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Bizarre pornograpy found on judge presiding over obscenity trial’s personal website, hilarity ensues

Alex Meyer — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:45:39 +0000

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kozinski12-2008jun12,0,6220192.story

Pot, kettle, black?

Also, “a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows”?

What. The. Hell.

Microsoft shows the world why Fair Use Circumvention Kits (DRM) are evil

Alex Meyer — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:20:11 +0000

Microsoft’s failed MSN Music download store is shutting down its DRM servers August 31, effectively stealing purchased music from its customers.

Down with DRM, long live amazon.com and other DRM-free music retailers.

Pirate music site OiNK.cd raided, shut down

Alex Meyer — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:08:29 +0000

Apparently, being the site for officially-released music tends to get you noticed by a few people who may not want you to succeed, with rather unfortunate (for the site’s owner) results. With all the blatant infringement that (apparently) occurred on OiNK, I have to wonder what took so long.

Idiot blocks Firefox, Firefox users tell idiot to take his site and shove it.

Alex Meyer — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:30:18 +0000

Some idiot and possible Microsoft shill set up a website at whyfirefoxisblocked.com (WARNING 509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded) explaining that he had to block popular open-source web browser Mozilla Firefox because of the popular Adblock extension, and gave some horribly misleading and incorrect legal reasons that adblock is illegal. I believe that, while a webmaster is certainly welcome to block users that he/she believes are blocking ads, such a measure is counterproductive due to the backlash that might occur and the ease with which a user can work around such a measure. In addition, any site that does this sort of thing probably believes that content is what you put between all the ads.

Fun with unix permissions

Alex Meyer — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:01:55 +0000

This morning I had inadvertantly chmod -R 711′ed my ~, causing a 403 forbidden error for about 9 hours. Whoops