How CISPA would affect you (FAQ yourself)
Go make some noise about this before you're screwed "notwithstanding any other provision of law."
Reality Check: Does CISPA Mean The End of internet Privacy?
The latest internet privacy bill working its way through Congress.
9-year-old's DIY cardboard arcade gets flashmobbed
The Mystery Man Behind the Most Disturbing Internet Meme in History
Pretty much the same reasons as the Gold Manmeep guy, when you boil it down.
Judge orders failed copyright troll to forfeit all copyrights
Judging copyright trolls like a Pro.
Homeless hotspots plan causes controversy for BBH ad agency
An 'experiment' which involved using homeless people as mobile wi-fi hotspots has attracted criticism, forcing the advertising agency behind it to defend itself.
Wikileaks Pairs with Anonymous to Publish Intelligence Firm's Dirty Laundry
Anons also told Wired that future collaborations with WikiLeaks could involve a series of hacks that will be announced, one after another, every Friday for the foreseeable future. If that happens, the Stratfor e-mail release could be the first sign of a new, powerful alliance between the two groups, each of which has vexed and angered the world's most powerful governments and corporations.
People is the stupid
You will be raped by your own data.
A new wave of outlaws perpetrating justice.
Physibles and post-scarcity economy
Physibles are 3D printer plans for duplicating physical objects. This is a fascinating insight and early glimpse into the post-scarcity economy. This is a landmark event marking the transition of post-scarcity from the online world leaking into the physical world.
Mega-man: The fast, fabulous, fraudulent life of Megaupload's Kim Dotcom
"A PR man's nightmare and a journalist's dream."
Kopimism: the world's newest religion explained
Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of the world's newest religion, Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. On 5 January the Church of Kopimism was formally recognised as a religion by the Swedish government.
Double wham bam: AntiSec hacks, dumps CA & NY law enforcement emails
As part of Project Mayhem, AntiSec hackers destroyed and defaced the official site for the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA). Although it has been "wiped off the net," AntiSec dumped email and contact info for California and New York law enforcement groups.
Bitcoin Finishes 2011 Up 1,473%
The last trade for 2011 at the leading Bitcoin exchange was at the rate of $4.72 USD. For the year, Bitcoin's exchange rate rose from $0.30 - a 1,473% increase.
Because the last thing a judge should do is tell the defendant what is going on.
China's Parallel Online Universe
To the casual eye, China's social media landscape might look diverse and lively. But the social media clones are careful to follow Communist Party censorship.
SOPA/PIPA Explained; GoDaddy loses 21,000 domains and stops supporting SOPA
Late last week saw the domain registrar Go Daddy lose over 21,000 domains. Why did this happen to a service which was doing pretty well for itself for so long? In an acronym, SOPA.
Codepad is an online compiler/interpreter and simple collaboration tool.
Can be useful from time to time.
Files you downloaded are now listed and publicly searchable, indexed by your Internet address.
In many ways, the technology behind the site merely recreates in a publicly searchable way what the entertainment industry has been doing for years: It tracks and records information that users share when they download and upload files on public peer-to-peer file-trading networks.
Including a functioning DOS prompt, notepad, minesweeper, web browser, etc.
Lots of content.
What Does It Take To Eliminate the Kelihos Botnet?
If your email inbox or spam folder has ever received messages from shady Nigerian princes or ebullient Viagra salesmen, chances are it was sent there care of the Kelihos botnet, a massive network of infected computers that sends around 3.8 billion spam emails every day.
Carol Bartz exclusive: Yahoo 'f---ed me over'
'I said, 'Roy, I think that's a script,'' adding, ''Why don't you have the meep to tell me yourself?''
Another interesting article on bitcoins.
It's the (old) new planking.
EA's Origin EULA Proves Even More Sinister
EA's is so broad that it gives the publisher permission to scan your entire hard drive, and report back absolutely anything you may have installed, and indeed when you may use it, and then pass that information on the third parties.
Dumbmeep Deletes Wikileaks Leaks
What a meepy domscheit.
'Real Names- Policies Are an Abuse of Power
This is true, and google is a meep.
It's fun to be tracked!
Internet Explorer IQ report appears to be a hoax
A report claiming Internet Explorer users scored lower on IQ tests than users of other Web browsers appears to have been an elaborate hoax.
Update: Only 92% of Newt Gingrich's Twitter Followers Are Fake
The fake accounts are probably more intelligent than the real ones.
Are Internet Explorer users dumb?
AptiQuaint, a Vancouver-based Web consulting company, gave more than 100,000 participants an IQ test, while monitoring which browser they used to take the test.
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AnonPlus - Google+ for hackers
The hacktivist group Anonymous has been kicked off Google+ and in response, the group is looking to build its own social network called AnonPlus.
Inside RIM: An exclusive look at the rise and fall of the company that made smartphones smart
Research In Motion is in the midst of a major transition in every sense of the word. Publicly, the company is portraying a very defensive image - one that is very dismissive, as if RIM is profitable and class-leading, and the media is out of line to criticize its business, as are investors. Internally, however, there's a different story to be told.
PROTECT-IP Letter to congress from 108 assorted law professors.
Why is the RIAA trying to destroy America?
All the time evidently.
While Nigeria's 401 scammers may have written the book on West African internet fraud, their shtick looks like Compuserve compared to what's going on in Ghana.
..mostly "secret origin of so-and-so" or "sneak preview of this or that".
Lulzsec IRC Leak: The Full Record
Leaked presumably for the lulz
The Rise and Inglorious Fall of Myspace
It once promised to redefine music, politics, dating, and pop culture. Rupert Murdoch fell in love with it. Then everything fell apart
Lulzsec and Anonymous Declare Open War Against All Governments and Fat Cats
Our Lulz Lizard battle fleet is now declaring immediate and unremitting war on the freedom-snatching moderators of 2011.
This had potential when he was alive but people act like he's got wifi in his tomb
AOL meep: An AOL Content Slave Speaks Out
The AOL way.
Close to US$500k stolen in first major Bitcoin theft.
In the first Bitcoin theft of its size, a user has lost 25,000 BTC -- or nearly $487,749 at today's market rates -- to an unknown thief.
We accept your threats, NATO. Game on, losers.
'First we can't believe this show is so good, then we can't believe we've become fans for life, then we can't believe we're walking down the pink aisle at Toys R Us or asking for the girl's toy in our Happy Meal, then we can't believe our friends haven't seen it yet, then we can't believe they're becoming bronies too.-
U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors
The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy 'shadow- Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications networks.



