harassment.
News Junkie Post added more details to the issue from [...]
Wow parenting just gets better and better these days! Now, if you make a mistake – or nine of them – Nebraskan law says you can just click “cancel” and call it a day!
I can see it:
Hi honey, how was your day? Fine snookums. I got tired of changing diapers for Billy, Samantha was giving [...]
I’ll never understand why we have to pass tests to get past first grade, get a driver’s license, or get into eharmony.com, but to bring a child (or twenty) into the world? Nothin.
We live in a world of creating stockpiles of band-aids to fix our severed limbs as a society. What ever happened to “an [...]
In an effort to go down in history as the second worst and not the worst president in US history, Bush has signed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) which would make it illegal for health care companies or employers to discriminate against people based on their generic information (e.g. Bob has a gene that [...]
Marc Chung sends in a very interesting tidbit of information covering Arizona bill HCR 2034: “abolish federal government; state sovereignty”.
More specifically the bill covers the situation in which the US government declares martial law then Arizona will join with 34 or more (majority) of states and declare their own independence from the Union… interesting (especially [...]
If you were thinking of killing yourself with a hammer or moving to Sweden over the issue of Net Neutrality and the big ISPs inability to play fair when it came to traffic, don’t do it quite yet… there is some light at the end of the tunnel.
It seems that US lawmakers are taking another [...]
Grant Gochnauer send in this badass piece of news… it looks like Monster Cable company, the world champions of bullshit-priced cabling (that have no real-world performance edge), served Blue Jeans Cable with a cease-and-desist motion targeted at their Tartan line of cables (something having to do with the connectors being “confusingly similar” to what Monster [...]
In a continued effort to continue sucking at everything except selling, Best Buy was slapped with a $54 million lawsuit after a DC woman Raelyn Campbell had her $1100 laptop lost during a routine warranty repair.
Best Buy’s original response to loosing her $1100 machine and all the data on it was “Here’s a $900 gift [...]
It started when the first 3 underwater internet cables were cut by “boat anchors” (even though that had never happened in the histories of the cables before… and now it happened 3x in 3 days) then reports came in about the 4th cable getting taken offline due to “power issues” and now Robert Heron sends [...]
… really? We are doing just fine for 20 years, a mistake here and there… and then woopsie… 3 cables cut in 3 days?
Boat anchors!
… seriously? Entire country economies, security and banking infrastructures rely on these things to stay intact, and you are telling me these fucking things aren’t marked on every maritime map in [...]
The Local reports that 4 leaders from The Pirate Bay site have been indicted on charges of being accessories to breaking copyright law:
Hans Fredrik Neij
Per Svartholm Warg
Peter Kolmisoppi
Carl Lundström
While I certainly understand why the US is pressuring Sweden to go after these guys (now that TPB is the biggest BT site on the web) [...]
Robert Heron sent in news that L.A. has deployed it’s first and second medical marijuana vending machines that work in the following fashion (from article):
Customers bring their prescriptions for approval at the AVMs, housed in enclosed room guarded 24/7.
They are fingerprinted and photographed.
They receive a pre-paid credit carded loaded with their individual profiles.
They choose [...]
The Village Voice is running a story that New York officials are lobbying to remove Geiger counters (and any other kind of air quality or asbestos detector) from the hands of citizens unless authorized to carry them by the police:
And it’s not just devices to detect weaponized anthrax that they want the power to control, [...]
Confused about why Congress would investigate the FCC? No worries… let me explain:
Comcast starts blocking and shaping user traffic quietly and denies it when asked about it.
The block and shaping is independent confirmed by techies and researchers
The Associated Press finally confirms it and publishes their findings
The FCC takes notice, and announces they will investigate Comcast
*MY [...]
You having a good day today? Things are going along pretty well? Got some extra time on your hands and want to get depressed as hell over the political situation in the United States? Sweet, then read on…
Scientists agree the US is “doomed” if a pro-creationist president is elected (e.g. Huckabee or any other right-winger [...]
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