I’m calling PSN’s bluff

After leaving their customers’ personal information wide open to attack on unsecured servers running ancient software, Sony’s lawyers decided to simply make their customers sign away the right to make claims for damage done by Sony’s negligence. If you don’t want to do so, you must send a “clear statement” about it via postal mail. … Read more

FBI training includes anti-Islam indoctrination

From Wired, here’s what the FBI teaches its counterterrorism agents about the average Muslim:

The stated purpose of one [briefing], about allegedly religious-sanctioned lying, is to “identify the elements of verbal deception in Islam and their impacts on Law Enforcement.” Not “terrorism.” Not even “Islamist extremism.” Islam.

Pretty un-American indoctrination in a federal agency whose motto is, “Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity.” Read the full article at Wired

Ail to the Chief: 20 CEOs and State Heads Gone in 2010-11

Updated – It’s a bad time to be in charge. Lots of major companies have dropped CEOs for unpleasant causes in 2010-11: Company Person Why They’re Gone Apple Steve Jobs http://zeke.ws/ogcSIO BP Tony Hayward http://zeke.ws/mUhrNd Google Eric Schmidt http://zeke.ws/p2N5TL HP Mark Hurd http://zeke.ws/pYoID5 Léo Apotheker http://zeke.ws/n3vsbI Nokia Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo http://zeke.ws/rgtWOI T-Mobile USA Robert Dotson http://zeke.ws/oeozcx Yahoo! Carol … Read more