Teh Googal 2 Teh Rescue

We’ve had our disagreements with Google in the past, but it looks as though they are turning over a long neglected leaf.

Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather about suspects [who download online porn].

At last!

Google is also providing the search features for a Wikipedia-style site, called Intellipedia, on which agents post information about their targets that can be accessed and appended by colleagues, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

I’m not sure I’d trust the gay agenda newspaper of record and I’d humbly suggest that “Intellipedia” already exists.  It’s called Conservapedia.  But other than that, this sounds great.  Keep those hippies on the run!

The contracts are just a number that have been entered into by Google’s ‘federal government sales team’, that aims to expand the company’s reach beyond its core consumer and enterprise operations.

It’s very good to know that, like Wahoo, Google is supportive of government.  Before you know it “NO BLOOD FOR OIL” will return no search results at all, other than “some men are coming to get you.”

Maybe liberalism can be stamped out once and for all.  We can only hope.

– Psycheout

Time To Crack Down on Internet Porn

It looks like Internet perverts and porn pushers alike have lost a big one. Is this the first step to making the entire Internet family friendly? We can only hope.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill saying that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report illegal images including “obscene” cartoons and drawings–or face fines of up to $300,000.

And this could change the Internet almost overnight. Cheers could be heard across the nation, across the world.

That broad definition would cover individuals, coffee shops, libraries, hotels, and even some government agencies that provide Wi-Fi. It also sweeps in social-networking sites, domain name registrars, Internet service providers, and e-mail service providers such as Hotmail and Gmail, and it may require that the complete contents of the user’s account be retained for subsequent police inspection.

Even the traditional consumers of porn, the Democrat party, supported this important and necessary bill. And I applaud them for that. Anyone who stands up for family values, against their own prurient interests, deserves credit where credit is due.

Before the House vote, which was a lopsided 409 to 2, Rep. Nick Lampson (D-Texas) held a press conference on Capitol Hill with John Walsh, the host of America’s Most Wanted and Ernie Allen, head of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Allen said the legislation–called the Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online Act, or SAFE Act–will “ensure better reporting, investigation, and prosecution of those who use the Internet to distribute images of illegal child pornography.”

And how could anyone disagree with that, keeping the Internet SAFE? I’m sure that there won’t be much discussion about this non-controversial legislation that benefits us all. But feel free to comment about how wonderful this is.

We are bravely moving forward together into a new age of information, a renaisance, where the Internet is safe for all. Hallelujah!

Update: Well, that was quick. Liberal KGO talk show host indicted for child porn.

Bernie Ward, a popular liberal San Francisco radio talk show host and former Catholic priest, has been indicted on federal child pornography charges, authorities said today.

Ward, 56, surrendered to federal authorities earlier today but the specifics of the allegations against him are under seal, officials said.

Ward hosts a nightly news talk program on KGO 810 AM as well as GodTalk on Sundays. He had been a priest with the Society of the Precious Blood order.

Yikes. Another left winger bites the dust.  Child Pornographers are naturally concerned about their image in light of this arrest.

– Psycheout

Take THAT, Ford Drivers!

God has only begun to requite you:

Ford Motor Co. said Thursday it is recalling 1.17 million trucks, sport utility vehicles and vans to fix an engine sensor that could lead to engine stalling.

The recalled vehicles are all from the 1997-2003 model years with 7.3 liter diesel engines, including the Ford E-Series van, Excursion full-size sport utility vehicle, and F-450 Super Duty and F-550 Super Duty trucks.

That’s what you get for driving a vehicle from a treefrog trade unionist company that cavorts with sodomites. You will die, you will burn in Hell, and decent Americans driving decent Christian-made cars will speed past your final resting place on their way to church every day, not even noticing.

Good riddance to those enabling the homosexual/trade unionist agenda. Good riddance to them all. The sooner Ford joins its Nazi trade unionist founder in Hell, the better for all of us.

