A friend and I were discussing this kind of thing recently. As Mr. Doctorow says, “about time.” Of course, the case has almost zero chance of ever getting to court. The RIAA has a history of settling such counter-suits (as well as any lawsuit they bring, if it looks like they might not win) long …
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…the flap over the recent film of a shadowy possibly-living-thing in Loch Ness is more interesting for what it says about people than the possible existence of the Loch Ness Monster. Like Bigfoot and captured aliens from Roswell, the Loch Ness Monster may actually exist — after all, scientists didn’t think that rogue waves really …
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Call me a skeptic if you wish, but if there were a fog-shrouded hole in the Arctic Ocean that leads to the center of the Earth, wouldn’t it already be filled with the Arctic ocean?
Friday evening, I gave in to geek temptation (and a sale at Costco) and bought a Roomba. (That’s a robotic vacuum cleaner, for those who’ve been hiding under a rock for the last few years.) I set it up to charge last night, and let it loose in our living room this afternoon. I don’t …
Too bad this turned out to be a hoax. The Transportation Safety Administration has done enough stupid things in the name of “security” recently to make it easily believable.
…which just goes to show that you can turn anything mildly interesting into a cash cow. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to believe that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrial intelligences in the recent past, and I like a good conspiracy theory as much as anyone. But the preponderance of evidence suggests that this …
Interesting sports they have in Israel.
History is written by the winners –George Orwell (maybe)
Near-daily credit card offers by junk mail apparently aren’t enough. Now these credit-card pushers are having people cold-call us to try to get us hooked on debt. And they’re apparently off-shoring that too, because I could barely understand a word this woman mumbled through the extremely heavy accent. At least this one didn’t try to …
Internet users rejoice: one of the world’s top spammers has been indicted! Only another ten billion to go. No, there aren’t ten billion spammers at present, despite the evidence of your in-box. From what I’ve heard, there are only about 200 large spam operations at any one time. But that makes little difference when, like …
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