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Seagate and Western Digital now shipping uber thin hard drives
Intel has arguably been the talk of the town with Computex in full swing but lest we forget that countless other manufacturers are on hand to showcase their new wares. Case in point is hard drive makers Seagate and Western Digital, both of which made headlines as the tech conference… … Read More
Weekend tech reading: Haswell PCs are coming, Apple’s law firm betrayal
Asus, Cyberpower, and MicroCenter announced all-in-ones, gaming laptops and desktops running Haswell, while major PC makers like Dell, Acer, and others expected to follow with more Haswell announcements in the coming days. … Read More
Weekend tech reading: Haswell PCs are coming, Apple’s law firm betrayal, Gaming schools/studios infographic
Asus, Cyberpower, and MicroCenter announced all-in-ones, gaming laptops and desktops running Haswell, while major PC makers like Dell, Acer, and others expected to follow with more Haswell announcements in the coming days. … Read More
Some Celebrity Sponsors of Rival Products Can’t Give Up Their iPhones
Phone makers and celebrities may not always be a perfect match. Some celebrities who have endorsed brands like BlackBerry and Samsung have been caught using iPhones. … Read More
The foreclosure fraud settlement was a big dud
The absolute least Americans can hope for from a major government settlement with a large industry over well-documented crimes is that the industry wouldn’t, after signing the settlement, just continue to commit the same crimes day after day. After all, following the tobacco industry settlement, cigarette makers did manage to stop advertising to teenagers that their product had no medical side effects.But new evidence reveals the nation’s largest banks have apparently continued to fabricate documents, rip off customers and illegally kick people out of their homes, even after inking a series of settlements over the same abuses. And the worst part of it all is that the main settlement over foreclosure fraud was so weakly written that it actually allows such criminal conduct to occur, at least up to a certain threshold. Potentially hundreds of thousands of homes could be effectively stolen by the big banks without any sanctions.Continue Reading… … Read More
Detroit CBS Runs April Fools Joke Against NRA on April 2; Not Marked As Joke
While the NRA does sometimes come across as less a civil rights
organization for the Second Amendment and more a lobbyist for
actions to actively help gun makers and users, it struck me as
strange that a Detroit CBS news website
ran on April 2, not marked as a joke, what was originally
pretty
clearly an April Fools Joke from Green Car
Reports:
According to a new position paper recently released, the NRA
intends to pursue a mandate requiring electric cars to offer a
mobile source for recharging energy-pulse rifles owned by U.S.
citizens.
“As Bushmaster semi-automatic rifles become more and more common
in properly armed U.S. households,” said NRA executive
vice-president Wayne LaPierre, “we see electric cars as a wonderful
and portable source of new-generation ammunition.”….
He suggested that the NRA will throw its considerable political
clout behind similar legislation for the U.S.–though, he noted, the
energy-flow rates would have to be far higher to permit rapid
recharging of even today’s energy-pulse weaponry.
“What could be more important to the safety, security, and
Second Amendment rights of normal American citizens,” LaPierre
asked at a Washington, DC, news conference this morning, “than
mandating that carmakers must offer the ability to use the stored
electric energy owned by our citizens to protect their families
from attacks by the government, trespassers, aliens, the mentally
ill, zoning boards, and the other criminal elements that are
besieging this once-great nation?”
The laff value of it is in the eye of the beholder, but CBS
running this on April 2 with no obvious sign I could see it was a
joke seems strange. (I wonder how
long the link will live.)
My book,
Gun Control on Trial, had some more measured critiques of
how the NRA chooses to pursue gun rights. … Read More
