Currently, this article is making my head hurt. Want a headache? Read some of the comments. If you get past 50 without wanting to put your fist through the monitor, you're a better {,wo}man than I am ( Read more... )

Capital One sent me what I'll call "the love letter." It was different from the last one, which simply hiked APRs for cash advances and defaults (things I never use anyway, nor would I ever use if I got in trouble). Today's love letter is The Big One ( Read more... )

In this article, Steve Jobs is referred to as "the Albert Einstein of computing".

Don't make me sick. Steve Jobs is just a good businessman (as is one William H. Gates III. Anyone remember him?) who is selling the ever-loving shit out of status symbols that happen to work well (I cite MacBook, iPod and iPhone as three debatable examples ( Read more... )

The meat of the act:

It's OK for Them to watch you, but just try watching Them, or in this case, its corollary, "taking pictures = terrorist" (I want to pretend myspace doesn't exist, but the real link goes there O:o)

A bonus quasi-related link:

Universal cries foul when they get nailed for copyright infringement damages. What's good for the ( Read more... )

I still can't figure out what's good about this tax-break-based approach to health care. I surely will not be getting $15000 per year to buy health insurance. I won't even be given the taxes on $15000 in advance to buy said insurance. I take it that I'll have to pay full price for insurance and then get to deduct a small portion from federal ( Read more... )

I guess it's just a fact of life in the on-again, off-again realm of business, but apparently the rumors about Sly coming to the so-called "next-gen" consoles are false.

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Update: changed the URL to a source verified in Safari as "less lethal" ad-wise. Apologies to anyone who was affected.

I have a very hard time believing that even less than half of this article has any basis in fact. Just because I do things differently and use "the big bad addictive internet" to do them does not imply I have some sort of disease ( Read more... )

If I'm reading it right, it looks like the USA wants to redefine parts of the Geneva Conventions, which was international law last I heard, by passing US legislation. Can we even do that and have it stick ( Read more... )

Someone has won a default judgement in IL (in the US) against Spamhaus, which is on a private island in the UK's jurisdiction. Spamhaus has, and rightfully so, simply ignored itThere's a lot of time and money being wasted on fighting the RBLs. Although RBLs do have some inherent problems, the real power lies with the administrators who take the ( Read more... )

Apparently, the latest plot to blow up a plane was flawed from the start. It's very much a case of the facts being inconvenient, but with just a little preying on mass ignorance, the scare machine is fully wound up ( Read more... )