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Behemoth and Dimmu Borgir are streaming their live concert on April 5th. So all you metalheads this a must see. This is a Nuclear Blast production.
Here is the Link
Sign Up Now or I will kill ya!
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What intoxicated. Me never...hic..hic..bartender pour me a double.
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Drink plenty of green beer today all you Irish people out there.
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'King of spam' pleads guilty, faces 26 years in prison
The notorious spammer authorities dubbed "the king of spam" is facing a possible 26-year jail sentence after pleading guilty in Seattle on Friday to charges of fraud and tax evasion.
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Robert Soloway, 28, had already been found guilty of spam charges in several civil cases -- Microsoft won a $7.8 million judgment against him in 2005 -- but had avoided paying fines in those cases. The criminal charges to which he pleaded guilty on Friday followed his arrest in 2007 by the U.S. Justice Department.
He was arrested on criminal charges brought by the U.S. Department of Justice in May 2007.
In a 2005 discussion group post, Soloway bragged, "I've been sued for hundreds of millions of dollars and have had my business running for over 10 years without ever paying a dime regardless to the outcome of any lawsuits."
That year, Soloway raked in more than $300,000 from his spam operations, according to his plea agreement.
Soloway has avoided fines in the past, but this time around he may not be so lucky. In addition to the jail time he now faces, he has also agreed to discuss his financial assets while being monitored by a lie detector.
While there have been hundreds of spam prosecutions in the United States, it is extremely rare for spammers to face criminal charges, and those involved in the matter say that Soloway's case could serve as a deterrent to other spammers.
In an interview last month, Microsoft senior attorney Aaron Kornblum said he thought the prosecution would make other spammers think twice. "There have not been a large number of criminal CAN-SPAM prosecutions in the U.S.," he said. "This is significant."
Soloway is set to be sentenced on June 20. The prosecution had been seeking $700,000 in damages when Soloway was first charged nearly a year ago.
I think what he did was very wrong but 26 is a lot of time for the crime and does not fit it I think. Hell manslaughter gets less then this. What a crazy mixed up world we live in when spam gets ya more time then killing someone.
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Even as Tanya Andersen refilled her malicious prosecution lawsuit last week, the RIAA won a victories in two unrelated lawsuits. One involved a case where the defendant never showed up in court; the other a defendant who admitted to using KaZaA to download and distribute music.
James V. Lewis was sued by the labels in August 2007 after an IP address flagged by MediaSentry was traced to his ISP account. Lewis never showed up in court, and the RIAA filed for a default judgment in October. Initially, the judge declined to give the labels what they were looking for, instead scheduling a hearing to discuss the case.
After a hearing held last week, the judge gave the RIAA what it was looking for: a default judgment in the amount of $3,000 plus an additional $420 in court costs. Lewis has also been barred from infringing on "any other sound recording, whether now in existence or later created, that is owned or controlled by the Plaintiffs."
The other case, Atlantic v. Anderson, involves a Texas resident who was sued in November 2006 for copyright infringement. Abner Anderson decided to fight the lawsuit, submitting a brief answer to the RIAA's complaint in which he did little more than deny the labels' accusations. He also said that any infringement that did take place was due to the negligence on the part of the RIAA.
The RIAA moved for summary judgment in the case, arguing that Anderson's making the songs in question available on KaZaA was the same as distributing them, and that the facts of the case were indisputable.
Anderson disagreed. In his response to the RIAA's motion, he argued that the problem of illegal downloading was the result of the recording industry's own negligence. "Without an official statement, the distribution of literature from Plaintiffs, or something to inform the public of actions that constitute copyright infringement, the public could not be expected to know that using this software network was improper," argued Anderson. He also noted that he planned to challenge the constitutionality of the statutory damages sought by the RIAA, as other defendants have done.
Judge Vanessa D. Gilmore was unconvinced. In her decision, she pointed out that Anderson had admitted to downloading and using KaZaA during discovery. Furthermore, his screen name matched the one flagged by MediaSentry, and he admitted to "actively distributing" music to other KaZaA users. "Defendant concedes that he did place the subject Copyrighted Recordings in his shared folder for distribution to other users while being connected to KaZaA," she wrote in her opinion.
Judge Gilmore also touched on the RIAA's argument that making a file available over P2P constitutes infringement. "Numerous courts have assessed whether availing music and/or media for downloaded by other users on a peer-to-peer network constitutes copyright infringement as a matter of law," wrote the judge. "Accordingly... because it has been both proven and admitted to that the Defendant intentionally downloaded and/or distributed those Copyrighted Recordings, no genuine issue of material fact remains as to Plaintiffs' claim for copyright infringement."
