Members of Congress Once Again Urge ICANN to Save Dot Org Deeplinks

Mar 282020
 

As the proposed sale of the .ORG domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital plays out, we see more and more why this sale was rushed through: the longer we have to look at it, the more questions we all have, and the fewer answers we get. For the second time, some of the people questioning the wisdom of this sale are members of the U.S. Congress. On March 18, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Ron…

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Taiwan collars coronavirus quarantine scofflaws with smartphone geo-fences. So, which nation will be next? The Register

Mar 242020
 

Just don’t let your battery die or you’ll have to explain it to the police Taiwan, in an effort to limit the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, has implemented a geo-fence using people’s mobile phones.…

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Social Distancing, The Digital Divide, and Fixing This Going Forward Deeplinks

Mar 242020
 

Social distancing, work from home, shelter in place—these are all strategies employed in response to the COVID-19 epidemic. Americans who have jobs allowing them to engage in social distancing are very dependent on their Internet connection. That dependence is only going to grow as time goes on. As parents depend on the Internet for homeschooling, as businesses depend on employees being able to work from home, and as everyone depends on the Internet for public…

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GOP Urges End Of Quarantine For Lifeless Bipedal Automatons That Make Economy Go The Onion

Mar 242020
 

WASHINGTON—In an effort to contain the disastrous financial fallout resulting from the spread of Covid-19, economic advisor Larry Kudlow joined numerous GOP leaders Monday in urging an end of self-quarantine for the lifeless bipedal automatons that make the economy go. “We can’t allow this virus to completely upend…Read more…

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U.S. District Court Upholds Unequal Montana Distribution Requirement for Party Petitions Ballot Access News

Mar 222020
 

Montana requires petitions to qualify a new party to submit 5,000 signatures. In addition, the petition must include a certain number of signatures from at least one-third of the 100 state house districts. The house districts are all of approximate equal population, but the law requires a range of between 55 and 150 signatures from each of the house districts for which signatures are submitted. On March 20, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris, an…

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Texas Postpones Runoff Primaries Ballot Access News

Mar 222020
 

Texas officials have postponed the runoff primaries from May 26 to July 14. The order did not mention the question of the independent candidate petition deadline. For non-presidential independents, it is 30 days after the runoff primary. But the independent presidential petition is not tied to the date of any primary, and is set inflexibly for May 11. Independent presidential petitions require 79,939 signatures. Thanks to Jim Riley for this news.

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US Sanctions on Iran Are Increasing Coronavirus Deaths Jacobin

Mar 222020
 

Iran is ravaged by coronavirus — and US sanctions are making the pandemic even more deadly. A doctor treats patients infected by coronavirus at the Imam Khomeini Hospital on March 1, 2020 in Tehran, Iran. (Mohsen Atayi / Wikimedia Commons) Just as the global coronavirus pandemic is escalating profound injustices within the United States, it is also intensifying the brutality of the sanction regimes the United States imposes abroad. In Iran, one of the countries hardest…

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XScreenSaver 5.44 Hacks the Planet jwz

Mar 212020
 

Greets to Crash Override, The Phantom Freak, and also Joey. XScreenSaver 5.44 is out now, including iOS and Android. New hacks, New hacks, Gibson, EtruscanVenus and Scooter. BSOD supports Tivo and Nintendo. New color options in RomanBoy, ProjectivePlane, Hypertorus and Klein. “Use random screen saver” works again on macOS 10.15. iOS supports dark mode. Image loading works again on iOS 13. Fixed rotation on iOS 13 (Apple incompatibly breaks rotation every two years as a…

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DNA Lounge: Wherein you can now have DNA Brand Liquor delivered to you! jwz

Mar 212020
 

In a truly shocking development, the ABC has temporarily loosened their rules on liquor delivery, so now we can deliver life-giving, sanity-preserving liquor to you at home! Not only can you order beer with your pizza delivery, but that means you can also order full bottles of our house brand DNA Lounge Vodka, DNA Lounge Gin and DNA Lounge Rum!They are available right now on GrubHub, Doordash, and Postmates. And because I know this is…

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Georgia Secretary of State Extends Petitioning Deadline for Minor Party and Independent Candidates Ballot Access News

Mar 212020
 

On March 20, the Georgia Secretary of State extended the petitioning deadline for minor party and independent candidates from July 14 to August 14.

