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Techdirt: DailyDirt: Graduation Advice To Remember
Maybe you remember your graduation. Maybe you don't. If you were lucky, you graduated college and knew exactly what you wanted to do. You had a job all lined up, and when asked about your plans, you could avoid saying anything along the lines of:
I don't...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 6:16pm -07:00T (289 words)
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Techdirt: New Bill Would Stop Patent Trolls From Hiding Behind Shell Companies
We've talked in the past about how patent trolling operations love to use shell companies to hide who actually owns the patents. Intellectual Ventures has thousands of shells, but it's even worse in many cases when it's smaller trolls, where no one has a...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 5:01pm -07:00T (482 words)
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Techdirt: Eric Schmidt Still A Fan Of Figuring Out A Way To Erase The Past
Back in 2010, we wrote about Google's Eric Schmidt suggesting that in the future kids might change their names as they reach adulthood in order to disconnect their present-selves from their youthful indiscretions that were recorded permanently online. Th...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 3:46pm -07:00T (304 words)
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Techdirt: Released Video From Silva Beating Shows His Last Moments; Video Of Actual Beating Still Missing
A pair of the cell phone recordings of the David Silva beating have been released by attorney Daniel Rodriguez. 23ABC News received the videos first, both of which capture the final moments of Silva's life. Unfortunately for those seeking more clarity a...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 2:31pm -07:00T (1408 words)
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Techdirt: Chinese Hacks Of Google Database Of Surveillance Targets Highlight How Dumb Technology Backdoors Are
We've argued for quite some time that law enforcement's desire to require backdoors for wiretapping in all electronic communications is really dumb, because it won't just be law enforcement using it (and, when they use it, it won't just be for legitimate ...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 2:31pm -07:00T (465 words)
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Techdirt: AT&T Says You Can Use Any Video Streaming App You Want... Just As Soon As It Can Get The Meter Running
AT&T isn't going to let something like "net neutrality" slow it down from shaking every spare cent out of its customer base. (Source: I'm a customer. Also: see these.) Beginning last year with its blocking of Apple's Facetime app (exempting customers wh...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 1:16pm -07:00T (575 words)
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Techdirt: Reporters Find Exposed Personal Data Via Google, Threatened With CFAA Charges
In a story that sounds mighty similar to the Andrew "weev" Aurenheimer situation, two reporters from the Scripps News service have been told that they may be hit with Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) charges after a Google search they did turned up per...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 12:01pm -07:00T (463 words)
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Techdirt: New York Times Tells Startup It Can't Even Mention The NY Times
Another day, another story of a ridiculously overaggressive legal move by a big company. This time it's the NY Times, which turned its bogus nastygramming skills on a startup called Scroll Kit. Scroll Kit is a three person startup that tries to make a s...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 10:46am -07:00T (901 words)
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Techdirt: So It's Come To This: Seven High School Students Arrested For Throwing... Water Balloons
The weather's (mostly) hot. School's almost out. And what better way to celebrate summer being almost here than being arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for throwing water balloons.
Hail academia, forever teaching our youth that anything and every...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 9:31am -07:00T (686 words)
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Techdirt: First Hand Account Of Judicial Smackdown Of Prenda In Minnesota
Yesterday we had a story about how a judge in Minnesota, Judge Ann Alton, angrily accused Paul Hansmeier of fraud in the lawsuit filed by Alan Cooper against Prenda. There was some confusion by the judge about whether Cooper and Godfread were in on the f...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 8:16am -07:00T (1603 words)
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Techdirt: Quack Professor Releases Dumbest Violent Video Game Theory Ever
If you have sensed an increase in the levels of air-borne stupidity in the world lately, as have I, you might be looking for the root cause of this collective mental climate change. I think I've found it. I believe it's caused by emissions of stupid gener...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 7:01am -07:00T (477 words)
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Techdirt: How Low Can Drones Go?
As we've pointed out in a few stories, drones aren't necessarily something to worry about. Like any technology, they can be used for good and bad purposes, and shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. But determining where exactly the line between acceptab...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 4:31am -07:00T (381 words)
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Techdirt: Prenda Gets Some Tiny Bit Of Good News, As It May Get Out Of Two Critical Cases
It's been a busy day for Prenda news, with some trouble in Minnesota and central California. However, it may have some slightly better news in two other key cases where judges had suddenly taken a deeper interest in what exactly was going on with Prenda....
Dateline: 2013-05-21 11:31pm -07:00T (470 words)
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Techdirt: Ridiculous Timing: Obama Administration Responds To Spying On AP By Pushing Journalist Shield Law That Wouldn't Matter
There was one odd side note in all of the attention last week to the DOJ spying on the AP under questionable circumstances. Right after being confronted about it, the Obama administration released some talking points about how they support a reintroducti...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 9:01pm -07:00T (295 words)
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Techdirt: Bad Day For Prenda Continues: Judge Rejects Stay, Adds $1k Per Day For Each Day They Don't Pay Up
Prenda's not having a very good day (or month, for that matter). We noted yesterday that Paul Hansmeier had asked the appeals court to put a stay on the attorney's fees awarded by Judge Otis Wright in California. The court rejected the request, partly o...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 5:16pm -07:00T (625 words)
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