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Giz Banned For Life and Loving It: On Pranks and Civil Disobedience at CES [Ces 2008]

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2008-01-14 16:30:18 by posted by Pantha in
...civil or corporate obedience. Every tech journalist has to decide whether or not he's writing for companies or for readers. When they start writing for the companies, covering all their press releases and regurgitating marketing jargon, you do no one any favors (not even the companies, which already hire press release machines Gizmodo was...
 
Tags: companies, prank, press, prank pays homage, press releases, fellow press, critics talk, critics, press conference
 
 
 
 
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Giz Banned For Life and Loving It: On Pranks and Civil Disobedience at CES [Giz Banned From CES And Loving It]

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2008-01-14 11:30:18 by Editor in Gizmodo
...civil or corporate obedience. Every tech journalist has to decide whether or not he's writing for companies or for readers. When they start writing for the companies, covering all their press releases and regurgitating marketing jargon, you do no one any favors (not even the companies, which already hire press release machines Gizmodo was...
 
Tags: press, press releases, companies, prank, prank pays homage, fellow press, press credentials, critics talk, critics
 
 
 
 
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Europe Says Net Banning Is a Violation of "Civil Liberties and Human Rights" [Net Neutrality]

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2008-04-11 11:20:00 by Wilson Rothman in Gizmodo
...civil liberties and human rights and with the principles of proportionality, effectiveness and dissuasiveness, such as the interruption of internet access." The vote royally pissed off the EU's RIAA-equivalent, the IFPI. Even still, the vote itself may not result in any kind of safe haven for, uh, P2P "enthusiasts Though the European...
 
Tags: rights, human rights, net, european parliament voted, european parliament, civil liberties, net access constitutes, bbc, bbc news
 
 
 
 
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VirtualCourthouse.com 'Lets you resolve cases entirely online'

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2008-02-21 16:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Civil fiscal cases settled Monty Ahalt believes that most civil cases can be resolved without the parties ever being in the same room or even on the same phone call The retired Prince Georges County Circuit Court judge runs VirtualCourthouse.com, a Web site that allows parties to work out their differences online with an arbitrator or...
 
Tags: online, virtual courthouse, virtual courthouse charges, virtual courthouse handles, virtual courthouse parlance, pays virtual courthouse, dispute resolutions, dispute, differences online
 
 
 
 
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Amys husband has cell phone

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2007-12-29 11:36:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
...CIVIL, 25, is hiding a mobile in his cell while on remand for alleged trial rigging Sources claim he has been using it to call and text troubled singer Amy, 24, and music industry associates. The authorities at North Londons Pentonville Prison are now set to crack down hard on him Smuggled in ... Pentonville nick A source said: I dont...
 
Tags: fielder-civil, junkie blake fielder-civil, blake, singer amy, phone, amy, amy winehouse, blake realises, camera phone
 
 
 
 
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China to build 97 regional airports by 2020

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2008-02-13 10:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...civilian airports at the end of 2006, with about 45 of the largest shown on the map up top Projected increases between now and 2020 of 15% annually for cargo and 11.4% annually for passenger traffic will raise the number of Chinese airports with over 30 million passengers a year from three to 13 For reference, the U.S. had 3,364 airports at...
 
Tags: airports, regional airports, civilian airports, government, chinese government, chinese, airports council international, chinese airports, china
 
 
 
 
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Cox customers can watch Obama-McCain forum over and over

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2008-08-25 19:14:53 by Gadgetress in Gadgetress
...Civil Forum from August 16 at the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest Available to its Cox Digital Cable customers, this viewing is on demand so people can watch whenever they want, as many times as they want. Fox and CNN both rebroadcast the debate last weekend Best of all, its free to digital cable customers. The 1-hour, 37-minute show will be...
 
Tags: forum, civil forum, church forum, cox, saddleback church forum, mccain, saddleback church, channel, cox channel
 
 
 
 
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Phone company cuts off FBI wiretap for unpaid bill

2008-01-12 21:54:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...Civil Liberties Union said the report highlighted hypocrisy from telephone companies that want Congress to give them lawsuit immunity for cooperating in certain wiretaps on the grounds they were only acting as responsible corporate citizens Much of the report contained sensitive law-enforcement information and many details were not released...
 
Tags: fbi, wiretap, fbi international wiretap, fbi employee, fisa program, fisa, government, government audit, national security
 
 
 
 
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The Back Burner: Things we didnt post this week

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2008-02-01 23:00:14 by Doug Aamoth in CrunchGear
...civil service code which formits civil servants from owing or operating foreign currency account coupled with the fact that the fund is huge thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account on my behalf I intend to part 30% of this fund to you while 70% shall be for me. I do need to stress that...
 
Tags: account, foreign currency account, loan offer apply, offer, huge transfer project, transfer, escrow coded account, loan, million