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News Article     Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 12:03pm EDT

YouTube: Broadcast Your Porn.

You may have noticed a newer feature on YouTube, right at the top of the homepage, called "Videos being watched right now…." If you were checking out that feature around 11:00 this morning, you would have noticed people were watching porn. The "Videos being watched right now" feature presents five thumbnails of what people are watching and cycles through several sets. This isn't content that is searched for specifically, just there on the homepage. I wasn't on the homepage myself. I was following a Valleywag link to where NBC's YouTube channel used to be. Below the "This channel not available" notice, and above the "Promoted Videos" thumbs, I was flashed. A still shot of fellatio-in-progress. Copious side-boob that brought up a soft-core Skinamax scene. And another round of fellatio, this time (lucky fella) with two girls at the, um, helm. Let's not leave out an ad for MilfHunters.com, either. Not that porn is unheard of on the Internet, especially at video-sharing sites, but it was a bit shocking to see it just presented to me like a pop-up ad on YouTube, which purports to have a strict family-friendly content approach. The YouTube community usually takes care of it.


News Article     Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 12:03pm EDT

Singapore gay sex ban to remain, straight ban abolished.

Singapore lawmakers have passed a law which will see a ban on anal and oral sex for consenting heterosexuals to be abolished, but the ban will remain enforced for gay people. The amended laws which were passed on Tuesday, was the most extensive review of the Penal Code in twenty-three years. Section 377A of the code states that same-sex oral and anal sex, even if consenting carries a maximum two year jail term. Prior to the vote for the amendment, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said “Singapore is basically a conservative society. The family is the basic building block of this society. “And by family in Singapore we mean one man, one woman marrying, having children and bringing up children within that framework of a stable family unit.” The Prime Minister has warned against gay activists debating the issue further, describing the issue as one that should be left to evolve gradually. “The more gay activists push this agenda, the stronger will be the push-back from conservative forces in our society. “The result will be counterproductive because it's going to lead to less space for the gay community in Singapore.”


News Article     Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 12:01pm EDT

Porn Path of Hollywood Stars.

Seeing how stars are scrutinised, they always have to watch out what they are doing and they all fear most that their dark secrets from the past would be discovered. Today, at the Internet age, nothing can be kept secret anymore, every recorded scandal will spread at the speed of light. Many famous film stars have “a dark past”. We have decided to reveal some of those who have started their career in the porn industry.


News Bytes     Tuesday, October 23rd 2007, 4:55pm EDT

The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously

California Fires Force 300000 From Homes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/us/23cnd-fire.html?hp

China to 'test space weapon' in launching moon satellite.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SETSN80&show_article=1

Weather May Delay Shuttle Launch.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/science/23cnd-shuttle.html?ref=us

Scottish student receives eight years for terror offences.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,2197529,00.html

Drug-Resistant Staph: What You Need to Know.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/drug-resistant-staph-what-you-need-to-know/

Illegal download site shut down in police raid.
http://web.nme.com/news/tabloid-hell/31992

Singapore relaxes sex law but not for gays.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071023150204.a0vhouv2&show_article=1

British people are the fattest in Europe, says Government report.
http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article3087274.ece

Smoking does not keep you slim - study.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22634355-5005961,00.html

Flamingos Killed in German Zoo Attack
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SF2AG80&show_article=1


News Article     Tuesday, October 23rd 2007, 4:54pm EDT

6th Circuit Court of Appeals Rules 2257 Unconstitutional.

The United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled today in the case of Connection Distributing Co. et. al. v. Keisler that the federal 2257 record-keeping statute is unconstitutional and overbroad. "This is huge, huge news for the entire industry," attorney J. Michael Murray told AVN. "It means that the statute has been declared unconstitutional in its entirety, at least in the 6th Circuit. This is the result we've all been aiming for; it's a monumental victory. We've been fighting this battle for twelve long years, and this is the third time I argued the case on the 6th Circuit. Finally, we got a court to agree with us." A sister company to Cleveland-based video distributor GVA-TWN, the now-defunct Connection published approximately a dozen swinger's magazines with personal ads containing sexually explicit photographs.


News Article     Tuesday, October 23rd 2007, 12:09pm EDT

Virginia Attorney Sues Wild West Domains.

