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Lots Of People Don't Turn Off Their Devices When They Fly
I've always been careful about putting my phone into "airplane mode" when flight attendants ask. However, a few years back, for reasons that I've yet to see any explanation for, flight attendants changed the script and started insisting that "flight mode" wasn't enough any more and you had to turn the phone all the way off. Show More Summary
Sources And Dr. Phil Offer Insights Author Of ‘Confessions of a Sociopath,’ Who Might Be This Law Professor
Our sources attempt to out the author of “Confessions of a Sociopath” who claimed to be a law professor…
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AP's Attempt At DRM'ing The News Shuts Down
Plenty of people rightly mocked the news a few years ago that the Associated Press was working on a plan to "DRM the news." The idea was to put some sort of licensing mechanism together to get news aggregators to pay to promote their news. Show More Summary
DailyDirt: DIY Junk Food
Is it still junk food if you make it yourself? If you feel guilty about buying junk food and have lots of time on your hands, here are a few links that might inspire you to try recreating some popular snacks at home. Here's a recipe for homemade Cheez-It crackers, which supposedly taste better than the store-bought version. Show More Summary
Suburban Express Goes Double Or Nothing On Their Aggressive Behavior
Hopefully you recall the story of Suburban Express and its owner, admitted domain squatter Dennis Toeppen, but let me catch you up and let you know what's been going on since that post ran. Suburban Express is a bus company that caters to Midwest students traveling to and from Chicago. Show More Summary
Want To Destroy Any Hope Of Serious Cybersecurity? Give The DOJ Its Desired Backdoor Wiretaps On All Communications
The Obama administration has supposedly been "considering" the latest version of the DOJ's plan to require backdoor wiretapping abilities in any form of digital communication. If you don't recall, the FBI asks for this basically every year. Show More Summary
Nintendo Exchanges Goodwill For Control; Issues Mass Monetization Claims On Let's Play Videos
Nintendo's history of aggressive IP enforcement is long and colorful and, occasionally, completely ridiculous. No one protects the brand quite as fiercely as Nintendo does, an unfortunate byproduct of its obsession with maintaining a...Show More Summary
Indian Publishing Firm Can't Take A Little Criticism, Threatens Blogger With $1 Billion Lawsuit, Criminal Charges
Here's a fun one via Popehat. Apparently an Indian publishing firm by the name of OMICS can't take some criticism from a blogger. The blogger, Jeffrey Beall, who is based in the US, has a blog called Scholarly Open Access (he's also a librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver) in which he reviews and critiques various open access programs. Show More Summary
May 20 roundup
“The IRS Abuse Scandal Keeps Growing” [M.D. Kittle, Reason] Where were the lawyers? [John Steele/Legal Ethics Forum, more, yet more] “IRS Abuses Past and Present” [Chris Edwards, Cato] Allegation: IRS questions to Hawaii Tea Party suggest...Show More Summary
Bogus Lawsuit Plus Threats To Those Who Write About It Leads To Epic Response
Reader Jason sent over a blog post that sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole, following the story through a variety of twists and turns. The key player in the story is Jonathan Monsarrat, who among other things founded the video game company Turbine (Asheron's Call, Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons & Dragons Online, etc.). Show More Summary
Big Pharma Firms Seeking .pharmacy Domain To Crowd Out Legitimate Foreign Pharmacies
For years, we've noted that the big drug companies like to conflate legitimate foreign pharmacies (often based in Canada) that sell back into the US (the so-called "reimportation" or "parallel import" market) at cheaper prices with out and out bogus or counterfeit online pharmacies. Show More Summary
Insurance Litigation “Dean” Jerry Oshinsky Joins Kasowitz
A renowned insurance-defense lawyer, Jerold Oshinsky, is leaving Jenner & Block LLP for litigation firm Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP.
A Framework For Copyright Reform
I watched a large part of the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property's first hearing on copyright reform, and came away somewhat disappointed. While the panelists presented a variety of interesting viewpoints and worked hard toShow More Summary
Saudi Religious Police: Anyone Using Twitter 'Has Lost This World And His Afterlife'
A couple of days ago Techdirt wrote about how Murong Xuecun, a well-known user of the Chinese microblog Sina Weibo with over a million followers, had his account closed down suddenly. Murong has now written a fine article about the background...Show More Summary
Congress Grandstanding Over Google Glass 'Privacy' Concerns; Next Up: Privacy Concerns Over Your Eyes
We should have know that once the press started picking up on the ridiculous moral panic over Google Glass that Congress would be quick to follow. In a move that smacks of traditional political grandstanding, a group of Congressional...Show More Summary
Court Dumps Prenda's Subpoena
You may recall that Prenda had (not surprisingly) gone crazy overboard with subpoenas in its attempt to intimidate some anti-copyright troll bloggers and their commenters. The EFF stepped in and asked a court to quash the subpoena, which...Show More Summary
US Uses Special 301 To Bully Ukraine, Likely Violating WTO
In this year's Special 301 report, the United States Trade Representative listed Ukraine as a "Priority Foreign Country" (aka PFC), triggering a 30 day countdown to initiate an investigation under Section 301 of the Trade Act to determine trade sanctions. Show More Summary
NZ Supreme Court Will Review Kim Dotcom's Extradition Case
Back in March, we noted that while a district court had ordered the US to hand over the evidence it was planning to use against Kim Dotcom, an appeals court had overturned that ruling, and said that the evidence wasn't needed for the extradition fight. Show More Summary
DailyDirt: Getting An Online Education...
The existing system of going to a school, listening to lectures and getting a degree after you've passed some tests might not be the way education will operate in the near future. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) promise to teachShow More Summary
This Week's Bad Photoshopping Lesson Comes From Scientology
The universe has a sense of humor. I'm convinced of it. See, as someone who believes that humor is a wonderful way to deal with otherwise disheartening topics, I'm amazed at how often the world around me will give me something to laugh at when I'm feeling blue. Show More Summary
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