If you're expecting a rare post into my private life, either rants on my ex or the company I work for, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you. It's more amusing to me to know that I could post these things, and that the people in question are checking my blog to see if I have. (Yes,
I know you're checking.)
I read quite a few sites daily, you can find them in my
news group of blogs. I mark interesting articles with the intent of blogging about them later, I just never seem to get to the blogging part. So from now on, I'm going to save up a few articles and post them every few days or so. Or at least I intend to try. Today's post will be longer than most as I have quite a few links saved.
First some government, law, and politics. "W" is looking to get the
Patriot Act renewed (just an aside, the Nazi's started with the
Enabling Act to give Hitler more power as the elected chancellor). It really doesn't matter if he gets a law passed though, he
tracks your cell phones without law or a court, and is looking into
your web surfing next. Google
told them to go to Hell at least. (MSN and Yahoo didn't).
Speaking of Google telling people go to Hell, they also
told Bellsouth the same thing. It seems Bellsouth wants to
charge websites a fee for "using their lines" to send data. If you don't pay, they will slow down the speed of your site... that's right, for $50 bucks a month in DSL, Bellsouth will slow down your net connection. Bell, do we have to break you up once a century?
The courts in PA actually said
intelligent design is not science and should be taught in school. Wouldn't it be nice if that was the last word on the matter? Those crazy French want to make
file sharing legal; the mp3 mime would have staged a protest, but they were stuck in a box no one else could see. Free is not something on the RIAA's mind, as they
defend they are not price fixing when they tell apple to
raise iTunes pricing (or else). At the same time,
Jane Siberry says download her music for free, and
just pay what you want. Damn, I really wish I liked her music now.
It might be a good time to review the
legal guide for bloggers, as it is now a
crime to annoy someone in a blog comment. (Keep that in mind should you not like anything I say here, I will press charges!) Baseball wants to
shutdown sites that do not pay them for baseball stats... I so hope this gets to a court room. I would love to see NFL drop that stupid "any accounts or descriptions of the game without the NFL's consent" message. Props to Subway for being the first to
advertise in a game without the developers knowing about it. What I find interesting is this action is not allowed in the EULA, but EULAs are contracts after a sale... would be funny to see ELUAs struck down for a $2.49 sub.
Some cool things; you can
turn your scanner into a 115 Megapixel camera. It will product some pretty interesting photography, something I find as cool as the surreal stuff
I mentioned a while back. The ever cool Mythbusters
released some "Lost" videos that show just how scare water can be. Maybe not as cool as weird, but a man in Russia found out
his brother really had his back.
I hate to end on a sad note, but Ninjas everywhere were dealt a blow by Pirates in the
coolness war. Pirates now have a
$100 Million Dollar porn movie, including a battle scene with 1,000 computer generated skeletons. I could make a boned joke here, but really... I can't get over someone invested $100 Million in one porn movie. An interesting note, they filmed on location with the same ship used in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean and the ship owners claim they didn't know it was a porno.
Here is a quick check list for the boat rental guys. Do they misspell several words in the film synopsis? Yes. Are the actors well known porn stars? Yes. Is the film rep. the co-founder of one of the largest porn studios? Yes. Does the contract say it's not going to be release to theaters and instead on TV channels like Showtime? Yes. If all these are yes, you might have a prono shooting on your boat.
Posted By Mike On Friday, January 20, 2006
Filed under politics links |
Comments (4)
Femi-mommy
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Friday, January 20, 2006
6:00:00 PM
hey - i like the "illegal to annoy bloggers" see - it says you can't harass threaten and stalk others without disclosing your identity - it would be nice in cases like mine where some pyscho knows who i am, is harassing me, stalking me all over cyber space, and letting me know that they know who i am and where i live. and see i asked them who they were (they obviously knew me, i figured i knew them then) but they wouldn't tell me - so how am i to pursue a lawsuit?
oh well, guess i'll just keep moving my blog and lock my doors at night. gee, i feel safe.
Mike
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Friday, January 20, 2006
6:18:00 PM
Stalk, threaten, harass... these were already illegal anonymous or not, and I don't disagree with you at all on any of them.
Annoy however was included, so I cannot annoy you without revealing myself. What some find annoying, others find as free speech (re: Bush and the War). This is dangerous to the protection of free speech, and being anonymous is critical to protecting speech (the courts said so, McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission). I could also see a company getting around whistle blower protection laws with this to silence the information getting out.
I did think of you when I first read over the law, because it makes internet stalking the same as mail or phone stalking - a good thing. But I see a difference between your problem and Tish's; where a one time comment on a HNT photo was out of line. One is a stalker, the other is censorship if you apply this law to both.
Gabriel
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Thursday, January 26, 2006
3:13:00 PM
"intelligent design is not science and should be taught in school."
...
Huh.
Gabriel
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Thursday, January 26, 2006
3:40:00 PM
Holy CRAP. don't click the scanner photography link! you'll bankrupt the photographer!
from the site:
"Unfortunately, this amazing response has caused me a bit of a problem... namely, an extremely expensive hosting bill (90GB over my limit in a few hours, at 1 cent per meg... no fun at all)."
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that nine hundred dollars? For a few *hours* of high bandwidth? lol. whooo... there are times you wish your web host wasn't robust enough to handle a slashdotting. ;) save ya some mo-neh.