An attorney is suing the owners of Wild West Domains, accusing them of "cybersquatting" and "porn-napping."Diane Fener, an attorney in Virginia Beach, said she was humiliated when she discovered pornographic material at a Web address she previously had used for her business. In the suit, Fener claims that she purchased advertising - including the website DianeFenerLaw.com - from Thompson/West. When she stopped doing business with the company, she said, the domain name lapsed and Wild West Domains owners Robert D. Parsons and Michael Zimmerman acquired the domain name. Fener said Parsons and Zimmerman attached the pornographic website Blind Date Bangers to the domain.


News Article     Tuesday, October 23rd 2007, 12:07pm EDT

Prof Condemns Pornography.

“The belief that pornography inhabits its own separate world is an illusion,” a visiting Harvard Law School professor told the 50-odd audience members gathered yesterday in the Thompson Room in the Barker Center. In a speech titled “X-Underrated—Pornography and Popular Culture,” Pound Visiting Professor of Law Catherine A. MacKinnon criticized the encroachment of pornography into everyday life. The belief that pornography operates underground, she said, causes people to ignore obscene material that is right under their noses. “No matter how real and harmful pornography gets, it seems to live in this parallel universe where everything that happens is rendered harmless and unreal,” said MacKinnon, who was invited by the Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality and by the College’s Women’s Center. MacKinnon said that though the American public was horrified by photographs of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the material was actually mild by pornographic standards. She argued that the same images, framed in a pornographic context, would never have inspired the same horror. “The notion that everything that happens in pornography is consensual is just that: an assumption,” she said.


Search Engines     Tuesday, October 23rd 2007, 12:06pm EDT

20 Must-Have Search Engine Marketing Tools.

Anyone working in Search Engine Marketing knows that this industry travels at warp speed. If you're trying to market your web site or the web sites of your clients via search engines, chances are your time is limited - severely limited. To squeeze as much into my schedule as possible without resorting to self-cloning, my daily routine involves the use of a range of time-saving tools and software. I use such tools on a daily basis and I truly don't know how I'd function without them. I'm not the only one. I've talked to other SEM experts and they also rely on various tools to help them through their hectic schedules. Here is a list of 20 must-have tools used by busy SEM professionals:


News Article     Tuesday, October 23rd 2007, 12:05pm EDT

How Manga Conquered the U.S., a Graphic Guide to Japan's Coolest Export.

Welcome to Wired's visual history of manga in America! We decided that the best way to explain the increasing popularity of this exciting medium was to to tell the story in the form of a manga. Like many of the popular manga that have been translated into English, we are using the Japanese page and panel order. Japanese writing reads from right to left, so pages and panels are sequenced in what seems like reverse order to Western readers.


News Article     Tuesday, October 23rd 2007, 12:04pm EDT

Porn Ordinance.

Augusta County is weighing its options to determine what it can do to have more control over where adult stores open. The Board of Supervisors heard recommendations from the County Attorney Monday. Andrea Oakes doesn't want more adult businesses coming to the area. She's been working with a Citizens Task Force asking officials to limit where adult stores, like the one that opened in Staunton a little more than a week ago, can set-up. "It's so important because of those harmful secondary effects, the proven harmful secondary effects to our children, and to our community," says Oakes. When Augusta County proposes its ordinances, the county will have to prove those negative effects through studies done around the country.




News Article     Tuesday, October 23rd 2007, 12:03pm EDT

Controversial Russian Web Hoster Says Critics Are Rogue, Greedy Xenophobes.

A reportedly rogue Russian web hoster accused of being home to the web's worst scams says it's clean, but that its vocal and well-respected critics are anything but. Anti-spam group Spamhaus won't follow its own rules and strongarms innocent ISPs into violating contracts, while Verisign's research arm pumps out security misinformation to justify its security contracts with its customers, the company charges. The Russian Business Network is a secretive Russian web hosting provider that Western security firms say plays host to some of the worst scams on the internet. RBN tells THREAT LEVEL via email that those accusations are similar to Bush administration exaggerations about Iraq's non-existent weapons of mass destruction that RBN says was cover for earning "petrodollars."


News Article     Tuesday, October 23rd 2007, 12:02pm EDT

Bisexuality in the Porn Business.

Bisexuality is often a part of sex in generally that is greatly overlooked. While the gay community refers to bisexuals in their acronym LGBT, the thought of men and women actually being able to appreciate both sexes is often seen as foreign and as a copout for hiding one’s true sexual identity. For the “straight” community, bisexuals, especially males, are typically considered all the way gay if they are able to have sex with other men, but by mere definition bisexual sex is not that easily categorized. Porn legend Ron Jeremy, who is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for appearing in more adult films than any other performer once said that guys who rent porn don’t want to see other hot guys having sex with the women. He claimed that his appeal was that he looked like the guys who rent movies and gives hope to other men that they too could have sex with these beautiful women.


