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Hack Politician and Son Arrested for Political Hack [Hackers]
55-year-old Mayor of West New York, NJ, Felix Roque and his son Joseph, 22, were arrested today for allegedly hacking the website www.recallroque.com that was set up to rally support to recall the politician.More »
New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Online Speech [Politics]
Did you hear the one about the New York state lawmakers who forgot about the First Amendment in the name of combating cyberbullying and "baseless political attacks"?More »
This Twitter-Powered Road-Painting Printer Wants to Hear From You! [Awesome]
An advocacy group known as One has designed a sorta genius giant towable inkjet printer that prints messages of peaceful protest, in non-toxic water-soluble paint, on city streets.More »
Apple's low-key lobbying efforts no surprise
Politico has a great post Wednesday that details how folks in Washington, D.C. are rather astonished how Apple–a company that’s often the target of federal inquiries and investigations–isn’t blanketing Capitol Hill with lobbyists and money. Sure, that seems to go against s...
Apple is taking a bruising in Washington D.C. as lobbying effort has yet to ripen
Apple is taking a bruising in Washington, and insiders say there's a reason...
Obama Takes Requests for Spotify Playlist; Romney to Follow Suit? [Spotify]
President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts governer Mitt Romney will go head to head in the 2012 presidential election, as you're probably all too aware, given that this campaign already feels like it's been going on for five years.More »
White House Says President Obama Will Definitely Veto CISPA [Cispa]
President Obama has doubled down on his threat to veto the CISPA bill if it reaches his desk. He had previously threatened to veto the controversial bill, which has already passed the House and been amended, but the White House speaking up again means that the amendments aren't enough to save CIS...
Homophobia Is Totally Gay, As Proven By Science [Science]
It's long been theorized that many hardcore, anti-gay homophobics are often repressed homosexuals themselves. There certainly has been a lot of anecdotal evidence from notable political figures to support this theory, but now science is stepping in with some raw data.More »
An Anti-Catcalling App Is a Silly Way to Waste $20,000 of Government Money [Sexism]
Nobody likes sexism or the obnoxious jerks who jeer women walking down the street. But there's a pretty good chance that New York's new $20,000 "research" investment in an app to report offending males might not be the best way to do something about it.More »
Apple Could Build Its Products in the U.S. and Still Make Tons of Cash [Apple]
You know how Apple makes most of its gear in far-off lands where the people that build them make shamefully little? We always assumed that it had to be like that for Apple to run a successful business. Turns out, that's not the case at all.More »
