Scary-Crayon: Stupid Internet Ads!

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Chat trap One teenager's scary
experience in an internet chatroom

Chat trap One teenager's scary
experience in an internet chatroom 02/10/2004 09:02 AM
BBC Feb 10 2004 1:42PM GMT

Kill a stupid Internet patent

Kill a stupid Internet patent 06/11/2004 05:34 PM
Got a favorite stupid Internet patent you want to see clobbered? EFF is running a patent-busting contest:

We're currently seeking nominations for ten patents that deserve to be revoked because they are invalid. Sadly, we don't have the resources to challenge every stupid patent out there. In order to qualify for our ten most-wanted list, a patent must be software or Internet-related and there must be a good reason to suspect that the patent claims are invalid. We're especially interested in patents that target tools of free expression, such as streaming media, blogging tools, and voice over IP (VoIP) technology. Most importantly, the patent-holder must be aggressively enforcing its patent and suing (or threatening to sue) alleged infringers. We're particularly interested in cases where the patent-holder is trying to force small businesses, individuals, nonprofits, and consumers to pay licensing fees. Deadline to enter is June 23.

On June 30, the Patent Busting Project's team of tough lawyers and brainy geeks will announce the contest winners – or losers, depending on how you look at it. And that's when the real fight for great justice begins. We'll be needing your help to research prior art for each patent and offer your technical expertise or historical knowledge. Using a legal process called "reexamination," the Patent Busting Project will ultimately go to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and attempt to take those bad patents off the books.

Link

Dean's secret for success? It's the
internet, stupid

Dean's secret for success? It's the
internet, stupid 01/17/2004 11:21 PM
Observer Jan 18 2004 1:21AM GMT

Stupid judge breaks porn, Internet

Stupid judge breaks porn, Internet 08/03/2004 07:46 PM
Annalee Newitz has (yet another) fascinating piece, this time about how a court decision interpreting the DMCA has potentially created (yet another) way for businesses to use copyright law as a tool for crushing the competition:

"[In] the process of clarifying [DMCA safe harbor] provisions, Judge Baird also made some dangerous assumptions about the safe harbors that have created a veritable roadmap for litigation-happy copyright owners who want to use the DMCA to harass people right off the Internet.

The ruling explains that, to qualify for safe harbors, a company must terminate its relationship with a user or customer if they receive 'repeat notifications of copyright infringement. 'Repeat notifications' means multiple takedown notices.

Why is this a problem? Think of it this way: If a large adult website wants to put its smaller competitors out of business, one way they could do it would be to send several takedown notices to the small company's age verification and bill processing service providers, claiming that a few images posted on a few webpages are infringing. To avoid the risk of liability, these service providers will sever ties with the small website's owner, who will now have no way of processing credit cards to do business on any of the websites."

Link (Thanks, Donna!)

"You see? You see? Your stupid minds!
Stupid! Stupid!"

"You see? You see? Your stupid minds!
Stupid! Stupid!" 01/06/2004 03:19 AM

Jack Valenti says stupid things --
really, really stupid things

Jack Valenti says stupid things --
really, really stupid things 08/03/2004 07:46 PM
Tim Wu has rounded up some of the dumbest things that Jack Valenti said -- and he's found some real howlers, things that make Jack's infamous condemnation of the VCR ("the Boston Stranger of the American film industry") look like a walk in the park.

On the nascent cable industry, in 1974
"[Cable will become] a huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair."

On the dangers on media concentration, 1984 Op-Ed
"Will a democratic society allow just three corporate entities to wield unprecedented dominion over television, the most decisive voice in the land? There are now only three national networks .... There will never be more than three national networks."

On the public domain, 1995
"A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?"

Link (Thanks, Patricio!)

Scary!

Scary! 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
On Wednesday night, I got to ride in the Munster Koach. To a Big Hollywood screening. With Leonard Stone, Marilyn Monroe, George Barris and Screech.

Scary

Scary 07/11/2004 01:36 PM
Transparent grab for power or genuine threat?

You've got a scary ex

You've got a scary ex 05/03/2004 08:06 AM
USA Today May 3 2004 12:27PM GMT

War? Terrorists? No, Here's What's
Really Scary

War? Terrorists? No, Here's What's
Really Scary 06/29/2004 12:23 PM
Jane Jacobs, author of a seminal book that reshaped urban planning, has produced a quirky and typically iconoclastic new book.

Scary Hind.

Scary Hind. 07/04/2004 12:54 AM
Cust om paint job on Afghan Hind attack chopper. Impressive, but why? (Via Gizmodo)

Scary article about the flu

Scary article about the flu 12/10/2003 06:41 PM
There isn't enough flu vaccine medicine to go around this year, but that might not matter, because the vaccine might not be effective against the "Fujian" flu that's going around.

