As a Fox news reporter interviews an Amtrak spokesman about not having any photography restrictions in Union Station, Washington DC, they are told to stop recording by a security guard.
Are Photographers Really a Threat?
June 5, 2008 – 10:46 pm
Bruce Schneier on the increasing paranoia of photographers being terrorists.
Given that real terrorists, and even wannabe terrorists, don’t seem to photograph anything, why is it such pervasive conventional wisdom that terrorists photograph their targets? Why are our fears so great that we have no choice but to be suspicious of any photographer?
Because it’s a movie-plot threat.
Stop CERN, Save The World
March 31, 2008 – 3:20 pm
CERN are being sued to stop using their new $8 billion Large Hadron Collider.
Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho contend that scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have played down the chances that the collider could produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole, which, they say, could eat the Earth. Or it could spit out something called a “strangelet” that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called “strange matter.”
T-Mobile Selling Unlocked iPhones in Germany
November 21, 2007 – 3:08 pm
Caveat: they cost €999, or £719 at the current exchange rate. This is T-Mobile’s way of saying “fuck-you” to Vodafone for taking them to court.
BPI wins damages against CD-WOW
May 29, 2007 – 12:03 pm
BBC:
CD-Wow says it will continue to sell cheap CDs and may appeal the ruling. “I fear what is happening is an attempt to use the combined brute force of the record industry to force the retailers and, in turn, our clients, to keep lining the pockets of the fat cat executives,” said Mr Wesslen. “It shouldn’t matter whether we are buying from an official distributor in the UK, Europe or the Far East, what is important is that we are buying legitimate products from the record companies themselves.”