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We are supporting the January 18th, 2012 Blackout in protest of SOPA and PIPA. All of our sites will participate in the blackout. 37prime.wordpress.com will display a banner in support of the blackout.
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We believe that SOPA and PIPA greatly undermine the First and Fourth Amendments of the United States Constitution.
Since none of us officially at CES 2012, we won’t be pretending to cover it. There are a lot of sites out there actually providing CES 2102 coverage. Sites such as The Verge, Engadget and TWiT are actually at CES covering the event. By the way, does anyone know if Gizmodo were given any credentials for CES this year?
IF there’s anything interesting from CES 2012, we will be talking about it. Definitely we won’t pretend to report from CES floor.
As reported before, Go Daddy says that they no longer supports SOPA. Reddit user benbread doubts that Go Daddy truly drops SOPA support. Now another hammer drops on Go Daddy’s real stance on SOPA.
From Reddit: Go Daddy has NOT withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA as linked in Hacker News.
Go Daddy’s statement on no longer supporting SOPA is a damage control. A PR move to convince their customer from leaving. At this point based on what people had found, Go Daddy still supports SOPA just not publicly.
On the other hand, there is still this Protect IP Act we all have to worry about.
Go Daddy, you might find lump of coals in your stocking tonight.
Previously on the Internet and real world:
Go Daddy’s announcement of dropping support SOPA is clearly a move to stop the bleeding. There will still be a lot of people moving their services away from Go Daddy. I apparently have one domain name for Google App registered through Go Daddy, not by choice. So who should I move it to?
It was like an accident waiting to happen, Hasbro sues ASUS over Transformer Prime tablet. Hasbro holds many trademarks, and obviously won’t let ASUS get away with it. Michael Bay should make a movie about this lawsuit.
By the way, ASUS Transformers Prime site is horrible. If it is in HTML5 than it is a kitchen-sink full of HTML5 barf.
Remember when Apple licensed the name “Mighty Mouse” from Viacom just like Verizon Wireless licensed the name “DROID” from Lucasfilm?
From Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse Manual (page 35):
From DroidDoes.com:
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Trailer is available at iTunes Movie Trailers page and App.
The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey is scheduled for release December 14th, 2012.
For some reasons, Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) reminds me of a Klingon.
Josh Topolsky and MG Siegler are having war of words over reviews of Galaxy Nexus. John Gruber seems to be cheering for Siegler on this one.
Chronology:
To be honest, both Topolsky and Siegler are “tech elitists”. For the rest of us, we love watching “nerd fight”.