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Defcon 18 Pwned By the owner What happens when you steal a hackers computer zoz part - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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'SNL' pits Assange against Zuckerberg | Technically Incorrect - CNET News - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17...
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[SNL's "Assange":] "What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? Let's take a look. I give you private information about corporations for free. And I'm a villain. Mark Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he's Man of the Year."
- Andrew C (✓)
from Bookmarklet
Did you know that the entire HP Lovecraft library is online, legally, at Feedbooks? Well, now you do: http://www.feedbooks.com/author...
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Yep, they're all on my harddrive.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
RT @e_sophia: Someday I'm going to go to a steampunk convention in a Star Trek uniform and ask everyone where the exit to the holodeck is.
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Oprah's Favorite Things - http://fury.com/mirror...
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YouTube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Kevin Fox
RT @daudig: Whoa. Motor Trend beats Rush Limbaugh with a rhetorical tire iron and stuffs him in the trunk of a Chevy Volt: http://blogs.motortrend.com/rush-ju...
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Well, I guess Rush is still an expert on football quarterbacks. Whatever happened to that overrated Philadelphia quarterback anyway?
- John E. Bredehoft
"Socialising with alcohol is fun and we should not pretend otherwise." - http://americandrink.net/post...
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“Socialising with alcohol is fun and we should not pretend otherwise. We also shouldn’t fool ourselves into thinking that young adults won’t eventually discover this and want to do it themselves. There is a reason why a taste for alcohol is not specific to a single demographic in society; why it is not something we ‘grow out of’ and why, no matter how many times the NHS warns of it detrimental effects, we won’t stop drinking the stuff. That’s because chatting with friends over a pint or a bottle of wine is an enjoyable cultural tradition: the fuel of conversation, intimacy and the exchange of ideas.”
- Alex Scrivener
“We should be encouraging young adults to drink sensibly, but to do this we need to be honest. We do regularly drink more than the government’s daily recommendation of two pints or glasses of wine and there’s nothing wrong with that. There’s also nothing wrong with a drink to unwind, relax and forget about our stressful day at work. More people need to stand up and say this in order to...
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- Alex Scrivener
3D fabbers: don't let the DMCA stifle an innovative future - http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
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"As 3D scanners and 3D printers plunge in cost, designers and manufacturers are going to get worried. Once they get worried, they go either to courts or to Congress. When this happened in the 1990s with digital media, the result was the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and those on the cutting edge of home three-dimensional fabrication want to make sure that they're ready this time when a similar full-court press tries to convince Congress to increase intellectual property protection in the US."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
No. 98-56453 - 296 F.3d 894 - Justia US Court of Appeals Cases and Opinions - http://cases.justia.com/us-cour...
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"If this were a sci-fi melodrama, it might be called Speech-Zilla meets Trademark Kong."
- Tudor Bosman
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"Barbie was born in Germany in the 1950s as an adult collector's item. Over the years, Mattel transformed her from a doll that resembled a "German street walker,"1 as she originally appeared, into a glamorous, long-legged blonde. Barbie has been labeled both the ideal American woman and a bimbo. She has survived attacks both psychic (from feminists critical of her fictitious figure) and...
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- Tudor Bosman
"With fame often comes unwanted attention. Aqua is a Danish band that has, as yet, only dreamed of attaining Barbie-like status. In 1997, Aqua produced the song Barbie Girl on the album Aquarium. In the song, one bandmember impersonates Barbie, singing in a high-pitched, doll-like voice; another bandmember, calling himself Ken, entices Barbie to "go party." (The lyrics are in the Appendix.) Barbie Girl singles sold well and, to Mattel's dismay, the song made it onto Top 40 music charts."
- Tudor Bosman
[...] "MCA filed a counterclaim for defamation based on the Mattel representative's use of the words "bank robber," "heist," "crime" and "theft." But all of these are variants of the invective most often hurled at accused infringers, namely "piracy." No one hearing this accusation understands intellectual property owners to be saying that infringers are nautical cutthroats with...
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- Tudor Bosman
Appeals court decision from the trademark infringement and dilution lawsuit brought by Mattel against the producers and distributors of the song "Barbie Girl". Quite readable (except for paragraphs 45-50, which are quite technical); I learned a few things about US trademark law. "The parties are advised to chill."
- Tudor Bosman
(via a friend's Facebook feed)
- Tudor Bosman
Very good read. Kozinski opinions are always good stuff. More: http://notabug.com/kozinski/
- Otto
Cool. I want to shake the man's hand.
- Tudor Bosman
Companies should not be able to fire someone for properly taking a prescription medication, period.
Kol Tregaskes, Fish Are LIES, Otto and 3 other people liked this
Agreed
- Surprisingly Monstrous
Eh? They do that?
