Wow, so I'm an outlaw for taking photos in the LA subway? It looks so nice though...it's a shame that you can't legally take pictures of all the nice artwork. I like this outlaw business though, I'll have to do it more often. Watch this tag for more:
http://flickr.com/photos/mullingitover/tags/subway

Heh.

I'm totally ok with making the laws of the state private IP, but that means the state loses the argument that ignorance of the law is no excuse.

They should just eliminate the human factor altogether and make an app that robo-calls politicans. That would be beautiful.

There might be some merit to the post, but it lost all credibility when it tried to tell me that fructose is 'laboratory-produced.' Might qualify as actionable libel if Pinkberry is using regular old fruit fructose and the NYT article hurts their sales.

What's the big deal? Just cross your fingers when you take the oath, and it's void. That's the classic oath loophole.

1. Get a job working for Customs.
2. Bring a 1TB external drive to work.
3. Demand to search laptops, copy valuable intellectual property from business travelers' laptops, take home, sell to competitors or China.
4. Profit!

Seriously, if you have company IP on your laptop you pretty much have no choice but to refuse the search without a supoena. Submitting sensitive/valuable data to underpaid government employees is asking to have it stolen.

They *think* they're going to knock it down. He hid a few canons under hay bales in the turrets.

I heard there were also plans to make it completely simulated, so you just jack in and experience the whole thing straight to your cortex. I heard they were planning the same thing for the Hall of Presidents! They must be stopped.

This HD/Blu-Ray business is a sucker's game.

Seriously, no one in their right mind is going to drop a penny for this stuff until a hybrid player is out. Of course by then, media-free will be more and more prevalent...

I fully support the torches-and-pitchforks approach to the RIAA, but isn't this quote being taken out of context?

I was under the impression that what happened was the copies were made, legally, but they became illegal when they were shared online? Can you guys be a bit more thorough with the background research before you start forming a lynch mob?

Yeah, the bullshit with liquids is exactly that: bullshit. The Israelis don't give a flying crap about your bottled water and other liquids, and they know something about this stuff.

The question we should all be asking: what is the TSA's success rate for detecting dangerous objects when they get audited? Notice you never see that figure anywhere. It's because it's atrociously bad. They really are worthless.

How exactly do we know that it's not doing any permanent damage? The drowning cuts off oxygen to the brain, which will inevitably cause cell death. Are the people who waterboard doing medical studies? Of course not, because it would be immoral and unethical to do a study like that. That's because it's unethical and immoral to drown someone.

Waterboarding was torture when we prosecuted Japanese commanders for it after WWII, and it's torture now. Those who authorized it need to go to prison if the US is going to have even an illusion of moral authority.

Of course it's a cross. There are no accidents in high-stakes advertising like this.

Why are Christians so obsessed with this horrible torture device anyway? Do they really think Jesus is going to be happy seeing all these crosses if he comes back?

Culture of life, my ass.

You could've cited the next sentence, too.

"The Post said Cruz denied making comments of a "sexual nature" and noted that she was cleared of wrongdoing by an internal SIGIR investigation."

Guantanamo makes me want to fly a flag around upside down for a while, then burn it. It's fucking shameful and embarassing, like if your football team was Justice and you had to watch your team lose 58-0 to the opposing team, Tyranny.

Poor guy...I have it too.

Oh well. At least I don't have early-onset alzheimers.

Oh but by the way, the Netflix RSS feed probably violates this law. It's (I believe) on by default, and if you know someone's RSS feed URI you can totally stalk their movie-watching preferences. They're public, just secure through obscurity.

I can't believe the amount of drama about Beacon. Tres yawn.

However, this post motivated me to add the Netflix app to my facebook account! Sweet!

How do you know it's spelling 'ZEN'?

It could be spelling "NIIIZ"

Look, if you think the WoD is about making it hard to get drugs, of course it's a failure. We had a perfect example of how prohibition would fail with alcohol, and only the insane do the same thing twice and expect different results.

But if you think of it as a way of locking up minorities, it's a screaming success. Note that the drug war started at the twilight of the civil rights era, when politicians could no longer blatantly spout racism. Instead they use code words about being 'tough on crime.' Note that minorities are disproportionately represented in drug arrests.

We should also note that Rolling Stone are a bunch of hypocrites who for a time were enthusiastically supporting the drug war and they even had compulsory drug testing of their employees. Don't let them off the hook. They need to do an article like this every month for penance until sanity is restored to our country's drug laws.

eBook readers like this are hilarious to me.

It's $400.

You know what else costs $400?

* A full-blown laptop with respectable specs (Dell just dropped the price on their entry-level Vostro).

* An ultraportable Asus EEE

* An iPhone

If this had shown up five years ago for half the price it would've been significant. Now with portable computer prices as they are, it's an expensive toy.

The crazy thing to me is that this isn't the end of ebook readers! There will be more attempts with more complicated schemes. Meanwhile laptops and ultraportables will get cheaper, lighter, more powerful, and have better battery life. Heck, the iPhone is really just the best-selling tablet pc ever, and it also makes phone calls. The iPhone, Vostro, and EEE will all allow you to read Project Guttenberg and Wikipedia until your eyes fall out of their sockets. Oh, and you can access the full-blown internet, watch movies, listen to music, chat with your friends, play doom, and run a web server. Oh, and you can read any blog you want for free.

Hilarious.

I bet it was a bike from Vanilla Bikes. Those things are so sexy, it should be illegal.

Yeah, great, spare the rodents.

You'll remember your good deeds when you're asking yourself, "Gee, why do I have these painfully swollen buboes?"

The move to retroactively authorize the wiretaps is an admission that telecoms and the NSA are criminals.

This is why I don't vote. There aren't any people running for office who actually stand for anything worth voting for anymore.

Hmm...

Acacia gets a new VP who's ex-MS in July of 07. His job at MS? General Manager, Intellectual Property Licensing. In October of 07 an Acacia subsidiary goes after Linux.

I'm shocked, really. Totally shocked. I'm sure it's just coincidence, as Microsoft is an honest, reputable player in this space.

Microsoft: if you can't innovate, litigate.

Hear that sound?

It's the sound of a thousand record company parasites shitting their pants.

Viva Radiohead.

Uh, what's the big deal? The CIA has been dealing coke for years. Decades. How is this news?

...Oh, you guys thought the US government wasn't intractably corrupt? How cute. Next tell me about how invading Iraq was for freedom.

Trains will never work in the US as anything more than a novelty. No one is willing to extend their travel time by a factor of ten to reap the comfort reward that trains offer. Meanwhile, no one is willing to fund the engineering necessary to drag trains in the US into even the late 20th century. Hate to say it, because train trips are a beautiful ride.

Meanwhile, yeah, the TSA inspection you get at the airport is nothing more than a meaningless ritual. I can't find the numbers at the moment (and really these should be posted with any story even tangentally related to the TSA), but if memory serves they were in the jaw-droppingly pathetic category.

The feds' treatment of California (and the rest of the states which are participating in the experiment) wrt medical marijuana is astonishingly anti-democratic. California would be wealthier and more free if we just seceeded from the union; we pay more to into the federal kitty than we get out. Ironically, the small government-loving red states are lined up like piglets at the federal teat.

You know you've made a poor choice in life when you find yourself wearing pants with built-in tourniquets.

I think I know the problem. This is a different Southwest Airlines, based in southwest Afghanistan.

You know who else hates shorts? That's right: fundamentalist Islam.

It's about freaking time. Anyone who honestly believes that terrorists are a bigger threat to our freedom than an ignorant electorate or power-hungry public officials is out of their mind.