Archive for June 20th, 2009
Torrentfreak reports on a story involving the French P2P news site Numerama and the French courts. The courts have ordered Numerama to publish extracts of convictions of 27 copyright violators. Although the court is compensating Numerama to the tune of €10,000 (about US$14,000), it is not surprising that Numerana is a bit worried about taking money [ READ MORE ]
A 17-year old New Zealender who got a ticket for unauthorized passengers that could cost her NZ$400–but the profane insult that came with it is free. Stuff.co.nz has the original report (warning: profanity) on the experience of Taliah Butters who claims she told the officer she was a “kitchen hand and part-time chef.” The cop, however, [ READ MORE ]
The Financial Times reports on China’s latest censorship move: telling Google to shutdown its google.cn site for Chinese residents. With the rise of technologies like Tor, Freenet, GNUnet, Mixmaster, and OpenPGP (including GNU Privacy Guard), censorship as a whole is unsustainable in the personal computing realm. China is trying to hang onto a fasicst-communist regime similar to [ READ MORE ]
Sometimes, I have to stand back and just admire a writer’s creativity. A recent article in Boston.com’s romance section could well be the pinnacle of Meredith Goldstein’s writing career in the creativity department. Meredith took an otherwise unpublishable letter and turned it into something which has, so far, received 344 comments (and will probably top [ READ MORE ]
Ars Technica reports on Apple rejecting iPhone applications without offering an explanation. Of particular note: Marco Arment, lead developer of Tumblr and creator of Instapaper, chronicled the situation on his blog. On the last day of WWDC ‘09, Apple had a session dedicated to the process of publishing an iPhone app to its App Store. The [ READ MORE ]
Ars Technica reports on the city of Bozeman, Montana, USA and its very nosy–and possibly illegal–city government job application requirements. The city of Bozeman does not stop at asking applicants to divulge “any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but [ READ MORE ]