Techdirt: MPAA Takes University Toolkit Offline For GPL ViolationRemember last week how the MPAA was pushing a ridiculous toolkit on universities that was officially supposed to help universities track network usage, but also had the side-effect of potentially exposing all sorts of private info? Well, some folks noticed that the toolkit was built ( Read more... )

... but not after this privacy disaster. (via boing boing) There's an earlier article here.

For those who just want the high-order bits, the fuss is about "Facebook's 'Beacon' advertisements, which post information about users' activity on ( Read more... )

Got up bright and early this morning -- a little too early, as it turned out. When 6am rolled around I started going upstairs to wake the Younger Daughter. Succeeded, too. It wasn't until we got out to the car at 6:30 and I noticed how dark it was that I realized that I was an hour ahead. I take her to school at half past seven ( Read more... )

So, once again, the LJ design team screws up and chooses to ignore user protests.

While we will not be offering an option to switch back to the old ( Read more... )

'Zombies' file lawsuit against city of Mpls.
A group of zombies have risen up to claim the city of Minneapolis and Hennepin County violated their free rights and discriminated against them ( Read more... )

The Register asks the perfectly reasonable question: Mass murder in the skies: was the plot feasible?

The answer, assuming triacetone triperoxide, is very clearly "no". Either we've been dealing with unbelievably stupid terrorist wannabes (always a distinct possibility), or some blatent misdirection.

NASA can't find original tape of moon landing | Tech&Sci | Science | Reuters.co.ukWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has misplaced the original recording of the first moon landing, including astronaut Neil Armstrong's famous "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," a NASA spokesman said on Monday ( Read more... )

You just couldn't make stuff like this up. In this amazing exchange of email Jerry Taylor, the city manager of Tuttle, Oklahoma, threatens to call the FBI on CentOS (maker of a Linux distribution) because their name was on the city's misconfigured website. Another account can be found at The Reg, but the email exchange really ( Read more... )

trowsers glasses

I was wondering why, every time I tried to change glasses, I kept getting my computer glasses. Turns out I picked up the wrong pair when I left home this morning (I have two pairs of computer glasses because I can never remember to carry them with me when I leave home/work). Dumb Bear.