Kyle Seth Gray

Casey Liss:

A school outside Boston has installed “active shooter” technology, which can detect the presence and location of gunfire...

The technology was apparently developed for the military and is sold by the appropriately-named Shooter Detection Systems.

I find it absolutely stupefying that we’ve gotten to this point.

I agree with Casey here: it is absolutely ridiculous to get to a point where we have to use military grade systems to prevent school shootings, like they're some kind of completely common occurence. It should not have to be like this at all.

School shootings should not be listed alongside earthquakes and fires (As it is at my college) as a common disaster that could possibly happen to you while attending.

"No we don't have a gun control problem, not one bit."

One of the most entertaining things is seeing someone who may be somewhat out of touch, or whose account is being run by a media team, tweeting something way out of line on Twitter.

That happened today with all the buzz surrounding Obama's plan for an open Internet (basically his little statement on Net Neutrality). Senator Ted Cruz from Texas had an interesting thing to say:

"Net Neutrality" is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) November 10, 2014

Politicians...

Meanwhile, The Oatmeal had a pretty fun response to this tweet:

Dear Senator Ted Cruz,

[Your tweet this morning] led me to assume one of two things:

Thing #1: When accepted campaign funds from telecom lobbyists last year, they asked that you publicly smear Net Neutrality.

Thing #2: You don't actually know what Net Neutrality is.

Politicians apparently love making statements that are just whatever helps them, or confuses their voters to blindly follow their "leadership". I'm not going to go into the politics of anything in this, but outright saying something like this, that doesn't make sense in the first place, is completely wrong and stupid. Yet these people are representing us in the Senate.

Yay America?

President Obama:

“Net neutrality” has been built into the fabric of the Internet since its creation — but it is also a principle that we cannot take for granted. We cannot allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas. That is why today, I am asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to answer the call of almost 4 million public comments, and implement the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality.

Say what you want about the President, but I am with Obama 100% on this. The Internet should be a public utility for everyone.

(via 512pixels.net)