Bad as they are, the difficulties in coping with this year's influenza epidemic are like the tiny tremors in California that remind you of the looming Big One. In the world of influenza, the Big One is a pandemic—a strain of influenza so different from what has circulated before that people have no immunity. That's what happened in 1918 when the flu killed between 20 million and 40 million people worldwide. Pandemics that killed well over half a million also struck in both 1957 and 1968.

Link(thanks, Scott!)

Scary Movie

Scary Movie 05/21/2004 05:29 AM
A Canadian documentary asserts that the modern-day corporation meets the criteria of a psychopath.

Why Is Agile Development So Scary?

Why Is Agile Development So Scary? 06/17/2005 04:54 PM

 

Pres ton Smith has written a pragmatic overview from of why Agile works. I particularly liked the reference to Donald Reinertsen?s research that showed:

* Out of hundreds of projects, there is no case in which requirements remained stable throughout design.

* Of more than 200 product developers, fewer than 5% had complete requirements before beginning design.

* On average, design commenced with only 58% of requirements specified.

If requirements are going to change, wouldn't we be better off acknowledging this and building our processes to accommodate it.

Related...

[Andy Pols' Blog]

Why robots are scary--and cool

Why robots are scary--and cool 04/12/2005 07:38 AM
Theologian Anne Foerst says we're a lonely species, and robots have a lot to teach us about who we are.

pictures from when the subway was scary

pictures from when the subway was scary 01/09/2004 09:58 PM
i like to give people the impression that mass transit in the city hasn't changed since the 80s

Dell's Scary Efficiency

Dell's Scary Efficiency 01/05/2005 11:16 AM
Even when companies get huge, they can keep growing quickly.

Online to reality - the leap is scary

Online to reality - the leap is scary 06/28/2004 05:25 AM
Canada.com - Mon Jun 28, 09:37 am GMT

Nightmarish, genuinely scary
photoshopping

Nightmarish, genuinely scary
photoshopping 08/27/2004 01:46 PM
Cory Doctorow: Worth 1000's nightmare-themed photoshopping contest has yielded some genuinely scary images. Link (via ftrain)

Daily Gallery image: "Scary?"

Daily Gallery image: "Scary?" 06/05/2005 11:20 PM
adbmice has posted this image of three PowerBooks.

A Scary Bedtime Fable for the Future

A Scary Bedtime Fable for the Future 06/22/2005 01:49 AM
Dayana Yochim tells a bedtime retirement story for kids and their freaked-out parents.

"this scary Evening Standard article"

"this scary Evening Standard article" 04/24/2004 03:37 PM

It's impressive, scary to see what a
Zaba search can do

It's impressive, scary to see what a
Zaba search can do 04/16/2005 10:02 AM

Scooby Doo: The Scary Stone Dragon

Scooby Doo: The Scary Stone Dragon 09/16/2004 11:31 AM
vnunet.com Sep 16 2004 3:53PM GMT

"another video with a scary view from
the ground floor"

"another video with a scary view from
the ground floor" 12/30/2004 04:30 AM

Scary Monsters Roam Catwalk (Reuters)

Scary Monsters Roam Catwalk (Reuters) 02/18/2004 09:19 AM
Reuters - Models stomped down the catwalk in Frankenstein's monster masks and headless horse skirts as British designers Antoni and Alison brought a touch of horror to London Fashion Week Tuesday.

Scary news for Bush: We're not afraid
anymore

Scary news for Bush: We're not afraid
anymore 06/22/2005 02:04 AM
Americans' fear of a terrorist attack is at its lowest since 9/11.

Coop Linux: scary kernel hack

Coop Linux: scary kernel hack 01/26/2004 10:15 AM
Wes "Kernel Hacker" Felter describes Cooperative Linux as, "a scary hack that loads the Linux kernel into the NT kernel as a driver so that they can both run in ring 0 at the same time, allowing Linux apps to run full speed on Windows without porting." Link (via Hack the Planet)

Scary display settings are easy to
repair

Scary display settings are easy to
repair 08/30/2004 06:34 AM
SiliconValley.com Aug 30 2004 10:52AM GMT

A Ghost Story Turns Very Scary for
Malawi Journalists

A Ghost Story Turns Very Scary for
Malawi Journalists 03/29/2005 04:00 AM
Two reporters face possible criminal charges after using quotes that implied Malawi's president feared ghosts.

Fight Aging!: The Scary Future of
Pro-Death Bioethics

Fight Aging!: The Scary Future of
Pro-Death Bioethics 06/15/2004 06:59 AM
this is a disturbingly plausible future .. opposition to anti-aging research .. took a look .. [LINK]

fightaging.org/archives/000143.php
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Scary article about cell phone use and
brain damage

Scary article about cell phone use and
brain damage 11/18/2003 02:04 PM
The jury is still out on whether wireless phones can cause brain damage or cancer, but there are an increasing number of studies coming out that suggest it might not be smart to yack all day on your wireless phone.

