Is Kim Dotcom a convicted felon, as Kurt Sutter claims? What case has he been convicted of, that makes him a felon? It seems he is still fighting extradition and other challenges in New Zealand. Where and when was he convicted of a felony regarding content, copyright or intellectual property?
Microsoft makes money off of defense contracts and their contractors. You can be assured that the Green Zone is a Microsoft zone. The Business Software Alliance sues the customers of Microsoft by proxy. So its more than incompetence, Microsoft is the computer face of Brand America... and we know that brand has been in free fall for some time now. Apple seems more international, and less Amero-centric.
I chose Wordpress 1.5.2 for http://multimediaplex.com/ and the local high school newspaper, http://copperchronicle.org/ because it has a huge user community that creates and refines plug-ins. Their codex wiki is very rich in tips and content, and they don't have the support and community issues that splits the other Content Management Systems into forked versions like Mambo and the PHPNuke variants.
The music industry has been lapped, lassoed and tattoed by the internet. Payola and other barriers to entry for new bands are rapidly crumbling as listeners of CDs and radio shift to online music. Traditional business deals for bands have almost always left the musicians screwed without a kiss. Tours and T-shirts have been the major income streams for most successful groups.
Now social networks are superceding the music and broadcasting corporations for publicity and distribution. Bands need to be heard before they can be paid. And they need to perform to build a fan base.
The Hit Factory
Who needs major labels, marketing, or airplay? A social networking site is getting more hits than Google -- and turning invisible bands into mini entertainment networks. How MySpace became the MTV for the Net generation.
By Jeff Howe
The members of Hawthorne Heights have no business being rock stars. They play a strain of punk that has consigned innumerable bands to the obscurity of dive bars and pirate radio. For the past three decades, a devotion to this stripped-down, anticommercial music has meant never quitting your day job.
And yet here they are on a dusty summer day in Pomona, California, playing for thousands of adoring fans. Hawthorne Heights is a big draw at this year's Warped Tour, a movable punk feast featuring more than 300 bands on 48 North American stops. The kids in the audience - a multiracial mix of teens from across Southern California - appear transported, pushing toward the front of the stage where slam dancers crash against each other like pinballs. Those in the front rows chant the lyrics with red-faced intensity. They've memorized the entire set.
Hawthorne Heights is touring the country in a plush bus. The quintet's debut album, The Silence in Black and White, has sold more than 500,000 copies since its release last year, and the group has appeared on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live and been on MTV's TRL. The five young men from Dayton, Ohio, are living the rock-and-roll dream - but they took a highly unconventional path to get there. The band achieved its popularity without any real radio or TV airplay, a feat unheard-of a few years ago. They aren't signed to a major label, and they don't want to be. They don't need industrial-strength marketing campaigns or heavy rotation.
What they have is MySpace, a community Web site that converts electronic word of mouth into the hottest marketing strategy since the advent of MTV. Massively popular, MySpace is nominally a social networking site like Friendster, but nearly 400,000 of the site's roughly 30 million user pages belong to bands. The rest belong mostly to teens and twentysomethings who attend the groups' shows, download their songs, read their blogs, send them fan mail, and enthusiastically spread the word...MORE
An open source P2P Gnutella that listed auction items and linked people without centralized corporatist servers would be the logical solution to EBAY's privacy breaches.
With P2P auctions, escrow services could provide any trusted money holding, without the PayPal vig.
Microsoft Source Code Stolen by Russians
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NSA Linux In Depth
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Try this out.
Problem:
We know that McSoft source code was stolen by some hackers in St. Petersburg. This has already rung alarm bells in the US government. Unknown Windows binaries with back doors can be replaced with this code.
Solution:
Secure Linux open source code for mandatory access controls that overlord Windows by placing it in a virtual machine sandbox a la VMWARE.
Then all government computer networks can be secured and Windows and Office software becomes safer from a security point of view. A national security nightmare from Redmond is averted.
The bottom line is what happens to consumers. The judge has concluded emphaticly that the consumer was HARMED..... Oh the pain! Broken Windows harms consumers. Everything from the boot sequence, to Quicktime, Java, Navigator has a pattern of predation! Down goes the stock!!!
Slashdot Mirror
Ed Snowden's revelations, and the continuing antitrust actions against Google, have created the ripe conditions for a name change and image overhaul.
