Ian Mclennan

9/21/10

• 4chan attacks MPAA
• The article is talking about an organized attack which orginated on 4chan, a popular image website, to attack the MPAA for attacking sites like the pirate bay and bringing them down. The attacks use DDoS which basically shuts down a site by pinging the IP adress rapidly and repeatedly
• Anyone who illegally downloads anything should be interested
• Control and Security are issues raised, this whole war started becuase the MPAA wanted to stop the illegal downloading of movies and other copy written materiel
• It relates to me becuase I illegally download a lot of stuff/I go on 4chan a lot
• I would solve the issue at hand by continueing the assult on the MPAA

9/17/10

• 6 ways robots can already kill us
• This article gives 6 things that robots have already been designed with that can be potentially deadly to the human race. The article is a little ridiculous and makes some pretty weird assumptions and is filled with odd humor.