So We Went To The Zoo

2013-05-18 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions, tagged as linkdump

» Harvard Crimson now offering library sex tips - Col·lege In·sur·rec·tion
Applying for Obamacare | Power Line
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Mir in Kubuntu | Martin's Blog
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BMC's lost public libraries fight for survival - The Times of India: The Haji Yusuf Ismail Khatri Free Reading Room at Pydhonie is lost. Amid imitation jewellery shops, stores selling metal goods and yarn.
Question Everything: If it were a statutory instrument, it would have to go before the House
Exploring Ubuntu Touch, the other Linux OS for your phone | Ars Technica: It's far from done, but Canonical's mobile work-in-progress has some good ideas.
How the Internet Replaces Libraries — Annoyed Librarian
Networks in 2020: More traffic, less energy | PCWorld: Networks could use far less energy by 2020 even though they'll be carrying much more traffic, an industry group says.
Althouse: Let them eat insects.
BBC News - UN urges people to eat insects to fight world hunger: Eating insects could help fight world hunger, improve nutrition and reduce pollution, according to a new UN report.
The PJ Tatler » Coming Next January: New Tax Form to Comply With Obamacare Mandate
GNU Guix - News: GNU Guix 0.2 released [Savannah]: Savannah is a central point for development, distribution and maintainance of Free Software. It allows contributors to easily join existing Free Software projects.
Cinnarch successor Antergos arrives - The H Open: News and Features: Replacing Cinnarch, Antergos offers a GNOME-defaulting, but fairly desktop agnostic take on Arch Linux. With an additional graphical installer, Live CD option, and more it's sure to pick up some fans for its approach to desktop Linux
UN Bugs Out, Tells the Hungry to Eat More Insects | Jammie Wearing Fools
Open source cellular targets rural comms • The Register
French proposal would tax smartphones and tablets to fund cultural projects | The Verge: Reuters reports that a new proposal delivered to French President Francois Hollande today would create a one percent tax on the sale of internet-connected devices, like smartphones and tablets, to...
New Prenda letter threatens to tell neighbors about porn accusations | Ars Technica: Sprawling case may be porn troll's "last stand," but it looks massive.
What’s a Library?: Written by a man rich enough to live on W. 53rd St. who’s never been to the library and Googles everything | The Travelin' Librarian
America’s broken jobs machine and the long-term unemployed | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
A long-term problem for the economy - Economics - AEI
Althouse: There's no "upper limit on penis size" but "'the most attractive penis size' appeared to fall outside the range used in the study..."
Women Find Men With Bigger Penises More Attractive, Study Says | TIME.com: Call it sexist or sensationalist, but now science suggests it's so: women find men with bigger penises more attractive. (UPDATED) Reporting in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, researchers led by Brian Mautz, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa in C...
Althouse: Michael Tomasky thinks the idea of impeaching Obama is "industrial-strength insane," which is why the GOP will try to do it.
The Coming Attempt to Impeach Obama - The Daily Beast: Impeachment would be insane, but Republicans will probably try anyway, predicts Michael Tomasky.
The PJ Tatler » White House Counsel Knew in April of IRS’s Targeting of Conservatives
The PJ Tatler » A Few of the Crazy Things the IRS Asked Conservative Groups to Divulge Add Up to a Pattern and Purpose
The PJ Tatler » Justice Dept. Secretly Makes ‘Massive and Unprecedented’ Grab of AP Phone Records
The PJ Tatler » Did Dem Sen. Max Baucus Urge the IRS to Target Conservatives?
Ed Driscoll » Obama Justice Department Seizes AP Phone Records
Rumor: AT&T Discontinuing HTC First Amidst Lackluster Sales | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Sluggish sales of the HTC First have reportedly prompted AT&T to discontinue sales of the smartphone, the first to come pre-loaded with the Facebook Home experience.
AP: DOJ Seized Reporter Phone Records | National Review Online: The U.S. Department of Justice secretly obtained two months worth of telephone records from Associated Press reporters and editors, the news service announced on Monday:
Deja vu from 1976 … and CILIP Scotland express deep concern over cuts in Moray
Report: AT&T dropping Facebook phone after dismal sales • The Register
United Nations: 'Overpopulated Earth? Time to EAT BUGS' • The Register
Tea-Party Group’s Lawyer Brandishes Letter from Upper-Level IRS Specialist in D.C. | National Review Online
Dear Albuquerque Tea Party, From the IRS in Washington | National Review Online: Andrew, the letter that Jay Sekulow (Jay is our ACLJ Chief Counsel, and my boss) brandished on Megyn Kelly’s show can be read here. It’s from an attorney, a “Tax Law Specialist” in “Exempt Organizations Technical Group 1″ in Washington to the Albuquerque Tea Party, and it’s notable for a number of reasons.
Top Tea-Party Politicians Blast IRS | National Review Online: Some of the best-known politicians in the tea-party wing of the GOP are fuming over the IRS’s decision to target conservative groups in investigations.

Senator Mike Lee of Utah tells National Review, “you don’t ever want to have American citizens fearing that their participation in the political process, whether as individuals or through a group, will [put] them or the group in which they’re involved [at risk for] discriminatory targeted treatment by the IRS or by any other government regulator.”
IRS Demanded That Would-Be 503(c)4 Group Turn Over Its Reading List
Lodsys patent rampage continues as Activision and Capcom get sued | Ars Technica: Apple's intervention can't stop the lawsuits—five more were just filed.
Althouse: "The same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election..."
Progressive Group: IRS Gave Us Conservative Groups' Confidential Docs: The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group ProPublica says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was pending.
Althouse: "The National Transportation Safety Board recommended that all 50 states lower the threshold from 0.08 blood-alcohol content to 0.05."
Tougher drunk-driving threshold proposed to reduce traffic deaths | FOX6Now.com: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A common benchmark in the United States for determining when a driver is legally drunk is not doing enough to prevent alcohol-related crashes that kill about 10,000 people each year and should be made more restrictive, transportation safety investigators say.
The PJ Tatler » IG Report: IRS Discrimination Against Conservatives Due to ‘Ineffective Management’
The PJ Tatler » NAACP Chair Emeritus Backs IRS Targeting of Conservatives
The PJ Tatler » IRS Demanded Tea Party Group’s Reading List. Their Response is an Instant Classic.
IRS Asks for Reading List, Tea Party Group Sends Constitution - ABC News: (Image Credit: Visions of America/UIG via Getty Images) When Marion Bower decided to start her tea party organization in 2010, she didn’t know that it would take nearly two years for the Internal Revenue Service to approve her request for tax-exempt status. The Ohio woman also did not expect that providing information about the books her group read would be part of the application process. “I was trying to be very cordial, but they wanted copies of unbelievable things,” Bower told ABC News today. “They wanted to know what materials we had discussed at any of our book studies.”…
Criminal probe of IRS launched as report details targeting of conservative groups - The Washington Post: The IRS developed “inappropriate criteria” focused on conservative groups that stalled work on most of the organizations’ applications for nearly 13 months, report finds.
The PJ Tatler » Carney: Just Because the IRS Apologized Doesn’t Mean They Did Anything Wrong!
The PJ Tatler » TV News Anchor: IRS Is Targeting Me!
The Volokh Conspiracy » Congressional Inquiry of IRS Targeting of Israel Groups
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Launches Criminal Investigation into IRS
The Volokh Conspiracy » IRS Disclosed Confidential Material Too
So Long, Cinnamon: Cinnarch Linux is reborn as Antergos | PCWorld: GNOME 3 is now the default desktop in this newly renamed Linux distribution.
VodkaPundit » “IRS sent confidential info on conservatives to liberal nonprofit ProPublica…”
VodkaPundit » Here’s What Else Needs to be Said
KMOV anchor: The IRS is targeting me - POLITICO.com: UPDATE (8:31 p.m.): In a segment on KMOV 4 on Tuesday night, Conners disclosed that his issues with the IRS predated his 2012 Obama interview "by several years."Larry Conners, a veteran local news anchor at KMOV Channel 4 in St. Louis, says that the Internal Revenue Service has been targeting him since an April 2012 interview he conducted...
The Jawa Report: IRS Asked For Reading List Of TEA Party Group: Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
The Jawa Report: NAACP Chairman: 'Legitimate' For IRS To Target 'Admittedly Racist' TEA Party,The 'Taliban Wing Of American Politics'..: Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
“Senate Democrats ordered IRS in 2010 to investigate 501(c) groups, letter shows” | protein wisdom
Senate Democrats ordered IRS in 2010 to investigate 501(c) groups, letter shows
Feature light Firefox 21 lands - The H Open: News and Features: Some new social API providers, a tweak to Do Not Track and the integration of the Firefox health report are some of the few user facing features of Firefox 21. There are also changes of interest to developers and web designers, but not many
Facebook Shoots Social Roulette Game Dead | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Social Roulette, a game of chance that offers a one-in-six possibility of deleting your social network account, has been blocked from Facebook just days after it launched.
IRS Inspector General Report: Almost 300 Conservative Groups Targeted, Every Application With “Tea Party, Patriots, Or 9/12 In Their Names” Were Singled Out… | Weasel Zippers
IRS Asks for Reading List, Tea Party Group Sends Constitution | Jammie Wearing Fools
“Every library should have a Hulk”: An interview with the man behind a great libraries idea
Judge orders redacted Aaron Swartz prosecution docs to be revealed • The Register
Justice Department defends surveillance of AP reporter phone calls | The Verge: The Associated Press reported yesterday that the Justice Department conducted widespread surveillance of its reporters' phone calls, potentially revealing "communications with confidential sources...
Transterrestrial Musings - The Question That Launched The IRS Scandal
Daring Fireball Linked List: How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion
How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion - Onion Inc.'s Tech Blog: This is a write-up of how the Syrian Electronic Army hacked The Onion. In summary, they phished Onion employees’ Google Apps accounts via 3 …
» IRS officials in D.C. in on Tea Party targeting, Cincinnati office leaked tax docs - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Althouse: The cynicism question: What do you want — ἁτυφια or τύφος? Lucidity or smoke? Clarity or choom?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Seizure of the AP’s Phone Records a “Non-Story”?
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Non-Story of the AP Phone Records, At Least So Far
Lonely Cactus: Lessons from Ceefax
Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write - The H Security: News and Features: If you thought Skype messaging was private, think again. The H's associates at heise Security have discovered that Skype/Microsoft analyses all data sent using the service
Sun lets loose with THREE record eruptions in 24 hours • The Register
Google abruptly shuts down search-by-SMS portal • The Register
BBC News - Seven million Brits have 'never used the internet': More than seven million adults in the UK have never been online, official figures say, with the elderly remaining the least connected.
Chinese internet: 'a new censorship campaign has commenced' | World news | guardian.co.uk: Murong Xuecun, who has had his accounts deleted, explains how bloggers compare being silenced on the internet to being put to death
Opinion: Google Glass, the beginning of wearable surveillance - CNN.com: Michael Chertoff says imagine wearing the equivalent of a drone on your head everyday. Scary, isn't it?
Syrian rebels launch assault on Aleppo prison
Twitter / AJELive: An internet intel group is ...
Prenda can’t find that darned “Salt Marsh” signature | Ars Technica: A current Prenda lawyer blames a former Prenda lawyer. But yeah, it's "lost."
» @SodaStreamUSA response to Limbaugh boycott: “We continue to advertise” - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Complete copy of Treasury Report on IRS targeting of Tea Party and conservatives - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
How to Make Library School Harder — Annoyed Librarian
Guest Post: The Brewing Generational Conflict | Zero Hedge: The promises made to the 76 million baby Boomers cannot be met. It's really very simple: promises made when the economy was growing by 4% a year and the next generation was roughly double the size of the generation entering retirement cannot be fulfilled in an economy growing 1.5% a year (and only growing at all as the result of massive expansions of public and private debt) in which the generation after the cohort entering retirement is significantly smaller. We desperately need an adult discussion focused on reality rather than resentment. The solution will require dismantling open-ended, everyone-deserves-everything Medicare, which will bankrupt the nation itself. The solution is currently "impossible". What nobody dares say is that if the 76 million Boomers press their claims to the point the nation is bankrupted, then the next generations (X and Y) will have to wrest political power from the retirees, not for their own sake but for the sake of the nation and for the generations behind them.
The Unintended Consequence Of The Soaring Dollar | Zero Hedge: It seems the S&P 500's recent strength is somehow comforted by the fact that the USD is riding high on its cleanest dirty shirt meme at 34 month highs but unfortunately for the Chinese (and their practical peg to the USD), things are a little less fun than in the old mercantilist manipulation days. The implicit benefit that dollar flows appear to be getting (via the wealth effect in the US stock market) is not there in China (lower equity ownership); in fact, the rising Yuan is drastically hurting them as despite export orders remaining in growth mode, the China Daily reports that "most exporters in the delta region have told us that the rising yuan value has led to a big profit decline." Of course, the exporters are calling for a weaker Yuan but as the nation struggles with an exploding shadow banking system, bubbles in real estate and credit, and inflation concerns it knows that any implicit effort to weaken the CNY will create a surge in capital inflows and fuel further imbalances. China remains in the middle of the 'currency war'-driven inflation rock and 'sagging growth' hard place; and with two 91-day bill issues in the last week (in addition to repo) the clear signal (masked by export data fudges) is that China is much more worried about inflation than it is letting on (and has little ability to manage hot money inflows).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Did the Leak of the CIA Operation in Yemen Justify “Very Aggressive Action” to Investigate Its Source?
Publisher Threatens to Sue (Librarian) Blogger for $1-Billion | The Travelin' Librarian
Publisher Threatens to Sue Blogger for $1-Billion - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education: Jeffrey Beall has criticized the publisher on his blog. The company, based in India, says his comments are criminal under Indian law.
The PJ Tatler » Axelrod: Government is ‘So Vast’ Obama Can’t Know About All the Bad Things It’s Doing
Syria disappears from the Internet again | PCWorld: Internet traffic to and from Syria, a country engulfed by civil war, again came to a halt on Wednesday, according to Internet monitoring company Renesys.
Adventures in administrative law | Power Line
High tide of Obamaism | Power Line
Weblog for dkg - OpenPGP User ID Comments considered harmful: Tips for a Debian GNU/Linux System Administrator.
Open source project licensing | Sascha's Hideout: A site about open source and personal opinion.
Skype is following your links – that’s proprietary for you | /home/liquidat - Open Source, Linux and Business
United States of Surreality | protein wisdom
Raspberry Pi camera module now available - The H Open: News and Features: After being in development since late last year, the Raspberry Pi camera module is available to purchase and the software to support it is now built into Raspbian
Canonical to maintain Linux 3.8 until August 2014 - The H Open: News and Features: Canonical employees have announced that they plan to provide security fixes and minor improvements for Linux kernel version 3.8 until August 2014. However, the code will be maintained separately from the official stable and long-term kernels
Axelrod: Obama Couldn’t Have Possibly Known About His IRS Scandal Because the Government Is Too Big | Jammie Wearing Fools
librarian.net » Blog Archive » What is going on with New York’s public libraries?
The Road to Graduation | National Review Online: It takes students an average of 5.5 years to graduate from public universities, says Harry Stille, head of the Higher Education Research/Policy Center in Greenville, S.C. He is in the process of quantifying taxpayers’ cost of subsidizing students who take too long to graduate (and often just drop out without finishing). His estimate for Arizona State is $26 million a year.
Stephen Hawking Backs Academic Boycott of Israel | National Review Online: In a Hardwire post I examine the latest high-profile academic to join the “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions” movement — in this case, famous author and physicist Stephen Hawking. Hawking pulled out of an academic conference in Israel, where he had been scheduled to speak, after coming under intense pressure from organizers of the anti-Israel BDS campaign.

Hawking declared that he made the decsion after consulting “Palestinian colleagues,” who unanimously advised him to boycott the conference.
EU wants the Swiss and pals to cough up IT giants' hidden bank info • The Register
Transterrestrial Musings - “Get Up Off The Floor”
On Librarians Writing | Academic Librarian
Get Up Off The Floor | According To Hoyt: It's ALL In the Game
Google beefs up Hangouts into text, photo, video chat powerhouse | Ars Technica: Babel opens hailing frequencies and unites Google+, Google Talk video/text chat.
» IRS Acting Commissioner Resigns Amidst Scandal - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
The $7,000 master’s degree | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
The PJ Tatler » Breaking: Miller Claims He’s Only Leaving the IRS Because His Term Ends In June
The PJ Tatler » IRS Acting Commissioner Resigns (Updated)
Syrian Internet service comes back online | PCWorld: Internet traffic in and out of war-torn Syria has been restored after a disruption of nearly eight and a half hours, according to Internet traffic charts.
Is Stephen Hawking's academic boycott of Israel ethical? - Technology & Science - CBC News: British physicist Stephen Hawking's decision last week to boycott a major international conference in Israel in June has been controversial. Two academics shared with The Current their contrasting views on whether such boycotts are ethical and effective.
Exploit for local Linux kernel bug in circulation - The H Open: News and Features: A bug that was already fixed in the development branch of the kernel back in April was not identified as being security relevant and can therefore still be exploited on many systems
Double standard? IRS targeted conservatives, despite spike in applications from labor groups | Jammie Wearing Fools
Update Tuesday. IRS Plot thickens slightly. Never try to rape a hornets nest. « Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle
Open Source is not a sport for the armchair quarterback - Jorge's Stompbox: Earlier this week the techboard asked what we should do with Brainstorm. Having been involved with Brainstorm since almost the beginning, I felt it …
Australia downloads a limping 13 Mbps, says Ookla • The Register
It’s Not Erectile Dysfunction, It’s Erectile Discrimination | Chateau Heartiste: (by CH)
Hilarious Headline from Dan Foster of NRO
Study: Dan Foster Types More Likely to Be Conservatives | National Review Online: From the Daily Mail: ”Men who are physically strong are more likely to take a right wing political stance, while weaker men are inclined to support the welfare state, according to a new study.”
Men who are physically strong are more likely to have right wing political views | Mail Online: Research published in Psychological Science found that while stronger men like Arnold Schwarzenegger are more likely to be right wing, weaker men are more likely to support the welfare state.
Michelle Obama to College Grads: ‘How Are You Going to Respond When You Don’t Get that Job You Had Your Heart Set On?’ (VIDEO): First Lady Michelle Obama delivered the commencement address at Eastern Kentucky University this week. She avoided the traditional exuberant optimism of so many graduation speeches. Instead, she told students to prepare themselves for disappointed hopes. “How are you going to
10 Perspectives Into The Slow, Agonizing Death Of The American Worker | Zero Hedge: The middle class American worker is in danger of becoming an endangered species. The politicians are not telling you the truth, and the mainstream media is certainly not telling you the truth, but the reality is that there is nothing but bad news on the horizon for workers in the United States. The American people inherited the greatest economic machine in the history of the world, and we have wrecked it. Decades of very foolish decisions have resulted in the period of steady economic decline that we are experiencing now. Today, American workers are living in an economy that is rapidly declining, and their jobs are steadily being stolen by robots, computers and foreign workers that live in countries where it is legal to pay slave labor wages. Politicians from both political parties refuse to do anything to stop the bleeding because they think that the status quo is working just great. So don't expect things to get better any time soon. The following are 10 charts that demonstrate the slow, agonizing death of the American worker...
Trip Report of DPLA Audience & Participation Workstream | Disruptive Library Technology Jester
Hands on with Hangouts, Google’s new text and video chat architecture | Ars Technica: XMPP support remains for clients, but federation with Jabber is out.
Blogger writes about predatory publishing, is threatened with $1B suit | Ars Technica: Citing India law, firm informs Jeffrey Beall he could face up to three years too.
» Infamous LulzSec Hackers Get Jail Time - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
US budget forecast: ‘Around 2023 demographics trends turn brutal’ | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Brain drain to Wall Street: Goldman Sachs hires ‘God particle’ physicist | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
The Volokh Conspiracy » President Calls IRS Conduct “Inexcusable”
New tablet boots Ubuntu Linux, Android, and Windows 8 | PCWorld: Can't decide among operating systems? This tablet lets you have it three ways.
Review: MarkdownPad makes composing Markdown even easier than usual | PCWorld: With instant preview, custom CSS, and hotkeys for many Markdown features, MarkdownPad makes composing text for the Web easy, simple, and fun.
“IRS Scandal Raises Specter of Politically Motivated Healthcare Denials” | protein wisdom
Byron York: IRS scandal raises fears about enforcing Obamacare | WashingtonExaminer.com: The Internal Revenue Service scandal would be bad enough if the IRS just handled issues like collecting income taxes and granting nonprofit status. But the immensely powerful federal agency is about to become even more powerful with the arrival of national health care, and that makes the still-unfolding scandal even more troubling.
When I hold town meetings, a great deal of distrust comes through about the size and increasing power of government, says Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa. The IRS targeting crystallizes that distrust in a very big way because of the IRS' reach into taxpayer information. What's happened heightens fears about how the IRS will handle taxpayer information and wield its power when it enforces Obamacare starting next year.
The IRS is critical to Obamacare. The structure created by the Affordable Care Act requires the government to know about both the health care coverage (or lack of it) and the financial resources of every American. The IRS, which already knows the latter, was the only agency with the reach to do the job.
Google+ Games Going Dark in June | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Google+ Games will be discontinued on June 30, 2013.
Tweets Now Storming Yahoo's Newsfeeds | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Tweets are one step closer to being unavoidable with Yahoo's announcement that it will incorporate the 140-character messages into its homepage newsfeed.
Report: Christianity Facing “Catastrophic Collapse” In Britain, Number Of Muslims Surges By 75%… | Weasel Zippers
White House Wants You To Describe “Obamacare In Three Words”… | Weasel Zippers
Iron Law and Hatch Act; Steven Vincent Benet on War; When Galaxies Collide « Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle
The IRS’s Intern Audit | National Review Online: What about your interns?

