DHS contractor threatens woman with arrest for wearing "lesbian.com" tee on federal property (41)
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Security guards contracted by the DHS threw a woman out of a Social Security office in Van Nuys for wearing a t-shirt that read "lesbian.com." He claimed that "The Rules and Regulations Governing Conduct on Federal Property" gave him the right to throw her out for wearing a t-shirt with the word "lesbian" on it. As she headed for a line to pick up a Social Security card for her son, Gilbert was stopped by ...
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Eater said:
Huh? Wow.
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Maurice said:
wow, thank God the DHS is saving us from women wearing shirts with the word "lesbian" on it. I feel much safer!
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Jeremy Jarratt said:
This is a reminder to vote responsibly.
It’s Official: The G1 From T-Mobile is the First Android Phone (74)
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Images from around the web are showing the HTC Dream AKA the T-Mobile G1 in all its bendy, screen-sliding glory. This Sidekick-like phone has a pop up screen, full QWERTY keyboard, and none of the buckets of suck that characterize Windows Mobile phones. Android is still fairly nascent so I worry that the application environment will be limited on launch but an open, powerful platform backed by a major, web-focused corporation is better than a ...
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Haidong said:
iPhone or gPhone, which one will you buy?
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Chuck LeDuc said:
Meow!
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Joe said:
I like this article. That's all. ;)
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Devlin D said:
Hell yes!! Does Canada get one of these?
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Brian said:
this is sounding really good
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G$ said:
woAh. move your mouse pointer over the ad at the bottom of this article and keep your eye on the status bar at the bottom of firefox... see that #changing?
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HacKnight said:
Woohoo! I'm getting one...
TwitPic / Share photos on Twitter (6)
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A mashup that allows you to share photos on Twitter. You can post pictures via the TwitPic API, the site itself, or any of the regular Twitter posting methods.
Crayola keyboard and mouse (13)
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Crayola's baby-friendly keyboard and mouse look like a lot of fun -- I'm tempted to get one to use myself! It'd probably be more forgiving of my fat sausage fingers than most input devices. Crayola 11071 Keyboard, Crayola 12071 Optical Water Mouse (via Red Ferret)
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David said:
Rick's new keyboard? ;)
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Jack Teague said:
This looks like a lot of fun.
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Eebs said:
Yeah, it's fine, except that's fucking Comic Sans all over everything.
Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record (Declan McCullagh/CNET News) (11)
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News: Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record — By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward …
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Jamie said:
Important. Ah jeez. Pro-RIAA, Mr Biden?
Writer who photographed HP Lovecraft's headstone ordered to delete her photo, heaped with abuse (27)
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Matt sez, "One of my favorite writers, Caitlin R. Kiernan, was the subject of verbal abuse, profanity and homophobic remarks from some sort of security guard when she and her companion went to visit H.P. Lovecraft's grave. The guard attempted to make them delete all of the photographs they had taken, despite the absence of any policy forbidding it. Are cameras like catnip for abusive, power-mad rent-a-cops now?" Basic story: Caitlin and her friend have ...
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CKL said:
WTF.
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Earl E Morningwood said:
I never knew HP Lovecraft real names.
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brokekid said:
Great line - "Just another skirmish in the war against photography, as the brave security guards of the world prevent the theft of photons from our poor, helpless inanimate objects."
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Lee said:
I want vice cops to stop harassing the working girls for a day and go take pictures of public places. When security guards assault them by taking their cameras jailirity will ensue. I can wish, can't I?
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Gary said:
do we have to carry a taser to take photos and not be harassed?
Mayor shuts down home produce stand operated by kids (34)
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Clayton, California Mayor Gregg Manning is punishing two little kids for taking the initiative to sell their own garden produce from a card table in front of their house. Manning ordered police to raid their operation because the neighborhood isn't zoned for commerce, and because it constituted an imaginary traffic hazard. Clayton Mayor Gregg Manning ... wonders what Katie and Sabrina might do with that produce stand if the zoning laws weren't enforced. "They may ...
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div_conspiracy said:
So no yard sales either!This is government with too little to do.
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Drewcipher said:
I'm glad these damn criminals are off the street.
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Patrick said:
There is often a story like this and so it offers another opportunity to make the cliche comment as to what this lesson communicates to kids and even adults - the man knows best, kid.
