Wednesday Lazy Linking
- timbray: Some travel-biz group should start organizing civil disobedience. Polite firm en-masse refusal to go along with security theatre. Twitter / timbray (2009-12-28).
timbray: Some travel-biz group should start organizing civil disobedience. Polite firm en-masse refusal to go along with security theatre.
(Linked Tuesday 2009-12-29.) - How Automakers Abuse Intellectual Property Laws To Force You To Pay More For Repairs. Techdirt (2009-12-29). "... as cars become more sophisticated and computerized, automakers are locking up access to those computers, and claiming that access is protected by copyrights. Mechanics are told they can only access the necessary diagnostics if they pay huge sums -- meaning that many mechanics simply can't repair certain cars, and car owners are forced to go to dealers, who charge significantly higher fees. There is no legitimate basis for this at all. It's a clear misuse of intellectual property laws -- which were never designed for this sort of thing -- to prevent independent auto mechanics from repairing newer cars." [R.G.: Right on, except that it's not a "misuse." The whole point of Intellectual Protectionism always has been to lock out independents from peacefully competing with privileged incumbents. The thing itself is the abuse.] (Linked Tuesday 2009-12-29.)
- Touché mesofunny, Epic Win FTW (2009-12-20).
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(Linked Tuesday 2009-12-29.) - Advisor: Deleting emails could make you happier. Lisa Katayama, Boing Boing (2009-12-03).
If people were just more aggressive about deleting irrelevant things and relevant things aren't that important, they would probably be happier. Because I'm happier. So there must be something to it. Emails only take up virtual space, not literal square footage, so it's easy to let them pile up. But...
(Linked Tuesday 2009-12-29.) - RIAA, MPAA and US Chamber of Commerce declare war on blind and disabled people. Boing Boing (2009-12-29). Intellectual Protectionism Vs. Technological Civilization and Accessibility for the Disabled (Linked Tuesday 2009-12-29.)