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Grateful Dead shake down NPR over including a song in an online mix

May 13, 2008 10:53am

@license farm - You can still stream soundboard Dead over at archive.org and download crowd tapes.

Patriot Act gag-order on the Internet Archive clobbered by EFF and ACLU

May 7, 2008 3:57pm

Whew. Very proud former IA employee. Go Brewster! Thank you for standing up for all our rights - once again.

Middlesbrough cops, goons and clerks grab and detain photographer for shooting on a public street

April 22, 2008 7:01am

@Adam Stanhope Moo Cards are cute and very well made business cards that usually have information on one side and photos printed on the other. Not sure why you couldn't find it - when you search for "Moo Cards", that company is the first hit.

XKCD comic on Internet arguments

February 20, 2008 4:18am

Thanks Evil Jim.

Cory, you can't put the comic out there without the alt title text included - you lose half the comic! - okay, maybe a quarter....

High-security UK mall breached, photos online!

January 6, 2008 7:04am

Oh my, thank you for the morning giggle. That is awesome!

DHS: "Prior Governent Permission" rules for fliers, invasive dossiers

October 24, 2007 5:56am

According to "practical nomad" - which is where the original research if being done (his first post about this is in 2006), travelers would need permission to travel - both domestically and internationally. This is such a bad idea. For one thing, government bureaucracies never move fast. You need a last minute flight to go to funeral? Or a spontaneous trip? Or a last-minute business meeting? Good luck with that. The national ID is problem, but the bigger problem in my eyes is the needed permission to travel. This is insane and stinks of totalitarianism. I remembering reading the Federal Register when this idea was proposed and my eyes popping out! This couldn't be true - they couldn't honestly be proposing this idea. But, sadly, it is and they are. I just hope congress doesn't cave, yet again and implement this horrible idea.

From his blog post in September 2007, "The Secure Flight proposal would apply to domestic flights the same requirements for government-issued travel credentials and individualized, explicit, prior, per-flight permission to travel ("clearance") as the DHS plans to apply to international flights under its "international Advanced Passenger Information System" (APIS) rules."

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