God be praised!

Fake Blogs

There has been an annoying proliferation of fake blogs lately. Fortunately Sam Brown and the rest of the B4B Team do a great job of moderating the comments, so you never see links to these fake blogs. You may not even know that they exist. As a side note, we get more than 500 spam comments per day here. (59,166 spam comments vs 16,383 legitimate comments to date.) Keeping up with them is a tiresome and disheartening task. Anyone who works on a blog knows exactly what I’m talking about.

Spam comments normally either say something short and stupid or long and stupid, having nothing to do with the topic and link back to their own websites hawking discount pharmaceuticals (viagra, cialis, phentermine, methamphetamine, etc.). Spam comments often contain dozens if not hundreds of links, usually to porn sites. These are annoying enough, but fairly innocuous and easy for the spam filter to catch. I have been documenting some of the stupider spam to hit our filter for quite some time.

Fake blogs are a different beast altogether. Fake blogs tend to be of the news aggregator type. Basically they grab a bunch of text from someone else’s blog post and try to get a trackback from their target. We delete these trackbacks immediately. Why? First of all, it pollutes the comment sections. Second of all they attempt to drive traffic to their own sites, again hawking pharmaceuticals, porn, phoney insurance, etc. Linking to these fake blogs would also boost their site ranking. This I will not do.

One of the main problems with these fake blogs is that they obfuscate search engine results. The content that we produce here appears on dozens of fake blogs trying to get traffic based on our material. That is their purpose, after all. They want to get you to their site, so they can serve you advertising and try to fool you into buying their worthless crap.

Search tools like Technorati and Google Blog Search need to make the attempt to or do a better job of filtering these fake blogs from their search results. To see the kind of fake blogs I’m talking about, take a look at blog reactions you’ll find on Technorati or Google Blog Search. Blogs with names like “auto insurance quote,” “ephedra,” “order codeine,” “b1g p3n1s” and the like are these fake blogs I’m taking about. “University Update” is another fake blog that’s been around for many months and has been consistently leeching off our valuable and thought provoking content.

Typically these automated posts begin with “_ wrote an interesting post today on _. Here’s an excerpt: …” or “Wow! While surfing the net today I found a great post written by The Queen of England. Here is an outline: …” (Note: They almost always get the author’s name wrong.) And they not only link to and steal the content of our posts, but they routinely link to individual comments, even the stupid ones. Example: “Wow! Spacebrother wrote a really interesting post today. Here is an excerpt…” There’s several things wrong with that, least of all that Spacehippie has never written anything of interest in his entire life.

I know this post about Internet pollution is rather technical in nature, but to make it simple: those who run fake blogs and blog spambots deserve to be shot dead. Any questions?

And don’t answer with “I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting.” TIA.

Update: More general information about this annoying subject can be found under these topics: blog scraping, scraper site, comment spam, spamdexing. Even more generally, the word “scumbag” applies quite nicely.

Update 2: Profile of a turd. Most of you have heard of Blogger. Signing up is free and once you do, you can set up and run a blog of your own. Enter newbie, TTSAY. I say newbie because this person just set up a blogger account this month. This user already has set up at least 61 free blogs (more may not be listed), all named “buy meridia.” Yet TTSAY has never written a post himself. Instead TTSAY has stolen content from other blogs, including this one.

This is not the purpose of free blogs and this is not the intent behind fair use. TTSAY is a douchebag and a leech. Blog providers should really crack down on this disgusting conduct before people are drowning in this cesspool of useless duplicated content and abandon blogs altogether.

– Psycheout

Early Christmas Alert: Nintendo DS

The B4B tipline recently received information about this gaming device and its devious and virtually unknown (by parents) backdoor giving child predators access to millions of children. Don’t let your child be a victim. Slam the backdoor shut by refusing to put this dangerous device on your Christmas list this year. And if you already purchased one, get out your hammer. You’re going to need it.

