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By depatty, April 29, 2008 9:45 am

Shelby County, TN Sheriff: watch out for photographers and radical greens, they might be terrorists – Boing Boing

The insanity spreads.

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By Dave, April 29, 2008 9:41 am

Shelby County, TN Sheriff: watch out for photographers and radical greens, they might be terrorists – Boing Boing

The insanity spreads.

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By Dave, April 22, 2008 1:25 pm

Disneyland bans pictures in its parking lots – Boing Boing
No taking photos in the s33kr1t Disneyland parking lots! I mean, sure, they’re full of CCTVs taking pictures of you, but just because you’re paying $80 for the day, plus $10 to park, why should you feel free to steal the Mouse’s precious, precious parking-lot photons? After all, those photos could be used by Al Quaeda to coordinate a strike on the Mouse House!

And strike two. 👿 Another security guard on another continent yet has the same misguided belief that he works for the SS and what he says is law. Piss on him and Mickey! 👿

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By Dave, April 22, 2008 1:15 pm

Middlesbrough cops, goons and clerks grab and detain photographer for shooting on a public street – Boing Boing
Moments later as i walked away this goon jumped in front of me and demanded to know what i was doing. i explained that i was taking photos and it was my legal right to do so, he tried to stop me by shoulder charging me, my friend started taking photos of this, he then tried to detain us both. I refused to stand still so he grabbed my jacket and said i was breaking the law. Quickly a woman and a guy wearing BARGAIN MADNESS shirts joined in the melee and forcibly grabbed my friend and held him against his will. We were both informed that street photography was illegal in the town.

This is just plain stupid! Seems like every time I read the news lately some arsehat is accosting a law abiding citizen because he or she is taking a picture. Idiots! 👿

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By Dave, April 17, 2008 8:18 am

A new reason to hate Comcast (Scripting News)

Intimidation, the better business model, NOT. In the last few years it seems that this type of corporate behavior is becoming the standard. Could it have something to do with the way the government has gone from being “by the people, of the people, for the people”, (or however that goes) to “we is teh government and we will do whatever we wants to”. Don’t know, just a thought that flitted across the minds eye. What I do know is that I vote with my money and a business that gave me the attitude that Comcast has given Dave on this wouldn’t get another cent out of me. Here he is paying $180.00 a month to have them as a backup, tries them out as his main connection as he hears good things about them and they talk to him really bad for using their bandwidth. Not a good way of doing business in my book. Give them hell, Dave!

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By Dave, April 12, 2008 1:21 pm

Slashdot | Robot Rebellion Quelled in Iraq

And who didn’t expect this to happen? Too much, too soon, too little independent testing…

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By Dave, April 10, 2008 9:10 pm

Slashdot | Mediasentry Violates Cease & Desist Order

Opps! Guess the RIAA and it’s thugs doesn’t have to worry about little things like abiding by the law. Till they get caught (again) with their pants down. Arsehats!

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By Dave, April 9, 2008 9:49 am

Universal Music: it’s illegal to throw away the promo CD we sent you without your permission – Boing Boing
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Fred von Lohmann sez, “In a brief filed in federal court yesterday, Universal Music Group (UMG) states that, when it comes to the millions of promotional CDs (‘promo CDs’) that it has sent out to music reviewers, radio stations, DJs, and other music industry insiders, throwing them away is ‘an unauthorized distribution’ that violates copyright law. Yes, you read that right — if you’ve ever received a promo CD from UMG, and you don’t still have it, UMG thinks you’re a pirate.”

Well I’ve read the Boing Boing piece, The EFF piece and the 24 page “brief” and it looks to me like UMG has been WAY out of line with this. They have violated the DCMA numerous times using takedown notices filed through the RIAA to EBay and caused this poor guy’s account to be frozen and his auctions removed just because he DARED to offer for resale promotional CD’s that he had purchased. I hope the judge throws the book at those arsehats! 👿

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By Dave, April 8, 2008 2:27 pm

Ill. Rep. Monique Davis: it’s dangerous for children to know atheists exist, orders atheist to stop testifying – Boing Boing
Ill. Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) faced off against Rob Sherman of Buffalo Grove, who objected to the state of Illinois giving $1 million to the Pilgrim Baptist Church, excoriating him for not believing in God and for having the temerity to say that the Church and State should be separate. She told him that she believed it was dangerous for children to know that atheism exists. She ordered him to stop testifying and insisted that in the Land of Lincoln, “people believe in God!”

