Comment Since they can't see the image.... (Score 1) 227
"Yes, your neighbors will talk."
Fapping to pr0n in front of an open window, I bet they will.
Comment Re:Turn signals are a good thing (Score 1) 469
That is, if the person in your blind spot isn't texting, eating, applying makeup, looking at their iPad, sipping wine from a wine glass (seen this personally more than 10 times), completely immersed in their phone conversation, or any of the other things Los Angeleans seem to prefer to do than pay attention to what is going on outside their vehicle. There's a reason that, per person, there are more Body Shops in our fair city than any other major city.
(DC and NoVa are the same exact way. Only difference is that those that are paying attention are even more hostile than here.)
Comment So are they offering naming rights? (Score 5, Funny) 217
Maybe we can expect a "Lucas Arts International Space Station" (commonly refered to as the Death Star)?
Johns Hopkins Bows To USAID Censorship Push 122
An anonymous reader sends us to Wired's Threat Level blog for news that the federally funded Popline database at Johns Hopkins University, said to be the largest source of information on reproductive health, has begun censoring searches that contain the word "abortion." Apparently they took this stop due to pressure from USAID, the federal agency that provides foreign aid to developing nations. From Wired: "Under a Reagan-era policy revived by President Bush in 2001, USAID denies funding to non-governmental organizations that perform abortions, or that 'actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations.' A librarian at the University of California at San Francisco noticed the new censorship on Monday, while carrying out a routine research request on behalf of academics and researchers at the university. The search term had functioned properly as of January. Puzzled, she contacted the manager of the database,... who replied in an April 1st e-mail that the university had recently begun blocking the search term because the database received federal funding."
Journal Journal: Web sites could pay more for fast downloads
The Baltimore Business Journal reports on the fight over net neutrality. The interesting thing about this article is that it makes clear the importance of the neutral net for Web 2.0 companies and small business generally. Your humble servant is quoted.
Submission + - Johns Hopkins Bows to USAID Censorship Push
An anonymous reader writes: Taken from Wired Threat Level :
"A U.S. government-funded medical information site that bills itself as the world's largest database on reproductive health has quietly begun to block searches on the word "abortion," concealing nearly 25,000 search results.
Called Popline, the search site is run by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland. It's funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, the federal office in charge of providing foreign aid, including health care funding, to developing nations."
Try for yourself: http://db.jhuccp.org/ics-wpd/popweb/
"A U.S. government-funded medical information site that bills itself as the world's largest database on reproductive health has quietly begun to block searches on the word "abortion," concealing nearly 25,000 search results.
Called Popline, the search site is run by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland. It's funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, the federal office in charge of providing foreign aid, including health care funding, to developing nations."
Try for yourself: http://db.jhuccp.org/ics-wpd/popweb/
Journal Journal: Maryland Passes Computer Recycling Bill
From The Washington Post:
"Starting next year, computer makers that want to do business in Maryland must kick in up to $5,000 annually to help recycle their products under a new state law designed to cope with the roughly 60,000 tons of "electronic waste" that pile up in Maryland each year."
And so the Maryland joins Maine in helping big business squash the smaller competition, similar to the way big oil companies killed mom and pop gas stations 20 years ago.
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