Introduced in 2004, the Nintendo DS (for Dual Screen or Devil Screen), this game machine has sold some 700 million or so units. That’s an epidemic. It’s undeniable that it has been a “success” for its Japanese manufacturer, Nintendo (makers of Donkey Kong aka Monkey Donkey, a game in which a monkey kidnaps a young girl to satisfy his bestial desires). It’s also been a tremendous success for pedophiles everywhere.

And get this (brace yourselves): the slogan for this evil piece of “hardware” is “Touching is good.” How’s that for hiding the truth in plain sight? In fact, all marketing slogans around the world for this product aimed at young children revolved around the word “touch.” There’s something seriously wrong here.

Now the problem with this abomination is not simply that it is a gaming machine which introduces and encourages our children to engage in violence for fun. No, it’s much worse than that, as if that wasn’t enough in itself. I shall elaborate on the evil that lurks within video games in general in a future Investigative Report, so stay tuned. No, the problem with this contraption is that it can easily be used by child predators and molesters to get access to your children.

I have been notified by one parent whose child was solicited to “come to the mall and we can go shopping and do other fun stuff. Don’t tell your mom because she might spoil our fun. Parents are such a drag. LOL.” Fortunately her parent was watching Susie (a pseudonym) that day, as all parents should, and reacted the way any good, loving, responsible parent would. She deftly ripped the offending device out of her hands, sent the reply “stay away from my baby, you psycho” and triumphantly snapped the unit in half. Nintendo TP (two pieces). It’s garbage now.

Don’t take my word for it about the dangers of this thing. Watch an informative report that presents the objective facts, then you decide. Roll the clip, please.

Now I know that most good parents out there are aware of the danger of video games in general and would be loathe to have them in their homes. But many have probably been convinced (pestered) by their children, acting as a proxy for the video game companies (pushers), to buy an X(rated)-Box or a PPS or NES or some other newfangled video gaming gadget. I understand what can happen in a moment of weakness. I’ll give you all the reasons you need to unplug and throw out these devices at a later date. I promise.

But if you already have a Japanese Nintendo DS in your home, the time to act is now. Snap it in half like Jill (not her real name) did and excise it from your child’s life. Your child might cry or complain or even throw a temper tantrum, but that’s far better than him or her becoming a just another statistic. Once your child has been violated or, worse, ends up on a slab at the morgue, it’s too late. Don’t wait. The time for parenting is now. Your child will thank you, eventually. So be strong. It’s the right thing to do.

Rest assured that we will have some helpful gift hints as Christmas approaches. So keep your eye on B4B. And be sure to visit our store. There’s some great gifts for the adults on your list right there, as long as they aren’t helioleftists.

Update: This is an older news item from last year, but it will shock you. Hold onto your hats and find out about the PlayStation (what a sick innuendo of a name) Portable, also known as the PlayStation Pornable.

In the comments for that video was this:

lol im 15 and no one can stop kids seeing porn, porn is a good thing, kids are sexually curious and need to learn about these things

Right (maybe), wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong. Let me reiterate: video games should not be on your Christmas list this year, or any year. Parents need to be aware of this and other dangers and need to just say no.

Update 2: Semi-related: video game expert Jack Thompson explains the danger of games like Grand Theft Auto, while a game industry shill tries to justify this unacceptable garbage, a carjack cop-killing hooker-loving simulator. Nice try, but no cigar.

Update 3: Apparently gaming insiders refer to the chat feature as “pedochat.”

Update 4: Another popular game that coincided with a dramatic rise in the use of illicit drugs such as “acid” and “extasy” (by design) was Pac Man. The player’s character, “Pac” races around a carnival funhouse maze gobbling psychedelics. In the corners of the maze are “power pills” which pack a punch. The enemy ghosts, including Clyde, “trip out” when Pac downs a super pill, allowing Pac to eat his enemies alive.

