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- This article is about the ethics-related issue of abuse. For the computer game, see Abuse (computer game). For a similar word (e.g. a make of padlocks), see Abus.
Abuse is a general term for the use or treatment of something (person, thing, idea, etc.) that causes some kind of harm (to the abused person or thing, to the abusers themselves, or to someone else) or is unlawful or wrongful. Its close synonyms are mistreatment and maltreatment. The word "misuse" has a more distant meaning of incorrect, uneducated use, not necessary harmful.
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Joey Chestnut Beats Kobayashi Again in Hot-Dog Eating Contest
Erick Schonfeld Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:20:09 -0000
It’s not the 4th of July without the Coney Island Hot-Dog Eating Contest (that’s how we celebrate in Brooklyn, by stuffing our faces with as many hot dogs we can fit). This year’s winner is defending champion Joey “Jaws” Chestunt, who won in overtime from six-time champion Takeru Kobayashi. Both ate 59 hot [...]
The Problem With Identi.ca Is That It Is Not Twitter
Erick Schonfeld Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:57:51 -0000
The launch of Twitter clone Identi.ca earlier this week caused a bit of a blogstorm because it appears to have a solution to Twitter’s all-too-regular downtime. (That problem has reached comical proportions, with the familiar Twitter Fail Whale now appearing on T-shirts and kitschy art). Identi.ca’s answer to Twitter’s scaling issues is by [...]
Follow Animal Migrations On Google Earth
Erick Schonfeld Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:50:56 -0000
Google Earth is turning out to be a great resource for scientists to visualize and communicate the phenomena they study. You can see the migration patterns of endangered and other threatened animals, based on data collected by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. (The image above shows the range of both the Northern spotted [...]
Independence Day
Steve Gillmor Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:44:53 -0000
Tomorrow we celebrate July 4th, and a week later our long National Nightmare is over. On the 11th we deposit our 2G iPhones in the FriendFeed donation bins and officially hook ourselves up to the Enterprise iPhone. The ePhone will change how we work and play, and in the process free us from the tyranny [...]
Regator Wants To Be A Blog Reader For The Masses
Jason Kincaid Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:40:00 -0000
Regator, a new blog aggregator that hopes to reduce the blogosphere down to consumable chunks for the average user, has launched today in private beta. The site acts like a combination between Digg and a standard RSS reader, allowing users to vote on the most popular stories drawn from 3,000 blogs that have been [...]
Google, You Can Eat My Cookies Anytime
Jason Kincaid Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:45:41 -0000
Google has just released a lengthy blog post to announce that it has finally put its privacy policy on its homepage. The search giant has been repeatedly questioned over the last few months over its lack of a readily available privacy policy, which until now has been buried in the “About Google” section of [...]
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Court Gives Viacom Access to YouTube Views
But Viacom denied access to Google's search technology.
AMD Up, HP Down in the Numbers Game
Gartner revises Q1 numbers after getting some new information on HP selling prices, while iSuppli has better news for AMD.
Free VMware Server 2.0 Now Release Candidate
With gobs of new features, this free package is close to being released as a final product.
* Is Dying : The Unofficial Anthology - The unauthorized, incomplete, unabridged guide to the * Is Dying troll template.
About Ken Pangborn - Describes long-standing grievances the author has against Mr. Pangborn's behaviors online.
Meta Description: [ Description of internet abuse, fraudulent credentials, harassment and false allegations by Ken Pangborn, a men's rights trial consultant from Palm Harbor, Florida. Kenneth Pangborn (KRP Consulting, pangborn@a-team.org) is a member of the American Society of Trial Consultants. ]
alt.syntax.tactical FAQ - Dealing with Trolls Crossposting and Flames.
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alt.usenet.kooks - Including FAQ and the Official Alt.Usenet.Kooks Funny Farm.
Meta Description: [ AUK ]
Beware the Troll - An internet troll is someone who fishes for people's confidence and, once found, exploits it. This essay explores the psychology of trolls and how to deal with them.
Meta Description: [ Trolls: what they are, how to recognise them, and how to deal with them. ]
Current Usenet spam thresholds and definitions - Summmarizes current community consensus on definitions of Usenet spam, including guidelines used for third-party cancellation of messages.
FAQ: The Newsgroup Care Cancel Cookbook - How to cancel spam and other cancelables off individual newsgroups using the simplest of means.
Meta Description: [ How to cancel spam and other cancelables off individual newsgroups using the simplest of means ]
Killfile.org - Who Tim Skirvin and his daemons have sent to the Killfile Dungeon, and why, plus The Kook of the Month Awards Gallery.
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Offensive intruder poisons chat lines - A troller calling himself Bertie the Bunyip has upset local Usenet newsgroups after a bizarre campaign that has included posting fake photographs of a topless Queen Mother. [New Zealand Herald]
Meta Description: [ Information Technology - News from The New Zealand Herald ]
Rev. Steve Winter - Documentation of alleged computer crimes, stalking and harassment according to Steve Winter.
Meta Description: [ Documentation of harassment, criminal activity and false doctrines of reprobates and other false christians ]
The Net Abuse FAQ - The Net Abuse FAQ
The NoCeM Registry - Information on NoCeM issuers, with PGP keyring and NoCeM permission file for use with NoCeM-On-Spool software
Meta Description: [ Information on NoCeM issuers, with PGP keyring and NoCeM permission file for use with NoCeM-On-Spool software ]
The Steve Winter FAQ by Steve Adams - Things you may need to know if you have dealings with Steve Winter.
