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Jailed gamer Justin Carter concussed, black eyed, left nude behind bars.

Paul Lawrance
Activist Post

The Texas teen whose sarcastic comment over Facebook led to his arrest has been the recipient of beatings and other cruel punishment behind bars, according to what his father Jack told NPR.

Teenager Arrested for Sarcastic Comment Over Online Video Game

“Without getting into the really nasty details, he’s had concussions, black eyes, moved four times from base for his own protection,” said Justin’s father.

He’s been put in solitary confinement, nude, for days on end because he’s depressed. All of this is extremely traumatic to this kid. This is a horrible experience.

A woman in Canada saw Justin's comment – a comment which has been described as being sarcastic by Justin and his father – and gave a tip to police.

In February, detectives searched his home and seized his computer.

Court documents indicate Carter replied with: “I think Ima shoot up a kindergarten / And watch the blood of the innocent rain down/ And eat the beating heart of one of them,” NPR reports.

The comment was in response to something a fellow League of Legends player said during an in-game dispute they had.


It has been reported that Justin followed his comments with ’lol’ and ‘jk’. (Laughing out loud and just kidding).

This lead to a Grand Jury indictment of a terroristic threat charge in April placing him in Comal County, TX jail.

Carter's Bail has been set at $500,000 dollars.

Carter's attorney, who in the past has represented everyone from murders to rapists, says he has never seen a bond at the price of Justin Carter's.

A petition titled ‘Release My Son Justin Carter – In Jail For A Facebook Comment’ started by Justin’s parents has 40,000 signatures.

A post on the petition's website from the teen's mother Jennifer Carter reads,

My son, Justin Carter, was arrested on February 14, 2013 (yes, Valentine’s Day) because of a sarcastic comment he posted on Facebook about a computer game which was then taken out of context by a complete stranger! Please sign my petition to help release my son, Justin.

Justin has become a victim of the war on terror. Anti-terror laws have put an innocent teenager behind bars for months without a trial.

This should alarm everyone speaking freely through a social media platform.

A new hearing has been set for July 16 to bring up issues of his abuse and to try to get his bond lowered so Carter can go home to await trial.

Listen to NPR’s interview with Jack Carter here.

Paul Lawrance writes for Eyes Open Report, where this article first appeared. 

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If I were to write a children’s book about derailing on the internet it would totally have whales in it

omg. *standing ovation for the second panel*

Suppose that, at a given moment, a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price. In a sensible world, everybody concerned in the manufacturing of pins would take to working four hours instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before. But in the actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked. In this way, it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all round instead of being a universal source of happiness. Can anything more insane be imagined?

– Bertrand Russell, “In Praise of Idleness,” 1935

Even though I mentioned in my first Charles Bukowski adaptation that his material is rarely motivational or joyful, he does have some very uplifting poems – and Roll the Dice is among the best. Listen here to a great reading of the poem by Tom O’Bedlam. Another one of Bukowski’s most triumphant pieces is The Laughing Heart (submitted by many of you), which you can hear in this great video read by Tom Waits.

As you can tell, I’m a big Game of Thrones fan (the TV show, I have’t read the novels). I’m not normally a huge fantasy fanboy but I got caught up in the hype (as did the whole world it seems) and have been thoroughly enjoying the series. The idea for this comic came to me a few weeks ago, when I was still reeling from the events of the latest season.

- Thanks to Deep, Kushman and Brendan for submitting the poem.
- RELATED COMICS: Air and light and time and space, Ask yourself, Nature loves courage.

It's like a crypto-currency medieval casino.

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Habitat: reefs throughout the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean as well as the south eastern Atlantic Ocean
Status: No Conservation Concerns

Squee! This juvenile Yellow Boxfish (Ostracion cubicus) is just a little cube-shaped slice of cuteness. When fully grown, these guys reach lengths of 45 cm. Their coloration is completely different – older adults are somewhat of an icky olive green color with blue-ish spots which is nowhere near as fun as the younger, brighter version. Plus… they’re SO tiny! Can you even spot the little guy in the photo below?

Let me help you out – he’s right here:

This one is probably only about 4 cm long… that’s a standard baby yellow boxfish for ya. They feed mainly on algae but will go for some sponges, crustaceans and mollusks when in the mood. Oh, and here’s a fun fish fact for you: In 2006, Mercedes-Benz unveiled their Bionic concept car - which was inspired by the box fish’s cool shape.

