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A well regulated Internet, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear smart glasses, shall not be infringed. (Sign the Pass the Glass Amendment Petition) This amendment is being proposed in response to the persecution of our rights as individuals to bear mobile devices. The anti-Google Glass movement Stop The Cyborgs was founded in response and has already published a list of demands including that Google never allow face recognition apps and that the company creates a do not track system. West Virginia state representative Gary Howell, a Republican, has proposed a law to outlaw the devices for drivers in his state: "I would like to invite Google to provide a demonstration," said Howell. Google has also been warned by Las Vegas...

The reselling of domain names has become big business, akin to real estate in New York City for the wacky prices paid for seemingly benign addresses. While it's not surprising that domain names including sex.com ($14 million), business.com ($7.5 million), icloud.com ($4.5 million) and beer.com ($7 million) have sold for premiums, 2013 has already been a banner year for domain name resells including mojo.com ($300,000) and partners.com ($125,000) to name a few of the better ones, or ulive.com ($75,000) or struts.com ($70,000) to name two head-scratching ones. But don't be discouraged that you've already missed the boat and are priced out of your perfect domain name (get a free appraisal in seconds at valuate.com and estibot.com). New businesses are proving they can make millions for their business by acquiring an unregistered, completely unique one...

There are two reasons we stopped short of calling The Syrian Electronic Army actions organized "terrorist" acts:

• The acts were propogandic, not violent.
• Legitimizing the incident would admit our modern economy's vulnerability to a new type of warfare we are ill-prepared to fight.

The April 23rd Twitter hack blamed on the pro-Assad Syrian group did nearly as much to destabilize the U.S. economic system as did the Boston Bombers (i.e., the DOW Jones Industrial Average gave up 150 points after the Twitter hack and 180 points after the Boston Bombing). Here's what caused the chaos following the hijacking of the AP News twitter account last Tuesday:

"Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured." @AP

In the days following, traditional media outlets considered the incident "below the fold" news despite the $136 billion market...