Or, more specifically, the Department of the Interior.You see, here's the deal ( Read more... )

Thank you, Anonymous, for making this most informative video about ACTA. The thought that ACTA has gotten as far as it has is, quite frankly, infuriating.

Here's the deal:

Back in February, the Lower Merion School District was caught spying on some of its students via the webcams built into the school-issued laptops. Needless to say, the parents of the aforementioned students were shocked and disgusted, and they promptly filed a lawsuit against the school district.Fast forward about nine months. A ( Read more... )

Why?

First off, it's not a real network. It's actually the product of a bug in Windows XP, one wherein the operating system would automatically create an "ad-hoc" wireless network using the name of the last access point it connected to (the most common name for this ad-hoc network being "Free Public WiFi", though "linksys", "hpsetup", "tmobile", ( Read more... )

You ever notice how the latest iteration of Google has this odd overlay on the results page ( Read more... )

I have a love-hate relationship with your system ( Read more... )

I knew it was only a matter of time before you used this Ninth Circuit Court decision to spy on average citizens.

I hope you realize that this little incident means you've opened yourself up to a lawsuit.

Remember the ACS:Law data breach that occurred last month?Well, in light of that, British Telecom - which owns the ISPs PlusNet, Sky and Be Broadband - has secured an adjournment in at least one of the cases they're involved in, so that the court can review concerns that BT's lawyers have raised in light of the ACS:Law data breach ( Read more... )

Long story short:

General Electric buys a company that specializes in making cooling systems which also generate electricity.(The way I understand it, the cooling system is attached to a piece of equipment that generates a lot of heat while in operation - heat which would normally go to waste. The heat from the equipment turns a working fluid - in ( Read more... )

As we say here in the United States, "turnabout's fair play".

You've spent so much time and money harassing people who've been accused of copyright infringement (and, in some cases, taking them to court) that I just have to laugh at what happened recently.

You should have realized that maybe, just maybe you were eventually going to get under ( Read more... )