A word of caution for those that wish to interact with a yellow boxfish: LiveAquaria lists the temperament of these fish as “semi-aggressive” so… ya…. watch out for these guys. They look deadly…? I don’t know, I mean what classifies a fish as being, say, friendly? Does it go right up to you and shake your hand? “Ay! G’day mate! Good to see ya!”

My imaginary fish are all Australian, go figure.

Be sure to watch this video, too, if you’re the kind of person who likes shy, tiny boxfish making eyes at the camera. Don’t all click play at once!

The post Yellow Boxfish: Who Knew Cubes Could Be So Cute? appeared first on The Featured Creature.

Last day for the new project! Thanks, geeks!

If, like me, you’re unsettled by the recent government(s) snooping you are probably looking for ways to secure your on-line activities. One obvious way is to use SSL/TLS whenever possible. If you use Firefox or Chrome, HTTPS Everywhere can help.

Sadly, even if you believe in the security of SSL/TLS, there is, for most sites, a single point of failure. When the client and server negotiate to agree on an encryption key, the negotiation is encrypted by the site’s static key. That means that if the key is later broken or exposed and, like the NSA, you have saved HTTPS sessions, you can retroactively decrypt them all.

What’s needed is perfect forward secrecy (PFS). That means that if one session is decrypted, the others are still safe. For SSL/TLS, perfect forward secrecy requires you to change the key used to encrypt the session negotiation for each session. All of this is beautifully explained by Michael Horowitz over at Computer World. Because he goes into reasonable detail, the article is a bit long but well worth reading. I urge you to take the time to give it a look.

Netcraft also has an excellent article on PFS that covers much of the same material and gives more information on the support that various browsers provide for it. It explains why some browsers, such as Safari, which support PFS nevertheless fail to apply it for some sites. Definitely worth reading.

As users, of course, there is little we can do except encourage the sites we use to implement it. Currently Google and a few smaller sites do this but most do not. That’s probably because you get a performance hit when you implement perfect forward secrecy. One happy note for the paranoid among us is that DuckDuckGo is now using PFS with all the major browsers.

Those of us who are technologits are in a position to make things better. Whenever we can, we should push to use SSL/TLS with PFS on our Web sites. That may mean making a case to management or beefing up the server if needed. Not easy, of course, but well worth it if it helps secure the Web and keep the Nosy Parkers at bay.

wheredidthesodago é um subreddit dedicado a tirar de contexto infomerciais.

Simples e engraçado.

This is the clasiest 8-bit movie remake you'll ever see.

Easily the geekeist event in British royal history.

The Spanish foreign minister says Spain and other European countries were told that US whistleblower Edward Snowden was on board the Bolivian president's plane earlier this week. Evo Morales' plane was grounded for 13 hours in Austria after being banned from European airspace. Who's responsible? No one's saying. Yet. [BBC News]

"Europe broke all the rules of the game," Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said shortly after arriving at the Cochabamba airport. "We're here to tell President Evo Morales that he can count on us. Whoever picks a fight with Bolivia, picks a fight with Venezuela." [Reuters]

South American leaders are furious over the plane grounding incident, which they believe was the work of US government officials. "The presidents of Argentina, Ecuador, Suriname, Venezuela and Uruguay joined Morales in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba late Thursday to address the diplomatic row. Morales used the gathering to warn that he would close the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia if necessary." [NYT]

Morales isn't messing around: "United we will defeat American imperialism. We met with the leaders of my party and they asked us for several measures and if necessary, we will close the embassy of the United States," Morales said in the city where he started his political career as a leader of coca leaf farmers. "We do not need the embassy of the United States." [AP]

The New York Times, on Snowden’s résumé: he was no common sysadmin, he was a skilled "ethical hacker." It "provides a new picture of how his skills and responsibilities expanded while he worked as an intelligence contractor. Although federal officials offered only a vague description of him as a “systems administrator,” the résumé suggests that he had transformed himself into the kind of cybersecurity expert the N.S.A. is desperate to recruit, making his decision to release the documents even more embarrassing to the agency."

"Russians are a little bemused at all that fuss over surveillance. Many believe that the authorities can read their mail at will, listen in on their calls and sprinkle bugs around as they please. 'Wiretapping is so common, so this is not news,' said Alina Gorchakova, a 48-year-old account manager who stopped to chat on a city street." [Washington Post]

Iceland is still a possible option for Snowden's escape, and one longtime Wikileaks ally is working to make that happen. [Forbes]

Pra quem passou o ano de 2013 todo em coma e não sabe que o vídeo original de Dumb Ways to Die é uma campanha pro metrô da Austrália, pelo amor de deus assiste o vídeo AQUI primeiro que é sensacional. Ele mostra formas estúpidas de morrer, incluindo andar nos trilhos do metrô etc.

