http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/02/166221/Censorship-Struggle-Underway-In-Iceland?from=rss
Censorship Struggle Underway In Iceland
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday August 02, @01:17PM from the information-wants-to-be-free-but-it's-gotta-work-for-it dept. themedia censorship
jon jonson writes
"Information from the collapsed Icelandic bank Kaupthing has been leaked to WikiLeaks, revealing billions in insider loans, and the bank has been working day and night to censor the information contained in the document. Last night at 6:55pm GMT, they served an injunction against the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, five minutes before the 7pm news was due to be aired. The TV station just displayed the WikiLeaks URL instead. They've also injuncted Iceland's national radio, banning all discussion about the contents of the document, and they are actively trying to censor the rest of the Icelandic media along with WikiLeaks."
(Related) What's with gag orders? Here's an opportunity to say “We've carefully investigated this incident and can demonstrate that (spraying your iPod with Hair Spray / Insert alternate no-no here) causes it to explode. Don't do that. OR Perhaps they are all potential bombs?
August 3, 2009
Apple tried to silence owner of exploding iPod with gagging order
Apple attempted to silence a father and daughter with a gagging order after the child’s iPod music player exploded and the family sought a refund from the company.
The Times has learnt that the company would offer the family a full refund only if they were willing to sign a settlement form. The proposed agreement left them open to legal action if they ever disclosed the terms of the settlement.
The case echoes previous circumstances in which Apple attempted to hush up incidents when its devices overheated.
… Last week it emerged that Apple had tried to keep a number of cases where its iPod digital music players had started to smoke, burst into flames and even burned their owners, out of the public eye.
An American reporter obtained 800 pages of documentation on the cases from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) following a Freedom of Information Act request in that country. However, she was unable to get hold of the documents for months after “Apple’s lawyers filed exemption after exemption”.
Government lists its Twits! Film at 11! (No doubt investigative journalists will find a gold mine of scandal here!)
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/021950.html
August 02, 2009
Government Twitter Directory
GovTwit - the Government Twitter Directory is a directory of 2,213 Twitter users 56,716 Tweets and 20,778,287 Followers [Note: these numbers will change quickly]
Gee, maybe I do own all those papers I wrote... Or do I?
Students Settle With TurnItIn In Copyright Case
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday August 02, @11:59AM from the nobody-wants-to-read-your-awful-papers dept. education privacy
An anonymous reader writes
"With the deadline for a Supreme Court appeal rapidly approaching, the students who sued TurnItIn.com for issues surrounding copyright infringement reached a settlement with the site's company on Friday. Now the search goes out for any student who has a paper which is being held by TurnItIn that they did not upload themselves. If your teacher uploaded a paper and ran a TurnItIn report without your permission, I bet the students' attorney would like to hear from you."
Something for the Stats class. Colorado is fairly well off, but I would like to stop working for the IRS sometime before April...
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/021954.html
August 02, 2009
Tax Foundation - Facts & Figures Handbook: How Does Your State Compare?
Facts & Figures Handbook: How Does Your State Compare? (2009 mid-year update)
Mark Robyn: "How do taxes in your state compare nationally? This convenient pocket-size booklet compares the 50 states on 37 different measures of taxing and spending, including individual and corporate income tax rates, business tax climates, excise taxes, tax burdens and state spending. The 2009 version of this booklet was originally published in February; this is a mid-year update reflecting recent rate changes in some states."
History as oracle. OR Understanding past assumptions and error helps us predict future errors. OR We rarely learn (and soon forget) lessons from our failures.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/021952.html
August 02, 2009
Creating Global Intelligence: The Creation of the US Intelligence Community and Lessons for the 21st Century
Creating Global Intelligence: The Creation of the US Intelligence Community and Lessons for the 21st Century, "a collection of declassified documents from the late 1940s to the early 1950s that ultimately led to the establishment of the CIA. This 800+ collection allows history to come to life as well as giving perspectives on the complex issues that senior US Government officials grappled with when considering how to establish an enduring national intelligence capability."
This goes in my Swiss Army folder.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-download-google-maps-for-offline-use/
Get Google Maps to Work Offline With Google Maps Buddy
Aug. 3rd, 2009 By Varun Kashyap
… These days we plan our trips and rides before hand using Google Maps.
… You can save the map as image files and go through the pain of stitching them together in Paint or Photoshop. Or you can spare yourself some trouble and get Google Maps to work offline with Google Map Buddy, which does everything for you in a click.
It doesn’t require any installation, just extract the zip file, run the executable and you are good to go.
[The link in the article is broken, so go to: http://www.augmentedrealitysoftware.co.uk/gmb.html
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