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- WEBSITE BACK ONLINE after a few technical problems with the music the site is back online with updates check it out WWW.TOTALMAYHEMUK.COM
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- Trolling becomes illegal in the US Create an e-annoyance, go to jail By Declan McCullagh http://news.com.com/Create+an+e-annoyance%2C+go+to+jail/2010-1028_3-6022491.html Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime. It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. In other words, it's OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name. Thank Congress for small favors, I guess. This ridiculous prohibition, which would likely imperil much of Usenet, is buried in the so-called Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act. Criminal penalties include stiff fines and two years in prison. "The use of the word 'annoy' is particularly problematic," says Marv Johnson, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. "What's annoying to one person may not be annoying to someone else." It's illegal to annoy A new federal law states that when you annoy someone on the Internet, you must disclose your identity. Here's the relevant language. "Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both." Buried deep in the new law is Sec. 113, an innocuously titled bit called "Preventing Cyberstalking." It rewrites existing telephone harassment law to prohibit anyone from using the Internet "without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy." To grease the rails for this idea, Sen. Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, and the section's other sponsors slipped it into an unrelated, must-pass bill to fund the Department of Justice. The plan: to make it politically infeasible for politicians to oppose the measure. The tactic worked. The bill cleared the House of Representatives by voice vote, and the Senate unanimously approved it Dec. 16. There's an interesting side note. An earlier version that the House approved in September had radically different wording. It was reasonable by comparison, and criminalized only using an "interactive computer service" to cause someone "substantial emotional harm." That kind of prohibition might make sense. But why should merely annoying someone be illegal? There are perfectly legitimate reasons to set up a Web site or write something incendiary without telling everyone exactly who you are. A practical guide to the new federal law that aims to outlaw certain types of annoying Web sites and e-mail.Think about it: A woman fired by a manager who demanded sexual favors wants to blog about it without divulging her full name. An aspiring pundit hopes to set up the next Suck.com. A frustrated citizen wants to send e-mail describing corruption in local government without worrying about reprisals. In each of those three cases, someone's probably going to be annoyed. That's enough to make the action a crime. (The Justice Department won't file charges in every case, of course, but trusting prosecutorial discretion is hardly reassuring.) Clinton Fein, a San Francisco resident who runs the Annoy.com site, says a feature permitting visitors to send obnoxious and profane postcards through e-mail could be imperiled. "Who decides what's annoying? That's the ultimate question," Fein said. He added: "If you send an annoying message via the United States Post Office, do you have to reveal your identity?" Fein once sued to overturn part of the Communications Decency Act that outlawed transmitting indecent material "with intent to annoy." But the courts ruled the law applied only to obscene material, so Annoy.com didn't have to worry. "I'm certainly not going to close the site down," Fein said on Friday. "I would fight it on First Amendment grounds." He's right. Our esteemed politicians can't seem to grasp this simple point, but the First Amendment protects our right to write something that annoys someone else. It even shields our right to do it anonymously. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas defended this principle magnificently in a 1995 case involving an Ohio woman who was punished for distributing anonymous political pamphlets. If President Bush truly believed in the principle of limited government (it is in his official bio), he'd realize that the law he signed cannot be squared with the Constitution he swore to uphold. And then he'd repeat what President Clinton did a decade ago when he felt compelled to sign a massive telecommunications law. Clinton realized that the section of the law punishing abortion-related material on the Internet was unconstitutional, and he directed the Justice Department not to enforce it. Bush has the chance to show his respect for what he calls Americans' personal freedoms. Now we'll see if the president rises to the occasion. Copyright ©1995-2006 CNET Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.
