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  • Google, Take Down Your #KILLALLMEN YouTube

    01/25/2017 2:20:44 PM PST · by Sean_Anthony · 10 replies
    CANADA FREE PRESS ^ | 01/25/17 | Judi McLeod
    Remove the Jenny McDermott call for death and kill off from the worldwide ‘Net the #KILLALLMEN meme today before someone acts on her evil words The buck for the #KILLALLMEN Internet video stops at Google, owner of YouTube. Self-described “Secular Humanist”, “trans loving Feminist”, “YouTube Vlogger”, “Animal Lover”, “Socialism Fan”. “BlackLivesMatter supporter”, 33-year-old Jenny McDermott, reportedly a native of San Diego, openly calls for the death of male babies and men on the Internet.
  • Founder Of World Star Hip Hop Website "Q" Dies At Age 43 Of Heart Attack!

    01/25/2017 1:17:20 PM PST · by Morgana · 12 replies
    TNN RAW 2 ^ | January 24, 2017 | TOMMY SOTOMAYOR
    Founder Of World Star Hip Hop Website "Q" Dies At Age 43 Of Heart Attack! (Tommy's commentary on the death of Q)
  • The SNL Writer Suspended For Her Barron Trump Tweet Just Got Offered A New Job

    01/24/2017 5:35:20 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 31 replies
    Good Magazine ^ | January 24, 2017 | Penn Collins
    Normally when a comedy writer creates a viral tweet, it’s a small success. But that certainly wasn’t the case on Friday when Katie Rich fired off a quickly-deleted tweet that didn’t just divide people among political lines – it seemed to split the world of comedy as well. Amid the ceremony and chatter taking place during Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Saturday Night Live writer tweeted....
  • FCC’s Pai Offers Plan for Gigabit Internet Speeds in Rural America

    01/24/2017 4:39:56 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 23 replies
    Inside Sources ^ | September 13, 2016 | Giuseppe Macri
    Federal Communications Commissioner Ajit Pai dropped his agenda Tuesday to speed up deployment and delivery of broadband internet in America’s typically underserved rural areas, laying out a plan to encourage gigabit speeds in some of the poorest parts of the country. The Republican commissioner outlined the major tenets of his plan during a speech at The Brandery, a Cincinnati-based startup accelerator, where he called for more center-right, market-based approaches than those typically sought by the FCC’s three-Democrat majority, including tax incentives for internet service providers (ISPs), entrepreneurs and a streamlined regulatory permitting process for wireless and broadband infrastructure. “The concept...
  • How data geeks could enable mass deportation

    01/23/2017 4:03:51 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 14 replies
    The Japan Times ^ | January 23, 2017 | Elaine Ou, Bloomberg
    <p>SAN FRANCISCO – Silicon Valley tech workers are worried that Palantir Technologies, a company co-founded by Donald Trump adviser Peter Thiel, could end up helping the president-elect crack down on immigrants based on their race, religion or national origin. They should also recognize the role that they — and the companies they work for — have played in making such a scenario possible.</p>
  • Trump’s inauguration broke live video streaming records

    01/23/2017 2:12:17 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 16 replies
    Tech Crunch ^ | January 23, 2017 | Sarah Perez
    Though some cried while others cheered, both sides tuned into to watch President Trump’s inauguration in sizable numbers – record-breaking numbers, in fact. The event has broken new ground, becoming the largest, single live news event that content delivery network Akamai has ever hosted, the company says, following an analysis of its live video data. According to Akamai, live video streaming of the inauguration peaked at 8.7 Tbps at 12:04 ET during the opening of President Trump’s speech, up from 7.9 Tbps at the start of the inaugural oath. This surpassed the previous record of 7.5 Tbps, which was achieved...
  • Free Republic Errors Now When Using Brave Browser

    01/22/2017 4:35:58 PM PST · by stayathomemom · 28 replies
    Me | 1 22 2017 | Me
    Since Free Republic has come back online, I can no longer access it using the Brave browser. The page loads, but as soon as my sidebar appears, the page errors and I get this message: The HTTP response body is transferred with Chunked-Encoding, but the terminating zero-length chunk was never sent when the connection is closed. Has anyone else experienced this and have a solution or an explanation?
  • VANITY-Cordcutter Advice on Roku 3

    01/22/2017 7:27:17 AM PST · by AbolishCSEU · 72 replies
    Looking for advice on finally ditching very expensive Direct TV with hundreds of channels I DON'T watch.
  • Tech Mahindra to hire more local people in US, says CEO CP Gurnani (India on the Trump train?)

    01/18/2017 3:54:30 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 6 replies
    The Financial Express ^ | January 18, 2017 | Staff
    Tech Mahindra will continue to invest in hiring more and more local people in the US as part of its efforts to augment competitiveness across locations, CEO CP Gurnani told a TV news channel on Wednesday. “Tech Mahindra is very conscious that not only the US, but the world is about localisation now,” Gurnani said in an interview to ET Now on the sidelines of the ongoing World Economic Forum in Davos. “Local skills have to be upgraded so that the products continue to be getting delivered,” he said. He was responding to queries on concerns about the US President-elect...
  • Computer Shopper Magazine (Blast from the past)

    01/18/2017 2:54:47 PM PST · by Rebelbase · 63 replies
    Google images ^ | 1.5 days before an error is ended | Rebelbase
    My brain stumbled back to the old days. Remember these? Countless hours going through the pages trying to find the best deal. And stacks of the things taking up space on the desk!
  • SAP to create 10,000 jobs in US, pending Trump tariff policies

