When investigating an incident that involved domain redirection and a suspected tech support scam, I recorded my interactions with the individual posing as a help desk technician and researched the background of this scheme. It was an educational exchange, to say the least. Here’s what I learned about this person’s and his employer’s techniques and objectives — via redwolf.newsvine.com
You don’t often see these around, so we’re very pleased that the Mid-Century Turned Leg Planters have just landed at West Elm.
It also helps that very look incredibly stylish. Take your pick from large or small, although both have a similar design, specifically tapered legs in walnut and a glazed ceramic bowl.
White, red and black are the colours and prices are either £109 or £129, depending on your choice of size — via Retro To Go
Dartmoor Zoological Park is incredibly proud of their new Brazilian Tapir. Little Rofilho
was born, 6 April, to mum Chana
— via ZooBorns
Tommy Lee Jones always looks like his son just told him he wants to ride unicycles professionally.
— Mike Primavera (@primawesome) January 12, 2015
Google has said that cutting off advertising from piracy sites is much more effective than censoring the sites from access.
The Australian government last month introduced legislation that would allow rights holders to get an injunction placed on internet service providers (ISPs) to force telcos to block specific overseas piracy websites from access by Australian users.
The rights holders would need to demonstrate that the primary purpose of a website is for the infringement of copyright before the Federal Court will order ISPs to block it. Latest Australian news
Dallas Buyers Club wants alleged infringer details by May 6 The censorship end game of the piracy site-blocking Bill Mandatory data-retention funding to be a Budget surprise Google slams Australian piracy site-blocking legislation NBN Co predicts up to 370,000 premises need work on HFC
The move has been welcomed by rights holders, but faces opposition from Google, which told the parliamentary committee looking into the legislation that site blocking “is not the most effective means of stopping piracy”.
A recent study of the piracy ‘ecosystem’ in which the authors conducted a detailed analysis of the effectiveness of various anti-piracy measures found that anti-piracy efforts directed towards blocking access to pirated content have not been successful,
Google said in its submission.
Google said that more effective measures include providing legitimate content that is more attractive to consumers than piracy, and cutting off advertising to piracy websites. The introduction of site blocking could have unintended consequences, Google warned.
Site blocking also has the potential to be used in ways that were unintended, included by blocking legitimate content.
Google said that legislation allowing sites that facilitate
access to infringing copyright content to be blocked could lead to virtual private network (VPN) services being blocked.
VPNs also have many other legitimate purposes, including privacy and security,
Google stated.
The court should be forced to consider the impact on freedom of speech when blocking sites, the company said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google has said that cutting off advertising from piracy sites is much more effective than censoring the sites from access.
The Australian government last month introduced legislation that would allow rights holders to get an injunction placed on internet service providers (ISPs) to force telcos to block specific overseas piracy websites from access by Australian users.
The rights holders would need to demonstrate that the primary purpose of a website is for the infringement of copyright before the Federal Court will order ISPs to block it. Latest Australian news
The move has been welcomed by rights holders, but faces opposition from Google, which told the parliamentary committee looking into the legislation that site blocking is not the most effective means of stopping piracy
.
A recent study of the piracy
Google said in its submission.ecosystem
in which the authors conducted a detailed analysis of the effectiveness of various anti-piracy measures found that anti-piracy efforts directed towards blocking access to pirated content have not been successful,
Google said that more effective measures include providing legitimate content that is more attractive to consumers than piracy, and cutting off advertising to piracy websites. The introduction of site blocking could have unintended consequences, Google warned.
Site blocking also has the potential to be used in ways that were unintended, included by blocking legitimate content.
Google said that legislation allowing sites that facilitate
access to infringing copyright content to be blocked could lead to virtual private network (VPN) services being blocked.
VPNs also have many other legitimate purposes, including privacy and security,
Google stated.