That in effect was the question the IRS asked a longstanding conservative organization between 2011 and 2012, according to documents obtained by National Review Online. The tax-collecting agency sought to identify and track student interns at the Leadership Institute, a conservative educational organization based in Virginia.
First Lady to College Grads: Prepare for Disappointment | National Review Online: First Lady Michelle Obama picked up an honorary doctorate at Eastern Kentucky University this week. She also gave the commencment address. One particular line in her speech caught my ear: “How are you going to respond when you don’t get that job you had your heart set on?” she asked the crowd of young graduates.

A suitable question for these tepid economic times, don’t you think?

(More details and video from the speech in my latest Hardwire post.)
Two surveys show the importance of libraries
The legitimacy of elections | RedState: As the IRS scandal grows, it comes dangerously close to challenging the legitimacy of the 2012 election.
Google on Glass privacy: 'If I'm recording you, I have to stare at you' | The Verge: The team behind Google Glass defended its creation against against privacy worries in a Google I/O fireside chat with developers on Thursday. When asked what the privacy implications of Glass'...
Congress asks Google CEO if Glass infringes 'on the privacy of the average American' | The Verge: For all that's been said about the tremendous innovations of Google Glass, privacy concerns have only grown louder since the project's introduction last year. As Google's Explorer Edition continues...
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: You Belong to Us
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Celestial Junk: American Fascist: Comes Complete With Cult of Personality
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: Third World America
Google wants your WordPress blog—and everything else—in its cloud | Ars Technica: Google adds PHP to AppEngine, tweaks compute and storage services to match AWS.
Michael Geist - Why Creators and Consumers Should Welcome the "Netflix Threat": Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., netflix threat
The PJ Tatler » Hey, Remember When Harry Reid Pestered Mitt Romney About His Taxes?
The PJ Tatler » Holder Doesn’t Know if Born-Alive Infants Protection Act has Ever Been Enforced
The PJ Tatler » Report: ‘Rogue’ IRS Workers Were Following Orders
Why some Web sites are much slower than others | PCWorld: John asked why one Web page
The Jawa Report: Lets Play Follow the Meme: Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
RIPE: Attacks on domain name systems are on the increase - The H Security: News and Features: At the meeting of the RIPE IP address registry, discussions revolved around how to get black sheep to implement overdue security measures
The DiploMad 2.0: Scandal-palooza! Obama's Biggest Achievement: Making Al Capone Look Good
Bell and Astral merger: Netflix isn’t the enemy: Geist | Toronto Star: Content creators and consumers should welcome familiar adversary
Michael Geist - Why Creators and Consumers Should Welcome the "Netflix Threat": Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., netflix threat
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: The Destroyer of Trust
Apple CEO: “We’re going very deep” with US manufacturing | Ars Technica: Apple looking at Arizona, Texas, Illinois, Florida, and Kentucky.
The PJ Tatler » Gallup: Americans have ‘Comparatively Low’ Interest in Benghazi, IRS Stories
The Volokh Conspiracy » No, the IRS Is Not an “Independent Agency”
Petter Reinholdtsen: How to transform a Debian based system to a Debian Edu installation
Effective Conference Calls | etbe - Russell Coker: I've been part of many conference calls for work and found them seriously lacking. Firstly there's a lack of control over the call, so when someone does
Google Cloud Messaging Update Boosted by XMPP: As you know, ProcessOne is about realtime messaging. Our core component is XMPP ejabberd scalable and ubiquitous server. We recently acquired Boxcar
Looking towards Xubuntu 13.10 « Xubuntu: Xubuntu – Home page for Xubuntu, the elegant and easy-to-use operating system.
Skype's ominous link checking: facts and speculation - The H Security: News and Features: Our associate's discovery that URLs sent through Skype are then visited by Microsoft has caused quite a stir. A little more information has now emerged and leads to even more questions
ownCloud fixes critical security vulnerabilities - The H Open: News and Features: The ownCloud developers have released versions 5.0.6, 4.0.15, and 4.5.11 to fix a number of serious vulnerabilities in their software including SQL injection, code execution and privilege escalation problems
FT Site, Twitter Feeds Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: The Financial Times is the latest publication to fall victim to hackers who align themselves with the regime of Syrian President Bashar-al-Assad.
Pelosi On Obamacare: It Will Cost More To Repeal It… | Weasel Zippers
A Modest Proposal for immigration | National Review Online: There is obviously, and properly, a rough-and-tumble debate going on about immigration reform. I am not a close student of the topic, but the arguments I see casually right now strike me as heavy on moral outrage and “studies” masquerading as knowledge. Here’s something I think we could do that might help somewhat.
Breaking news, LITERALLY: Financial Times vandalised by hackers • The Register
Who is the mystery sixth member of LulzSec? • The Register
US Department of Defense approves iPhones and iPads for military use | The Verge: The US Department of Defense has cleared Apple's iPhone and iPad for use on its military networks. Bloomberg reports that devices running Apple's latest iOS 6 operating system have been approved...
The horrifying (and fictional) wonders of Google Island | The Verge: At this week's Google I/O, many were surprised to hear CEO Larry Page muse about "set[ting] aside part of the world" for technological experiments. Wired's Mat Honan has the most imaginative take...
Syrian Electronic Army hacks Financial Times website and Twitter feed | The Verge: The Financial Times is the latest news organization to fall victim to the pro-Assad Syrian Electronic Army. Reuters reports that FT's website and Twitter account were both compromised earlier this...
Transterrestrial Musings - ObamaCare And Job Growth
Obamacare Slowing Job Growth, at Least for Now | Via Meadia
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: Truth is Inconvenient
FaceTime redux: AT&T nixes video chat on Google’s updated Hangouts | Ars Technica: AT&T says OS and device makers must enable the app—and only certain plans allowed.
» Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Financial Times in Group’s Latest Attack on News Outlets - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: The Jackboot
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: How Do You Pray?
T-Mobile drops anti-net neutrality lawsuit filed by MetroPCS, leaving Verizon on its own | The Verge: Cellphone carriers have generally met net neutrality proposals with varying levels of hostility, but Verizon and MetroPCS have been particularly belligerent: in 2011, they sued to overturn the...
Google TV: silent but not forgotten at I/O 2013 | The Verge: It's easy to miss the Google TV booth here at I/O 2013, hidden in the corner of the third floor. That may not be an accident: there was apparently no room in the company's sprawling...
Althouse: "It is absolutely not illegal" says IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, testifying today about the targeting of conservatives.
IRS Commissioner: "It Is Absolutely Not" Illegal For IRS To Target Conservatives | RealClearPolitics: Â
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Library of Congress a Legislative Department or an Executive Department?
Library of Congress Announces Essay Contest | News Releases - Library of Congress: The Library of Congress today announced a summer essay contest in conjunction with public libraries in the Mid-Atlantic region encouraging rising 5th and 6th grade students to reflect on books that have made a personal impact on their lives.
IRS: 'Please Detail the Content of Your Members' Prayers.' | National Review Online: Today’s hearing on IRS abuses had a lot of “are you kidding me?” moments, but this one stands out:

“It would surprise me that that question was asked,” acting commissioner Steven Miller tells Representative Aaron Schock, Republican of Illinois.
Assisted Religious Suicide | National Review Online: Charles C. W.
With Obama's Support, Reid Is Hoping to Exercise 'Nuclear Option' in July | National Review Online: On his blog at the Washington Post, Greg Sargent reports that Harry Reid is gearing up to exercise the “nuclear option” in July and that the president is right behind him:
Who Should Vote? Everyone, and More Than Once | National Review Online: There are four groups of people who are typically not allowed to vote in the United States: children, criminals, noncitizens, and the clinically insane. This week, the bohemian voters in Takoma Park, Md., decided to enfranchise 16-year-olds and felons; the city council of New York is contemplating enfranchisement of noncitizens. And of course the Left also resist
Adobe's Creative Cloud fails at being a cloud • The Register

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2013-05-11 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions, tagged as linkdump

Sign of the times? Occupy Wall Street dances around golden calf during May Day celebration – Glenn Beck
Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry by Gary Greenberg reviewed by Benjamin Nugent. - Slate Magazine: When I think of psychiatry, my first thoughts are unkind. I think of mildly sad people on antidepressants. I think of upper-middle-class parents putting their kids on Ritalin as soon as they flunk math, or misremember the lyrics to Dave Matthews songs. Pills seem so overabundant in our country that...
After conquering earth, Vint Cerf discusses 'interplanetary internet' | The Verge: Vint Cerf knows a thing or two about the internet. Along with Bob Kahn, Cerf is credited with developing the initial TCP internet standard over thirty years ago, and now spends his time looking...
CBS threatens to sue Aereo again, this time in Boston | The Verge: CBS indicated today in a heated Twitter post from one of the company's public relations executives that the media giant intends to file another copyright complaint against Aereo — this time in...
Aereo files suit against CBS to head off second copyright claim from network | The Verge: Aereo has filed a complaint today against CBS in an effort to prevent the network from filing additional lawsuits against the fledgling service.
Aereo is a web TV service that enables users to...
Open and Shut | National Review Online: In Impromptus today, I begin a series on Roger Kimball’s latest book,
Benghazi Coverup: Clinton Tried End-Run Around Counterterrorism Bureau on Night of Benghazi Attack | Jammie Wearing Fools
Olivia Sprauer modeling photos: Martin County High School teacher says she was asked to resign after pics surface: A Martin County High School teacher who had planned to resign at the end of the school year said she was asked to leave a month early.
Florida Teacher Asked to Resign Over Modeling Photos | Jammie Wearing Fools
Benghazi Whistleblower: Hillary Clinton Cut Counterterrorism Bureau Out During Attack On Consulate, “You Should Have Seen What She Tried To Do To Us That Night”… | Weasel Zippers
The DiploMad 2.0: Benghazi, Again
EU: Motorola Abused Power With Apple Injunction Requests | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Motorola abused its dominant position by filing a patent-related injunction request against Apple, according to the European Commission.
Rush Limbaugh may leave Cumulus - POLITICO.com: The Rush Limbaugh Program is considering ending its affiliation agreement with Cumulus Media at the end of this year, a move that would bring about one of the biggest shakeups in talk radio history, a source close to the show tells POLITICO. Should the move take place, 40 Cumulus-owned radio stations would lose the rights to the most popular talk radio...
Althouse: "The Rush Limbaugh Program is considering ending its affiliation agreement with Cumulus Media at the end of this year..."
Althouse: "When I think of psychiatry... I think of mildly sad people on antidepressants."
Aereo sues CBS to preempt deluge of copyright suits | Ars Technica: CBS had threatened to sue startup again in Boston—and everywhere else.
Aereo seeks to block CBS from suing in additional markets | Reuters: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Aereo Inc, the online television venture backed by Barry Diller, asked a federal court on Monday to block CBS Corp from suing it in new markets where it plans to expand.The startup
Regulator mulls setting rules for digital currency Bitcoin | Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. derivatives regulator is considering whether the Bitcoin virtual currency should be subject to its rules, a top official at the agency said.Bart Chilton, one of five
Google's Schmidt Concerned by Lack of Internet 'Delete Button' | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: The permanence of information on the internet, in some cases, goes against the basic principle of fairness in America, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said during a Monday talk at New York University.
When Did Google Become the Internet Police? | PCMag.com: And why aren't more people upset about it?
Library Campaign’s call to action on volunteer libraries: “Let’s get real”
Another Wikipedia Hoax Comes to an End After Nearly Four Years | LJ INFOdocket
Christian-run NHS surgery criticised for refusing to prescribe morning-after pill - Health News - Health & Families - The Independent: A Christian-run NHS GP surgery has attracted criticism for posting a notice warning that some of its doctors refuse to prescribe the morning-after pill to patients on grounds of conscience.
Adobe kills Creative Suite – all future features online only • The Register
YouTube channels at $1.99 per month could launch this week • The Register
Crazy like a Fox: how broadcast networks could rake in billions by going cable-only | The Verge: An array of Aereo's coin-sized antennas, designed to pick up TV signals and retransmit them to paying subscribers.
The bluster-fueled battle between upstart Aereo and incumbent over-the-air...
Internet Offline
“House of Horrors”: Disturbing new details released in Ohio kidnapping case – Glenn Beck
GOP Rep. Reads Previously Unreleased Benghazi Email During Hearing, Whistleblower Says He Was ‘Stunned’ Attack Was Blamed on Video | Video | TheBlaze.com: During Wednesday's highly anticipated Benghazi hearings, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) questioned Greg Hicks, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, about the Obama administration's response to the deadly attack. The South Carolina congressman also read a previously unreleased email sent by a State Department official...
Update: Syria drops offline for a day | Ars Technica: Sudden exit from Internet routes are a sign of government shutdown.
Those Correspondence Degrees — Annoyed Librarian
Eli Lake Slams C-SPAN Caller On Israel - Business Insider: "Enjoy your basement, sir."
Althouse: "Enjoy your basement, enjoy your conspiracies."
Prenda lawyer downplays devastating order, promises appeal | Ars Technica: Judge Wright is "no fan of intellectual property law," says John Steele.
Cleveland ‘House of Horror’ Neighbors Called 911; Police ‘Didn’t Take It Seriously’ : The Other McCain
Prenda hammered: Judge sends porn-trolling lawyers to criminal investigators | Ars Technica: Lawyers who obfuscated for years face disbarment and an $81,000 fine.
San Francisco gives up on cell phone warning stickers | Ars Technica: Reuters' reporting makes a hash of the science.
11 Arduino projects that require major hacking skills—or a bit of insanity | Ars Technica: Lawn care, Daleks, bug zappers prove the Arduino thrives as much as Raspberry PI.
Rubin Reports » Obama’s Unprecedented Claim: America Equals Government
Althouse: "The Cleveland police should be ashamed of themselves.... These girls were five minutes away."
Suspect in Cleveland Kidnapping Had Some Contact With Police - NYTimes.com: The authorities had been called two times to a house in Cleveland, Ohio, where three young women who disappeared about a decade ago were found.
Cleveland kidnapping house of horrors: Neighbors reported seeing naked women crawling on leashes, a woman with a baby pounding on a window for help ... but cops walked away 3 times - NY Daily News: What the neighbors saw was terrifying and dehumanizing: Naked women on dog leashes, crawling in the dirt. A lady clutching an infant and pounding on a window for help.
Amanda Berry 911 call: Dispatcher under investigation after 'cold' treatment of Cleveland kidnap victim | Mail Online: The 911 dispatcher - one of the first people Amanda Berry spoke to after her decade long captivity - has been criticized for not comforting the distressed caller and not keeping the 26-year-old on the phone until the police arrived.
Proposed U.S. law aims to counter cybertheft with import bans | PCWorld: A bill proposed in the U.S. Senate aims to block imports of products containing U.S. technology stolen online, a move that appears primarily directed at China.
The Jawa Report: El Diablo: The Castro Brothers Of Cleveland: Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Reports of sex abuse, beatings inside Cleveland house: Three young women who were held captive in a residential home for as long as decade are in 'fairly good' physical condition and have been returned to their families.
Plymouth is not a bootsplash
Julie Payette on Hollywood's space stories - The Buzz
Scientist Nikola Tesla's lab purchased for science center - Technology & Science - CBC News: A community group that raised $1.3 million in a six-week online fundraising effort has purchased a laboratory once used by visionary scientist Nikola Tesla.
National Research Council move shifts feds' science role - Technology & Science - CBC News: The National Research Council is now focusing more on practical, commercial science and less on fundamental science that may not have obvious business applications, says Gary Goodyear, minister of state for science and technology.
Debian release triggers distribution updates - The H Open: News and Features: The recent release of Debian 7.0, code-named "Wheezy", has triggered distribution updates of CrunchBang and aptosid. CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf" is now considered a stable release and aptosid 2013-01 was released as well
Report: Yahoo in Talks to Acquire Hulu (Again) | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: A new report claims that Yahoo is in preliminary talks to acquire online video service Hulu.
The Name ‘Pelosi,’ the Voldemort of Red House Districts | National Review Online: Today’s Morning Jolt features a preview of the Benghazi hearings, praise for an NR colleague, and then last night’s big news . . .

