Archive for September, 2011

Radiohead: “We wish the best of luck to the protesters there, but contrary to earlier rumours, we will not be appearing today at Occupy Wall Street.”

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness

A few minutes later, the movement’s official Twitter account surrendered the bad news to their to 22,000 followers: “Radiohead is not coming, we were hoaxed. Please accept our apologies.” The thousands of fans standing wandering around downtown Manhattan looking for the show and finding the protesters, who’d long-planned a march on the New York Police Department at the same time and the labor unions showed up soon thereafter as planned.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/09/radiohead-hoax-did-one-thing-attract-lot-protesters/43192/

See also:

Thousands Show up to Occupy Wall Street, but no Radiohead 
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/223010/20110930/occupy-wall-street-radiohead.htm

Occupy Wall Street Claims Radiohead Hoax; Rally and Critical Mass Ride Still On
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/09/occupy_wall_str_9.php

Live from Occupy Wall Street and the Radiohead Concert That’s Not Happening
http://gawker.com/5845532/live-from-occupy-wall-street-and-the-radiohead-concert-thats-not-happening

‘Occupy Wall Street’ Gets Huge Boost From Labor Unions
http://www.care2.com/causes/occupy-wall-street-gets-huge-boost-from-labor-unions.html

Occupy Wall Street “hoaxed” about Radiohead performance
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-20113987-10391698.html

Wall Street protesters on Radiohead performance: We got hoaxed
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/09/30/2011-09-30_radiohead_not_performing_at_wall_street_protest_despite_ongoing_rumors_protester.html

Occupy Wall Street Radiohead Rumor: Protestors React To Concert Murmurings
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/30/occupy-wall-street-radiohead-rumor_n_989730.html

Radiohead Show ‘Definitely Not Going to Happen,’ Band Says
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/confusion-on-possible-surprise-radiohead-show-downtown/

Radiohead rumor swells Wall Street protest
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/09/30/us/radiohead-wall-street/

Radiohead rumour rocks Wall Street
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/radiohead-rumour-rocks-wall-street-2364004.html

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Left High & Dry After Radiohead Concert Hoax Debunked
http://origin.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2011/09/occupy-wall-street-protesters-left-high-dry-after-radiohead-concert-hoax-debun

 

Twelve people were arrested Friday as several hundred protesters filled the streets of Boston’s Financial District

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/r/29354287/detail.html

Awaiting Live Music at #OccupyWallStreet, or visit Google+ for live music

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Google

NYTIMES, WSJ, CNN now among the first to investigate and report on Radiohead at #OccupyWallStreet

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

“Rumor of music concert” added to list of “newsworthy” events, right after “police violence and arrests“

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See also

No Radiohead Serenade at #occupywallstreet
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/09/30/no-radiohead-serenade-at-occupywallstreet/

Radiohead Show ‘Definitely Not Going to Happen,’ Band Says
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/confusion-on-possible-surprise-radiohead-show-downtown/

 

Wall Street as Gated Community

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

My sister Laura and I took the train to Manhattan on Wednesday to participate in the occupation of Wall Street.  But Wall Street is barricaded.  Yes, pedestrians move on the sidewalks, but police and metal prevent anyone from walking or entering the street.

The protestors are several blocks away at Zuccotti Park.

Again, let me say it:  Wall Street is barricaded, a gated community with security.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/30/wall-street-as-gated-community/

TIME Magazine interviews members of Occupy Wall Street

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness


Developer Donald Trump holds three bars of Gold Bullion after accepting it as a security deposit from the American Precious Metals Exchange (APMEX) for a 10 year lease for APMEX on the 50th floor of a Trump owned property

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

America’s rich losing tussle with taxman.

Cash-strapped western governments are on the offensive against their own elites. Wealth taxes are up, loopholes are being closed and crackdowns on offshore havens and Swiss bank accounts are gaining momentum.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/30/americas-rich-losing-tussle-with-taxman

Facebook Blocking #OccupyWallStreet You-tube Videos ???

