Category: government

Censorship- DIY on the iPhone

Censorship is not usually a humorous topic between SOPA, PIPA, and bills of the sort, but free apps like bleep button just crack me up. Bleep Buttom puts the power to censor in your hands. Do you have a friend cursing the heck out of you? Just press the big button and all of a sudden a loud beep starts that will block out...

MPAA=Mega A-holes

Helicopters roar overhead. SWAT Teams of heavily armed officers rush the compound from the ground, and the air knocking through doors. No, this is not the story of the arrest of some dangerous druglord, or terrorist. This is how the combined forces of the FBI, and several other nation’s agencies entered the family home of Kim Dotcom, founder of Megaupload. Sound ridiculous? I thought...

Is the Department of Justice Violating YOUR Fourth amendment rights?(Copyright Terror Tales Day 1)

The fourth amendment says “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized” and yet in the past two...

Apple Patents Air!

Stoppp the madnessssss!!!!! This title isn’t accurate (yet) but in five or ten years, this may be reality. Things that can be powerful in people’s lives when in the public domain, are confined to smaller uses when they are patented, and it is ruining our lives. People with Cancer, and other serious illnesses continue to die, when the potential to treat them is so...

Grandma Sues Apple For $1,000,000

We knew old people don’t understand technology, but this story is just insane. An 83 year old woman is suing Apple for $1,000,000 because she walked into a glass door and broke her nose. Is she crazy? If it was actually Apple’s fault, and their door was dangerous, we would see tons of people breaking their nose on Apple glass doors. Hundreds of thousands,...