The RIAA was awarded $23,250, or $750 in statutory damages for each of the 31 songs named in the lawsuit, plus $420 in court costs. Judge Gilmore took issue with Anderson's argument that the damages sought by the RIAA were excessive. "Yet, the true cost of Defendant's harms in distributing Plaintiffs' Copyrighted Recordings for download by other users on KaZaA is incalculable," wrote the judge in her opinion. "That is, there is no way to ascertain the precise amount of damages caused by the Defendant's actions."
The Anderson case may prove significant for the RIAA because of the ruling on the statutory damages question; an RIAA spokesperson said that the group would be "citing it often" in other cases. It's important to note, however, that the defendant's failed to raise the "making available = infringement" question in his defense. Indeed, his admission that he knowingly set up and used KaZaA to download and share music on the P2P service may have precluded him from doing so.
I am so pissed at this I could scream. Give me a freakin reason why these songs are worth 750 each. Also Lewis has also been barred from infringing on "any other sound recording, whether now in existence or later created, that is owned or controlled by the Plaintiffs." WTF is this all about. I am telling you the government is having way too much power and I say time for a revolution is at hand.
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Turn To Black - Gun Barrel
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Censors in China blocked access to YouTube and Google News on Sunday, along with other news outlets carrying images and video of protests in Tibet, which turned violent late last week.
The communist government frequently tries to control what information its citizens can access, particularly on sensitive topics such as the autonomy of Tibet. But with over 210 million Internet users in China, that job has become vastly more difficult than when the government sought to suppress reports on the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in 1989.
Blog posts, pictures and video quickly spread over the weekend highlighting the turmoil in traditionally peaceful Tibet. Protests flared up on Friday when Chinese police and soldiers moved in to quell the demonstrations by Buddhist monks and lay persons, which they claimed were timed to disrupt preparations for the Olympic Games in Beijing this summer.
Although Western media outlets including CNN have been prevented from entering the region, images from Tibet's capital Lhasa showed burning cars and buildings, bodies in the streets, and a heavy police and military presence. Users have created montages of the photographs and uploaded them as videos to YouTube.
Tibetans have long been calling for independence from China, which took control of the region in the 1950s. Since Han Chinese moved in and took over businesses and government positions, Tibetans claim they are treated as second class citizens and humans rights abuses are frequently reported.
The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader who was exiled from the country in 1959 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, is being blamed by the Chinese government for inspiring the protests, although he denied such accusations in a press conference on Sunday. The Dalai Lama blamed China for "intentional or unintentional...cultural genocide" in Tibet.
The lack of media access has led to much uncertainty about what is going on in Lhasa and at Buddhist monasteries outside the city where other protests are taking place. Chinese authorities claim police are not using guns and many have been wounded -- an assertion that is disputed by rights group Tibet Watch, which claims women and children have been killed by police trying to stop the riots.
China has yet to comment on the YouTube or Google News block, but users have reported the sites' homepages being redirected to a blank page. It's likely the move is a short term effort to stop the spread of information on the Tibet protests, as China has been quite tolerant of YouTube and other video sharing sites thus far.
Last month, the Chinese government backtracked on a proposal to prevent all foreign Internet video sites from operating in the country unless they agreed to government ownership. In order to balance business interests with those of the communist government, the country decided to allow all sites currently operating to continue to do so, while new video sites will come under the stricter regulations.
Google has faced censorship in China before, agreeing to remove links to information deemed subversive by government regulators. The company has defended its actions by stating that the alternative would be simply not to operate in China at all. Microsoft and Yahoo have expressed similar sentiments about operating in China.
With all that is going on with Tibet there it is unfair to keep people out of the loop as to what is happening right under their noses. But then again that what Communism does. Wake up and take back your country people.
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The Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reports four of the country's major ISP collectives will forcibly cut Internet access to users who are caught using peer-to-peer technology, which they suspect is used mainly for unlicensed file-sharing.
The Telecom Service Association and Telecommunications Carriers Association are two of the four groups overseeing more than 1,000 ISPs in Japan. In theory, ISPs would receive the IP addresses of repeat offenders caught downloading and/or uploading copyrighted material. Each ISP would then be responsible for e-mailing the alleged offenders, warning them their Internet service could be cut if they do not stop file sharing.
