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CNN coerced him to apologize by threatening to dox him, and now is claiming that he called them to apologize first. Check the timestamps and archive links here.

Which has caused a whole big pile of new anti-CNN memes. My favorites are the ISIS apology video ones. example here. And another. Also, this guy showed up. Even the theater in the park got involved.

Looks like pretty much everyone is now piling on. Here is Julian Assange, Donald Trump Jr., the Washington Times.

It is pretty much the only topic now on The_Donald and has numerous threads on /pol/ (warning, NSFL). Front and center on Breitbart News and Drudge.

Oh, and the guy's identity is pretty much out there already, making their threat moot.

That'd be the Drudge Report.

The digital divide in the US became most evident (to me) in this last election cycle.

If you look at the page weights of 'conservative' vs 'liberal' news sites the former are much smaller and tailored to people on even a dial up, in large part because they know their demographic. Rural internet in the US flat out sucks. We have counties in my state, not more than 3 hours outside of Chicago that still have dialup as a viable option.

Drudge Report loads amazingly fast. Huffington Post does not. Drudge was 1.13 MB in size with 44% of that images. (The site I used to analyze them was done with Drudge's 14 assets long before Huffington Post stalled at 220/222 assets.)

The art of optimization seems to have disappeared, it made a small resurgence when web developers tried to optimize for the mobile web, but it doesn't look like most developers ever tried that hard.

It's a closed feedback loop. Developers live in places with fast Internet, test in places with fast Internet and then don't understand what it's like anywhere else. Students on college campuses live with gigabit internet and Internet2 connections to peer universities. They move to cities that Comcast pays attention to.

The best suggestion I have: Turn off images, configure the browser not to thread connections, and get involved in local government to get faster internet to your area.

They're pissed off because their near-monopoly of the lib-left newspapers, CNN (Clinton News Network), MSNBC (Most Socialist Network on Basic Cable), etc was easily bypassed. That's what cost Hillary the election.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-j...

> Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news would be
> consumed, President Bill Clinton's White House feared that the Internet was allowing
> average citizens, especially conservatives, to bypass legacy gatekeepers and
> access information that had previously been denied to them by the mainstream press.

http://www.freerepublic.com/fo...
3 years later, it happened. One of the "legacy gatekeepers", Newsweek was considering doing a story breaking the Clinton-Lewinski scandal. But management killed the story. Instead a lowly store clerk with a modem broke the story... you've heard of Matt Drudge http://www.drudgereport.com/ Hillary clinton's reaction was to whine about the lack of "gatekeepers".

http://dailycaller.com/2016/08...
What would've happened if Hillary had won?
> Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign has sent out a fundraising
> email arguing the website Breitbart News has no "right to exist,"
> and suggests that if elected, the website will be shut down entirely.

> What's even scarier than fake news is when news is blacked out. Fake news
> is not something one would never expect, even if we did not live in a society
> in which the mainstream media is controlled to an extremely high degree.

Suppresion of real news makes nutty conspiracies more believable. How many people are aware that JFK was screwing more women than Bill Clinton could hope for? But the lib-left media kept quiet, even though they knew, because JFK was a Democrat. They also kept quiet for Bill Clinton's sexcapades. It was a store clerk (Matt Drudge), with a modem and a website ( http://drudgereport.com/ ) who finally broke the story http://drudgereportarchives.co...

Note that Newsweek knew about the story, but decided to kill it. After the story first broke, Bill Clinton denied, denied, denied. Nowadays, when a nutty conspiracy theory comes out, it's quashed by the MSM and government denies, denies, denies. Maybe this time they're telling the truth. But, like "the boy who cried wolf", they've lost their credibility to fight nutty conspiracy theories. The lib-left big media are to blame for the current state of affirs.

Who reads this "right wing news" like, "freedom daily" and "eagle rising" when we have better news in infowars, rense, breitbart and drudge report?
And this buzzfeed does a "survey" on these questionable "right-wing" "news" outlets? And then talks to us about the "fact" that "right-wing news is not accurate"? Why not make the "survey" on breitbart or infowars or drudge or rense?

