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This would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic…
Boing Boing: Princeton researchers show how to steal an election with Diebold machines
If you have any doubts about this being possible just go and watch the video . They claim it takes about a minute to infect a machine.
So how many stolen elections are due to Dieblod? Can we sue them for the last 6 years of crooks and liers in office and massive loss of human life that this has caused? Sounds like a good class action suit to me…
Boing Boing: British hand-baggage restrictions to be loosened
Idiots…
Boing Boing: Cingular bans the word “Engadget” from its message boards
So if you (Cingular) don’t like what some site says about you, just ban them or their name (Engadget). That will work right? May help keep the word from apearing on your site but then the web picks up on your (Cingular’s) stupidity and then everyone knows what kind of idiot you (Cingular) are/is…
journal of a writing man
Wednesday August 30, 2006
Forgive me, Starbucks, for I have sinned
John Bailey is always a good read. On his off days it’s still a pleasant break just to see a bit inside a life not my own in a country I have never been to. On his good days he’s wonderful. This post is one of the good ones. He confronts Starbucks personal concerning their ultra stupid rule about not allowing customers to use cameras within their establishment. Damn good advertising for the other folks Starbucks! Me hat’s off to ya John.
Boing Boing: EMI wants millions and your IP address in revenge for Beachles
A damn good reason to boycott EMI! Asshats!
Wonder if anyone has boycottemi.com yet? Yep, looks like EMI owns it. They also own boycott-emi.com, boycottemi.org, boycott-emi.org but boycott-emi.net and boycottemi.net are both open should someone want to go at them.
The comment spammers are now using stuff like:
Are you there?…
All the darkness in the world cannot put out the smallest candle. The darker it is, more brightly shines the candle. instead of complaining about the dark search for your candle. Believe me; It exists…
To try to get comments by the spam cops but all of the comments that are made here are either caught by Akismet (which is a WordPress plugin that uses a central database to track and catch spam, cool idea and well apprecated here for sure) or by me as I have to approve all of the comments whether made by friend or foe before they see the light of the cpu on your end. Wish they would all quit with this crap but somehow someone is making money off of this.
Boing Boing: Is it legal to look at the Web in Canada?
Total stupidity. Teh whole freaking world is going DRM nuts. Now by using DRM someone (?) is either going to charge all the Canadian schools a fee to use the internet or will kindly LET the poor little kiddies use it under a blanket educational license. Soon ALL the data are gonna be belonging to someone and everyone will have to pay to see anything and have to use special equipment or software to do so because someone may look at WORDS without paying.
BBC NEWS | England | West Midlands | Blind man was ‘dangerous driver’
Are they in compentition for the understated headline of the year? No eyes. The driver had that is…
TheDenverChannel.com – News – Men Get Six Months In Jail For Stealing Food From Garbage Can
Now we got garbage Nazi’s! Totally insane. 6 months in jail for taking food out of a dumpster. Wonder what they will be charged per day for their room and board?
Blair: Tackle troublemakers before birth – Europe – MSNBC.com
Has Blair gone completely nuts? I thought that there was some kind of check and balance in place to keep nutbags like this under control. Guess he’s either trying to out do or take the heat off of Bush. 1984 again and again…
MacSlash | Wal-Mart Threatening Studios Over iTunes
And once again greed (WalMart) is working to stop (even DRM restricted) freedom of choice. Asshats!
CrunchNotes » Apple Sends a NastyGram
Another reason to move to linux or unix. Idiots…
Update:Â I seem to be getting a number of hits from CrunchNotes from this link, so will expand on my short and reply above.
I have used (off and on) Macs since ’87 or so and Apples before that. Cat (my SO) and I currently own and use two iBook G4s, but after having Apple increase the level of DRM to a most unacceptable point, quit updating the OSs. They are both still at 10.3.9 and I have no plans to ever update the MacOS. I am waiting for a linux distro that works with the Apple wifi cards at a reasonable distance from the hub. At that point I will wipe the DRM infested MacOS’s off the hd’s and install Linux as the only OS on the machines.
This stupid email to CrunchNotes by Apples lawyers is just one more instance that the company that I used to love is now run by the legal/accounting departments instead of the geeks that used to work and thrive there. So chalk another defection from the Happy Mac Owners club to DRM and idiot lawyers.
And by the way, I noted, in some of the comments on CrunchNotes, that this SAME video the lawyer is bitching about is available on the Apple site, so I’m wondering if the situation at Apple legal is so bad that they have no idea what is going on in the company. As I said above – Idiots!
Slashdot | HP Launches Ink Patent Violation Manhunt
A very good reason to NOT buy HP products. I have in the past but plan to go elsewhere in the future. This kind of corprate behavior has got to be stopped!
Guitar instruction sites shut down by music industry | The Register
More on tightening control on any kind of information. Tis somewhat like the asshat that got the copyright to the song “Happy Birthday”. Now nobody can sing or play it without paying through the nose. Soon nobody will be able to type or speak without paying for each word uttered.
Personally I want to copyright the words “a, an, and, as, is, was, the, and idiot”. I figure with an income of 1 to 2 cents for each utterence or typing of the above I can have a rather large income in just a few days.
If that doesn’t make sense, well this crap the NMPA and MPA is doing ain’t exactly right either. They “say” they give a bit of each royalty payment to the song writers. I bet they do, just like the RIAA and MPAA give a bit of the royaltys to the artists and writers/actors. Sure they don’t. They use it to keep themselves in these do nothing jobs at redictulous salarys. And lets not forget the amount they pay the lawyers to issue the takedown notices… 🙁
Chef upset after he’s busted for foie gras
So who is the idiot that got upset and called this in? Does he/she/it get a gold star or what? Does anyone know just WHY Chicago (with so many other problems to deal with) outlawed serving Fole gras in the first place? And just who gives a damn?
More questions (but no answers) later. That is all…
Techdirt: New York Times Tells Brits They Can’t Read Article On UK Terror Case
Old tech meet new tech. The folks that are interested in reading this that live in the UK need to use a redirect service and then tell the NYT to kiss ass.
CNN.com – Oops: Impostor scams Louisiana officials – Aug 28, 2006
The only “sick” thing in this article is that HUD and the US government is forcing folks out of homes that are livable because they are poor.
Go YES MEN!
Link from http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/28/yes_men_prank_the_ma.html
Boing Boing: Dept of Homeland Security using trademark to silence critics
Glad to see the Dept of Homeland Stupidity is doing their job and keeping us safe from green checkboxes… Idiots!
WorldNetDaily: eBay prohibits textbooks for homeschool teachers
eBay, you just got to hate them when they pull crap like this.
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