A recent story on rawstory.com highlights the rather disturbing and frightening data retention policies of two major phone carriers. Verizon and Virgin Mobile both keep the content of text messages after they are sent; the former for a mere “3 to 5 days”, but Virgin Mobile keeps around text message content for a staggering 90 [...]
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It’s been a while since I’ve noticed Apple doing something really dumb. But this was almost shoved in my face, so it was difficult to just pass it by without writing a brief commentary on it. Jacob Gorban recently wrote and published a short piece about Apple’s new in-app purchases feature that left users annoyed, [...] If this one seems a bit rushed, it is. I just now came across a mention of these two articles in an IRC channel I’m in, and noticed that this is was scheduled to start happening today. Spread the word if you are in Austin. According to both EFF Austin and KVUE, the Austin Police [...] Joe McGinniss recently blogged about a most unusual story out of Wasilla, Alaska, also reported by the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman. The principal, Dwight Probasco, told the school’s symphonic jazz choir they could not sing the song “Bohemian Rhapsody” because the songwriter, Freddie Mercury, was gay. (Eventually, Mr. Probasco relented and allowed the song to be [...] A recent care2.com article reports on proposed legislation in Iowa that would go far beyond the already idiotic ban on caffeinated alcoholic beverages such as Four Loko. As reported by Reason and cited within the care2.com story: The bill defines “caffeinated alcoholic beverage” as “any beverage containing more than one-half of one percent of alcohol [...] I didn’t watch the Super Bowl this year; the only reason it’s on my DVR is so I can watch the commercials and study them like any other marketing guy. And the story I’m writing about here is on a PR disaster that’s probably going to leave Jerry Jones with a Texas-sized headache–and which may [...] NewsBlaze.com recently reported on one of the more bizarre police blotter cases on the planet. And it comes out of a Muslim fundamentalist part of Sudan. A Sudanese court convicted seven men and one woman for indecency and fined them each the local currency equivalent of US$80. The men’s “indecency” was wearing makeup during a [...] CultureMap Houston recently reported on Houston’s new Graffiti Mobile and a photo opportunity featuring the truck and Houston Mayor Annise Parker. The story describes the event and contains a few key quotes from Mayor Parker which I would like to address: “I have mixed emotions about being here,” Mayor Annise Parker told the crowd. “This [...] |
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