Cody Taylor

Sen. Dianne Feinstein hopes to update President Barack Obama’s 8bn economic stimulus package so that ISPs can deter child pornography, copyright infringement, and other unlawful activity by way of “reasonable network management.” Clearly, a lobbyist whispering in Feinstein’s ear has taken Comcast’s famous lies even further into the realm of BS.

rememberclifford writes “A survey of about 3,000 people who were tagged in a “25 Random Things About Me” note on Facebook found that memes spread through social networks in a remarkably similar way as diseases do. A biologist who looked at the data says that “’25 Things’ authors can be seen as ‘contagious’ under what’s known as a ‘susceptible-infected-recovered’ model for the spread of disease,” with a propagation factor of 0.27 in this case. But like an infection, the whole thing died out as quickly as it exploded once the number of ‘victims’ — people who were willing to write 25 things about themselves — was depleted.” The ’25 Things’ meme was at least as annoying as a light flu.

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