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- CN : Google to censor search engine in China They may have stood up to the Feds, but the Mandarins won this battle... Google.cn is to censor all searches in China. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1694294,00.html This is as much though because of commercial pressures as pressure from Beijing... Google is a private enterprise. Its job is to deliver shareholder value as well as services. This it does by increasing its user base worldwide. They were offering a clear feed from US-based servers but the Chinese make links to these slower - so Google were losing market share in CN to a local Chinese search engine (which presumably accepts the national laws regarding censorship). There are a lot of Chinese net users! If they dug their heels in and pulled out of China, Googles investors would whinge that they have simply "walked away from a lucrative piece of business", and that every other company operating in China has complied with the national law of a sovereign nation. Ironically many of these investors are in Western countries! Google has also removed services that could get people in trouble such as blogging etc, but this is as much a potential damage limitation exercise as they know the Chinese security services will get court orders for any data they see on blogs etc they wish to investigate further.. A good example of how a "free market" doesn't guarantee "freedom of speech and expression" - and how much power China is getting worldwide these days.. incidentally anyone know what happened to the "open directory" project which was supposed to be an "open source/non commercial" search engine?
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- January 25, 2006 at 9:06 pm
  
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- US : Feds leaning on Google to divulge search data What is more worrying is that Googles main competitors have already caved in to Washington's demands... Google defies US over search data The internet search engine Google is resisting efforts by the US Department of Justice to force it to hand over data about what people are looking for. Google was asked for information on the types of query submitted over a week and the websites included in its index. The department wants the data to try to show in court it has the right approach in enforcing an online pornography law. It says the order will not violate personal privacy, but Google says it is too broad and threatens trade secrets. Privacy groups say any sample could reveal the identities of Google users indirectly. And they say the demand is a worrying precedent because the government also wants to make more use of internet data for fighting crime and terrorism. However, the Justice Department has said that several of Google's main competitors have already complied. Act blocked The department first issued a request for the data last August. It wants: A list of terms entered into the search engine during an unspecified single week, potentially tens of millions of queries A million randomly selected web addresses from various Google databases. The US government is seeking to defend the 1998 Child Protection Act, which has been blocked by the Supreme Court because of legal challenges over how it is enforced. Google's refusal to comply prompted US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Wednesday to ask a federal judge in the state of California for an order to hand over the records. But Google's lawyers said it would fight the order. "Google is not a party to this lawsuit and their demand for information overreaches," associate general counsel Nicole Wong said in a written statement. "We had lengthy discussions with them to try to resolve this, but were not able to and we intend to resist their motion vigorously." Google has also said that providing the data would make its users think it was willing to reveal personal information about them, as well as giving competitors access to trade secrets. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/technology/4630694.stm Published: 2006/01/20 10:33:48 GMT © BBC MMVI
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- January 22, 2006 at 12:26 am
  
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- INT : Yanks hand over control of *all* Internet domains to national governments long but essential reading, USA have basically decdided that the national Government in all nations is to have control over national Internet domains (the two letters that represent your country), and the content that may go through them (if they don't like it they can re-route the site to a Government server (and catch the IP addresses of all the users!) whilst Washington/Pentagon has overall control over the domains, and the workings of DNS (a load od big computers that make the internet work). Quote: Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/29/us_undermines_internet/ 2005: The year the US government undermined the internet By Kieren McCarthy Published Thursday 29th December 2005 19:34 GMT 2005 in review 2005 will be forever seen as the year in which the US government managed to keep unilateral control of the internet, despite widespread opposition by the rest of the world. However, while this very public spat went on, everyone failed to notice a related change that will have far greater implications for everyday internet users and for the internet itself. That change will see greater state-controlled censorship on the internet, reduce people's ability to use the internet to communicate freely, and leave expansion of the internet in the hands of the people least capable of doing the job. It is also another example of where the US government's control has - in real, verifiable terms - had a direct, unchecked impact on the internet, despite constant assurances that it takes only a