In the news today:
– Porn is a problem with Twitters new Vine app
– Hackers claim attack on Justice Department website
– and Wasington plans to contain its legal Marijana within its own borders – but how?
Twitter’s just launched Vine – a stand-alone app for sharing super short videos – is already turning into an X-rated nightmare for the company. It didn’t take long for people to figure out that Vine, which allows users to share 6-second video clips based on hash tags, could be used for more than just funny home videos. Complaints about adult content surfaced within a few days of Vine’s release last week as hash tags such as “#porn” and “#sex” made it easy to search for sexy videos. Classic Internet and technology finally goes back to its roots!!! Porn!
Hackers sympathetic to the late computer prodigy Aaron Swartz claimed to have infiltrated the website of the U.S. Justice Department’s Sentencing Commission, and said they planned to release government data. The Sentencing Commission site, http://www.ussc.gov , was shut down early Saturday and in a manifesto left on the defaced page, the group demanded reform to the American justice system and to the free flow of information. Identifying themselves as Anonymous, a loosely organized group of unknown provenance associated with a range of recent online actions, the hackers voiced outrage over Swartz’ suicide on January 11. The hacked site is back up now, but a good point has been made. Criminal prosecution for a boy who was spreading interesting articles to the world for free? Does the FBI have nothing better to do?
With sales set to begin later this year, Gov. Jay Insleehe hopes to be a good neighbor and keep vanloads of premium, legal marijuana from cruising into Idaho, Oregon and other states that don’t want to let people getting stoned for fun. Why not?!! Keeping a lid on the weed is just one of the numerous challenges Washington state authorities and their fellow weed promoters in Colorado, will face in the coming months. Marijuana is still illegal under Federal law. What? Colorado already has intensive rules aimed at keeping its medical marijuana market in line, including the digital tracking of cannabis, bar codes on every plant, surveillance video and manifests of all legal pot shipments. But law enforcement officials say marijuana from Colorado’s dispensaries often makes its way to the black market. You know thee is a very simple solution to all of this right? Make Marijuana legal! Legal Marijuana means no black market! No black market means new ways to implement Taxes! So many Taxes in fact that the US could easily pay all its debt! It’s a win win situation!
In the news today:
– Porn is a problem with Twitters new Vine app
– Hackers claim attack on Justice Department website
– and Wasington plans to contain its legal Marijana within its own borders – but how?
Twitter’s just launched Vine – a stand-alone app for sharing super short videos – is already turning into an X-rated nightmare for the company. It didn’t take long for people to figure out that Vine, which allows users to share 6-second video clips based on hash tags, could be used for more than just funny home videos. Complaints about adult content surfaced within a few days of Vine’s release last week as hash tags such as “#porn” and “#sex” made it easy to search for sexy videos. Classic Internet and technology finally goes back to its roots!!! Porn!
Hackers sympathetic to the late computer prodigy Aaron Swartz claimed to have infiltrated the website of the U.S. Justice Department’s Sentencing Commission, and said they planned to release government data. The Sentencing Commission site, http://www.ussc.gov , was shut down early Saturday and in a manifesto left on the defaced page, the group demanded reform to the American justice system and to the free flow of information. Identifying themselves as Anonymous, a loosely organized group of unknown provenance associated with a range of recent online actions, the hackers voiced outrage over Swartz’ suicide on January 11. The hacked site is back up now, but a good point has been made. Criminal prosecution for a boy who was spreading interesting articles to the world for free? Does the FBI have nothing better to do?
With sales set to begin later this year, Gov. Jay Insleehe hopes to be a good neighbor and keep vanloads of premium, legal marijuana from cruising into Idaho, Oregon and other states that don’t want to let people getting stoned for fun. Why not?!! Keeping a lid on the weed is just one of the numerous challenges Washington state authorities and their fellow weed promoters in Colorado, will face in the coming months. Marijuana is still illegal under Federal law. What? Colorado already has intensive rules aimed at keeping its medical marijuana market in line, including the digital tracking of cannabis, bar codes on every plant, surveillance video and manifests of all legal pot shipments. But law enforcement officials say marijuana from Colorado’s dispensaries often makes its way to the black market. You know thee is a very simple solution to all of this right? Make Marijuana legal! Legal Marijuana means no black market! No black market means new ways to implement Taxes! So many Taxes in fact that the US could easily pay all its debt! It’s a win win situation!