December 29, 2007 – 10:37 pm
Engadget is reporting on an Arizona man being sued by the RIAA.
Ira Schwartz, the industry’s lawyer in the case, is arguing that MP3 files created on his computer from legally purchased CDs are indeed “unauthorized copies”
which means the industry now wants you to buy the song 3 times - once on CD, once on [...]
December 21, 2007 – 1:37 pm
The Inquirer reports on a woman getting tasered at Best Buy. I have not seen the video or know the details and so don’t have any thoughts about the incident. That said, this comment was worth posting:
Apparently you can now be tasered in America for talking loudly and waving your arms. If the same approach [...]
November 15, 2007 – 1:34 am
A P-38 Lightning - der Gabelschwanz-Teufel feared by the Luftwaffe during WWII - has been uncovered on a beach in Wales. “Unusual conditions” that caused sand covering the aircraft to shift this summer revealed the Forked-Tailed Devil. I haven’t read anything about the condition or restorability of the plane.
November 14, 2007 – 1:21 am
From CNN:
(CNN) — Internet giant Yahoo has settled a lawsuit brought by the families of a Chinese dissident and a journalist, who claim they were jailed after the company cooperated with Chinese authorities, according to court documents.
However, Rep. Tom Lantos, a California Democrat, who serves as chairman of the House committee and has led the [...]
October 15, 2007 – 2:43 pm
Heads up from an article over on Arstechnica: Opt-out now, or VZW will share your Customer Proprietary Network Information.
Verizon Wireless has been contacting its customers via snail mail to inform them of their intent to share CPNI data with its “affiliates, agents and parent companies (including Vodafone) and their subsidiaries.” The company says that customers [...]
September 9, 2007 – 12:15 am
We seek in others that which we wish to achieve ourselves; we find fault in others that which we find lacking of our selves.
August 26, 2007 – 5:57 pm
I watched “Inside Hurricane Katrina” on National Geographic HD this afternoon. I found it to be an excellently done documentary, cutting through the rhetoric that still encompasses one of the worst disasters to befell the USA. The HD coverage is amazing.
August 17, 2007 – 8:13 pm
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The Federal Reserve, reacting to concerns about the subprime lending crisis that’s rocked financial markets in recent weeks, Friday cut its so-called discount rate half a percentage point, to 5.75 percent.
Is this the start of a snowballing dismissal of the ramifications of bad decisions?
When are we going to start making companies [...]
I’ve said it a lot this last week - the only thing worse than an iPhone zealot is a zealous iPhone hater.
Bob Sullivan over on MSNBC claims to be an expert on “consumer fraud”. You’d think that someone who is a “winner of multiple journalism awards” would get his facts straight before writing an article. [...]
Dated article now, but good reading over on SF Gate. After the tragedy at Virginia Tech, the opportunists that came to preach against violent video games were welcomed with open arms on talk shows. The truth is that the shooter never played video games.
Perhaps more significantly, at least one TV host drew the line with [...]
