And so it begins, and SOPA/PIPA hasn't even been voted on yet.

For the linkophobic, basically Megaupload got shut down over a few users who pirated copyright material.  Now, while I'm not at all against enforcing copyright laws in principle, I do object to the idea in how entertainment moguls want to enforce such infringements by strong-arming sites ( Read more... )

Of course, there is Comcast, which has slowed my connections seriously enough that I get DNS errors up the wazoo.  I hate Comcast like nothing else and would love to get away from their shitty service as soon as I can.  Obviously, I can't right now because I'm stuck living in this dorm until December, at least, when I hope to be graduating.

And now ( Read more... )

Apparently Formspring is the newest evil social network to inhabit the interwebs.

You know, I've had people stalk me on LJ back in the day, and while yes, it does open one up to cyber-bullying and the like, it doesn't mean that the site itself is evil; it just means there's bad people that inhabit those kinds of sites.  But, heaven forbid, we, you ( Read more... )