Friday, September 12, 2008
This Is Your Captain Speaking: Will the Gentleman in Seat 21A Please Stop Surfing Porn
Now that air-to-ground broadband has added Internet porn to American Airlines’ in-flight entertainment offerings, the company’s flight attendants are asking that it be taken off. The Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents 19,000 AA employees, is urging the airline to block access to Web content it feels is family-unfriendly.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
California Assemblyman Introduces “iTax Much”
As far as solutions for California’s $14 billion budget deficit go, taxing “digital property” is nearly as outlandish as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed $4.8 billion cut in education spending.
Yet it’s being bandied about by Democratic State Assemblyman Charles Calderon, whose Assembly Bill 1956 would expand the state’s sales tax to digital goods–music downloads, e-books, pornography [...]
Friday, November 9, 2007
Big Mother
Who better than AT&T to filter the Internet for widespread copyright infringement? After all, the company has a fair bit of experience with just this sort of thing, having aided and abetted the National Security Agency in its warrantless domestic-surveillance efforts.
Anyway, together with NBC and Disney, AT&T has invested a combined $10 million in Vobile, [...]
Friday, November 2, 2007
For Safe Porn Viewing, Apple Recommends QuickTime 7
Conventional wisdom and Apple spin have long held Macs to be more reliable and more secure than PCs. But after reports of installation bugs, along with data loss and other problems in Mac OS X Leopard, some are beginning to ask: how much more reliable? How much more secure? Especially now that Apple has confirmed [...]
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Let That Be a Lesson: Nothing Will Ever Come Between a Teenage Boy and His Porn
Good thing the Australian government’s $84.8 million NetAlert Internet filtering program was never intended to take the place of parental supervision, because it’s already been cracked. Tom Wood, a 16-year-old from Melbourne, managed to bypass the filter in 30 minutes on the day it was released to the public. “I downloaded it on Tuesday to [...]
Japanese Porn Industry to Sony: Is That a Tentacle in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
If history is any guide, the victor in the battle over the next-generation DVD optical media standard won’t be determined by the Hollywood studios, but by performers with names like Flick Shagwell and Wendy Whoppers. The adult-entertainment industry, after all, is widely credited with tipping the balance of the videotape format war in favor of VHS, giving it the critical mass of support it needed to check the advance of Sony’s competing Betamax format and turning the battle into a rout.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
U.S. Senators Announce ‘No Internet Filter Left Behind’ Campaign
Is government ever a good substitute for parenting? If you’re at a loss for an answer to that question, consider some of the statements coming out of this week’s “Protecting Children on the Internet” hearing in Congress. In testimony given at the hearing, Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye (D., [...]
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- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
- A Spectacular Cover of “Let It Be”
Spectacular in the bellowing Russian sailor sense of the word …
- Protect Insurance Companies PSA
“If you spell something wrong on your insurance claim, do you really deserve surgery? I don’t think so …”