News Article     Tuesday, October 23rd 2007, 12:00pm EDT

Comcast says it's not blocking content, applications.

Comcast said on Monday that file transfers on peer-to-peer networks such as BitTorrent may be delayed by bandwidth management technology, but it denied blocking access to any applications or content. As the second-largest high-speed Internet provider in the United States with 11 million customers, any move by Comcast to favor or block certain types of content moving over its network would be extremely controversial as it would be seen as flouting "Net neutrality." Net neutrality is the principle of allowing all content that flows over an Internet service provider's network to be treated equally without any preference. Although it is not law, it is supported by a wide range of pressure groups and businesses concerned that ISPs will start charging to prioritize the delivery of users' content.


Marketing     Tuesday, October 23rd 2007, 11:59am EDT

Internet Marketing Myths, Fallacies, and Fairytales.

Before you even begin hopping onto the Internet marketing e-bandwagon, you must be aware of its myths, fallacies, and fairytales. Yes, Internet marketing is fascinating, it has incredible rags-to-riches fables, and you are just dying to get a slice of the pie. But before you do so, take a breather. Maybe these tips will help save the shirt on your back one rainy day.


News Article     Tuesday, October 23rd 2007, 11:58am EDT

Targeted attacks on the rise, Microsoft report says.

Scams designed to steal identities, data and ultimately money from Internet users continued to rise steeply in the first half of this year, according to a report released on Tuesday by Microsoft. The company's Security Intelligence Report, a broad look at the computer threat landscape, shows a continued focus on attacks aimed at making a profit, rather than simply generating fear or gaining notoriety. According to the study, there were 31.6 million detected phishing scams, more than double those found in the prior six months. There was a more than five-fold increase in the types of malicious code used to install trojans, password stealers, keystroke loggers and other malware.


News Article     Tuesday, October 23rd 2007, 11:57am EDT

Fight malware by upgrading to Vista, urges MS.

Microsoft is pushing improved malware defences as a reason to shift over to Vista.Systems running Microsoft’s latest operating system recorded 60 per cent less malware infections than XP, according to figures obtained using Microsoft’s malicious software removal tool.Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development for Windows, claimed on Tuesday that Vista experienced fewer security vulnerabilities than either Mac OS X, Windows XP or Ubuntu Linux. Fathi made the statement during a keynote presentation at the RSA Europe security conference in London on Tuesday.


News Article     Tuesday, October 23rd 2007, 11:56am EDT

TV-Links man was arrested under trademark laws.

Gloucestershire police have confirmed that a 26-year-old Cheltenham man at the centre of an investigation into the website TV-Links was arrested under section 92 of the Trade Mark Act, on suspicion of supplying property with a registered trademark, without permission. The man was taken into custody on Thursday last week after an investigation by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and the local trading standards office. Initial reports from FACT said he had been arrested for "offences relating to the facilitation of copyright infringement on the Internet". TV-links, by all accounts, was (it is no more) a place where users could post links to content from TV shows, movies and so on, so that other web users could view them. The site didn't host the material directly, but did, according to reports, embed some video clips.


News Bytes     Monday, October 22nd 2007, 11:03am EDT

The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously.

Wildfires Prompt State Of Emergency In 7 Counties.
http://www.knbc.com/news/14390468/detail.html?dl=mainclick

Turkish Troops, Weapons Head Toward Iraq.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071022/D8SEA2DO0.html

Europe relieved as Poland's Kaczynskis lose grip.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/22/poland.elections/?iref=mpstoryview

Australian PM slumps after election debate, analysts and media say .
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/22/asia/AS-POL-Australia-Election-Debate.php

Immigration fallout: Rightists win biggest share in Swiss vote.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/21/sports/swiss.php

How do corals without eyes detect moonlight?
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=nw20071019054438545C868492

Emotions Do Not Influence Cancer Survival.
http://www.dogflu.ca/10222007/08/emotions_do_not_influence_cancer_survival

LAPD May Have Erred in Ellen Dog Case.
http://iww.tmz.com/2007/10/20/lapd-may-have-erred-in-ellen-dog-case/

Windows 7 to be a leaner, meaner and cleaner Winix?
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/14961/1023/

Kid Rock jailed in Georgia waffle house brawl, released.
http://www.ajc.com/traffic/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2007/10/21/rock_1022_web.html


News Article     Monday, October 22nd 2007, 11:01am EDT

Comcast Traffic Monitoring A Slap In The Face To Net Neutrality.

