legal
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Man In Joker Makeup Charged With Felony For ‘Wearing Mask’
A 31-year-old Virginia man was arrested on Friday and charged with wearing a mask in public, a felony that’s punishable by up to five years in jail. His crime? Dressing up as the Joker. With makeup.
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Uber’s Secret App For Tracking Cops Sounds Creepy As Hell
Uber’s very bad year just got worse. The New York Times is reporting that the company used secret internal software as well as good old-fashioned cyberstalking to identify US law enforcement officials who were investigating Uber’s business practices. The situation is even crazier than it sounds.
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This Website Shows You Every Patent That Is Expiring Today
With so much information online, coders can cook up scrapers to gather all sorts of data and present it in an interesting format. Even a topic as boring as patents can become a curious novelty just by looking up the ones expiring, say, today and making them browsable to the world at large. And that’s…
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Wix Delivers Weak Response To Stolen WordPress Code Claims
Recently, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg’s accused Wix of stealing source code from WordPress and using it in the company’s mobile app “without attribution, credit, or following the license”. Wix, deciding it was best not to let Mullenweg’s stipulations go unchallenged, has fired back with a double-barrelled, if wishy-washy, reply.