Rough estimates place the number of file sharers in Japan somewhere near 1.75 million, with the majority using Winny. That notorious program was apparently intentionally designed to aid anonymous users in trading in unlicensed files, and in 2004, suspicion to that end landed the program's creator Isamu Kaneko briefly behind bars. Eventually, he and his colleagues were found guilty of copyright infringement, though they were find the equivalent of about $13,500.
Japanese officials have previously considered temporarily cutting Internet service for those found to be participating in copyright infringement, though such drastic measures have never yet been taken, due supposedly to possible privacy rights violations. An unnamed Japanese ISP wanted to disconnect several file sharers in 2006, but the Japanese government warned it may violate user privacy if the ISP followed through.
The ISP organizations plan to hold a panel next month with the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers, Association of Copyright for Computer Software, and other copyright organizations. The main topic of discussion will be a draft outline on how and when to disconnect Internet users found to be repeat copyright infringers.
ISPs have elected to cut Internet service to alleged file sharers in part from growing pressure by industry trade groups representing the movie and record studios.
The idea of cutting Internet service to file sharers first started in the United States before spreading to Europe, and now Asia. French President Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly considered banning all repeat French file sharers last year, but Sarkozy never pressed the issue.
Well looks like it is going to suck to be in Japan if you wanna file share. This is just the beginning you wait and see if they have big success with this others will jump on the bandwagon and fast.
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This does seem very interesting and I probably will try it out when it goes public. But the question I ask is do we really need another social network place with so many out there already?
A 3D world that lets users mingle in nightclubs, beaches and yachts is currently in private beta with an expected launch date of two weeks.
Created by Stable Media and the Wyndstorm Corporation, RipLounge is a free 3D world aimed at users between the ages of 25 and 40, while letting users communicate via chat, web phone and video. The two companies behind RipLounge are in the advertising business, where 25-54 is the most desired demographic.
RipLounge promises to be a 3D virtual world that users only need to create an account for and enter, rather than having to spend hours learning their way around, or crafting other alternate persona for themselves. Users will be able to interact with one another in a number of different online settings built in RipLounge, while also listening to music created by independent artists.
Readers interested in joining RipLounge can go to the Web site and enter an e-mail address to join the "VIP List." For now, it appears getting in on the VIP list doesn't appear to have any immediate benefits - it's possible users on the VIP list will receive entry to the 3D world a day or two earlier than the public.
RipLounge will be open to the public on April 1 and will make its first debut in San Francisco in mid-April. Advertising will play a role, much of it apparently being displayed from virtual overhead monitors adorning the bar and gaming areas.
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Man I feel for ya and know who you feel. Having lost and sister and daughter way too young in their prime. Try to talk to your Dad everyday as much as possible. Even if it is just to say how are you Dad or I love you. He will eventually come around. But the question I have for you is How Are You Doing In This? you yourself need to talk to someone about this and how you feel. Holding feeling inside can destroy you. I know from experience. Just find some family or friends that will listen to your pain that you are going through and let it out. Talking about it and expressing your feeling can relive must stress that you have to be going through right now.
And time does heal all pain. As time goes by it will get easier and easier to deal with. You never forget but you learn to live with it. Hang in there.
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I bring my over 10 years in the emulation scene as well as over 20 years of computer and internet experience. I also bring my experience in music producing and playing, as well as my love for music.
I also bring my old drunken ass as well.
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The Mist in Blue-Ray
As I already seen this movie at the theater and being a big Steven King fan and reading all his books this movie was a treat in HD.
For all those with HD you have to see this in that format.
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Night Prowler - AC/DC
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I have did this on a few boards that I have been a member for a long time.
What is your first name?
Mine is Steve and if you like you can call me that on my IM or in the IRC Room.
So post yours if you are not afraid your identity will be stolen or worse cyber stalked.....
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Nice pic like the hair and color.
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Girls Got Rhythm - AC/DC
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It knocked me back 2 levels.
Hell it got me for 12 posts.. and you feel sad.
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I posted about this but no one gave a crap. flock you guys.
and flock censoring.
Well I am sorry if I did not see your post. When and were did you post it?
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Confirming our belief that some people are just "bad with computers," a boy named Joe Falciatano III from Pulaski, New York, seems to have simply the worst luck ever -- and some think it could be do to an overly magnetized touch. While using PCs at this elementary school, Joe -- who dubbed himself "Magneto Man" -- found that every system he laid his hands on went totally haywire. Only after a teacher suggested he use a grounded, anti-static wrist strap did the systems experience relief from his Geek Squad-inducing grasp. Apparently, the boy has also disrupted slide show presentations and caused his Xbox to freeze repeatedly. Though tests have been run on Joe, there's still no conclusive evidence about the source of the problem, though at least one electricity expert said the cause could be his over-insulated shoes. Maybe, but we won't be surprised when he forms an army of mutant super-villains and tries to take control of the White House. Check the video after the break for the whole report.