This is one psychotic B!#(H and has no place in a government office! I too feel that the government of any state has no place giving moneys to a church and that they should be separate entities. I suspect that her outburst will cost her her job and if it doesn’t, it should. 👿

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By Dave, April 7, 2008 11:25 am

U.S. Health Agency Forbids Sensitive Data On Apple MacBooks — Security — InformationWeek
In the wake of a widely publicized security breach that left thousands of patient records exposed, the federal government’s National Institutes of Health is forbidding all employees who use Apple’s MacBook laptops from handling sensitive data as of Friday, InformationWeek has learned.

Employees at the health agency who store medical records and other personal information on laptops must use systems that run either on Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s Windows operating system or Linux, according to an agency memo.

This is beyond words. Go, read the article, especially the comments. Typical top management CYA BS.

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By Dave, April 7, 2008 11:13 am

Broadband Network Management – CUSystems
New traffic shaping can disrupt a Comcast Internet connection

Recently, it has been observed that Comcast is disrupting TCP connections using forged TCP reset (RST) packets [1]. These reset packets were originally targeted at TCP connections associated with the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol. However, Comcast has stated that they are transitioning to a more “protocol neutral” traffic shaping approach [2]. We have recently observed this shift in policy, and have collected network traffic traces to demonstrate the behavior of their traffic shaping. In particular, we are able (during peak usage times) to synthetically generate a relatively large number of TCP reset packets aimed at any new TCP connection regardless of the application-level protocol. Surprisingly, this traffic shaping even disrupts normal web browsing and e-mail applications.

Well that just makes me want to go right out and get me a Comcast Internet connection, NOT! 👿

I’ve noticed several of the sites I check regularly have been having problems with dropped connections in the past few days. Guess either they are on Comcast or the connection is being routed through the Comcast net. Either way it’s a REAL pain in the arse and I’d thing that making folks reload time after time to finally get a connection would create MORE traffic than just letting it all through the first time. ArseHats! 👿

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 4:33 pm

US Judiciary opts to spend millions on accessing its own records, which are now available on the Web for free – Boing Boing

Gotta wonder if it was just one person that made the decision…

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 10:11 am

Navajo Nation to Lose Internet Signal

I would post something about the above link but the information contained in it will go away in 15 days because it is an Associated Press feed and the copyright statement that they use on every one of their stories that I have copied and pasted below says I can’t.

© 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

You’d think that by now they would see it would benefit them to use a less restrictive license so folks would point to and talk about their stories but I guess when the company is run by the bean counters the bottom line is everything.

Anyway to get to the point of this too long gripe, because of this I don’t and won’t post any links to any story by the AP.

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By Dave, March 31, 2008 8:58 am

Global Nerdy | Creative Labs’ Forums Filling With “Dear John” Messages

😀 😀 😀 That’s what they get for telling their customers to piss off and cough up more money to get what they paid for when they bought their products.

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By Dave, March 30, 2008 4:12 pm

Global Nerdy | Creative Labs: Where No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

A MicroShaft Vista downgrade that I had read about before as well as a real good reason to NOT buy any Creative Labs products. 👿

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By Dave, February 5, 2008 1:20 pm

SMS opens public toilets in Finland – Boing Boing

Guess if you don’t have a cell phone you best learn to hold it. 😯 THE most stupid use of tech I have seen lately. 👿

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By Dave, January 25, 2008 11:35 pm

Slashdot | Smartphones Patented — Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute Later

And to think that the system that was supposed to support and encourage innovation has come to this. Nothing but time and money wasting BS that drives the price of everything up even more. 👿

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By Dave, January 22, 2008 10:53 am

Challenge: figure out Amazon’s crazy-ass “proprietary” MP3 tagging system – Boing Boing

Instead of trying to figure it out, we need to not buy their product until they change their ways. Money talks, both in sales due to a smart merchant and in lost sales due to merchant stupidity. Sounds like Amazon is in the latter category yet once again. 👿

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By Dave, January 14, 2008 11:27 am

Ford: Car owners are pirates if they distribute pictures of their own cars – Boing Boing

Just gotta love the corporate doublethink that some of these big companies practice. Another Monday morning display of major stupidity.

Come to think of it, I have a lot of Mr. Fords products rusting away in the field. I need to take pix, showing just how well their product ages (or doesn’t) and see if they will come after me for publishing them here on the blog. 😉

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By Dave, January 14, 2008 11:19 am

Filmmakers use DMCA to go after negative review – Boing Boing

Can’t make a decent movie? No, problem, just sue the critic… 👿

Now a LOT more folks know just how bad the movie is, and from the responses in comments there are a lot that will never go to see it because of this stupidity. Idiots…