Apparently the NSA with all of its billions of dollars of equipment, internet trawling, and email-sniffing were outwitted by these two-bit Russian spies for years. Ahh, I love it when my tax dollars fund unconstitutional, liberty-destroying surveillance regimes that don’t even work!
On an article about a privacy flaw in the HTC Droid Incredible, some genius decided to post this brilliant series of comments: And 13 people have fanned this guy. Wow.
Here’s something that’s been bugging me for a while: animal rights. More and more people are talking about animal rights in a casual sort of way without really thinking about what that would mean. I’ll just be up front and say it: Animals don’t have rights. Here’s why: What is a right? Ask a hundred [...]
Next up on the gravy-train of ridiculous comes an actual thing that actually happened and was actually brought about by actual people: baseball bat manufacturer Louisville Slugger has just lost a lawsuit brought by the mother of a boy who was killed in a tragic baseball accident. Their crime? Manufacturing aluminum baseball bats, which the [...]
There’s some grade-A asshattery over at Dizzy Thinks:
Rarely have I laughed so loudly and so hard as when I read through Adobe Gripes, a user-submitted image blog of all the galling user interface cock-ups in today’s “professional” Adobe software. I like it because I have to use that crap and it’s cathartic to see that others as as annoyed as I am [...]
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve been asked (in the role of Windows IT guy) to fix printing problems, install various basic PDF utilities and disinfect malware-infested computers, I’d have enough money to buy all the Macs needed to banish these routine issues for good. Seriously! It’s 2008 and Windows still doesn’t [...]