True, but, were I in their shoes, I'd have to ask myself:

1. Does acting strangely (i.e., throwing my hard drives in random garbage trucks) prove my guilt in the case?

2. If there is evidence on those hard drives that probably would prove my guilt, which is the lesser sentence: obstruction or whatever I'll get charged with if they find smokinggun.jpg on those drives?

In Soviet Russia, even...

So, it's like this: Tommy Lee is driving the BangBus down the interstate, picking up every hooker and frat boy he sees. They can't all fit and do their business, as it's a 1994 Ford Aerostar and not, like, an Econoline or a cargo unit. After a couple of near-crashes and a blown shock (no pun intended), he tells all of them to get out, except for a guy in a white wig and black robe, and a girl wearing nothing but ten packages of PostIt notes stuck to her body. She is coming home from the courthouse, where she is filing for divorce from her cheating bastard of a husband, and really needs the hundred dollar bill that Ray LaHood, US Secretary of Transportation and part-time porn director, is waving in her face. Like any reasonable girl you find on the roadside, is willing to work for it. Ray is just there to make sure that they are all safe.

And that is how the steam engine changed modern warfare. Questions?

Pfft. That's just a ripoff of Pocahantas.

It's absolutely ridiculous...anyone with a modicum of reason would assume that it was a joke. Making a threat is enough to investigate, in many cases, but a clear joke does not warrant arrest.

Funny part is, though, that he is now a victim of a stupid law that he may have been a party to legislating.

But, CompuServe removed the little "newsgroups" button...how do I got pr0n?

"Once-community-friendly tech company bows to regulatory pressure for financial gain and political favoritism" is now a trope.

Just picture it sung by a Korean kid, and you become hip again!

YMMV

Oh, Slashdot...didn't you sillies read their "do not 403 this website" warning?

SUED!

Not if the Pope buys it...He won't wear it, but he has a matching cloak, and his top bishops will have to take turns wearing it and pretending that he is force-choking them during meetings.

I suspect that the ToS has it limited to one person, but I didn't research, honestly. That's just my expectation of legalese protectionism, especially from a company with Amazon's protectionist reputation.

Not that I would ever condone such action, but: Something that I've seen suggested on some forums: open up your Kindle from your computer, move all of the amazon books over to your hard drive, and find a utility to crack the drm (haven't tried it myself, but I heard Calibre works), and back them up. Then, and only then, are they yours. Note: may be illegal or break Amazon's ToS, may damage files, etc.

I have a novel up on Amazon (and B&N, Smahwords, Sony, and iBookstore), but I sell it without DRM. I don't like it as a reader, and I don't agree with it as an author. I don't believe in forcing my fans/customers into "renting" books.

Joe Konrath did some experimenting earlier this year, and found evidence of correlation...if I remember right, he put all of his books on his site for free for a day or so and asked people to put them out on torrent sites, share with friends, etc. According to his analysis, his sales increased markedly shortly thereafter. Not proof, but pretty hard to ignore that there was probably some strong correlation there.

Relevant self-pimping:

I published a book last summer about a 4chan-ish group called Amity (name of the book and name of the site where they congregate). In the book, a major soft drink corp tries to do just that: take advantage of the scale of the site users by pushing ads on them, thinking them an innocuous group of consumers. As one could imagine, it doesn't go so well for the soft drink company...

...for AT&T/Motorola to delay upgrading my Backflip to 2.1 again.

Worst purchase ever.

That's crazy...I just assumed that they came with at least two pairs.

I, personally, would never buy a 3D tv unless I didn't have to wear glasses, or any other kind of stupid, uncomfortable, intrusive peripheral device. I loathe using them in theaters, I sure as hell don't want to subject myself to them when I'm at home.

Now, if they could do effective holography, I'd consider glasses...maybe.