The recording industry asked Verizon last summer to reveal the name of a customer believed to have downloaded more than 600 songs in one day, but Verizon refused, saying that such a move would violate customer privacy and force Internet service providers to serve as the music industry's online policeman.

But U.S. Judge John Bates ordered Verizon to turn over the customer's name.

RIAA vs Verizon : Court orders Verizon Must Reveal Internet Song-Swapper

CNN article on Mitnicks ham radio license

My favorite line is: "...he won't be subject to any special surveillance. "Not any more than anyone else would,"..."

the most expensive amateur radio license in the world: Mitnick returns to the airwaves

] "automakers have, over the past decade, ramped up their
] SUV designs to appeal even more to the "reptilian"
] instincts of the many Americans who are attracted to SUVs
] not because of their perceived safety, but for their
] obvious aggressiveness. "

This article is hillarious yet revealing in the ways SUV's are deliberately marketed to our atavistic desires and fears. And at last provides proof of their hazardous safety record.

Vanity. Insecurity. Uh hunh.

Bumper Mentality: The story of SUVs

"I can assure you that no constitutional questions are raised here" says Condoleeza Rice.

Yeah, if you're reading Idi Amin's constitution, but not the US Constitution!

White House defends CIA killing of US citizen in Yemen

"The heavily unregulated DSL market has been virtually monopolized and the cost of DSL has gone up in the U.S. from $39 to $49. It costs $29 (US) in Canada for the same service. Right now, Canadians are twice as likely and South Koreans are four times as likely to have broadband access than Americans. That%u2019s pitiful. "

TISPA rant against Broadband Deployment Act