6 month ago
wearehugh : AOL “opens” AIM Protocol | isomerica.net - for some definition of "open" that means "closed"
Rod Begbie : AOL "opens" AIM Protocol - That "open" AIM thing announced earlier? Looks to be more of a club to try and force clients like Gaim and Adium to include AOL advertising. Fuckers. [via] #
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12 month ago
plasticbag : Absurd news story of the day: A man gets arrested for using someone else's unsecured wifi network without their explicit permission. WTF!? - This is insane. Absolutely insane. "This arrest should act as a warning to anyone who thinks it is acceptable to illegally use other people's broadband connections." Ridiculous.
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14 month ago
Rod Begbie : Fake bomb eludes airport test -- Times Union - Albany NY - Hooray for the TSA and their water-divining machinery. [via] #
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16 month ago
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Scotland | Review under way on voting chaos - Who would have thought that having three different voting systems (First past the post, regional list, and STV) on one ballot paper would cause confusion? Gah! #
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17 month ago
Rod Begbie : Time stands still for Hempfield teen in lockup - Tribune-Review - Kid phones a school hotline an hour before someone phones in a bomb threat. Unfortunately, the school hadn't adjusted for the new DST switch, so he got hauled into juvenile detention for twelve days. "County juvenile detention officials wanted to keep W [via] #
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17 month ago
Rod Begbie : Voting device pact at issue - The Boston Globe - Diebold is suing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts because it chose a competing firm's voting machines. "Weisberg said the company is not alleging any improprieties by the secretary of state's office. Instead, it is saying the office acted in good faith [via] #
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18 month ago
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Judge rules against cheap CD site - A British online music store is being banned from purchasing cheap (legal) CDs in Hong Kong and selling them to British people cheaper than the "official" British release. How in the name of sodding fucksticks is this "copyright infringement"?! #
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18 month ago
jimray : Fred Thompson takes aim at global threat Mahatma Gandhi - Oh, and it gets better! The fuckwits at Power Line Blog go so far as to declare Gandhi "the most overrated man of the 20th Century."
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18 month ago
jimray : Things you can do to help save internet radio from the fuckwits at the RIAA - Fuck me, I'm pissed that I get so irrationally pissed about this fucking bullshit. Motherfucking assholes...
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18 month ago
Rod Begbie : NFL Wants To Trademark A Euphemism For Its Trademark - "The league has sought to forbid advertisers from saying things like "Get a new color TV in time for the Super Bowl!", so instead they have to use euphemisms like "The Big Game" instead. [...] But advertisers may have to come up with some new euphemisms n [via] #
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19 month ago
Rod Begbie : Audit: Anti-terror case data flawed - Yahoo! News - "Federal prosecutors counted immigration violations, marriage fraud and drug trafficking among anti-terror cases in the four years after 9/11 even though no evidence linked them to terror activity, a Justice Department audit said Tuesday." [via] #
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19 month ago
Rod Begbie : TC's Ministry of Propaganda: Who Screwed Boston? - Throwies shut down Boston -- I-93 North and big chunks of the MBTA were shut down today due to "suspicious objects that looked like circuit boards, found attached to bridges". Turns out they were promotional throwies for Adult Swim. Somebody at Time War #
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20 month ago
Rod Begbie : Gonzales: "There Is No Express Grant of Habeas Corpus In The Constitution" - Our Attorney General: "The Constitution doesn’t say, 'Every individual in the United States or every citizen is hereby granted or assured the right to habeas.' It doesn’t say that. It simply says the right of habeas corpus shall not be suspe [via] #
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21 month ago
Rod Begbie : Blowing Chunks: Marketing Before Security - Because logging you out of your banking website is clearly less important than trying to sell you another credit card. #
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Rod Begbie : Lessig Blog: Ok, so I’m wrong - BPI publishes advertisement pushing for copyright terms extension. Features 4,000 "signatures" from musicians. Some of which are pushing up the daisies and whose petition-signing skills should be held in awe. [via] #
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21 month ago
Rod Begbie : Health fears lead schools to dismantle wireless networks - Education - Times Online - Good bloody grief. Damn that 2.4Ghz band, and all its illness-causing ways. Hope the schools also removed all cordless telephones and, erm, microwave ovens. Won't somebody think of the children?! [via] #
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22 month ago
Rod Begbie : Ask the pilot | Salon Technology - Patrick Smith's mother causes confusion at the airline security counter: Is it OK to take marinara sauce (which is a liquid) onto a plane if it's frozen (which makes it a solid)? Ah, I feel safer already. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : shell: revealed - Can't drag quicklaunch toolbar to top of desktop - I'm playing with Vista on my laptop, and this "improvement" from Microsoft was pissing me off. Thankfully there is a "solution". One that is a usability nightmare waiting to happen (drag a folder too close to the edge of the screen, and it becomes a too #
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Rod Begbie : Massachusetts elections 2006: Voters report polling places out of ballots - Proof that Massachusetts don't need no stinking electronic voting machines to disenfranchise its citizens. We can disenfranchise them the good ol' fashioned way: with paper. #
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22 month ago
jimray : Neo Culpa: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com - Live by the neocon fuckwits, die by the neocon fuckwits
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jimray : Frist didn’t meet medical license condition - Possibly lied about continuing education requirement. "The Senate's only doctor" may well not be.
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jimray : Scooped by a Source - MediaBistro on how to handle bloggers. Alternate headline: "Stop letting these assholes (Calacanis, Cuban, Jarvis) dictate the terms of the interview. Grow a fucking pair - if they won't submit to a fucking phone interview, tell 'em to go fuck themselves.
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jimray : Can Bush and Science Meet in the Middle? - The whole premise of this is fucking bullshit. Science is already in the middle. Why the fuck is Newsweek printing this political spin from a Bush speechwriter in their fucking health section?
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jimray : Nonconformity Is Skin Deep - David Brooks' latest salvo in the culture wars is now aimed at the tattoo'd. If there's ever been a better reason to get tatted up, I'm not sure what it is.
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26 month ago
jimray : Syndicator Denies Coulter Lifted Material - "Universal Press Syndicate is confident in the ability of Ms. Coulter, an attorney and frequent media target, to know when to make attribution and when not to." Because an attorney would never lie. This is such horseshit, the text was verbatim.
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