This Just In from South Carolina: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Hey, Democrats. You just spent a bundle and lost . . . to Mark Sanford.
The President's Perpetual Campaign Continues | National Review Online: The Pentagon accused China of cyber-espionage; the conflict in Syria is now “a brutal campaign of sectarian cleansing,” with death toll around 80,000;
Dear New FCC Chairman Wheeler, Please Stop the Attacks on the Internet | RedState: From the diaries... The Barack Obama Administration has nominated Tom Wheeler to replace Julius Genachowski as Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman. (Wheeler awaits Senate approval.) Wheeler has - Heaven forfend - actually held pertinent private sector gigs: Wheeler served as president of the National Cable Television Association (NCTA), and later as CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA). Many on the Left find Wheeler’s real-world experience and knowledge troubling: Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent (umm, he’s a Socialist), (said)... “I...am troubled that President Obama would appoint the former head of two major industry lobbying associations to regulate the industry.” Many on the Left find it very troubling:
The Metro experiment is dead: Time to unleash Windows Phone+ • The Register
Good news: Debian 7 is rock solid. Bad news: It's called Wheezy • The Register
Net darkness in Syria • The Register
Syrian internet access restored, state-run news says 'optic cable malfunction' caused outage | The Verge: After Syria effectively disappeared from the internet yesterday, service appears to be restored. Google's real-time transparency report shows that traffic is picking back up in the nation that's...
Syrian Internet Goes Dark, Leaving Questions and Uncertainty | Electronic Frontier Foundation: Anas Qtiesh (@Anas) and Rainey Reitman contributed to this report.
Obama’s Constitutionally-Challenged Labor Board Silent After Losing Another Legal Battle | RedState: So far, the National Labor Relations Board’s Office of Public Affairs has been unusually quiet since Barack Obama’s constitutionally-challenged NLRB appointees and their union cronies were dealt another blow on Tuesday by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
Walt at Random » Blog Archive » It Didn’t Work for Phil Ochs, It Doesn’t Work for Jeffrey Beall
Facebook news feed too quiet? Auto-play video ads are coming | Ars Technica: Try all you want, you can't hide your love of auto-play ads from Facebook execs.
» Only one brother in Cleveland kidnapping to be charged - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Blackout: Internet Traffic in Syria Suddenly Disappears - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Breaking news: Traffic from Syria Disappears from Internet - Umbrella Security Labs
BBC News - Syrian internet back after 19-hour blackout: The internet in Syria appears to have returned after a blackout that lasted more than 19 hours.
Study: US military too reliant on foreign-made equipment | PCWorld: The U.S. military's reliance on foreign-made products, including telecommunications equipment and semiconductors, is putting the nation's security at risk by exposing agencies to faulty parts and to the possibility that producing nations will stop selling vital items, according to a new report from the Alliance for American Manufacturing.
Ed Driscoll » It’s Philip K. Dick’s Universe; We’re Just Living In It
VodkaPundit » Windows 8.1: RUN AWAY!
Ubuntu SDK apps to get own package format - The H Open: News and Features: Ubuntu's phone and tablet developments have set Canonical on a path to create a new package format for simpler, single directory, no dependency apps, but some may find the format a little familiar
Internet Restored in Syria, Government Blames Severed Cable | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Internet access in Syria has returned, according to those monitoring Web traffic in the region, as well as Syrian media reports.
The Age National Times: Radio Australia may cut broadcasts to China/Indonesia | The SWLing Post
Biden: Giving Illegal Immigrants Amnesty Is About “Granting Them The Dignity And Respect They Deserve”… | Weasel Zippers
Bad news in Herefordshire, good news elsewhere. Questions in Manchester and Isle of Wight
One volunteer library, many questions: Walcot Library and matters arising
Divorcing sex from marriage | RedState: Mark Sanford's affair, and its aftermath, compared to Bill Clinton's misadventures.
Disaster, meet opportunity: Verizon's plan to push wireless on copper landline customers | The Verge: Last Friday, Verizon filed a proposal with New York state that would allow it to abandon traditional copper telephone lines in favor of wireless service in select areas. Companies like Verizon and...
Attack hitting Apache sites goes mainstream, hacks nginx, Lighttpd, too | Ars Technica: Linux/Cdorked backdoor exposes 100,000 Web visitors to potent Blackhole exploits.
A ruling class FYI | protein wisdom
Ubuntu dev proposes new package format for mobile apps • The Register
Celestial Junk: Canada: Is This Your Future?
Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » RERUN–Benghazi: Chicago Boyz
AOL vs. Netflix: The Entire Internet In One Simple Chart
Daring Fireball Linked List: AOL vs. Netflix: The Broadband Era Illustrated
Notes on the Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks | Disruptive Library Technology Jester
No joke: The Onion tells how Syrian Electronic Army hacked its Twitter | Ars Technica: Phishing attack, grabbing of Google credentials from employees exposed accounts.
» Elizabeth Warren finds way to inflate Higher Ed bubble even more - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion | TechCrunch: Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and college book joint venture with Barnes & Noble a..
A bit of good news on the US labor market | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Althouse: "A gastric band is not the answer to curing an overweight child."
As more teenagers have weight-loss surgery, a horrifying insight into the terrible price they pay as they grow up: Agony of the children give gastric bands as young as 13 | Mail Online: A shocking number of children undergo life-threatening surgery every year as a third of British children are classed as overweight before they start secondary school.
Althouse: "The women were chained in the basement during the first years of their captivity..."
Initial police report: Castro tempted women with rides, then abducted, beat and raped them | cleveland.com: A police source with access to the initial police report filed by the first responding officers said Castro tempted Berry, who was last seen wearing a Burger King uniform, with a ride to her home.
Castro suicide note blames his victims: report - NYPOST.com: He blamed everyone but himself.Cleveland cops found a self-pitying suicide note from accused dungeon master Ariel Castro that actually blamed his young victims for their imprisonment, law-enforcement...
What could Microsoft gain from buying Nook? | PCWorld: Microsoft's rumored $1 billion offer for the Nook brand seems like a bit of a head-scratcher—until you consider Nook's blossoming e-textbook business.
Estimate: 41 percent of all Windows 8 licenses sold aren't being used | PCWorld: Microsoft this week said that it had sold 100 million licenses of Windows 8 in the operating system's first six months. But how many copies are being used?
Hacking back: Digital revenge is sweet but risky | PCWorld: As cyberattacks increase, victims are fighting back. But retaliation has its own consequences—and may create more damage.
Battling over Beck | Power Line
Primal Beast Mode! | Everyday Athlete: Staying fit and healthy while relentlessly pursuing an extraordinary life
Wheezy was brought to you by … | nthykier: Things that I work on in Debian (by Niels Thykier)
Canonical plans dogfood-capable phones by the end of May - The H Open: News and Features: Canonical's developers are going to dogfood the Ubuntu phone just as soon as some important features get added to the current installable images. Ubuntu VP Rick Spencer is setting out to get that done by the end of May
PyPy 2.0 alpha on ARM includes Pi support - The H Open: News and Features: ARM support has arrived for the JIT-compiling Python interpreter, and that includes the Raspberry Pi. Although early days for PyPy on ARM, it appears to be performing well compared to the traditional C-based interpreter
The Onion details SEA/Twitter compromise - The H Security: News and Features: Details of how recent hijackings of high-profile news site Twitter accounts were carried out have been scarce, but The Onion, itself a victim, has now detailed the timeline of phishing and hijacking that took place when it lost control of its tweets
Ubuntu 11.10, 10.04 Desktop and 8.04 Server reach end of life - The H Open: News and Features: All versions of Ubuntu 11.10, the desktop version of Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS, and the server edition of Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS reach their end of life today. Canonical recommends users upgrade as soon as possible
New York City Considers Giving Non-Citizens The Right To Vote… | Weasel Zippers
Washington D.C. Dem Mayor Wants To Give Illegal Immigrants Driver’s Licenses… | Weasel Zippers
NYC Poised to Become First Major City to Allow Non-Citizens to Vote | National Review Online: New York City is poised to become the first major city to grant non-citizens the right to vote.

The New York City Council’s committeess on immigration and government relations will today hold joint hearings on a proposal that would allow non-citizens to vote in city elections, and backers of the effort say they have a veto-proof majority, according to the New York Daily News.
How Criminal-Gang Members Can Get Amnesty | National Review Online: One of the myriad loopholes in the Senate immigration reform bill could allow illegal immigrants who are known members of criminal gangs to become legal residents.
Microsoft 'poised' to SPAFF A BEELLION on e-book also-ran Nook • The Register
Syrian net access falls down some stairs, doing OK now • The Register
Voices for the Library» Blog Archive » Kathleen O’Neill – Assistant Librarian, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London
John McCain Wants To Blow Up The Cable Industry As We Currently Know It - Business Insider: McCain will try to let consumers pick the channels they want, thus skipping the annoying bundles.
Colleges Soak Poor Students to Funnel Aid to Rich - Bloomberg: U.S. colleges such as Boston University are using financial aid to lure rich students while shortchanging the poor, forcing those most in need to take on heavy debt, a report found.
White House: “Unless You’re A Native American, You Came From Someplace Else”… | Weasel Zippers
Mayor of London: England's Departure from EU Would be "Shot in the Arm" for Democracy
Copyright troll Righthaven finally, completely dead | Ars Technica: Never had standing to sue, Ninth Circuit confirms.
“Vaccine” against heroin keeps it out of the brain | Ars Technica: Addicted rats are less likely to relapse.
Microsoft looks to get Nook all to itself for $1 billion | Ars Technica: Nook sales haven't been too hot lately.
Hope and Chains: #WarOnWomen Kidnapper Is Cuyahoga County Democrat : The Other McCain
The PJ Tatler » ICE Warns: Gang of Eight Immigration Bill Grants ‘Virtually Unlimited Discretion’ to DHS
Canonical staff to get working Ubuntu phones by late May | PCWorld: By 'eating its own dog food,' the company says it hopes to accelerate progress on Ubuntu Touch.
AT&T Launches Aio, a New No-Contract Prepaid Wireless Service | PCWorld: The new plan is currently only available in a few cities, but will spread to more markets soon.
State of the Art Library to Open on NY's Upper West Side in 2015...But Existing Libraries Find Funding Slashed | LISNews:
NSA Internet Spying Guide Made Public | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: A 2007 NSA "Guide to Internet Research was made public recently via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Report: Snapchat Pics Not Self-Destructing | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: It turns out Snapchat's self-destruct function may have a fatal flaw: It saves users' images even after they were supposed to be deleted.
AT&T Launches No-Contract Service, Aio Wireless | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: AT&T today launched a new wireless service, dubbed Aio Wireless, that will provide customers with no-contract talk, text, and data.
librarian.net » Blog Archive » “Who are your guys?” some radical librarian resources
IQ and Immigration Policy | National Review Online: I haven’t read the supposedly racist Harvard dissertation of Jason Richwine, the coauthor of Heritage’s flawed immigration study. But I have read summaries of it in the coverage and have two related questions, both of which — in very different ways — undermine the relevance of the dissertation to the study.
“Fear of change”: William Sieghart interviewed
YouTube launches subscriptions with 53 paid channels • The Register
Google's cloud dumps custom Linux, switches to Debian • The Register
Why are scribes crying just 'cos Google copied their books? asks judge • The Register
Social engineering to blame in Syrian Electronic Army hijack of the Onion | The Verge: When the Syrian Electronic Army hijacked The Onion's Twitter account earlier this week, it was tough to tell if it was merely the satirical news site making fun the handful of major news...
John McCain proposes 'a la carte' cable bill, encourages death of sports blackout rule | The Verge: Senator John McCain today introduced the Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013, legislation that would encourage cable operators and entertainment conglomerates to unbundle channels and offer...
This Trendy “Strong is the New Skinny” Thing (and what it could mean for the next generation of girls) | Sophieologie: Society as Sophie Sees it. (by S)
New Ubuntu for phones due 'by end of May' – usable this time • The Register
Obama Now Says To Expect “Mistakes And Hiccups” In Obamacare Implementation… | Weasel Zippers
Release Critical Bug report for Week 19
The Jawa Report: Road To Fascism Checklist: Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Big Government in Wonderland | protein wisdom
Putting The Comprehensive In Immigration Reform
Report: ESPN may pay to exempt its content from wireless data caps | Ars Technica: Net neutrality groups raise alarm about rumored deal for preferential treatment.
» The FIRE: “The government has mandated speech codes on all campuses” - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Tablets can interfere with implanted defibrillators, stop hearts | Ars Technica: Science fair experiment shows cover-closing magnets disabling ICDs.
» Tunisian indicted in U.S. in connection with Canadian railway terror plot - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Social Media: Libraries Are Posting, but Is Anyone Listening? | The Travelin' Librarian
Social Media: Libraries Are Posting, but Is Anyone Listening?
Record stock market, record corporate profits. But record jobs — not so much. Is technological unemployment the reason why? | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
The PJ Tatler » The Mass Exodus of Christians from the Muslim World
The mass exodus of Christians from the Muslim world | Fox News: A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway. Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other.
The PJ Tatler » An Armed March on Washington Is A Horrible Idea
iTunes snub is another nail in the Windows RT coffin | PCWorld: Apple's cold shoulder isn't a death blow for Windows RT, but it is another critical knock against the beleaguered operating system.
Smartphones driving violent crime across US | PCWorld: On Feb. 27th in the middle of the afternoon, a 16-year-old girl was walking through San Francisco's Mission district when she was ordered at gun point to hand over her cellphone. The robbery was one of 10 serious crimes in the city that day, and they all involved cellphones. Three were stolen at gun point, three at knife point and four through brute force.
Appeals court ruling could be 'death' of software patents | PCWorld: A U.S. appeals court has ruled that an abstract idea is not patentable simply because it is tied to a computer system, signaling what one judge described as the
Academic institutions urged to take steps to prevent DNS amplification attacks | PCWorld: Colleges and universities are being encouraged to scrutinize their systems to keep them from being hijacked in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks.
Store Owner Installs $350K of Surveillance to Stop Frivolous Lawsuits | Wizbang
Spark • Is Canadian IP law equipped to deal with 3D printers?: Is Canadian IP law equipped to deal with 3D printers? 3D printer + 3D scanner = 3D photocopier. In theory, anyway. The price of 3D printers has been dropping for years. And now, affordable 3D scanners...
Rumor: U.K. Retailers Pull Nexus 4 Ahead of Google I/O | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: A pair of retailers in the U.K. have reportedly pulled Google's Nexus 4 from their shelves in anticipation of a newer version of the smartphone arriving next week.
The Onion Peels Back Layers of Syrian Electronic Army Twitter Hack | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: On Wednesday, The Onion took an atypical moment to very seriously detail how the Syrian Electronic Army hacked its Twitter account.
Penguins in spa-a-a-ce! ISS dumps Windows for Linux on laptops • The Register
Techies at The Onion: Here's how Syrian Electronic Army hacked our Twitter • The Register
Hear the Velvet Underground fade to static on a laser-cut wooden record | The Verge: Records can be made out of just about anything: vinyl, 3D-printed plastic, paper, even ice. Over at Instructables, Amanda Ghassaei has set out to push the limits of music formats — after trying...
thomas.apestaart.org » morituri and Hidden Track One Audio
The DiploMad 2.0: The Battle of Benghazi: Still not Getting to the Core of the Issue
The IT Crowd returns to Channel 4 for a final episode • The Register
Syria loses the Internet (again) | The SWLing Post
State records show Tsarnaevs quick to grab EBT cash | Jammie Wearing Fools
Not now, Apple: We've got the Pi-Phone, the smallest mobe network • The Register
Is the real US unemployment rate 11.3% or 7.5%? A new Goldman Sachs study offers an answer | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
FCC moves toward new airplane broadband service | PCWorld: The Federal Communications Commission has taken a major step toward helping more airlines offer in-cabin wireless broadband, with the agency voting Thursday to explore using new spectrum for air-to-ground broadband service.
Boston Police Commissioner: We Never Received Intel on Tamerlan Tsarnaev Until Day He Was Killed | Jammie Wearing Fools
Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform | Threat Level | Wired.com: Civil rights advocates are worrying that immigration reform the Senate began debating yesterday is the first step toward a national identification system that would grow into a dossier on Americans and chronicle our most every move. That's because buried in the more than 800-plus-page piece of bipartisan legislation is language calling for the creation of a national, biometric identification system for workers.
Beamcaster blasts the internet along lasers through the open air | The Verge: Using only beams of light, a new networking hub is able to distribute gigabit internet to a receiver as far as 18 feet away, reports Ars Technica. Earlier this week, RiT Technologies unveiled its...
A wireless network with frickin’ laser beams on the ceiling | Ars Technica: Beamcaster's optical links offer high throughput but require line of sight.
The PJ Tatler » DEA Closes Abortion Clinic That Was Stealing Women’s Blood
Ed Driscoll » The One Beer To Have When Your Ear Is Having More Than One
Pasky’s Log » Playing MP3 on Raspberry Pi with low latency
Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Body May Not Have Reached Its Final Stop; Locals Examining If Any Laws Broken In Burying Him There, And If They Can Ship Him Out | Weasel Zippers
“Student loans are like herpes with compound interest.” | RedState: Glenn Reynolds thinks that this Daily Show skit on our current student loan crisis will help collapse the (related) current educational bubble: The
Marathon bomber buried - NYPOST.com: Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was quietly buried in a Muslim cemetery in a small central Virginia community — stunning locals who had no idea the dead terrorist was there.Tsarnaev,

As The Production Suspension Begins

2013-05-05 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions, tagged as linkdump

Found things...

Another Example of How Our Miseducation System is Failing Our Kids | Wizbang
Moe Lane » Vaccinate your kids.
Boffins strap turbocharger to BitTorrent • The Register
Tapping Project Gutenberg to create computer-generated 'snowball' poems | The Verge: In yet another example of computers churning out art, Paul Thompson has built a C++ script that produces snowballs — poems where every line is a single word, with each successive word one letter...
Code4Lib Journal Issue #20 Published; My Editorial: “It is Volunteers All the Way Down…” | Disruptive Library Technology Jester
Notes on the Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks | Disruptive Library Technology Jester
Althouse: There was a time when people felt shame accepting a handout.
releng:4.12:roadmap [Xfce Wiki]
Nokia Betting on $20 Handset as It Loses Ground on IPhone - Bloomberg: As Nokia Oyj struggles to catch Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. in the market for smartphones costing $500 or more, it’s counting on a bare-bones handset that sells for just $20 to give it an edge.
Student Loan Bubble Cracks With Pulled Sallie Mae Bond Deal | Zero Hedge: In 2007 a small number of French hedge funds imploded over sudden losses stemming from highly leveraged bets made on the unstoppable subprime mortgage market. At the time, a few saw the writing on the wall; but many simply wrote it off as just another over-levered hedge fund and the subprime mortgage market was 'fine'. Fast forward six years and as we have discussed numerous times (most recently here and here) there is a bubble, potentially far bigger than subprime, in student loan debt. As one of the last remaining outlets for state-sanction credit creation, this is a big deal; but, of course, the popping of the bubble (or even a slight leak) is eschewed since there is so much 'reach for yield' and the Fed's got your back. That is until this week. As WSJ reports, Sallie Mae (SLM), the nation's largest non-government student lender just cancelled a $225 million debt offering as investors decided they simply were not getting paid enough for risk - amid rising student loan defaults. Simply put, there's a limit to what investors will tolerate.
Facebook deserted by millions of users in biggest markets | Technology | The Guardian: Facebook's dominance in the social media world has come under threat from newer services such as Instagram and Path
Ten ancestors of the netbook • The Register
Twitter warns news outlets of ongoing hacking threats, suggests more stringent security | The Verge: Several high-profile Twitter accounts have fallen victim to hacking attacks lately, and in response to the situation Twitter has issued a memo to media and news organizations suggesting steps they...
BT unleashes SIP licensing troll army • The Register
A French “Oui” for Gay Marriage? Not So Fast | Power Line
Proposed Democratic Resolution: Be It Resolved That Global Warming Is Going to Turn Women Into Whores and Coochmongers
Rehtaeh Parsons: a thought experiment | DamianPenny.com: A Nova Scotia family lawyer's blog
Rehtaeh Parsons: There may never be a case against the alleged rapists | Full Comment | National Post: Christie Blatchford's take on why there may never be a case against the alleged Rehtaeh Parsons rapists
Good Morning, Captain: open IP ports let anyone track ships on Internet | Ars Technica: In 12hrs, researchers log more than 2GB of data on ships due to Automatic ID Systems.
Congress tries to reset science grants, wants every one to be “groundbreaking” | Ars Technica: If lawmakers get their way, research like recent Higgs findings could disappear.
Supreme Court rules states can limit FOIA requests to their own citizens | Ars Technica: Alito declares "noncitizens have no comparable need" for public accountability.
» Australian PM denounces anti-Israel academic boycott movement - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Does not fit the BDS Jerusalem narrative - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
5 ideas to help the long-term unemployed | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
The PJ Tatler » The Bee, the Boom, and the Bloodyminded Left
The PJ Tatler » Congressional Democrats: ‘Climate Change’ May Turn Otherwise Good Women Into Whores
The Volokh Conspiracy » World Jewish Population, 2010
What Is This ‘Well Regulated Militia’ Business, Anyway? | Wizbang
Why online education is mostly a fantasy
What colour is your library?
“A pretty turbulent time”: BBC News covers public and volunteer libraries
Books gathering dust at libraries - Times Of India: KANPUR: The decreasing habit of reading is giving tough time to libraries, where book are gathering dust in the absence of readers. Even facilities like internet and very low registration charges
James Patterson and His Publishing Bailout Non-Plan TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics: James Patterson and His Publishing Bailout Non-Plan
Transterrestrial Musings - The Democrats Lost The Sequester
Linux 3.9 brings SSD caching and drivers to support modern PCs | Ars Technica: Improved Linux drivers boost support for Intel, ARM, and AMD hardware.
» Boston Bombings 2 Weeks Later – What We Do and Still Don’t Know - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
OverDrive Media Console Now Available on Linux | Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News: Overdrive is one of the largest technology companies that lays down the infrastructure for libraries to loan out digital books. If you have an Android,
OverDrive Media Console Now Available on Linux (kinda, sorta, more or less) | The Travelin' Librarian
Althouse: "So when Democrats are pushing to ban people on the 'Terror Watch List' from buying guns..."
Instapundit » Blog Archive » SO WHEN DEMOCRATS ARE PUSHING TO BAN PEOPLE ON THE “TERROR WATCH LIST” FROM BUYING GUNS, they’re rea…
BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 3.4.1 (DistroWatch.com News): News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
The PJ Tatler » Tough Spin For Dems: March Consumer Spending Up Because Temperatures Weren’t
Consumer spending rises, driven by utility costs | Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Consumer spending unexpectedly rose in March, temporarily boosted by demand for utilities due to colder weather, according to data on Monday that did little to alter a picture of
Mirandizing Tsarnaev — why the government should come clean | Power Line
Ed Driscoll » ‘Vichy Lives’ or, ‘We Are All National Socialists Now’
Steve Kemp's Blog: After you've started it seems like a bad idea?: After you've started it seems like a bad idea?
Open Build Service version 2.4 released - Open Build Service
Hacking on Ubiquity, the setup | Aurélien's Room: How I setup my system to work on Ubiquity, the Kubuntu installer
Guardian Twitter accounts hacked by Syrian hackers - The H Security: News and Features: Over the weekend, a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army hacked several Twitter accounts operated by The Guardian. Access to the newspaper's accounts was gained using simple phishing emails
DragonFly BSD 3.4 lands - The H Open: News and Features: The latest release of the BSD-derived operating system for clustered systems has improved performance thanks to work done when implementing a new packaging scheme, DPorts. There's also improved USB support and a switch of compilers
The world-changing libwww is 20 years old today - The H Open: News and Features: On 30 April 1993, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau were permitted to distribute the libwww library free of charge - a key WWW anniversary, marking the start of the history of the modern world wide web
Spreading Our Ideas in the Era of Drug-Dealer Journalism | National Review Online: The first Morning Jolt of the week offers a look at complaints about the White House Correspondents Dinner, some truly jaw-dropping statistics about the increasing rate of gun sales in this country, and then these thoughts on what I learned, and shared, at last week’s conference in Orlando:

