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Veoh wins copyright suit, sets precedent
"In a decision that should bode well for larger video sharing sites that are in legal trouble such as YouTube, a federal judge has absolved Veoh of any responsibility in the unauthorized posting of copyrighted video...
Abandoned ashes stack up at funeral homes
"BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- The abandoned ashes are stacked floor to ceiling in the basement of the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, tucked neatly on wooden shelves and tables and in an unused dumbwaiter. ... Parliamentary complaint over birthday party
PC is spreading as can be seen from this latest story from Sweden."A heated debate is raging in Sweden after an eight-year-old boy's failure to invite two classmates to his birthday party resulted in a complaint filed with parliament. Nearly 200 outraged comments have been... Bell defends throttling practices
Ars Technica does a great job of looking into Bell Canada's defence of its throttling policies. Bell is now claiming that in spite of appearances, that congestion levels on its networks are high. "The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)...Coyote Laughs: Texas Chupacabra Id'd
"You may remember when a Texas woman claimed to have found the head of an actual blood-sucking chupacabra, and promptly set up a business selling tee shirts marking her find. The mystery is solved, thanks to modern... $2.6 Million Worth of Animal Poop
Such is the value of a walk-through..."
A nightclub investor who bought his neighbor's swank New Jersey mansion out of foreclosure for $2.6 million - not knowing that inside it was destroyed by feces from more than 100 cats and dogs - is suing.
Michael Acciardi got access... Rep. Bob Allen cites fear of black men, weather in oral sex arrest
*coughahem*"Rep. Bob Allen cites fear of black men, weather in oral sex arrest Representative Bob Allen, a Republican in the Florida House of Representatives, blamed the weather and his fear of black men for offering $20 to perform oral sex on a man in a public park. The man...Deterring Iran by Louis Rene Beres and Isaac Ben-Israel
"The "doomsday clock" continues its advance to "midnight." Existential atomic danger is most immediate to Israel. Iran poses the greatest problem. Israel knows that the Iranian president's exterminatory threat is real. In law, this threat signifies the intent to commit...Teetering on the Brink of Disaster: The NeoCons' Decision to Bomb Iran
"Can Neoconservative Belligerent Dogmatism be Halted by the Empire’s Realists? In mid-September 2006, CNN invited retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner, previously a strategic scholar at various U.S. Army War Colleges, to discuss the probability of a U.S. military strike...Yahoo Bites the Hand that Feeds It, Gets Bitten Back
Yet another bog tech corporation learns that messing with its customers is perhaps not the best idea.Oh, and if you do not know what "goatse" is, then you must under no circumstances enter it into the search engine of your choice, and definitely not whilst at work."Yahoo has...Fox issues threats to sites linking to YouTube videos
Cory Doctorow has a very interesting column today about the lengths media corporations will go to enforce its control over the web. In this case, Fox is issuing legal threats to sites that link to material that Fox claims has been stolen from it.An analogy would be if police...
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