“It’s important to prepare children to succeed and thrive and learn how to share and create and move files in a way that’s ethical and responsible,” said Marsali Hancock, president of iKeepSafe.
via MPAA backs anti-piracy curriculum for elementary school students – latimes.com.
What we now call electronic privacy first became an issue in the eighteen-seventies, after Western Union, the earliest and, in some ways, the most terrifying of the communications monopolies, achieved dominion over the telegraph system. Western Union was accused of intercepting and reading its customers’ telegraphs for both political and financial purposes (what’s now considered insider trading). Western Union was a known ally of the Republican Party, but the Democrats of the day had no choice but to use its wires, which put them at a disadvantage; for example, Republicans won the contested election of 1876 thanks in part to an intercepted telegraph. The extent of Western Union’s actions might never be entirely known, since in response to a congressional inquiry the company destroyed most of its relevant records.
via Why Monopolies Make Government Spying Easier : The New Yorker.
Thou abominable fen-sucked scullion!
Finally, a story about dogs! … even if they’re Australian cattle dogs and not Border Collies. 🙂
▶ australian cattle dogs playing tetherball – YouTube.
What’s missing here? Any mention of a curse. Sianis never cursed the Cubs for his ejection. Why would he? He was a Cub fan and his customers were Cub fans. If your whole point for being at the game was to get publicity for your tavern, why would you ever want to be linked to cursing your customer’s favorite team?
After the Cubs lost Game Seven of the Series in Detroit, Sianis did send Phillip K. Wrigley a telegram that said “WHO SMELLS NOW?” That got him another mention in the newspapers. That’s the closest he ever came to a curse.
