Watch What You Watchin' - Viacom v. YouTube Redux

In the wake of Viacom's $1 BILLION copyright infringement lawsuit settlement, YouTube has been ordered to turn over 12 TERABYTES of database information of every video ever watched on the site, complete with user IDs and IP addresses.   In the wake of massive protest and fear, Google/YouTube reached an agreement to "mask" the user data, hoping to alleviate some concerns over this Big Brother type of intrusion into users private search and viewing history.

"Viacom and the other litigants have backed off their demand for
YouTube user viewing histories," Google said in a statement. "We have
reached agreement to anonymize the data."

However, Slashdot reports that there is no such thing as an "anonymized dataset," meaning that there is no real way to "mask" or protect an individuals privacy rights once a database of this nature is turned over.  While it may protect some users, it's still likely to reveal some users and what they surfed.  Given all of this, it's still quite unclear why Viacom needs this data in the first place.  The legal question is whether Google infringed on copyright.  Why should Google's log files be necessary to determine that? 

Watch what your watchin' people, its a brave new world out there.......
                               

How The Church makes it RAIN, too!!!

Damon Armagost, of Smryna, pleaded guilty Friday to printing $1,400 in counterfeit bills from the image of $100 bill he downloaded on his computer to pay strippers at a club in Nashville, The (Nashville) Tennessean reported.

Armagost spent $600 in counterfeit money in April on strippers who became suspicious and called police, who recognized the counterfeit bills as all having the same number as fake money passed elsewhere in the country, the newspaper reported.

50 Tips for Frugal Living - Bless yourself!!

Yeah, we've heard it all before, live frugal because it allows you to spend less than you earn, and then you can use the difference to pay off debt, save or invest. Because the less you spend, the less you need to earn. And that means you can work less, or work more but retire early. Or take mini retirements. You just have more options with a frugal lifestyle. So no drug and booze budget? What fun is that? Check it....

Jim Cramer goes ape sh#t over financial ARMAGEDDON!! A MUST SEE!!

If you don't own tons of stocks and are worth about what's in your pocket right now, then you may have only seen this guy, Jim Cramer, while blunted, flipping through channels waiting for Aqua Teen Hunger Force to come on - but dammit, the man is a maniac!!

But this sh#t right here, this f#ckin colossal meltdown of the first order, is damn near genius!! Check it.....