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Star Wars R2-Q5 & R2-A3 Ornaments
Deck the halls with…Droid ornaments? You bet! Star Wars fans will want to decorate their tree with some good old fashioned droids this holiday season. You can start with these Star Wars R2-Q5 &…

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Star Wars Pinup Recruitment Calendar | Geekologie – Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
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EU officially agrees that nobody reads terms of service agreements.

The European Commission is planning to stop Facebook's practice of harvesting your political opinions, sexuality, religious beliefs, location and so on and sharing that data with advertisers without explicit user permission.

The new rules will apply to other sites as well, but Facebook is currently serving as the poster-boy for abusive personal data-harvesting.

Here's what's interesting: The sign-up terms of service agreement authorize Facebook to do this, but nobody reads these things. Facebook's is 4,000 words long: http://www.facebook.com/terms.php

What the EU is saying, essentially, is that getting users to agree to a long-winded user contract does not let companies off the hook for informing users.

In other words, it's now assumed that nobody reads terms of service agreements (which is true).

What does this mean for the whole industry of software EULAs and online terms of service user agreements?

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Path to the Calm Side: Lines & Lag – The Taming of the Queue | TORWarsTORWars – SWTOR News, Guides, and Podcast
TORWars is a site focused on Star Wars: The Old Republic. TORWars is an exceptional source of news for the discriminating player, and a site you'll want to visit every day for funny, interesting enter…

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Against the Blacklist Bills: Congressmen and Senators Speak Up
Citizens nationwide have spoken out against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP, its counterpart in the Senate — and they’re not alone. A large and growing bi-partisan group of legislators have told their colleagues in the Capitol that Internet censorship is a very bad idea.
Since the House Judiciary Committee hearing on SOPA last Tuesday, Rep. Nancy Pelosi has come out against the bill, tweeting “#DontBreakTheInternet.” In opposing the bill, she stands alongside Representative D…

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