Archive for the ‘Law’ Category
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Seattle Police stated the robbery happened around 10:10 a.m. at a Wells Fargo Bank in the 2300 block of California Avenue in West Seattle.
The FBI says one man wearing a black dress and a wig and carrying a gun jumped the counter. He took off to a waiting gold SUV ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
From the Washington Post:
“Erika George, a law professor at the University of Utah who grew up in Chicago, said white students who talk to her after class sometimes move their arms in the exaggerated sweeps of Ali G, a wannabe-hip-hopper TV character, apparently thinking that’s how best to communicate to ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Over at Cyde Weys Musings, Cyde draws attention to Erik Moller's unusual views on pedophilia. Here are some of the ideas held by Mr. Moller, the second in command over at Wikimedia:
Valleywag quotes Erik as saying “What is my position on pedophilia, then? It’s ...
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Thursday, April 7th, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/20...&partner=rssnyt
Imagine this: On his next trip to Japan, President Bush visits the vault at the Bank of Japan, where that country's $712 billion in United States government bonds is stored. There, as the cameras roll, he announces that the bonds, backed by the full faith and credit of the United ...
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Friday, March 18th, 2005
http://fuware.nanocrew.net/pymusique/
iTunes DRM protected music doesn't start it's life off as 'rights managed'. Apple adds the DRM instructions to the file on the fly while the file is being downloaded to you.
What an opportunity! Jon Johansen has created a program which bypasses the DRM stage of the downloading process ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
http://www.chron.com/cs/C...ch/blog/3082956
Via the Houston Chronicle's TechBlog, AOL says that regardless of the recent flare up caused by the posting of parts TOS throughout the blogosphere, AOL Instant Messenger's terms of service do not imply that the company has the right to use private IM communications, and the section quoted applies only ...
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Monday, March 7th, 2005
http://www.gizmodo.com/ga...llet-035056.php
AllofMP3.com was under investigation recently, but has been let off the hook by the Russian DA of the South-West district, who denied IPFI’s request to open a criminal case against Allofmp3.com., because of a loophole in Russian law which allows users create copies of songs by request.
Even though the ...
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Sunday, February 20th, 2005
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin.../w220353S67.DTL
The ACLU has discovered that the army has destroyed additional photographic evidence of the mock executions and torture of prisoners-- similar to those found of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib-- in an effort to avoid another round of public outrage.
An Army specialist told investigators that similar photographs were destroyed ...
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Saturday, February 19th, 2005
http://www.tvtechnology.c...one.php?id=2755
The soon to be government sponsored mandate to control content on the public airways will be introduced this summer sparking DRM in each information appliance that can receive that signal with the flag.
Can you hear that? That is the death of Digital Television before it ever really took off.
Public ...
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Friday, February 18th, 2005
http://slashdot.org/comme...59&cid=11709630
An excellent point was brought up on Boing Boing today about a post on Slashdot. The Television Industry is concerned about viewers recording shows and are putting a stop to it in a number of ways. Sometimes they strong arm DVR producers, or convince the manufactures of DVR ...
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