Federal court blocks beef exporter from testing for mad cow disease (36)
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The USDA tests 1% of cattle of mad cow disease. Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef exporters wants to test 100% of its cattle for mad cow disease. But the Bush administration took Creekstone to court, and a US federal appeals court ruled that the USDA has the authority to stop meatpackers from testing more than 1% of its cattle. The dispute pits the Agriculture Department, which tests about 1 percent of cows for the potentially ...
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Antoine said:
This is absurd! I fully agree with Mark's comment. As a side note it is interesting to see how the 'free market' policy is no longer applied when the big guys in the market complain.
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jchris said:
I shared a Boing-Boing ;)
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Jordan T-H said:
I think this is a prime example of the mindset of the society we now live in.
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Anthony said:
Government is the haunting fear, that someone, somewhere is solving problems with markets.......
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px said:
what's wrong with 100% testing? let the market play it out.
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Veritas Noctis said:
I feel safer now. Don't you?
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Haltse said:
free country , free trade.. Pull the other one it's got a sick cow bell on it.
Comcast bandwidth limits vs. online video (4)
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So Comcast finally went public with a bandwidth cap: 250 gigabytes / month. That's about 50 DVDs or 100 hours of high def XviD per month. It's no accident that Comcast, a cable company with government-granted monopolies on video distribution, is taking actions that limit the use of the Internet for distributing video.
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Mark said:
I hate limits as much as the next guy, but if we admit that *some* kind of limit is a business necessity, at least this sort of thing is clear and unambiguous. Certainly preferable to bittorrent connection tampering.
Rumor: Apple and AT&T Developing iPhone Tethering Plan (3)
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According to a pretty legitimate-looking email thread from one of our readers, Steve Jobs may have responded to complaints that, since the pulling of NetShare from the App Store, iPhone-to-laptop tethering is impossible without jailbraking one's phone.
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Mark said:
Enough with this "tethering" BS. Next thing you know they'll invent a word that means "using your iPhone while sitting in a hammock" and try to charge extra for that.
Direct Line Saves iPhone Users From Automated Call Hell (69)
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Add this to your list of must have iPhone applications. Direct Line (iTunes link) is a service that helps you automatically navigate phone trees to get right to an operator (exactly what companies don’t want you to do). Install the application, browse of search the included companies, and select the one you want. Direct Line then calls the number and preselects the appropriate choices to get you to an actual person. The service operates much ...
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Roger Åberg said:
Genialiskt! Någon måste göra en svensk version
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Ooble said:
Great. Now I need an iPhone.
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Nick said:
BEAUTIFUL! Another tempting reason to check out the iPhone.
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glongman said:
neat idea. Incredibly difficult to keep the "maps" of company call tree up to date. I would venture to guess its harder than what we do at Overlay TV to import videos from sites like Veoh and Tudou - their sites change frequently.
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Austin said:
I hate you iPhone, why doesn't Verizon love you?
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Haltse said:
now that my friends.. is genius. I've been using a site to do this but Holy heck in a crap basket this is too freaking cool:) If it works:D
DHS contractor threatens woman with arrest for wearing "lesbian.com" tee on federal property (48)
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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.
OpenStomp Coyote-1 open-source guitar pedal now shipping (16)
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets It's only been a couple months since we first noticed that the OpenStomp Coyote-1 guitar pedal project had started development, but it looks like it's ready to go -- the web store is up and taking orders for US and Canadian customers. Your $350 gets you an 80MHz eight-core Propeller processor, a 16x2 line LCD screen, two footswitches, four knobs, an additional input / output jack, video out, an RJ11 expansion ...
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Bob Goyetche said:
I love this idea- too bad it's $300 over my stomp box budget of 2008
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Noah said:
I think this needs to be my dad's next birthday present...
A Tale of Two Tetrises (2)
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OpenStomp Coyote-1 open-source guitar pedal now shipping (2)
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets It's only been a couple months since we first noticed that the OpenStomp Coyote-1 guitar pedal project had started development, but it looks like it's ready to go -- the web store is up and taking orders for US and Canadian customers. Your $350 gets you an 80MHz eight-core Propeller processor, a 16x2 line LCD screen, two footswitches, four knobs, an additional input / output jack, video out, an RJ11 expansion ...
Official Net Worth: McCain $36.4 Million, Obama $799,000 (4)
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Despite a clumsy by the McCain campaign today to argue that Barack Obama was also a rich guy and had no standing to complain that McCain lost track of how many homes he and Cindy own, according to their own Personal Financial Disclosure forms filed with the US Senate, McCain's net worth is 45 times greater than Obama -- $36 million to 799,000.
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Greg said:
Okay, but Obama said he made 4.6 million last year. Where did he piss that away to? Bad financial management?
Who should be USA's CTO? - Today I visited Larry Lessig. (Robert (3)
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer: Who should be USA's CTO? — Today I visited Larry Lessig. He's the founder of Creative Commons. A professor of law at Stanford University. And does many other things. — He is one of those guys who is just interesting to talk to. Why? Whip smart and has a view of things that very few other people have.
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Mark said:
Lessig for CTO!
HOWTO trick your printer into using ALL its ink (79)
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Slate's Farhad Manjoo has some great tips for outsmarting the greedy, lying sensor in your printer that wants you to change the super-expensive cartridge before the ink runs out: This guy had also suspected that his Brother was lying to him, and he'd discovered a way to force it to fess up. Brother's toner cartridges have a sensor built into them; OppressedPrinterUser found that covering the sensor with a small piece of dark electrical tape ...
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Rafael Capanema said:
Será que funciona? Vou tentar
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Greg said:
Holy wow.
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Chimpadink said:
My toner just ran out of ink about a day before viewing this. I did this trick and it TOTALLY worked.
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Christian said:
I hate printers so much
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Falk said:
Brother (and other printer manufacturers) definitely have crossed a border here. We have been putting up with the criminal activities of the printer mafia far to long!
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Kluzter said:
La tinta de computadora es uno de los líquidos más caros del mundo, más nos vale sacarle el provecho y siendo regios... ¡ni se diga!
TSA puts commercial pilots on no-fly and terrorist watch lists (30)
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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.
TSA inspector breaks airplanes by climbing on them using instruments as handholds - Boing Boing (48)
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A TSA inspector decided to get a closer look at some American Eagle jets at O'Hare, so he climbed up on them, using a fragile, vital instrument (the Total Air Temperature probes) as handholds. He damaged the craft so badly that the regular maintenance crew grounded them -- and if they hadn't noticed, the lives of everyone on-board could have been endangered. Remember, folks, the "S" in TSA stands for "Security." Citing sources within the ...
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Clay said:
This is unfortunately not shocking. Since people are forced to obey their arbitrary dicta, why shouldn't a complex, multi-million dollar achievement of a scientific sophistication that they will never be able to comprehend be capable of flying when they mangle its instrumentation b/c they are too ignorant to ask a ground crew for assistance?
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Derrick said:
"ABC News reports an overzealous TSA employee attempted to gain access to the parked aircraft by climbing up the fuselage... reportedly using the Total Air Temperature (TAT) probes mounted to the planes' noses as handholds. "
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