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As promised, Google has decided to "go big" with its home page to join Wikipedia, Reddit and others in protesting SOPA/PIPA.

While there have been some previous discussions about whether or not Wikipedia would black out its site to protest SOPA/PIPA -- and the community's consensus was to do so -- it appeared that they had agreed that the trigger for a black out would be on the passing of the bill.

That's a little late.

Last week the House Judiciary Committee discussed the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA). After an abrupt end of the markup session on Friday, a new hearing date was set for this week.

Meanwhile, opposition to the controversial bill is increasing and yesterday the General Manager of the largest online community Reddit said that the bill would “almost certainly mean the end” of the popular site.

In Rubyists Already Use Monadic Patterns, Dave Fayram made a passing reference to using ||= to set a variable's value if its value were 'Nothing' (false or nil in Ruby).

Aaron Swartz, a co-founder of Reddit and political activist is accused of stealing documents from MIT and among the charges against him are wire fraud and computer fraud.

Customers such as Foursquare, Reddit, Quora and Hootsuite were among those impacted by the disruptions, according to published reports.

Engine Yard, Foursquare, Hootsuite, Heroku, Quora, and Reddit were among the websites that suffered from slowed or disabled access.

Last fall, we wrote about the bizarre situation of Yasir Afifi, a student here in California who discovered a GPS tracking device on his car during an oil change, and then posted photos of the device on Reddit.

Following that, the FBI showed up at his house demanding the tracking device back.