As we've mentioned before, Comcast does, despite what the company says, limit BitTorrent traffic. The Associated Press recently ran some tests and discovered that, yes, Comcast does throttle BitTorrent traffic. So how can Comcast say it doesn't throttle traffic when in fact it does? The answer is in semantics. Comcast has previous told Wired News that “we do not block access to any applications,” it does however admit that it uses traffic shaping tools to “manage our network to provide a quality experience for all Comcast subscribers.” In other words, Comcast doesn’t block BitTorrent applications, but it does block BitTorrent traffic. Now it would seem that the fun doesn’t end there for Comcast subscribers. The EFF reports that Comcast also limits Gnutella traffic and Kevin Kanarski claims that Lotus Notes traffic is similarly choked.In all three cases Comcast’s limiting technique is quite insidious and would be difficult for the average user to notice. Comcast’s network monitoring tools (most likely Sandvine) sits between your connection and the outside work and sends reset packets to both both ends, disrupting your connection. From the the end user point of view it will merely look like your connection is slow, very very slow.This is more or less the two-tiered internet that net neutrality proponents have long warned about.


News Article     Monday, October 22nd 2007, 11:00am EDT

Island Gathering 2007: Caribbean Class.

From affiliate programs to billers, publications to traffic brokers, almost 200 industry leaders made the annual pilgrimage to the crystal-blue waters off the Venezuelan coast, turning the island of Curaçao into a seat of the adult business. Island Gathering offers an amazing array of distractions to push attendees' minds far from their computers. It's not hard to forget about plugging in while taking an island tour by ATV, horseback, jeep or catamaran, or swimming with the dolphins or feeding the sharks.




Sponsor     Monday, October 22nd 2007, 10:59am EDT

RhinoPays Launches SofiaRain.com

RhinoPays has added yet another site to their quickly increasing site roster. Introducing the official exclusive site of hot busty blonde babe SofiaRain.com. The site features tons of 100% exclusive galleries and movies of the star, live webcam, and more. This upcoming pornstar covers many niches and will convert a wide variety of traffic such as big tits, babes, blondes, pornstar, stocking, lingerie, high heels, solo and lesbian. Sofia is quickly becoming a reknown model and soon to be pornstar, having shot with models and pornstars like Lanny Barby and Briana Devil. RhinoPays is also giving all affiliates 70% on initial and recurring sales to sofiarain.com until the end of the month.


News Article     Monday, October 22nd 2007, 10:58am EDT

ISP blows the whistle on router chip 'fault'.

One of the UK's best-respected broadband providers has raised concerns about the reliability of the world's most popular ADSL chip. Zen Internet has uncovered a potential problem with the Texas Instruments AR7. The chip is at the heart of about a third of routers in use worldwide today - including Linksys and Netgear kit. Zen has told its customers not to buy models that contain the chip because they provide an unstable connection. Phil Long, a technical support manager at the firm, said: "The evidence is saying there's something about these chips that causes intermittancy."


News Article     Monday, October 22nd 2007, 10:57am EDT

Adult channels told to tone it down.

Ofcom has warned that all adult channels face being encrypted following a spate of complaints over explicit content including allegations of on-air masturbation and the promotion of premium-rate services. The media regulator has upheld complaints against five free-to-air unencrypted outlets known as "babe" channels, in which scantily clad women invite viewers to contact them via premium-rate services. "Babe" channels, while they are listed in the adult section of the electronic programme guide, are not supposed to show adult sex material, unlike subscriber-only encrypted porn channels.


News Article     Monday, October 22nd 2007, 10:56am EDT

Internet pornography fuels video pirates.

Most video shops on Huynh Thuc Khang Street in District 1 sell legal music videos up front. However, they almost always have sex videos available as s well, according to the HCMC Department of Culture and Information. The department said that most illicit sex tapes are disguised with pictures of Vietnamese models alluding to the video's racy content. Recently, the HCMC Police have confiscated thousands of DVDs, VCD and computer files containing illegal pornography.