- ronin
Yep, Ronin, unfortunately https://friendfeed.com/healthi...
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
That's crazy!
- David Cook
I'm not disagreeing, but let me pose a hypothetical. Alex, suppose you're in charge of your own company, and your business is bus charters. You have a bus driver. That bus driver is not qualified for any other position in your company. The bus driver's doctor prescribes a medicine with drowsiness as a side effect, and the doctor says the bus driver must take the medication each day, and...
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- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I'm opposed to all blanket statements. Period.
- Brian Johns
Stephen - Fortunately or unfortunately, I'd be willing to bet that the ADA probably makes it illegal for you to fire that employee under those circumstances (and may very well end up being a factor in the case Alex linked to). However, that's what worker's compensation and short/long-term disability are for.
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
What if he hurt his back playing sport outside work hours?
- Johnny
I'm not saying Victor would ever prescribe for me 6 months in a warm, tropical climate of my choice, but if he did I'm sure it would have to be effective immediately.
- Micah
Yep, who's responsible for an employee that can no longer perform their assigned duties because they are required to take a prescription medication for a legitimate reason? It's easy to find the exceptions where the employee may be responsible, but the most likely cases will be that the employee will not be at fault. What then? If you can't be bothered to retrain an employee in to another position, then I suggest that you pay for insurance in the event that the employee isn't able to work.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
However, in the vast majority of cases where this could be an issue, the employee isn't performing a job that puts the public at risk. In either case, it's the employers' responsibility to take care of the worker they hired if that worker is legitimately and properly taking prescription medication with very few exceptions, in my opinion.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Wouldn't it be great if we could simply trust the govt to enact appropriate policies addressing issues like this one? It hurts my head to think of all the corner cases, and I would rather let somebody else do the thinking.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
We have that here in Oz. It's called Work Cover. Here is my state's site www.workcoverqld.com.au But then again, we're socialists...
- Johnny
Or, you know, write a law that makes edge cases irrelevant. I believe that if someone doesn't want to take care of their workers, they shouldn't bother hiring.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yep, Johnny...State mandated insurance for these things makes too much sense for the US to enact.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
But then again, this is abused in some cases, by employees and employers.
- Johnny
Yep, there's always abuse, but in my mind, that's no reason to give workers reasonable and prudent protections.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
At my hospital, if you are no longer able to perform within the guidelines of your job description and have used up your vacation/sick time to equal the 12 weeks of family medical leave act, you are no longer employed. Period. Even if this was from a work disability claim.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
i think private employers should be able to hire and fire whoever they want for any reason. but now that the nation is heading down the sewer drain and large employers are firmly attached to the government tit, i'm less certain about that opinion than I used to be.
- Anthony Citrano
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Most large companies are public and not private, though, Anthony. Which may be your point...
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
California has State Disability Insurance and many employers also offer an alternate private insurance policy with slightly better benefits that covers this exact situation. If you are unable to work for more than one week due to a medical condition, you automatically go on State or private disability insurance that basically covers your take home pay. There are also optional long term...
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- Jeff P. Henderson
NASA and DARPA Plan ‘Hundred-Year Starship’ To Bring Humans to Other Worlds And Leave Them There Forever http://www.popsci.com/science...
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I know a few I'd like to send on this ship.
- Ken Gidley
Forever is an awful long time.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Good thing you offer a Lifetime Service on those DVRs of yours! ;-)
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Holy Fuck - Red Lights - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Toontz the cat 2.0?
- Fleagle
Obvious News Is Obvious: Polls That Only Call Landlines May Be Biased - http://www.techdirt.com/article...
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LOL
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Who still has a landline? I don't know anybody with one, except my parents.
- Otto
I have never had one of my own.
- Alex Scrivener
I have one...but we never answer it. It's only for emergencies, really.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I have one, since I have ADSL. Plus there are plenty of people I don't want to be able to reach me where ever I am. Of course it is there for emergencies. Also have a phone that doesn't need electricity to call out.
- Kenton
‘Proposed’ mix use castle/condo for Ballard » My Ballard - http://www.myballard.com/2010...
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Sign near where I live
- Carl Haynes
from Bookmarklet
672 automobiles is a lot of cars!
- Brian Johns
"Dungeon-level parking" should exist in EVERY building.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
PopCap offering free Bejeweled 2 today for birthday celebration - http://www.joystiq.com/2010...
Personally, and this might be one of the more controversial things that I've said, I think that religious organizations should no longer get tax exempt status. The only exception would be organizations that are affiliated with a church that do charitable works, but these organizations would have to be kept separate.
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Many churches would consider everything they do to be charitable.
