Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Wal-Mart Worker Finds Man Glued to Toilet

My Way News - Wal-Mart Worker Finds Man Glued to Toilet: "SALISBURY, Md. (AP) - A 20-year-old was found by a Wal-Mart employee in the bathroom Sunday night after he sat down and was glued to the toilet seat.

The man, whose name was not released by police, was taken to the hospital late Sunday night, said Lt. Cheryl Rantz of the Salisbury Police Department.

'The man had gone into the bathroom and sat down,' she said. 'He was banging on the wall when the employee came in.'

Rantz said the man was treated and released.
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Broadcast flag is back

IPac - Blog: "Broadcast flag is back

I just saw that Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), the inspiration for our iPod campaign, introduced a Net Neutrality bill in the Senate today. Sen. Stevens took this oppertunity to slip the broadcast flag into the bill. From Multichannel:

According to a summary released by the Senate Commerce Committee, the Stevens bill would:
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Authorize the FCC to establish a broadcast flag to allow TV stations to protect digital content from Internet piracy;There are lots of things going on in this bill, it's 135 pages, but any bill that enables the FCC to implement the Broadcast Flag must be stopped.



This is another tool in the arsenal of the Hollywood cartels. They are attempting to overwhelm the tech community by introducing terrible legislation after terrible legislation hoping that we don't notice or are spread too thin fighting their other bills. This comes right after IPPA (DMCA 2.0) in the House and Senator Feinstein's (D-Hollywood) PERFORM Act in the Senate.

Time to prep those phone calls and emails.

EDIT: Alex Curtis over at Public Knowledge has more on the new legislation including a copy of the actuall bill."