Spreading Our Ideas in the Era of Drug-Dealer Journalism
DragonFly 3.4 released!
DragonFlyBSD: release34
From the ashes of Fuduntu, FuSE Linux is born | PCWorld: This brand-new distro will likely use the Consort desktop for a classic experience.
Citigroup: US economy will never be what it once was. Probably | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Duke faculty reject plan for it to join online consortium | Inside Higher Ed
Outgoing FCC chair: Wireless dominance by AT&T and Verizon a “very bad thing” | Ars Technica: Top wireless regulator defends 2011 call to block merger of AT&T and T-Mobile.
Distribution Release: Sabayon Linux 13.04 (DistroWatch.com News): News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
The PJ Tatler » ‘Fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we’re going to do with marriage when we get there.’
EFF: Trust Twitter -- but not Apple or Verizon -- to protect your privacy - Network World: Report reveals tech companies that actively protect user information from government scrutiny
Comparing Perl, Python, Ruby and PHP: Comparing Perl, Python, Ruby and PHP
News | Jitsi
Open Build Service 2.4 understands Arch Linux packaging - The H Open: News and Features: The openSUSE developers have released version 2.4 of the Open Build Service that powers the openSUSE Build Service. New features include support for Arch's PKGBUILD format and AArch 64
Twitter Fails With "Who to Follow" Recommendations | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com: With all the data Twitter collects, you'd think it could recommend some relevant people to follow.
Goracle: Current TV “Lifted Up” The Occupy Movement… | Weasel Zippers
The public library: Historic artifact or adaptive success? TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics: The public library: Historic artifact or adaptive success?
BlackBerry CEO: Tablets will be dead in 5 years • The Channel
Sources: Obama will name former telecom lobbyist Tom Wheeler as FCC head | The Verge: The White House will soon name former telecommunications industry lobbyist and businessman Tom Wheeler as the head of the Federal Communications Commission, sources familiar with the matter have...
Press Release: Sabayon 13.04 | Sabayon | Home
A Cataloging Sweatshop? — Annoyed Librarian
Barnes & Noble bungs Raspberry Pi-priced Nook on shelves • The Register
» The high cost of low information voters - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Hacking the News: Information Warfare in the Age of Twitter - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
BSD Release: OpenBSD 5.3 (DistroWatch.com News): News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
OpenBSD 5.3 Release: OpenBSD 5.3
The PJ Tatler » Even Maureen Dowd Notices that Obama’s a Lousy, Dishonest President
The PJ Tatler » Report: Saudis Warned Homeland Security About Boston Bomber in Writing in 2012
Works and Days » Why Read Old Books?
Belgian ISPs sued for providing Internet access without paying copyright levies | PCWorld: Sabam, the Belgian association of authors, composers and publishers, has sued the country's three biggest ISPs, saying that they should be paying copyright levies for offering access to copyright protected materials online.
Aging networking protocols abused in DDoS attacks | PCWorld: Aging networking protocols still employed by nearly every Internet-connected device are being abused by hackers to conduct distributed denial-of-service attacks.
Report: Yahoo drops Dailymotion deal in face of French opposition | PCWorld: Yahoo has scrapped plans to invest in French online video site Dailymotion, after the French government opposed the Internet giant acquiring a majority stake in the company, according to reports.
Saudis: We Told Obama About Tsarnaev, Too! | Power Line
VodkaPundit » Your Wednesday Morning Dose of Doom & Gloom
E-Books, Libraries and Democracy - NYTimes.com: All of the Big Six publishers have, for the first time, agreed to make e-books available to public library users.
Problem Solving in Perl (or any programming language) « Blue Cowdawg's Perl Blog
Why You Should Help Crowd-fund Pinto | Sawyer X [blogs.perl.org]
What is Radio? conference podcasts, for those who missed it | Radio Survivor: For those of us who couldn’t make it, journalism students at the University of Oregon recorded podcasts with What is Radio conference presenters and attendees.
Elections Canada drops plan for online voting due to cuts - Technology & Science - CBC News: Elections Canada has abandoned plans to experiment with an online voting pilot in a byelection before the 2015 general election. A spokesperson said Tuesday that experiments with online voting are postponed for the long term due to budget cuts.
Illegal wildlife trade thrives on the 'dark web' - Your Community
OpenBSD 5.3 introduces stable SMTPD - The H Open: News and Features: The OpenBSD developers have released the latest version of their UNIX-like operating system. OpenBSD 5.3 brings a number of new drivers and expanded hardware support, as well as other improvements
Sabayon 13.04 introduces experimental systemd support - The H Open: News and Features: The latest monthly release of Sabayon includes experimental systemd support and booting the distribution with UEFI and Secure Boot is now ready for production use. The developers have also moved to GitHub
T-Mobile Completes Merger With MetroPCS | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: The merger of T-Mobile and MetroPCS is complete, and the combined company - T-Mobile US - started trading on the New York Stock Exchange this morning under the TMUS ticker.
The DiploMad 2.0: Poverty, Mass Murder, and Liberals: A Complete Package
Saudi Arabia Warned U.S. About Tamerlan Tsarnaev In 2012, Considered Too Radical To Visit Mecca In 2011 | Weasel Zippers
Annual Armed Forces Day Crossband Test Scheduled for May 11: In celebration of the 63rd anniversary of Armed Forces Day (AFD), the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are co-sponsoring the annual Military/Amateur Radio Crossband Communications Test.
Employee Benefits Fall As Firms Brace For ObamaCare | Jammie Wearing Fools
Employee Benefits Fall As Firms Brace For ObamaCare Employer Mandate - Investors.com: Private-sector employee benefit costs actually fell in Q1, as companies began bracing for ObamaCare, including cutting workers to part-time status.
Government as Accomplice to Murder | National Review Online: The Gosnell trial is winding down, and the pro-abortion crowd’s line seems to be that yes, this guy was an unfortunate outlier but he’s of no broader significance. This conveniently overlooks the fact that he couldn’t have done what he did without the assistance of government. Gosnell’s “clinic” went uninspected for 17 years — that’s to say, before many of its “women” patients were born.
Democracy on the Way Out? | National Review Online: In an interview in the Wall Street Journal of April 27, eminent classicist and historian Donald Kagan suggested that democracy “has had its day.” Though apparently tossed off casually, this is a worrisome thought from a serious source.
Yahoo! scuppered! in! Dailymotion! buyout! attempt! • The Register
Linux kernel 3.9 lands • The Register
What is Radio?
Passages in unedited version of Anne Frank Diary causing stir - Fox 2 News Headlines: Are the passages in Anne Frank's diary too graphic for 7th grade? A mother in Northville says 'yes' and she has a filed a formal complaint with school district.
The vanishing US labor force: New study suggests jobless rate is misleadingly low | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Meet Drone Shield, an ambitious idea for a $70 drone detection system | Ars Technica: Aerospace engineer wants to scan for audio signatures of flying robots.
Comcast’s cable network revenue up by 5 percent due to distribution fee rise | Ars Technica: Media companies see boosted revenue thanks to rising network fees.
» Some deep and meaningful thoughts on news filtering - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
2 examples of industries were employment is falling as output rises | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Whispers and Bricks | Everyday Athlete: Staying fit and healthy while relentlessly pursuing an extraordinary life
“The vanishing US labor force: New study suggests jobless rate is misleadingly low” | protein wisdom
Who is the Dow Jones-wrecking Syrian Electronic Army? A hacker explains - Technology & Science - CBC News: A group of hackers called the Syrian Electronic Army brought the Dow Jones stock index down $140 billion in 90 seconds recently when it hacked the Twitter feed of the Associated Press. Ahmed Heidar tells As It Happens about the SEA and the cyberwar in Syria.
Google Glass's White Male Problem | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Google Glass seems to be used entirely by white men. For a transformational technology, that's a big, big problem.
How to Find Your Vocation in College | National Review Online: North Carolina governor Pat McCrory took a lot of heat for suggesting that education isn’t about “butts in seats but how many of those butts can get jobs.” Some conservatives rushed to defend his comments — which were, in fact, merely the logical extension of the “college grads make more money” justification given by liberals to further subsidize college loans — but Gene Edward Veith, professor of literature and provost at Patrick Henry College, asks us to step back a moment and look at students’ choices through
How to Find Your Vocation in College | Intercollegiate Review
What the Chief Librarians said to the campaigners …
Timbuktu librarians duped Al Qaeda to save books | New Republic: How a team of sneaky librarians duped Al Qaeda
It’s Time to Codify the Hastert Rule | RedState: Over the past few months, we have witnessed a dynamic in Washington in which House leadership is passing liberal legislation with support from the Democrat
Walt Crawford’s Big Deal and the Damage Done | Academic Librarian
Columbus Dispatch Declares There’s No Case Against Medicaid Expansion | RedState: Opposition to Medicaid expansion is purely ideological, The Columbus Dispatch editors declared in an April 28 column taking the paper's advocacy of its
CaliforniaCare: The Employer Mandate on Steroids | United Liberty | Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government: employer mandate California AB 880: “This bill would make it unlawful for a large employer to, among other things…reduce an employee’s hours or work…if the purpose is to avoid the imposition of the penalty. A violation of
More Bad News for Obamacare: Study Finds Medicaid Has No Effect on Measured Health Outcomes - Hit & Run : Reason.com: This is huge, and stunning, even for critics of Medicaid: A randomized-controlled study published in the New England Journal of Medicine by a group of
Blogging is futile — New SSH-related stuff in Wheezy: Yet another Blosxom weblog from someone who promised himself to never start blogging - since blogging is futile.
LyX wiki | Examples / Examples
Duke Raises Tuition Costs To Pay For Sex Change Surgery For Any Student Who Wants One… | Weasel Zippers
Abortionist Monster Kermit Gosnell In Solitary Confinement: Prisoners “Frown On Snipping Babies”… | Weasel Zippers
The true meaning of moral panics
The Dreaded Wyoming GOP Facebook ‘Hatef–k’ Rapist Has Been Apprehended : The Other McCain
Althouse: Another hate crime turns out to be self-generated — another "victim" threatened herself.
UW Police: Facebook post was a hoax -- UPDATED - Laramie Boomerang Online: <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
Dr. Helen » Men Thirty to Fifty Less Likely to Want to Marry
Moe Lane » Hey, maybe good news in tomorrow’s job report?
Moe Lane » Harry Reid: American people too ignorant to figure out Obamacare on their own.
The Jawa Report: Florida Sheriff: Report Neighbors Who Don't Like Government: Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Palm Beach County sheriff gets $1 million for violence... | www.mypalmbeachpost.com: Florida House and Senate budget leaders have awarded Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw $1 million for a new violence prevention unit aimed at preventing tragedies like those in Newtown, Conn.
Andrea Grandi » Blog Archive » How to fix pip under Debian 6.0 (squeeze): ImportError: cannot import name parser: Andrea Grandi: Pensieri, progetti e qualche informazione su di me. Blog personale, articoli tecnici, curriculum e altri contenuti.
AG who made sure Boston terrorist was able to keep silent declares war on Kansas | protein wisdom
Mageia 3 delayed again - The H Open: News and Features: Release blocker bugs have caused an extra two weeks to be injected into the schedule for Mageia, pushing back the 3 May release date to 18 May
Biden: Women Who Have Been Raped Don’t Report It Because They’ll “Get Raped By The System Again”… | Weasel Zippers
Gosnell in Solitary Confinement: Prisoners "Frown On Snipping Babies" | LifeNews.com: Kermit Gosnell has been in jail since his January 2011 arrest after authorities raided his abortion clinic.
Duke Raises Student Fees to Pay for Sex Change Surgery: College costs are on the rise–having increased at a rate that outpaces inflation for more than two decades, contributing to record levels of student debt. Nevertheless, Duke University saw fit to raise the cost of its program even more. This
Obamanomics: 40% Of U.S. College Graduates Are Underemployed… | Weasel Zippers
Boy, UMass-Dartmouth Sure Knows How to Pick Them. | National Review Online: Today’s Morning Jolt looks at Penny Pritzker — I remember when it was standard to just give ambassadorships to your top donors — some embarrassing stories about Terry McAuliffe, and then this ominous news in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing investigation:

What Was In the Water of That Dorm Room?

These Kazakh roommates aren’t quite as bad as the Boston bombers. But they’re bad:
Duke hikes fees to provide sex-change surgery to students: Campus Reform, Duke hikes fees to provide sex-change surgery to students
Recent U.S. college graduates disillusioned, underemployed: poll | Reuters: NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 40 percent of recent U.S. college graduates are underemployed or need more training to get on a career track, a poll released on Tuesday showed.The online survey of 1,050
Official: Student from Kazakhstan arrested in Boston bombing entered US without valid visa - The Washington Post: WASHINGTON — One of three college students arrested Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombings case was allowed to return to the United States from Kazakhstan in January despite not having a valid student visa, a federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
Geary crowdfunding: What went wrong? | Yorba Blog
Why Young Americans Should Work Overseas: The world is changing and the US is no longer the land of opportunity it once was. Four simple reasons why young Americans should work overseas.
The Next Great Internet Disruption: Authority and Governance | David Bollier
Walt at Random » Blog Archive » The Big Deal and the Damage Done
The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Important Thoughts About Internet Governance
Dutch ponder giving police power to hack computers abroad - Technology & Science - CBC News: The Dutch government has unveiled the draft of a law that would give police investigating online crimes the right to hack into computers in the Netherlands or abroad and install spyware or destroy files.
Thoughts after the Canadian RCI/CBC Senate hearing | The SWLing Post
Outsourcing, food banks, late fees and 3-D printing (sort of)
The UK's copyright landgrab: The FAQ • The Register
» Jobs report — the new definition of “good” - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Did Boston Bombing kill immigration “reform”? - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Part-time Nation: Was the April jobs report really the Obamacare jobs report? | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
The PJ Tatler » The South Carolina Solution: Bill Would Make Obamacare Implementation A Crime
The PJ Tatler » Colorado Opts To Give Voter Fraud A Chance
Dietetically incorrect: After five months | Power Line
Ed Driscoll » Tribes of Post-America, and Post-England
Ed Driscoll » Dispatches from the Department of That Which Cannot Be Said At Any Tme
VodkaPundit » Your Friday Morning Dose of Doom & Gloom
Moe Lane » BLS jobs report: 7.5% / 165K / 63.3%.
Forget the Unemployment Rate: The Alarming Stat Is the Number of 'Missing Workers' - NationalJournal.com: The unemployment rate dipped slightly to 7.5 percent in April, but that’s little consolation for the millions of workers who have dropped out of the labor force and who economists struggle to understand.
British Telecom attacks free software with patent demands | DanielPocock.com
Welcome to the 'dark web,' a haven for illegal trafficking - Technology & Science - CBC News: The so-called dark web, a shadowy part of the internet you haven't likely visited and won't find using Google, has become an online haven for anyone looking to buy or sell drugs, weapons or other illegal goods. And it's leaving law enforcement stumped.
Vimeo On Demand to Distribute New Kristen Bell Film | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Vimeo's new On Demand service gets a boost from a group of Hollywood veterans who have decided to use the platform to launch a major film.
What Do You Have to Hide? | PCMag.com: Surveillance cameras everywhere—including your private bathrooms and bedrooms—can make America safer.
Barnes & Noble Nook Joins the Android World With Google Play | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: The Barnes & Noble Nook HD and HD+ tablets will get Google Play, giving them hundreds of thousands of apps. Will more people buy them now?
Radio Panik injects shortwave audio into mixes | The SWLing Post
Patrick Leahy Moves to Kill Immigration Bill | Jammie Wearing Fools
The Plow-Horse Economy Continues | National Review Online: Immediately after last month’s employment report, my firm told investors to “get a grip. The report . . . is not strong, but it’s not the very weak one many are saying.” Payroll growth had slowed, but total hours worked were up 0.4 percent. Today’s report was just the opposite: hiring accelerated in April, but firms cut hours.
Why the Good Jobs Report Should Worry the Obama Administration | National Review Online: Last month, the chattering classes were sent into a tizzy by the negative surprise from the March jobs report. Economists had expected that job creation would be about double the 88,000 that was reported, because of the relative strength of other data. Our advice in this space then was to sit back and wait for revisions:
165,000 Jobs Added in April, Unemployment Rate at 7.5 Percent | National Review Online: The jobless rate ticked down slightly in April, while a respectable number of jobs were added, and previous months were revised substantially in a positive direction. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest report found that the labor-force-participation rate remains unchanged, and the report beats expectations, which were about 140,000.
Unexpected Support for MOOCs | National Review Online: Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal ran an article by Michael S. Roth entitled “My Global Philosophy Course.” Roth is the president of Wesleyan University and found that while many students who signed up for his course (on Coursera) dropped before the end (only 4,000 of 30,000 stuck it out), there was remarkable intellectual energy among those who persisted.
Look ma, no plugins! Streaming web video with just JavaScript • The Register
Federal institute for mental health abandons controversial 'bible' of psychiatry | The Verge: In a surprising move, the US government institute responsible for overseeing mental health research is distancing itself from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM. The...
Voices for the Library» Blog Archive » Hannah Clark, Leading Library Assistant, British Library Newspaper Collections, London
Canadian University Slashes Tuition for Americans | Inside Higher Ed
Plan to boost in-flight Internet could wreak havoc on satellite networks | Ars Technica: Qualcomm wants to beam signals to airplanes from 150 ground stations.
Barnes and Noble reinvigorates Nooks with access to Google Play store | Ars Technica: Nook HD and HD+ make a play for honest Android tablet status.
Economics, Translated to Plain English : The Other McCain
Is US productivity really slowing? An optimistic counterargument | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
The PJ Tatler » April Unemployment Report: The Obamacare Jobs Report
The PJ Tatler » Sen. Vitter Tweets ‘Red Flags’ as He Reads Giant Immigration Bill
The PJ Tatler » Boston Suspect was an Illegal Alien
The Gang of Eight’s Torrent of Immigrants: Is the Real Number 57 Million? | Power Line
VodkaPundit » Your Friday Afternoon Dose of Doom & Gloom
The Jawa Report: Sharia Scare Shakes UK: 'Law of the land go to hell': Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Release Critical Bug report for Week 18
Rough notes: Tom Wheeler, the FCC, and the future of community based radio | Radio Survivor: What do the TV/wireless wars mean for community based broadcasters? New FCC Chief Tom Wheeler may decide.
DHS Orders New Security Checks On Foreign Students Because Of DHS Failure To Stop Friend Of Boston Jihadist From Coming Back Into U.S. | Weasel Zippers
The Immigration Transformation | National Review Online: Most countries in the world have irrelevant numbers of “immigrants.” In the Americas, for example, only Canada, America, and the British West Indies have significant non-native populations. In Mexico, immigrants account for 0.6 percent of the population, and that generally negligible level prevails all the way down through Latin America until you hit a blip of 1.4 percent with Chile and 3.8 percent in Argentina.
Dept o' Labor says US created more jobs than it thought this spring • The Register
First 'Ender's Game' footage revealed, trailer to debut in Google+ Hangout on May 7th | The Verge: The big-screen adaptation of Ender's Game isn't scheduled to land in theaters until November, but we're already getting our first glimpse at some footage from the film — and the official teaser...
Cognitive Ability and Employment in the 21st Century
All Africa: Digital Did Not Kill the Radio Star | The SWLing Post
Circle K Employees Shifted To Part Time, Lose Work Hours, Because Of Obamacare | Weasel Zippers
Sen. David Vitter Live Tweets “Red Flags” From Immigration Bill, Including Unprecendented Power Of DHS Secretary To Waive Requirements | Weasel Zippers
Internet Analogies: Twice as Many Americans Lack Access to Public Water-Supply Systems than Fixed Broadband: If broadband Internet infrastructure had been built to the same extent as public water-supply systems, more than twice as many Americans would lack fixed broadband Internet access. After abandoning the “information superhighway” analogy for the Internet, net neutrality advocates began
Circle K Shifts Workers to Part-Time, Blames Obamacare | Washington Free Beacon
Squats Are AWESOME... But Body Shaming And Objectification Are Not. | Fit Villains: Selfish, Shameless, Sassy, Fitness.: Squats Are AWESOME... But Body Shaming And Objectification Are Not. This image didn’t always piss me off. And others like it didn’t always piss me off. I was used to seeing them, hearing the rhetoric,...
There’s More To Life Than Being Hot | Everyday Athlete: Staying fit and healthy while relentlessly pursuing an extraordinary life
UNBORN UNREPRESENTED | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog: At The Conversation, PhD candidate
» Futile immigration folly - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Obama Warns College Students To “Reject These Voices” That Warn Of Big Government And Tyranny… | Weasel Zippers
Debian 7 debuts • The Register
» Syrian Electronic Army hack of E!Online Twitter account nothing to laugh about - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Dr. Helen » A Different Economy for College Grads
The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Suit Filed Against IRS Rule on Tax Credits in Federal Exchanges
Hyper-sexualized, asexual America | RedState: The approval of monring-after pills for sales to 15-year-olds, without the consent of doctors or parents, is part of a long effort to erase the distinctions between men and women.

