Minor Geeks

Icelandic Minister of Parliament Ordered to Turn Over Twitter Account

by Joshua Auriemma November 12, 2011 Minor Geeks

It’s a popular week for judges ordering people to turn over their social media accounts to third parties. On Thursday, a US district court judge ordered Icelandic Minister of Parliament and former Wikileaks volunteer, Birgitta Jondottir, to release her login credentials to the Justice Department. Additionally, the court opined that users have a lessened expectation [...]

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FCC Net Neutrality Rules Withstand Legislative Vote

by Joshua Auriemma November 10, 2011 Minor Geeks

Today the Senate voted down a bill that would have overturned the FCC’s new Net Neutrality Rules. The current Rules are set to enter into force on November 20, although we can certainly anticipate a last ditch attempt at a preliminary injunction by the wireless providers.

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How Best to Get Caffeine Into Your Body

by Joshua Auriemma November 8, 2011 Minor Geeks

Gavel bang to Ed Walters’ Google+ page for bringing this chart to my attention. Obviously as “persons interested in the law” it’s important for us to know how to get caffeine into our bodies without all those pesky calories. Infographic from the good people at Information is Beautiful.  

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Did California Just Unintentionally Impose Strict Duties on Bloggers?

by Joshua Auriemma November 6, 2011 Minor Geeks

Eric Goldman thinks it may have as a result of a broad statutory definition of “book.” For another analysis, read Eugene Volokh’s analysis of whether the statute would prevent bookstores from reporting patron-on-patron crime.

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Bing is More Microsoft Biased than Google is Google Biased?

by Joshua Auriemma November 4, 2011 Minor Geeks

A study published yesterday by the International Center for Law & Economics seems to indicate that Microsoft uses Bing to promote its own products to a greater extent than Google uses Google to promote its own products. Might this have some effect on pending antitrust actions?

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One Website Sees 90% of Users Declining Google Analytics Cookies as a Result of the EU Cookie Law

by Joshua Auriemma June 22, 2011 Minor Geeks

TechCrunch reports that the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has seen a 90% decline in traffic since since implementing the EU’s new Cookie Law.

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Congress Probes FCC Commissioner’s departure to Comcast

by Joshua Auriemma May 21, 2011 Minor Geeks

Congress is looking into former FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker’s recent move to Comcast. For those of you who don’t know, Ms. Baker recently voted to allow Comcast to acquire a majority stake in NBC, and then jumped ship to lobby for Comcast. I, for one, welcome the inquiry.

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Playstation Network Hacked AGAIN!

by Joshua Auriemma May 18, 2011 Minor Geeks

Those of you who follow me on twitter may have caught that I had to change my credit card as a direct result of the Playstation Network getting hacked almost a month ago. The Playstation Network recently resumed service in North America and in other parts of the world, only to be hacked again within [...]

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YouTube to Require Copyright “Offenders” to Attend Copyright School

by Joshua Auriemma April 15, 2011 Minor Geeks

From an article I assumed had been sourced by The Onion, it seems that YouTube will soon require that copyright offenders take a copyright law class before their accounts will be reinstated. This could be a good thing so long as an “offense” isn’t tantamount to “DMCA request received.” That’s unrealistically optimistic, though.

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