If that page was made today, it would be spread out over 5 pages, have 32 trackers and self playing ads with sound

Or else be one of the top-trafficked and most influential sites currently online in the US.

once you have the government choosing what people can and can't see on the internet

This wouldn't be advertised as "Internet access". It would be advertised as a tool to find a job or a better job.

(also, Drudge report? srs?)

Just the headlines from the Report and Retort, not the article bodies, to provide some minimal level of awareness of current events.

You might want to subscribe to this one instead.

not north korea, is slashdot becoming just another source for government misinformation and propaganda???

I figure this article isn't misinformation and propaganda, but an avenue for an active discussion of dissent.

I read an article on North Korea not being responsible for the Sony intrusion; I'm fairly sure on http://arstechnica.com/ mayhaps within the article itself a key phrase used through out was "I can't believe I have to say this". Looking for the article I Googled: sony I don't beleve I have to say this" -with the misspelling or not

At this time of the first 20 hits or two pages, all call BS on the claim as well.

Even the http://www.drudgereport.com/ claimed below a link of the intrusion, that a fired employee was responsible (not mentioned in the link/article).

I'm convinced through the article linked from arstechnica.com (?), North Korea isn't responsible, if only for the fact it has no reason to be interested in Sony, movie or not.

I won't even get into the executable used.

Online news has become ridiculously confusing.

Nonsense. I take Drudge Report and Slashdot as the news-sites of record — and I have not missed anything important yet. Thank you very much.

Here you go!

Via drudge:
http://www.contracostatimes.com/politics-government/ci_21672132/supreme-court-wont-hear-cases-body-scanners-gay?source=rss
  The Supreme Court won't hear a Michigan man's attempt to challenge the use of full body scanners at airports.

The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal by Jonathan Corbett, who wanted to challenge the Transportation Security Administration's use of full body scanners and/or enhanced pat downs at airport security lines. Federal courts in Florida refused to hear his lawsuit, saying it could only be filed with the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal, and the Supreme Court refused to reopen the case.

The TSA started allowing the use of the advanced imaging technology in October 2010.

I know many of you read the alarmist stuff in the Drudge Report and NYT but this is not that big a deal really. After all, like the J-20, this is all still at the experimental and prototype stage. It remains to be seen if they can actually get to the production stage with not just a viable product but a product that is a significant threat.

Also, I don't think the Chinese have any ambitions and plans for aggression. Developments like this are just what one would expect of the country with the largest number of people and the second largest economy in the world. Their leaders would be incompetent if they didn't even bother to keep up with the rest world in space and defense technologies.

Also, why would they want to commit acts of aggression and/or invade other countries, rock the boat and upset the status quo and piss away billions when things are going so well for them?
All they have to do is look at what has happened in the last 10 years to figure out that it doesn't pay at all the invade other countries. You lose friends and lots of money in the process and people hate you and get absolutely nothing in return.

>>>Oh how I miss Gopher, Archie, and Veronica and gang. The modern-day World Wide Web is basically commerce-oriented with actual information content on a steady decline. Sad.

(50 years ago). Oh how I miss Radio. The modern-day television is basically commerce-oriented, while radio has devolved into a bunch of pop music.
(80 years ago). Oh how I miss Books. The modern-day radio is basically commerce-oriented, while books provided ad-free entertainment.
(100 years ago). Oh how I miss Live pianos/bands. The modern-day grammophone is basically commerce-oriented with actual talent on a steady decline - replaced with pop stars.
.

>>>Let's move to Web 3.0 and a return to the original purpose of the Internet and World Wide Web, namely information-sharing and collaboration for the enrichment (betterment) of society through knowldge and its applications to solving problems.

