Another Counterpuncher pointing out how distant some anti-war voices are from their words; Lance Selfa writes about the Progressive Democrats of America: [T]he majority of liberal candidates the PDA backed in Democratic primaries lost to more conservative Democrats–many of them backed by the party establishment. Many of the winners–especially those, like Illinois candidate Tammy Duckworth, [...]
Boing Boing has the scoop: The Nielsen Buzzmetrics conference on “Consumer Generated Media” (e.g., blogs, Flickr streams, youtubes, Wikipedia, etc) has a blanket prohibition on any reporting or blogging. Now, there’s nothing wrong with an off-the-record conference, I’ve attended and even helped run many of them. But the usual practice is to adopt the Chatham [...]
Following up on a previous post, Rep. Markey has admitted that he made a mistake in calling for Soghoian’s arrest: On Friday I urged the Bush Administration to ‘apprehend’ and shut down whoever had created a new website that enabled persons without a plane ticket to easily fake a boarding pass and use it to [...]
Jeff Taylor writes in Counterpunch: The Bush administration has overreached. Years of incompetence, deceit, and hypocrisy have caught up with it, and the President’s lackeys in Congress are going to pay a price on Election Day. If Democrats take over the House and/or Senate, it will be by default. It will be because Republicans deserve [...]
Since the announcement of Christopher Soghoian’s fake Northwest Airlines boarding pass generator, someone talking with Soghoian via instant message says that Soghoian was visited by the FBI. Wired reports Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) has called for Soghoian’s arrest. ABC News quotes a statement from Markey: The Bush administration must immediately act to investigate, apprehend those [...]
Torrentfreak has the scoop: 23 year old Grant Stanley has been sentenced to five months in prison, followed by five months of home detention, and a $3000 fine for the work he put in the private BitTorrent tracker Elitetorrents. I’m not in favor of this outcome, but now that a standard is set I hope [...]
Make your own boarding passMake your own boarding pass and find out. That site will produce a boarding pass good enough to get anyone past TSA, and thus, into the “secure” gate areas of the airport terminal. Note that this will not be a valid pass, so it will not get you on the airplane. [...]
Help Defective by Design tag DRM-encumbered catalog items so others don’t buy them. Boing Boing says “So far a few dozen Amazon users have tagged over 150 products containing DRM (Blu-ray, HD DVD, FairPlay, and more) as DefectiveByDesign using the e-retailer’s own ‘tagging’ system.” See what’s been tagged so far.
hypebot’s got the scoop on the latest radio pay-for-play scam: Just months after the major labels settled the NY payola probe, two Universal distributed labels (Blackground and the band Nickleback on Roadrunner) reportedly tried to influence chart positions by buying late night ads on NY radio that feature more than 60 seconds of the song. [...]
One blogger has discovered a practical problem with not having the freedom to alter software (or have it altered): The server contacted is for a company that no longer even services the product. The product activation people do not answer the phone, even after a 6 minute hold period that consists of really bad techno [...]
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