And the guy testing him is a ass. No such thing has human magnetism or electric. Hell I got it I can't wear a watch. Every battery powered watch I put on dies in 2 days. Everyone has electrical charges in their body just some have more. This tester guy needs to get a new job cause he sure sucks at this one.
Read about it HERE
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Some people are born with a chip on their shoulder, but Jonathan Oxer's chip is surgically embedded in his left arm.
The 37-year-old from Melbourne's outer-east never has to worry about forgetting his keys because the tiny chip, typically used to tag pets, opens his front door.
A swipe of his arm under a small scanner identifies Oxer with the house computer, which then unlocks the door.
But that's just the tip of the iceberg for Australia's biggest nerd, whose entire house is connected to a central processor and can be controlled remotely via a computer or mobile phone.
Teeming with technology, the abode conjures up images of The Jetsons but, much to the surprise of visitors, the house looks no less ordinary than a typical suburban dwelling. Wires, switches and gizmos are concealed, true to Oxer's philosophy of "having everything work invisibly".
A magnetic switch installed inside his letterbox detects when mail is inserted and occupants are notified via either the house computer, email or SMS. The garden irrigation system, too, is fully automated and computer-controlled.
Oxer's doorbell doesn't ring - instead, button presses are detected by the computer, which then activates a camera to stream video to TVs around the house showing who is at the door. If nobody is home, a picture message is sent to Oxer's mobile and he can choose to let the person in remotely.
Inside, curtains, doors, lights and windows are all wired up so they can be controlled electronically.
"You can go to bed and realise that you left the light on at the other end of the house and be able to turn it off without getting out of bed, using an interface on a mobile phone or using a telephone keypad," said Oxer.
"You can do things like issue a single command when you leave the house to tell it to go into lock mode and know that every single door is locked, all the curtains are closed and all the windows are closed, without checking them individually."
In the bathroom, lights and curtains are computer controlled and a keypad on the wall lets Oxer set the water temperature. Issuing the "shower" command turns all the lights on, closes the windows and curtains and sets the water temperature to 41C.
Oxer, who recently retired as head of the Linux Australia community group, holds down a full-time job as technical director of Internet Vision Technologies, which he formed in 2000.
He said the entire home automation project cost him "a couple of thousand dollars" because he did most of the work himself.
Damn I should make my house like this. I have thought about it at times and controlling it from a laptop but never thought about from a embedded microchip...lol.
Full Story HERE
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Yahoo Inc. has extended a deadline for nominating candidates to its board, giving the struggling Internet pioneer more time to search for a white knight to help it fight off an unwanted takeover bid from Microsoft Corp.
The announcement Wednesday comes amid published reports that Yahoo has stepped up discussions with Time Warner Inc. about acquiring or forming a joint venture with its AOL online unit to fend off the world's largest software company.
Microsoft's bid, originally valued at $44.6 billion, or $31 per share, was made public Feb. 1. Yahoo has rejected the offer as too low, and it was expected Microsoft would nominate its own slate to the Yahoo board to push the deal through.
Yahoo said the deadline for nominations would be 10 days after it announces the date of its annual shareholder meeting. The previous deadline was March 14.
In a statement, Yahoo said the extension would allow its board "to continue to explore all of its strategic alternatives for maximizing value for stockholders without the distraction of a proxy contest."
Yahoo and AOL declined comment on the reports Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times that Yahoo and Time Warner have stepped up discussions over AOL.
One scenario calls for Yahoo to acquire AOL outright with Time Warner taking a minority stake in the combined company, the Journal reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.
The Times, citing unnamed people close to Yahoo, said a Yahoo-AOL combination has the backing of Google Inc., which owns 5 percent of AOL LLC. and fears a Microsoft takeover of Yahoo.
A Yahoo-AOL combination would create a stronger advertising-driven business that could ultimately compete with Internet search and advertising leader Google.
Both AOL and Yahoo have strengths in emerging technologies for targeting ads based on users' Web surfing patterns, an approach that Google so far has shunned in favor of contextual, keyword-based placements.
Yahoo also has been in discussions media conglomerate News Corp., the owner of the popular online hangout MySpace, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press.