It still exists if you're willing to look. Like here: http://www.theblaze.com/ or here: http://www.drudgereport.com/ or here: http://moveon.org/ or here (one of the first websites): www.amazon.com. The original intent of the web did not go away..... it just was built-upon with new audio/video sites.

http://www.drudgereport.com/nanc1.jpg

Someone needs to tell Skeletor here that the next time she's at the plastic surgeon's office, she should ask for a collagen injection in her eye sockets. For God's sake, they look like she's been dead a week!

These images are not sexually explicit.

Oh, really?

Or do you mean the PR images over overweight middle-aged people with the private parts obscured by overexposure blooms? Clearly those must be representative and average, the government used them in press releases!

The Drudge Report today has a picture of Julius Caeser with the headline "Julius at FCC wants to regulate Internet". If you hurry you may catch it before the headline changes http://www.drudgereport.com/ This headline has personally angered me more than any other I can remember. I have been talking with people online and off for the last few years about this issue with great spirit. I have convinced others of my point of view using reason and civil discussion. At length, I have spent time and energy to do this. Now, as the issue heads to it's legislative climax, we finally get a headline about it on one of the most viewed, mainstream news sites in the world (I give it mainstream status due to it's popularity). Up to this point, the issue has been absent from any mass-market coverage. So, that finally happens, and the gateway to this information is labelled with the banter of a political shill who has seized the opportunity to spread propaganda that is aimed squarely at those who would react to such stupidity in the most blind and uninformed manner. Unfortunately, I am not surprised. I can only hope that if the principles of net-neutrality are not adopted, that one day someone decides that Drudge's traffic is "undesirable", or perhaps he is taking in too much revenue, and that physical access to his POV is hampered. Then he may think twice before throwing mindless, blanket ideology over every idea that concerns him.

The motivations are different. Whereas the Republicans are instinctively against any regulation — even if they overcome that initial reaction often, the Democrats believe, a good Government regulation is the best solution to any problem.

So Republicans were opposing "Net Neutrality" because it is a regulation. These Democrats oppose it, because it does not fit their goals.

In addition to the "concerns for minorities" (the equivalent of Republican's "think of the children"!), it should be noted, that "Net Neutrality" will also impede implementation of the "Fairness Doctrine" online. And they will come to that right after imposing the said doctrine on the airwaves — the same people, who want to shut up Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh (1st Amendment be damned), can't be happy about Drudge's selection of headlines...

Oh, and if you think, the doctrine is abandoned, think again. The above link is dated June 28, 2007. But the same text was just republished as on op-ed word-to-word by a free daily newspaper on October the 14th, 2009. The author didn't even bother adjusting the wording, which — two years later — still refers to some events as "recent". Maybe, the professor is just cheating on the newspaper to augment his Columbia salary. More likely, this is the sign, the Left are giving up on trying to establish their own talk-shows, and want to use laws against the speech they don't like...

there is nothing left to cut because the cow went dry...

In a sobering holiday interview with C-SPAN, President Obama boldly told Americans: "We are out of money." http://www.drudgereport.com/flashocs.htm

In relation to this, it is amazing to me how many sites are able to set the tone for the conversation without having a forum/comment section on their own site.

Pitchfork Media has some of the most controversial music reviews. I still don't think you can leave a comment directly on their pages. Compare that to NME, where the first review I opened had a comment section.

From the political isle: Instapundit Glenn Reynolds and Matt Drudge's Druge Report. These two pages set the tone for many (not all) conversations in the conservative blogosphere, yet no direct comment section. Same for the conservative magazine National Review. I'm wearing my political beliefs on my sleeve here. I invite someone to post a liberal site sans comments, I can't think of one on the top of my head.

The effect of removing a comment section forces the reader to search out if someone has a counterpoint to your opinion, which while it may not be terribly difficult via google, is something people simply are not accustomed to doing. This has two effects. It protects your reputation, since it is possible that someone reading your page would never know an opposing opinion. As an extension of that, since your reputation is far cleaner than a page with potential detracting comments, your message is securely delivered - whether it is that pitchfork thinks band x is good and they are also sponsoring a music festival featuring band x that you should purchase tickets for (no direct conflict of interest there!), or that you think policy y position is a good one and that you have friends that would benefit if policy y is advanced (Larry Kudlow at NRO here).

