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"...security researcher Brendan O’Connor is trying a different approach to spy hardware: building a sensor-equipped surveillance-capable computer that’s so cheap it can be sacrificed after one use, with off-the-shelf parts that anyone can buy and assemble for less than fifty dollars. At the Shmoocon security conference Friday in Washington D.C., O’Connor plans to present the F-BOMB, or Falling or Ballistically-launched Object that Makes Backdoors. Built from just the hardware in a commercially-available PogoPlug mini-computer, a few tiny antennae, eight gigabytes of flash memory and some 3D-printed plastic casing, the F-BOMB serves as 3.5 by 4 by 1 inch spy computer....

An author of alleged “children’s books” needs to wash his mouth out with soap and find a new airline after dropping the F-bomb aboard an Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight. The Detroit News reports Brooklyn author Robert Sayegh is thinking about suing the Delta Connection carrier. According to the article, the 37-year-old, was flying from Kansas City to Newark when a flight attendant overheard him ask “What’s taking so [bleeping] long to close the overhead compartments?” The plane taxied to the runway but returned to have Sayegh forcibly removed. Sayegh told the Detroit paper he used the F-word twice. “I’m like,...

Not to be outdone by show-business personalities, President Obama and Vice President Biden also feel free to drop F-bombs in public. When we discuss those at the highest levels of our government, we are dealing not just with teachers but with professors − in this case, professors of public speaking. When gray-haired public officials feel that they must mimic foul-mouthed middle-school boys and cursing rappers in order to appear “cool,” we know we are in deep trouble. For centuries, public figures were able to express themselves − in fact, to express deep thoughts and inspiring ideals − without the use...

A JetBlue flight attendant blew his top on an incoming flight at Kennedy Airport on Monday, dropped the F-bomb over the intercom and bolted down an emergency slide.

‘UnF–kTheGulf.com’ Ad Mixes Children and Profanity to Push Left Message

Looking over the video, I find it odd — Barack Obama's stand-up routine before fellow guests last Saturday, last May Day night, at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Firstly, it is not enough that he found it very humorous on the day Joe Biden dropped the F-bomb at the signing of Obamacare, as they presented their administration's "Big F'ing Deal." Biden related Obama was "laughin' like the devil" and saying it was "the best thing" about the ceremony. Now, he has whispered that line into the microphones, himself, granted he said "big freaking deal," and so properly he even articulated...

Vice President Joe Biden's F-bomb after passage of Barack Obama's and Nancy Pelosi's health care "reform" act creates the opportunity to use his name as an appropriate substitute for this word in print or even on radio or television. We do not present this as an idle joke, because it is an excellent way to subject the Obama Administration to the ridicule and contempt it deserves.* This will help elect a Republican majority that will repeal the so-called health care reform legislation and also block enactment of crippling "greenhouse gas" regulations whose real purpose is to enrich New York investment...

...Just hours after Joe Biden let loose with an f-bomb that was caught by an open microphone following President Barack Obama’s signing of the health bill into law this morning, his exact exclamation — “This is a big f— deal” — has already become a t-shirt...

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US Vice-President Joe Biden has let rip another of his legendary gaffes at a crucial moment for the Obama administration, whispering a profanity to the President right before Obama signed his $940 billion health care overhaul into law. After introducing Obama at the White House signing ceremony, the two men pulled close in an embrace and Biden could be heard whispering “This is a big f--king deal” to his boss. According to a blog on the Wall Street Journal, a T-shirt featuring the exclamation was available just hours later. "Yes Mr Vice-President, you're right..." White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs...

A man was arrested for spitting on a congressman. No, he was let go. Protestors shouted the n-word at black lawmakers. Witnesses say it never happened. A gay congressman was called a slur. Yet he was accused of swearing at someone in the crowd before that... Youtube videos have surfaced that show protestors booing ans shouting "kill the bill" but not shouting the n-word. U.S. capitol police said [no] protestor was arrested... [Kay] Fisher said Frank was the first to use salty language. She said she and a half dozen other protestors were waiting outside a committee room in the...

