Archive for the 'Law' Category
BigBrother on Mar 08 2008 | Filed under: America, Internet, Law, Privacy
Monitored news
The FBI has admitted that it repeatedly broke its own rules in spying on internet communications.
FBI director Robert Mueller said that for the fourth straight year his agency collected information on people’s emails and web activity which was beyond its legal remit.
However, Mueller claimed that this was partly the fault of telecoms companies which [...]
BigBrother on Mar 04 2008 | Filed under: Asia, Babes, Law
Tokyo High Court presiding judge Kunio Harada has acquitted a well-endowed Japanese pin-up model of charges that she kicked a wooden door of a man’s room and crawled inside to catch him with another woman.
The court ruling said the 38-year-old bikini model, who goes by her professional name Serena Kozakura, could not possibly fit into [...]
BigBrother on Mar 03 2008 | Filed under: Asia, Government, Law
According to a press release, Rep. Carmelo “Tarzan” F. Lazatin (1st District, Pampanga, Lakas-CMD) has filed a bill seeking to “augment the salaries of the members of the judiciary to provide them appreciable compensation for keeping the justice system fair to all.”
House Bill No. 3562 was titled “Increased Salary of Judiciary Members.”
The press release:
A [...]
BigBrother on Mar 02 2008 | Filed under: Asia, Babes, Law, Philippines
So what’s wrong with flaunting flawless skin?
Nueva Ecija Congressman Carlos Padilla called the media’s attention on pictures of Batangas Regional Trial Court Judge Ma. Cecilia Austria on her Friendster profile.
Padilla finds the photos too hot.
Padilla showed the photos to reporters during a news conference which he organized days after delivering a privilege speech denouncing an [...]
BigBrother on Sep 08 2007 | Filed under: Asia, Cover Page, Internet, Law, Philippines
The action of the National Bureau of Investigation to arrest independent Filipino web developer Mark Verzo on the basis of a press release by Loren Legarda points sets a dangerous precedent of censorship on Philippine cyberspace.
BigBrother on Sep 07 2007 | Filed under: Asia, Controversy, Cover Page, Internet, Law, Philippines
Mark Verzo is arrested by Philippine authorities. While news and blogs described him in derogatory terms as an alleged porn site operator, PinoySpy highlights the fact he’s an active blogger and a developer of some local startups.
BigBrother on Sep 06 2007 | Filed under: Asia, Controversy, Internet, Law, Philippines, Sex Scandals
Press Release:
Sen. Loren Legarda has urged the authorities to close down the web site boybastos.com, which she said provides Internet users, including minors, free and unrestricted access to the largest online accumulation of “extremely hardcore pornographic materials” of Filipino women and girls.
“This is by far the filthiest Internet site we’ve come across that offers open [...]
BigBrother on Aug 07 2007 | Filed under: Asia, Cover Page, Law
What’s wrong with wearing a Hello Kitty arm band? Nothing really, except if you’re a bad ass, macho policeman and you have a pink Hello Kitty around your arm.
In Thailand, the police chief announced that police officers who violate rules on littering, parking and even those who come in late for work will be shamed by [...]
BigBrother on Aug 06 2007 | Filed under: Asia, Cover Page, Crime, Law, Philippines, PinoySpy, Politics
Latest news from Manila says Mayor Alfredo Lim burned 40,000 pesos worth of pornographic and pirated video CD and DVD disks confiscated from a piracy ring in Quiapo Manila.
The crackdown started when Manila Senior Police Officer 3 Amador Jareno, acting as an undercover agent, bought five pirated copies of “Anal Princess Diaries,” after which the [...]
BigBrother on Aug 05 2007 | Filed under: America, Controversy, Cover Page, Law, Weird
Found via Digg: 8 Targets in Prison Masturbation Cases
A Florida inmate convicted this week of masturbating while alone in his jail cell is reportedly only one of eight targets—along with state taxpayers—of what a Miami Herald columnist describes as “a spectacular case of selective prosecution.”
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Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) today launches the company?s new video delivery service on PLAYSTATION Store for PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) and PSP (PlayStation Portable) systems in the United States.
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Microsoft warns of new attacks
Microsoft is warning users of a newly reported attack on one of its ActiveX browser components.
The company said that it had received reports of a limited number of targeted attacks on a flaw in ActiveX control for Snapshot Viewer, a browser plug-in for Microsoft Office Access 2000, 2002 and 2003. The vulnerable control is not present in Office Access 2007.
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I rarely search for government websites, especially a agency as old as MArcos, like this one. The National Council on Disabled Affairs, however, as a physical therapist, I was drawn by this event...
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The entrance to the underground Svalbard Global Seed Vault juts from a hillside in the Norwegian Arctic. (Credit: John McConnico/Associated Press)
After several years of planning and digging, the world has its first secure, deep-frozen repository for backup supplies of seeds from hundreds of thousands of plant varieties that underpin agriculture.
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MANILA, Philippines - ?Yes we can. Maraming salamat po." This was a portion of a letter that was from a Filipino, but not just from an ordinary Pinoy. Eddie Charmaine Arivan Manansala wrote to leaders, family, and friends last June 24 encouraging them to help ensure Barack Obama?s victory in the 2008 US presidential polls.
?I look forward to working with you in the upcoming months as we engage the Asian American and Pacific Islander community nationwide, as well as in key battleground states," she told Obama supporters in her letter.
Mga pinoy nga naman. IDOL!!! PAPICTURE!
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Oh baby! Meet the 1-year-old Masche sextuplets and their proud parents.
A jumbo family
The Masches give new meaning to the phrase "one big happy family."
Bryan and Jenny Masche's sextuplets, Bailey, Blake, Cole, Grant, Molli and Savannah, were born on June 11, 2007, and life for the couple hasn't been the same since.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A powerful typhoon that weakened into a tropical storm blew Tuesday toward Japan, leaving at least 12 people dead in the Philippines, officials said.
- So is Frank's international name Mitag? The typhoon was weakened perhaps by egg offerings to Sta. Clara but it still continued to wreak havoc upon the rice-producing provinces of Luzon. I hoped the storm was too early for the plantings, or else rice hoarders will have a newer reason to drive Filipinos crazier.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/26/philippines.typhoon.ap/
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Flying saucers may soon be more fact than mere science fiction.
University of Florida mechanical and aerospace engineering associate professor Subrata Roy has submitted a patent application for a circular, spinning aircraft design reminiscent of the spaceships seen in countless Hollywood films. Roy, however, calls his design a ?wingless electromagnetic air vehicle,? or WEAV.
The U.S. Air Force and NASA have expressed interest in the aircraft, he said.
Illustration of proposed prototype mini-flying saucer.
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WAGA: A bizarre surveillance video is making the rounds on the Internet showing an office worker who suddenly gets violent and begins trashing not only his desk but the entire office, much to the shock of several coworkers. A healthy debate rages online as to the authenticity of the tape which has been widely circulated with the title "Office Worker Goes Absolutely Insane."
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MANILA, Philippines - Action star Rudy Fernandez succumbed to cancer early Saturday morning, ending a battle that lasted several months.
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