Scary stuff ...

Radiofrequency Weapons [Slashdot]
11:36:39 PM     comment []

Even the Register's purple prose fails to adequately excoriate the evil inherent in the system ...

Net video and audio to go to trial. More patent madness [The Register]
11:35:49 PM     comment []

I should start a new category: You Can Find Anything on the Net.

The Duel

What does it mean? Why did they do this? What does the pig symbolize? Who's in the canoe? Why aren't there horns on the Caddy? Who cares?
2:55:26 PM     comment []

And we need IPv6 immediately? Why?

Dispelling the IPv4 Address Shortage Myth [Slashdot]
12:44:31 PM     comment []

Looks like Derek over at A Copyfighter's Musings has run afoul of the DieBold DMCA Takedown Campaign

Hang in there, good sirrah! And I hope somebody get's the bright idea to mirror the offending documents offshore, out of the reach of US law.
1:08:16 AM     comment []

Opus Dei is a rather secretive group of conservative (and I mean somewhere to the right of Ghengis Khan) Catholics, apparently bent on changing the course of American (and to some extent, other countries, esp., in western Europe) policies to fit with their narrow worldview. These are the kind of people who think that the Spanish Inquisition was a great idea!

They really hadn't come right out and said what they were up to before, but this article from the Boston Globe kinda scares me:

The Crusaders The Crusaders A powerful faction of religious and political conservatives is waging a latter-day counterreformation, battling widespread efforts to liberalize the American Catholic Church. And it has the clout and the connections to succeed. [from The Boston Globe via MyAppleMenu]

They're talking of "relatively bloodless civil war" and "morally justified revolution" over issues like birth control and stem cell research ... These aren't raving redneck fundies, either (well, except in spirit). They're rich, politically well-connected and usually very, very quiet.

Make of it what you will: it's certainly something to keep an eye on.
12:59:52 AM     comment []

When I was a kid, we called this "ambulance chasing" ... it's been taken to a whole new level, now.

Lawyers Seek Clients Among Ferry Passengers. Lawyers took out television and newspaper advertisements aimed at recruiting the ill-fated ferry's roughly 1,000 passengers as clients. By Susan Saulny. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
12:37:09 AM     comment []

This is an outrage: a EULA on a woodworking tool!

What's next? Is Sears gonna want a royalty on every item built with a Craftsman tool? Where does the insanity stop?
12:35:39 AM     comment []