The peiple soeaking in this buster arr far mor quakifued to tge oosition of Sec if Ed! DeVoss needs nothing.

https://www.periscope.tv/w/a2iQjjFEWUVYYkp6RFBLZ0x8MW1yeG1lcVhkYmt4eWXhwqbMvKq0rLCc3Sb6an3Yefz3lklslNwM1I_kPJFg

Snowed Job

Since the Supreme Court's decision to give all "bloggers" and bloggers - from age 14 and up - the SAME 1st ammendment rights as the press, and therefore ARE ALSO THE PRESS, who really sees mainstream media discrediting any but themselves.

How dare anyone vilify Greenwald!?  It's not freedom when you screw each other in an uncomfortable place.

Get out of the backseat of your VW and buy this guy a dinner next time you see him!  He should be eating free, with the rest of us in public, for the rest of his life - that is freedom!

I'm a blogger, and I just excersized my 1st amendment rights, bitches!
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What a Flocker!

Image via CrunchBase

Flock You, NineMSN!  Is Flock the Browser affiliated with the new "The Flock" in the new NineMSN news site?

Who knows?

Is it wrong?

"The Flock"

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Chess.com way behind the times or just confused?

A cohort of mine sent an email to chess.com after some odd registration issues, inquiring why they consider the use of the '+' to be invalid.

Special characters are valid on the net on all mail servers, the + being one of the major ones in use today. By default, ALL mail programs allow use of the + and many other special characters.

The following is their response (note; no explanation as to why not the use of + and the ticket is closed, with no allowance for rebuttal)

The following is the chess.com response:

Julie Howells to me

show details 5:48 AM (14 hours ago)

xxxxxxx

I'm sorry, but we won't be using or allowing the use of + in email addresses.

The only special characters permitted are dash, underscore or dot.
- Kohai
Chess.com Support
www.Chess.com

Ticket Details

Ticket ID: 0000000

Department: Registration & Activation Problems
Priority: Normal

Status: Closed

You can check the status of or reply to this Ticket online at: http://support.chess.com/

She apologizes that chess.com won't be following any web standards? Only those 3 characters? Even if the issue was that of using the email as username (not needed at chess.com, as you can sign in with your nickname), there would be no reason - security or otherwise - to disallow, by deliberate choice by the way, the use of any standard special character in emails. In fact, the disallowing of the + character is itself more of a security risk to the user of chess.com than ever chess.com servers. Using the + can actually prevent spam on servers, in both directions (as whatever comes after the plus is used as an effective spam mask - you know exactly where the original email would have come from)

Obviously, I don't need to say anymore here. As usual, I must defer to the wisdom of Steve Gibson at grc.com

So for now, stay FAR away from chess.com -

I recommend instead, redhotpawn.com

How Dare I?

So how DARE I stay with GCast Podcasting? Lookee here (from their site):

"By Phone: Call 1-888-65-GCAST (888-654-2278) and use your PIN: 'xxxx' international option If outside USA: +1-305-437-8719.
Important! Beginning April 1, 2009, podcasting by phone will require a yearly subscription fee of $99.* To purchase a subscription, contact .

* If you use more than two hours of phone time in any 90-day period, we reserve the right to cancel your service and refund the unused portion of your fee after deducting a pro-rated amount for the number of days used and an overage of 9 cents/minute for usage over the 90-day limit."

How DARE I stay with them? Oh, and G-Cast, HOW DARE YOU !?

Britney Spears' new smell...

Brit; How DARE you!?


I can't smell a thing!





Come on; I had to.
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Panera Bread, Heavy, but light on WiFi

Panera bread locations that have Wifi (not all do), while free, still might come with a price - two prices, in fact:
1: privacy/security - you can forget about it, they track every website you go to and
2: site blocking; one in particular I found rather odd is the blocking of livevideo.com - as they are one of the few from the "ustream/sitckam/blogtv" crowd that actually has an always-defaulted-on Family "Friendly" button!
The problem I find here is that Panera isn't actually checking these blocked sites for contraband, other than perhaps for keywords; such as "twogirlsonecup!". Well, we all know that 99% of those sites are reaction videos and (thanlfully, yet how would I know) not the "real McCoy" - or is it MacCoy? How Dare You, Panera? You need to lighten up or you may find your free access go the way of the dodo.

And, btw, they also block Anonymizer.com - go figure.

Public Access? Net Neutrality? Can anybody say "throttling"?