Agora resolveram fazer uma paródia da música mostrando formas idiotas de morrer… maaaaaaaaaaas… NO RIO DE JANEIRO. Simmmmm, os caras pegaram pesado na crítica social recheada de deboche e mostraram algumas formas bem idiotas de se morrer na Cidade Maravilhosa. Tem surf no trem, bueiros explosivos, balas perdidas e outras coisas comuns idiotas que poderiam te matar no Rio.

Aconselho a quem é do Rio de Janeiro e se ofende fácil com essas coisas, que nem assista o vídeo. Ou então assista e fique reclamando nos comentários do blog ali em baixo, sei lá, depende o tipo de chato que você é.

Polêmicas a parte, o vídeo ficou muito bom, sério mesmo.

Seeing this xkcd, I chuckled. Then I gave it a second… and realized that I am not this sort of geek. I’m not talking about exercise specifically, though that’s also true (I haven’t been able to “unlock” anything when it comes to exercise.) I mean that I have no particular interest in “leveling up”, in the classic RPG sense, or translated to most other activities. 

In fact, I’ve come to the realization that I may not be a geek at all. Perhaps it’s time to admit that what I really am is an art student with a for loop.

Douglas Engelbart, pioneiro da computação e um dos responsáveis pela criação do primeiro mouse, faleceu na última terça-feira, 2 de julho, aos 88 anos.

A morte foi confirmada por sua filha Christina Engelbart através da lista de email “Pessoas Interessantes”, mantida pelo professor de ciência da computação Dave Farber, da Carnegie Mellon:

Estou muito sentida ao informar que meu pai faleceu calmamente em casa enquanto dormia durante a noite passada. Sua saúde vinha enfraquecendo ultimamente, e piorou durante o final-de-semana.

Ele foi um dos envolvidos no desenvolvimento da ARPANET, que veio a dar origem a atual internet. Em 1968 apresentou a “mãe de todas as demonstrações” no Instituto de Pesquisas de Stanford (SRI), em Menlo Park, na Califórnia. Ali já se via o ancestral do mouse que você está acostumado a utilizar, em uma estação de trabalho batizada de NLS.

Esse trabalho, considerado seu mais importante, começou em 1959, quando desenvolveu tecnologias-chave que são utilizadas até hoje, incluindo o hipertexto (os links que utilizamos até hoje), a tela compartilhada, múltiplas janelas e video-conferência.

O vídeo abaixo mostra a famosa apresentação. A parte boa começa aos 4:45 e é impressionante ver o cursor em uma tela preto e branco anos antes da existência até mesmo do DOS.

Fonte: AllThingsD.

‘Nos últimos 100 anos, brinquedos inspiraram garotos a serem pensadores, inventores e construtores. Nossas meninas merecem mais."

As menininhas aparecem usando ferramentas para criar seus próprios brinquedos: Pregando sapatilhas no skate para andar melhor, parafusando um carrinho do lado da bicicleta para colocar o ursinho. Elas correm até o corredor cor-de-rosa, usando roupas que dizem “Mais do que uma princesa" “Arrebentando o corredor cor-de-rosa com brinquedos para futuras engenheiras".

Last year, Leslie James Pickering, a bookstore owner and activist in Buffalo, New York, noticed something unusual in his mail, a confidential note reminding postal employees to copy all of his mail before delivering them.

The note was accidentally slipped into his mail deliveries and Pickering has just stumbled upon a little known postal spying program:

As the world focuses on the high-tech spying of the National Security Agency, the misplaced card offers a rare glimpse inside the seemingly low-tech but prevalent snooping of the United States Postal Service.

Mr. Pickering was targeted by a longtime surveillance system called mail covers, a forerunner of a vastly more expansive effort, the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces last year. It is not known how long the government saves the images.

Ron Nixon of The New York Times reports: Link

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Toothpaste For Dinner

Hawk moths may be jamming bat sonar signals by rubbing their genitals.

The behaviour, reported in Biology Letters on 3 July, creates an ultrasonic noise that could be used to scare off an attacking bat and to jam the bat's sonar.

By: Kadhim Shubber, Edited by: Nate Lanxon

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A moda da barba e do bigode continua em um ciclo incessante de idas e vindas. Muito mais do que modismos, estes visuais sempre pesaram consideravelmente na identidade social do homem, com suas diferentes inserções e significados com o passar do tempo

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