December 2011
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Go Daddy ceo admits spike in domain name transfers... →
We have observed a spike in domain name transfers, which are running above normal rates and which we attribute to Go Daddy’s prior support for SOPA, which was reversed. Go Daddy opposes SOPA because the legislation has not fulfilled its basic requirement to build a consensus among stake-holders in the technology and Internet communities. Our company regrets the loss of any of our customers, who...
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SOPA is disguised as an anti-piracy bill. Any first year CS student knows better. The bill is, in actuality, designed toobliterate free speech on the internet and allow media publishing companies to commercialize everything.
SOPA explicitly states that companies will be liable for everything their users post. Sites like Facebook,YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, Wikipedia, or any sites that allow...
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Newt Gingrich Promises To Create 'Millions Of Jobs... →
BOLD added by me
maybe Gingrich’s plan for “job creation” is the one that Laffer touted earlier this year in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, in which he suggested that “enterprise zones” be created in inner-cities, establishing a bunch of mini-Saipans within the United States where all of the labor practices we’ve come to know and enjoy would be...
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SOPA: Chinese Internet Users See a Familiar Face →
Indeed, China is exactly what the bill is modeled on:
If you’re wondering why lawyers and Hollywood folks would get behind legislation to censor the Internet, you only need to listen to former Senator Chris Dodd [the same guy who killed any chance of financial reform - see this, this, this and this], now the head of the MPAA, who last week explained to Variety that the lobby is only asking forthe...
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Censorship, Surveillance and Hackers
futurejournalismproject:
A great article in Forbes on Telecomix, a group of hackers that have aimed their sites, and hacking chops, on free-speech starved countries. The group has also exposed western (mostly American) technology firms whose products have (knowingly or unknowingly, depending on who you believe) slipped into the hands of state agencies bent on monitoring and suppressing uppity...
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“The water’s all whale sperm. That’s why the ocean’s salty.”
– American reality-TV star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi on her hatred of the beach and other celebrity science in 2011 (via guardian)
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“It wiped out everything. Now I have nothing for (my son). But what do you do?...”
– A working mother in Minnesota whose savings for Christmas were wiped out by a $100 administrative fee her local utility charged when she feel behind on payments. (via johnness)
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“The classic lineup of Van Halen, including David Lee Roth and the brothers Eddie...”
– Van Halen Looks Ready to Jump Into Reunion Tour - NYTimes.com (via npr)
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WatchGoogle’s Testimony on SOPA.
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What is SOPA and how does it work? The Stop Online... →
Here’s what the government can do to foreign websites under even the most narrow reading of SOPA section 102 and PIPA section 3:
Order internet service providers to alter their DNS servers from resolving the domain names of websites in foreign countries that host illegal copies of videos, songs, and photos.
Order search engines like Google to modify search results to exclude foreign...
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“A morning just before Christmas, I woke early with the intention of serving my...”
– Andy Robinson and other readers tell us about their best and worst Christmases (via guardian)
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We Believe We Can Change the World: Together, We...
jeffepstein:
Most of us entrepreneurs do what we do because we believe we can change the world.
Yesterday, we united together in a GoDaddy boycott based on their public support for SOPA.
I quickly created a step-by-step tutorial to remove your domains from GoDaddy, as a way for people to vote with their wallets.
The post sat atop Hacker News for almost 24 hours and drew had over 920 upvotes...
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Watchreuters:
Station Commander Captures Unprecedented View of Comet
NASA - International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured spectacular imagery of Comet Lovejoy as seen from about 240 miles above the Earth’s horizon on Wednesday, Dec. 21. Burbank described seeing the comet as “the most amazing thing I have ever seen in space,” in an interview with WDIV-TV in Detroit.
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livin' the dream: A Step-by-Step Guide to Transfer... →
jeffepstein:
Follow these step-by-step directions to transfer all of your domains from GoDaddy to NameCheap.
I’m Boycotting GoDaddy because they are pro-SOPA.
Step 1: Login to GoDaddy and get to the domain manager.
Step 2: Select all domains
Step 3: Click on the “Locking Icon”
Step 4:…
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China hackers breached U.S. Chamber of Commerce:... →
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Ben Blanchard at Reuters - Hackers in China broke through the computer defenses of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last year and were able to access information about its operations and its 3 million members, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Watchguardian:
braiker:
Do they know it’s Global Orgasm for Peace Day at all? Kudos to Adam Gabbatt and Ryan Jones for brilliantly, uh, pulling off a potentially disasrous man-on-the-street video. Now, “lie back and think of Syria.”
Indeed. Fav quotes: “I feel like I haven’t done enough for world peace, but this is definitely something I could follow through on.”
Adam: “Have you climaxed for...
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“MPAA has this traditional, old-school Washington presence, while Tumblr has no...”
– — Mobile Commons head Jed Alpert, in a nice Forbes piece about how his company has been helping connect citizens to their Congressional representatives.
(The Company That Generated 400,000 Calls To Congress About SOPA - Forbes)
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Forensic Examiner Found No Match of Cables on... →
reuters:
Kim Zetter at Wired - A day after a government forensic expert testified that he’d found thousands of diplomatic cables on the Army computer of suspected WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, he was forced to admit under cross-examination that none of the cables he compared to the ones WikiLeaks released matched.
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