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The Oatmeal made this to put out the message that SOPA/PIPA is wrong. The only one who sees SOPA & PIPA are the lawyers and CEOs making money off the content providers and the politicians bribed by them.
House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said early Saturday morning that Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) promised him the House will not vote on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) unless there is consensus on the bill. “While I remain concerned about Senate action on the Protect IP Act, I am confident that flawed [...]
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This is some Copy Pasta, but this is an important Act that I wanted to make sure was acted on. Today, the US House Judiciary Committee has a hearing on the [1] Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA. The text of the bill is [2] here. This bill would strengthen copyright holders’ means to [...]
When a dating site desired to trim its rolls of those who had gotten the most complaints about being the most problematic… actually no. Those whose posted pictures showing they gained a little over the holidays. BeautifulPeople.com made more than 5,000 users re-apply after they posted pictures of themselves looking chubbier than usual celebrating the [...]
I’m often bombarded with ideas on how to monopolize this blog (and others I have). Most the time I take the information, glance over it and ignore it. But in this case the “network” I was getting emails and updates about, Pepperjam, kept adding more features and becoming more and more interesting. This last one [...]
Aurora seems a popular name. Besides the fabled Jet, its also a Web Browsing experience cooked up by teh development arm of Mozilla (the creatots of Firefox and Thunderbird). In it web browsing becomes a seemless interactive and collaborative experience. Watch the video and tell me. Do you have the same security concerns and wonder [...]
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There are a lot of entertaining videos out there… and some are downright revolting. Right before the puke stage (a number would argue that it is at the puke stage) there is a video called 2 girls and 1 cup. It starts with what some guys would consider a nice scene of 2 girls kissing… [...]
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“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” –Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” –Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 “I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I [...]
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As a regular user of wifi hotspots, and a subscriber of AT&T wifi I’m glad to see that they just expanded a lot. At Starbucks, T-Mobile is out and AT&T is in, at least when it comes to WiFi. AT&T and Starbucks announced their new partnership this morning, saying that the carrier plans to offer [...]
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I was trolling along and I read a couple stories of servers that end up being forgotten. And I thought I’d share. Server 54, Where Are You? The University of North Carolina has finally found a network server that, although missing for four years, hasn’t missed a packet in all that time. Try as they [...]
