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News Bytes Thursday, July 29th 2010, 11:25am EDT 2nd missing US serviceman found dead in Afghanistan. News Article Thursday, July 29th 2010, 11:24am EDT 'Long Island Lolita' Amy Fisher Starts Porn Company. Amy Fisher, known as the "Long Island Lolita", launched an adult production company, and plans to produce as well as star in adult movies. "Our society loves sex," said Fisher in a statement, according to CNBC. "Sex is beautiful, powerful, and simply put, no one has the right to tell me what I can or can not do with my own private parts." Amy Fisher Productions aims to release four movies by the end of 2011. This year, Fisher will start producing and starring in movies for Dreamzone Entertainment. Fisher has some experience as an adult-movie star. In 2008, her husband sold a video of the couple having sex to a porn company. Fisher sued the distributor, and eventually settled the case. The video sold over 200,000 copies. News Article Thursday, July 29th 2010, 11:23am EDT Indonesian Government Bid to Block Porn Sites Hits Technical, Political Snags. The Communications and Information Technology Ministry says it can block access to up to 3,000 pornographic Web sites a day, as part of Minister Tifatul Sembiring’s plan for smut-free Internet. Ashwin Sasongko, the ministry’s director general for telematics applications, said on Wednesday that his office had already installed filtering software called the Massive Trust Positive in all Internet-enabled computers supplied to villages under the government-sponsored Desa Pintar (Smart Village) program. He acknowledged, however, that with an estimated four million new pornography pages added to the Internet each day, it would be impossible to completely block access to such sites for Indonesian Web users, and called on the public to participate by reporting offending sites. But Internet service providers say they need the government to formalize its policy before they can take steps toward blocking the content. News Article Thursday, July 29th 2010, 11:22am EDT Minister Malusi Gigaba on South Africa porn law. Deputy Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba intends to fast-track the passage of a yet-to-be drafted law that will compel Internet service providers (ISP) to filter content provided to users to ensure it does not contain any pornography. The Film and Publication Board (FPB) held a symposium this week to look at ways of protecting children from porn. "Despite recent amendments of the law and other efforts to stop the devastating effect on children of their access to pornography, it's not enough," FPB legal affairs manager Dumisani Rorwana said in a statement on Thursday. "The law as it stands is not working, so we've no choice but to take it to the next level." Technology had advanced to a point where ISPs would be able to filter out around 95 percent of the content in a "highly cost-effective way", he said. Similar programmes to safeguard children from pornography were currently in place in China, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. "We expect resistance from those who claim the freedom to access pornography as a fundamental right," Rorwana said. News Article Thursday, July 29th 2010, 11:21am EDT Thousands of Blogs Shut Down Due To Terror Threat. Blogetery.com has recently been shut down, bringing down thousands of blogs, following a terror threat being posted on one of the blogs hoste on the domain. The Blogetery platform, which hosted over 70,000 bloggers, is believed to have contained a link to terrorist material and a hit-list from Al-Qaeda posted on the site. The parent company BurstNet said that bomb making instructions had also been posted there. The company received a notice regarding this from law enforcement officials. Blogetery.com shut down their platform without any notice to their users. BurstNet has said that “The posted material, in addition to potentially inciting dangerous activities, specifically violated the BurstNet acceptable use policy.” CNET.com reports that Burstnet received news about this material from the FBI on the 9th of July. The material is believed to have contained the names of various Americans on the Al-Qaeda hit-list. There were also messages from Osama Bin laden and other terrorist leaders. News Article Thursday, July 29th 2010, 11:20am EDT Family Values Group Tries to Mate With Aussie Sex Party. According to Australian Sex Party president Fiona Patten, the recent revelation that First Family, an Australian conservative “family values” party, has approached the Sex Party for a preference deal in the upcoming federal election has been “front page news around the country.” Patten told a local news outlet that she was “stunned” when Senator Steve Fielding, a Family First adviser, phoned her and made the proposal just as she was launching the Sex Party’s South Australian campaign in Adelaide yesterday. She replied right off that “her party was not interested in dealing with Family First, which she said represented the worst aspects of conservative Australia.” News Article Thursday, July 29th 2010, 11:19am EDT Don't Let Your Web Site Design Become a Nightmare. As a web designer and front-end developer, certain words always make the hairs on the back of neck stand up, my stomach muscles tighten, and the small voice in my brain scream Noooooooooooo!!!! What are those words? "I just hired a [(traditional) marketing firm or graphics person] to create my website. Will you code it for me?" As soon as those words are uttered, in 9 out of 10 cases, the resulting site will take me 25 percent longer to code and will be much less likely to convert or be an effective presence for the brand. And don't even start on the ones that come back in Flash. News Article Thursday, July 29th 2010, 11:18am EDT In iPhone, adult industry sees pocket porn market. It's a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in. So when Apple Inc. launched the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime videoconference feature, it didn't take long for adult-entertainment companies to develop video-sex chat services and start hiring workers through Craigslist. With more than 3 million of the phones already sold, the adult industry stands to make big money on this new way to reach out and touch someone - even if it puts Apple, which has always taken pains to keep its iPhone apps squeaky clean, in an awkward spot. In at least five cities, Craigslist ads seek models specifically for video sex chat on FaceTime. Many of the ads even offer to throw in a free iPhone 4 for the new employees. FaceTime lets people call another iPhone 4 user and have live video conversations over a Wi-Fi connection through the phone's camera and screen. In one TV ad, a soldier uses it to get a look at his faraway wife's ultrasound pictures. The adult industry wants its customers to share moments of an entirely different kind with its stars. And while the technology may be new, the idea is not. Porn providers have always been early adopters. News Article Thursday, July 29th 2010, 11:17am EDT Senate Committee Hacks Away at Online Privacy Thicket. Privacy was in the spotlight this week in Washington, as the focus of a committee hearing in the U.S. Senate. FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz suggested the possibility of implementing a "Do Not Track" list for consumers wanting to avoid being followed online by marketers. In the meantime, Sen. John Kerry said he plans to introduce a new privacy bill to the Senate later this year. News Article Thursday, July 29th 2010, 11:16am EDT Internet upgraded to foil cyber crooks. The Internet has undergone a key upgrade that promises to stop cyber criminals from using fake websites that dupe people into downloading viruses or revealing personal data. The agency in charge of managing Internet addresses teamed with online security services firm VeriSign and the US Department of Commerce to give websites encrypted identification to prove they are legitimate. "This is, by any measure, an historic development," ICANN chief executive Rod Beckstrom said while breaking the news at a premier Black Hat computer security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. "This security upgrade matters to everyone who uses a computer, and that means most of us." The Domain Name System Security Extensions, referred to as DNSSEC, basically adds a secret, identifying code to each website address.  