I received one of your glossy advertisements in the mail today, asking me to “Come Back To Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess”. As this flier indicates, I used to subscribe to Verizon’s EVDO service and do not anymore. What this flier does not indicate is that I did not willfully drop this service, you [...]
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Saw this on digg yesterday, looks like it’s been picked up by mainstream news. 429 hits on google news (for puppy + marine), probably going to be three times as many tomorrow. While the jury is still out on whether this was a stunt or not, It appears to be quite real; a [...]
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Someone went way overboard, and mailed packets of suspicious white powder to a number of Scientology offices. Fail; it terrified a bunch of people and wasted time and resources better utilized keeping the peace and tracking down Osama. This act has been vilified in the blogosphere, and Anonymous has condemned it and [...]
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Original Posted Date: January 24, 2006 – Tuesday – 5:24 AM
Recently the Catholic Church has decided to impose copyright on all papal pronouncements.
Scary, huh? Especially when you consider the dogma of Infallible Magisterium,which essentially says that the pope can speak for God.. Think about this for a moment; in a sense the Catholic Church [...]
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Posted Date: November 8, 2007 – Thursday – 1:27 PM
“He argues that it’s merely symptomatic of a much larger problem in which the networks have been implemented in way that doesn’t ‘t taken into account the emergence of users as media distributors.” link
How to encrypt the bittorrent protocol. This only avoids packet filtering and [...]
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Posted Date: September 25, 2007 – Tuesday – 2:55 PM
Amazon has announced the beta release of a massive online music store:
“Every song and album on Amazon MP3 is available exclusively in the MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM) software. This means that Amazon MP3 customers are free to enjoy their music downloads using any [...]
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