Weekend Omnibus

2013-04-27 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions, tagged as linkdump

Due to odd circumstances, a few days worth of bookmarks.

Why is Chelsea Clinton an Administrator at NYU?
Did The Government Cause Our Long-Term Unemployment Problem? - The Daily Beast: Generous unemployment benefits. Excessive taxes and regulation. Are we voters to blame for the current job market?
SUNY Geneseo students outraged by planned sexual assault lecture | Inside Higher Ed
Ubuntu 13.04 boosts graphics performance to prepare for phones, tablets | Ars Technica: Raring Ringtail for Ubuntu desktops and servers now ready to download.
Yahoo yanks Saturday Night Live from Hulu | Ars Technica: 1975-2013 episodes will be available exclusively on Yahoo for at least a year.
Prenda’s last stand: threats sprawl from a Minnesota hacking lawsuit | Ars Technica: Incredibly broad order allows copyright troll to subpoena ISPs, threaten users.
» Body of Sunil Tripathi found — RI Medical Examiner - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Body pulled from water in Providence ID'd as missing Brown student | Breaking News | providencejournal.com | The Providence Journal: Breaking News | providencejournal.com | The Providence Journal | ProvidenceJournal.com, the web site of The Providence Journal: 24-hour news coverage around Rhode Island, breaking news and local news from The Providence Journal.
» Federal Court finds Obama DREAM policy illegal, but may not require actual deportations - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Ordered Liberty » The ‘Public Safety’ Follies
The PJ Tatler » Court Slaps Down Obama’s Amnesty Decree
California’s Latest Suicide Attempt | Power Line
Federal Judge finds merit in challenge to Obama’s deferred-deportation policy | Power Line
Analysis: Truth and consequences - a dilemma for Twitter and its users | Reuters: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Does Twitter have a credibility problem?For many, a single fake tweet from the Associated Press account that briefly roiled financial markets on Tuesday, driving the Dow Jones
Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » The Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Scorpionfish. Not.
Julian Assange plans to develop new crypto system - The H Security: News and Features: Publicly verifiable keys will ensure the authenticity of each document, says Assange
Serial threat on the internet - The H Security: News and Features: Security expert HD Moore warns of the existence of unprotected terminal servers on the internet. The researcher says that he found over 100,000 such systems during his analyses, and that many of them are wide open and connected to control systems
Ohio Senate Not Expected to Restore Medicaid Expansion to Budget Bill | RedState: Ohio Senate President Keith Faber (R-Celina) confirmed during an April 24 press conference that he doesn't expect the Senate to put the Patient Protection and
Ubuntu 13.04: No privacy controls as promised, but hey - photo search! • The Register
Report: Obama Officials Authorized New ‘Cybersecurity’ Warrantless Surveillance Program, Fresh Immunity Given to ISPs | Electronic Frontier Foundation: Yesterday, in a disturbing report published on CNET, new documents obtained by EPIC reveal that Obama administration officials have authorized a new government program involving the interception of communications on Internet service providers, including AT&T—one of the key players in the NSA warrantless wiretapping program.
Creatures of Coherence: Why We're So Obsessed With Causation -: We default to cause-and-effect thinking to maintain control over our lives and everything that touches them, but some things just don't have clear answers.
Distribution Release: Semplice Linux 4 (DistroWatch.com News): News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
Penguicon party 2013!
Apple changes its mind on iOS VPN changes following VirnetX verdict | Ars Technica: Apple now says VPN behaviors within iOS will remain the same.
James Patterson wants a bookstore bailout | The Travelin' Librarian
James Patterson speaks out about his aggressive “book industry bailout” ads - Salon.com: The bestselling author placed high-profile ads asking the government to bail out books. He talks to Salon
Althouse: "Brown University student mistakenly linked by amateur sleuths on a social media site to the Boston bombings"... drowned.
The PJ Tatler » Salon Clown David Sirota: Yeah, We Totally Deserve Terrorist Attacks
How Many Mexican Citizens Does the Gang of Eight Want to Import? | Power Line
Goodwin: Blaming the US for Boston bombing an insult - NYPOST.com: Gone, thankfully, are the days when rape victims routinely were treated as if they deserved it. Perhaps the time also will come when the American people are no longer blamed after terrorists kill...
Radio storytelling: property of the upper middle class? | Radio Survivor: A radio/TV journalist asks: How did compelling storytelling on radio become the province of the upper level five percent, educationally?
The hacked tweet that sank Wall Street - Technology & Science - CBC News: It took less than 140 characters to wipe out almost $140 billion from the stock market this week, as a fake report from The Associated Press of a bombing of the White House had investors running for the exits.
UPDATED - Will Rehtaeh Parsons tragedy lead to resurrection of online surveillance bill? - Inside Politics
Ana Montes did much harm spying for Cuba. Chances are, you haven’t heard of her.
Numbers station HM01…and Ana Montes | The SWLing Post
Surprise! Psycho Mother of Boston Bombers Also on Terror Watch List | Jammie Wearing Fools
Library Acquires Wolff Sports Recordings | News Releases - Library of Congress: The Library of Congress today celebrated the acquisition of Bob Wolff's vast personal collection of historic audio and video recordings, documenting some of the greatest names and most golden moments in sports history.
Ubuntu without the 'U': Booting the Big Four remixes • The Register
Announcement of 'churnalism detector' gets furiously churned • The Register
Voices for the Library» Blog Archive » The Importance of Librarians and Libraries
Voices for the Library» Blog Archive » Lisa Burscheidt, Assistant Librarian at North East London NHS Foundation Trust
Safe as Milk » Blog Archive » The changing world of adding a service
Student wrongly tied to Boston bombings found dead: A body pulled from the water in a Rhode Island park has been identified as a Brown University student who was mistakenly linked by amateur sleuths on a social media site to the Boston bombings.
The PJ Tatler » Dutch Man Arrested in Web Attack on Anti-Spam Protection Organization
Dutchman arrested in connection with large DDoS attack on Spamhaus | PCWorld: A 35-year-old Dutchman was arrested Thursday in Spain, as part of an investigation into a large-scale DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack that targeted a spam-fighting organization called the Spamhaus Project in March
Oh No! Immigrant advocates worry that Marathon bombing will cause backlash | Jammie Wearing Fools
OMT, OMG | National Review Online: The euro zone owes much of its continued existence to the European Central Bank’s announcement last August that it would, through outright monetary transactions (OMT) in the secondary market, buy bonds issued by euro zone countries that had run into difficulties and had agreed to subject themselves to the troika’s green eyeshade brigade. Up until now there have been no OMT.
Definition of a philistine
Testing times: Fighting culture’s corner in an age of austerity - Speeches - Inside Government - GOV.UK
Reasons for libraries: Value for money
New report shows illiteracy costing the world $1.19 trillion | National Literacy Trust: The World Literacy Foundation has released a report highlighting that nearly 800 million people across the world lack basic reading and writing skills. It also shows that the UK suffers significantly from the costs of poor literacy.

Flash Crash Tuesday

2013-04-23 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions, tagged as linkdump

» New Boston Bombing narrative: “It’s not them, it’s us” - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» OWS Bomb - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Put the 844-page Immigration Bill on ICE for a while - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
The PJ Tatler » UN Human Rights Official Justifies Boston Bombing as ‘Retribution’
A Commentary on the Marathon Murders | Foreign Policy Journal: Aside from the tensions of the moment, self-scrutiny and mid-course reflections on America’s global role is long overdue.
Web startup Aereo sets its sights on Boston TV market | Reuters: (Reuters) - Aereo, the red hot Web startup that has raised the ire of U.S. broadcasters, is planning to expand to Boston starting May 15, the company said on Tuesday.Backed by Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp,
Ed Driscoll » Someone Set Up Us the CNN
Vodkapundit » Tynt is the Armpit of the Internet
ownCloud Nightly Builds | Free Software: and what I was thinking about
ownCloud Client Release 1.2.5 | Free Software: and what I was thinking about
openSUSE News
Death to Raspberry/Pi — Beaglebone Black is on a market | Marcin Juszkiewicz: Death to Raspberry/Pi -- Beaglebone Black is on a market
BeagleBone Black aims to compete with Raspberry Pi - The H Open: News and Features: Priced at $45, the board offers decent processing power, eclipsing its competitor the Raspberry Pi, and a plethora of I/O ports. It comes preinstalled with Ångström Linux
Changes to FCC Radiotelegraph Operator Certificates Coming May 20: The FCC's changes to its Radiotelegraph Operator Certificates go into effect next month.
CISPA row: Slurped citizen data is ENORMO HACK TARGET - infosec boss • The Register
Crypto guru: Don't blame users, get coders security training instead • The Register
Java still vulnerable despite recent patches • The Register
A new, safer fertilizer could help cut down on homemade bombs around the world | The Verge: Ammonium nitrate fertilizer made it into the news last week when it helped ignite a massive explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant that left at least 14 dead. However, a researcher at Sandia...
Meet 'swatting,' the dangerous prank that could get someone killed | The Verge: On March 14th, online security journalist Brian Krebs was cleaning his Virginia home in preparation for a small dinner party when he noticed some plastic tape stuck under his front door, left over...
Deregulate the Skies: Why We Can't Afford to Fear Drones | Wired Opinion | Wired.com: An entirely new platform for innovation awaits us, and if we can integrate commercial drones into airspace without preemptive, heavy-handed regulation, the consequences -- and benefits -- could be as revolutionary as the internet itself.
app - StackPrinter: The Stack Exchange Printer Suite - Stack Apps
Finally, This Is What A "Locked Market" Looks Like | Zero Hedge: Another word for locked (or where the bid and ask are the same; the only condition which is worse - crossed, where the bid is higher than the ask)? Broken.
And This Is What A Full Blown Market Exodus Looks Like | Zero Hedge: 260,000 S&P 500 e-mini contracts traded in the three minutes following the fake AP Tweet. That is ~$20.4 Billion notional value 'changed hands'. For those with trailing stops, our condolences...
Hacked AP Twitter Account Reports Of Two Explosions At White House, Obama Injured | Zero Hedge: Leading news site for global finance, economics, market, and political analysis.
Hacked AP tweet claiming White House explosion causes Dow dip • The Register
Legislation would provide subsidies for low-income broadband access | Ars Technica: Program would be funded by tax on consumers' phone service.
Copyright troll Prenda loses SF case, must show “Salt Marsh” signature | Ars Technica: Judge blows off spoliation argument, invites motion for attorney's fees.
Hacked AP Twitter feed reporting fake White House attack rocks markets | Ars Technica: Account compromise comes after AP targeted by malware and phishing e-mails.
Tiny single-board BeagleBone computer arrives at $45 | PCWorld: There's a new low-cost single-board computer on the block designed to give the million-selling Raspberry Pi a run for its money. It's called the BeagleBoard Black.
AT&T revenue, net income nearly flat | PCWorld: AT&T has reported revenue of US $31.4 billion for the first quarter of 2013, down slightly from a year earlier, although net income was up slightly, with a sagging wireline business division nearly offsetting mobile and wired broadband growth.
Hackers send fake market-moving AP tweet on White House explosions | Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hackers took control of the Associated Press Twitter account on Tuesday and sent a false tweet about explosions in the White House that briefly sent U.S. financial markets reeling.In
Britain proposes airwaves shake-up to meet broadband demand | Reuters: LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's telecoms regulator is proposing to change the way it will allocate the next batch of airwaves to be made available to mobile operators facing burgeoning demand for mobile data.Telecoms
Ed Driscoll » The Inevitable Rise of the Tsarnaev Truthers
Three Point Blogging; An Experiment | jonobacon@home
Taxation without representation? Hells yes! Post-constitutionalism has its privileges! [UPDATED] | protein wisdom
Reddit apologizes for Boston bombing 'witch hunt' - Your Community
Yahoo Blows It Again | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com: Yahoo yet again is shutting down some of its useful products and services, leaving onlookers puzzled.
AP Twitter Feed Hacked With Bogus Report of White House Attack | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: The Twitter account for the Associated Press was hacked on Tuesday, with the attackers posting a false report about explosions at the White House.
Aereo Expanding to Boston in May | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Aereo announced Tuesday morning that it will launch its service in Boston beginning May 15
“A pretty turbulent time”: BBC News covers public and volunteer libraries
CBS threatens to sue Aereo again, this time in Boston | The Verge: CBS indicated today in a heated Twitter post from one of the company's public relations executives that the media giant intends to file another copyright complaint against Aereo — this time in...

Just Another Manic Monday

2013-04-22 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions, tagged as linkdump

Competency-based education's newest form creates promise and questions | Inside Higher Ed
Michael Geist - Open Media: Why High Cell Phone Bills Have Nothing to do With Canadian Geography: Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., open media on wireless
Library Hijinks in Alaska — Annoyed Librarian
» Politically correct epistemic closure counterattacks Boston Marathon bombing reality - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
security theater, martial law, and a tale that trumps every cop-and-donut joke you’ve ever heard | The Travelin' Librarian
Rubin Reports » No, Boston Will Not Change Anything
The PJ Tatler » Tsarnaev Conscious, Apparently Tried to Kill Himself Friday
Perl Web Pages and Search Engines - Modern Perl Books for modern Perl programming: A little bit of metadata can improve how the world sees Perl.
Death to Raspberry/Pi — Beaglebone Black is on a market | Marcin Juszkiewicz: Death to Raspberry/Pi -- Beaglebone Black is on a market
Complete C++11 support in Clang - The H Open: News and Features: Clang, which is part of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure project, is probably the first compiler frontend to support all of the features included in C++11. The developers have already started to work on implementing features planned for C++14
Dick Durbin: Immigration Bill ‘Will Make Us Safer’ After Boston Attack | Jammie Wearing Fools
Web minister Maria Miller: UK WILL hit 2015 broadband target • The Register
Inmates' dream prison cell could be a blueprint for low-cost housing | The Verge: Inmates at a high-security prison in Spoleto, Italy have created the "Freedom Room," a living space that fits inside the confines of a 4m x 2.7m (116 square feet) prison cell. Within the extremely...
Transterrestrial Musings - Being Normal
Why feed reading is an open web problem, and what browsers could do about it – Luis Villa
Why Your High Cell Phone Bills Have Nothing To Do With The Size of Canada | OpenMedia.ca: Canada’s broken cell phone market has come under a lot of public scrutiny of late, with the CRTC trying to establish a set of minimum standards for wireless providers; the release of OpenMedia.ca’s citizen-powered report, Time For An Upgrade, which demonstrated the systematic mistreatment that cell phone users suffer due to this dysfunctional marke
A failure to embrace comprehensive immigration reform? Is kinda like saying you dig slavery. | protein wisdom
For your robot-building needs, $45 BeagleBone Linux PC goes on sale | Ars Technica: New BeagleBone gets 50% price cut, comes with 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor.
Prenda Law: EFF has “the same goals” as “terrorist group Wikileaks” | Ars Technica: Firm accuses EFF of witness tampering for financing accuser's travel to court.
Coming soon to Linux: A lightweight KDE alternative | PCWorld: Among the goals for the new 'KLyDE' desktop are a minimal footprint, simplified configuration, and a fast startup.
A few observations about the Marathon bombings and its political aftermath | protein wisdom
Reddit on Marathon Bomber Crowd Sourcing: We Were Wrong | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Reddit on Monday addressed the controversy surrounding the Internet sleuths who crowd sourced the search for the Boston Marathon bombers, admitting that the effort got out of hand.
Ed FitzGerald: I Won't Sign Anything Unless My Name Is Capitalized Correctly | National Review Online
Races for Governor Starting to Take Shape in Ohio, New Mexico | National Review Online
The Boston Bombers and the Collapse of Assimilation | National Review Online
Reddit apologizes for 'online witch hunts,' asks community to be 'sensitive of its own power' | The Verge: Reddit General Manager Erik Martin has apologized for the Reddit community's reaction to the Boston Marathon bombings, after amateur investigators frustrated the public and law enforcement with a...

