Viral Videos Replacing Ads, Generate Interest
There are some companies that seem to be making videos for YouTube that don't specifically mention any products, but feature the products prominently none-the-less. At least one person has noticed the trend and reported on it in at least two videos, one that has already been proven to be an ad and the other only just released.
Tags: Hidden Advertising, Internet, YoutubeNew Games Require Internet Connection or You Can’t Play (PBBBBBLLTT!)
Some new game manufacturers are requiring that the game system you play with have an Internet connection so the game can authenticate itself every few days. Most people are pretty adverse to being treated like criminals just to play a game much like they'd resent a screeching corporate harpy who strikes their hands with a ruler every .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Customer Abuse, DRMNational Security Letter Successfully Challenged
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Tags: FBI, Good StuffChrysler’s 2.99 Gas Deal is No Deal
Simply put, you get a special credit card when you buy a new Dodge (not every new Dodge, but most). You can use this credit card to buy fuel for $2.99 a gallon at any service station for three years following your date of purchase, regardless of the actual market price. Sounds great right? Using Cellphones to Track Missing Persons
While this is barely legal (if it IS legal), I don't particularly have a problem with cell phone companies opening their data to police to help find a person reported as missing. That is, of course, assuming that they don't abuse the power and that missing persons are defined correctly.
As with most government powers, as long as there .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Big BrotherProtecting Yourself From Suspicionless Border Searches
The EFF has an excellent article about how to avoid being searched at the border. Specifically, how to protect your laptop data that courts recently ruled could be searched without warrant.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Big Brother, EFFCalifornia Court Leaks SSNs and Medical Data Online
In case you didn't already know, state offices posting "public" records online for anyone in the world to see is a huge and persistent problem.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: California, Data Breaches, Identity Theft, Online Records, OPSECYoutube Champions Scientology Over Anonymous
Anonymous posts anti-scientology videos on Youtube. They get canceled. They start a new account in order to try again and perhaps not get canceled this time. They get canceled.
Apparently Youtube policy is that if you've been banned, you get no second chances. Any new account you create will be destroyed…. Unless you're paying money as in the case .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Money Cult, Scams - Ripoffs - Dirty Tricks, ScientologyVoting Machines Shown to Add Wrong
In case you didn't know already, voting machines are hackable and otherwise, just plain poop. Any state that's using them should be sued. Now a man has used voting machine print-outs to prove that they are adding votes incorrectly.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: EvotingSchool Then Versus School Now
I just got this e-mail describing how different situations might be handled in 1967 versus 2007. I think it's supposed to be interpreted that the older way was better, but even if the '67 version wasn't obviously glorified, it's not necessarily something to envy.
