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Lot of wasted MySpace hate misdirected at its users rather than the more disturbing aspect of MySpace and social networking sites. Still. Some of the threads are pretty amusing.
How bad does Circuit City want your money? So much so that the retailer is willing to “instal” backward compatibility on your Xbox 360.
Sleazy Circuit City Ripping Off Xbox 360 Customers – Kotaku
Thats pretty dirty. Probably a lot of suckers out there that paid for that service too.
Company officials had told employees in a series of meetings that layoff notices would be delivered electronically, spokeswoman Kay Jackson said. She said employees were invited to ask questions before Tuesday’s notification on a company intranet site.
RadioShack uses e-mail to fire 400 employees as part of planned job cuts | ajc.com
Shady…imagine if it got caught [...]
…after learning that the defendant had passed away, the RIAA made a motion to stay the case for 60 days in order to allow the family time to “grieve”, after which time they want to start taking depositions of the late Mr. Scantlebury’s children
Shady RIAA at it again:
Recording Industry vs The People
Nice website dedicated to [...]
US carmakers and auto-mobile insurers are unshakably certain that vehicles protected by “transponder immobil-izers” can’t be driven without the proper keys – or, at least, that circumventing those transponder systems takes more sweat and money than most auto thieves are willing to expend. So car companies advertise their security systems as unbreakable, insurers and consumers [...]
Who didn’t see this coming? The government already taps your phones and checks up on your internet browsing habits. It was only a matter of time before they connected the dots.
The Eye of Sauron Sees Everything.
I’m kinda surprised that it happened so quickly. Usually it takes a team of “experts” and buttload [...]
In 2003 AT&T built “secret rooms” hidden deep in the bowels of its central offices in various cities, housing computer gear for a government spy operation which taps into the company’s popular WorldNet service and the entire internet. These installations enable the government to look at every individual message on the internet and analyze exactly [...]
This opinion piece makes some good points, especially:
When drugs are outlawed, only outlaws deal drugs. If it weren’t illegal, the sale of narcotics would be no more prone to violence and corruption than the sale of cola or cigarettes.
The long arm of the drug war – Los Angeles Times
Its just as its always been. [...]
“We have been unable to make any meaningful progress in our investigation because OPR [Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility] has been denied security clearances for access to information about the NSA program,” OPR counsel H. Marshall Jarrett wrote to Hinchey. Hinchey’s office shared the letter with The Associated Press.
Wired News: DOJ Drops Wiretap Investigation
So [...]
AT&T violated federal and state laws by surreptitiously allowing the government to monitor phone and internet communications of AT&T customers without warrants.
This was to be expected especially with all those Patriot Act shinanigans.
Wired News: Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room
And not long after the EFF started to put a stop to this, Big brother comes in [...]