benevolent and passive role. And it has come as a result of the US administration's hugely controversial decision to invade Iraq. Redelegation We are talking about the ever-troublesome redelegation process for country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) - like .uk for the United Kingdom, .fr for France and .de for Germany. There are currently 246 ccTLDs in existence (although there should really only be 240), and every year, there are arguments over who should be entitled to run them. Mostly ownership of the domains is stable but in recent years African governments have been keen to take more of a role in running their country's Internet, causing a glut. This year, 2005, there have been seven redelegations: The Falkland Islands (.fk); Hong Kong (.hk); Iraq (.iq); Kazakhstan (.kz); South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (.gs); Timor-Leste (.tl); and Tokelau (.tk). Of these, three were agreed to before July and are of little consequence, being no more than agreed changes in owner or country circumstances. However, on 28 July 2005 at a special board meeting of internet overseeing organisation ICANN, ownership of both Iraq (.iq) and Kazakhstan (.kz) was changed in a way that soon after saw a change in ownership for South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (.gs) and Tokelau (.tk). At that meeting, consciously and for the first time, ICANN used a US government-provided reason to turn over Kazakhstan's internet ownership to a government owned and run association without requiring consent from the existing owners. The previous owners, KazNIC, had been created from the country's Internet community. ICANN then immediately used that "precedent" to hand ownership of Iraq's internet over to another government-run body, without accounting for any objections that the existing owners might have. Previously it had always been the case that ICANN would take no action (and only ICANN, through IANA, can actually change ownership of a ccTLD) unless both sides were in complete agreement. Now, ICANN had set itself up as the de facto world authority on who should run different parts of the Internet. Nuclear option The Iraq situation is more complicated than briefly outlined above (of which more later), but in a little under two hours, the ICANN Board set aside a process that had held since the very earliest days of the Internet. Not only that but it provided governments with instant, unassailable control over what happens under their designated area of the internet. If a company running a country code top-level domain refuses to agree to hand over any information or data held by it to the government, either legally, illegally or extra-legally, secretly or not, the government can simply replace the company with a government-run agency. If it refuses to shut down a website, or to redirect it elsewhere, the government can simply replace it with a government-run agency. It is a nuclear option, but neverthless a nuclear option that didn't exist prior to July. It will also never have to be used - the threat of its use will see any company wanting to keep hold of its livelihood agree to government demands. Of course this would never happen. Except it has already. Within months of the government-run "Association of Kazakh IT Companies" getting control of Kazakhstan's internet domain, it shut down the website of British comic Sacha Baron Cohen (best known as Ali G). The site at www.borat.kz featured another of Cohen's comic creations, Borat Sagdiyev, a Kazakh journalist. It was removed from the Internet. Why? The president of the organisation said it was so the comic "can't bad-mouth Kazakhstan under the .kz domain name". If you want an example of government-owned and run censorship on the internet, you'll be hard pushed to find a clearer example. Sleight of hand and powergrabs What was the method by which the US government managed to undermine its very justification for continuing to run the Internet and instead open the way for state censorship of the Internet? It came in the controversial "declaration of principles (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/01/bush_net_policy/)" at the end of June. The aim of the principles was to fire a warning shot at the rest of the world's governments just prior to publication of a United Nations report that recommended control of the internet be taken away from the US government. There were four principles (http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/USDNSprinciples_06302005.htm), the most controversial being the first, which stated the US government would "maintain its historic role in authorising changes or modifications to the authoritative root zone file". The second was largely seen as a way of preventing the world's governments from going ballistic since it recognised that "governments have legitimate interest in the management of their country code top level domains". ICANN and IANA had already decided to adjust vital wording in any ccTLD redelegation process to "address concerns". Agreement between a ccTLD operator and ICANN was now "desirable but not necessary to finalise a redelegation", they had agreed. Combining this loosening of existing operators' powers with the US principle that strengthened government oversight, ICANN switched control of the internet in one fell swoop to governments. And, of course, it puts itself in the role of judge. This is the phrase that has since appeared in every redelegation following the July meeting: "ICANN has reviewed the request, and has determined that the proposed redelegation would be in the best interests of the local and global Internet communities." It is with this loose and ambiguous justification - arrived at, you should note, without any publicly available information or debate whatsoever - that ICANN has set itself up as the internet's Supreme