Daily Link Dumps Continue

2013-04-22 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions, tagged as linkdump

Xfce4-notifyd 0.2.3 - An Xfce glob: I'm glad to announce this new release of xfce4-notifyd which ships mostly bug fixes and code cleanups. Theming has also been improved with additional style properties and drawing
Librarians Against CISPA | The Travelin' Librarian
Althouse: "On Reddit, the Tripathi speculation... soon received its own, massive thread... full of the worst of crowd-sourced message board investigations...."
The Internet’s shameful false ID
Distribution Release: Calculate Linux 13.4 (DistroWatch.com News): News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
Report: FBI Hunting 12-Man “Sleeper Cell” Linked To Boston Bombers… | Weasel Zippers
Tamerlan Tsarnaev Had “Direct Contact” With Chechen Jihadists, Possible Ties To “Russia’s Bin Laden” Doku Umarov… | Weasel Zippers
Dead Boston Jihadist Tamerlan Tsarnaev: I Don’t Like America “Because They Shouldn’t Be In Muslim Countries”… | Weasel Zippers
Calculate Linux 13.4 released - Planet Calculate
Boston bombers: FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev - Mirror Online: Police believe the pair were specially trained to carry out the devastating attack
Was Boston bomber inspired by Doku Umarov? Mother claims FBI tracked older brother 'for five years' after being told by Moscow of links to Chechen terrorists | Mail Online: The brothers' mother Zubeidat has said the FBI once told her that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was 'really an extremist leader and that they were afraid of him'.
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a promising boxer who began increasingly hating America - NYPOST.com: He was as American as apple pie, a handsome Golden Gloves boxer who wore preppy sweaters, married his high-school sweetheart and tooled around the family’s quaint Boston neighborhood in a...
Schneier on Security: The Boston Marathon Bomber Manhunt
Japanese police ask ISPs to start blocking Tor | Ars Technica: Police are flailing about in the face of cybercrime.
The flavors of Ubuntu from A to Z—or at least from Kubuntu to Xubuntu | Ars Technica: Gallery: Just how many different Ubuntus are there? More than you might think.
The PJ Tatler » Social Media Did Not Cover Itself In Glory This Week
The PJ Tatler » What Did the Russians Know and When Did They Know It?
The History on Wayland Support inside KWin | Martin's Blog
13 more libraries under threat while Mr Vaizey jokes
Propaganda of the deed? « Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle
CUNY Professor Outraged Boston Police Used “Too Much Force” While Apprehending Boston Terrorist… | Weasel Zippers
Anonymous Calls for Internet Blackout Monday to Protest CISPA | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Will a mass protest even be needed to stop the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act in its tracks?
all mine!: Klyde coolness update
Automatic sorting of mailing lists with maildrop | Marcin Juszkiewicz: Automatic sorting of mailing lists with maildrop
Moe Lane » The Boston Marathon bombers had… illegal guns.
iowahawk: That Was the Week That Was: (with apologies to Billy Joel) At the Boston Marathon, someone set us up the bomb Backpack tax attacks, at least that's what they say Talking heads smelling Tea, live on MSNBC New York Times solving crimes, suspects the NRA Journalist,...
Ed Driscoll » The Tsarnaev Brothers: Mascots of the Annointed
Ed Driscoll » Cognitive Dissonance Strikes Deep
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Buy ‘Em | Power Line
My critique of Value of Academic Libraries and a happy update | Information Wants To Be Free
Works and Days » The Paradoxes of the Boston Bombings
The Blair-Glass ‘Sleeper Cell’ — British Tabloid Fabricates a Phony Scoop : The Other McCain
Japanese police ask ISPs to start blocking Tor | Ars Technica: Police are flailing about in the face of cybercrime.
The Digital Public Library of America: adding gravitas to your Internet search | Ars Technica: Not only a hub for books, the DPLA made an API so anyone can build a reading room.
INET Denver considers Internet life without IPv4 addresses | Ars Technica: After Asia and Europe, North America is next in line to run out of IP addresses.
Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » You Are The First Responder: Chicago Boyz
MEDIA ANGELS | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog: The Tribune Company – publishers of the the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Hartford Courant and the Orlando Sentinel –...
APPRECIATED | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog: Much thanks to the ABC’s Jonathan Green for highlighting my
LET US SPEAK MATURELY | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog: Waleed Aly, the smiling face of Australian Islam, is an upbeat kind of guy. He remained so last week following the Boston Marathon bombings – not...

Further Found Links

2013-04-20 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions, tagged as linkdump

Althouse: "Across the country, the business of growing pot is fast becoming mainstream."
Althouse: "What's wrong with being fat? Why is it so onerous to be fat?"
Bing blocked by browsers because of bad certificate | Ars Technica: Akamai misconfiguration of wildcards causes error with NBA.com, others as well.
IBM looks to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo as profits crash | Ars Technica: Commodity servers just part of IBM's bad news, wider industry trouble.
Prenda Law may be hit with attorneys’ fees in SF case | Ars Technica: Prenda lawyer who pled the Fifth shows up to explain why he's dropping cases.
Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Lessons from Boston: Chicago Boyz
Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » SWOT Analysis of Boston Marathon Bombing: Chicago Boyz
BeagleBoardDebian - eLinux.org
» Boston lock-down exposes gun culture divide - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Cops may have played the media - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Moe Lane » Boston Marathon aftermath: feds warned by Russia about Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011.
The Jawa Report: FBI--2011 Request for Information on Tamerlan Tsarnaev from Foreign Government: Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
pavelmachek: Nokia n900 is too close to Zaurus
ack 2.0 has been released - Perlbuzz
The PJ Tatler » Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the ‘Ticking Bomb’ Scenario
The PJ Tatler » Social Media Did Not Cover Itself In Glory This Week
Works and Days » Confessions of a Counter-Revolutionary
“BREAKING: President Readying Executive Orders on Gun Control” | protein wisdom
“Security theater, martial law, and a tale that trumps every cop-and-donut joke you’ve ever heard” | protein wisdom
Dictator blocking your Internet? Try a Radiogram | Radio Survivor: Text transmitting shortwave networks might be a useful link when the Internet is disrupted by disasters or dictators.
Are you still a radio deejay if you just text? | Radio Survivor: Is it possible to function as a radio deejay without speaking, that is, to interface with one's listeners via text only?
Heritage Foundation: BBG isn’t listening | The SWLing Post
Shortwave Radio Recordings: NHK Radio Japan | The SWLing Post
The DiploMad 2.0: Boston Bizarre
Anonymous: CISPA Internet Blackout April 22nd | #CISPABlackout | The Travelin' Librarian
Meet Beth and Cari | ABC Book Review
Debian 7 to be released on the first weekend in May - The H Open: News and Features: The Debian release team says that, barring any unforseen major bugs or technical problems, it will release Debian 7, code-named "Wheezy", on 4 or 5 May
USA needs refuge from refugees | Jammie Wearing Fools
Yahoo slims down -- again | PCWorld: The moves are all part of the company's ongoing efforts to restructure its product offerings in a bid to re-engage users.
As Broadcasters "Threaten" to Shut Down, They're Not Getting the Reaction They Were Looking For | Public Knowledge: The fantastically-mustachioed Chase Carey of News Corp. has gotten quite a bit of support in the broadcast community for his "threat" to shut down Fox's over-the-air signals.
Here are Some Dynamic Scoring Ideas for the Immigration Deform Bill | RedState: The coalition of leftists, big labor, big business, and big GOP consultants who are pushing this immigration bill, which is antithetical to reform, are
Yahoo! Axes! Yet! More! Products! • The Register
Petition calling for Verizon to drop contracts gains momentum | The Verge: A petition asking Verizon to follow the lead of its smaller rival T-Mobile in cutting mobile contracts has gained significant momentum after it recorded over 30,000 signatures in one day. The C...
Transterrestrial Musings - Miranda
Voices for the Library» Blog Archive » Donna Saxby, Librarian/ Digital Literacy Coordinator, Kingham Hill School
The Volokh Conspiracy » Czech, Chechen, Slovak, Slovene, Iceberg, Goldberg
The Volokh Conspiracy » Tsarnaev and Miranda Rights
The 8 United States Of A New Monetary America | Zero Hedge: Do we need 50 states? With the corporatocracy increasingly looking to cut costs, wouldn't it make more sense to right-size the number of 'regional' centers of democracy? With an increasingly Federally dominated US, perhaps 50 disparate decision-makers is too many. It turns out, that based on some wonderfully complex math (spatially embedded multi-scale interaction networks) and data from wheresgeorge.com, the United States Of America is more 'optimal' from a monetary and mobility-sense if it were managed around these 8 regions. Theoretical physicist Dirk Brockmann says the borders of the United States are out of date, and as Fast Company notes, "no longer correlate with our behavior." By combining network theory with the travels of our dollar bills, the 'real' effective boundaries in a new USA are far simpler, reflecting where money 'stays' as opposed to more arbitrary state boundaries.

When Flash Keeps Crashing...

2013-04-18 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions, tagged as linkdump

Yep, time to ensure the current links slushpile is archived somewhere while constant Flash crashes in Opera are investigated...

Defense lawyer shows Steele’s links to Prenda Law | Ars Technica: He also calls the situation a "Mexican standoff" and says sanctions are warranted.
Bits from Debian - DPL election is over, congratulations Lucas Nussbaum!
Debian Project Leader Elections 2013
White House Plans Anti-Gun Twitterbomb | The Patriot Perspective: Helping to Conserve American Libertarian Values and Reestablish Common Sense in Government Since March 2009
» Grassroots #Gosnell Tweetfest versus Obama manufactured anti-gun Thunderclap - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Thunderclap unleashes tweet-storms for protests (Wired UK): Thunderclap is a tool that allows people to pledge tweets to a particular cause and once enough tweets have been "stockpiled", they are unleashed simultaneously for maximum impact
Toronto students question whether Wikipedia really is open to everyone | The Travelin' Librarian
Toronto students question whether Wikipedia really is open to everyone | CTV News: A recent dust-up between Wikipedia and Canada's largest university raises questions about how collaborative the popular website that bills itself as "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" truly is.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Kermit Gosnell Multiple Murder Trial
Move to git now! | KDE Sysadmin
Sysadmin/SVNInfrastructureShutdown - KDE Community Wiki
Development begins on a lightweight KDE version - The H Open: News and Features: A number of openSUSE developers have started to work on KLyDE, the K Lightweight Desktop Environment. By removing unnecessary components, they aim to create a fast and simplified version of the open source desktop environment
The DiploMad 2.0: The World's Stupidest Newspaper: The Guardian
Cilip updated, Angus library not for library users + more hours in Lancashire
CILIP | Rebranding CILIP
The Recurring Rate of Non-Recovery
» California State Senator Cooks-Up Another Recipe for Economic Failure - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
The Volokh Conspiracy » “A Bad Time for Press Freedoms”
Vodkapundit » Battlestar Galactica: Friends Style
Fifty shades of volunteer library
“We now have six examples of poor to terrible performance by community libraries based on hard data”
"Gun Rights" Group: Boy, We Really "Snookered" the Gun Controllers in Toomey-Manchin Volokh: No, They've Snookered You
Dish bids $25.5 billion for Sprint-Nextel | Ars Technica: Both Dish and Verizon actually want underlying Clearwire spectrum.
“Windows” on your wrist—Microsoft is working on a smart watch, too | Ars Technica: Apple, Samsung, and now Microsoft: the future smart watch market is filling up.
How NASA brought the monstrous F-1 “moon rocket” engine back to life | Ars Technica: The story of young engineers who resurrected an engine nearly twice their age.
» The banality of the defense of the #Gosnell news blackout - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Libraries Missing from National Library Week — Annoyed Librarian
The Captain's Journal » The Coming Federal Gun Registry
The PJ Tatler » NY’s Gun Laws Take Effect, and If You Don’t Like Them, Cuomo Dubs You an ‘Extremist’
The PJ Tatler » Beau Biden: Expand Definition of Who’s Mentally Unfit to Own a Gun
Time for an alternative maximum tax | Power Line
The Jawa Report: The Kermit Gosnell Trial Is So Well Covered By The MSM....: Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
snopes.com: Dr. Kermit Gosnell Trial: Dr. Kermit Gosnell is on trial on charges of having committed illegal late-term abortions?
The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Pro-Gun” Provisions of Manchin-Toomey are Actually a Bonanza of Gun Control
My Perl Pitch to Students | Sawyer X [blogs.perl.org]
CPAN {Spring|Autumn} cleaning time again | brian d foy [blogs.perl.org]
About ARMv7 progress and ARMing for AArch64
“Machin-Toomey Background Check ‘Compromise’ Regulates Transportation of Firearms, Ammunition” | protein wisdom
“High court rejects challenge to NY gun law” | protein wisdom
Thiessen: “Obama can’t blame Bush for deficits any longer” | protein wisdom
Manjaro 0.8.5 introduces a graphical installer - The H Open: News and Features: The latest version of Manjaro, an Arch-Linux-based distro for all types of users, now has a graphical installation process, improved package manager, and updates all through the system
Lucas Nussbaum becomes Debian Project leader - The H Open: News and Features: Lucas Nussbaum has been elected as the new Debian Project Leader (DPL). Nussbaum, an assistant professor at the University of Lorraine, is known for improving relations with Ubuntu and maintaining Debian's Ruby packages
Dish Makes $25.5 Billion Bid for Sprint | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Dish Network today made a bid for Sprint Nextel in an effort to derail the mobile carrier's deal with SoftBank.
Kim Jong Un Missing From The Public Eye For The Last Two Weeks, Some Speculate A Coup | Weasel Zippers
FCC Issues Two Forfeiture Notices for Cell Phone Jamming: On April 9, the FCC found two businesses -- The Supply Room in Oxford, Alabama and Taylor Oilfield Manufacturing in Broussard, Louisiana -- to have “apparently willfully and repeatedly violated” the Commission’s rules by operating multiple cellular phone jammers.”
Bloomberg: If You Sell a Gun to Your Son, ‘There’s Something Wrong in Your Family’ | Jammie Wearing Fools
NY Times Now Publishing Letters From Terrorists at Club Gitmo | Jammie Wearing Fools
Cuomo Dismisses Gun Owners as “Extreme Fringe Conservatives” | Jammie Wearing Fools
librarian.net » Blog Archive » National Library Week starts now
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Gun Case - By Robert VerBruggen - The Corner - National Review Online: Robert VerBruggen writes on NRO: It declined to review Kachalsky, one of the cases in which a plaintiff sought to secure the recognition of Second Amendment rights outside of the home.As SCOTUSblog notes, there is a split among lower courts on this issue, so the decision is something of a surprise. Kachalsky is a New York case . . .
Conservative Media Ignored the Gosnell Trial? - By Shannen W. Coffin - The Corner - National Review Online: Shannen W. Coffin writes on NRO: In a Washington Post Style-section piece, writer Paul Farhi asks today whether the media has overlooked the Kermit Gosnell story and whether that evidences media bias. He does not reach any particular conclusion, but offers plenty of excuses for why coverage might have been scant. He latches onto one emerging . . .
Verizon offers Clearwire $1.5 billion for spectrum leases, says WSJ | The Verge: Verizon is looking to buy Clearwire spectrum leases for $1.5 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports. Clearwire has disclosed an offer for spectrum in major US markets from "Party J," which...
Conservative Media Ignored Gosnell, As Long As You Don’t Search Too Hard - By Jim Geraghty - The Campaign Spot - National Review Online: Jim Geraghty writes on NRO: The Monday edition of the Morning Jolt features John Kerry blaming the media for hyping the possibility of war on the Korean peninsula, the Right assessing Pat Toomey’s background check deal with Joe Manchin, and then this predictable turn in the discussion of the Kermit Gosnell late-term abortion “House of . . .
Power of Arduino and Raspberry Pi combined in $99 Android/Linux PC | Ars Technica: Arduino board uses quad-core ARM CPU for the power of "4 Raspberry Pis."
Fuduntu Linux is closing its doors | PCWorld: Plans are already afoot for a brand-new replacement for the distro, which was just updated last week.
Why I Hope Google Glass Flops | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com: Google Glass will ruin what remains of meaningful social interaction and for that reason (and more) I hope it fails.
Comcast Rolls Out Basic Cable Encryption | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Several months after the Federal Communications Commission approved an order that allows cable companies to encrypt basic cable tiers, Comcast has moved ahead with plans to do just that.
Against a Free Press - By Andrew Stuttaford - The Corner - National Review Online: Andrew Stuttaford writes on NRO: Oligarchs don’t like criticism.The Sunday Telegraph reports: Angered by the British media’s coverage of Brussels, the European Commission says it wants to be a “moral compass” against press misconduct, seeking new national and Europe-wide regulatory powers over journalists. The EU has spent £2.3 million on the previously unpublicised “Mediadem” project to “reclaim . . .
Cellular architectures not great for TV: study • The Register
Is it legal to shut down cellular networks in an emergency? | The Verge: In the wake of the tragic events in Boston today, the Associated Press had earlier reported that Boston Police had ordered a shutdown of cellular service throughout swaths of the city, perhaps out...
Building a better IRC client
Boston cellular networks flooded, but service was not cut off | Ars Technica: Heavy usage after Marathon bombings—not an intentional shutdown—degraded service.
Hey, how is Social Security doing? Oh … | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
botch - the debian bootstrap software has a name
Fuduntu Linux pivoting to rebase project - The H Open: News and Features: With the project leader stepping down, the distribution is feature frozen and ready for end of life. The development team are selecting a new upstream Linux to base a "new Fuduntu" on
NPR reports website and Twitter accounts were defaced by 'Syrian Electronic Army' | The Verge: National Public Radio (NPR) is reporting today that its website and several of its Twitter accounts were compromised beginning around 11 PM ET Monday night, and that the intruders changed the...
Aaron Swartz's Prosecutors Were Threatened and Hacked, DOJ Says | Threat Level | Wired.com: Massachusetts federal authorities involved in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz have received threatening e-mail and snail mail, the Justice Department said in a court filing, and the lead prosecutor in the case had his Facebook page hacked.
Cord-Cutters Rejoice: Streaming Broadcast TV Wins Big in Court | Threat Level | Wired.com: A divided federal appeals court, ruling 2-1 Monday, declined to block a unique, antenna-based subscription service that enables the streaming of broadcast television to any internet-enabled device.
Daring Fireball Linked List: Netbooks Claim Chowder
Netbooks projected to become EXTINCT by 2015 • The Register
Gov’t didn’t shut down cell networks in Boston—but it could have | Ars Technica: Feds won’t reveal secret process for shutting off cell service.
“Syrian Electronic Army” hacks NPR publishing system, edits articles | Ars Technica: Headlines changed to "Syrian Electronic Army was here."
» Letter sent to Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) tests positive for Ricin - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Walt at Random » Blog Archive » Three-quarters of public libraries are above average–and below average
Is the ‘Great Stagnation’ driving the falling unemployment rate? | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Vodkapundit » BREAKING: The MSM Sucks and Blows all at Once
CPXXXAN is SexPAN | David Golden: At the Perl QA Hackathon, I and others were constantly tripping over how to pronounce CPXXXAN — David Cantrell's family of platform-specific or Perl
SUSE Studio: More castles, more clouds
NPR website defaced by hackers supporting Syria - Technology & Science - CBC News: The website and several Twitter accounts of U.S. non-profit broadcaster NPR were attacked and defaced Monday night, apparently by hackers supportive of Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.
Wayland and Weston 1.1 work without 3D drivers - The H Open: News and Features: Weston now works without 3D drivers and supports the Raspberry Pi. Wayland's reference compositor is also able to use RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) to send images to RDP programs
Can the Feds Shut Down Cell Phone Service? | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: In an age when our smartphones are a constant companion, what is the protocol for shutting down wireless networks in an emergency? Is it allowed, and would it even help?
The DiploMad 2.0: Boston
Secretary of State’s reasons for not intervening in Lewisham: and what it means
Hey, Charlie Brown, Are You Ready for Some Immigration Football? | RedState: As the Gang of 8 introduces their proposal, just remember that all of your concerns are unfounded. Unlike previous amnesties, this one will not grow the
Fueled by super botnets, DDoS attacks grow meaner and ever-more powerful | Ars Technica: Average amount of bandwidth used in DDoS attacks spiked eight-fold last quarter.
Firefox 'death sentence' threat to TeliaSonera over gov spy claims • The Register
The PJ Tatler » Background Checks Failed to Pass Senate
Slandering the dead | DamianPenny.com: A Nova Scotia family lawyer's blog
Daring Fireball Linked List: Moltz on Those Nexus Tablet Sales Numbers
Not a lot of Nexus sales « John Moltz's Very Nice Web Site: John Moltz's Very Nice Website
Daring Fireball Linked List: Nexus Tablet Sales: Not Many
Nexus tablet sales: not many — Benedict Evans
Anonymous raises $54,000 to start a news site | Ars Technica: “Your Anon News” set out to raise $2K to move from Twitter and Tumblr to a real website.
» “buy an airline ticket, apply for a student visa, and come now” - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Althouse: It's been a bad first quarter of first year of the second term for President Obama.
The Captain's Journal » Taking Names And Trying To Take Guns
The Captain's Journal » Manchin-Toomey Amendment Fails
The PJ Tatler » ‘Expanded Background Checks Wouldn’t Have Saved Our Loved Ones…’
The PJ Tatler » Much Ado About Nothing-The False Promise Of Background Checks
The Volokh Conspiracy » Unfortunate Organization Name
Yesterday’s news this morning | Power Line
Ed Driscoll » Through the Looking Glass
Vodkapundit » Sock it, Toomey!
Feminist mugged by reality of Title IX on campus [Darleen Click] | protein wisdom
The IETF between open innovation and network load limiters - The H Open: News and Features: The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has held a conference to prepare for its annual meeting in Berlin at the end of July. Among the topics discussed were open standards as well as potential network traffic control measures
The DiploMad 2.0: A Thought or Two on Bombings, Conservatives, Bill Ayers, and the "Victory" on Guns
Tech at Night: CISPA gets amended but not quite as I wanted. FISMA reform quietly passes. | RedState: So the House did not pass the amendment to CISPA that they probably should have passed, but the House did act to find a compromise that would ensure our needs are met, while addressing the privacy issues some have. While the above-linked criticisms are legitimate, it is the case that not that all privacy criticisms of CISPA are legitimate. Privacy has become the vague catch-all for left-libertarian positions that for the children has become for progressives. All too often there's no actual meat to the criticisms. Heck, half the people complaining about privacy would tell you that CISPA is the new SOPA, when the two bills are entirely unrelated. It's baseless scaremongering designed to defeat Republican efforts and clear the field for Jay Rockefeller and Barack Obama to act. I do plan to say more very soon on CISPA, explaining why we should pass the bill. Watch RedState.
Harry Reid will be pulling the gun control bill on Thursday. | RedState: First noted on Twitter (via Hot Air): Reid will pull the entire gun bill from floor, likely tomorrow. No final vote. It will remain on leg calendar. Brought
Shuttleworth: Canonical is fast and easy with OpenStack clouds • The Register
Manual override: Raspberry Pi beginners' books • The Register
Study: Most projects on GitHub not open source licensed • The Register
Digital Public Library of America launches beta web portal | The Verge: The Digital Public Library of America has launched a beta of its website today. The previously planned launch event was to be held at the Boston Public Library this week, but was cancelled as a...
xkcd: Authorization
Broadcasters may turn to Congress for help in bid to kill Web TV service - The Hill's Hillicon Valley: One industry association spokesman called Aereo a threat to the entire model of free and local broadcasting. Television broadcasters are considering whether to ask for help from lawmakers in their bid to shut down Internet video service Aereo.
Tor calls for help as its supply of bridges falters | Ars Technica: Bridges help users in countries like China and Iran access the network.
With Aereo appeal, broadcasters threaten the foundation of locker services | Ars Technica: Broadcasters say "tiny antennas" case shows absurdity of a landmark 2008 ruling.
Staff are facing the axe in library service changes (From Prestwich and Whitefield Guide): SOME staff will lose their jobs when four libraries are moved or turned into community hubs to save money.
Change of Pace: Here's a Letter from a Sorority Girl Scolding Her "Boring" Sorority Sisters for "Sucking" So Bad at Life
SILENCE IN THE COURT | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog: The
Daring Fireball Linked List: Taking Apple Private: Makes Sense but Nobody Has the Money
Taking Apple private: Makes sense but nobody has the money.: My colleague Farhad Manjoo asked on Twitter if Apple could use its cash stockpile to take itself private. A bunch of smart tech bloggers are also talking about this on Branch. It's an interesting issue. The answer is almost certainly that it wouldn't work, not because the math doesn't work...
Daring Fireball Linked List: First Real-World Usage Figures Suggest Chromebooks Are Struggling
First real-world usage figures suggest Chromebooks are struggling | ZDNet: When the initial batch of Chromebooks hit the market nearly two years ago, some thought these low-cost devices running Google's cloud-centric Chrome OS could be a Windows killer. NetMarketShare just started measuring Chromebook usage this month, and the first reported numbers are startlingly low.
Daring Fireball Linked List: What a Windows 8 U-Turn Will Mean for the PC
What a Windows 8 U-turn will mean for the PC | ZDNet: Windows 8 hasn't given PC sales the boost that OEMs were anticipating, and Microsoft is now rumored to be getting ready to do a U-turn on some of the core changes introduced. What effect will this have on the wider industry?
Three Virginia teens face child porn charges in “sexting” trial | Ars Technica: Case involves three teens who allegedly non-consensually filmed sex acts.
» #Gosnell never gets better - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Check out OCLC’s new logo (according to Google) | The Travelin' Librarian
Althouse: Senior Democratic senator sees the implementation of Obamacare as "a huge train wreck."
The PJ Tatler » The Desperation of Obamacare Advocates
The PJ Tatler » Reid Shelves Gun Control Bill For Now
The PJ Tatler » Kevin Drum: ObamaCare “Basically On Track”
Baucus warns of 'huge train wreck' enacting ObamaCare provisions - The Hill's Healthwatch: Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.
The PJ Tatler » Gosnell Witness: Clinic Reused Plastic Implements, Gave Patients STDs
The PJ Tatler » Can Obama Turn a Loss into a Win?
The PJ Tatler » Gov. Cuomo: If I Tell You What’s In My Bill It Won’t Pass — So I’m Not Gonna Tell You What’s In It!
U.S. carriers set up warnings to prevent 'bill shock' | PCWorld: U.S. mobile operators will warn subscribers when they're heading toward a big bill, after most carriers agreed to send email or text alerts when users are about to exceed their monthly usage limits or start using international roaming.
Boston: Worst Media Performance Ever? | Power Line
Vodkapundit » If it Falls, Tax It
WEBlog -- Wouter's Eclectic Blog
Google reinstates federated instant messaging — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
The Nude Hen: Add and Remove PPAs Using Terminal or Y PPA Manager
the dilfridge blog: kdepim-4.4 (kmail1) in Gentoo - unsupported, dying, dead
Why a win on gun-rights is really devastating a loss | protein wisdom
The Windows 8 Revolt | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Microsoft still has the chance to ditch Windows 8 and return to its tried-and-true operating system. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like that will happen.
Libraries get Buried
Myth v. Fact: H.R. 624, The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) | RedState: Previously, we had a guest post criticizing CISPA and calling for amendment. That amendment was not passed, and CISPA passed the House today anyway. So let's hear a defense of CISPA today, from Mike Rogers, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. His words follow: MYTH: This legislation creates a wide-ranging government surveillance program. FACT: The bill has nothing to do with government surveillance; rather it simply provides narrow authority to share anonymous cyber threat information between the government and the private sector so they can protect their networks and their customers’ private information.
Maryland GOP cracks down on Bloggers | RedState: Michael Dresser of The Baltimore Sun (who is greatly missed from his days as a transit/transportation writer for them before he went to the government beat)
Transterrestrial Musings - Locavorism
Beware The High Priests of Locavorism | Hoover Institution

