News Heard Round the Internets
Put your tinfoil hats on, things seem to be shaping up nicely today…
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“Using Prompt Commands” May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity — eff.org Warrant PDF available here
I guess the campus police seem to think that anyone that isn’t using OSX or Windows is probibly doing something illegal. Shouldn’t these cops be old enough to have used DOS? This reminds me of a story from a while back where a teacher threw a fit over a student giving a linux demonstration for class. Remember kids, If you don’t support Apple or Microsoft your a Pirate/Communist/Union Laboror…
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FOX News Says Marijuana Activists are “Internet Trolls” — stopthedrugwar.org At least Glen Beck isn’t pouring gasoline on the internets…
President Obama’s pledge to open the White House up to the public through online forums faces an irksome challenge: a plague of Internet “trolls” — troublemakers who work to derail cyber-conversations through harassing and inflammatory posts.
The problem became immediately apparent last month when Obama held an online “town hall” forum on the economy and invited the public to post questions on the White House Web site.
Those questions, in turn, were voted on by users to determine which ones the president would answer.
Three and a half million people participated in the event, but the “trolls” had their way: Following a coordinated campaign by marijuana advocates to vote their topic to the top of the list, questions on the future of the U.S. dollar and the rising unemployment rate were superseded by questions about legalizing pot as an economic remedy.
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It’s hard to talk when you’re teabagging — youtube
Embedded goodness….
I see you looking at me…
I don’t know what is worse…. The squirrel giving me funny looks, or the possibility of neighbors seeing a camera with a telephoto lens on a tripod in my window. EDIT: Click on the picture to view the new gallery format I am working on