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Google

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dfoHSZTqUk

Previously:

Did Google censor this Anonymous video? #OccupyWallStreet
http://vrritti.com/2011/09/29/did-google-censor-this-anonymous-video/

Google uses “Yahoo excuse”: Website ActivistPost.com was taken down last Friday due to “an automated process”
http://vrritti.com/2011/09/27/google-uses-yahoo-excuse-website-activistpost-com-was-taken-down-last-friday-due-to-an-automated-process/

Yahoo Mail fixes Occupy Wall Street block. Says automatic spam filters to blame, but that there might be some residual delays as the fix propagates through the system
http://vrritti.com/2011/09/21/yahoo-mail-fixes-occupy-wall-street-block-says-automatic-spam-filters-to-blame-but-that-there-might-be-some-residual-delays-as-the-fix-propagates-through-the-system/

#TwitterCensorship Blocks #OccupyWallStreet from Top Trending Topic Twice
http://vrritti.com/2011/09/24/even-a-rather-non-observant-person-would-have-noticed-by-now-that-the-occupy-wall-street-protest-is-being-ignored-by-the-mainstream-media-or-at-least-not-taken-seriously-corporate-owned-media-knows/

 

Bloomberg Implies Occupy Wall Street Protest’s Days Are Numbered

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

When he was asked on his weekly radio show whether he’ll let the anti-corporate protesters stay as long as they want, he responded cryptically: “We’ll see. People have a right to protest, but we also have to make sure that people who don’t want to protest can go down the streets unmolested.”

More:
http://gothamist.com/2011/09/30/bloomberg_implies_wall_street_prote.php

Confirmed: Radiohead To Play #OccupyWallStreet Protest Today

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/30/radiohead-rumored-to-play_n_989024.html

It’s the algorithm, stupid! Do algorithms offer the ultimate grounds for exoneration? Can they fail, or only the people writing them?

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

Examples:

Spam filters
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2007/09/could_yahoos_sp.html
http://www.blog.jbi.in/tipsntricks/turn-off-spam-filtering-in-gmail-and-yahoo-mail/

Finance
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/algorithms-take-control-of-wall-street.ars
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704637704576082512439373244.html

Competition 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/01/foundem_accuses_google_of_wmd_program_against_vertical_search_rivals/
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/11/google_admits_search_algorithm_whitelists/
 http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/12/google-tweaks-algorithm-to-punish-bad-businesses.ars

Privacy
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/future_tense/2011/09/small_dictators_big_bots.html
 http://searchengineland.com/google-no-longer-guessing-about-celebrity-sexual-orientation-95065

Life in general – Algorithms shaping the world around us and inside us, and specifically: THE ALGORITHMS OF WALL STREET
http://gizmodo.com/5824983/humanity-is-owned-by-computer-algorithms-and-resistance-is-futile

Appeals court: Apple can continue to restrict OS X to Mac hardware

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/09/appeals-court-apple-can-continue-to-restrict-os-x-to-mac-hardware.ars

ASA UK Publishes New Broadband ISP Speed and Unlimited Use Advertising Rules

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/09/29/asa-uk-publishes-new-broadband-isp-speed-and-unlimited-use-advertising-rules.html

Pathé starts partnership with Samsung to launch VOD-service

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2011/09/29/pathe-starts-partnership-with-samsung-to-launch-vod-service.html

This week, the Canadian government presented the renewed bill on copyright protection. The new bill is designed to modernize the current Canadian legislation and tries to balance the demands of consumers with the concerns of the film industry

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public Policy

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2011/09/30/canada-reintroduces-copyright-bill.html

TalkTalk’s P2P Throttling Kills OnLive Games

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness

http://torrentfreak.com/talktalks-p2p-throttling-kills-onlive-games-110929/

Does The NYPD Really Think That Shooting Photos/Videos Of Protests Is ‘Disorderly Conduct?’

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110928/12470016125/does-nypd-really-think-that-shooting-photosvideos-protests-is-disorderly-conduct.shtml

Pretty Much Everything Related To You And Facebook Is Recorded In Your Facebook Permanent Record

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reports

Thanks to European data privacy rules, some folks have successfully requested and received a detailed list of all the data that Facebook has kept about them. They’ve released a redacted version of the document for one person, which comes in at a hefty 880 pages. To be honest, nothing in this is all that surprising, but it does highlight just how much data Facebook ends up with and that it appears to not delete very much, if anything, ever.