It may not necessarily be a mark of cowardice to not have direct comments on your site, but the inclusion of it is definitely a mark of bravery.

as long as the full weight of the crash is felt after your presidency is over so it can be blamed on the next guy.

Is that what you are trying to accomplish - remove all liability for the economy going to hell from GWB?

The rest of the country will remember him for a new word brought to our sexual lexicon, "to get a lewinsky."

I almost thought you would be capable of discussing Bill Clinton without resorting to the cheap tactic of bringing up the Lewinksi case like so many other conservatives. You have proven me wrong on that one, I see. Nevermind the long list of conservatives that have been brought down on sex charges in just the past two years, or the fact that amongst them are some of the most radical homophobes in this country.

You're funny. I'll call that and on the liberal side raise you CNN,

CNN turns to Glenn Beck for commentary, and gave him a 1-hour evening show. If you still think they are liberal you haven't been paying attention. Frankly they barely even qualify as news, considering how much time they devote to worthless celebrity gossip.

NBC

I'd like to know what about NBC causes you to say they are "liberal".

CBS,

Are you still holding on to the Dan Rather controversy? Aside from the fact that he doesn't work there and they've replaced him over a year ago?

ABC,

ABC, who has ties to Disney - who of course is renowned for wholesome family-values programming? And what part of that is "liberal"? What just because Hannity doesn't read the news there?

Daily Kos

Yeah, because there aren't any prominent conservative blogs

Academy Award-winning

In case you need to be reminded,the only documentary from Moore that won an academy award was Bowling for Columbine. Others have been nominated, but your stating that more than one won an award is simply not true.

chock-full-of-lies faux documentaries from Michael Moore.

I would say the truth-to-BS ratio in his documentaries has been much better than that in any news releases from the current administration. And his documentaries have caused significantly less loss of life than the outright lies from GWB and company.

Though your statement of "faux documentaries" is simply spin. He shot a documentary. Anyone is free to do the same. He edited the movie in such a way to make a statement - which is what documentaries are about. There are conservatives who have produced and released documentaries as well (some targeting Moore). It is not Michael Moore's fault that conservatives haven't used documentaries as effective tools for their message.

How about this and this

"The drama involves a woman lobbyist who may have helped to write key telecom legislation."

uh-huh. Methinks there's lots of Verizon money creating a green mist around McCain's head.

Incidentally, you might not have noticed it amongst all the great News happening around us, but oil is back knocking on the door of the all-time record high (yes, adjusted for inflation) set in April 1980. Strange the way timings go, isn't it.

Hill-dog cried again, this time in Connecticut. I guess since it worked so well last time, her advisers told her to shed another tear. How lame is it that this kind of crap makes the news?

drudgereport.com is a right-leaning website frequented by media execs

you see the very first story linked as:

"Most Fans Paid $0 for Radiohead Album..."

(breitbart is a right-leaning media outlet as well)

ps: right now being 4:15 pm, 11/06/2007

what's funny is how a pro-file sharing website, like slashdot, can spin a positive out of the numbers, and an anti-file sharing website can spin a negative

spin, spin, spin

just my two cents: radiohead probably made more money off their album with this internet tip jar concept than if they signed with a label, considering how the companies nickel and dime artists to death. actually, radiohead has some clout, so maybe that's not 100% true. but rather, an unknown band would DEFINITELY make more money with free albums and an internet tip jar than signing with a label

hopefully more and more bands will realize this, and a critical mass of hot young bands will coalesce such that one will consider doing business with the defunct music labels ever again

then the RIAA attack dogs will sue up and coming artists to sign with the music labels? (half-joking, i wouldn't put it past them)

Check out the Drudge Report 21 Sept 2007, the source for legitimate, unbiased news coverage (not!). Just as I thought, there's a Drudge article titled "Democrats Failing to Pass Anti-War Bill."

