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LifestreamThe Pirate Bay Bittorrent tracker servers have been seized. The Pirate Bay hosting company (PRQ) was stormed around noon today local time. And that is pretty much all we know so far. Go read the speculation over at Slashdot but for the record it does not seem to be a hoax despite the uncanny timing. […]
Archive for May, 2006
The European Court of Justice has ruled (C-317/04 / C-318/04) on the matter of passenger data transfer between the EU and the US. The Passenger Name Records (PNR) transfer agreement was not “founded on an appropriate legal basis” (Out-Law | EU Observer). A good move and another important win for the Parliament.
Outline:
In Case C-317/04 Parliament […]
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Home science experimentation — model rockets, chemistry sets and playing with explosives — are a gateway drug to serious nerddom, having inspired the likes of Internet co-inventor Vint Cerf and Intel founder Gordon Moore. But the hobby is under assault from government agencies that are terrified of terrorists, from anti-fireworks campaigns, and from the […]
Surprised? And they just plain ignore local laws and guidelines as the Guardian reports. One could argue this is the same basic policy that Apple has always adhered to since the main gripe with their products has always been build quality first and foremost. So Apple basically postulates that their ridiculously expensive and featureless iPods […]
Some paranoid tidbit from last week. Lenovo PCs deemed security risk. Priceless.
Earlier this year, the US State Department ordered 16,000 new PC’s from Lenovo. For those that don’t know, Lenovo is a Chinese PC manufacturer who used to make Thinkpad’s and other kit for IBM. When IBM decided to sell off it’s PC manufacturing and […]
British rapper M.I.A. (wiki) aka Maya Arulpragasam has reportedly been barred from entering the U.S. No doubt because of her politically charged lyrics and her revolutionary underpinnings.
But seriously, some threat she must be. And some Empire, quivering at the sight and sound of a fairly unknown musician. One could hardly ask for better marketing than […]
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and their masters at Exxon have launched a multipronged ad attack on common sense. Stabbing wildly at politicians and established science. To say that the result is Orwellian would be accurate but at the same time an insult to Orwellian subtlety. The tag line says it all: “CO2: they call […]
As we all know, Americans have the fewest vacation days per person and year of all industrialized nations. But a new study indicates that U.S. employees have been wound up and intimidated to such a degree that they wont even use up their measly 14 days average. Freedom, use it or lose it.
CNN - A […]
Wired has released Mark Klein’s statement in its entirety just as a U.S. federal judge gags the EFF. Sploid sums it up.
“Wired” says the judge’s gag order regarding the documents was very specific, barring only the EFF and its employees from releasing the information. Their editors also dispute AT&T’s claim that the information was proprietary […]
Certainly part of the reason why America is falling behind and seems to exist in a parallel universe, especially when it comes to assessing its own history.
MSNBC - American textbooks are both grotesquely bloated (so much so that some state legislatures are considering mandating lighter books to save students from back injuries) and light as […]
