According the the EFF, Elctronic Freedom Foundation the House Judiciary committee just promoted and recommended HR 1981, which would require all internet service providers to keep a record of All traffic data for 12 months on each customer.

Let me break this down for you, Is this a Law? Not yet. Could it make it to becoming a law? Yes… yes it could. Because we have to protect the children… Very few phrases have had more backwards wrong-thinking associated with them then protect the children. This is privacy invasion pure and simple. A constantly on wiretap available for government agencies to scan and peruse. I’ll let the experts talk on this more,

House Committee Approves Bill Mandating That Internet Companies Spy on Their Users | Electronic Frontier Foundation.

But i wanted to do my part to push the information out there. No this isn’t the standard goofball links you will find here. But you need to pay as much attention to this as youtube cat videos. Call your Representatives, this is bad juju.

Tags: bad juju, house bill hr 1981, Privacy, spying

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So we have a very dense show tonight, a little on the heavy side with privacy concerns and why a program allowing amateur hacking is a good thing in the long run, as well as some utterly and completely silly nonsense. It all depends on what part of geek culture you hail from but i seriously think we have all of our bases covered on today’s show. So sit back and enjoy the ride.

This is my world you’re all just drinking my coffee.

Tags: Adobe, apple, carving, childish, deprecated, deviant art, espresso martini, facebook, firesheep, flash, Java, jetbike, muppets, Privacy, Pumpkin, Spooky Tech, squareenix, twitter, VHS, wordcamp philly

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Espresso Tech!

BP Gulf Oil Spill Continues to run, Methods are getting desperate,
Privacy, Facebook loves you and reads your diary
Google Wifi Kerfuffle. Company Slogan or no, its bothersome

Tags: Atlantis, bp oil spill, Caffination, collecting, Common Sense, facebook, Google, gulf of mexico, News, nuke, Oil, Privacy, shuttle, tech, video, Wifi

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Today’s Show:  TOS, facebook, PirateBay, Privacy, Passwords, legos, pixels, king kong, salt and pepper, tea, and coffee

Well I have a full complement of hands once more. typing is a joy, well at least for now. Still working the kinks out of the systems but it feels good to be able to put ideas to paper once more. I can’t wait to share the ideas I’ve been kicking around for the last month. We have a ton of new content on deck i just need to flesh it out and give it life so to speak. The Robot Overlord Appeasement poster is going to rock, the Tech in Tough times articles are shaping up as well. But thats all in the future, today’s show has a host of great links to lego goodness, some fun kerfuffle concerning TOS and the facebook flack, and a ton more content covering all the stuff listed above and more.

I would like to say that even though the Facebook story takes up a good deal of physical space on the post it does not in fact use anywhere near that amount of time in the show. I just wanted to make sure i was able to share all of the great content that was pushed out in reference. While the story is old, lessons can still be learned from the issues it raised.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated ~!

@caffination: coffee in my veins, steel in my eyes, dear server I will break you. From Juan Valdez’ heart I stab at thee

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• Robot Overlord Poster Under Way, send your survival / appeasement tips
• Facebook Kerfuffle
  • There is no Privacy? but Revenue sharing issues?
  • Literal vs practical interpretation
  • Backtrack What they are doing about it
  • User bill of rights and responsiblites
• Facebook Privacy practical tips, a great read
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• Legos made into cars, against their will
• New Star Wars legos
• Lego A-Team, in case you missed the Tumblr update
• Pixel art book jackets
• Years later your phone, 1 connector to rule them all
• King Kong Defense?
• Toys used to be cool
• Strong Password Howto

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• make toast in your VCR
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