News Article Thursday, July 29th 2010, 11:14am EDT Scareware victims seldom fight back. Victims of rogue anti-virus scams rarely attempt to claw back fraudulent credit card payments for worthless software packages, according to new research. Security blogger Brian Krebs contacted victims of scareware scams after coming into possession of a list of users duped into buying rogue anti-virus packages. The data came from caches of data maintained by rogue anti-virus affiliates, a key sales channel for scareware developers. The information included the amounts charged to victims (between $50-$100) and partially obscured credit card numbers, as well as the names, addresses and email contact details of scareware clients. In one case only 367 out of more than 2,000 victims disputed the charge with either their banks or scammers. Payments in this mid-April campaign were made to either Browsing Solutions, Moscow, or EBD-Software.com. A second campaign pulled in 1,600 marks, only one in 10 of whom challenged charges. News Bytes Wednesday, July 28th 2010, 12:05pm EDT North Korea, don't mess with South, US signals to Kim Jong-Il. News Article Wednesday, July 28th 2010, 12:03pm EDT 7 Keys Scattered Across the Globe Protect Your Internet. Seven sages across the land hold the Medallions which can rebuild the world … and no, we’re not referring to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Surprisingly, we’re talking about real life: The BBC reports that Paul Kane, CEO of UK-based domain name sever company CommunityDNS, has been named one of the keepers of the seven magical keys (and by “magical keys,” we mean “non-magical keycards”) scattered around the world that, when used together, can reboot the entire World Wide Web. Mr. Kane will be the key holder of Western Europe. Moria and Rivendell, we suspect, will also have their respective key bearers. If the Internet’s DNS were to somehow collapse, not only would you not be able to access your beloved Geekosystem home page, but the world economy and social infrastructure would likely be devastated too. Well, DNS watchdog ICANN–who has been busy improving our porn sites and also recently implicated by various news outlets for helping the U.S. government take down various movie streaming sites–has now created a fallback system. In the situation that there is an catastrophic security breach–say, a terrorist cyberattack– at least five of the seven Trusted Community Representatives (TCRs) would be required to travel to the United States in order to combine their respective “encrypted cryptographic fragment[s] of the Recovery Key for the DNSSEC signing Key used to sign the ROOT Zone.” According to the New Scientist, Kane said he plans to store the smartcard in a “tamper-proof bag” in “a secure deposit box.” News Article Wednesday, July 28th 2010, 12:03pm EDT Judge Grants Motion to Dismiss FSC's 2257 & 2257A Lawsuit. The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) has just issued an announcement stating that District Court Judge Michael M. Baylson today granted the government’s motion to dismiss in FSC’s 2257 and 2257A lawsuit. The 112-page decision comes nearly 10 months after FSC’s initial filing. “We are disappointed but not surprised,” said FSC Executive Director Diane Duke. “We could tell at the onset that this judge was going to be a challenge.” News Article Wednesday, July 28th 2010, 12:00pm EDT Defining Search Engine Optimization in 2010 My last post, "What's Next for Search, SEO?," managed to produce some interesting takes on the future, past, and present of devices and how we use them/optimize for them. Thanks for your responses. They got me thinking -- what year am I stuck in? The simple answer is that I never quite came to terms with the '90s. Having been born in 1980, I just couldn't accept that a new decade had anything to do with me. Plus, my football team was unbeatable in the '80s and is now average at best. So if I were really pressed for an answer, I'd say I was stuck in 1988. Early May, to be precise. News Article Wednesday, July 28th 2010, 12:00pm EDT China shuts down, blocks 19,000 websites in porn crackdown. China has shut down or blocked 19,000 websites found to contain lewd or pornographic content as of Wednesday since it launched a crackdown in December last year. Statistics from the national office against pornographic and illegal publication found 15,500 out of the 19,000 websites were porn mobile WAP sites. In the meantime, public security authorities cracked more than 1,650 criminal cases, in which suspects were found to have spread pornography through Internet or mobile WAP sites, according to the office. The office said it received more than 159,000 tip-offs from the public in porn-related cases. News Article Wednesday, July 28th 2010, 11:59am EDT John Stagliano Appearing on Fox Business Network Thursday. John Stagliano will appear again on the Fox Business show hosted by John Stossel to discuss the outcome of his federal obscenity prosecution, which ended with a dismissal of all counts by the judge on July 16. Stagliano previously appeared on the show on May 20. The show's website gives the following synopsis for the Sex and the Law episode. News Article Wednesday, July 28th 2010, 11:58am EDT .uk domain celebrates 25-year anniversary. Five years before the world's first website was launched by CERN - the European organization for nuclear research - in 1990, the .uk domain was created. On July 26th, the domain celebrated its 25-year anniversary. Since the internet's launch in the 1980s, more than 8.5 million internet addresses have been registered with the UK top-level domain all over Britain. The domain was created four months after the .com domain. A recently conducted survey revealed that 77 percent of the responding internet users in Britain prefer .uk over the often used alternative .com. On a world basis, .uk is the fourth-most popular domain after .com, .de and .net. News Article Wednesday, July 28th 2010, 11:54am EDT 7 Golden Rules for Paid Search Copy. Too many companies and search agencies pour all their creative juices into organic search campaigns and neglect the copy on their paid search ads. Yet even the short space you get in paid ad needs some real attention if you're going to get any clicks and -- more importantly -- the right kind of clicks. So here are seven golden rules for great paid search copy. News Article Wednesday, July 28th 2010, 11:50am EDT Movie Ads on Porn Sites: Middle Men Markets to Masturbators. You've really got to HAND it to the movie Middle Men. Breaking the final barrier of advertising taboo, the Luke Wilson business comedy is advertising to a very specific (and larger than anyone will admit) demographic: wankers. While we won't offer specific links, the story about the rise and fall of Internet smut/micropayment tycoons is running its trailer as "pre-roll" footage on some of the more heavily trafficked "Porn 2.0" sites. Some of which are gentle and for couples, some of which are . . .not. How do we know? We just know. Part of us applauds the moxie of this movie - we haven't seen it yet, but it looks smart in a The People Vs. Larry Flynt meets Barbarians at the Gate kinda way. Why not advertise yourself to a niche that has first (ahem) hand knowledge of the subject matter?  