There’s been plenty of fanfare over Amazon’s new Android-based e-reader, the Kindle Fire, with one interesting feature being the new Silk browser, which is differentiated by the fact that it’s built on top of Amazon’s cloud web services storage, allowi… Continue reading →

With Japan announcing a signing ceremony this Saturday for those who negotiated ACTA, it seemed reasonable to think that most of those listed as planning to attend would be signing. Of course, we wondered about the US, the EU and Mexico — as there ha… Continue reading →

Bob Dylan has a pretty long history of appropriating works from others, but then going after anyone who has built on his works. He’s also been held up by copyright maximalists as someone whose career just wouldn’t be the same without strong copyright…. Continue reading →

Via Neil Gaiman, we come across yet another case of idiotic censorship by law enforcement who appear to have little understanding of the law. It involves a professor, James Miller, from the University of Wisconsin-Stout, who had the temerity to put up… Continue reading →

The mess in NYC with the way the NYPD are handling the whole “Occupy Wall Street” situation continues. We’ve already covered the story of the police falsely claiming that video evidence of an incident where an officer (Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna… Continue reading →

Last we’d heard from Disney “research analyst” Anthony Accardo, he was whining about how the tech industry somehow owes the entertainment industry a living. In that article, he seemed to believe that the massive entertainment conglomerates, like the on… Continue reading →

Earlier this month, we wrote about the ridiculous criminal case against Michael Allison, who was facing 75 years in prison for the horrible crime of recording the police. The details of the case made it quite clear that the charges against him were v… Continue reading →

We were amazed a few years ago when the RIAA, with the help of law enforcement, started going after DJs who made mixtapes, even though those same mixtapes were considered a huge part of the promotional infrastructure of certain parts of the music world… Continue reading →

As a .Net Programmer I enjoy using String.Format frequently when working with strings, particularly in SQL statements. Now I don’t work with SQL in JavaScript but there are still plenty of times that I wish I could just whip out my handy dandy String.F… Continue reading →

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