Before Writing The Script

2013-04-12 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions, tagged as linkdump

Strange things...

The Punditocracy of Unelected Technocrats - Bradley M. Kuhn ( Brad ) ( bkuhn ): The website of Bradley M. Kuhn, aka Brad, aka bkuhn. This site includes his GPG keys, resume, blog, projects list, software, interviews, speeches and writing.
Wikipedia editor allegedly forced by French intelligence to delete “classified” entry | Ars Technica: A military compound becomes a lesson in obscurity on the Internet.
Ed Driscoll » ‘Jobs Report? What Jobs Report? Hey Look, Gay Marriage!’
Vodkapundit » The Clamp Tightens
Reid Threatens “Nuclear Option” To Change Filibuster Rules | Weasel Zippers
Harassment Is Not Journalism : The Other McCain
Althouse: "If you are 17 or under, a federal prosecutor could have charged you with computer hacking just for reading Seventeen magazine online..."
Until Today, If You Were 17, It Could Have Been Illegal To Read Seventeen.com Under the CFAA | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The PJ Tatler » Why Push Gun Control in Connecticut?
The PJ Tatler » ‘One Small Step for a Man…’ and then Stick out Your Thumb
If you believe in God, the US Army teaches you are an ‘extremist’ [Darleen Click] UPDATED | protein wisdom
Wikipedia project raises concerns over social media in class - Technology & Science - CBC News: A recent dust-up between Wikipedia and Canada's largest university raises questions about how collaborative the popular website that bills itself as the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit truly is.
YouTube Will Still Block Some Videos After DMCA Counter-Claim | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Depending on the contracts YouTube has with the rights-holders issuing DMCA notices, your video might be gone for good -- fair use or not.
The DiploMad 2.0: A Little Off the Normal Topic: The Arrogance of Credit Reporting Agencies
Anonymous Hackers Arrested In Jordan For Op Israel Cyber Attacks | Weasel Zippers
Hobby Lobby Case Moot Soon? - By Wesley J. Smith - The Corner - National Review Online: Wesley J. Smith writes on NRO: I have been thinking about the court ruling requiring the morning after pill to be available over the counter to women and girls of all ages, which I discuss over at Human Exceptionalism. But it hit me that if the ruling sticks–and I believe the Obama Administration actually wants that . . .
Out on the tiles
» Is #OpIsrael invited to CUNY’s Homonationalism and Pinkwashing Conference? - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» #OpIsrael Hack versus Counter-Hack - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Bibi didn’t jump high enough for the Turks - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Anil Dash on The Web We Lost | The Travelin' Librarian
How to Identify Clunky Perl 5 Code - Modern Perl Books for modern Perl programming: If you're going to learn Perl programming, you need to know which code to avoid. Here are three suggestions to help.
Diary of a geek - Getting online
Same-sex couples are, by definition, infertile. California proposes law that will require insurance companies to pay for their “infertility” treatment [Darleen Click] | protein wisdom
McCain on North Korea: ‘I Don’t Know What Kind of Game This Young Man is Playing’ - By Eliana Johnson - The Corner - National Review Online: Eliana Johnson writes on NRO: Senator John McCain warned this morning about the seriousness of recent events on the Korean border. “North Korea could set Seoul on fire, and that could be a catastrophe of enormous proportions.” The greatest risk posed by the situation on the Korean border, according to McCain, is of an accidental war. . . .
Obama Adviser Blasts GOP’s ‘Romney Plan’ - By Robert Costa - The Corner - National Review Online: Robert Costa writes on NRO: The election is over, but Dan Pfeiffer, a senior White House aide, is still battling Mitt Romney, the former Republican presidential nominee.“What this president will not do is come in, right after getting elected, and enact a Romney economic plan,” Pfeiffer said, speaking on ABC’s This Week.More from the transcript: STEPHANOPOULOS: . . .
Ximion's Blog » Blog Archive » Tanglu status report
Meet the nice-guy lawyers who want $1,000 per worker for using scanners | Ars Technica: "It's not some kind of bull. We're not trying to harass people."
How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on apple.com—without Apple’s OK | Ars Technica: Someone, somewhere is injecting banner ads into webpages on the sly.
» #OpIsrael or #OpPallywood? — Reports of Israel’s internet demise appear greatly exaggerated - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
The Public Library of US Diplomacy | The Travelin' Librarian
The problem with Social Security Disability Insurance is worse than you think | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Althouse: "Hundreds of Christians were under siege inside Cairo’s Coptic cathedral last night..."
Coptic Christians under siege as mob attacks Cairo cathedral - Africa - World - The Independent: Hundreds of Christians were under siege inside Cairo’s Coptic cathedral last night as security forces and local residents, some armed with handguns, launched a prolonged and unprecedented attack on the seat of Egypt’s ancient Church.
Althouse: "'Tramp the dirt down': George Galloway's extraordinarily crass tweet..."
Margaret Thatcher dead: George Galloway leads chorus of 'celebration' from the left | Mail Online: At the NUS National conference in Sheffield there were cheers when her death was revealed, while street parties to celebrate her death are set to be held this evening. .'
Althouse: "Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the grocer’s daughter whose overpowering personality, bruising political style and free-market views..."
Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister, dead at 87 - The Washington Post: Former prime minister’s conservative views and tough political style transformed British politics.
How We Lost the Web - Anil Dash
The PJ Tatler » Graham: Take Cue from Thatcher to Fight Radical Islam, ‘the Great Evil of Our Day’
The PJ Tatler » Jihad Erupts on Egypt’s Christians, Again
Companies should ban Facebook Home, experts say - CSO Online - Security and Risk: Social network's new overlay for Android smartphones 'would be the first thing I would block on my network,' said one security adviser
Margaret Thatcher couldn’t be elected today because immigration has changed the electorate | Power Line
Services – Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA)
ATF Seeks ‘Massive’ Database of Personal Info: ‘Assets, Relatives, Associates and More’ | Jammie Wearing Fools
Passport to the Third World - By Ed Whelan - The Corner - National Review Online: Ed Whelan writes on NRO: In another development in government inefficiency, I’ve discovered that now (unlike two years ago) the post offices near me require that I make an appointment in order to apply for a passport for one of my children. Calls to several post offices indicate that no appointments are available until mid . . .
News Corp. Threatens to Pull Fox Off the Airwaves If Aereo Wins - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD: Goodbye free TV?
Nearly every US state wants to host one of six new drone testing grounds | Ars Technica: North Carolina says flying over farmland could be ideal, as "corn doesn't care."
AirPlaying music and video from iPad to Raspberry Pi—it’s as easy as… | Ars Technica: 19-year-old develops Raspbmc, makes streaming to a Raspberry Pi nearly idiot-proof.
Does WebKit face a troubled future now that Google is gone? | Ars Technica: Aggressive streamlining of Blink, WebKit causes headaches for all.
» Update — #OpIsrael hacker war mostly failing - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
The PJ Tatler » Whistelblower Asks Kerry to Recommend Withholding US Dues to UN
Ed Driscoll » Life After Television
“You don’t know what freedom is because you never lost it!” | protein wisdom
Penis size matters, relatively speaking - Technology & Science - CBC News: Science has spoken and, yes, gentlemen, size does matter. A newly published study by a University of Ottawa researcher has concluded penis length exerts a measurable sway on females evaluating potential sexual partners.
Botnet now spreading Android trojans - The H Security: News and Features: The Cutwail botnet is spreading a new Android trojan, although its possible attacks aren't limited to Android devices. If the dangerous links are opened on computers, users are directed to pages with the Blackhole exploit kit
News Corp. Threatens to Yank Fox Broadcast Networks Over Aereo | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: News Corp. president and COO Chase Carey said today that he would consider yanking all Fox broadcast channels from the airwaves and switching them to a paid model if streaming startup Aereo is allowed to continue operating.
PETA Says It Plans To Purchase Drones To “Stalk” Hunters… | Weasel Zippers
Video: Navy Shoots Down Drone Using Laser Cannon… | Weasel Zippers
Sanford: Are $320,000-Per-Job Stimulus Projects Worth It? - By Jim Geraghty - The Campaign Spot - National Review Online: Jim Geraghty writes on NRO: If you’re wondering how Mark Sanford will attempt to shift the discussion in South Carolina’s first congressional district from you-know-what to actual policy issues, today his campaign offers its first example: whether the stimulus passed by the federal government back in 2009 represented a good use of taxpayer dollars.You see, . . .
This Card Makes You Smart
Stop the privatisation of Public Libraries: Disney and Bookshops in Public Libraries; exciting or a conflict?
Stop the privatisation of Public Libraries: My submission on Library Cuts to the European Workers Conference in Tarragona, 16 & 17/3/13
Ten things I’ve learnt from campaigning… | Infoism
Navy destroys drone with laser weapon ahead of 2014 deployment | The Verge: The US Navy has been pursuing solid-state laser weapons capable of setting other vessels on fire for years, but now one is almost ready to actually be put out to sea. The Office of Naval Research...
News Corp threatens to move Fox to cable-only channel if Aereo isn't shut down | The Verge: Fox may no longer operate as a free over-the-air channel if Aereo is allowed to continue operating, warns News Corp COO Chase Carey. In comments recorded by Bloomberg, Carey said that Fox and all...
Six U.S. Air Force cyber capabilities designated weapons | Reuters: COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force has designated six cyber tools as weapons, which should help the programs compete for increasingly scarce dollars in the Pentagon budget, an Air Force
Prenda Law says identity theft accuser is crazy and off his meds | Ars Technica: "Cooper’s mental state has deteriorated," besieged copyright troll claims.
News Corp. COO: If we lose Aereo lawsuit, Fox may stop broadcasting | Ars Technica: Fox probably won't go cable-only, but they'll fight for their retrans fees.
Michael Geist - Access Copyright's Desperate Declaration of War Against Fair Dealing: Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., access copyright lawsuit
The Captain's Journal » PETA Wants Drone To Monitor Hunters
The Volokh Conspiracy » Will CISPA amendments hurt cybersecurity?
Ed Driscoll » Pride Goeth Before the Free-Fall
Moe Lane » It is remarkably easy to forgo cable television. You should try it.
News from The Associated Press
“Why the perl community is no boy’s club” by tinita | Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies: If you haven't read tinita's blog post, please do so. As males we often don't see the harm we do when we are just joking around or teasing or whatever
Why the perl community is no boy's club | tinita [blogs.perl.org]
Building a static blog using Blio and Github
Fat Versus Thin Core | Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer [blogs.perl.org]
UDS 13.05: Ubuntu’s second online developer summit | Michael Hall
“Man Faces Charges After Defending Himself from a Bear in His Own Yard” | protein wisdom
Everything You Need to Know About Aereo | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: In the wake of News Corp.'s threat to pull Fox programming off the air entirely, here's everything you need to know about Aereo, the Internet-based broadcast TV video service.
Ragnar’s review of the RFspace NetSDR | The SWLing Post
Authors at 2013 National Book Festival | News Releases - Library of Congress: More than 100 renowned authors and poets will appear at the 13th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival Sept 21-22.
Medicaid for Felons - By Jillian Kay Melchior - The Corner - National Review Online: Jillian Kay Melchior writes on NRO: Freed felons will be newly eligible for the Medicaid rolls, another unpleasant surprise in Obamacare. Pew’s Stateline reports: Starting in January, many of the 650,000 inmates released from prison each year will be eligible for something else: health care by way of Medicaid, thanks to the Affordable Care Act. A sizeable portion . . .
Tech at Night: CISPA to be amended, Patent Trolls attack, Fighting for Spectrum | RedState: While it's true that cybersecurity can be cover for bad proposals, it is true that foreign organized criminal and state-backed attacks are hitting American government and business interests online every day. They're even stealing large sums of money on a regular basis. This is why we need to address the issue in a serious way. If these attacks were going on at sea, it would be an act of war. Because it's online, nothing happens? Come on. Amending CISPA in order to try to get it to pass might be a good idea. If anarchists and other left-libs don't like it, then it may yet be a good bill after the changes.
US Air Force reclassifies 6 cyber tools as weapons • The Register
Library ebooks must SELF-DESTRUCT if scribes want dosh - review • The Register
News Corp prez threatens to pull Fox TV off the air • The Register
Secrets of FBI Smartphone Surveillance Tool Revealed in Court Fight | Threat Level | Wired.com: A legal fight over the government's use of a secret surveillance tool has provided new insight into how the controversial tool works and the extent to which Verizon Wireless aided federal agents in using it to track a suspect.
Obama White House: US likely faces ‘permanently slower’ economic growth | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
CPAN issue tracker gets new features » Perl News
Gmail, the web, and yak shaving | as days pass by
Ed Driscoll » New Republic Goes Wobbly over the 17th Amendment
Struggling PC makers and Windows 8 push PC market into free fall | PCWorld: A
“Obama White House: US likely faces ‘permanently slower’ economic growth” | protein wisdom
Krauthammer’s Take: If We’re Stuck at Chained CPI, ‘We’re Going to End Up Like Cyprus’ - By NRO Staff - The Corner - National Review Online: NRO Staff writes on NRO: Charles Krauthammer said on tonight’s edition of Special Report that President Obama’s proposal to adopt chained CPI is a minimal concession, one recommended by virtually every expert and commission that has studied the matter. The country’s fiscal future is dire, Krauthammer argued, if the president and congressional Democrats are unwilling to . . .
Bowdoin President Defends College Against ‘Mean-Spirited and Personal’ Report - By Eliana Johnson - The Corner - National Review Online: Eliana Johnson writes on NRO: Bowdoin president Barry Mills is denouncing What Does Bowdoin Teach?, the report issued last week by the National Association of Scholars, as a “mean-spirited and personal” attack funded by those with deep pockets and a “political axe to grind.” Mills calls the report, which paints an unflattering picture, a gross mischaracterization of academic . . .
Marry Young? Marry Old? Marry When You Have the Character to Marry - By David French - The Corner - National Review Online: David French writes on NRO: I know I’m coming a week late to this, but I’m still chuckling at the hysterical leftist reaction to Julia Shaw’s Slate article urging women to consider marrying young. I suppose certain brands of feminism are all about getting women to march to the beat of one politically-correct drum circle. . . .
Bite-Sized Bowdoin Report - By Stanley Kurtz - The Corner - National Review Online: Stanley Kurtz writes on NRO: There’s nothing quite like What Does Bowdoin Teach?, the report recently issued by the National Association of Scholars that details the sad state of liberal-arts education at the famous old college in Maine. Bowdoin, however, is presented as the stand-in for the whole category of highly selective old-line colleges that . . .
Cilip updated, Angus library not for library users + more hours in Lancashire
A Dubious Badge of Distinction — Annoyed Librarian
Michael Geist - Canada's Digital Divide Likely to Widen Due to Access and Adoption Failures: Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., broadband column post
EPA Releases Farmers Personal Information To Radical Environmental Groups… | Weasel Zippers
Gun confiscation begins in NY | protein wisdom
A voice of reason | DamianPenny.com: A Nova Scotia family lawyer's blog
Rehtaeh Parsons: How not to solve the bullying problem | Full Comment | National Post: Vigilantism and watering down the usual standards for justice are not reasonable responses to teenaged bullying.
Rehtaeh Parsons' mom calls for vigilantes to stop - Nova Scotia - CBC News: The mother of a Halifax teenager who killed herself after allegedly being raped and photographed is making a public plea for people to leave the boys linked to the story alone.
Rehtaeh Parsons: be outraged – but careful | DamianPenny.com: A Nova Scotia family lawyer's blog
Canadian teen commits suicide after alleged rape, bullying - CNN.com: The family of a teenager who committed suicide after she was allegedly gang-raped and bullied is urging Canadian officials to reconsider filing criminal charges.
