If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillance

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• If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillance
• Mosaic Photography
• Trans Pacific Partnership meeting switched from Vancouver to Ottawa, ducking critics
• Goldman Sachs demands that Google "unsend" a fatfingered email to avoid "reputational damage"
• R-KADE-R: Handbuilt, wooden portable arcade console
• Colorado's booming legal weed economy
• Comcast's lobbyists are pretty damned chummy with top antitrust feds
• ISPs sue UK spies over hack-attacks
• Chinese factory 3D prints 10 houses' worth of slabs in one day
• JC Penney wins Supreme Court victory, may sacrifice employees to Cthulhu.
• Microsoft non-pologizes for misleading judge, seizing No-IP's DNS
• Map: Which states' governors are climate deniers?
• How to shoot a target 500 yards away using Android goggles wirelessly connected to a rifle
• Mitch O'Connell and Dr. Monkey’s Retro Scans
• Seven things you should know about Tor
• International gaming tournament won't let women compete
• Spooky stereoscopic GIFs: 'Monsters, Villains, Heroes and Victims'
• Trendwatch: fat camp for obese pets
• To prep for Better Call Saul, AMC announces Breaking Bad marathon with new 'extras'
• US Navy appoints first female four-star Admiral in its 238-year history
• Pot, guns, and fun at libertarian Porcupine Fest in the mountains
• Facebook COO: "Facebook cannot control emotions of users"
• Obama to expand discrimination protections to transgender workers
• How America's mental health system fails to protect you from murderers like this man
• Broadcaster claims that Star Trek, Rawhide and Wagon Train are "community affairs programming"
• Steamrollered: when librarians are told to censor kids' books
• Humble Dynamite Bundle: name your price for $258 worth of comics
• Blogging History: Stross's Neptune's Brood; Book planters; Dweeb is the new black

If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillance Posted: 03 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT America's National Security Agency gathers unfathomable mountains of Internet communications from fiber optic taps and other means, but it says it only retains and searches the communications of "targeted" individuals who've done something suspicious. Guess what? If you read Boing Boing, you've been targeted. Cory Doctorow digs into Xkeyscore and the NSA's deep packet inspection rules. Read the rest

Mosaic Photography Posted: 27 Jun 2014 07:49 PM PDT John Maushammer recently visited a friend's recording studio and was awestruck by his collection of vintage electric guitars. "They were so varied, so beautiful, but a lot of the beauty came from the minute cracks and scratches they'd accumulated from decades of love. A simple snapshot wasn't going to show all that, so I made a gorgeous 100 megapixel mosaic that I can print at larger-than-life size. I'll share a few tricks I learned, and you can use this technique to get super-detailed pictures of other medium-sized objects." Read the rest

Trans Pacific Partnership meeting switched from Vancouver to Ottawa, ducking critics Posted: 02 Jul 2014 11:41 PM PDT What could make the secretive Trans Pacific Partnership process even less legit? Moving it at the last minute, under cover of darkness, from Vancouver to Ottawa, in order to avoid critics of the treaty and how it is being negotiated. The TPP is a secretive treaty that allows corporations to sue governments that enact environmental, health and governmental regulations that interfere with their profits. It also calls for vastly expanded Internet spying and censorship in the name of protecting copyright. Only trade negotiators and corporate lobbyists are allowed to see the drafts of the agreement (though plenty of these drafts have leaked) -- often times, members of Congress and Parliament are denied access to them, even though the agreement will set out legal obligations that these elected officials will be expected to meet. Read the rest

Goldman Sachs demands that Google "unsend" a fatfingered email to avoid "reputational damage" Posted: 02 Jul 2014 06:06 PM PDT Someone at Goldman Sachs fatfingered an email and sent confidential data out to the wrong person. Read the rest

R-KADE-R: Handbuilt, wooden portable arcade console Posted: 02 Jul 2014 01:42 AM PDT Love Hulten's R-KAID-R is a €2500, hand-build portable wooden arcade console that emulates Neo Geo, Atari 2800, Nintendo, Sega Genesis, and PlayStation 1. Read the rest

Colorado's booming legal weed economy Posted: 02 Jul 2014 05:52 PM PDT It's not just the $10M in taxes the state's earned in four months -- it's also the $12-40M in law enforcement savings from not busting and imprisoning pot smokers. Read the rest

Comcast's lobbyists are pretty damned chummy with top antitrust feds Posted: 02 Jul 2014 01:33 AM PDT A month before Comcast's announcement of a $45B takeover of rival Time-Warner, Comcast's top lobbyist invited the US government's top antitrust regulators to share the company's VIP box at the Sochi Olympics. Read the rest

ISPs sue UK spies over hack-attacks Posted: 02 Jul 2014 05:45 PM PDT ISPs in US, UK, Netherlands and South Korea are suing the UK spy agency GCHQ over its illegal attacks on their networks in the course of conducting surveillance. Read the rest

Chinese factory 3D prints 10 houses' worth of slabs in one day Posted: 02 Jul 2014 06:24 PM PDT A Chinese R&D shop has 3D printed 10 buildings' worth of prefab slabs using enormous fused deposition modelling printers that extrude concrete. Read the rest

JC Penney wins Supreme Court victory, may sacrifice employees to Cthulhu. Posted: 02 Jul 2014 06:11 PM PDT You knew this was coming, right? Read the rest

Microsoft non-pologizes for misleading judge, seizing No-IP's DNS Posted: 02 Jul 2014 01:22 AM PDT Yesterday, Microsoft convinced a judge to let it take over No-IP's DNS service, shutting down name service for many websites, in order to stop a malware attack. Today, the company fake-pologized. Read the rest

Map: Which states' governors are climate deniers? Posted: 02 Jul 2014 05:35 PM PDT Thinking of moving and wondering whether your new state's chief executive is a climate-denier? Read the rest

How to shoot a target 500 yards away using Android goggles wirelessly connected to a rifle Posted: 02 Jul 2014 05:03 PM PDT Would you like to shoot a plastic soda bottle, filled with explosives, from a distance of 500 yards without looking at the bottle? These guys have you covered.

