Month: June 2013

Insult someone on Twitter or Facebook? A crime in Grenada

Honestly, that free speech thing can be tiresome. People end up endlessly expressing themselves and, every second of the day, someone’s going to get hurt. Online, that is.It’s too easy to take out your iPhone and type “you liberal pig Euro a***ole,” or some other type of spontaneous flattery.The island of Grenada has decided that it has had enough.

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Zu Audio’s outrageously awesome speaker

It’s been a few years since I wrote my last Zu Audio speaker review, but this time out I wanted to try their least expensive tower, and that’s where things got interesting.The Zu Audio Omen Standard and Omen Dirty Weekend (DW) are virtual twins, but with one very significant difference: the DW uses “recycled” drivers. That is, the DW drivers come from Zu customers who traded up to one of Zu’s higher-end drivers.

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New slides reveal greater detail about PRISM data collection

The Washington Post has published a new set of slides regarding PRISM, revealing more details about the National Security Agency’s controversial surveillance program and how it operates. The new slides, which come nearly a month after former NSA employee Edward Snowden leaked classified documents to the press about the program, appear to confirm that the NSA and FBI have the ability to perform real-time surveillance of e-mail and stored content. The slides also seem to contradict denials from tech companies such as Google, Apple, Yahoo, and Microsoft about their level of participation in the program

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Are audiophiles wasting their money on expensive gear?

Let’s face it: our “indulgences” can get expensive, so whether we go to sports events or concerts, buy flashy clothes or jewelry, gamble, drink, or take lots of vacations, those things can add up to a lot of money. Smoke a $6 pack of cigarettes every day, and you’ll see close to $22,000 go up in smoke over the next 10 years. In that context, dropping serious cash on a great hi-fi doesn’t seem out of line

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