Well, this fits perfectly with the “ignorant” theme…

Genital mutilation of child ordered by Third World court

 The Sharia court ordered that the father can have the little girl’s vagina mutilated, but to make matters worse, the Sharia Judge ruled that the mother was not allowed to even lead the little girl to believe that she was not in favor of having her daughter’s genitals mutilated.

Link (The Legal Satyricon)

Involvoo?

How about noo?

A website/app to report and discuss problems and misinformation on/from websites and to rate and review websites and tech.

Hm, fair enough, but you can make this in an afternoon, or perhaps a few days. What do you need kickstarter for?

Eventually I’d like to branch out and integrate with public works and businesses to report things like patches of ice, a water fountain that doesn’t work, or anything else that is dangerous or annoying from the comfort of your computer or phone.

Okay, why? Do one thing, and do it well.

The risk is that people will want more compensation for their reports than the website/app can deliver, however this can be handled by proper disclosures which I would like to hire a lawyer to write.

Meh. Lawyers.

Link (Kickstarter)

“Of course” video games are to blame

The link, Pollard explains, is that these kids played Call of Duty and also killed themselves. Therefore, according to Pollard, there is reason to believe one is causal. According to a source of mine, a Mr. Lo Gic, this kind of thinking indicates the coroner may have some wires crossed in his head. Otherwise, he’d have to explain why four suicides of children that played a game that has sold over a 100 million copies is anything we should be noting at all. Those children may all have drank orange juice, as well, because that’s what kids do

Link (Techdirt)

… and this is why you should be buying AMD

“Gameworks represents a clear and present threat to gamers by deliberately crippling performance on AMD products (40% of the market) to widen the margin in favor of NVIDIA products,” Hallock told me in an email conversation over the weekend. But wait, it stands to reason that AMD would be miffed over a competitor having the edge when it comes to graphical fidelity and features, right? Hallock explains that the core problem is deeper: “Participation in the Gameworks program often precludes the developer from accepting AMD suggestions that would improve performance directly in the game code—the most desirable form of optimization.The code obfuscation makes it difficult to perform our own after-the-fact driver optimizations, as the characteristics of the game are hidden behind many layers of circuitous and non-obvious routines,” Hallock continues. “This change coincides with NVIDIA’s decision to remove all public Direct3D code samples from their site in favor of a ‘contact us for licensing’ page. AMD does not engage in, support, or condone such activities.”

Link (Techdirt)

You might be a terrorist

… according to the statistics.

You may recall the Feds’ contending with straight faces in 2004 that if “a little old lady in Switzerland gave money to a charity for an Afghan orphanage, and the money was passed to al Qaeda,” she met the definition of “enemy combatant.” Five years later, a federal Fusion Center decreed that “if you’re an anti-abortion activist, or if you display political paraphernalia supporting a third-party candidate or [Ron Paul], if you possess subversive literature, you very well might be a member of a domestic paramilitary group.”

Link (Techdirt)