News Article Wednesday, July 28th 2010, 11:48am EDT Unsavoury cartoon ruling sparks debate in Sweden. A Swedish man who translates Japanese Manga comics has been fined for possessing child porn cartoons, sparking a heated debate about censorship. The man was reprimanded by Uppsala district court for downloading 51 drawings of children engaged in sexual acts from the internet. In the first ruling of its kind in the country, the translator defended himself by saying he retrieved the images in order to keep up to date with the latest developments in Japanese comic book art. The decision to fine the man for possessing child pornography was unanimous, but Judge Nils Palbrant admitted that the resolution had raised a number of contentious questions. “There’s a clear conflict between freedom of speech on the one hand and general regulations regarding children’s rights on the other,” Palbrant said in an interview with local newspaper Uppsala Nya Tidning. “It was however our view that the protective aspect weighed more heavily when taking into account the intentions of the legislator. The aim of the law, as described in the preliminary work that led to its creation, is not just to protect individual children but children in general.” News Article Wednesday, July 28th 2010, 11:47am EDT Google patents search that tracks your mouse moves. Google has patented a system that displays search results and ads based on where you move your mouse. Mountain View first filed for the patent — dubbed a "system and method for modulating search relevancy using pointer activity monitoring" — in February 2005, and the US patent office rubber-stamped the application earlier this month, as noticed by TechEye. Search engines such as Google's already order search results according to click-through rates — i.e., how often users click on particular hyperlinks. The new patent takes this idea a (large) step further, looking to reorder search results by monitoring when users show interest in web content without actually clicking on it. News Bytes Tuesday, July 27th 2010, 11:51am EDT Missing U.S. sailor's remains found in Afghanistan; Search for second sailor still ongoing. News Article Tuesday, July 27th 2010, 11:51am EDT Philip K. Harvey Backs Pot Initiative. A backer of the pro-pot position in California’s referendum on decriminalizing recreational marijuana use is also an entrepreneur in the field of mail order pornography and sex toys. Philip K. Harvey, president of North Carolina-based Adam&Eve, a mail-order firm touted as the nation’s largest provider of adult films and sexual products, is so far the sole donor to the Drug Policy Action Committee to Tax and Regulate Marijuana. He has donated $100,000 to the cause. Californians will vote in November on a Proposition 18, a measure to legalize marijuana for adults 21 and over, allow localities to tax and regulate the drug, and allow small residential growing of pot. News Article Tuesday, July 27th 2010, 11:50am EDT Porn stories vanish from Apple chart. Pornographic fiction dominating Apple's British e-book chart at the start of the week had mysteriously disappeared today, prompting speculation the multinational corporation censored its customers' true preferences to save face. Apple, which allows iPad owners to download books through its iBooks store, featured racy stories including the number one Blonde and Wet, the Complete Story in its British top five e-book chart yesterday morning. Hours later all erotic fiction dropped out of the chart simultaneously and was replaced with less raunchy books such as British lawmaker Peter Mandelson’s autobiography. An independent book chart analyst said a radical change in preferences in such a short amount of time was unlikely. Apple declined to explain the disappearance of the books. Blonde and Wet, which Apple offered for 99 pence, ($1.50) was described by one reviewer as “extremely graphic and some might say it is porn.” News Article Tuesday, July 27th 2010, 11:48am EDT Top Wordpress Plugins to help you SEO your Blog. WordPress offers many additional features that might otherwise know as a WordPress plugin. This WordPress plugin allows you to create your blog to both the public and the gender of your site. There are many WordPress plugin to choose from, if you are new to blogging is not possible to know what is best for you. Here is a list and explanation only to some of the most popular WordPress plugin available. Top WordPress Plugins: • All in one SEO - WordPress this thorn in optimizing for search engines, and automatic generation META tag. It gives you the opportunity to cancel the licenses and all the META description and keywords you want. Depending on the version of WordPress that you are using 2 / 3, you can simply install this plugin for WordPress and it works now. News Article Tuesday, July 27th 2010, 11:48am EDT 12 Ways Your SEO Mileage May Vary. Why is that useless competitor outranking you? The 10,000 foot explanation is that the world of search engine optimization (SEO) is mightily complex, because the job of the search engines is so complex. They deal with a web that has more than 1 trillion pages, crawl and perform a semantic analysis on a large portion of those, build a complete map of all the links between sites and web pages, put that in a database system spread across the entire planet, and respond to user search queries in less than 0.2 seconds. Google also professes to use more than 200 search ranking factors. News Article Tuesday, July 27th 2010, 11:47am EDT A 26-year-old man strangulated a former porn star, assaulted her with a potted plant and later slit her throat at her home in the outskirts of London. Shohidul Islam turned up at the home of porn star-turned-escort Savannah Gold, 26, in Lambeth area near London, throttled her with a rope and bashed her with a potted plant. Her neighbours heard screams and found the woman naked, with blood pouring out from her slit throat, the Sun reported. Islam, a resident of Poplar area in east London, admitted wounding her with an intent of robbery. He was jailed for eight years. The assailant had earlier robbed two bookies with a fake gun. News Article Tuesday, July 27th 2010, 11:46am EDT ISP blocking of access to child porn gets OK from Japanese government team. A government working group approved on Monday a plan to get Internet service providers to block access to child pornography images as soon as they