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Wikileaks Says It Has Half-a-Million 9/11 Pager Messages
The document-leaking site Wikileaks says it’s preparing to release 500,000 intercepted wireless pager messages from a 24-hour period encompassing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Site operators say they plan to start rolling out the texts beginning at 3:00 a.m. New York time, paced to display as they were broadcast at the corresponding time on September 11, 2001.
Continue reading »Twitter – online pimp
Recently, “Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal called Craigslist ‘erotic services’ listings a ‘ blatant Internet brothel ’,” said a p2pnet post, going on: “So Craigslist said it would have ads ‘individually checked’ before they were posted, according to CNN .” Might Twitter soon be ordered to do the same? Girlie spams of one kind or another are now commonplace on the net’s most famous micro-blogging site. However, a Twitter email from addicty96 aka nevaeh says she’s following me and I can follow her over to her ‘Personal Homepage’ where we find »»» Age: 23 Woman seeking: Man Between ages: 18 and 55 Location: Duncan, British Columbia Last login: Today Relationship status: Single On the site for: Casual sex Can accommodate: Yes Can travel: Yes About me: Well since this is an adult dating site I’ll get right to the point.
Continue reading »LimeWire in the Crosshairs of Anti-P2P Legislation
The House Energy & Commerce Committee is scheduled to mark up tomorrow a bill dubbed the Informed P2P User Act (H.R. 1319) that aims to prevent accidental file-sharing by mandating the display of clear warnings during the installation and usage of P2P software. Critics, however, fear that the final bill might end up going much further, regulating FTP clients, web browsers and even complete operating systems.
Continue reading »Bram Cohen To Deliver BitTorrent Live Streaming
The online video streaming revolution has hugely increased the use of bandwidth by individual consumers. At the same time it’s also resulting in huge bandwidth bills for streaming sites such as YouTube. Thus far the demand for video continues to grow, and it is even expanding to live video.
Continue reading »No more free TV
Since the debut of broadcast television in this country more than 50 years ago, millions of Canadians have grown to expect free access to local television signals. While the mechanism for accessing those ad or taxpayer supported broadcasts has evolved from rooftop antennae to cable and satellite distribution, access has consistently been free (cable obviously charges for access but it does not pay for carriage of local signals). Last week, Canada’s broadcast regulator issued a decision that will bring the era of free local television to an end for many Canadians.
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