It is hard to believe, but dictators are also afraid of something in this world, and that is…white mice? Well, not the animal, but the computer mice. This is all obviously a symbol on the social network and the strong influence and power it has nowadays.

Remember that story we posted last week about Google changing its search algorithm due to a scumbag scammer gaming the system? Well, the feds swooped in today and busted the guy.

Vitaly Borker, 34, was arrested at his home in Brooklyn, New York, and charged with fraud, cyberstalking and harassment, the U.S. Department of Justice said. He faces up to 20 years in prison. According to the complaint against him and a profile that appeared in The New York Times last month, Borker made abusive customer service his signature style. Prosecutors say he shipped counterfeit or defective products and threatened customers with violence if they complained.
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Using Microsoft’s Kinect, researchers at UC Berkeley’s Hybrid Systems Lab have developed what looks like a cross between Johhny 5 and a hunter killer robot from the Terminator movies.

Grandmother Catherine O’Neill was read her last rites and given ‘no hope’ of surviving, but stunned doctors by coming out of a six-month coma – after a nurse tickled her feet.

Catherine O’Neill’s future was hanging in the balance until she showed signs of life when a nurse happened to tickle her feet during a wash.

And just four hours later – after doctors gave her fluids and steroids – she was awake, learning to walk again and is looking forward to Christmas with her family.

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The premise is pretty simple: Person A tweets a request for people to direct message them with a random number (like “inbox me some numbers”, Person B responds with a number (let’s say #4 for kicks), and then Person A tweets about Person B, starting the tweet with “#4” so Person B knows it’s directed at them. The idea is that you can tell people what you really think of them without fear of embarrassment.

So instead of tweeting, “Debbie, you’re a horrible kisser,” you can say, “#52: You’re a horrible kisser” and only Debbie will know it’s her. Fun and no one ever gets hurt! (Except Debbie.)

With the game’s popularity on Twitter, it’s inevitably spread to Facebook (or from Facebook? We’re not sure) with a few slight modifications.

First, a person posts a status proclaiming that they are playing The Number Game and asking people to “inbox” them a number:

Next, the person’s friends send them private messages containing numbers. These numbers are in turn used in the original poster’s response, where they lay it all on the line and share their opinion of the person:

For the most part it looks like people are being kind to each other — lots of “LOL GUD TYMES” and “we haven’t talked in forever, girl!” — but even if you end up with a negative peer review, you’re anonymous, so there’s virtually no risk of public humiliation.

This meme was pretty much made for social networking sites because, let’s face it, we love hearing about ourselves, but I bet it’s shortlived. People are only going to tolerate so much news feed spam before they get annoyed with reading what Frank thinks of #21’s car or how much Jessica wishes she’d never broken up with #2.