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Tag: Internet
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Lightning strike brings down Cal Poly network
UPDATE 1:10 p.m.: Cal Poly Information Technology Services restored the university network system at approximately 11:45 a.m. Thursday, according to university officials. This allowed students, professors and administrators access to their My Cal Poly Portal, as well as their Cal Poly email accounts and calendars. Campus Wi-Fi, however, will not be restored until Thursday evening, […]
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Do your neighbor a favor with new startup
You’re in the middle of a marathon study session and you realize that pizza would be perfect right now. But your car is in the shop. Or maybe you’ve just arrived home from the grocery store to find that you forgot the pasta sauce for dinner but you don’t have time to go out again. […]
Posted inOpinion
Cal Poly Memes: What I was reading until 3 a.m.
I just want to say whoever made Cal Poly Memes is my new internet hero. Then everyone who jumped on the bandwagon are my other heroes. (Read As: Reddit had the memes first but I didn’t notice until it was on Facebook and I’m sorry, don’t hurt me!) I was on Tumblr around 1 a.m. […]
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Internet Humor: Macro Memes
Sometimes, it’s hard to explain memes. Then there is the image macro memes. The basic formula is taking an image and superimposing text (traditionally with the font Impact) on top of it. Pictures and captions, it’s the bread and butter of internet humor. There are some reoccurring characters in macro memes. I’ve compiled some of […]
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SOPA: The Death of the Internet
I went to bed fearing that I’ll wake up with Stop Online Piracy Act firmly in place. It is a frightening new bill that basically allows copyright holders to censor websites. Not just a page, but the whole site. Here’s some boiled-down bits of SOPA, all pulled from a wonderful primer on the subject by […]
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BLOG: The kids are all right (with not reading)
Where dwindling attention spans are supported by increasingly brief media, what will happen to reading?
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Redefining ‘us’ and ‘them’
We humans can be huge jerks, and we’re getting better at it every day. Society, however cracked, provides a structure that encourages good behavior* and discourages the bad. Most of us would behave a bit worse if we knew we wouldn’t be caught or censored. Where the enforcement mechanisms of society are lower we reflect […]
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Societal norms affect sexual urges
Although most of us recognize that sex is great, it is still seen as a shameful activity.
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Column: Protect yourself from Uncle Sam
As Americans, we expect the government to stay out of our personal lives. Unfortunately, government on both sides of party lines is having trouble doing so.
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BLOG: The future of Internet privacy
In 1967 philosopher Marshall McLuhan described a culture of universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb surveillance causing a very serious dilemma between our claim to privacy and society’s need to know.