- iTad
Bren - Child's Play. American Lung Association, etc etc etc
- iTad
Kiwanis would be another good example.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yes. Like St Vincent DePaul is a charitable works organization affiliated with the Catholic church.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
It should retain tax exempt status. The church overall should not.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Sorry, those were answers to your original question that you deleted, heh.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
At the very least, they should be stripped of their tax exempt status once they start funding political campaigns and interfering with public policy.
- Victor Ganata
Alex, you are controversial! My particular religious affiliation does claim a vow of poverty, trust me, they do need to be exempt.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
The problem is that most religious groups do not claim a vow of poverty. The Catholic church certainly does not and their places of worship show this. And a place like the Church of Scientology that charges members for services rendered absolutely should not get tax exempt status.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I think religious organizations should be treated just like other organizations by the law. I don't see why there should be a separate set of laws for the orgs centered around supernatural beliefs.
- Eivind
Agree 100%.
- Heather
Agreed and I like Geoff's suggestion of tax credits. It would have to be very simple though otherwise large organizations like the Catholic Church, Scientology etc would just find loopholes and the smaller ones would end up paying taxes.
- Kenton
Alex, the Catholic church may either be Diocesan (no vow of poverty can own personal property) or run by religious - Jesuits, Franciscans, Redemptorists (vow of poverty and obedience- no personal property) to name a few. Most all religious sister orders also take a vow of poverty and obedience.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
How would they pay off the lawsuits then?
- Surprisingly Monstrous
Of course, the personal vow of poverty doesn't prevent these Catholic religious orders as organizations from amassing millions of dollars in endowments and in real estate, all of which are tax exempt in the U.S.
- Victor Ganata
@ Steve, many schools and churches are being closed and properties sold to fund the lawsuit payouts.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
Define "mission" and operating costs are part of the problem. After all, if I'm running a large parish, I can give myself a $500k salary and call that "operating costs". Why exactly should we, the American people, be subsidizing someone who's taking advantage of their parishioners?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
And no, it's not just churches that involve themselves in politics/policy that are the cause of this though...see Church of Scientology or any other church that explicitly or implicitly charges for services.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
And as far as the Catholic churches and schools getting closed to pay for lawsuits? That's justice to an organization that has for far too long aided those who abuse children, shielded them from prosecution and has still not done enough to fix the problem...oh and to top it off considers child abuse to be at the same level as ordaining female priests.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
And Glen, I'm not sure what bias has to do with the discussion. If I'm biased against organizations getting tax exempt status for no good reason, then yep, I'm biased. Although, I supposed the more prudent thing to do would be to start a religion so I can get the same status.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Been saying it for years.
- Fleagle
@Geoff,I believe enough tax money goes into the system and is extremely poorly managed. I would rather see our elected officials not get so much of our tax money to campaign. I would also like a reduction in their salaries, less cushy benefits first before removing tax-exempt churches.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
As a churchgoer, I agree with Alex's recommendation, for several reasons. Two of them: (1) In my view, some organizations have set themselves up as false churches primarily to claim that tax exempt status. (2) Tax exempt status is, quite literally, a deal with the devil that is designed to get churches to keep their mouths shut so that the bucks continue to roll in.
- John E. Bredehoft
hey you gotta keep it fair, big corporations don't pay taxes, why should religion be discriminated against :)
- sofarsoShawn ~presque...
Big corporations are taxed on their earnings, but it is true that during the boom period some major corporations (e.g., Exxon) paid very little or--in some cases--no federal income tax. Are they exempt? No. This is just more political corruption. I think what we're discussing here, though, is whether or not churches have the right to be tax exempt, being in a government that is supposed...
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- Fleagle
A church's major expenses are property, utilities, and taxes. Its employees pay taxes as do the utility providers. Church property is often used for community purposes. I've never seen a church, a good one anyway, that tries to turn a profit. Other than a percentage of saving for prudence's sake, everything else goes toward missionaries and charities. What is there to tax? I can see taking away tax deductions for individuals and corporations though.
- Kevin L
You've never seen evangelical churches try to turn a profit, Kevin. Really?
- Fleagle
If the lifestyles of the Catholic clergy were the actual baseline for what poverty is like, being poor wouldn't be bad. Not that they're going to Vegas and spending money on hookers and blow (at least, not most of them) but they ain't starving either.
- Victor Ganata
Catholic nuns on the other hand... :(
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Smartphones - http://verydemotivational.com/2010...
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Picard uses Android
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
I bet there's an app for that ;-)
- Janice
LOL!
- Kol Tregaskes
VY Canis Majoris - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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“VY Canis Majoris is a red hypergiant star located in the constellation Canis Major. At between 1800 and 2100 solar radii (approx 2.7 billion km across), it is the largest known star.”
