In spite of veto threats from the lame duck idiot in the White House, the house of Representatives passed the FISA Amendments Act with a 213 to 197 vote last Friday.  Choosing legality over cronyism, the House has send a strong massage to the Bush/Cheney administration that enough is enough.
We may just be able to […]

Attempting to block the adoption of the new FISA wiretap bill which would grant immunity to the telephone companies that illegally tapped American citizens phones, Senator Chris Dodd needs your help.
It’s important that your lawmakers know how you feel about the the president, the vice president and the NSA casually defecating on your rights and […]

The Senate is supposed to begin debate today on the bill that would eventually grant immunity from prosecution to the telecommunications companies, most notably AT&T, for their involvement in the NSA’s domestic spying scandal.
Bill S 2248 would permit ­warrant-less surveillance that targets foreigners overseas, even if they are communicating with someone in the United […]

During the first two weeks in October out nations lawmakers tried to slip a bill through that would grant immunity from prosecution to the phone companies that collaborated with the NSA in the recent domestic spying.  I posted on it HERE and HERE.
The response from the ordinary citizen was so strong that the bill was […]

Yesterday I found this link on the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) homepage. After reading the accompanying text I fired off e-mails to my two Senators and my Congressman. You can find information regarding your elected officials here.
Update: I’ve received a reply from my Congressman already. I’m pretty sure it was sent off by […]

Voyager VX 10000

Why does anything have to be an "iPhone Killer", or an iPod killer for that matter? Why can’t Verizons new phone rest on its own laurels and force the iPhone to become the Voyager VX 10000 killer. [It’s gonna need a better name, no one wants to be a Voyager VX 10000 killer]
But […]

Cory Doctorow, over at BoingBoing has mentioned an interesting group over at Flickr. Called the Bad Signage Pool, it’s a very large collection of pictures that contain something that’s not quite right.
On the very first page I was chuckling from the get-go. Here’s my favorite from just the first page:

Video What?!?

Bricked!

Earlier this week Apple released a warning that unlocked iPhones "will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed."
That scenario has come to pass. Shortly after the release of the iPhone update 1.1.1 consumers have reported that unlocked iPhones began having problems. The image at […]

Soldiers performed pre-dawn raids on Buddhist monasteries today as the junta tried to gain control of an ever increasingly volatile situation. Not since 1988 has the ruling body faced such a severe challenge to it’s authority. And, like petty dictators everywhere, protests have been met with violence. World leaders gathered at the UN in emergency […]

OK, this is what I’ve been afraid of. The aggregate costs have been computed and here’s the hit to the bottom line for all of those waiting in line for the iLaunch. OK, so a very quick comparison: Family plan with Verizon; 2 Razrs $49.99 + $35 activation + $79.00/m = $1,981. […]

Well, I almost missed this article in Information Week. Reinforcing my claim that Not All That Glitters Is Gold.

iPhone Backlash Misses the PointPosted by Richard Martin, Jun 20, 2007 06:50 PM
Fake Steve Jobs is not someone to suffer indignity lightly. And lately he’s had plenty to wax indignant about. We refer, natch, to the […]

As Clara Peller might have asked, Where’s the Beef?
In what must be a high level decision, AT&T announced it’s own video sharing service that will not work on the iPhone. Just what is up with that? We can only imagine that there has been enough lead time to either have Apple tweak the iPhone to […]

Ummmmm, like, you’re kidding, right? Please tell me your kidding. Please????

Will you be able to unbox your own iPhone?
Posted Jun 22nd 2007 9:00AM by Michael Rose

You’ve saved your pennies, and then thought better of the whole penny-centric strategy. You’ve moved on to cashing in your savings bonds. You’ve figured out which AT&T […]

So, it’s not just Apple that’s taking a slightly lower than high road with the immanent release of the much touted iPhone. (See related story) AT&T intends to charge you $175.00 for early cancellation despite the fact you’re not getting any kind of deal on the price of the phone. Isn’t that special!
For years cell […]