Ryan Cleary

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This is slick… I do however think it should have been a requirement by Makita that the holes should have been drilled with a Makita drill; even if they had to provide the drills and bits. Especially if there was going to be press coverage showing another drill… Maybe this should be posted over that the FAIL Blog…

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Ok… This is funny. If this offends you; get a life… I know way too many guitar players that are only this good.

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Just think… Batman and Billy Mays selling me that “magic bullet” smoothie maker thingy…

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or ran over him with Lightening McQueen. We’re all about the Pixar around here…

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Look at some of the chips in the pile. Even if you have no clue what they are, you either had one or used one back in the day…

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My quick reflex finger has gotten tired lately. Between Comcast and AT&T, I might have to get a prosthesis… I am glad to say that I work for a company that does not care what you do with the “pipe” we sell you. We don’t watch what you do, don’t do any “traffic shaping,” and you can Bit Torrent the hell out of it; at least until ARIN gets on us…

Found on www.gizmodo.com

AT&T’s Lame New Terms of Service Hate Mobile Video From Sling and P2P

That AT&T’s new terms of service for wireless frowns on snagging video over P2P isn’t surprising, but the fact that it effectively prohibits Slinging video to phones is mildly shocking and definitely lame.

Here’s the dirty clause, uncovered by Public Knowledge:

This means, by way of example only, that checking email, surfing the Internet, downloading legally acquired songs, and/or visiting corporate intranets is permitted, but downloading movies using P2P file sharing services, customer initiated redirection of television or other video or audio signals via any technology from a fixed location to a mobile device, web broadcasting, and/or for the operation of servers, telemetry devices and/or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition devices is prohibited.

That pretty much describes Sling in a nutshell—throwing video from your house to your phone. It remains to be seen how strict they’ll be on that, but it is lame cakes in writing, at least.

Net neutrailty just doesn’t apply to invisible internets, you know, since you don’t want them to run out. [AT&T via Public Knowledge via NewTeeVee]

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Where’s the RIAA when ya need em? Huh?

link to article on Boing Boing

Hugh from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "EFF’s Fred Von Lohmann asks whether President Obama broke any laws when he gave an iPod loaded with music and video to the Queen."

First, let’s imagine that the President (or his staff) bought the 40 show tunes from the iTunes music store. Do you "own" the music that you buy from iTunes? The nearly 9,000 words of legalese to which you agree before buying don’t answer that question (an oversight? I doubt it). Copyright owners have consistently argued in court that many digital products (even physical "promo" CDs!) are "licensed," not "owned," and therefore you’re not entitled to resell them or give them away. (And the Amazon MP3 Store terms of service are even worse for consumers than iTunes — those terms specifically purport to strip you of "ownership" and forbid any "redistribution.")

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