are found, without waiting for site operators to grant requests to delete them, officials said. The approval came at a meeting of bureaucrats from the National Police Agency, the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry and seven other government offices. The plan will soon receive a formal endorsement from a meeting of Cabinet ministers in charge of anticrime measures led by Prime Minister Naoto Kan, the officials said. News Article Tuesday, July 27th 2010, 11:45am EDT How To Avoid Having Filters Eat Your Emails. You've probably read 1000 times that "the money's in the list." If you're an Internet or email marketer, that's only partly true. The truth is that the money is in properly written emails, that get delivered to your list members. That last part is what most online marketers are missing! An article in the June 2004 issue of Time Magazine reported that 40% to 70% of email sent to the four major ISPs is deleted at the server. Those ISPs are MSN (including Hotmail), Yahoo, Earthlink and AOL. That simply means that there's a very good chance that your legitimate email is not getting through to those subscribers using those ISPs.  News Article Tuesday, July 27th 2010, 11:45am EDT "Pornography is the drug of the millennium and more addictive than crack cocaine." So says Donna Rice Hughes, president of Enough is Enough, a nonprofit organization working to keep the Internet safe for children and families. And while most people may think of men when they picture purveyors of pornography, women are joining their ranks in droves. A big part of the problem – for both men and women – is the easy accessibility of porn. Thanks to the Internet, it's not even necessary to leave your house. Anonymity feeds temptation. A survey conducted in 2003 by Today's Christian Woman found that one out of every six women, including Christians, admits struggling with an addiction to pornography. News Article Tuesday, July 27th 2010, 11:44am EDT US legalizes jailbroken iPhones. US citizens can legally jailbreak and unlock their smartphones — notably Apple's iPhone — and videographers circumvent copy protection to use short movie snippets for "criticism or comment". This rulemaking decision by the US Copyright Office's Librarian of Congress to grant exceptions to the Digital Milleneium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a clear victory for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which submitted a request for the three exceptions in late 2008, and an equally clear defeat for Apple and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which opposed them. "By granting all of EFF's applications, the Copyright Office and Librarian of Congress have taken three important steps today to mitigate some of the harms caused by the DMCA," said EFF Civil Liberties Director Jennifer Granick in a statement. "We are thrilled to have helped free jailbreakers, unlockers and vidders from this law's overbroad reach." News Article Tuesday, July 27th 2010, 11:43am EDT Dell's fraud settlement explodes PC market myths. Even us jaded hacks, who think we've seen everything in the business, can find our chins hitting the trackpad. So it is with the Dell legal settlement last week. It may have a familiar ring to it, as it concerns a kind of business arrangement almost 20 years old - but don't let that fool you. It's the scale of the amounts involved that is truly jaw-dropping. The SEC settlement casts the entire PC market in an entirely new light. On Thursday, Dell agreed to pay a settlement for fraudulent accounting from 2001 to 2006. The company admitted no wrongdoing, as is the custom in such settlements. Intel was Dell's most important component supplier. Every ten years or so, Intel unveils a truly competitive processor architecture, from which the company reaps the reward for several years. The 80386 in 1986 and the Pentium Pro (P56) in 1995, the fastest chip in the world at the time, are the prime examples. But there are times when Intel isn't so competitive. This was the certainly case when AMD introduced the Athlon in 2000 and attacked the server market with the 64-bit Opteron in 2004. Against Opteron, Intel could only respond with an ageing 32bit architecture based on P6, and an esoteric boutique processor, the Itanic. Intel was loathe to see its key customers acknowledge its rival's competitiveness. News Bytes Monday, July 26th 2010, 10:52am EDT Goldman reveals where bailout cash went -- overseas banks! News Article Monday, July 26th 2010, 10:51am EDT Security Lessons From the 'Adult' Web. Following my recent posting about DotXXX here on Internet Evolution, I was able to obtain the view of a representative of the adult industry media, Stephen Yagielowicz, senior editor of Xbiz.com. In an email exchange, I got his candid views on a few issues about adult industry insecurity and its associated relationship with cybercriminal activity. I was also interested in whether the mainstream Internet could learn valuable lessons on security from the adult industry. Stephen was quite open about “insidious criminal enterprises” that he insisted give the adult industry a bad name and are not at all a welcome part of the business. After all, whose interest would it be in to promote these practices? “Problems such as malware drops, rogue codecs, executable ‘viewer’ software, and social engineering attacks, among other exploits, are a persistent threat to surfers, but they are not limited to sites offering adult content,” Stephen said. The biggest problem, as he sees it, comes from “adult industry hobbyists and underskilled operators” using outdated scripting, leaving open vulnerabilities. “Because they don’t know any better, they unwittingly provide a platform for the spreading of malware by opportunistic hackers.” News Article Monday, July 26th 2010, 10:50am EDT Aussie Sex Party Seeks Campaign Donations From U.S. Adult Biz. —In a historic turn of events, the Australian Sex Party—a government-registered political party backed entirely by a country's adult entertainment industry—will contest both Senate and House of Representatives elections. Because national campaigns are very expensive, however, the Party is reaching out to its sister democracy in the Northern Hemisphere, and asking members of the adult entertainment industry in the United States to support its effort to elect Sex Party candidates. News Article Monday, July 26th 2010, 10:50am EDT Child murderer Jon Venables 'used mobile phone to take 1,200 pictures up women's skirts' Jon Venables was arrested in a drunken street brawl after he allegedly tried to take a photo up a woman's skirt, it has been revealed. The 27-year-old, who was jailed for two years last week for downloading and distributing indecent pornographic images of children, was accused of leering by the woman's boyfriend in 2008.This sparked a furious brawl and Venables was later charged with a public order offence. The case was dropped due to insufficient evidence, but officers found a folder called 'Up Skirts' on his computer - containing 1,200 images - after his arrest earlier this year. It was the second time Venables had been held by police after hew was arrested for possession of cocaine in December 2008 - but again escaped a jail term. The Old Bailey heard last week that the images were 'surreptitiously taken photos of women's crotch areas'. Venables is alleged to have used his