How dangerous is Anonymous?

From Newser:
Hacking collective Anonymous has taken on the FBI and the CIA, among others—and soon the group could be making its presence known in your living room. The National Security Agency director warns that within the next one to two years, Anonymous could launch a cyberattack that results in a limited power outage, the Wall Street Journal reports. 

Gen. Keith Alexander did not air his concerns in public, but in private meetings including some at the White House, sources say. Other officials are similarly concerned, but some think the possibility is more like three to five years off. Anonymous has never mentioned a power blackout plan, but federal officials believe the group is planning to get more destructive, particularly after Anonymous threatened last week to shut down the Internet during "Operation Global Blackout" on March 31.

 Experts believe the likelihood of such an attack to be low; similarly, an attack on the power grid would produce only limited damage. Grid officials are already adept at fighting regular attacks on their systems, and backup systems are in place in case an attack is successful. 

One possibility discussed by officials: A foreign government or terrorist group could develop the ability to attack the grid, then outsource the job to Anonymous.

Maybe scary?

Well apparently Anonymous has really made it big-time. When you have sort of quotes from the NSA director talking about timetables on an Anonymous attack on the power grid you know that the government thinks of the group as a real threat. But all that bullshit about them doing the job on behalf of a foreign government or terrorist group is stupid. They don't want to be puppets to some crazy douchebags, they want to do their own thing.


Oh Well I guess I'll be ready for a two-hour power outage in the next decade. Big impact on peoples' lives Anonymous.

Four Loko 1, 13-year-old 0

From Dailymail:
A 13-year-old boy who died falling out of a moving car while throwing up after being fatally stuck by a passing vehicle was drinking controversial alcoholic beverage Four Loko.
Eighth-grader Michael Truluck, of Baltimore County, Maryland, got his hands on the drink that was banned in nearby Baltimore City for its potent mix of caffeine and alcohol.


The drink was removed from shelves while makers distributed a caffeine-free version, after a series of legal claims it caused irreparable side-effects.

Baltimore County Police told ABC News the car carrying Truluck was making a turn out of the Auto Zone parking onto a busy highway in Parkville on Saturday evening when the accident occurred.
The driver of the car that hit him stopped at the scene, the station reports.

Truluck's mother, Kris Keys, spoke at a vigil for her son on Sunday, where 100 of his peers were in attendance to pay their respects. 

Mrs Keys did not give any indication she had plans to sue the company.


Look this story is awful. All I'm going to say in humor about it is that every pro drinker knows you drop the window to puke safely.

The real reason I'm steamed about this story is that last line "Mrs Keys did not give any indication she had plans to sue the company." Are you fucking kidding me? Sue a company that changed their product to make it safer and then sue them because your fucking 13 YEAR OLD drank one of their 21+ drinks and had to puke? The fact that whoever wrote the article included that is fucked. Of course she shouldn't be suing the company, she should sue herself for not knowing that her kid is riding around fucked up as shit on Four Loko. That's on you lady, not the company.

It's not their fault you are a shit parent

It all goes back to this culture of non-responsibility. It's never the parents fault. It's the ADULT beverage company whose product was misused by an underage kid. Or it's the media for making Four Loko so well known. Try motherfucking parenting people, it works wonders.

Oh and can you imagine drinking a Four Loko at 13? What the fuck man kid must have been a champ. I would have taken one sip and given up alcohol forever 8 years before turning 21. 

Pepper sprayed at Disneyland

Jesus man this is some shit. I feel like since the whole Occupy thing cops are just pepper spraying everybody out there. Hide your eyes and hide your ears.



Gotta love the friends trying to calm Sean down while they videotape him getting muffed in the face.

"I think this guy's been drinking vodka!" Love it.

And what the fuck, just when you think the video sucks dude gets up and the old guy with the hat bops him with the mace AGAIN. This video is great.

Alright all hilarity aside Disney security what the fuck is up? I mean I know 99% of the time you only have to deal with little shit kids who piss their pants or lose their mommy. But 1% of the time you have this dude. And it took civilians to help hold him down, security couldn't even deal with him themselves. Get your shit together Disney come on I mean seriously what if this dude was a drunken Al Qaeda operative or some shit.

Grandpa with pepper spray versus an actual threat? Seems like the kiddies at the ice cream stand might get blown the fuck up. Unless the Lakers jersey guy is there. Then there will be serious blood.

FDA to review inhalable caffiene

From New York Post:
BOSTON — US Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement.

AeroShot went on the market late last month in Massachusetts and New York, and it's also available in France. Consumers put one end of the grey-and-yellow plastic canister in their mouths and breathe in, releasing a fine powder that dissolves almost instantly.

AeroShot inventor, Harvard biomedical engineering professor David Edwards, says the product is safe and doesn't contain taurine and other common additives used to enhance the caffeine effect in energy drinks.



AeroShot didn't require FDA review before hitting the US market because it's sold as a dietary supplement. But Sen. Charles Schumer said he met with FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg and she agreed to review the safety and legality of AeroShot.

"I am worried about how a product like this impacts kids and teens, who are particularly vulnerable to overusing a product that allows one to take hit after hit after hit, in rapid succession," Schumer said.
He planned to announce the AeroShot review on Sunday.

Inhalable caffeine? Seems like a pretty ballin' idea. I mean it is the logical progression. Everyone wants drugs pure and portable. Caffeine? Fuck coffee and espresso just spray that shit in your mouth and buzz on player.

It's funny that the FDA is reviewing it now because I hope their conclusion is that this shit is healthier than soda. I mean there is caffeine but no high fructose corn syrup or any of that shit. Low calorie coffee buzz, they should hire me to lead the marketing division. I'm going to search for this product, review to come.

Why are people surprised

that college athletes smoke pot?

From Huffington Post:
National Center for Drug Free Sport vice president Andrea Wickerham said the arrests of four football players among 15 TCU students and four former students on suspicion of selling marijuana is symbolic of an increasing pot problem in college athletics.

She hopes administrators across the nation are paying attention.
"I hope they don't see this event at TCU as an isolated incident. It's not," she said. "The question is, `What does TCU do about it?' and what do other college administrators do?"

The arrests at TCU came Wednesday, just a month after the NCAA said that 22.6 percent of 20,474 student-athletes participating in an anonymous survey in 2009 admitted to using marijuana the previous 12 months. That number was up from 21.2 percent in 2005.

Dear National Center for Druge Free Sport, college kids smoke pot. If Michael Phelps can do it and crush at the Olympics, then you can smoke a little weed and play football at TCU. Believe me. And as for suspicion of selling marijuana, anyone who is smart and smokes a decent amount of pot should be selling it. It's called cutting costs. If you are going to burn it down all day in the off-season then you sell a little bit to finance your habit. It's just a little bit of weed.

TCU Football equipment closet?

Last night I watched some shit on Nat Geo that pissed me off like nothing else. IT was a Drugs Inc. episode about fake weed and coke and shit. IF you don't want kids smoking Spice and K2 and all that fucking weird synthetic shit then LET US SMOKE WEED. If a smart person tells you they think synthetic weed substitutes are better than the real thing as far as a person's health, they are lying to your fucking face.

People smoke pot, and if they are getting tested then they will get around it. It isn't an indicator of some rising trend of potheads. I know a bunch of NCAA athletes at all levels who do drugs far worse than pot and still perform on the field.