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Porn Company Rejects Mass Lawsuits, Goes After Torrent Sites | TorrentFreak
The growing trend for some porn companies is to get into bed with a law firm and go down the mass litigation route against users in the hope of extracting millions of dollars in cash settlements. However, one leading company says that the process has difficulties and is not as straightforward as advertised. So this year, instead of chasing file-sharers they will go after torrent sites instead. Pink Visual is a prominent adult entertainment studio based in Van Nuys, California. Unlike some of its competitors, Pink Visual started providing content online and then later moved into physical distribution. It also provides content for cable and pay-per-view.
Privacy and Security Fanatic: Conspiracy Theory With Teeth: Government Allegedly Forced TruTV To Yank FEMA Camps Episode | Network World
What is one sure-fired way to feed a conspiracy theory? Make a TV episode supposedly exposing a conspiracy theory and then, after alleged government pressure, have truTV yank that episode off the air. The episode was Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory "Police State" about "secret" FEMA camps or fusion centers. There are still no public answers as to why this happened.Today Wall Street is ruled by thousands of little algorithms, and they've created a new market—volatile, unpredictable, and impossible for humans to comprehend. Photo: Mauricio Alejo Last spring , Dow Jones launched a new service called Lexicon, which sends real-time financial news to professional investors. This in itself is not surprising. The company behind The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires made its name by publishing the kind of news that moves the stock market. But many of the professional investors subscribing to Lexicon aren’t human—they’re algorithms, the lines of code that govern an increasing amount of global trading activity—and they don’t read news the way humans do.
Algorithms Take Control of Wall Street | Magazine
4 free data tools for journalists (and snoops) - O'Reilly Radar
Note: The following is an excerpt from Pete Warden's free ebook "Where are the bodies buried on the web? Big data for journalists." There's been a revolution in data over the last few years, driven by an astonishing drop in the price of gathering and analyzing massive amounts of information. It only cost me $120 to gather, analyze and visualize 220 million public Facebook profiles , and you can use 80legs to download a million web pages for just $2.20 . Those are just two examples. The technology is also getting easier to use.
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Monday, December 20, 2010; 1:40 AM Correction to this article : An earlier version of this article contained several incorrect numbers that have since been updated. The errors occurred because of the accidental duplication of 74 records in a database of over 4,000 counterterrorism organizations that The Post assembled.
Monitoring America (Printer friendly version)| washingtonpost.com
In far greater detail than previously seen, the cables, from the cache obtained by and made available to some news organizations, offer glimpses of drug agents balancing diplomacy and law enforcement in places where it can be hard to tell the politicians from the traffickers, and where drug rings are themselves mini-states whose wealth and violence permit them to run roughshod over struggling governments. Diplomats recorded unforgettable vignettes from the largely unseen war on drugs: ¶In Panama, an urgent BlackBerry message from the president to the American ambassador demanded that the D.E.A. go after his political enemies: “I need help with tapping phones.”
WikiLeaks Archive - Cables Show D.E.A.’s Global Reach - NYTimes.com
Following on the heels of this week’s domain seizure of a large hiphop file-sharing links forum, it’s clear today that the U.S. Government has been very busy. Without any need for COICA, ICE has just seized the domain of a BitTorrent meta-search engine along with those belonging to other music linking sites and several others which appear to be connected to physical counterfeit goods. While complex, it’s still possible for U.S. authorities and copyright groups to point at a fully-fledged BitTorrent site with a tracker and say “that’s an infringing site.” When one looks at a site which hosts torrents but operates no tracker, the finger pointing becomes quite a bit more difficult.
U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More | TorrentFreak
On Nixon Tapes, Disparaging Remarks About Ethnic Groups - NYTimes.com
The remarks were contained in 265 hours of recordings, captured by the secret taping system Nixon had installed in the White House and released this week by the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum . While previous recordings have detailed Nixon’s animosity toward Jews, including those who served in his administration like , his national security adviser, these tapes suggest an added layer of complexity to Nixon’s feeling. He and his aides seem to make a distinction between Israeli Jews, whom Nixon admired, and American Jews.
By Zachary M. Seward and Albert Sun Readers of Gizmodo , Lifehacker and other Gawker Media sites may be among the savviest on the Web, but the most common password for logging into those sites is embarrassingly easy to guess: “123456.”
The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords - Digits - WSJ
Microsoft Blocking Kinect Sex Games - Xbox360 News at IGN
Microsoft said it will block software developer ThriXXX from releasing its newly revealed Kinect software on the Xbox 360 console. A video surfaced on YouTube earlier this week showing a demo of the software, which allows players to use hand gestures, voice commands, and objects to simulate sexual acts. ThriXXX, open since 2003, traditionally creates "3D animated interactive sex games" for PC. "Recent events in the Kinect Hacker community and the Open Sourcing of device drivers have enabled the Kinect device to be used directly from connected PC's operating on Windows 7," ThriXXX said.