The parts that seemed a bit questionable to me were things like recording every computer from which you’d ever logged in… as well as a list of all other Facebook people who have logged in from that same machine. I’m assuming they use this for security/anti-phishing, but it’s still a bit creepy to keep all that information. The other part that’s a bit strange is that Facebook keeps deleted messages. That’s a bit more troubling, since most people expect that when they delete things, they’re really deleted.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110929/01390216130/pretty-much-everything-related-to-you-facebook-is-recorded-your-facebook-permanent-record.shtml

Google: No Longer Guessing About Celebrity Sexual Orientation (It’s the algorithm’s fault)

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Google, Stats / reports

As I said, a few hours ago when I started looking into this, I could get these to trigger. But now that no longer happens. As Google won’t say why, I’ll offer my own best guess. It was probably deemed too sensitive.

At a time when the search engine has already been taking heat over what it should or shouldn’t be listing in a search for Rick Santorum, Google probably decided it didn’t want to be the one accused of outing some celebrity, even if it gathered those answers from sources across the web.

Much more:

http://searchengineland.com/google-no-longer-guessing-about-celebrity-sexual-orientation-95065

Dutch parliament has had it with Facebook’s privacy breaches

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

Call for official investigation and a response of the political leaders of The Netherlands

Dutch language article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2629531/kamer-wil-onderzoek-privacyschending-facebook.html

Mozilla: Bug Bounty Programs for Web Applications

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reports

http://www.slideshare.net/michael_coates/bug-bounty-programs-for-the-web

Iran will reciprocate cyber attack by US: Army commander says

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

http://www.irna.ir/ENNewsShow.aspx?NID=30585991

Hire hackers to catch other hackers? Police and spy agencies often employ nefarious types to help with investigations

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, New Business Models

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/service-oriented/hire-hackers-to-catch-other-hackers/7768

BREIN Director Tim Kuik thinks News-Service Europe CAN filter out illegally copied files on Usenet, and that it would be the better option. But they don’t want to: “If they filter out copyrighted content, no one will buy one of their subscriptions anymore.”

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Filtering, Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence

Dutch language news article:
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/77106/rechter-usenetprovider-moet-illegale-content-verwijderen.html

50MM Go Daddy Domain Names: Historic Internet Milestone

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_item_id=369

Amazon accepts Kindle Fire will be rooted

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/09/29/amazon_accepts_kindle_fire_android_tablet_will_be_rooted/

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) should apply copyright protection to the functions of computer programs, a software company has told it

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/30/software_copyright/

Facebook’s international headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland, where the company just so happens to face a regulatory probe into the handling of personal data on the social network

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/30/facebook_ireland_data_protection/

Researchers examining the mechanisms that control our sleep have found the chemical reaction that makes us stir abruptly, throw the cat off the bed and stumble blinking into the bathroom

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/30/scientists_isolate_genetic_alarm_clock/

Waiting for the big bang. If governments are not prioritizing IT security and do not employ people with the right knowledge and expertise, it will take a really big IT disaster to enable change

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

And the current mix of lack of knowledge, disinterest and incompetence will certainly lead to one

Dutch language article:
http://webwereld.nl/column/108079/het-is-wachten-op-de-grote-klap–column-.html

Botnet Shutdown Success Story: How Kaspersky Lab Disabled the Hlux/Kelihos Botnet

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193137/Botnet_Shutdown_Success_Story_How_Kaspersky_Lab_Disabled_the_Hlux_Kelihos_Botnet

EU will not join countries in signing ACTA this weekend

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public Policy

http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2011/september/eu-will-not-join-countries-in-signing-acta-this-weekend/

Google Cries Extortion Over Microsoft’s Android Tactics

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Google

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-calls-out-microsoft-2011-9

Microsoft to make $444 million annually from Android royalties, Goldman estimates

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/29/microsoft-to-make-444-million-annually-from-android-royalties-goldman-estimates/

Anonymous starts activism via corporate securities research

Posted: 2011/09/30 in Education / Awareness

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20113668-245/anonymous-starts-activism-via-corporate-securities-research/

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