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Just wanted to wish everyone out there celebrating America’s birthday a safe and fun time tonight. Here is some videos to help ring in the 4th just right.

Freedom of Speech.  What a funny concept.  We’re supposed to be able to say anything as long as it doesn’t present direct harm to any one else.  So this week, why did RateMyCop.com get taken down?  Hmm, there’s some funny stuff going on there.

RateMyCop is a website that allows everyday citizens bring justice (somewhat) to prick cops they run into.  Also, you can tell everyone when an officer does his/her job correctly.  It is a similar concept to those professor rating websites students love oh so much.

OK, now back to getting taken down.  GoDaddy claims the reason the site was ripped offline was due to an extreme overflow of bandwidth consumption.  In response, I decided to do a few calculations.  According to WebsiteOptimization.com’s speed report (Thanks Adam!),  RateMyCop.com will transfer 267,517 bytes at every visit.  This means, there must be 12, 330, 187.9 page views to go over their 3TB bandwidth limitation.  Yeah, thats 12+ million.  While the site might be popular, I seriously doubt they surpassed 12 million views.  So did the website really go over bandwidth limitations (if so, wow!), or did Go Daddy feel the heat from law enforcement agencies?  Hmm.  I guess we may never know, but I personally feel the lobbyist got the best of the American public again.

The good news is, RateMyCop is back up and running on a different host.  I couldn’t find out who was hosting the site to give them props, but whoever it is.. thanks!

In other news, I leave for San Fran Saturday morning.  I’m not sure how the internet situation will play out over there because I’m not staying in a hotel.  So, if I’m absent for a week please forgive me.  I’ll be sure to come back full of stories and pictures.

Until then, Be Safe
-Will