    01/17/2017 5:53:44 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 11 replies
    CNBC ^ | January 17, 2017 | Karen Gilchrist, Digital Reporter
    Multinational software giant SAP SE has called on the incoming Trump administration to rethink any punitive tariffs and tax policies as it sets out to create 10,000 new jobs in the U.S. over the next year. The firm, which currently serves 25 industries across 190 countries, aims to significantly boost its business in the U.S. over the coming 13 months, chief executive Bill McDermott told CNBC's Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. However, he said that he was worried that added taxes and tariffs could be "problematic" for these goals. "We obviously don't want to get...
  • The Internet wants to give Chelsea Manning a hug

    01/15/2017 3:35:14 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 27 replies
    The Huffington Post ^ | January 15, 2017 | Evan Greer, internationally touring queer singer/songwriter, parent, and activist
    Chelsea Manning saw injustice and stood up for what’s right. Now, she’s serving a 35 year sentence in an all-male military prison. She’s been systematically abused by the U.S. government, held in conditions that the UN considers to be torture, and has attempted suicide twice during her 7 years behind bars. But now there’s hope. NBC reports that she is on President Obama’s “short list” for commutation. The news has sparked a groundswell of support for Chelsea online. Hundreds of thousands of people have already taken action to support her, but now the message is simpler than ever. But now...
  • Fake Scandal Fails to Take Down Trump [semi-satire]

    01/15/2017 10:24:07 AM PST · by John Semmens · 1 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 15 Jan 2017 | John Semmens
    A bogus dossier alleging that Donald Trump paid Russian prostitutes to urinate on a hotel bed in Moscow has not had the impact that Trump’s enemies had hoped. The scheme hatched by CNN came unraveled when the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper denied that the salacious document was prepared by any member of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Despite the lack of any evidence to support the mystery dossier’s claims, CNN went public with “news of” the “existence” of such a report hoping to insinuate enough dirt to damage the incoming administration while preserving its “journalistic integrity” by not actually...
  • 150,000 more TWITTER followers needed to reach 20,000,000 {RealDonaldTrump} [UPDATE: 100k]

    01/15/2017 3:18:49 AM PST · by Oz8509338511 · 32 replies
    Twitter: RealDonaldTrump ^ | RealDonaldTrump
    Twitter.com/RealDonaldTrump
  • 150,000 followers short of 20,000,000 (RealDonaldTrump)

    01/14/2017 1:56:42 PM PST · by Oz8509338511 · 26 replies
    Http://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump
  • DOJ Inspector General to Probe FBI [semi-satire]

    01/13/2017 6:15:33 PM PST · by John Semmens · 6 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 15 Jan 2017 | John Semmens
    Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced "an in-depth probe of the strange pre-election day behavior of FBI Director James Comey. Despite the Attorney General's clear wishes that there be no investigation or prosecution of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Comey, who is subordinate to the AG, took it upon himself to issue a public statement announcing a reopening of such an investigation barely a week before the election. This insubordination had the effect of undermining Mrs. Clinton's campaign." "Everyone thought the message had gotten through to Comey when the FBI was denied subpoena powers to compel testimony,"...
  • DOJ Inspector General to Investigate FBI’s Handling of Email Scandal

    01/13/2017 6:03:40 PM PST · by Sean_Anthony · 16 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 01/13/17 | ANDREW BENJAMIN
    Justice Department and all other Federal agencies must be purged of all political appointees - and their appointees. That, President Trump, is what Draining the Swamp really means! NY POST: “In a startling move, the Justice Department announced Thursday that it is looking into how the FBI handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server and whether FBI Director James Comey violated procedures by discussing the bureau’s findings before the presidential election.
  • Ex-Ambassador Sir Andrew Wood admits HE was diplomat who discussed Trump blackmail with McCain...

    01/13/2017 5:50:47 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 53 replies
    Finance Fastly ^ | January 13, 2017
    A previous British minister to Moscow has uncovered that he talked about corrupt affirmations against Donald Trump with one of the President Elect's most despised adversaries - who later took the notorious 'grimy dossier' to the leader of the FBI. The archive, which has opened up a profound discretionary emergency, was conveyed to FBI boss James Comey by Republican John McCain. Presently Sir Andrew Wood - British envoy to Moscow in the vicinity of 1995 and 2000 - has affirmed he met McCain, a blunt pundit of the President Elect, at a security meeting in Canada in November. The two...
  • Donald Trump declares Hillary Clinton ‘guilty as hell’ on Twitter

    01/13/2017 5:26:45 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 42 replies
    Nine News Australia ^ | January 14, 2017 | Staff
    US President-elect Donald Trump has reprised his election campaign attacks on Hillary Clinton, declaring her "guilty as hell" on social media and deriding her supporters' criticism of how the FBI handled an investigation into her emails. The US Justice Department announced yesterday it would investigate an FBI decision to launch an inquiry into Mrs Clinton's emails shortly before the November 8 election, a move she has blamed as a factor in her defeat. Mr Trump took to Twitter overnight to assert Mrs Clinton should have “never been allowed to run” for President of the United States....
  • Trump news conference sets worldwide social media afire

    01/11/2017 11:30:12 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 40 replies
    Reuters ^ | January 11, 2017 | Melissa Fares
    In his first news conference since the Nov. 8 election, President-elect Donald Trump set social media ablaze on Wednesday with remarks including harsh criticism of the press and a defense of his goal to improve ties with Russia. The session, held in the lobby of his Trump Tower headquarters in Manhattan, featured a number of viral moments, like an exchange with a reporter whom Trump accused of peddling "fake news." "I'm not going to give you a question," Trump told the journalist from CNN, which reported on Tuesday that the Republican president-elect had been briefed by U.S. intelligence agencies about...