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I'm still working on getting a few of the Autobots to Earth for the Rise of the Fallen stuff, but kyarorin's recent 'Tranquility' fic with Mikaela and Bumblebee reminded me that I had something else on tap already. Would someone mind looking over my AU version of the Sam-Bumblebee breakup scene?

... oh, for Primus' sake, you know that's what was going on in that scene even if neither one of them consciously thought of it that way.

Oh, for the love of-

http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/security/294550-sopa-author-back-with-more-invasive-bill-masquerading-as-anti-child-porn

"SOPA author Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX, pictured above) was quietly pushing another, even more invasive online surveillance bill through Congress. Submitted in May 2011, HR 1981 (PDF) aka "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011," a proposed amendment to Chapter 18 USC 2703, shifts the focus from piracy to an irrefutably heinous crime: child pornography.... But the part you freedom and Internet-loving advocates might care about is a new section requiring "electronic communication service or remote computing service" providers to store both temporary and static IP addresses for at least 18 months (currently ISPs are required to store this for three months). Law enforcers would then be able to subpoena companies for this information during investigations of unregistered sex offenders. Or as Kevin Fogarty at IT World put it, the bill essentially assumes 99.76 percent of Americans are guilty of child exploitation until proven innocent.

"Since it is empowering U.S. Marshals to investigate people who have not yet been convicted, under PCFIPA, the only thing required to get a valid subpoena to examine all the online activity 99.762 percent of the U.S. population, is an investigating officer willing to say the subpoena has something to do with investigation of online child porn.""

May I humbly suggest a visit to one or more of the following?

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h1981/show
https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8175

Because seriously. What the hell.