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Fuck everything about this! I don’t care that these people shouldn’t have been doing the type of rioting they were doing especially to some of the small businesses, but the bigger picture here is
CONSTANT MONITORING

thedailywhat:

Bigger Brother of the Day: MI5, the British intelligence agency normally tasked with hunting down terrorists, will collaborate with the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to assist police in locating individuals suspected of using social networking services to orchestrate looting raids.

The agencies will employ their advanced technologies to track down alleged instigators using intercepted BlackBerry Messenger broadcasts that police were unable to decrypt or trace.

In related news, two men in their early twenties were sentenced today by a court in Cheshire to four years in prison for inciting local “riot events” via Facebook. “You sought to take advantage of crime elsewhere and transpose it to the peaceful streets of Northwich,” Judge Elgan Edwards QC said during sentencing. “No one actually turned up due to the prompt and efficient actions of police in using modern policing.”

Meanwhile, Chinese state media published words of praise for UK PM David Cameron’s proposed banning of social network users for appearing to plot criminal behavior, saying “Britain’s new attitude will help appease the quarrels between East and West over the future management of the Internet.”

[guardian: 1,2 / slashdot / image: techdirt.]

I was told its manic depression, but i have my doubts.. I’ve been a pretty big high lately, and in all honest i was gonna write this the other day, but my AD HD being what it is….filed it to a later date, and that date is today.

Alright, so i’ve been in a pretty good mood with the out going on 2010 into the now new year. I mean i got a job last year after being unemployed for quite a long period of time, and the job i got was probably the single worse thing i’ve ever done with my life, and hench why i’m not there anymore. I also spent most of 2010 in a bitter, and pissy mood. I’ve traveled the least in several years in 2010, but i still made it out in a lot of ways.

I also found ways to let the past go, and to go about Social Networking in an entirely different way. I will not let my business be known as much as I did in the past, and i strangely find it amusing that I can see right through the people who do take what i would say and use it against me. Sorry, but not anymore…. My life is not meant to have stones thrown at it in bitter resentment, or to make a spark in your life. If you wanna throw stones….do it out in the open now.

I was  doing security at the commons, and by was I mean that in the respect that its not like I’m not employed still, but I have no pipeline of time I’ll be doing that unless called. However I still thank my friend Connor for the opportunity to let me make money during the holidays.

My new year is looking good, and more new opportunities are arising, and hell tomorrow I get to go to my first ever Broadway play.

World Map of the Day: Facebook data infrastructure engineering team intern Paul was “interested in seeing how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends,” so he plugged a sample of approx. ten million pairs of friends into the open-source statistics environment R. He played around with the data until he managed to get the effect he wanted.

After a few minutes of rendering, the new plot appeared, and I was a bit taken aback by what I saw. The blob had turned into a surprisingly detailed map of the world. Not only were continents visible, certain international borders were apparent as well. What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn’t represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships. Each line might represent a friendship made while travelling, a family member abroad, or an old college friend pulled away by the various forces of life.

Click here for hi-res.

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I seriously hate when facebook errors and gives you this stupid message…