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How A Good Samaritan Was Arrested For Driving Drunks Home
Some guy's friend gets killed by a drunk driver and he decides to do something about it. He starts a service to keep drunks off the road by offering free rides home. It turns out that Quincy, Illinois, is well stocked with semi-responsible drunks, so "business" booms. He adds another car to the service, and eventually a bus. Local taxi companies [...]
Vancouver Police push disabled woman to the ground
Wow! If a civilian walked up to a cop and pushed them down, they would have been beaten, arrested, and put in prison. Hell, we can't even take a photograph of a LEO, curse at one, or let a bubble land on them without being thrown against a wall and arrested. This is disgusting and is yet just another example of why people that want to be LEOs [...]
Congressman Bob Etheridge assaults student on Washington sidewalk
"I have a right to know who you are" Um, no you don't.
HOWTO: Disable Copy-and-Paste Hijacking Web Sites
Over the last few months I’ve noticed an annoying trend on various web sites, generally major newspaper and magazine sites, but also certain blogs. What happens is that when you select text from these web pages, the site uses JavaScript to report what you’ve copied to an analytics server and append an attribution URL to the text. So, for [...]
If Google told you to jump off a cliff, would you?
You know those warning labels on those chemical packets that come in new shoes that say 'do not eat'? Have you ever wondered why they have to print something so stupidly obvious? Enter Lauren Rosenberg of Park City, Utah. She used Google Maps on her Blackberry to get walking directions from one part of town to another. Part of those [...]
Australian customs searching laptops for porn
There are far more convenient ways to smuggle porn into a country... are they not aware of this thing called the internet? Patten said officials now had an unfettered right to examine travelers' electronic devices, marking the beginning of a new era of official investigation into people's private lives. She questioned whether it was appropriate [...]
Five high school students sent home for wearing American flag shirts in Morgan Hill, CA
On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galli and his four friends would not even be noticed for wearing T-shirts with the American flag. But Cinco de Mayo is not any typical day especially on a campus with a large Mexican American student population. Galli says he and his friends were sitting at a table during brunch [...]
Congress Refuses to Outlaw Insider Trading For Lawmakers
Even a cynic can find Washington's hypocrisy shocking at times. The Wall Street Journal reports today a House bill that would force lawmakers to make greater disclosures on financial transactions and disallow them from trading on nonpublic information is going nowhere fast. That's right. Members of Congress are currently allowed to profit on [...]
Canadian dollar hits parity vs. U.S. dollar
The Canadian dollar rose to one-for-one footing with the U.S. currency on Tuesday, hitting its strongest level since July 2008, boosted by rising commodity prices and expectations for higher domestic interest rates.At 7:38 a.m. (1138 GMT), the Canadian dollar was at C$1.0008, or 99.92 U.S. cents. Earlier, the currency rose to C$0.9999 to the U.S. [...]
How the American phone companies used to feel about privacy
Back in 2008, Matt Blaze put the push for immunity for telcos that participated in GW Bush's illegal wiretapping program in context: "As someone who began his professional career in the Bell System (and who stayed around through several of its successors), the push for telco immunity represents an especially bitter disillusionment for me. Say what [...]
Yelp extorts businesses by allegedly putting up fake bad review and then telling them to pay up to remove it.
Yelp, the online review site, is being accused of extortion in a class-action lawsuit filed in Los Angeles this week. The suit alleges that the site tried to get a Long Beach veterinary hospital named Cats and Dogs Animal Hospital to pay $300 a month — for a minimum 12-month commitment — to suppress or delete reviews that disparaged the [...]
School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home
According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools' administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families. The issue came to light when the [...]
Tea Party Inc. Founder, Judson Phillips: “I Want To Make Millions From This Movement”
Embattled Tea Party Nation, Inc. owner Judson Phillips has been making the media rounds to defend his up-coming, February 4-6 conference at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Disillusioned Tea Party volunteers are angry at Phillips for turning the grass-roots group into a for-profit venture without their consent and for charging more [...]
Taxpayers to Fork Out $2.5 Million for Single Census Ad During Super Bowl
Taxpayers might want to pay close attention to this Sunday's Super Bowl broadcast or they'll miss Uncle Sam's 30-second, $2.5-million reminder to stand up and be counted. That's what the Census Bureau paid CBS to get their message notched somewhere between a National Lampoon reprisal, a weird dude with big glasses, a beer-can house and men [...]
Craig Cunningham Has a Simple Solution for Getting Bill Collectors Off His Back. He Sues Them.
Craig Cunningham has made $20,000 from 18 lawsuits he's filed against debt collectors for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). In fact, it's something a part-time job/hobby for him. To ensnare his first FDCPA-violating collector, with voice recorder running, he called back the number they left on his answering machine, and [...]
United States Government data-laundering: Using corporate databases to get around privacy law
"Buying You: The Government's Use of Fourth-Parties to Launder Data about 'The People'," a paper by Columbia Law School's Joshua L. Simmons in the Columbia Business Law Review, describes the way that US government agencies circumvent the fourth amendment and privacy statutes by outsourcing their surveillance to private credit reporting bureaus and [...]
New Orleans cops use ancient “unnatural copulation” law to turn prostitutes into sex-offenders
New Orleans cops are busting hookers under a nineteenth century felony law against "unnatural copulation" (NOLA PD says that oral or anal sex count), which means that they have to register as sex offenders. And life as a sex offender is terrible... Of the 861 sex offenders currently registered in New Orleans, 483 were convicted of a crime against [...]
Body scanners can store and send images
A privacy group says the Transportation Security Administration is misleading the public with claims that full-body scanners at airports cannot store or send their graphic images. The TSA specified in 2008 documents that the machines must have image storage and sending abilities, the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) [...]
4Chan delivers “Youtube Porn Day,” and its still early in the day
Yep, just like they promised, youtube is now being flooded with adult videos disguised as disney pop-stars and cartoons. Some of the major news media, like BBC, have already reported this. Google was apparently aware of this and has been getting ready to remove videos asap, but I guess nothing can stop the power of the interwebz. Click the [...]