Dr. Lief Salford, of Lund University in Sweden, who has called the evolution of wireless phones 'the largest biological experiment in the history of the world,' reported in June that cell phone radiation damaged neurons in the brains of young rats.

The study showed cells in the parts of rats' brains that control sensation, memory and movement died after being exposed to various cell phones at different levels of radiation for two hours.

'The situation of the growing brain might deserve special concern, since biological and maturational processes are particularly vulnerable,' Salford said.

He cautioned that it is possible that after decades of daily use a whole generation of users may suffer negative effects as early as middle age. The paper was published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a U.S. National Institutes of Health journal.

Link (via Wi-Fi Networking News)

Here's a scary piece about a CIA spook
who is not sanguine about the success of
the War on Terror

Here's a scary piece about a CIA spook
who is not sanguine about the success of
the War on Terror 06/24/2004 06:51 AM
'Book by C.I.A. Officer Says U.S. Is Losing Fight Against Terror'

nytimes.com/2004/06/23/politics/23INTE.html
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Next News: Scary forecasts by
cybersecurity expert Bill Neugent

Next News: Scary forecasts by
cybersecurity expert Bill Neugent 08/04/2004 05:20 PM
US News Aug 4 2004 9:05PM GMT

Bruce Shneier explains why the Witty
Worm is a scary piece of malware

Bruce Shneier explains why the Witty
Worm is a scary piece of malware 06/08/2004 03:21 PM
Bruce Shneier of Counterpane Security explains why the Witty Worm is so awful.

Witty was very well written. It was less than 700 bytes long. It used a random-number generator to spread itself, avoiding many of the problems that plagued previous worms. It spread by sending itself to random IP addresses with random destination ports, a trick that made it easier to sneak through firewalls. It was -- and this is a very big deal -- bug-free. This strongly implies that the worm was tested before release.

Witty was exceptionally nasty. It was the first widespread worm that destroyed the hosts it infected. And it did so cleverly. Its malicious payload, erasing data on random accessible drives in random 64KB chunks, caused immediate damage without significantly slowing the worm's spread.

Link

Bruce Schneier explains why the Witty
Worm is a scary piece of malware

Bruce Schneier explains why the Witty
Worm is a scary piece of malware 06/08/2004 05:02 PM
Bruce Schneier of Counterpane Security explains why the Witty Worm is so awful.

Witty was very well written. It was less than 700 bytes long. It used a random-number generator to spread itself, avoiding many of the problems that plagued previous worms. It spread by sending itself to random IP addresses with random destination ports, a trick that made it easier to sneak through firewalls. It was -- and this is a very big deal -- bug-free. This strongly implies that the worm was tested before release.

Witty was exceptionally nasty. It was the first widespread worm that destroyed the hosts it infected. And it did so cleverly. Its malicious payload, erasing data on random accessible drives in random 64KB chunks, caused immediate damage without significantly slowing the worm's spread.

Link

The legend of Bunny Man Bridge has
evolved in Northern Virginia over the
past 30 years the way most scary stories

The legend of Bunny Man Bridge has
evolved in Northern Virginia over the
past 30 years the way most scary stories 11/02/2003 03:12 AM
I've been there! .. (new window)

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44387-2003Oct30.html
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Does CBS think we're that stupid?

Does CBS think we're that stupid? 02/10/2004 02:42 AM

I'd like to someday live in a country where a quick nipple shown on TV isn't the end of civilization, and that's not what irks me about the halftime show tonight. What does get me about the Superbowl halftime show is CBS insisting it was an accident, calling it a "wardrobe malfunction."

It's funny, when you collect the evidence, I wonder if CBS really thinks the public is stupid enough to believe it:

1. It was planned from the start.
2. There are snaps on her outfit clearly visible, designed to be unsnapped. Most garments are sewn together sans snaps and don't fall apart.
3. She's wearing a "nipple shield" to partially cover her breast. If it was unplanned why on earth would she have this huge chunk of metal there? Was it to skirt some FCC rule against an entirely naked breast?
4. Worst of all: She has a single coming out which is coincidentally being rushed to the airwaves based on the "overwhelming worldwide demand." Check the timestamp on the bogus press release, it was posted before the game was even over.

Is it all a big coincidence or is this how controversy is manufactured to sell records these days?

It's the IQ, stupid

It's the IQ, stupid 08/27/2004 01:51 PM
"Innate intelligence has to do with capability and ignorance to do with variables such as educational opportunity and personal diligence. But the conundrum remains. Is intellect important in presidents? If Americans can't solve the question definitively in the matter of John Kerry and George Bush, we damn sure ought to make an educated guess."
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