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Jason R. Hunter said:
There should be laws against being this much of a jackass.
Maybe Nastia Will Get Another Gold After All. Doubt It, But, Still. (2)
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At this very moment, Nastia Liukin's on her way to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport for a 4:15 p.m. press conference -- where, no doubt, the Parker-living, Plano-training Olympian will be asked about stories circulating today concerning the age of Chinese gymnast He Kexin, who controversially outscored Liukin to take gold in the uneven bars earlier this week. Long before the Olympics, there were concerns that He and Jiang Yuyuan were younger than 16, the minimum ...
Judge: Copyright Owners Must Consider 'Fair Use' Before Sending Takedown Notice (David Kravets/Threat Level) (4)
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David Kravets / Threat Level: Judge: Copyright Owners Must Consider ‘Fair Use’ Before Sending Takedown Notice — In the nation's first such ruling, a federal judge on Wednesday said copyright owners must consider “fair use” of their works before sending takedown notices to online video-sharing sites.
TSA puts commercial pilots on no-fly and terrorist watch lists (28)
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Here are a couple of accounts of commercial airline pilots, one of whom has been put on the TSA's no-fly list and the other is on the terrorist watch-list, for reasons that no one will disclose. A Gulf War veteran and his wife say they've been unfairly placed on a federal list that limits their commercial flight access and threatens his job as a commercial pilot. To fight back, the couple, who are Muslim, filed ...
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heather said:
Hey Jim, this explains...something...
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Clay said:
Maybe they should let the asshole who broke the plane by climbing on its instruments fly the plane.
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Gonzo said:
Good news, though -- all you need to do to avoid the secondary screening is fly under your initials, rather than name. Better hope the terrorists never figure that out. Ho ho ho.
The WB Makes a Comeback (2)
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The WB is coming back, not to your television set, but to your computer screen. On August 27, 2008, Warner Bros. brings back its WB Network in a big way online with full episodes of classic SF and genre-related shows like “Babylon 5,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel,” Roswell," "Smallville" ...
Export Files from Google Page Creator (29)
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You probably heard that Google intends to close Google Page Creator and migrate the users to Google Sites, a service that seems to be targeted to a different audience and that lacks many features available in Page Creator. Google Sites will add some of the missing features by the time Google closes Page Creator, but those who want to move to a different service or maybe to buy a domain can already export the files. ...
Man whose US immigration notice was sent to the wrong address is detained with untreated spinal cancer until he dies, denied access to his wife and children (110)
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A Hong Kong computer programmer who had legally resided in the US for 15 years (since he was 17) and fathered two American children went for his final green card interview and was locked up, detained until he died of cancer that the DHS refused to treat him for. He had overstayed a visa (the DHS sent a key notice to the wrong address), and this prompted the DHS to lock him away and demand ...
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André said:
Land of the free.
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Chris De Vries said:
Man's inhumanity to man.
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gyakusetsu said:
Stop Apartheid!
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David said:
Another violation of human rights by the 'land of the free'
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Michael said:
I have no words... I feel sick.
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dekrazee1 said:
Oh my...
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CKL said:
Disgraceful. We're all living in a Kafka novel these days.
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Derrick said:
Bureaucracy: Is there anything it can't louse up? Then again, even the faceless machine of civil process can hardly excuse such a repugnant travesty. Interestingly, or horrifyingly, after nearly 40 years, we still haven't learned anything from the Stanford prison experiment.
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Cheryl said:
Absolutely disgusting behavior by this US government office. Everyone involved should be fired and/or jailed.
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Greg said:
God Bless America and our Private Prison-Military-Industrial-Congressional complex.
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Yusuf said:
The land of the free!
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Jonathan said:
This is beyond shameful.
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Preeti Desai said:
I have no words...
Old time record enthusiast rips and posts thousands of 78RPM tracks (14)
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Wired's Listening Post blog has a great feature on Cliff Bolling, a 78RPM record enthusiast who has digitized and posted nearly 4,000 old vinyl tracks, complete with cartridge hiss and pops. Like the early US recordings, many of these are fairly noisy. But to clean up the hiss and delete the pops using digital techniques would lessen the impact and appeal of hearing such old recordings played over a global network through tiny, great sounding ...
