Archive for 2011/10/05
CNN’s Alison Kosik Ridicules Occupy Wall Street Protesters, Later Reports Traders “Hit Hard In This Economy”
Posted: 2011/10/05 in Education / AwarenessKosik can be seen in this video joking around with traders as part of a video package welcoming Erin Burnett to CNN.
The American Dream has disappeared for students, whose reality is debt and unemployment. The dream disappeared for workers forced to take wage cuts by employers sitting on billions of dollars in profits. The dream disappeared for working families who paid too steep a price for Wall Street’s greed, stupidity and fraud
Posted: 2011/10/05 in Education / Awareness“It’s clear what this movement is all about. It’s about taking America back from the CEOs and billionaires on Wall Street who have destroyed our nation’s economy. It’s about creating good jobs. It’s about corporate America treating its workers and customers with honesty and fairness and paying its fair share to stimulate the economy.
George Clooney on Occupy Wall Street: “every time I turn on the TV and see it, it seems like a good idea.” – Also discusses state of the media
Posted: 2011/10/05 in Education / AwarenessRegarding media, Clooney says, “I’m not really as concerned with the delivery system we have…I worry about content,” adding:
“I always appreciated the idea that part of the responsibility of news…is to put things in context. I find that when I was growing up, there were three networks — CBS, NBC, and ABC — and you basically got the same version of the news…and from that news, depending on your political views and your social views, you would take that information and make decisions based on it. And now, much like what had happened earlier with newspapers, people go to the place that best represents their beliefs. So I believe that they’re starting from a different fact-base, which seems to polarize us further and further apart…it makes it much harder for us to come together. I find that to be the most disturbing part of broadcast journalism.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/george-clooney-ides-of-march-obama-2011-10
Ben Mankiewicz discusses CNN’s attacks and attempts to dismiss the protests
Posted: 2011/10/05 in Education / AwarenessOccupy Wall Street Demands Action as Massive Union March Begins (VIDEO)
Posted: 2011/10/05 in Education / AwarenessAwesome Live Acoustic Jeff Mangum for Occupy Wall Street Protesters
Posted: 2011/10/05 in Education / AwarenessWriters Guild of America East Joins Occupy Wall Street March
Posted: 2011/10/05 in Education / AwarenessDigiNotar aftermath: Dutch Socialist Party making plea for dedicated “fire brigade” dealing with cyber emergencies
Posted: 2011/10/05 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicySocialist Party member of parliament Sharon Gesthuizen argues that setting up meetings to discuss cyber incidents is all nice and well, but whenever there’s a fire, one will simply call the fire brigade.
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/diginotar/2633786/sp-wil-crash-team-internetproblemen.html
In relation to the DigiNotar security breach, government regulators had failed to regulate and other government organizations were lacking the proper mandate, or the right knowledge to take immediate action.
This also prevented the Dutch Minister of the Interior Piet Hein Donner, from being able to provide the right information to Dutch parliament, stating at first, that the damage would be minimal and the proper remedies were being put in place. He had to retract that at a later stage.
Moreover, the Dutch government had to hire an outside firm to deal with the issue and both compile a full report on the matter and implement effective security measures.
See also:
http://vrritti.com/?s=diginotar
Kroes: Coordinated policy across EU crucial to develop common market for digital content
Posted: 2011/10/05 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyCommissioner Kroes believes Europe needs to focus efforts in sectors that provide direct sources of growth. Information and communication technology is one of the sectors with the greatest potential to create jobs, increase productivity growth and boost competitiveness. But for all this, a sound infrastructure is essential.
Judge suggests DMCA allows DVD ripping if you own the DVD
Posted: 2011/10/05 in Education / AwarenessHacker of Thai PM’s twitter account surrenders
Posted: 2011/10/05 in Cybercrime, Education / AwarenessDisney’s animated back-catalog gets re-released in 3D
Posted: 2011/10/05 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsReleased today, version 11 of Nero’s one-stop multimedia suite adds a more integrated interface, photobook printing, picture-in-picture video support, and so much more to what was already an impressive list of editing, burning, back-up, and organization tools
Posted: 2011/10/05 in Education / Awareness, New Business Modelsith its solid basic features and its new higher-level additions, it appears to be a potential workflow solution for casual media enthusiasts and prosumers alike.
http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20115711-12/nero-11-multimedia-suite-does-it-all/
Insignia Connected TV review: TiVo-based smart LED
Posted: 2011/10/05 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionNewzbin2 Team Up With The Pirate Bay To Defeat Site Blocking
Posted: 2011/10/05 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionFrom today their anti-censorship client now includes a feature to bypass DNS blocking not only on Newzbin2, but on the world’s most famous torrent site, The Pirate Bay
http://torrentfreak.com/newzbin2-team-up-with-pirate-bay-to-defeat-site-blocking-111005/
