I just traveled to IsoHunt.com to check on some torrents– unfortunately the website was temporarily down but they featured the following video for your lolz enjoyment… (a special thanks goes out to former Alaska senator Ted Stevens)
Wow. Thank you IsoHunt.com
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China reverses position, now says it will censor internet access during Olympics
29 07 2008From the AFP…
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China will censor the Internet used by foreign media during the Olympics, an organising committee official confirmed Wednesday, reversing a pledge to offer complete media freedom at the games.
“During the Olympic Games we will provide sufficient access to the Internet for reporters,” said Sun Weide, spokesman for the organising committee.
He confirmed, however, that journalists would not be able to access information or websites connected to the Falungong spiritual movement which is banned in China.
Other sites were also unavailable to journalists, he said, without specifying which ones.
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How Illegal P2P Downloading Could End Up Saving Internet Privacy: ThePirateBay to Introduce New Encryption Technology
10 07 2008By Janko Roettgers
July 9, 2008
NewTeeVee.com
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The team behind the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay has started to work on a new encryption technology that could potentially protect all Internet traffic from prying eyes. The project, which is still in its initial stages, goes by the name “Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets,” or IPETEE for short. It tackles encryption not on the application level, but on the network level, the aim being that all data exchanged on your PC would be encrypted, regardless of its nature — be it a web browser streaming video files or an instant messaging client. As Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij (a.k.a. Tiamo) told me, “Even applications that don’t supporting encryption will be encrypted where possible.”
Neij came up with the idea for IPETEE back when European politicians were starting to debate a Europe-wide move to DMCA-like copyright enforcement efforts, which were eventually authorized in the form of the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive in the spring of 2007. “I wanted to come up with something to make it harder for data retention,” said Neij. But he didn’t publish the initial draft proposal until early this month, when the discussion about privacy and surveillance online suddenly became urgent again. The Swedish parliament passed a new law in June that allows a local government agency to snoop on “the telephony, emails, and web traffic of millions of innocent individuals,” as the EFF’s Danny O’Brien put it. Neij promises that his new encryption scheme will be ready before the law takes effect next January.
IPETEE will likely be implemented as an add-on to operating systems like Windows and OS X. It will essentially do its work in the background, handling all incoming and outgoing IP traffic without any further interference from the user.
Let’s say you want to open a video download from a remote machine. IPETEE would first test whether the remote machine is supporting the crypto technology; once that’s confirmed it would then exchange encryption keys with the machine before transmitting your actual request and sending the video file your way. All data would automatically be unscrambled once it reaches your machine, so there would be no need for your media player or download manager to support any new encryption technologies. And if the remote machine didn’t know how to handle encryption, the whole transfer would fall back to an unencrypted connection…
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Obama plays 21st Century Politics by launching “FightTheSmears.com”
12 06 2008Recently the Obama campaign launched FightTheSmears.com, a digital war room aimed at preventing people from spreading false information about Obama and the campaign. Check it out: www.fightthesmears.com
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How Matt Drudge drives our national political dialogue with DrudgeReport.com
3 06 2008By Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith
Politico.com
June 2, 2008
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The Drudge Report is no ordinary compendium of news stories. It is a heavily trafficked gateway to all corners of the Internet, a portal composed of links largely to breaking news from traditional media like The New York Times (as well as newer entrants like Politico). Most of the content is without any obvious ideological attachment. But operatives of both parties have long believed that his choice of links — along with occasional posts of Drudge’s own reporting — have reflected a rightward tilt, and they assumed a preference for Republican candidates.
Drudge himself is reviled by many on the left, but his news instincts are undeniable — and he has an uncanny ability to drive the national conversation with what he chooses to highlight on his site.
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ESPN Ultimate Remote: Never Leave the Couch Again!
2 06 2008From TheBachelorGuy.com
June 2, 2008
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Just when you thought it was safe to leave the living room, ESPN and tvCompass hit us with ESPN The Ultimate Remote, an internet-connected Wi-Fi device that combines advanced home theater control and one-touch real-time access to sports, standings, team information and news. Now you can grab a beer, park your ass in the recliner, and still be a somewhat productive member of society. Set-up’s a snap. Since it’s wireless, you don’t need to hook it up to your computer to program it like other remotes. Just follow the intuitive prompts. Then once you’ve got all your equipment punched in, not only can you control all your audio and video from the comfort of your chair, you can also get one-touch access to the Internet, an electronic program guide for TV listings, all the sports info you could ever want, a weather widget, entertainment search, and even send emails and text messages to your buddies when their team is down big with a minute to go. All it’s missing is one-touch pizza delivery and a bottle opener.
$299.99
Available exclusively at Amazon.com
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