business and commerce
How Hardware Manufacturers Are Deceiving You
Beware of fine print even on the front of the product itself — one got me ‘…Sure, everyone involved can come up with a variety of excuses — they aren’t technically misleading customers, it’s all in the fine print, and these are the standard ways the industry operates — but hardware has been advertised in […]
A Case of Legal Drone Intrusion
Creep stalks woman with drone — legally ‘…The mysterious drone operator may be perfectly right. Legislation on new technologies can often take some time to catch up with the technologies themselves, and it’s perfectly possible he was technically operating within the law. ‘As the Atlantic notes, talking to a Harvard public policy expert, there would […]
Feds vs Apostrophe in Jimmy’s Peak
Feds Wage War on Apostrophes Its Practically Against the Law to Use the Mark in a Places Name ‘The Domestic Names Committee of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names doesn’t like apostrophes. Visitors to Harpers Ferry or Pikes Peak might not realize it, but anyone aspiring to name a ridge or a swamp after a […]
Boycott Monsanto with this Shopping App
Buycott Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart ‘…Burner created a mock interface for her app, but that’s as far as she got. She was waiting to find the right team to build out the back end, which could be complicated given often murky corporate ownership structures. ‘She wasn’t […]
The Anonymous Inbox by Aaron Swartz
The New Yorker finally launches Strongbox Use Strongbox to contact writers and editors at The New Yorker ‘Before his suicide in January, hacktivist Aaron Swartz was working on an ambitious project: an encrypted dead drop system that could receive and protect files from anonymous sources. Wired editor Kevin Poulsen, who met Swartz when his site […]
Are Facebookers Anti-activists?
Unbelievable. These haters are so cheap they even bully the respected paralyzed professor ‘…Israelis reacted angrily to the decision and Prof Hawking, 71, was subjected to a spate of abusive messages on Facebook mocking his physical disability. ‘Israel Maimon, the conference chairman, called the decision “outrageous and wrong” and added: “The academic boycott against Israel […]
Bill Gates: iPad Users are Frustrated
‘During a CNBC interview this morning, Gates continued to toe the party line insofar as he praised the benefits of Microsoft’s tablets and Windows 8 while explaining that iPad users are frustrated because they have trouble typing and creating documents. With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain share in what has been dominated by […]
Brain-dead Newscasters on School Crime
Too bizarre for words: The crime itself… The fact that a teacher apparently participated in and encouraged it… That the teacher is facing far less bail that the student… That the dimwitted newscasters didn’t focus on the fact that a LICENSED TEACHER IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA is accused of committing this crime against a […]
Darndest Things Kids Write
I’m still not sure if this one is funny or not. In fact, I think a psychologist should see the writer These 14 others are surely darndest Google Will Dare You to ‘Do-No-Discoverable-Evil’ Google Seeks ‘Do-No-Discoverable-Evil’ Patent Policy Violation Checker Abstract Methods and systems for identifying problematic phrases in an electronic document, such as an […]
Double-trouble for Taking Revenge on ex-Boss
If you will take revenge on one person, target wisely and don’t punish the innocents. This one got his revenge but doubled his troubles ‘Michael Meneses was employed at the company until January 2012, where he specialized in developing and customizing software used by the company to run its business operations, according to the FBI. […]