(Note: MSNBC host Ed Schultz spoke last night at the Blue State Bash sponsored by KTNF-950AM held at the Minneapolis Convention Center. The Web site The Uptake posted a video report of his speech in which he relates an off-camera swearing match with White House spokesman Robert Gibbs.) SNIP Schultz: "I know this this (sic) of those being recorded but I wasn't told it was off the record but Mister Gibbs I had quite a conversation off the air the other night and I'm going to tell you I told him he was full of (Obama), is what I told...

Forget losing weight, exercising more or saving money. A standard New Year's resolution simply won't do for the perennially button-pushing Supervisor Chris Daly. He announced at the rules committee hearing this morning - and reiterated on his Facebook page - that "For 2010, I vow to use the word "f---" in each of my remaining Board of Supervisors meetings." He's termed out of office a year from Friday so that means dozens of potential Daly f-bombs are on the way.

Did Schwarzenegger Hide F-bomb In Veto Letter? Governor's office calls apparent buried rebuke of lawmaker a 'coincidence' Oct. 28: A typed message from Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appears to hold a rather saucy secret message for a state legislator. Msnbc's Contessa Brewer reports. SACRAMENTO, California - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger typically attaches a message to bills he signs or vetoes telling lawmakers why he took the action. But a Democratic assemblyman who heckled the governor during a recent event in San Francisco may have received more than one message: the veto letter itself, and a not-so-subtle rebuke creatively hidden within it....

There is absolutely no way I’ll be able to make this relevant to tech. But I’m posting it anyway. Our Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, vetoed a California legislative finance bill – AB 1176. The letter is terse and to the point. And the first letter of each line in paragraphs 2-3 are even terser and more to the point. Schwarzeneggers battles with the state legislature are epic. But this just goes way beyond epic. It’s something for the history books. (click the link to view the message...)

If Morning Joe seems every-so-slightly less up-to-date, there's a reason for it. The show is now seven seconds behind the times. A tape delay has been instituted in the wake of Joe Scarborough's unintentional dropping of an f-bomb two days ago. B&C reported the move yesterday, and the Morning Joe crew had fun with it on today's show. Coming back from its first break, the show aired tape [via Jimmy Kimmel Live] of CNN's Rick Sanchez coming back from a break of his own. With a screen over his shoulder reading "Transition to Power," Sanchez said: "We welcome you black....

<p>At a closed door meeting over immigration legislation, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) got into a shouting match with Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), telling him at one point, "Fuck you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room,"</p>

A NEW York politician has been filmed dropping the "f-bomb" at least 15 times in what has become an online video hit, attracting tens of thousands of page views. Unaware that an interview with a Scandinavian "reporter" was an elaborate set-up for a hidden camera-type television show, New York City councillor James Oddo launched into a obscene tirade. After being asked about Hillary Clinton's "embarrassing incident with a cigar", the Republican asked a member of his staff to throw the crew out. "Get the (f-bomb) out of my office,” Mr Oddo told the crew as the fake reporter struggled to...

Colorado State University is still experiencing the fallout from a profane editorial that ran in the college's student newspaper two weeks ago. CSU police investigated a threat that was called into The Rocky Mountain Collegian last week. Advertising in the newspaper and other student- run media organizations remains down. And at least one parent of a CSU student might withdraw her daughter from the school. "It's true. We are reconsidering schools," said Casper resident Cathy Ide, whose daughter, Holly Loucks, is a sophomore construction management major. The school's alumni relations and admissions offices have also received calls and e-mails concerning...

For some, it was a matter of protecting free speech. For others, it was about punishing the editor of a campus newspaper, who they believed damaged the credibility of Colorado State University nationally when he decided to publish the F-word in the school newspaper. "Our university will take a hit for the poor choices of one student," said Chelsea Penoyer, chairwoman of the College Republicans at CSU. Penoyer was one of more than 300 students and members of the staff and community who attended a hearing Wednesday night of CSU's Board of Student Communications, the governing body that will decide...