Like Google News, the Drudge Report is a news "agragator", simply linking to news sources. It's one of the most visited sites on the web, even for those who don't care for Matt Drudge's political bend. They get scoops and breaking stories posted before anyone else because visitors submit stories. Many news organization have a love-hate relationship with the site. Love the traffic, hate the politics. I used to work at the New York Times and passing through the Editorial/Journalism floors, it was not uncommon to see the Drudge Report displayed on a monitor.

• SlashDot's Firehose
• Reuters AlertNet
• A 10 minute delayed AP wire page (or if I'm at the TV station, I just check the live wire)
• Google News
• Topix
• CNN affiliate newsfeed website
• BBC News
• Local college's news page
• Local news website run by a local
• (2x) Regional newspaper page
• Drudge Report

An individual or family that has a fairly well-behaved Windows XP computer, decides not to run out and buy Windows Vista, or a new computer that has Vista preinstalled.
Mostly because of the price, and secondly, because the Windows XP computer works well for them. And, they paid a good price for it, and would like to see if they can get some more miles out of it. A third, and perhaps major reason is that they are unclear as to "just what Vista does", besides look pretty.
It would be Big News if Microsoft could say that Vista is a secure operating system, and that Vista spells the end of the viruses and trojans war.

The point is that there is a trickle down effect.

No one paid any attention to the individual or family that "decides not to run out and buy Windows Vista"

But, a major government department that has perhaps thousands of computers, making this decision not to upgrade, and giving reasons, gets everyones attention.

That individual or family now doesn't feel all alone, the U.S. DOT is on the same page as them.
It's a matter of money for the individual, and a matter of money for the U.S. DOT, not to mention the other reasons they have, that are much more serious for Microsoft.
  Everyone thinks the Government has plenty of money, and "buys $100.00 toothbrushes", etc.
Money to burn, literally. So, perhaps their reasons are more about the "other problems", rather than the money.

What large organization or Government entity will be next?

Please don't let this story get on Drudge Report.
Yes, I know Drudge Report has a little text box where one can send in story links.
Don't all rush in and do that at once!

...or....troll.... he's suggesting that the hippy-liberal-hypocritical types (see: al gore) might just be tooting a horn that would be better left alone, at least until it's better understood!

Vaclav Klaus has a pretty fair view of things. He recognises how whacky this has all been. Paint the earth white indeed..

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm

President of Czech Republic Calls Man-Made Global Warming a 'Myth' - Questions Gore's Sanity
Mon Feb 12 2007 09:10:09 ET

Czech president Vaclav Klaus has criticized the UN panel on global warming, claiming that it was a political authority without any scientific basis.

In an interview with "Hospodárské noviny", a Czech economics daily, Klaus answered a few questions:

Q: IPCC has released its report and you say that the global warming is a false myth. How did you get this idea, Mr President?

A: It's not my idea. Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the U.N. panel. IPCC is not a scientific institution: it's a political body, a sort of non-government organization of green flavor. It's neither a forum of neutral scientists nor a balanced group of scientists. These people are politicized scientists who arrive there with a one-sided opinion and a one-sided assignment. Also, it's an undignified slapstick that people don't wait for the full report in May 2007 but instead respond, in such a serious way, to the summary for policymakers where all the "but's" are scratched, removed, and replaced by oversimplified theses. This is clearly such an incredible failure of so many people, from journalists to politicians. If the European Commission is instantly going to buy such a trick, we have another very good reason to think that the countries themselves, not the Commission, should be deciding about similar issues.

Q: How do you explain that there is no other comparably senior statesman in Europe who would advocate this viewpoint? No one else has such strong opinions...

A: My opinions about this issue simply are strong. Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.

Q: But you're not a climate scientist. Do you have a sufficient knowledge and enough information?

