Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 24th, 2008
A Georgia man had a creative way to protest against some of Wal-Mart's policies -- he created t-shirts and bumper stickers that said things like "walocaust" and "wal-qaeda", terms which are obvious parodies of Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart sued the guy for violating their trademark, but the claim was rejected today by a ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Some guys figured out a way to get free food from Del Taco. Essentially, they pretend they had a problem with a previous order, then talk to the manager who then agrees to replace the food from the non-existent "problem" order. In this case, they got about $15 ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Ed Felten has built a reputation as someone good at finding problems with machines. New Jersey election officials wanted him to test one of the Sequoia voting machines before the election to see if there are any problems with it. Given the wide array of problems with voting machines in ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
(via Xyre) In a column in the New York Times today, Bill Kristol stated that Barack Obama "was in fact in the pews" when his pastor, Jeremiah White, made some disparaging remarks about the United States last July.
It was pointed out very quickly that the information was incorrect, and Senator ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
The 14,000 person town of Whitewater, Wisconsin has an anonymous blogger (freewhitewater.com) that is critical of how the city does business. He blogs under the name "John Adams".
Whitewater's police chief, James Coan, is often featured in the blog. Among other things, the blog recently criticized the chief for ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
RateMyCop is a new site that allows you to rate police officers that you deal with, similar to sites for teachers, doctors, restaurants, etc. However, the police aren't happy about it at all. A few sites (Wired, TechDirt) call the fears of the police unnecessary, because the site doesn't post ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
After discovering that their public, unsecured streaming URL was posted on HowardForums, MobiTV decided to sue. HowardForums came back and essentially said "bring it on".
Now comes word that MobiTV is wisely giving up this fight. The president of MobiTV spoke with Howard Chui (the "Howard" in HowardForums) and said they'd ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Howard Chui, owner of HowardForums, has decided to defy MobiTV's cease and desist to take down the "illegal" post that is on his site.
I think Howard will find a lot of people on his side. While I'm quite sure he'll win the battle, I hope it doesn't cost him too ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
MobiTV provides a paid service that allows you to stream TV to mobile phones. However, the data stream is sent using a completely open URL that anyone can access.
Someone over at HowardForums noticed this and posted the URL of the feed. MobiTV has responded; not by securing the feed, but ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Have you ever heard of the game "Bully: Scholarship Edition"? We hadn't either. However, a group of teachers is pushing hard to get the game banned, which is leading to a lot of publicity for the game.
Michael Hoechsmann, an assistant professor at McGill University, has a good take on things. He ...
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