- Anthony Citrano
from Bookmarklet
These are all Satan's lies. The earth is flat, and is the largest thing in existence.
- iTad
no, my arse is the largest thing in existence.
- Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
Latin's such an outdated language. Astronomy needs to get hip. Call this thing Big-Ass MoFo#1.
- Jack&Cleo
This is the section I liked the most from Wikipedia's entry: " To illustrate, if Earth's Sun were replaced by VY Canis Majoris, its radius might extend beyond the orbit of Saturn (about 9 AU). Assuming the upper size limit of 2100 solar radii, light would take more than 8.49 hours to travel around the star's circumference, compared to 14.5 seconds for the Sun. "
- Bluesun 2600
lol @ tad
- Anthony Citrano
8.49 light-hours is wrong. It's 2.7 light-hours. Still huge.
- Otto
Best bookmarklet ever? Turn any webpage into Asteroids: http://erkie.github.com/ Shooting some webspam now! #pewpewpew
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OK. That is the most awesome thing EVER ANYWHERE. I'm blasting away DOM elements on this page left and right, RIGHT NOW.
- Micah
this is great
- chrisofspades
Take that Alex Scoble! PEW PEW PEW DEATH TO THE DOM
- Otto
This is ABSOLUTELY the greatest bookmarklet in the history of humanity.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Needs a bump....
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
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Yes indeed-le-o it does. *BUMP*
- Micah
But ability 2 turn off Gmail conversation view is like ability 2 hit head against wall. Why would you do it? #notefficient :)
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I believe hitting your head against the wall is considered enterprise "best practices".
- Paul Buchheit
Motorcyclist wins taping case against Maryland State Police: "A police officer on a traffic stop has no expectation of privacy." - http://www.reddit.com/r...
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let's hope this sets a precedent!
- Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
The fact that this even made it to a courtroom is evidence that the district attorney should be fired.
- Otto
I'd like to see a precedent set that you have no expectation of privacy in *any* public space
- Glenn Slaven
I see Ian McKellen joined in the anti-Pope march in London to... on Twitpic - http://twitpic.com/2pq44x
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- Spidra Webster
this is awesome
- Sally - Skyrimmin' It
still awesome
- Sally - Skyrimmin' It
great find
- chaz2b
elderly Nerd!
- the king of the interweb
You Shall Not Pass!
- Morgan
A friend asked, what's a love-hate relationship? I answered, "C++". He was enlightened.
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RT @kevinmhoffman: "NEW VENTURE BROTHERS TONIGHT. That is all." (happy happy joy joy) /cc @austingovella @scheinker
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JOY! Checking Tivo now. Yep, already set. Woot!
- Otto
Woot!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Unhappiness! I wasn't paying attention, and my Tivo Season Pass was set to record on a channel that I don't seem to get. So it missed it. Fortunately, I noticed before the 3am repeat, and now it's set to record then. Wish I knew why my TOONHD channel is broken though.
- Otto
Firefly, the complete series, 70% off, on Blu-Ray! - http://www.myextralife.com/sitenew...
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Agreed! RT: @wilw: Not only do I love my job, I love the people I work with. http://twitpic.com/2jqmrw
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What's that like? Seriously, I have no idea.
- Fleagle
Gmail users: you really MUST add @rapportive to Gmail. Send yourself email to see what it shares. Do the same with @gist. I am using both.
Davide Bennato, Thomas Power, Roger Kondrat and 7 other people liked this
Just make sure you don't set Gist to auto sync, they generate lots of duplicates. I spent days cleaning it up and so often I had to go back again and again to de-dupe newly sync'd contact information. Hey Scoble have you tried the Mailchimp Rapplet for @rapportive? Its pretty sweet, but unfortunately it keeps logging me out which makes it nearly useless. The premise is good though.
- Roger Kondrat
Tried to add Gist but it seems like it requires a corporate Gmail account. Did I miss something?
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Gist for Gmail only works with Google Apps users. Which, if you own your own domain name, you should be using. It's pretty awesome.
- Otto
signed up
- Keith
Me too love them both
- Thomas Power
If you ask me, equating buying used games or music with piracy is extremely over the top.
Steven Perez, Rob H., Joe "Bad Guts" Silence and 3 other people liked this
Alex, if you want it at a discounted price, wait a few months and buy a new copy of the game at the reduced price. That's what I do, I'm not a hardcore gamer, but at least they get something out of it.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Personally, I could care less about whether a game manufacturer gets a cut or not. A legitimate sale is a legitimate sale. EA doesn't pay programmers a cut of the profits.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I don't get the whole anti-used game argument. It's no more piracy than going to the library is stealing a book or using Netflix is stealing a movie.
- Rob H.
*fistbump* Rob
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
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