A: Environmentalism as a metaphysical ideology and as a worldview has absolutely nothing to do with natural sciences or with the climate. Sadly, it has nothing to do with social sciences either. Still, it is becoming fashionable and this fact scares me. The second part of the sentence should be: we also have lots of reports, studies, and books of climatologists whose conclusions are diametrally opposite. Indeed, I never measure the thickness of ice in Antarctica. I really don't know how to do it and don't plan to learn it. However, as a scientifically oriented person, I know how to read science reports about these questions, for example about ice in Antarctica. I don't have to be a climate scientist myself to read them. And inside the papers I have read, the conclusions we may see in the media simply don't appear. But let me promise you something: this topic troubles me which is why I started to write an article about it last Christmas. The article expanded and became a book. In a couple of months, it will be published. One chapter out of seven will organize my opinions about the climate change. Environmentalism and green ideology is something very different from climate science. Various findings and screams of scientists are abused by this ideology.

Q: How do you explain that conservative media are skeptical while the left-wing media view the global warming as a done deal?

A: It is not quite exactly divided to the left-wingers and right-wingers. Nevertheless it's obvious that environmentalism is a new incarnation of modern leftism.

Q: If you look at all these things, even if you were right ...

A: ...I am right...

Q: Isn't there enough empirical evidence and facts we can see with our eyes that imply that Man is demolishing the planet and himself?

A: It

You sheep. So your mentally retarded local government pisses everyone in the city off, then blames it on this guy for putting up signs that looked so much like bombs that the bomb squad doesn't thing to use anything more protective than nitrile gloves to handle them see: http://www.drudgereport.com/boston.jpg ?? And you're blaming the guy from Turner? Hope you like the reich.

Sieg Heil

Idiot

The funny thing is, for a few weeks now, Adult Swim has been talking in their bumps about having no idea how to promote the upcoming ATHF movie.

Well, they certainly solved that problem, didn't they? I don't think they intentionally tried to create a scare, but man oh man, you can't buy publicity like this.

As of this moment, the Drudge Report main page has an image of Err flying the bird.

Brit Hume said "Meatwad".

If I had actually been watching TV live when this story broke, I think I actually might have passed out from laughing.

Sure, you can make money from it (PerezHilton), but you'll never have any credibility as a real journalist.

I have two words for you sir, Matt Drudge.

Sure, corrupt politicians and mainstream media bigwigs may hate him, but he has credibility as a journalist with everyone else.

LK

Muwahahahahaha... Tell that to Mogadishu. Tell that to Beirut. Tell that to Baghdad, Paris, and Amsterdam. Tell that to Banda Aceh. Tell that to Indonesia. And oh yeah... remember to tell your grandkids when they get drafted to fight for Christendom, as it were. I'm sorry, but they will NOT be enforcing any kind of Sharia on this Redheaded Rebel.

And I'm allergic to bees, so my chances are pretty good. Especially since I'm 10 miles from Tijuana.

I don't watch Faux News... I read Das Interwebs... :P Where the hell did they come up with that anyways? A few of my favorites:

http://www.drudgereport.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
http://news.google.com/
http://www.haaretz.com/
http://www.msnbc.com/
http://thehill.com/
http://www.iht.com/
http://my.yahoo.com/ - of course, customized for worldwide RSS.


Grow up and open your eyes to the world reality. Not just the one you see in your four walls. Try working with some people from different parts of the world. Especially men from the worker caste in India that don't know anything about how to work with Females. One peed all over the bathroom IN OUR OFFICE, because the young janitorial Mexican girl knocked on the door while he was taking a leak. He was offended, so he whizzed all over all of the porcelain. Oh, and he was Muslim too... he would accost any woman he saw wearing a crucifix... and since we have a lot of Filipinas here, it was awful. Needless to say, it STILL took us 2 months of protesting to get HR to do something about him. I particularly enjoyed bringing in bacon and egg muffin sammies and eating them right in front of him. Oh, did I mention that he was in the cube next to me.. this is how I know all this.

My favorite foreigners that I've ever worked were with practically brothers... we even shared an office. One was a Christian Iranian, the other a Sunni Iraqi, and they surfed (in the ocean) together daily. I miss them both so much... and they treated HUMANS with a dignity and respect I've never seen since. Sad. I learned a lot from them.