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Forget toilet roll, bandwidth is the new ration: Amazon, YouTube also degrade video in Europe to keep ‘net running amid coronavirus crunch The Register

Mar 212020
 

Pair join Netflix to turn it down for what? Connectivity stability Amazon Prime Video and Google’s YouTube have joined Netflix in dialing down their video stream quality in the European Union, Switzerland, and the UK for 30 days to preserve internet stability during the COVID-19 pandemic.…

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Experts Warn Americans Could Still Be Dealing With Coronavirus As Late As Tomorrow Afternoon The Onion

Mar 212020
 

WASHINGTON—Warning that the deadly COVID-19 virus could continue to plague the United States for far longer than previously expected, experts from the CDC announced Friday that Americans could still be dealing with coronavirus as late as tomorrow afternoon. “According to our most recent projections, residents in all…Read more…

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Richard Burr Wondering When Profiting Off Mass Suffering Suddenly Became A Crime In This Country The Onion

Mar 212020
 

WASHINGTON—Admitting he was blindsided by the hysterical reaction to a pretty normal transaction, North Carolina Senator Richard Burr wondered Friday when profiting off mass suffering had suddenly become a crime in this country. “Jesus Christ, when did everyone get so uptight about this? I remember when we used to…Read more…

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Pandemic sourdough: Friday Fry Bread Boing Boing

Mar 212020
 

A reader suggested I not discard any excess sourdough starter I didn’t have plans to bake and make fry bread instead. So I did. You are looking at ½ cup of sourdough starter fried in 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil. I started this starter on Monday. I am pretty sure after today’s feeding it’ll be ready to bake a loaf of bread. Previously: Pandemic Starter Day 1 Pandemic Starter Day 2 Pandemic Starter Day 3…

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What Evangelical Leaders Told Their Congregations About Coronavirus The Intercept

Mar 212020
 

The following are excerpts from the sermons of evangelical leaders in the weeks leading up to an outbreak of Covid-19 in the U.S. The post What Evangelical Leaders Told Their Congregations About Coronavirus appeared first on The Intercept.

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Surprise: Judge Throws Out Jury’s Awful Copyright Infringement Decision Over Katy Perry Song Techdirt.

Mar 202020
 

Last summer, we wrote about yet another post-Blurred Lines decision, showing that any two random songs that sounded kinda a little similar, might be ripe for a court to find infringing. In this case, it was a Katy Perry song, Dark Horse, that was found to infringe on a little known artist named “Flame,” who had a song called “Joyful Noise.” As we noted at the time, the similarities between the song were simply basic…

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Banks Pressure Health Care Firms to Raise Prices on Critical Drugs, Medical Supplies for Coronavirus The Intercept

Mar 202020
 

In recent weeks, investment bankers have pressed health care companies on the front lines of fighting the novel coronavirus, including drug firms developing experimental treatments and medical supply firms, to consider ways that they can profit from the crisis. The media has mostly focused on individuals who have taken advantage of the market for now-scarce medical and hygiene supplies to hoard masks and hand sanitizer and resell them at higher prices. But the largest voices…

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Hacking the planet with Notcurses LWN.net

Mar 202020
 

Author Nick Black has written an extensive book on the creation of textual user interfaces using the notcurses library; it’s available under the Apache license [PDF]. “Many people asked how such a thing was useful. My usual response was that numerous devices don’t present a bitmap interface, that X11 GUIs run remotely over SSH are effectively unusable, that plenty of machines don’t have a GUI environment installed, that there are obvious applications for large outdoor…

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Dealing With Coronavirus Requires Bold Action. The Democratic Leadership Won’t Take It. Jacobin

Mar 202020
 

The Democrats have an opportunity to push for desperately needed, sweeping economic change in response to coronavirus. Instead, they’re letting themselves be outflanked by Republicans. US Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks to members of the media as Rep. Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) and Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV) listen at the US Capitol March 13, 2020 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong / Getty There’s nothing better to shift our…

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