mobile phone to take the pictures. The news will bring further scrutiny over his supervision and his risk to the public since his release from prison in 2001 for the abduction and murder of two-year-old James Bulger in 1993. Venables was just 10 years old when he killed Bulger. News Article Monday, July 26th 2010, 10:48am EDT Just say no to fake Net neutrality. The debate in Washington over Net neutrality--the fundamental principle that keeps the Internet open and free from discrimination--is coming to a head. That means that the wheeling and dealing is under way, and consumers need to watch out. There are currently closed-door meetings taking place between phone and cable behemoths, and the biggest Internet companies, to craft a "compromise" deal that could carve up the Internet for them and leave consumers and smaller competitors behind. If the fix is in, it won't be long before they launch a PR campaign presenting this scheme as some kind of middle ground far from the "radical fringe." But buyer beware: This could be fake Net neutrality. News Article Monday, July 26th 2010, 10:47am EDT Australian Senate censors print link to cartoon. Questions were being asked in Australia last week as to just how far the moral majority was prepared to go to protect the ordinary voter from interweb nastiness. First we had the clampdown by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) on a range of material that was not illegal, but clearly too controversial for them to allow to stay out on the net. Then we had the "six degrees of separation" rule, according to which the ACMA was happy to ban not just the original version of a website they didn’t quite fancy, but also links to that website and possibly also links to links. Now, we have a bunch of Senators, allegedly the most sophisticated political thinkers in the land, objecting to the publication of a hard copy link to a cartoon of two well-known comic characters reacting to online obscenity. That’s right. Not the nastiness itself – which just happens to be 2 Girls 1 Cup. Not even a direct link to the reaction video – which appears to have sat happily on Youtube without complaint for some time now. But rather, a hard copy print-out of that link. News Article Monday, July 26th 2010, 10:47am EDT Website Design: 5 Tips to Improve Customer Experience. When visitors come to shop at your small business ecommerce website, you want them to have a smooth, frustration-free experience. We all want repeat customers, right? Typically though, it's not the big issues that cause a problem. It's the little things that make or break their shopping experience. Here are five things that affect your customers' experience -- and your conversion rate. If you're not addressing them now, keep them in mind for your next website design:  News Article Monday, July 26th 2010, 10:46am EDT Adult DVD Empire to Plead to One Obscenity Count. According to documents filed yesterday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Adult DVD Empire, under its corporate name, Right Ascension, Inc., has been charged with "Mailing Obscene Matters," based on an FBI postal sting carried out "on or about May 29, 2007"—and will plead guilty to that count within the next few days. News Article Monday, July 26th 2010, 10:45am EDT Firefox 4 second beta hits minor delay. Mozilla has delayed the second beta release of Firefox 4 by about a week. The open source browser maker had tentatively planned to sling out Firefox 4 beta 2 late last week. However, Mozilla has now pushed that release back to Thursday, 29 July. “Hi! We're glad you're interested in Firefox 4 Beta 2 - it's not quite ready yet. Our candidate builds (FTP links below) are still going through quality assurance tests,” reads a note on Mozilla's releases wiki. A third beta is still on track for 6 August, according to the outfit's schedule. News Article Monday, July 26th 2010, 10:44am EDT Dell blames staff for malware infection. Dell said human error was to blame for mistakes which led it to ship a number of replacement server motherboards to customers pre-loaded with spyware. The company declined to say whether it was running anti-virus software at its factory but said it had taken 16 steps to improve processes. The infection hit replacement PowerEdge 310, 410, 510 and T410 boards. The direct seller said less than one per cent of boards were affected and complete new server systems were quite safe. News Article Monday, July 26th 2010, 10:43am EDT There are indications that Hollywood's rush to extract extra cash from cinemagoers in return for an extra visual dimension might be doomed to follow previous 3D initiatives into the cutting room bin. The release of Avatar last December - the James Cameron epic which grossed $2.7bn - had movie execs licking their lips at the prospect of taking punters for an extra fiver if they could just persuade them to don a pair of 3D specs. News Bytes Friday, July 23rd 2010, 11:28am EDT North Korea threatens 'physical response' to US military exercises. News Article Friday, July 23rd 2010, 11:26am EDT MPs call for crackdown on pre-paid credit cards. The government has been urged by MPs to tighten controls on pre-paid credit cards, with claims they help child abusers avoid detection online. Labour MP Geraint Davies said the cards were routinely used by paedophiles to hide their identities as he proposed a bill on Wednesday to force credit card companies to act. He wants Visa and Mastercard to be liable when pre-paid card are used to access to abuse material, which would probably lead to their withdrawal or strict identity controls. "Until 2002, users simply submitted their credit and debit card details online to download images of abuse from the web," Davies said. News Article Friday, July 23rd 2010, 11:26am EDT India unveils prototype for $35 touch-screen computer. The Indian government has unveiled the prototype of an iPad-like touch-screen laptop, with a price tag of $35 (£23), which it hopes to roll out next year. Aimed at students, the tablet supports web browsing, video conferencing and word processing, say developers. Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said a manufacturer was being sought for the gadget, which was developed by India's top IT colleges. An earlier cheap laptop plan by the same ministry came to nothing. The device unveiled on Thursday has no hard disk, using a memory card instead, like a mobile phone, and can run on solar power, according to reports. News Article Friday, July 23rd 2010, 11:25am EDT Fuck Yeah! 2nd Circuit Overturns FCC Indecency Rule. Noting that, "we face a media landscape that would have been almost unrecognizable in 1978," the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has struck down attempts by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate so-called "fleeting expletives" in radio and TV broadcasts. Recognizing that in 1978, when the famous Supreme Court case of FCC v. Pacifica Foundation —better known as the "seven dirty words case"—was decided, "Cable television was still in its infancy. The Internet was a project run out of the Department of Defense with several hundred users. Not only did Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter not exist, but their founders were either still in diapers or not yet conceived," a unanimous panel of the Second Circuit ruled on July 13 that the two broadcast media are not now