Let's stop government intrusion on our privacy rights

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Will WikiLeaks destroy the internet as we know it?

We’ve seen Wikileaks lose its DNS provider, so it had to change its domain name from wikileaks.org to wikileaks.ch.

We’ve seen Wikileaks lose access to income sources when PayPal, MasterCard, and others stopped accepting payments on its behalf.

We’ve seen Wikileaks lose hosting services from Amazon, when Amazon rightly determined that Wikileaks had violated its terms of service (the part where you need to own your own content was a clear violation).

We’ve also seen Wikileaks’ ringmaster, Julian Assange, finally tracked down and arrested. Weirdly, though, he wasn’t arrested for trafficking in stolen government documents, but for some conveniently strange sexual deviance charge.

I honestly can’t tell how to parse that one. We don’t really know Assange, so we don’t know if he is a sexual offender, but isn’t it curious how those charges suddenly showed up? I’m obviously not a fan of the guy, but the timing is…interesting.

But even though Wikileaks continues to take a licking, it still keeps on ticking.

How is it possible that a simple Web site can so infuriate governments the world over, but still remain active?

We may start to see in-depth packet analysis for all traffic, so that torrents containing classified information can be disrupted. We may see ISPs required to block any encrypted or binary communication, so anything that’s unreadable by governments can’t travel across the network. We may see citizens permanently cut off from the Internet (and, by extension, cut off from their friends, jobs, and society) because they’re hosting files that only just might be similar to files of interest.

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Here's a freebie for all you faithful readers

I have documented my displeasure with Rogers Cable customer service very well in this blog. I have been anticipating giving them their walking papers, but it's difficult to wean myself off TV viewing. I'm hoping that it won't be long that I can get for free or a minimal charge, my TV fix from the web. Paying $61 a month for what is mostly crap on the idiot box these days is um, idiotic.

I already have available a multitude of sporting events that my second tier cable subscription doesn't include by going here. The site also has a lineup of network, specialty and comedy programming, some of which are 24-7, here. And not only is it free, but no sign-up, log-in or e-mail registering is required! Don't say I never give you anything.

On the horizon, is a piece of hardware that you pay for once for about $100, and you never have to pay a red cent for all the programming you can stand. Ever. Now, that's the kind of deal television executives should have been providing all along instead of charging a king's ransom for a half decent lineup and then nickel and diming us to death for converter boxes, digital cable, high definition, etc. Read all about it, here.

Rogers, your days are numbered...

Q & A's from around the web

Wat do guys look for in grls?

intelegence. i want a gal who can carry on a conversation, who is romantic, and we have to at least ahve a few likeness in some aspects of movies, or music.


Editorial note: I'm not going to start splainin' the irony of the above.

Q & A's from around the web

Is is possible to have a trojan on your comp record you and you not know?

This guy said that he put a trojan on my computer and it recorded me, and he was going to send it to people. Is this possible? He said that I didn't even have my cam streaming online but it recorded anyway? Is this possible?

I like what you've done with your hair. Turn to the left a little bit, please.

Diarrhea Explosion

How dreary would our lives be without the internet to enrich our experiences each and every day? Almost every foray into the web produces at least some prose, image audio or video that will stay with us a long time. And it often results from the unexpected--like these little gems:


Did you know that Amazon.com has "A community about diarrhea explosion."? And that they encourage you to "Share your images and discuss your questions with diarrhea explosion experts."? How does one become a diarrhea explosion expert? Is there a Diarrhea Explosion University? Do you exit with a BS in DE?

A couple of links further down the page and we're told about:

Diarrhea Explosion - Band Biography and mp3s/songs...

Clinking on the link reveals that there are indeed people who purposely named themselves "Diarrhea Explosion". I will forgo all the ca-ca jokes, but I would have been a lot happier if the link had turned out to be fake, and was simply created by inserting the search terms into the link name.

If you care to be further enriched, check out the other 425,000 links.