An interesting side note is that the game was originally going to be called “Puck Man,” but knowing how foul the youth of the day were, they changed the “Puck” to “Pac.” You see, by etching away part of the “P” in “Puck,” vandals could easily spell out a profane word. The youth of the day, as in this day, loved curse words almost as much as drugs. “Pac” is probably a reference to foul-mouthed rap artist “Tu-Pac.” (Translated it means “you pack” as in packing heat.) Pac Man is not played much today. Not enough kicks.

Update 5: Here is a typical DS “game.” It will shock you.

The problem with witches is that they look like ordinary 13 year olds, which gives Japanese men no choice but to corner and feel up every young girl they come across.

Ugh. It will sicken your soul.

Update 6: See also: Video Game Perversion, by yours truly. More quality information for concerned parents about the vileness of video games.

Update 7: There is now a brief follow up to this post.  Thanks for all the positive emails.  We really appreciate it.  Thanks to all the wonderful parents who are making those snaps heard around the world!

– Psycheout

RFID: A Great Idea Whose Time Has Come

Ever heard of RFID (radio-frequency I.D.)? It has the potential to make life more convenient and safe for all of us. Sadly, China is leading the way. The United States should be in the forefront of this exciting technology that will make purchases more convenient and can be used to keep lawbreakers and terrorists at bay.

It has already been implanted in pets to ensure that Fluffy and Fido don’t get lost. It has been implanted in people and used to get exclusive access to trendy clubs. And it will be implanted in our troops to help keep track of them and to identify their remains. RFID is attached to CDs and DVDs to reduce shoplifting. Have you ever heard that “beep” when some kid tried to sneak a rap CD out of the store under his coat? That’s RFID.

It can be attached to cars to allow drivers to get through toll booths without having to stop to pay. It will be inserted into passports and ID cards so that people can be identified from a distance without having to physically show the ID. It’s amazing how many uses this device has!

Starting this month in a port neighborhood and then spreading across Shenzhen, a city of 12.4 million people, residency cards fitted with powerful computer chips programmed by the same company will be issued to most citizens.

Data on the chip will include not just the citizen’s name and address but also work history, educational background, religion, ethnicity, police record, medical insurance status and landlord’s phone number. Even personal reproductive history will be included, for enforcement of China’s controversial “one child” policy. Plans are being studied to add credit histories, subway travel payments and small purchases charged to the card.

Incredible, isn’t it?

Security experts describe China’s plans as the world’s largest effort to meld cutting-edge computer technology with police work to track the activities of a population and fight crime.

This technology can be used to keep scofflaws and terrorists out.

“If they do not get the permanent card, they cannot live here, they cannot get government benefits, and that is a way for the government to control the population in the future,” said Michael Lin, the vice president for investor relations at China Public Security Technology, the company providing the technology.

Fortunately America is catching up. But we have a long ways to go.

But rising fears of terrorism have lessened public hostility to surveillance cameras in the West. This has been particularly true in Britain, where the police already install the cameras widely on lamp poles and in subway stations and are developing face recognition software as well.

New York police announced last month that they would install more than 100 security cameras to monitor license plates in Lower Manhattan by the end of the year. Police officials also said they hoped to obtain financing to establish links to 3,000 public and private cameras in the area by the end of next year; no decision has been made on whether face recognition technology has become reliable enough to use without the risk of false arrests.

It would seem prudent to go ahead and implement the system and iron out the bugs later. There are terrorists out there who want to kill us. New Yorkers and Londoners know about this first hand.

Of course the ACLU and various other nutty groups are more than happy to leave us wide open to terrorist infiltration due to their own paranoia. Their baseless fear of RFID, the technology of the future, should be ridiculed and ignored. After all, you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide.

Update: Real ID scofflaw states will face penalties.

Americans may need passports to board domestic flights or to picnic in a national park next year if they live in one of the states defying the federal Real ID Act.

– Psycheout