500 million friends against child exploitation
Today marks a significant milestone in the ongoing fight against the abuse of Internet technology for the heinous sexual victimization of the most innocent in our society. As you may have read in the
New York Times, Facebook is joining Microsoft in the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s PhotoDNA program to combat child pornography. NCMEC’s program, using image-matching technology created by Microsoft Research in collaboration with Dartmouth College, gives online service providers an effective tool to take more proactive action to stop the distribution of known images of child sexual abuse online.
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Centers For Disease Control And Prevention: Be Prepared For The Zombie Apocalypse
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention apparently thought it was necessary to post some tips in case of a Zombie Apocalypse. Scared, yet? No need to worry according to the CDC. They even made flashy Zombie buttons, and if you're as cool as me, you put one of them on your blog (look at the sidebar)! Here's their emergency plan:
"There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. Take a zombie apocalypse for example. That’s right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency.
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