THis is so funny. Perhaps Ableton Live has a built in irony engine. Please note that I have every confidence in Ableton fixing my problem- they are a very good company. I just think it’s too funny not to share:
Hello Richard,
we are really sorry that this problem has occurred to you! In order to help [...]

Upset as I am about the fading hopes for health care legislation, I think it’s important to focus blame where it belongs the most: On the CEO’s of the evil health care insurance companies who would rather see tens of thousands of people die rather than to sacrifice any money from the bottom line. [...]

This morning, I was reading a rumor about the possibility of a touch screen iMac. Whether or not this rumor is true, it emphasises a possibilty that I’ve been concerned about: What if Apple is slowly migrating the iPhone OS over to all of it’s Macintosh product line?
I know you may be thinking [...]

Tell the FCC and Congress You Support Net Neutrality
We got the heads up from John Laesch, Democratic candidate in the
special election to replace Dennis Hastert in IL-14. The FCC has made
provision for comments from the public on net neutrality, and on
John’s request we created a special action page that pipes your
personal comments into the [...]

1:31 jtv: Please don’t write obnoxious messages. They will not be sent.
You can’t swear on justin.tv, even though it’s supposedly “Your TV channel,” YOU don’t get to decide what people can say on YOUR chat room.
We need to have a discussion on censorship in the moronosphere.
is there a site for live video streaming and [...]

I spent the past 3 hours navigating through shitty Flash code to get my live station on Mogulus to work. Then once I did, I realized that Mogulus AUTOMATICALLY censors text in the chat rooms. This despite my having marked the channel as for over age 17 only. I hate censorship and will work relentlessly [...]

Re: payment is rejected- why? – Refno: 161140755 (KMM5921822I56L0KM)
“element 5 (CS)”
to me
1:12 pm (1 hour ago)
Dear Customer,
Thank you for your message.
We apologize that we have not been able to process your card
(MasterCard) successfully for your purchase No. 161140755. As our
system is processed entirely through electronic requests, our credit
card service returns a [...]

from Open Congress blog:
…
The Intellectual Property Enhanced Criminal Enforcement Act of 2007, was introduced on July 24th and it could easily be ready for a vote before Bush’s six months of warrantless spying are over. Here’s how it works:
Besides increasing penalties for all kinds of copyright infringement, the bill adds a new crime [...]

I wonder what Apple’s upcoming manufactured rumour of the next overhyped piece of junk will be. Perhaps an iStockticker?
Someday, Jobs will learn the tremendous damage unhappy customers can cause.

Apple’s hardware has become as bad as Microsoft’s software, if not worse.

Let us not forget, when obsessing about the latest hyped up product of slave labour, that its only possible choice of provider is a traitorous scum of a corporation.
http://www.wired.com/science/discove…/2006/04/70619
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_01.php
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post…-and-riaa.html
They are also starting to censor their network:
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la…ck=1&cset=true
So much for net neutrality.
http://boingboing.net/2006/01/31/eff…tt_for_he.html
http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/usr…mpaa-and-riaa/
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing…5-10-nsa_x.htm
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la…,5531531.story

EVERY year, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics awards prizes for the best papers presented at its annual conference. Last year’s winner in the nuclear and future flight category went to a paper calling for experimental tests of an astonishing new type of engine. According to the paper, this hyperdrive motor would propel a [...]

Peter van Dijck:
MySpace, founded by rather ruthless marketeers and now owned by Murdoch, never had much ethics. Now they’re blocking Photobucket, a company that embeds a LOT of pictures and videos on Myspace pages. Is this when MySpace will finally become uncool?

Check this out.

Freedom of speech is just that. First of all, the so called ‘A-list’ bloggers are for the most part a bunch of constipated fat dweebs who think when they discover something, that they are the first to have conquered the new territory in question.
Example: Twitter. It’s what livejournal was in 2000 only with Twitter, [...]

This is so funny. South Park is now broadcasting in HD. What on earth is the point of crude, unartisticly drawn (or construction paper- not sure) cartoons in HD? What benefit could that possibly offer other than to help a ‘dude’ rationalize his purchase of a 42″ plasma penis?
P.S. I am a fan of [...]

I think that all of the content distributors will have to offer bittorrent in order to remain competitive. BT drastically reduces distribution costs and once the end user catches on, it will virtually eliminate them, at least for popular podcasts. Less popular podcasts will be more expensive to distribute. This is a disturbing truth, IMO.
BitTorrent [...]

I’m going to PodCamp NYC April 5-6 2007.

I’ve seen a few bloggers ask this question of late. No, it’s not dead, no thanks to those of you who have already given up on it in the search for the next big thing.
Podcasting is not dead for those who had a message before they found the medium.
Vlogging will have the same result. It’s [...]

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I agree with Winer here wholeheartedly. The big question is why has Time magazine become one giant ad for Apple? Do they share many board members or interests?
Scripting News: 1/13/2007
I don’t believe for a minute that Jobs’s closed-box approach to cell phones is the right one. Growth is driven by choice. The Internet grew because, [...]

US stun gun maker Taser is unveiling a sleeker version of its controversial weapon aimed at safety and fashion conscious members of the public.Available in pink, blue, silver and black, the gun fits into a handbag like a mobile phone. It will be launched at a Las Vegas electronics fair on Monday.Taser guns temporarily incapacitate [...]

Companies that do not keep close tabs on PDAs, instant message conversations and other forms of electronic data may soon be in for a nasty surprise, should they find themselves in court. As of December 1, 2006, new guidelines, called the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, go into effect. The rules, set by the U.S. [...]

Someone’s going to get a bunch of justifiably angry emails from the Videoblogging Group tonight.Imagine if a website launched…and they simply reposted blog posts from Boing Boing, Scobleizer, Engadget, etc. These kind of sites are called “splogs”. Any funded site knows this is a no no.But new video hosting companies are still all learning that [...]