the "uniquely pervasive presence in the lives of all Americans" that the Supreme Court in Pacifica found them to be, and which provided the high court with its rationale to treat radio and TV differently than other mass media when it came to "indecent" speech. News Article Friday, July 23rd 2010, 11:24am EDT Maharashtra, India Government May Ban Porn Websites. The Maharashtra government is deciding to ban pornography websites after an army colonel was arrested for his involvement in uploading child porn. It is not known whether the ban will just make websites 'unsurfable' or whether the surfing of porn websites will be illegal. The issue is that governments around the world have tried to ban pornographic content on websites for years, however, the internet is too big for them to successfully do that. Therefore they have gone after the people who make porn content, especially child pornography which, in most part of the world is deemed as obscene and is a punishable offence. News Article Friday, July 23rd 2010, 11:23am EDT Claim Your SERP Real Estate With Google's Product Extension Ads. One of the biggest advantages of using a wide range of the available Google products is that many of them are interconnected in powerful ways. For example, most of us utilize Google AdWords with Google Analytics and maybe even Website Optimizer, too. But one product connection that many advertisers haven't caught on to yet is between Google AdWords and Google Merchant Center (formerly known as Froogle or Product Search). This connection allows the Product Extension feature to form within AdWords and enables you to display product images and details in line with your pay-per-click (PPC) ads. News Article Friday, July 23rd 2010, 11:22am EDT Gay porn star claims relationship with Christopher Reeve. A gay porn star has claimed that he had a sexual relationship with Superman actor Christopher Reeve. Cal Culver told an interviewer before his death in 1987 that the pair had a relationship, but the claim has only just been unearthed. The lost interview has been included in new book Hollywood Babylon Strikes Again. According to the Globe, which obtained extracts from the book, Culver told the interviewer that he and Reeve were intimate during the mid-1970s and met while auditioning for the same Broadway role. Culver, who performed in porn films under the name Casey Donovan, said: "Christopher was a great lover and I think I liberated him sexually. I didn't think he was gay but he seemed willing to try anything once. He was curious." News Article Friday, July 23rd 2010, 11:19am EDT China's TOP 10 Pornographic Websites; Not What You May Be Looking For. As part of its ongoing fight against pornographic content China's General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) published its latest list of websites guilty of propagating pornographic fiction (ie C sexual literature.) In addition to publishing the list of 122 pornographic literature websites the GAPP is also responsible for punishing those sites that don't remove the offending content. Although the list from GAPP is not explicitly in rank order, we've provided you with links to the Top 10 pornographic literature websites from the list: News Article Friday, July 23rd 2010, 11:18am EDT Baidu hacking lawsuit allowed to proceed. Baidu, China's leading Internet search company, has a "plausible" case against its U.S.-based domain registry for allegedly allowing a hacking attack that left the site disabled and defaced, a U.S. judge ruled Thursday. The order, signed by Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. District Court for Southern New York, allows Baidu to proceed with a lawsuit it filed against Register.com in January. Baidu's suit accuses Register.com of breach of contract, gross negligence, and recklessness related to a January 11 hack attack that left Baidu disabled for several hours. Visitors to the site during those hours were redirected to a site where a group calling itself the "Iranian Cyber Army" claimed responsibility for the attack. News Article Friday, July 23rd 2010, 11:17am EDT Florida considering reducing penalties for teen "sexting". As parents of teens know, kids can spend hours talking and texting on their cellphones. Another teenage cellphone activity starting to get media attention is "sexting": the sending of nude photos of themselves or others by phone, e-mail or on the Internet. While "sexting" might appear to be relatively harmless, the practice can currently be prosecuted in Florida under child pornography laws as a felony. If convicted, a Florida teenager could be branded a sex offender and subject to registration for decades, simply for sending a racy photo to a friend. A pair of Palm Beach County lawmakers are proposing a change to state law prohibiting the distributing and receiving photographs of nude minors by having the law not apply to minors until the fourth offense. The bill (SB 2560, HB 1335) would create a new juvenile offense for "sexting". It would prohibit minors from using cellphones, computers and other electronic devices to send photos of themselves or others nude and it would prohibit them from resending photos of other nude teens they receive. News Article Friday, July 23rd 2010, 11:16am EDT Is The AVN Show Biting Off More Than It Can Chew? In a down economy when many adult businesses across all sectors are struggling to wring profits from old and new business models alike, has AVN overreached by holding an ambitious new trade show? When the industry’s leading media company announced the concept of The AVN Show to be held Aug. 5-8, at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood, Fla., many were no doubt wondering what happened to the current shows: Internext, AVN Novelty Expo, and the Adult Entertainment Expo. News Article Friday, July 23rd 2010, 11:15am EDT Google cranks up Chrome release schedule. Google plans to release new stable versions of Chrome every six weeks as it continues to try and smash through as many builds as possible of its increasingly popular browser. Mountain View’s Chrome program manager Anthony Laforge explained that Google had decided to ramp up the number of stable versions of the browser the company releases in order to get features to users faster and make the schedule more predictable. He added that speeding up the version cycle would also “reduce the pressure on engineering to ‘make’ a release”. In other words Chrome developers will be less stressed if the firm pumps out iterations of the browser more regularly. News Bytes Thursday, July 22nd 2010, 11:32am EDT Pipeline repaired as China works to contain spill. News Article Thursday, July 22nd 2010, 11:31am EDT Ridiculous pornography trial violates Constitution. The federal trial of pornographer John Stagliano began last week. Libertarian National Committee Chairman Mark Hinkle issued the following statement today: "The Obama Administration's prosecution of John Stagliano is a travesty. "As Reason magazine's Richard Abowitz wrote, 'The case against Stagliano concerns the selling of movies performed by consenting adults to entertain adult DVD viewers who have chosen to watch these films. In a free and open society this is exactly the kind of prosecution that should not happen.' "Many Americans find it far more obscene that Democrats and Republicans are piling trillions of dollars of debt on our children and