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EFF Creates Endangered Gizmos List

Posted by michael on from the going-the-way-of-the-dodo dept.

linuxwrangler writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation this week announced the creation of the Endangered Gizmos List. According to their press release, this project highlights 'the way misguided laws and lawsuits can pollute the environment for technological innovation.' The site categorizes technologies ranging from the Betamax to the Advanced eBook Processor as 'Saved', 'Endangered' or 'Extinct'."

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  1. endangered Gizmos? by dim5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    For God's sake, don't feed them after midnight!

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    1. Re:endangered Gizmos? by Gudlyf · · Score: 2, Funny

      Heck, they wouldn't be so endangered if someone would just drop them in a lake or something.

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  2. Phew... by madaxe42 · · Score: 1, Funny

    I was worried, for an instant, that I wouldn't be able to watch betamax tapes of hot grits eating competitions in my garage while printing poorly reproduced pictures of Natalie Portman.

  3. save the one button! by natedubbya · · Score: 5, Funny

    The one-button mouse is always at risk of being an endangered gizmo, but Apple keeps reintroducing the species into the wild, where they are promptly eaten by 2-buttons and scroll wheels.

    1. Re:save the one button! by greechneb · · Score: 2, Funny

      I take it that is not Darwin's survival of the clickiest?

  4. Dupes are not endangered by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The slashdot duplicate post detector is at the top of the list.

  5. In related news... by Leadhyena · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft is planning on taking their increase in earnings in order to build a humongeous flashlight, designed to wipe out all of those non-DRM enhanced gizmos out there.

  6. EFF Server by enoraM · · Score: 2, Funny

    EFF Server endangered - ummh - make that extinct /.