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This statement by Google’s CEO is quite indicative of how they really feel about your personal information.
Yesterday, the web was buzzing with commentary about Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s dangerous, dismissive response to concerns about search engine users’ privacy. When asked during an interview for CNBC’s recent “Inside the Mind of Google” special about whether users [...]

http://consumerist.com/5395978/reader-paid-my-t+mobile-bill-saw-some-boobs

An inside look at what goes in to repairing a major cable cut.

We were offline for a while because our new ISP gave us a DSL modem that blocked all port 80 requests. We had to switch away from AT&T after 10 years because they started using Reno as a test market for charging $1 per GB of transfer (upload + download).

It just came across NANOG that AT&T is filtering (on DSL accounts) content. The only one I’m aware of at this writing is 4chan. I won’t disagree that some questionable stuff comes across there, but I do object to AT&T deciding what content is allowed over their services. Don’t like 4chan? Then don’t go there. [...]

I laughed at this. Maybe I’m just easily amused.
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Not content to let the Fisher Plaza fire outdo it, the 151 Front Street carrier hotel in Toronto is on fire. As of this writing, whatever happened is apparently with 17 units and being called a 2-alarm fire:
(http://www.toronto.ca/fire/cadinfo/livecad.htm)
Rumor was that Peer1’s suite is on fire, and this has been confirmed as “an issue” with [...]