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"My new garage door opener comes with both DRM and a DMCA warning: don't even think about using a third-party remote. But didn't a federal court already say this sort of behavior was illegal years ago? Ars investigates." - winckel from Bookmarklet

I know it would be a pain to do this ..but why not just take it down get a refund and get a different one so you don't have to worry about any of this? - John Blanton

I agree with John Blanton - though I'd also include an e-mail to the company telling them why. These fools won't stop this kind of thing unless they know people won't put up with it. - Ciaoenrico

That's too funny. :) - John Blanton

Perez must be on drugs to think that everyone in Hollywood is on drugs too .. he's an idiot that never shoud've seen the light of day .. and I say that not cuz he's gay but because he's just an idiot that never should've seen the light of day. - John Blanton

Nevermind .. just found out :x - John Blanton

WHO CARES!! - John Blanton

I wish I knew .. it's like they just walked away from it. Weird. - John Blanton

its a failer. - Seth Smith

there shouldn't be anything wrong with it... - Paul Kinlan

boo not working lately - Mike Pollock

same thing here. - Seth Smith

Guess what the answer to that question is? At least oatmeal doesn't pretend 2 b meat :P - LANjackal

What's up with tofurducken? - John Blanton

I'll just take that as a no. lol - John Blanton

oh yeah Friendboo is indeed a fail. :( too bad I really liked it. - John Blanton

In the next version of Office for the Mac...Microsoft is dumping Entourage and will include Outlook .. don't know what you think of that but Outlook has to be a lot better then Entourage. - John Blanton

is it better or worse than HBO Entourage? - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

38 wins down the drain all because Rose decided to be lazy and let someone else take the SAT for him. I seriously doubt he would've been academically eligible had he taken it himself. - John Blanton

oh and another thing this isn't the 1st time UofM Tigers have had to forfeit their entire season. At least this is the 1st time it's happened for major NCAA violations since '85. - John Blanton

My reactions to today's news! - Robert Scoble

They got some talented people at FriendFeed. - Kenneth Yeh

The Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) Chapter 68, is a locally-chartered volunteer association and resource partner of the Small Business Administration. SCORE Memphis offers free and confidential counseling to start up businesses and existing small businesses that seek advice. SCORE Memphis serves the Tennessee counties of Shelby, Tipton, Fayette and adjoining counties in Arkansas and Mississippi. - John Blanton

Why does DEMO think they're so frikkin' important? Anyone could put on a show and put DEMO out of business. - John Blanton

If you could only hate one: DEMO or Wales who would it be? haha - Mike Bracco

Yes. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Yes - Lars Clausen

Didn't like it? It was better then I was expecting. - John Blanton

Aluminum hydroxide and its closely related compounds have a number of practical uses. In one process of water purification, for example, aluminum sulfate, Al2(SO4)3, or alum (usually potassium aluminum sulfate, KAl(SO4)2), is mixed with lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2) in a container of water to be purified. The reaction between these compounds results in the formation of a gelatinous precipitate aluminum hydroxide. As the precipitate settles out of solution, it adsorbs on its surface particles of dirt and bacteria that were suspended in the impure water, which can then be removed by filtering off the aluminum hydroxide precipitate. - John Blanton

<borat>That's a-mighty naice!</borat> - John Blanton from Bookmarklet

They're pushing the adjuvants (sp?) .. aluminum hydroxide is the newest most common in use. - John Blanton

Al Qaeda Fnord - There hasn't been much mainstream media hype regarding Al Qaeda recently. I noticed an interesting fnord in the Al Qaeda story. The Al Qaeda hype is "There's a massive terrorist organization that's out to get you! Therefore, State bureaucrats need more power." The Al Qaeda terrorism scare works, because it reflects an underlying hidden truth. There really is a massive terrorist organization that's out to get every American! It's called the Federal government. - John Blanton

I suppose it's all about the bragging rights. - John Blanton from Bookmarklet

After admitting flat out yesterday that he downloaded and distributed songs using file sharing software, and that he lied about it, there wasn't a question of whether or not Joel Tenenbaum would be found guilty. In fact, the judge even said that the question wasn't even at issue. The only thing the jury had to work out was how much the damages would be, and they didn't take long at all, awarding $22,500 per song, or a total of $675,000. While a lot less than what the Jammie Thomas jury awarded, it's still a hefty chunk of change.