Court. And given governments effective control of the internet. Legal semantics ICANN's efforts to turn itself into the Internet's government in this area stretch the phrase "redelegation" itself. Despite repeated requests by ccTLD owners themselves, it is ICANN that insists on calling the process of changing the name of the administrative or technical owners of a particular ccTLD "delegation". The operators themselves prefer the terms "change of manager", "change of technical contact" and, in the case of more technical changes "change of name servers". The advantage of the term "delegation" is that it has legal connotations. If you are delegating something, it automatically implies that the delegator has some form of legal authority over the delegee. This is something that most country code managers would strongly disagree with in the case of ICANN. The case of Iraq Why did the US government allow this sleight-of-hand from an organisation that it has overall control over? Simple: Iraq. When the US government took over Afghanistan in 2001, it was fortunate in that the current ccTLD owner was killed during bombing of Kabul. It simple forged the man's signature on a piece of paper handing over control to the US-created authority and the job was done. Control of Iraq's domain was far more complicated however. The .iq domain was registered instead to two brothers living in the US. The Elashi brothers and other members of their family at the time were also in US jail awaiting trial for funding terrorists - which in the end amounted to shipping computer parts to Libya and Syria and for which they all received hefty sentences (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/09/iraq_domain_owner_convicted/). The US was keen to turn over Iraq's internet over the US-run administration but the whole process was political dynamite. Head of the temporary government, Paul Bremer, wrote to ICANN head Paul Twomey requesting ownership of .iq, but Twomey had to say it wasn't possible because the rules dictated that the Elashi brothers agree - something that was pretty unlikely. We only found out about that letter a year later however, and the letter does not appear on ICANN's website. The situation infuriated the US administration which immediately sought to change how things were done. At the same time however, the US government could not be seen to be demanding that the .iq domain be handed over to whoever it said, because it would undermine its very position at the head of the Internet. It was also inevitable that any such move would attract media attention and criticism. And so a method was devised by Washington and ICANN to ensure that the rules could be bent. And so they have been. As a result no one single soul is better off, and governments have been given control over the internet by the backdoor. Now you know. ® Related stories Iraq domain owner convicted (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/09/iraq_domain_owner_convicted/) All hail the new TLD - .ax (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/18/ax_domain/) Niue is dead! Long live .nu! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01/15/niue_is_dead_long_live/) Bush administration annexes internet (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/01/bush_net_policy/) Related links IANA report on .iq (http://www.iana.org/reports/iq-report-05aug05.pdf) [pdf] IANA report on .kz (http://www.iana.org/reports/kz-report-05aug05.pdf) [pdf] US internet "principles" (http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/USDNSprinciples_06302005.htm) © Copyright 2006
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- January 4, 2006 at 4:42 pm
  
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- Subsdance Website Hello, unfortunately the subsdance.co.uk website is about to go down. Hopefully be back on line in 2006. Cheers Subsdance
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- December 7, 2005 at 9:03 am
  
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- DEALING WITH TROLLS! Although dealing with trolls is a sensitive issue for all of us please, please follow our existing policy of *completely ignoring them* and leaving Alex, Use (I'm about to make him a full administrator) and myself to delete their threads! hugh
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- October 27, 2005 at 6:16 pm
  
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- Anyone good at designing websites and got some spare time?? We need you! http://www.partyvibe.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=22747#post22747
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- Anyone here good a website design? and got some spare time??! http://www.partyvibe.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=22747#post22747 Thanks
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- October 26, 2005 at 1:35 pm
  
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- Does anyone want to design the new Aztek website? Anyone out there with web designing skills wanna design us our new website for a small fee obviously ? were a bit too busy to do it ourselves something a bit flashy would be nice, got a lot of ideas and details on what content we would like to include and a few ideas on how we would like the site to look like but really haven't got the time to fully design it ourselves. please post here or im Looney if you can help. Thanks
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- October 26, 2005 at 1:31 pm
  
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- singing emaile servis http://www.sr.se/P1/src/sing/index.htm?key=R8QX1I06 ps this can be very adictive and waste large amounts of time but its good fun
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- Headfuk website? Wheres it gone this time? Its not here www.headfuk.net or www.headfuk.org Any ideas?