Yahoo and Time Warner have talked about a combination before, but the idea was rejected in 2005 because Time Warner at the time insisted that it retain majority ownership in the AOL unit, two people close to those discussions told the AP.
And you all thought it was over. Seems that big bully Microsoft really wants Yahoo. I hope AOL and Yahoo join forces to fight off this take over.
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Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails made headlines again this week as he released his new, four-part instrumental album Ghosts I-IV, at a variety of price points, including a $300 super-deluxe package. He's also giving away Ghosts I at no charge, even throwing the tracks up on The Pirate Bay for anyone to download. And it appears to be working quite well for Reznor, who has managed to sell all 2,500 copies of his $300 package without major label backing or much in the way of splashy marketing. If Reznor's earlier experiments in digital distribution failed to recoup their costs, he's clearly learned his lesson: grossing $750,000 in the space of three days isn't a bad haul for any businessperson.
With Ghosts, Reznor had some obvious advantages. NiN is a better-known brand with a devoted following, and Reznor's strategy of using multiple price points made his music easily accessible to fans. Those who wished to pay nothing could download a free version of Ghosts I. For $5, a digital version of all four albums was available, and for only $10, fans could get all the music on CD along with an immediate digital download. $75 and $300 deluxe versions were also made available and include things like a Blu-ray disc, a DVD of the multitrack audio files from the project, videos, deluxe packaging, and more.
Nice to see his second attempt at this was quite a success not like his first attempt which was a total bomb.
Way to go Trent glad to see Music is not all about the RIAA.
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FROM MIX 08 - At last, we'll all be able to see "Standards mode" for itself, and whether the new default operating mode for Internet Explorer truly adheres to written W3C standards as Microsoft now says it has bound its browser to do.
There's a lot of activity surrounding the public release of Beta 1 of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8...and we mean that quite literally. While its general appearance is not in as stark a contrast with its predecessor as IE7 was from IE6, there is one prominent feature about it that developers such as Scott Guthrie were proud to show off this morning in Las Vegas: It's called "activities."
In a similar sense to how right-clicking on an object brings up a list of commands, in what has been called the "context menu" or, from time to time, the "actions menu," IE8 has come up with a way for content suppliers outside of an active Web site to supply functionality to terms inside of a Web page. It's through an activities menu which is loaded in advance into IE8 using an XML-based template. Users can then right-click on content from anywhere to see a list of services that may pertain to it, or they can choose those same services from a new Activities button on the IE8
"An example could be that you are on the Web site of a local dealer and are interested in buying something there," writes Microsoft architect and evangelist Alexander Strauss on his personal blog this morning. "Unfortunately this dealer has no delivery service and also does not have a store locator. So in that case you would usually take the address and get directions using a mapping tool of your choice. Now you could do the same with a mapping activity. But now the big difference is that you can do it in the context of the dealers Web page. Just mark the address, right-click, and choose the mapping activity of your choice."
Continuing the tradition of "embrace and extend," IE8 also borrows a few features made popular by other browsers, albeit renamed. WebSlices, for instance, provides a means for serving up a small chunk of content either as a subordinate part of another Web page, or through a perpetual link. That link can reside in IE8's newly renamed "Favorites Bar," which now not only holds bookmarked pages but also general shortcuts to everyday files. (Mac users will note a similar feature in the Safari browser called WebClips.)
The Phishing Filter has reportedly been expanded to become the Safety Filter, and promises to encompass other possible malware threats. And IE8 has now been endowed with an automatic crash recovery (ACR) system that can pull content back up after a restart or reboot.
As a Microsoft white paper published just today reveals (PDF available here), the new system won't just pull up the lost Web page, but anything you may have been typing into that page at the time the browser or system crashed.
"Contextual work is 'soft work' that is manifested in the state of the browser," the white paper reads. "It may not be as painful to lose this type of work, but it is nevertheless frustrating when it happens...The ACR feature will help prevent contextual and compositional work loss in the unlikely event of a crash, hang, or an accidental application closure."
You can get it for Vista HERE
You can get it for XP HERE
Being a beta tester for Microsoft products I got to say this is still a bit buggy I think to actually release. I do however like the Activities buttons for added things like highlighted words and such. But you be the judge and give it a whirl. I hope it becomes better then IE 7 which I think is a joke for a browser.
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China Censors It's Internet Again
in Gossip Café [/offtopic]
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With very little characters..lol. But on a serious note this needs to really be fought as all our freedoms are in jeopardy.