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		<title>Grand Jury Convened Over Facebook Poking Arrest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you hadn't heard of the Facebook poking arrest that happened last month, Shannon D. Jackson was arrested for 'poking' Dana Hannah on Facebook - meaning that Jackson used the Facebook "poke" function to "poke" Hannah which, while perhaps rude, childish, and annoying, doesn't usually rise to the level of an arrestable offense. However in this case, it is alleged that the poke violated the terms of a protection order (think "restraining order") which Hannah had in place against Jackson. Now the whole thing has been referred to a grand jury.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/grand-jury-convened-over-facebook-poking-arrest/</link>
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		<title>Example of Real Facebook Ad Mentioning a Friend Who is a &#8220;Fan&#8221; of the Advertiser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook has been in the news quite a bit lately (stay tuned for our upcoming story on the woman who was arrested for poking someone on Facebook!), and there is increasing awareness over just how intrusive and invading of their users' privacy many of their money-making practices are, such as using their users (you and your Facebook friends) in their Facebook advertising.  Here's a real-life example of someone being used in Facebook ads, and information on how to opt out and <i>stop</i> Facebook from doing it to you.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/example-of-real-facebook-ad-mentioning-a-friend-who-is-a-fan-of-the-advertiser/</link>
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		<title>Twitter to Go Down Tuesday November 17th for Up to 2 Hours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter down?  Hey, it happens, and sometimes it's even planned!  Twitter may be down for planned maintenance tonight - Tuesday, November 17th - sometime between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. Pacific time (2:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. Eastern).  That said, Twitter isn't actually <i>planning</i> to be down that entire time - it's more that they are planning maintenance, and so Twitter could be down at some point during those hours.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/twitter-to-go-down-tuesday-november-17th-for-up-to-2-hours/</link>
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		<title>Amazon in Hot Water over Kindle&#8217;s Blind Spot:  &#8220;Too Hard for Unsighted People to Use&#8221; says Lawsuit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon's Kindle reader has the ability to do text-to-speech, meaning that it can read books outloud to you.  Perfect for those who are sight-impaired or blind, right?  Well, it would be, except accessing the text-to-speech function requires navigating menus that only a sighted-person can easily navigate.  That is not only the finding of schools participating in an Amazon Kindle trial program, but the complaint of a lawsuit which has now been filed against at least one of the schools participating in the trial.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/amazon-in-hot-water-over-kindles-blind-spot-too-hard-for-unsighted-people-to-use-says-lawsuit/</link>
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		<title>Google Offers Free Airport Wifi for the Holidays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google is gracing nearly 50 airports in the U.S. with free airport wi-fi for the holidays.  Two of the airports - Seattle and Burbank - will keep their free airport Internet access, and offer free airport wi-fi permanently.   (The full list of airports offering free Google wi-fi is below.)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/google-offers-free-airport-wifi-for-the-holidays/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Betas New Retweet Function</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those Twitter users who are still using Twitter through a web browser (do people really still do that?), Twitter is beta testing a new through-the-browser retweet function.  Not everyone yet has access to this new retweet function, so we thought that we'd show it to you.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/twitter-betas-new-retweet-function/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Status Update Enough to Release Suspect from Jail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 19-year-old New York man has been released from New York's notorious Rikers Island jail after a court agreed with his Facebook alibi that he couldn't have been robbing two people at gunpoint while at the same time posting a status update to Facebook from his father's house, twelve miles away from the scene of the crime.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/facebook-status-update-enough-to-release-suspect-from-jail/</link>
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		<title>Motion Picture Association of America Shuts Down Entire Town&#8217;s Wifi Over Single Download</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has managed to shut down the public Internet system for the entire town of Coschocton, Ohio, over a single downloading incident.   ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/motion-picture-association-of-america-shuts-down-entire-towns-wifi-over-single-download/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Admits to Copying Apple Mac User Interface &#8220;Look and Feel&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a move sure to have Microsoft's legal eagles tearing their hair out, Microsoft Partner Group Manager Simon Aldous, during an interview with Britain's Intent Media's PCR publication, acknowledged that Microsoft has been aiming to "create a Mac look and feel."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/microsoft-admits-to-copying-apple-mac-user-interface-look-and-feel/</link>
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		<title>Jailbroken iPhones Getting Rickrolled by Ikee Worm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just this past week we told you about a vulnerability that all jailbreaked iPhones are at risk for, due to there being a default root password for SSH that most people who jailbreak their iPhones don't (know to) change.  Now, taking advantage of that same 'default root password' issue, countless jailbroke iPhone owners are finding Rick Astley's mug on their iPhone, as jailbroken iPhones get "rickrolled" by the Ikee worm.  (A "rickroll" ("rick roll") is a fad that started a couple of years ago when, inexplicably, the video of Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" became the visual punchline to tricks played across the Internet, with links to supposedly topical content actually taking the user to the Astley video.  To get so tricked is to get "rick rolled".)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/jailbroken-iphones-getting-rickrolled-by-ikee-worm/</link>
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