Slashdot points us to the amusing story of technology "solving" a theft of an irrigation controller on a farm, thanks to a wireless connection. While it's a neat story of technology thwarting a theft, there are a few questions raised by the story.
This post digest is 14% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read Bad Ideas: Stealing Products That Can Be Tracked Wirelessly (Links)
Other Congressional Reps told him to not worry about it as everyone ignored that rule, and no one would get in trouble for using various social media sites such as YouTube. It's not this new effort to loosen the rules, other than in the fact that the loosening of the rules might not go far enough.
This post digest is 8% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read Politician Using Twitter To Ignite Misleading Partisan Fight Over Politicians Posting To Twitter (Links)
Yelp has had a tumultuous relationship with its merchants in the past because of negative reviews from Yelpers; some merchants had even tried to ban Yelpers from even visiting their establishments.
This post digest is 13% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read Yelp Angers Its Merchants By Deleting Their User Accounts (Links)
We were surprised that politicians in Sweden approved a highly questionable bill that allowed rather widespread spying on all sorts of internet communications, despite widespread protests.
This post digest is 12% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read Massive Backlash Against Sweden's Internet Spying Bill (Links)
We've been pointing out how there needs to be a lot more sunlight shone on the discussion surrounding the new "ACTA" treaty, which is basically a way for the entertainment industry to sneak through new copyright laws without getting Congressional approval.
This post digest is 13% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read Entertainment Industry Continues To Try To Sneak Copyright Expansion Through ACTA (Links)
In fact, GM is apparently rushing the production of its Chevy Volt to get it to market faster than expected. That may actually be the case, but Chris Maresca writes in to point out that this all sounds mighty familiar.
This post digest is 13% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read How GM Plans To Dominate The Electric Vehicle Market... In The 1980s (Links)
For example, there's still no thought given to the fact that if multiple people invent the same thing at around the same time, it seems fairly obvious that the concept was, in fact, obvious to those who were skilled in the art, since multiple people all came to the same "next step" conclusion.
This post digest is 9% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read Why Shouldn't Competitors Be Able To Weigh In On Patent Applications? (Links)
That seems like quite a stretch. It seems like a stretch to think that any moron in a hurry would be confused by Total Health's marketing claims -- when it quite clearly states that it's not an official reseller of Standard Process' goods.
This post digest is 11% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read Yet Another Lawsuit Over Whether A Company Can Ban The Sale Of Its Products Online (Links)
Read Music As Torture: Are Musicians Whose Music Is Blasted At Gitmo Compensated For Public Performance? (Links)
Some Senators have put together an amendment stripping telco immunity from the bill, but leaving the increased surveillance powers in place. What has been made abundantly clear by this statement is that the US government does not need these extended surveillance powers at all.
This post digest is 18% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read Bush Administration Admits That Telco Immunity More Important Than Increased Spying Power (Links)
Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next
Enter your search term in the field below.
If you enjoy Techdirt you may also like to read:
The following one-click bookmarking links are made available for your convenience.
Backflip
BlinkBits
Blinklist
blogmarks
Buddymarks
CiteUlike
Connotea
del.icio.us
de.lirio.us
digg
FeedMarker
Feed Me Links!
Furl
Give a Link
Gravee
igooi
kinja
Lilisto
Linkagogo
Linkroll
looklater
Magnolia
maple
netvouz
Newsvine
Open Tag Directory
Raw Sugar
Shadows
Simpy
Spurl
Squidoo
tagtooga
Technorati
Wink
wists
Yahoo My Web
The following one-click subscription links are made available for your convenience.
reddit
