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Anil : YouTube and the Million Mixer March - Imagine if half a million people marched on Washington, collectively broke federal law, did it in plain sight of the world's leaders and traditional media, and yet we all barely noticed? What if political leaders didn't even see it as a political act, but
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Anil : YouTube and the Million Mixer March - Imagine if half a million people marched on Washington, collectively broke federal law, did it in plain sight of the world's leaders and traditional media, and yet we all barely noticed? What if political leaders didn't even see it as a political act, but
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nelson : Intellectual Ventures - Profile of the world famous tech troll company
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philgyford : BBC News | Magazine | Five consumer laws you really ought to know - A nice summary of some British consumer law.
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nelson : Malignant patent cancer - Nathan Myrvhold's evil patent trolling company starts to get more aggressive
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nelson : Shoplifter shakedown - This is nuts; if someone's busted for shoplifting the store can demand a "fine" in lieu of involving the authorities.
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deusx : Hey Sucker, We've Got Your China Trademark And Your're Goin' Down. - China Law Blog: a blog about Chinese law and the legal issues of doing business in China. - "if you are having product made in China with your name on it, you had better register your trademark in China, even if (especially if?) your China presence is through a third party. "
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deusx : The Center for Michigan » Young Leaders tell Lansing what it takes to make them stay - "One especially eloquent young man from Ann Arbor asked if the lawmakers had any idea how much damage they were doing by zeroing out the tiny arts budget. An especially dense state senator didn't seem to understand what he was talking about. The
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deusx : 'Sexting' Hysteria Falsely Brands Educator as Child Pornographer | Threat Level from Wired.com - There should be an equal and opposite reaction to penalize "The System" when it gets it this wrong - try to compensate this man. "Even in this environment of prosecutorial excess, Oei's case stands out as likely the first to entangle
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deusx : DNA Lounge: he State of California considers @dnalounge "a disorderly house injurious to the public welfare and morals" - "Here's what I've been dealing with for the last few months. The short version: The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control is trying to put DNA Lounge permanently out of business. They are accusing us of "running a disor
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deusx : Homeland Security: Rethinking What Works : NPR - "James Carafano, a homeland security expert at The Heritage Foundation, says the government's multi-billion dollar investment in what's often referred to as "guns, guards and gates" is the wrong way to go — that it's futile
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wearehugh : Learning to Fear the Semantic Web (Ftrain.com) - "Know what else is great? Now, finally, ten years on, I know that the Semantic Web technology is a real, viable technology, because I'm afraid I'll get sued for using it."
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deusx : Palin vindicated?: ADN Editorial | adn.com - "She claims the report "vindicates" her. She said that the investigation found "no unlawful or unethical activity on my part." Her response is either astoundingly ignorant or downright Orwellian. Page 8, Finding Number One of th
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Cops Twitter - Mountain View already has Google and free Wi-Fi. So The Phantom wasn't all that surprised when the Mountain View Police Department announced last week it had joined Twitter, a social-networking and micro-blogging Web site.
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18 month ago
nelson : Myhrvold’s IP racket - A company that produces nothing but patent lawsuits and the ability to buy your way out of them
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19 month ago
deusx : Joe Biden says Barack Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush administration if elected | World news | guardian.co.uk - "Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said yesterday that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November. Biden's comments, first reported by ABC news, at
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19 month ago
deusx : Judge says UC can deny religious course credit - "A federal judge says the University of California can deny course credit to applicants from Christian high schools whose textbooks declare the Bible infallible and reject evolution. ... Rejecting claims of religious discrimination and stifling of fr
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20 month ago
wearehugh : Too Weird for The Wire - Kevin Carey
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22 month ago
wearehugh : Schneier on Security: Our Data, Ourselves
Linkorama : Schneier on Security: Our Data, Ourselves - We need a comprehensive data privacy law...Or we can leave it to the market...But the long-term effects of this on society are toxic; we give up control of ourselves.
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23 month ago
Linkorama : If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo - Nice to have lawyers to blog these things for you. Quite interesting analysis.
Andy Baio : Marc Andreessen's guide to the Microsoft-Yahoo hostile takeover - the best explanation I've seen [via]
gleuschk : blog.pmarca.com: If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo - very clear explanation
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adamrg : BBC NEWS | UK | Tourists warned of UAE drug laws
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26 month ago
deusx : H.R. 393: Universal National Service Act of 2007 (GovTrack.us) - "To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service..." Repeatedly reintroduced apparently to prove a point.
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28 month ago
Linkorama : Resolution:License update - Wikimedia Foundation - Whereas the Board seeks to respond responsibly to longstanding community concerns about issues of compatibility between the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license, as well as to continue longstanding traditions of strong
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28 month ago
deusx : Vintage Whiskey May Be Poured Out - News Story - WSMV Nashville - "Here's a sobering thought: Hundreds of bottles of Jack Daniel's whiskey, some of it almost 100 years old, may be unceremoniously poured down a drain because authorities suspect it was being sold by someone without a license."
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29 month ago
Linkorama : Are Facebook’s Social Ads Illegal? - One who appropriates to his own use or benefit the name or likeness of another is subject to liability to the other for an invasion of his privacy.
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