Bitcoin crashes, losing nearly half of its value in six hours | Ars Technica: Plunge happens on the same day one anonymous redditor made it rain in Bitcoin.
» Counter-narratives - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» A Culture of Death is their choice - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
President Finally Unites Americans: Everybody Hates Obama’s Budget : The Other McCain
Mathematician: US may be in prerevolutionary state, nearing upswing in social violence | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
New Obama budget says US won’t hit pre-Great Recession unemployment levels before 2023 | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
The PJ Tatler » IRS: We Have the Authority to Read Your Email
The PJ Tatler » Again: US Army Officer Describes Mainstream Christian Groups as Extremists
The PJ Tatler » USPS Won’t Cut Saturday Delivery
Obama White House: US likely faces ‘permanently slower’ economic growth | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Australia Jazz Notes | The SWLing Post
EPA acknowledges releasing personal details on farmers, senator slams agency | Fox News: The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged Tuesday that it released personal information on potentially thousands of farmers and ranchers to environmental groups, following concerns from congressional Republicans and agriculture groups that the release could endanger their safety.
ACLU documents shows free access to emails for IRS tax police • The Register
Adam Orth leaves Microsoft following 'always-on' console controversy | The Verge: Adam Orth, the Microsoft Studios creative director who came under fire for controversial comments on "always-on" consoles, has left the company. The news was first reported by Game Informer, and P...
Prenda lawyer to court: Don’t judge me for not talking | Ars Technica: Paul Hansmeier says he wasn't in charge of Prenda suits. Who was? Who knows.
The history of US taxing and spending, all in a single chart | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Property rights and the rule of law are not enough for prosperity | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
The PJ Tatler » Sen. Cruz: Obama Wants Power to Choose Ministers at Churches
The PJ Tatler » Government Continues Attacking Gun Rights, Under the Radar
Why does the U.S. have immigration laws? | Wizbang
Moe Lane » Mother Jones, Mitch McConnell, & Ashley Judd.
FF Multi Converter 1.5.0 supports drag & drop - The H Open: News and Features: The recently released version 1.5.0 of the open source FF Multi Converter tool includes a reworked graphical user interface and new functionality to select multiple files for conversion at once
Icecream 1.0 speeds up compilation process - The H Open: News and Features: Like distcc, Icecream is a client-server tool that distributes compilation processes across Linux systems, but the openSUSE project also includes a central server that will send the tasks to the fastest available computer
Why I'm Giving Up On Android | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: I'm a fan of Android, but the latest physically bloated high-end phones have lost me. Why are there no Android phones you can use with one hand?
Mali to give away .ML domains for free • The Register
Tech at Night: Fox confirms my theory about Aereo. CISPA advances. | RedState: CISPA continues to remain the big story right now. It's moving on, though some are concerned that it was effectively renegotiated in back room meetings. It needs scrutiny before passage, I'm thinking. It's probably a decent but watered-down bill at this point, but let's look before supporting at this point. We need a good cybersecurity bill, not just any old thing. Which is exactly what Jay Rockefeller is up to: flailing about, expanding government willy-nilly, in the name of cybersecurity. The SEC? Doing Cybersecurity? Insane. I like the idea of the Internet Freedom bill, though. The global trend is away from freedom online, and it's up to us to try to do something about it. The idea that the bill would hurt Net Neutrality is just a bonus.
IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant | Politics and Law - CNET News: The ACLU has obtained internal IRS documents that say Americans enjoy 'generally no privacy' in their e-mail messages, Facebook chats, and other electronic communications. Read this article by Declan McCullagh on CNET News.
Daring Fireball Linked List: IRS Claims It Can Read Your Email Without a Warrant
Adam “Always Online” Orth no longer employed at Microsoft | Ars Technica: Sources say mocking Twitter comments have led to his resignation—or termination.
The PC inside your phone: A guide to the system-on-a-chip | Ars Technica: Can't tell a Snapdragon apart from an Exynos? We're here to help.
Most Americans think they’re better off than 30 years ago. Why don’t President Obama and Martin O’Malley? | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
The Captain's Journal » Missouri Highway Patrol Divulges Concealed Weapon Permit Holders To Feds
The PJ Tatler » GOP Effort to Stop Gun Bill from Moving Forward Fails
The PJ Tatler » Connecticut Dems: Toomey-Manchin Deal Just a Starting Point
The PJ Tatler » House Liberals to GOPs: You Can’t Filibuster Something That Gets Good Polling
The president’s farcical budget | Power Line
Post-Competition Purgatory | Everyday Athlete: Staying fit and healthy while relentlessly pursuing an extraordinary life
reSIProcate and reTURN come to Fedora | DanielPocock.com
Silly extremist: the government has no designs on your firearms, 2 | protein wisdom
Silly extremist: the government has no designs on your firearms, 1 | protein wisdom
Is AM radio worth revitalizing? | Radio Survivor: FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai moderated a panel discussing the revitalization of the AM radio band at the NAB show. But is it worth revitalizing?
Broadcasters pitch 'dongle' phone add-ons in TV signal fight - Technology & Science - CBC News: The key weapon in TV broadcasters' fight with Internet video upstart Aereo is something inelegantly known as a dongle.
CBS Also Threatens to Yank Broadcast Stations Over Aereo | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: CBS this week said it too would pull broadcast stations from the airwaves in New York should streaming startup Aereo be allowed to continue operations.
Obama Doubles Estimated Cost For Obamacare Health Exchanges To $4 Billion… | Weasel Zippers
What is going on with Juju for 10 April - Jorge's Stompbox: Here are the notes from the weekly charm call. Anyone is welcome to join, due to a snafu on the weather knocking out my internet for the beginning we …
News bites: Broadcast lobby chief unalarmed by Fox threat - The Hill's Hillicon Valley: Gordon Smith, the president of the National Association of Broadcasters, said it is highly unlikely that Fox will follow through with its threat to become a subscription channel in retaliation against Web TV service Aereo, according to Broadcasting & Cable . The Wall Street Journal explains how the copycat service Aereokiller is a threat to Aereo.
SSH an ill-managed mess says SSH author Tatu Ylonen • The Register
Transterrestrial Musings - Obama’s Budget
An updated GNUnet C tutorial for developers is available | GNUnet
Start-up companies offer free data and cheap Wi-Fi with mobile hotspot, but read fine print: Need Internet on the road, but don't want to be tethered to a contract or high fees? Start-up companies are offering free data.
Linux kernel: Licence problems for old ARM FPU code - The H Open: News and Features: Code in the Linux kernel for FPU emulation in old ARM cores may not be compatible with the kernel's licence and is therefore facing removal
Manjaro Cinnamon Community Edition released | Manjaro Linux
Defense lawyers fire back at Prenda’s “know nothing” position | Ars Technica: John Steele says until 2 months ago he “never heard” of the case he's in trouble in.
Hacking commercial aircraft with an Android App (some conditions apply) | Ars Technica: Comms system used in the aviation industry contains no security, researcher says.
US adds Russian supercomputer maker to list of nuclear threats | Ars Technica: Maker of world's 26th fastest supercomputer faces heavy trade restrictions.
Why Don’t We Just Go Ahead and Nuke Those Vicious Communist Bastards? : The Other McCain
The PJ Tatler » Getting the Last Laugh
Congressional panel approves Internet freedom bill | PCWorld: A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee has voted to approve a bill that would make it official U.S. policy to promote an Internet
Ed Driscoll » Failure is an Option
Vodkapundit » Right There, Don’t Stop, Center Mass
The PJ Tatler » Biden: “Gun Owners Like the Way it Feels”
Slides + Manual + programs generated from single org-mode source | WebLog Pro Olivier Berger
Silly extremist: the government has no designs on your firearms, 3 | protein wisdom
Senate cloture vote tells us one thing: the GOP as a national party is dead | protein wisdom
Always On Is Always Wrong | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: I thought Microsoft was moving away from the wasteful always-on concept, but a tweet from its creative director indicates otherwise.
Biden Repeatedly Denies Gun Bill Will Result In National Gun Registry… | Weasel Zippers
Might Want to Check Kentucky Eavesdropping Law, Fellas. - By Jim Geraghty - The Campaign Spot - National Review Online: Jim Geraghty writes on NRO: Apparently they really meant this: The single most important thing: Defeating Mitch McConnell. Join the campaign here-> ow.ly/jEoMR — Progress Kentucky (@ProgressKy) April 11, 2013Much more important than, say, obeying Kentucky law. You see, Kentucky requires at least one party in a conversation to consent to the recording of the conversation.“Unless otherwise . . .
Off the Script - By Jane S. Shaw - Phi Beta Cons - National Review Online: Jane S. Shaw writes on NRO: Like the governors of many states, North Carolina’s chief executive, Pat McCrory, has been wrestling with how to balance his state budget. So it was no surprise that when he spoke to the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors today the budget was his major topic.But his closing remarks . . .
The Rejection of Suzy Weiss - By George Leef - Phi Beta Cons - National Review Online: George Leef writes on NRO: Over on the homepage, Hans von Spakovsky reflects on the recent Wall Street Journal piece by Suzy Weiss, a student upset over the fact that she was turned down by the “elite” colleges to which she applied. He thinks it pretty clear that she lost out at those schools because . . .
Obama’s Education Budget - By George Leef - Phi Beta Cons - National Review Online: George Leef writes on NRO: In this post, Cato’s Neal McCluskey takes a look at the spending on education in Obama’s budget proposal. As Neal often points out, the federal government has no constitutional authority regarding education at all, but putting that aside, none of the spending is apt to do any good. In higher . . .
Bad Stuff in Obama Ed Budget | Cato Institute: The hi – or low – lights of the Obama Administration’s 2014 education budget proposal.
MO Highway Patrol Contradicts Gov Nixon On CCW Leak | RedState: Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has some explaining to do. Earlier today during a hearing led by state Senator Kurt Schaefer, Col. Ron Replogle of the Missouri
Ohio Socialized Medicine Lobby Rallies Like It’s 2009 | RedState: Hundreds of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Medicaid expansion advocates rallied in front of the Ohio Statehouse on April 11, 2013, calling
Australian Networks Censor Community Education Website | Electronic Frontier Foundation
I'll Take "Whatever Evidence I Like" for Hundreds of Billions, Alex | Cato Institute
16 GOP Senators Being Denounced for Their Vote Did What, Exactly? | Wizbang
National styles in hacking
» Tweet to break the #Gosnell news blackout - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Detroit Free Press rebuffs reader demand to cover Gosnell butchery - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Michael Geist - The Canadian Digital Divide: The Experience Just North of Toronto: Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., digital divide access
The D.C. immigration protest and the shape of things to come | Power Line
MSNBC Host Says ‘Get Over It,’ Kids Belong to Community, Not Parents | Wizbang
It’s interesting… | smartboyhw's Ubuntu blog
'Anonymous' won't release names of Rehtaeh Parsons suspects - Technology & Science - CBC News: A group purported to be hacktivists Anonymous says that at the request of the family of Nova Scotia teenager Rehtaeh Parsons, it will withhold the names of the individuals alleged to have raped the teenager before her death, but adds others might not go along with that decision.
SUSE Studio 1.3 aims for the cloud - The H Open: News and Features: SUSE has refocused its web application for building and testing virtual machine images on building images for OpenStack, including the company's own SUSE Cloud. SUSE Studio 1.3 also adds improvements for Amazon EC2 images
VLC 2.0.6 fixes hole from January - The H Open: News and Features: The latest release of VLC formally releases the fix to an ASF file handling flaw from January. There are also a number of other enhancements and fixes for the open source media player with improvements on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows
Propaganda from the source: Listening to the Voice of Korea on shortwave radio | The SWLing Post
The DiploMad 2.0: Ah, Yes . . . Nork Nukes and Obama
Arrested Mexican Illegals Taunt Border Patrol: ‘Obama’s gonna let me go’ | Jammie Wearing Fools
An Admiral’s Job Isn’t As Easy As It Looks - By Michael Auslin - The Corner - National Review Online: Michael Auslin writes on NRO: Speaking of Admiral Robert Willard, who commanded U.S. Pacific Command from 2009 to 2012, this truly never gets old: Willard, by the way, was the Navy’s toppest Top Gun back in the 1980s, and flew the “Soviet” jet in Top Gun that receives an upside-down visit from Maverick’s American F-14.
A U.S. Admiral Gets It on China and North Korea - By Michael Auslin - The Corner - National Review Online: Michael Auslin writes on NRO: In Senate testimony this week, Navy admiral Samuel Locklear, the commander of U.S. Pacific Command, revealed that he hasn’t talked with his Chinese counterparts for at least the past two weeks as the North Korean crisis has raged. Some senators, such as New Hampshire’s Kelly Ayotte, urged Locklear (and by . . .
LOHAN chap to launch Raspberry Pi eye in the sky • The Register
'Sorry, I don't get the drama around having an always-on console' • The Register
Ebooks made up 22.55 percent of all US publishing revenue in 2012 | The Verge: The US publishing industry appears to be turning over a new leaf: ebook sales made up 22.5 percent of the industry's net revenue last year, according to a new survey from the Association of...
Microsoft Xbox gaffe reveals cloudy arrogance • The Register
Gears of War designer: “Always online future is probably coming… deal with it” | Ars Technica: Bleszinski says technological advancement can't worry about the "edge case."
Clifford Unchained - “Deal With It”: "Deal With It" Yesterday reports that Adam Orth, the guy who somehow caused this shitstorm, is no longer at Microsoft. Let’s pay attention to the wording here. Resigned. Not fired. Now, beyond all of...
The White House Half Gets It On Korea - By Michael Auslin - The Corner - National Review Online: Michael Auslin writes on NRO: Secretary of State John Kerry held a news conference in Seoul today after talks with his counterpart, Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se. Tomorrow, he flies to Beijing, then Tokyo, talking in all three capitals about the current crisis with North Korea. In today’s presser, Kerry got it half right, revealing two . . .
Verizon kills early upgrade program, even for some current customers | Ars Technica: All competitors continue to offer early upgrades in some capacity.
» RIP Jonathan Winters - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Althouse: Goodbye to Jonathan Winters.
The PJ Tatler » Captured Illegal Alien Mocks Border Patrol: ‘Obama’s gonna let me go.’
Serious LibreOffice update fixes 54 bugs | PCWorld: File import and export are improved in the new stability-focused LibreOffice 3.6.6.
Congress quietly repeals plan for Internet financial disclosures | Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Congress on Friday voted to repeal a plan to require Internet posting of a vast database of financial disclosures from congressional staff and many executive branch employees
Release Critical Bug report for Week 15
Friends don't let friends use Windows 8 — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
RIP Jonathan Winters [Darleen Click] | protein wisdom
North Korea: “Nuclear War Is Unavoidable,” First Target Will Be Japan… | Weasel Zippers
Weird: North Korean Female Soldiers Patrol In 4-Inch Platform Heels… | Weasel Zippers
Withering on the vine: six-year figures for volunteer branch show danger
Question Everything: We will economise on the beaches
Libraries without librarians don't make sense, forum told - Nfld. & Labrador - CBC News: The decision to lay off five of the 14 professional librarians in the provincial library system is a target of criticism at a public meeting in Corner Brook.
Olympic Team GB member joins library campaigners at fundraising quiz in Wembley - News - Kilburn Times: Ray Tucker lent his support to Members of Friends of Preston Library
Netbooks projected to become EXTINCT by 2015 • The Register
Anons torn over naming 'n' shaming of 17yo's gang-rape suspects • The Register
A radio-free zone becomes a haven for those who fear they're allergic to electronics | The Verge: For most people, Virginia and West Virginia's National Radio Quiet Zone is a place to generally avoid: within its 13,000 square mile territory, Wi-Fi, cell service, and most other broadcast...
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