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Presidential Records Act: no private (online) correspondence allowed for US presidents

“For years, like legions of other professionals, Mr. Obama has been all but addicted to his BlackBerry [...] But before he arrives at the White House, he will probably be forced to sign off. In addition to concerns about e-mail security, he faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence in the official record and ultimately up for public review, and the threat of subpoenas. A decision has not been made on whether he could become the first e-mailing president, but aides said that seemed doubtful.”

Imagine: no private conversations for four or eight years.

[via:This Week in Tech]

Entäpä, jos ostaisin pussin kukkamultaa, kuumentaisin sen mikrossa, siivilöisin ja söisin?

[via:Mummila]

Majority of Finnish 55–64 year olds are for limitations of free speech for the purpose of “taming” the Internet (in Finnish)

Just what we needed: delusional Baby Boomers who blame school shootings on the Internet. The sooner every single one of these purposeless assclowns go sit in the corner and die from heart diseases caused by lifestyle choices, the better off the rest of us are.

This kind of clueless, frightened mental defecation from some old people, concerning everything related to the Internet might actually affect technology law & policies. I get sick thinking of these things.

As far as civil liberties are concerned, I’m sure these cold-war trained, censorship happy idiots wouldn’t mind the idea of being time-machined back to some country behind the iron curtain 30 years ago, if they could take their cars, summer cottages and overweight grand-children with them.

See also: English Google translation of the above article

Idolatrous Socialism from Space: Jesus people prayed for “God’s economy” at statue of bull on Wall Street

October 29 2008 was apparently “The Day of Prayer for the World’s Economies”. WTF:

“We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the ‘Lion’s Market,’ or God’s control over the economic systems.”

See also: more photos from the prayer, a video, The Charging Bull statue

[via:Pharyngula]

11 year old Indian girl set on fire for wearing lipstick

“[The victim] was attacked by the man she called nana (grandfather). On Friday, Saleem told the little girl not to wear lipstick. When she defied him, in a fit of rage he allegedly molested her before pouring kerosene on her and setting her on fire.”

Cute world domination rabbit by Marc Johns (buy print). The original is available on Marc Johns’ Flickr account.

See also: Stalin

Ferrari 456 Venice Station Wagon custom built by Pininfarina for the Brunei royal family

Related: Jerrari

[via:Geeklogie]

Ars Technica reviews “Night of Bush Capturing” (islamist propaganda game)

The following Youtube video of the “final boss” is included in the review.

[via:rms]

Unicode Snowman for You

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[via:Waxy]

The National Debt Clock near Times Square has run out of digits

“The National Debt Clock near Times Square has just run out of spaces to add more zeroes to its running count of our national debt, thanks to the one-two punch of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout and the $100 billion used to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before that.”

Pääsy Youtubeen estetty poliisiviranomaisten tietokoneilla

“Tavallinen poliisi ei pääse tietokoneeltaan katselemaan YouTube-palvelun videoita verkossa.

Poliisin työtä ohjaava sisäministeriö ylläpitää listaa internetsivustoista, joille tavallisella poliisilla ei ole pääsyä. Suosittu videopalvelu on mukana estolistalla, jota ministeriö perustelee tietoturvasyillä.
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“Meillä oli hirveästi ongelmia YouTuben kanssa silloin kun se oli sallittu”"

Selainturvallisuuden parantamiseksi tietoturvajeesus suosittelee esimerkiksi virtualisointia, adblockereita ja Firefoxia.

Little Girl Beatbox

Nose Shower Gel Dispenser

[via:mummila]

Grankulla stad erbjuder krishjälp åt chockade invånare efter stationsbrand

Måste kännas som Jokela all over again.

Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch in Poland

“As part of a marketing campaign ahead of the iPhone’s Friday launch in Poland, the country’s largest mobile operator Orange is paying dozens of actors to stand in queues.”