It's not the terrorism I worry about, it's the FORCED IMPOSITION of Sharia on societies that are too vulnerable to know better. Women are being beaten in the public square now in Banda Aceh, and no one cares... the UN let them take it over... and now, they are beaten to death for meeting with a man in public. FUCK THAT SHIT maynard. FUCK IT ALL... I will give MY rotten ass life to make sure that NO ONE must suffer under such injustice. *sigh* Even you. Especially you... too damned ignorant to know better.. either that, or you're blinded by decades of such imposition already.

it just seems like you are more concerned about diffusing the appearance of vote fraud by the Republicans than you are about the major flaws in Diebold's machines

No, I'm concerned about the flaws in their machines being used as an unassailable excuse for insisting that systematic election fraud is taking place, and tired of hearing that from one particular camp without anything concrete to go on. The prospects for either party to hack these machines is just as strong. But the tone here (meaning, in this venue, but also across much of the blogosphere, etc) is built on the premise that this is already some established, ongoing, vast conspiracy, leaning one particular way. Dropping these and similar machines (or adding another layer) is the only way take away the steam with which the kookier people are powering many of their rants.

The news today (um, OK, it's Drudge, but let's assume he's actually quoting someone who's not simply making this up): A Tennessee princt has managed to have a dozen voting machine activation cards stolen. This means that anyone with the right hardware could set them up to allow multiple votes. The flaw here? Absurdly inept control of the voting equipment. It's like losing a box of blank paper ballots. Now: care to guess where the blog-o-spin is going to take this, without any evidence of who has the cards?

you so strongly support the Republicans that you would be willing to overlook vote fraud on their part. That's not true, is it?

No.

If it were conclusively proven that Republicans were stealing votes, you would condemn them for it, right?

Yes. And then some. Just like I get spitting mad at activists registering hundreds of dead people to vote, or walking into every precinct in a couty to vote multiple times. Whatever shortcomings we have to overcome with one device or another as a voting tool, I'm actually far more concerned about entire states essentially not caring if the person who's walking in to vote even IS that person, or whether it's their 10th stop that day. Where's the frothing-at-the-mouth reaction to thatstuff, which has been going on for DECADES? Just aiming for a little perspective, here.

That initial chat exchange was promulgated by the pages as a joke, a prank. They set the guy up and egged him on. http://www.drudgereport.com/page.htm

So, the page was 18, not a minor, plus they set him up. Scandals inside of scandals here. I think all involved are retarded deluxe, but I am not seeing many crimes now, just stupidity.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt talks about a service which can give the probability of the accuracy of statements made by politicians, among other things.

GORE: CIGARETTE SMOKING 'SIGNIFICANT' CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL WARMING
Fri Sep 29 2006 09:04:05 ET

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned hundreds of U.N. diplomats and staff on Thursday evening about the perils of climate change, claiming: Cigarette smoking is a "significant contributor to global warming!"

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash6.htm http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/9/28/19443 4.shtml

Elton John helps raise money for Gore
September 20, 2000
Web posted at: 9:40 AM EDT (1340 GMT)

ATHERTON, Calif. (Reuters) - Flamboyant rock star Elton John, making his first foray into American politics after three decades of performing in the United States, endorsed Vice President Al Gore at a ritzy Silicon Valley fund-raiser.

John, the entertainer at a $10,000-a-plate dinner Tuesday, began his set with "Your Song." But before his next number, he showed his political stripes to the business leaders of America's technological mecca...

The fund-raiser, at the home of Novell Corp. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, raised $3.25 million for the Democratic National Committee...

http://edition.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/09 /20/campaign.gore.john.reut/

Where in the fuck were you people during the Clinton administration?

Seriously, although Bush's "Free Speech Zones" are anathema to our constitution, the last guy wasn't any better.

LK

drudgereports
headline states

In its quest to 'organize the world's information,' GOOGLE now wants to keep track of your credit card number and where you live...

I Personally welcome our new overlords.