All this law suit does is make people loathe the RIAA even more. - Steven (optionshiftk)

It's a scare tactic plain and simple ..that's all it is. RIAA spokespeople have even admitted that. - John Blanton

How much damage can a Tweet do? According to property management company Horizon Realty, $50,000 worth. That’s the size of the lawsuit waged against one of its former tenants on Monday, in response to a Tweet about one of their Chicago apartments. Amanda Bonnen was staying an apartment at 4242 N. Sheridan, one of over 1,500 apartments owned by the company. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Bonnen’s Tweet on May 12 read, in part: “Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it’s okay.”

This has to be the dumbest, most revenge driven lawsuit I think I've ever heard of. The only way 50,000$ could be awarded in damages if the property management company is on Twitter and they lost substantial business due to the aforementioned tweet. - John Blanton

The nation’s cellphone networks could suffer “potentially catastrophic” cyberattacks by iPhone-wielding hackers at home and abroad if iPhone owners are permitted to legally jailbreak their shiny wireless devices — that’s what Apple claims. A jailbroken iPhone is a weapon of mass disruption, Apple claims. The Copyright Office is considering a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to legalize the widespread practice of jailbreaking, in which iPhone owners hack their devices to accept software that hasn’t been approved for distribution through the iPhone App Store. Apple made the claim in comments filed last week (.pdf) with the agency. The company’s filing explained that jailbreaking could allow hackers to altering the iPhone’s BBP — the “baseband processor” software, which enables a connection to cell phone towers.

I agree with Calicanis .. Apple should be brought up on anti-trust charges - John Blanton

Apple would get my business for an iPhone .. only thing is that AT&T wants a 750$ "security deposit" .. I don't have to pay any deposit on any other carrier in the U.S. - John Blanton

We might as well face it and say out loud that Fox News has sided with the enemy .. no we don't need another 9/11 .. I'm sure we'd all appreciate it if Fox News would just STFU! - John Blanton

Amen to that. Thanks for saying so. - Karoli

My, how the tables have turned. Earlier this week, we learned that Apple had suddenly begun to pull third party iPhone applications for Google Voice, citing the unconvincing rationale that they “duplicated” some of the iPhone’s functionality. We then broke the news that Apple had also rejected Google’s own official Google Voice application six weeks prior, sparking a din of complaints from developers and users alike over the arbitrary and possibly anti-competitive restrictions being imposed by Apple. AT&T, too, has been a target of frequent criticism as many of us believe it too may have also played a part in the decision. Of course, nobody really knows who is to blame. AT&T has hinted that it was ultimately Apple’s decision, and Apple continues to remain mute on the issue. But now we may get our answers: the Dow Jones newswire reports that The Federal Communications Commission is looking into the Apple’s rejection of Google Voice, and has sent letters to AT&T, Apple, and Goo.......... - John Blanton

"Bright orange lava spews up into the air, dark smoke mingles with the clouds and the gloomy night takes on an ominous red glow. Towering 1,200ft above the tropical stillness of the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, one of the most terrifying volcanoes the world has ever known has begun to stir once more. Almost 126 years to the day since Krakatoa first showed signs of an imminent eruption, stunning pictures released this week prove that the remnant of this once-enormous volcano is bubbling, boiling and brimming over. With an explosive force 13,000 times the power of the atomic bomb that annihilated Hiroshima, the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa killed more than 36,000 people and radically altered global weather and temperatures for years afterwards. The eruption was so violent and catastrophic that no active volcano in modern times has come close to rivalling it, not even the spectacular eruption of Mount St Helens in the U.S. in 1980. Now, almost a century-and-a-half on, are we about to... more... - RAPatton

Daily Mail being all positive again I see... Is it October yet? They must be itching to start their annual 'worst winter on record is coming, we will be without power for weeks because it all just costs too much!' series of articles... #NotTheBiggestFanOfTheDailyMail (Like the pic though :) ) - Andy Bold

On Tuesday it was revealed that Apple had banned Google Voice from the iPhone app store. The new service has the potential to be a game changer, allowing users, among other things, to send free SMS messages and make international calls at reduced rates. The obvious conclusion was that AT&T played a role in the ban, given that SMS revenues are a massive cash cow with a limited life span the carrier wants to protect at any cost. When we asked AT&T if it was their call, they told us to ask Apple, who is too cool to comment publicly. Neither should get a free pass, yet both probably will. - John Blanton

When I was in the UK ...I switched my country to UK in order to use some promo codes that were available to only UK iTunes users at the time and it worked just fine. :) - John Blanton