In an effort to show that the term “googling” isn’t ubiquitous for search Google is trying to stifle the press from using it.
They’ve asked very politely that the various wonks and journalist out there not use the term “googling” repeatedly to refer to generic search. Such as “did you google that chick” or “I […]

In what’s definitely a “News of the Weird” piece the RIAA is going to actually sue the deceased. Couldn’t make that one up if I tried.
RIAA defendant dies, heirs given 60 days to grieve before depositions

The States might finally be getting the morning after pill.  If this isn’t just another politic move, that is.
Funny how they’re stating that their “framework” for approving Plan B was “transparent, science-led process” when most of what they’re peddling as fact (people under the age of 18 somehow being more likely to have “risky sex” […]

Congress is once again limitting what you’re allowed to do.  This time it’s imposing laws on publicly funded institutions so that they can’t allow access to social networking websites.
Read that one again.  You got it.  Social networking websites.
Really… doesn’t that include the one you’re presently reading?  You can certainly post feedback on the open forum […]

The homeless apparently create unsafe parks by, and this one’s a bit tricky, eating in them.
So Orlando is now banning feeding the homeless. Much like we ban feeding Canadian Geese here in CT.
Oddly for much the same reason. Orlando is going to eliminate the “homeless threat” before the “homeless win”. Because once […]

Some of use distribute GPL software.  I’ve actually distributed the odd change or patch myself (and sent up the RTL8150 patch to the kernel maintainers).  Most of this stuff is offered source-code available on the internet.  The license is very much intact.
Which is why it’s so appauling to see the BSA director making statments like […]

Seems that Microsoft is having a tougher time buying off persuading officials in Europe of it’s rightousness than in the US.  The European Union slapped fines of 357m USD on the firm for not complying with it’s landmark ruling that should have forced MS to play fair in the server market.
What they ended up doing […]

And here I thought we staties were the ones on the cutting edge of cruel and unusual copyright penalties!
Seems that the French Parliament bowed to corporate interest and enshrined their 180 degree turn from their anti-discriminatory copyright stance I talked about a bit earlier.
The long and short of it is that the lawmakers in France […]

Ignoring the reality of the situation, Massachusetts politicians are hammering down on.. er.. a document format. That’s right folks. You’re paying them to be incenssed over a format.
A format which, I might add, is perfectly usable and doesn’t really have any downside. Only it doesn’t restrict the user to Microsoft’s software.
Anyone can […]

It seems that Microsoft can’t violate the antitrust ruling against it from the EC.  They’re set to crack down with fines on MS for not following through on opening up their server protocols to competitors as part of an anti-trust ruling.
This one’s pretty pat really.  They were supposed to document their server protocols to allow […]