In other words,
if you can't trust Google who can you trust.
It is not the Media we trust.
But I can understand why the Media want the
new Internet printing press broken, so they
control all the information we get.

The Media spin on Net Integrity has the same
goal, to make us slaves of the Media Filters.

Ewww, talk about a misleading headline by luddites, Matt Drudge is a hypocrite and should be banned for continually misleading the public with these types of technically incompetent news headlines. This guy is famous for bias and this just proves the mentality or lack there of. I wish people would see through these blattering mouthpieces.

http://www.drudgereport.com/

"Swedish Police Shut Down worlds largest file sharing company..."

http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3955&date=20 060531

I just relized by writing about this, I've provided free advertising to his site. OOPS

I got it right away. I think this should join the Slashdot meme family. It's obnoxious enough.

See this if you still don't get it.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3tc.htm

Shove it TripMaster. Who's your boogey man now!!!????

HA HA!!

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash8.htm

Rupert Murdoch has agreed to host a political fundraiser for Hillary Clinton this summer!

Murdoch's surprise decision to raise money for Clinton in July, on behalf of NEWS CORP., parent company of FOXNEWS and the NEW YORK POST, underlines a dramatic turn of relations between Murdoch and Clinton, who in 1998 coined the phrase "vast rightwing conspiracy" to denounce critics of her husband.

The move by Murdoch is believed to reflected his views of her as a senator, rather than as a presidential candidate in 2008.

Last week, Clinton surprised Washington and media watchers by attending a FOX NEWS anniversary party, where she toasted Murdoch.

Political powerbroker and studio head Harvey Weinstein is said to have convinced Hillary that Murdoch could be a friend, not a foe, in her ongoing political maneuvers.

Ignored? It's front page on the drudge report.

http://www.drudgereport.com/

Voting machines should print human-readable paper ballots, verifiable by the voter, that can also be counted by machine, and those ballots should be put in a locked metal box and then counted under supervision of all the major political parties to produce the official tallies.

I'm quite confident this would not work. After all, in 2004, the DNC/Kerry-Edwards campaign put out a playbook for operatives which suggested "pre-emptive" accusations of voter intimidation even when there is no evidence of such behavior.

Something tells me that allowing them to supervise the counting of the ballots any more than they already do (party operative types are always involved in working the polling stations in some way or another) will not result in any cleaner elections. In fact, I can almost promise you things will only get worse.

Accoona was also featured on the Drudge Report over the weekend. According to EE Times, Accoona recently held a press conference to announce their enhanced search engine. It looks like they are in the midst of a major marketing campaign.

Freed from accountability for their actions, some players seek to experiment with the more annoying sides of their online identities, becoming in-game griefers or forum trolls.

Sometimes habits picked up online leak out into offline life. This can include troll-like behavior, but is certainly not limited to trolling.

A case in point: in many online forums, people express themselves in ways much more vulgar than they ever would in real life. People gradually adopt expressions like "bitch", "cunt", (and so on) which they would never say out loud.

Or, at least, these people think they would never say these phrases out loud. But quite a lot of the process of word choice is performed at an unconscious mind, so before you know it, you can end up with Senior White House Correspondents accidentally using expressions like sloppy seconds.

Amazing what a difference a few years makes, eh?

Remember back in 2000, when the big rumor (broken by the Great Drudge) was that Disney was gonna buy Apple?

Personally, I think Sony is going to buy Sun, so they can get into the thin client business. That's the real wave of the future.

You Amuricans still have an unfiltered Internet (except that you might not write "anal" or "Lolita" on MSN Spaces, just like the Chinese may not write "democracy" or "freedom on MSN Spaces)

Corporations can choose to block what they choose - its called a free market. You can write it, you just won't get results. Deal with it.

but it really was the Bush administration who initiated the SURVEILLANCE trend, after the unfortunate little intermezzo in New York in 2001.

No, it started with Carter back in the 70's http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543688/p osts. And then Clinton later instated similar laws allowing not only wiretaps but physical search and seizure http://www.drudgereport.com/flash8.htm.

-everphilski-