Think about Blackwater and its name changing over Chelsea Manning's black eye.
Is Kim Dotcom a convicted felon, as Kurt Sutter claims? What case has he been convicted of, that makes him a felon? It seems he is still fighting extradition and other challenges in New Zealand. Where and when was he convicted of a felony regarding content, copyright or intellectual property?
Microsoft makes money off of defense contracts and their contractors. You can be assured that the Green Zone is a Microsoft zone. The Business Software Alliance sues the customers of Microsoft by proxy. So its more than incompetence, Microsoft is the computer face of Brand America... and we know that brand has been in free fall for some time now. Apple seems more international, and less Amero-centric.
I chose Wordpress 1.5.2 for http://multimediaplex.com/ and the local high school newspaper, http://copperchronicle.org/ because it has a huge user community that creates and refines plug-ins. Their codex wiki is very rich in tips and content, and they don't have the support and community issues that splits the other Content Management Systems into forked versions like Mambo and the PHPNuke variants.
Plus, Wordpress actually justifies type.
The music industry has been lapped, lassoed and tattoed by the internet. Payola and other barriers to entry for new bands are rapidly crumbling as listeners of CDs and radio shift to online music. Traditional business deals for bands have almost always left the musicians screwed without a kiss. Tours and T-shirts have been the major income streams for most successful groups.
Now social networks are superceding the music and broadcasting corporations for publicity and distribution. Bands need to be heard before they can be paid. And they need to perform to build a fan base.
Get the clues from Wired:
The Hit Factory Who needs major labels, marketing, or airplay? A social networking site is getting more hits than Google -- and turning invisible bands into mini entertainment networks. How MySpace became the MTV for the Net generation.
By Jeff Howe
The members of Hawthorne Heights have no business being rock stars. They play a strain of punk that has consigned innumerable bands to the obscurity of dive bars and pirate radio. For the past three decades, a devotion to this stripped-down, anticommercial music has meant never quitting your day job.
And yet here they are on a dusty summer day in Pomona, California, playing for thousands of adoring fans. Hawthorne Heights is a big draw at this year's Warped Tour, a movable punk feast featuring more than 300 bands on 48 North American stops. The kids in the audience - a multiracial mix of teens from across Southern California - appear transported, pushing toward the front of the stage where slam dancers crash against each other like pinballs. Those in the front rows chant the lyrics with red-faced intensity. They've memorized the entire set.
Hawthorne Heights is touring the country in a plush bus. The quintet's debut album, The Silence in Black and White, has sold more than 500,000 copies since its release last year, and the group has appeared on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live and been on MTV's TRL. The five young men from Dayton, Ohio, are living the rock-and-roll dream - but they took a highly unconventional path to get there. The band achieved its popularity without any real radio or TV airplay, a feat unheard-of a few years ago. They aren't signed to a major label, and they don't want to be. They don't need industrial-strength marketing campaigns or heavy rotation.
What they have is MySpace, a community Web site that converts electronic word of mouth into the hottest marketing strategy since the advent of MTV. Massively popular, MySpace is nominally a social networking site like Friendster, but nearly 400,000 of the site's roughly 30 million user pages belong to bands. The rest belong mostly to teens and twentysomethings who attend the groups' shows, download their songs, read their blogs, send them fan mail, and enthusiastically spread the word...MORE
An open source P2P Gnutella that listed auction items and linked people without centralized corporatist servers would be the logical solution to EBAY's privacy breaches.
With P2P auctions, escrow services could provide any trusted money holding, without the PayPal vig.
Try this out.
Problem:
We know that McSoft source code was stolen by some hackers in St. Petersburg. This has already rung alarm bells in the US government. Unknown Windows binaries with back doors can be replaced with this code.
Solution:
Secure Linux open source code for mandatory access controls that overlord Windows by placing it in a virtual machine sandbox a la VMWARE.
Then all government computer networks can be secured and Windows and Office software becomes safer from a security point of view. A national security nightmare from Redmond is averted.
The bottom line is what happens to consumers. The judge has concluded emphaticly that the consumer was HARMED..... Oh the pain! Broken Windows harms consumers. Everything from the boot sequence, to Quicktime, Java, Navigator has a pattern of predation! Down goes the stock!!!