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- October 10, 2005 at 11:20 am
  
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- Hacking Google Earth http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3532061 Hacking Google Earth By Chris Sherman, Associate Editor September 6, 2005 Google Earth's vivid satellite imagery has a serious goshwow factor, but the program also offers a lot of useful tools and data sharing features that make it a terrific research and learning resource. When Google launched Google Earth last month, it followed its now customary pattern of taking a fee-based service and making it available for free. If you haven't yet tried Google Earth, download it and give it a try. The program currently runs on relatively new Windows based computers; this download page has full specification details. Google engineers often say that the search engine of the future will resemble the computer on Star Trek. Well, Google Earth is certainly close: The interface for the program resembles a control console for a spaceship. It's also very intuitive and easy to use. But once you've had some fun "flying around" the earth, what next? For starters, try creating some "placemarks" for your favorite locations. Placemarks are just like bookmarks, but they're associated with a specific location on the planet. To set a placemark, either search for a location or use the zoom and pan controls to zero-in on a location. Then click the push-pin icon in the lower-right of the console. This brings up a menu; click the placemark selection (alternately, you can also set a placemark by clicking Ctrl-N). A pushpin icon appears on the image you're viewing.drag it to the exact location you'd like it to be placed. Notice the dialog box that has appeared on the left side of the screen. This lets you name your placemark and add a description if you like. A checkbox enables advanced features that give you even more control over a placemark, and you can also organize your placemarks into folders, in much the same way that you organize your favorites. Now the real fun begins. Once you've created placemarks, you can "tour" them by ticking the check box next to each location you want to visit, then clicking the little "play" icon in the lower right corner of the My Places box. Google Earth will then fly you around from location to location. You can also save your placemarks and share them with others, either by email, or by uploading them to the Google Earth community forum. I'll talk more about that in a moment. Finding and saving placemarks is cool, but why stop there? Google Earth also lets you save search results related to a particular location. The easiest way is to simply drag the search result folder icon to the relevant folder in your My Places. Another fun feature lets you fly along a route that's created when you request driving directions. Simply enter your starting and ending point into the "directions" search boxes, and once the route is mapped, click the play icon. You can control both the speed of the tour and how long you pause at each stop via the Tools > Options > Control menu. I've just scratched the surface of what you can do with Google Earth. Although the Google Earth Support Page offers some basic information, you'll find a much better guide to the program's features in the Getting Started guide. Sharing Google Earth Data As I mentioned, you can share saved Google Earth placemarks, searches, directions and other data. The easiest way is to simply email the special KMZ file that's created whenever you save data. But you can also save these files to a network server, either internally or on the web, and anyone with access to that server can download and use your files. In fact, there's a thriving community of Google Earth users who've created some terrific placemarks and tours, ranging from utilitarian to educational to outright weird. Google offers a list of top ten sightseeing tours, including the Grand Canyon, the Colosseum and other notable landmarks. Using these is easy.just click the Load KMZ link and the tour will automatically be added to the "temporary places" folder of Google Earth. Be sure to save it to a permanent folder if you like what you see. The Google Earth Community is another good resource for finding saved data. Start with the Earth Browsing discussion, but be sure to check the other areas, such as: Travel information - Advice from and for those who travel.hotels, restaurants, and other worldly wisdom Nature and geography - Natural locations and events of note and import History illustrated - Significant events and places in history Teachers take note: Many tours have a decided educational flavor. For example, there's a terrific tour called the seven wonders that not only pinpoints the ancient wonders of the world, but also locates modern wonders, undersea wonders and others all over the globe. You'll also find tours illustrating the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Rome: Then and Now, UThe Voyages of Admiral Zheng He 1405-1433 and countless others. Using these tours with Google Earth is an astonishing way to bring history and geography to life for students. Other sites that offer Google Earth data are starting to spring up. One of the best is Google Earth Hacks, a third-party site with lots of cool gizmos to enhance Google Earth. Some of the files point out fun places to visit, while others can do things like put real-time weather radars on your map, add in more 3D buildings and so on. To see what Google Earth Hacks has to offer, visit the download area. But also be sure to check out the site's user forum, and if you really get into it you can subscribe to their newsletter. Other good sites with Google Earth data include Been Mapped, Google Globe and Google Earth Sightseeing for all kinds of cool and whacky views found in the Google Earth database.
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- go to this website and vote now! i hope its true! www.stgeorgesday.com/voting.asp :weee:
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