Mitch O'Connell and Dr. Monkey’s Retro Scans Posted: 02 Jul 2014 04:36 PM PDT This week in Gweek Dean and I spoke with artist Mitch O'Connell about his vast photo collection of old Chicago movie theaters, delightfully dirty old Times Square, and his backyard tower of impaled baby dolls. Dean also shares a recent web find, and Mark recommends a condensed self-help book app. Brought to you by Random House Audio (click here for free downloads!) and by Stamps.com (click here for a special $110 offer!) Read the rest This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Seven things you should know about Tor Posted: 02 Jul 2014 01:09 AM PDT Tor (The Onion Router) is a military-grade, secure tool for increasing the privacy and anonymity of your communications; but it's been the subject of plenty of fear, uncertainty and doubt. Read the rest

International gaming tournament won't let women compete Posted: 02 Jul 2014 02:57 PM PDT The International e-Sports Federation apparently thinks gaming can only become a "legitimate" sport by separating men from women. Read the rest

Spooky stereoscopic GIFs: 'Monsters, Villains, Heroes and Victims' Posted: 02 Jul 2014 02:43 PM PDT A gorgeously retro-spooky series of stereoscopic GIFs from The Saline Project: "Monsters, Villains, Heroes, and Victims (MVHV)." Read the rest

Trendwatch: fat camp for obese pets Posted: 02 Jul 2014 02:11 PM PDT "Growing rates of obesity in pets have led to the emergence of fat farms offering 'pawlates,' 'doga' and 'Barko Polo,' doggie versions of Pilates, yoga and Marco Polo to help slim down man's best friend." Read the rest

To prep for Better Call Saul, AMC announces Breaking Bad marathon with new 'extras' Posted: 02 Jul 2014 01:57 PM PDT The debut of 'Better Call Saul,' the 'Breaking Bad' spinoff show starring Bob Odenkirk, has been delayed until early 2015. The new series will span time before, during, and after the events depicted in 'Breaking Bad.' Read the rest

US Navy appoints first female four-star Admiral in its 238-year history Posted: 02 Jul 2014 01:39 PM PDT Reuters Vice Admiral Michelle Janine Howard this week became the first female four-star Admiral in the 238-year history of the United States Navy. Read the rest

Pot, guns, and fun at libertarian Porcupine Fest in the mountains Posted: 02 Jul 2014 01:32 PM PDT Evenings at the Porcupine Festival include "a drum circle, plumes of marijuana smoke, shared bottles of whiskey and spirited debate." Read the rest

Facebook COO: "Facebook cannot control emotions of users" Posted: 02 Jul 2014 12:51 PM PDT Speaking to India's NDTV during a visit to the country, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said Facebook takes user privacy seriously, and blames the backlash over a recent psychology experiment on sloppy communication. Read the rest

Obama to expand discrimination protections to transgender workers Posted: 02 Jul 2014 12:47 PM PDT [REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque] The White House is preparing an executive order that will provide federal workers who are transgender formal protection from discrimination in the workplace, President Barack Obama announced this week. Read the rest

How America's mental health system fails to protect you from murderers like this man Posted: 02 Jul 2014 12:20 PM PDT A multi-part investigation on how an increasingly broken mental health care system in the U.S. fails to protect the public from people too sick to not be institutionalized. People like convicted killer Bruce Williams. Read the rest

Broadcaster claims that Star Trek, Rawhide and Wagon Train are "community affairs programming" Posted: 02 Jul 2014 01:02 AM PDT The FCC let KJWP move from Wyoming to Delaware on the condition that it broadcast "community affairs programming" for its new home in Wilmington. Read the rest

Steamrollered: when librarians are told to censor kids' books Posted: 02 Jul 2014 09:37 AM PDT Of all the professional challenges librarians face, there's nothing quite like a demand to remove a book. Sandy Bradley discovered that when it comes to children's literature, there's no telling what kind of book will arouse controversy. Boing Boing presents a story from Long Overdue Library Book. Read the rest

Humble Dynamite Bundle: name your price for $258 worth of comics Posted: 02 Jul 2014 12:51 AM PDT The Humble Bundle Dynamite 10th Anniversary edition features $258 worth of comics on a name-your-price basis, and supports charities including the indispensable Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Read the rest

Blogging History: Stross's Neptune's Brood; Book planters; Dweeb is the new black Posted: 02 Jul 2014 01:58 AM PDT One year ago today Stross's Neptune's Brood: science fictional companion to Graeber's Debt Neptune's Brood is Charlie Stross's newest, weirdest and most thought-provoking book. Read the rest

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