grandchildren, in order to further the creation and expansion of bad federal programs. The president should be worrying more about these problems, and less about prosecuting and censoring Mr. Stagliano. "Different people will have different opinions about how valuable or harmful Mr. Stagliano's products are. Fortunately, no one is forced to watch them. "Federal anti-obscenity laws are unconstitutional in two ways. First, because the Constitution does not grant Congress any power to regulate or criminalize obscenity. And second, because the First Amendment guarantees the right of free speech. News Article Thursday, July 22nd 2010, 11:30am EDT Porn for a pound at Crawley discount store. A discount store that claims to offer everything has proved true to its word – by selling saucy blue movies. Adult films and a sex manual are on sale for just a pound at bargain store Poundland, in Queens Square. Shoppers in search of cheap thrills can pick up the blue bargains in the store, which also sells children's toys, sweets and household equipment. DVDs on sale include Lust In The Woods, Hot Jogger, Horny Salesman and Chantal 2. The Poundland store, which is the biggest of its kind in Europe, keeps the X-rated items on its top shelf and says they have been selling well around the country. News Article Thursday, July 22nd 2010, 11:29am EDT Katina Kaif, Mallika, Sania Preity: Victims of Fake Sex Tapes. With the advent of technology and the in-your-throat gadgets, privacy is passé as our Bollywood actresses feel the brunt. After the alleged sex tapes that attempted to taint the images of established stalwarts like Sania Mirza, Mallika Sherawat and Preity Zinta (of course, all have been dismissed as fake tapes featuring the celeb-look alikes), now the most in-demand ravishing Katrina Kaif has found herself sunk in the porn pond. News Article Thursday, July 22nd 2010, 11:29am EDT Coca-Cola Forced to Pull Facebook [Porn] Campaign. Coca-Cola is considering cutting ties with digital agency Lean Mean Fighting Machine which implemented a controversial Facebook campaign. Parents are accusing of targeting children by using jokes/references to a pornographic movie. The soft-drink behemoth has been under some serious scrutiny after the less-than-ideal Facebook campaign for the Dr. Pepper brand. They have informed the agency that it must stop all advertising work on Coca-Cola brands until a decision is reached on whether to terminate the relationship. News Article Thursday, July 22nd 2010, 11:28am EDT IE and Safari lets attackers steal user names and addresses. The Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari browsers are susceptible to attacks that allow webmasters to glean highly sensitive information about the people visiting their sites, including their full names, email addresses, location, and even stored passwords, a security researcher says. In a talk scheduled for next week's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, Jeremiah Grossman, CTO of White Hat Security, plans to detail critical weaknesses that are enabled by default in the browsers, which are the four biggest by market share. The vulnerabilities have yet to be purged by the respective browser makers despite months, and in some cases, years of notice. News Article Thursday, July 22nd 2010, 11:27am EDT After the Click: What Products Do Your Users Actually Buy? Keywords are the backbone of any search marketer's day-to-day life. They spend countless hours determining just the right mix given their businesses product mix and end goals. This is a great approach, and well documented/encouraged on this and other sites. However, have you ever stopped to think about what products people are actually buying after they click on your ad? The old saying applies, "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." News Article Thursday, July 22nd 2010, 11:22am EDT Naked Anna Chapman doll hits the web. Sexy Russian spy Anna Chapman has been made into two action figures - including a topless doll armed with a gun. The redhead who was sent back to Russia after being exposed in the US spy ring scandal is available as two figures. The topless "The Spy I Could Love" and curvy "Predator" figures both cost $29.95. Chapman was the focus of media attention after the ring was exposed, with topless photos emerging of her taken by her British ex-husband. News Article Thursday, July 22nd 2010, 11:20am EDT Lindsay Lohan jail saga turned into porn. She's only been in the clink 24 hours but Lindsay Lohan's prison drama has already been turned into a porno, which probably has better production values than any of her own upcoming films... To be honest, she probably would've agreed to star in it herself if only the crew could've waited until her release. Of course, though, Lindsay 's currently doing lines for her own porn film, Linda Lovelace biopic Inferno, which features quotes such as: I was put on the earth for one thing and one thing only, sucking a footlong cock!" and: I once took a pro-football team - and I don't just mean two at a time - I mean more!" The film's director Mat Wilder's has confirmed that they'll wait until Lohan's release at the beginning of August before filming, when she'll be able to slip out of the orange jumpsuit and everything else, for he added: "There'll be full frontal nudity. But it's not a porn movie. It's an artistic movie about a porn star." News Article Thursday, July 22nd 2010, 11:19am EDT GOP senators move to block FCC on Net neutrality. Seven Republican senators have announced a plan to curb the Obama administration's push to impose controversial Net neutrality regulations on the Internet. On Wednesday, Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and six other GOP senators introduced legislation (PDF) that would dramatically limit the Federal Communications Commission's ability to regulate broadband providers. "The FCC's rush to takeover the Internet is just the latest example of the need for fundamental reform to protect consumers," DeMint said in a statement. Without this legislation, DeMint said, the FCC will "impose unnecessary, antiquated regulations on the Internet." The new bill--called the Freedom for Consumer Choice Act, or FCC Act--doesn't eliminate the FCC's power over broadband providers. But that power would be narrowed in scope, and come to resemble the antitrust enforcement power of the Department of Justice. News Article Thursday, July 22nd 2010, 11:18am EDT Mozilla prepares second Firefox 4 beta launch. The second beta of Firefox 4 is tentatively set to land tomorrow and ahead of that Mozilla has been asking testers to offer feedback about the open source outfit’s latest browser. On Monday Mozilla ran some tests for the Firefox 4 beta 2 code freeze. It found four low-risk bugs still present in the build, but none of those were enough to put a hold on proceedings, according to Mike Beltzner. However, he later urged a little more caution about the next beta. Here’s where things stand: - bug 557225 resulted in less-than-ideal hangs on startup on OSX; bsmedberg is currently testing a fix - bug 580227 was filed for Test Pilot which wasn't fixed after the XPCOM changes; a patch is awaiting review from dtownsend - bug 579262 remains, but at this point I don't think we'll block beta2 on it, instead adding a release note; visible regression on some YouTube videos, though, so people may have opinions that