Early last year we blogged about Anonymous and his speech posted on Youtube. We described and quoted a US website as to what constitutes an act of war. DECLARATION OF WAR – An act of the national legislature, in which a state of war is declared to exist between a nation and some [...]
In the last couple of weeks, the amount of spurious comments that have been posted to this blog have increased out of sight. It used to be once in a blue moon that I would see overt spam. Now it is daily…. I wonder… Is this an increase in bots that post, or is it [...]
N.B.: It has been strongly suggested to me that many of the conclusions drawn by the following article are incorrect. Specifically http://blog.icann.org/2007/11/there-are-not-13-root-servers/ My knowledge of these subjrcts is somewhat aged and possibly incorrect. Readers should draw their own conclusions. I would add: http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/internet/printfriendly.htm?AT=61964200-39001260c The key to the U.S. government's influence is a master list of [...]
Prologue: Most of us remember the Blair Witch Project and it’s phenomenal box office success based on a number of web pages suggesting it was a real occurrence. Mythology – The Aftermath – The Legacy – The Filmmakers That was an exceptionally clever piece of PR marketing, resulting in one of the highest [...]
How do you motivate people to change course? Venture Capitalists will tell you that it is a waste of time trying to get people to change. Just invest in things that they are likely to do anyway. That is why understanding the trend is so important. So if you look at what people are likely [...]
It seems like pretty much every day there in my inbox is a new message, sometimes more than one, telling me that someone is following me on Twitter…. I wouldn't mind except that I don't know the people who are following me. Which makes me wonder… First, I don't tweet because I actually have more [...]
Using the Search engine inside Emule will usually get hundreds of hits so it would appear that the Emule search index function is working as advertised. (Um, NOT.) Last month I identified that there were a lot of fake Lugundum servers whose role was to interdict your file requests with spam (fake files). In Australia [...]
For some time, an Australian Company Perceptric Pty. Ltd., has been researching the damage to content provider revenues from illegal file sharing activities. Empirically we can find no conclusive evidence that file sharing damages the income stream for copyright owners, in fact, quite the reverse. We have found definitive statistics that show the [...]
Scottish Company Burger King Limited. 120 Bothwell Street, Glasgow G2 7JL. Registered in Scotland. Registered No: 31456 Recently hired Mailtrack Media to inform their email connected customers of the new P2P deal on behalf of Burger King Ltd. The original [spam] is here: http://ds.fwdto1.com/e.html?a=6nU&j=hUu&u=x5U6aDD5&format=html Has P2P become so ubiquitous that Companies now use it as [...]
No free man shall be arrested, or imprisoned, or deprived of his property, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor shall we go against him or send against him, unless by legal judgement of his peers, or by the law of the land. What Law of the land says that you [...]