The court should be forced to consider the impact on freedom of speech when blocking sites, the company said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This tutorial shows how to mix and apply glow-in-the-dark powder and epoxy to modify a few EDC (everyday carry) items. Glow-in-the-dark powder can be found on eBay/Amazon in various colours — via Youtube
3ndy Studio designed these wedge-shaped stairs made of corian for this home in Italy — via CONTEMPORIST
On 4 April, Zoo Salzburg’s Southern White Rhino, Tamu
, gave birth to her first offspring. The healthy male calf arrived, without complications, and was up on his feet an hour after birth — via ZooBorns
San Diego Zoo’s photogenic Jaguar cub is proving himself to be quite the handful…and mouthful. He was born 12 March to mother, Nindiri
, and he has been putting her mother-skills to the test — via ZooBorns
Notre-Dame des Neiges, a church in the resort town of L’Alpe d’Huez in the French Alps, has this unusual pipe organ. Jean Guillou, a master organist, designed it in 1978. The German organ builder Detlef Kleuker built it. Appropriately for a church, the shape of the organ is supposed to represent the hand of God. You can hear recordings of performances made on the organ at Pleasure of the Pipes and American Public Media — via Neatorama
Photo: Peter Atkinson
Here’s another reissue from Kay Bojesen’s wooden menagerie — a rather handsome zebra.
This is actually a slightly older design, first made in 1935. The zebra has been lovingly crafted from beech, which has then been hand painted to add those all-important identifying stripes.
Like all the designs, it will add a touch of charm to your shelves. However, they’re not the cheapest pieces. This one is priced at £85. Order it from Hus & Hem — via Retro To Go
Lex Larter, Constitutional lawyer.
Originally aired on ABC TV: 23/04/2015 — via Youtube
Australian Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has barely even finished introducing piracy site-blocking legislation into the parliament, and already the Helen Lovejoys of the world are trying to get it expanded into a much larger internet censorship scheme.
The legislation introduced into parliament in March would allow film studios, TV companies, and other copyright holders to apply to the court to get specific sites hosted outside of Australia and alleged to be primarily for the purpose of copyright infringement blocked by Australian internet service providers (ISPs).
The court will ideally examine the sites involved, and ensure that they meet all the conditions before ordering a block, though this is not guaranteed at this point.
If the ISPs are ordered to block a site, they can do so in a number of ways — through DNS, IP address blocking, or URL blocking. The exact method, too, has yet to be determined.
Turnbull has stressed that because the court must approve sites being blocked, it is not an internet filter.
It will be a court, not the government, that will determine which sites are blocked. Moreover, this is not an automatic process, but determined by a court with all of the normal protections of legal due process. In other words, a judge will make the decision, after hearing evidence and argument, not an algorithm in the software operating a router,
he said.
The lack of an automated process of filtering types of sites means it is not a filter, according to the minister.
Others seem to disagree, however.
Far be it for me to allow the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) to define the meaning of anything ever, but it has described the scheme as an internet piracy filter
and called on the government to look at implementing a default clean feed to protect children
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Do you or someone you know love chameleons and lizards? Have one as a pet? Then this is a must-have for your cabinet drawers! Fully 3-dimensional, this striped chameleon is accurately reproduced from nature and is painstakingly hand carved and cast in genuine pewter. An unusual and beautiful piece of hardware sure to last — via Etsy
The world’s smartest Octopus shoot humans, an octopus taking photos with the Sony Cyber-shot TX30 — via Youtube
ok.
i was doing some tv stuff at universal and i found myself wandering around with some time to kill and lo and behold i was in ye olde timey western land. and that’s architecture, isn’t it?
it is. and specifically southern californian architecture, as i don’t know if other cities have plywood ghost towns in their midst(s).
so, plywood ghost towns. and a plywood mexican village. to be fair, there’s plaster, too. plywood and plaster.
it’s like a grad student thesis on architectural semiotics and the folly of follies.
i hope you get a chance to wander around plywood ghost towns some day.
it’s odd — via moby
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