The Facebook IPO was supposed to be the biggest thing ever yet it turned into one of the biggest flops. While most investors ended up losing money as the stock price fell, a few selected ones did quite well. This … Read More
Now that Google Reader is dead, Google has just announced that they’re dropping XMPP support with their new “Hangouts” messaging service and replacing it with a proprietary protocol. If you’re not aware, XMPP is also known as Jabber and is … Read More
The news media is even worse than you think – MarketWatch.
Psychic Sylvia Browne said Amanda Berry, one of the women held captive for a decade in Cleveland, was dead. As a result, there have been calls for her to stop offering her “services” to families and police agencies. It brings … Read More
It seemed like a fool-proof plan. Pursue copyright lawsuits against people who downloaded pron videos via BitTorrent. They’ll be so embarrassed at the thought of going to court they’ll quietly pay up to save themselves the publicity. But Prenda Law … Read More
In the spirit of “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”, James McCormick sold millions of dollars worth of novelty golf ball finders as bomb detectors to the Iraqi government and others. The early versions just had a new … Read More
With the appointment of Lamar Smith, a global warming denier, to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology it’s more than apparent that government antiscience is on the rise. I keep trying to remind myself this is the nation … Read More
Craigslist claims to be against CFAA, the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act, yet they used the CFAA in an attempt to prevent Padmapper from using datapoints from listings to help people find apartments to rent. Craigslist claimed copyright on the … Read More
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