they wish to share on that score. He added that there were also two non-code related bugs to fix in the second pre-release version of Firefox 4. News Bytes Wednesday, July 21st 2010, 11:13am EDT Shock Poll: Any Republican would beat Obama in 2012. News Article Wednesday, July 21st 2010, 11:12am EDT Poles are racing up the world porn league — with a whopping 85 per cent of them admitting to logging on to naughty internet sites. The kinky country views more raunchy websites than Brits, Italians, the French and Scandinavians — but psychologists say it is NOT due to a porn addiction. Instead boffins say the obsession with the saucy sites is down to poor sex education. Research carried out by US group Alexa shows that Polish internet users are the fifth largest audience of RedTube — one of the largest porn websites in the world. And RedTube is more popular in Poland than the trendy social networking site grono.net. Sexy bank worker Anna Nowacka, 29, admits: "Before work I have enough time to look at my favourite porn page. After work, I'll look again. Every day. News Article Wednesday, July 21st 2010, 11:11am EDT The Middle Men are Pioneers Once Again, Bringing the Mainstream to Porn. For years the porn industry had been riding the backs of Hollywood movies, exploiting them for story-lines and brands for the making of their own porn parodies. It was a one-sided deal as Hollywood wouldn’t be able to do the same as no one would be interested in the non-sexual version of Deep Throat or Debbie does Dallas (which I guess would have been called Debbie visits Dallas and Has an Okay Time.) And so, the Hollywood studios had to make do with the occasional porn-related bio-pic and the odd documentary, knowing full well that they’d probably not be blockbusters, as their target audience is limited due to MPAA ratings. For the large part, Hollywood gave in and officially avoided the porn industry. And then, lo and behold! A revolution. News Article Wednesday, July 21st 2010, 11:11am EDT In their attack on Article 208 of the Criminal Code, the Front Against Censorship has suggested a legal clause which allows for the distribution and production of pornography as long as it does not involve human trafficking, the abuse of minors, the exploitation of the human person or any other criminal acts defined by law. It is a well-known documented fact that children are involved in the production of pornography and it is impossible to validate the ages of some of these actors. The Front's proposals at first glance seem to be praiseworthy but just how exactly can anyone guarantee that a woman is not being used as a prop for sex and that she has not been coerced into the making of a porn movie? How does one determine whether a woman apparently willingly taking part in consensual acts in a porn movie has not actually been bought from international human traffickers? And just how is pornography any better for society even if it is a little "cleaner"? Laws are only effective if they can be enforced. News Article Wednesday, July 21st 2010, 11:10am EDT Designing Websites for iPhone Viewing. How would your website look on a hand held device? Is it easy to navigate? Is the most important information readily available to your visitors? Is your website "mobile Web" ready? Ten years ago most small business owners didn't have a website and probably didn't see the need for one. Now, a business without a website is considered second rate at best. A website is a necessity for doing business in the 21st century. Also a necessity in the 21st century is a website that can be easily viewed on a hand held device. According to the latest statistics, only 11% of Americans are getting their news and information using the browser in their mobile phone. That doesn't seem too impressive until you look at the enormous popularity of Apple's new iPhone and realize that "the times, they are a changing." In the next few years, the popularity of surfing the net on your mobile Web is going to skyrocket. News Article Wednesday, July 21st 2010, 11:09am EDT Sex tape is fake says Katrina Kaif. A few months after her sister Isabel was embroiled in a sex tape controversy, which was being circulated in her name but actually featured a look-a-like, Katrina Kaif is now the target of a similar online craze. Not surprisingly, Katrina has issued a denial. Porn sites and forums have been going gaga over the clip featuring a Katrina look-a-like. The clip has been tagged Katrina Kaif sex scandal in a bid to garner most hits. It has reached the download limit on a couple of portals. The actress said in a statement: "The video is disgusting and the girl clearly doesn't even look like me. There's no room for any speculation whatsoever. How can you even call her my lookalike? The girl's face is completely different! I think it's ridiculous to even talk about it." News Article Wednesday, July 21st 2010, 11:08am EDT First control system worm sparks concern. The security world is aflutter over new malware that has been spreading via USB devices and is programmed to steal data from systems running specific software used in utilities and industrial manufacturing plants. There are a lot of moving parts to this story so we've decided to break them down and tell you what is happening and how it impacts you. What is the malware exactly? The attack involves several components: a worm that spreads via USB drives and exploits a previously unknown vulnerability in Windows and a Trojan backdoor that looks to see if an infected machine is running a specific type of software created by Siemens used in control systems including industrial manufacturing, utilities and even nuclear powered aircraft carriers. The worm, dubbed Stuxnet, propagates by exploiting a hole in all versions of Windows in the code that processes shortcut files, ending in ".lnk," according to a Microsoft Malware Protection Center blog post. Merely browsing to the removable media drive using an application that displays shortcut icons, such as Windows Explorer, will run the malware without the user clicking on the icons. The worm infects USB drives or other removable storage devices that are subsequently connected to the infected machine. Those USB drives then infect other machines much like the common cold is spread by infected people sneezing into their hands and then touching door knobs that others are handling. News Article Wednesday, July 21st 2010, 11:07am EDT 'Gay zombie porn flick' pulled from Aussie film festival. The Australian classification board has banned Bruce LaBruce's gay zombie flick L.A. Zombie from screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival, which opens Saturday, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.From his home in Toronto, LaBruce said he was “delighted” by the decision. “I'll never understand how censors don't see that the more they try to suppress a film, the more people will want to see it,” he said. “It gives me a profile I didn't have yesterday.” L.A. Zombie stars French gay porn star Francois Sagat as a schizophrenic gay zombie who believes he can bring the dead back to life by having sex with them. “People come back to life [in my film], it's a metaphor for healing,” he said. The board's director said the film refused classification. Festival officials have not announced if they would appeal the decision. |
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