Sponsor     Monday, October 22nd 2007, 10:56am EDT

AdultDateLink Adds Pixel-Tracking for Affiliates

Adult Date Link has added automated pixel tracking for affiliates who purchase PPC traffic. Adult Date Link's automated pixel tracking feature allows affiliates to quickly and automatically add conversion tracking code for the Google Adwords, Yahoo and Miva pay-per-click engines. All an affiliate has to do is login to the affiliate area, open the profile page and enter the conversion tracking ID for the associated PPC engine. The pixel will then appear automatically on the free member confirmation page. Conversion tracking is a useful tool for calculating ROI and cost-per-acquisition on individual keywords and affiliates are sure to benefit from this feature. Adult Date Link is the leading niche dating
affiliate program with 37 niche dating sites.


News Article     Monday, October 22nd 2007, 10:54am EDT

GPL v3: Was It Worth the Effort?

A survey conducted by Evans Data shows that open source developers are not adopting the third version of the GNU General Public License as quickly as some may have hoped. Those who remain reluctant to incorporate GPL v3 cited reasons ranging from questions of its enforceability in court to disagreements with some of its new components.


News Article     Monday, October 22nd 2007, 10:53am EDT

Browsers Still Vulnerable to Command Injection Attacks, Hackers Say.

Nathan McFeters and Rob Carter want you to know that it's not over - even if an initial fix to block command injection attacks was released in the last few days. "It's not done. There's going to be more stack overflows, more ccommand injections," McFeters says. "It gets scarier as you go on. We want to make third party developers aware that when you register URI you are creating an attack environment." Firefox and Netxcape Navigator 9 register URIs to be compliant with Windows Vista, so they are now vulnerable to command injection when called from the IE, says Rob Carter, who with McFeters runs the xs-sniper.com site where this is discussed in detail. There was a lot of banter between Mozilla and others over who's fault this is, McFeters says. It's the fault of all these third party developers for registering these URIs. Google created Picasa as a feature to give third party applications to upload their stuff. (Security people think all features are flaws, McFeters notes.) Firefox 2.0.0.8 and Microsoft Updates ShellExecute- released in the past few days - fix, sort of. But it's bigger than that. Gecko-based products do not properly protect themselves from a command injection. Firefox by itself is vulnerable. Mac has URI issues.


Content     Monday, October 22nd 2007, 10:52am EDT

AdultSexContent, Radical Pictures Sign Deal.

Adult DVD content superstore AdultSexContent has signed a licensing deal with production company Radical Pictures Oy, a leading Finnish content producer, enabling the webmasters to license content from this company for the first time. More than 20 dvd titles from Radical Pictures have been added to the ASC content shop, together with 120 titles from the leading French production company Telsev. Together with the introduction of the new studio and expansion of available titles, Adultsexcontent also launched a new version of their content shop with improved functionality, that makes the content buying process easier for webmasters.


News Article     Monday, October 22nd 2007, 10:51am EDT

Judge orders football website to name 'libellous' posters.

A UK judge has ordered a football fans' website to hand over details of posters who made potentially defamatory remarks about directors of Sheffield Wednesday. The move, in what's being viewed as a test case, has implications for the owners of, and posters on, other football chat websites. Sheffield Wednesday club chairman Dave Allen, chief executive Kaven Walker and five other directors successfully sought the order against Neil Hargreaves, who runs the owlstalk.co.uk forum. They claimed Hargreaves offered a forum that allowed 11 as yet unidentified individuals to mount an anonymous and "sustained campaign of vilification" against them, the Metro reports.


News Bytes     Saturday, October 20th 2007, 10:05am EDT

The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously.

The Case for Israel's Strike on Syria.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3752687&page=1

No Backup if Atlanta's Faucets Run Dry.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071019/D8SCHTI00.html

Pakistan Says It Tried to Protect Bhutto.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071020/D8SCUHOG0.html

Iran to fire '11,000 rockets in minute' if attacked.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071020112808.cc3so4b1&show_article=1

Blair emerges as candidate for 'President of Europe'.
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3078889.ece

Argentina ready to challenge Britain's Antarctic claims.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/oct/19/climatechange.fossilfuels

Panel: Kids Shouldn't Use Cold Medicines.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=3753548

Rings and 'hitmen' occupy Diana jury.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7053817.stm

J.K. Rowling Outs Hogwarts Character.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071020/D8SCUJG00.html

Sands Casino Implodes as Fireworks Explode.
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=6932




News Article     Saturday, October 20th 2007, 10:04am EDT

Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic.

Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high- speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally. The interference, which The Associated Press confirmed through nationwide tests, is the most drastic example yet of data discrimination by a U.S. Internet service provider. It involves company computers masquerading as those of its users. If widely applied by other ISPs, the technology Comcast is using would be a crippling blow to the BitTorrent, eDonkey and Gnutella file- sharing networks. While these are mainly known as sources of copyright music, software and movies, BitTorrent in particular is emerging as a legitimate tool for quickly disseminating legal content. The principle of equal treatment of traffic, called "Net Neutrality" by proponents, is not enshrined in law but supported by some regulations. Most of the debate around the issue has centered on tentative plans, now postponed, by large Internet carriers to offer preferential treatment of traffic from certain content providers for a fee.


Traffic     Saturday, October 20th 2007, 10:03am EDT

Keyword Research for PPC.

Back in July I wrote about keyword research for SEO is similar to that for PPC. Although researching keywords for SEO is similar to that for PPC there still are many core differences. In many cases using the generic targets with high searches can be very costly in the world of PPC. While they can offer a good return, often long tailed, very specific phrases can offer more qualified traffic at a lower price.Categories: When it comes to any form of keyword research an Excel spreadsheet can be your best friend. I highly recommend using this to sort out your ideas before entering them into the PPC platform to prevent timely rearranging in the future.


News Article     Saturday, October 20th 2007, 10:02am EDT

Inside the Five Star Video Obscenity Trial.

One observer described the events taking place in Courtroom 604 of the Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Courthouse yesterday as "high drama," but that term barely scratches the surface. The day began shortly after 8:30 a.m. with reported major tactical differences between Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Rood and U.S. Department of Justice attorney Kenneth Whitted, both of whom have been active in prosecuting the case against Five Star Video LC, Five star Video Outlet LC and its employees, Chris Ankeney and Ken Graham, and JM Productions and its principal Jeff Steward. Voices were reportedly raised, but this reporter was not in the room to observe that.


News Article     Saturday, October 20th 2007, 10:02am EDT

Author alleges porn star stole her book.

Representatives for Dianne Miller say the author was never compensated for her contributions to former U.S. adult film star Heather Hunter's debut novel. A statement issued by KD Communications alleges Hunter's book, "Insatiable: The Rise of a Porn Star," draws heavily on a manuscript Miller wrote in 2005 called "Insatiable Desires." Hunter allegedly hired Miller to ghost write the manuscript after her own efforts at penning a semi-autobiographical title failed. However, Miller allegedly was never compensated for her work or told her manuscript had been sold. Miller's attorneys ordered a comparison of the original manuscript with the published novel and saw a vast majority of the novel was taken word-for-word from Miller's manuscript, her representatives said, adding that neither Hunter's camp nor St. Martin's Press have responded to recent inquiry letters.


Blogs     Saturday, October 20th 2007, 10:01am EDT

What Does Your Blog 'About Me' Say About You?

I've discussed in a previous article my ongoing goal of reading and commenting on at least 8 other blogs every day, and the benefits received from doing so. I've also mentioned that it is often difficult for me to find blogs that have content that interests me that would cause me to want to comment. One thing that perturbs me while visiting these blogs is the lack of an "About Me" profile, or one that lacks any real information about the author. Personally speaking, I like to know who I'm reading, with an actual picture of the author, not a silly icon image.


News Article     Saturday, October 20th 2007, 10:00am EDT

Plan To Ban Porn Sites At S.J. Libraries.

Sex crimes and pornography in San Jose's main library were uncovered by the ABC7 I-Team about a year ago. As you can imagine, that report got a lot of reaction, but today it's getting action. It really surprised us that it's taken so long, but a San Jose councilman is finally demanding changes to the main library's computers after seeing what we caught on hidden camera. San Jose Councilman Pete Constant wants software on the main library's computers to filter out pornography, after seeing our I-Team investigation from November. "I was contacted by a constituent in my district who sent me a link to the online video and says, 'Hey, have you seen this?' And when I watched it, quite frankly, I was flabbergasted," says Constant. The library has no rule against viewing photographs or full-screen sex videos from Internet sites, even with children nearby. Chief librarian Jane Light told us it's a matter of free speech. "If anyone objects, doesn't like that because they're seeing something they don't want to see, they just let us know and the customer will be required to place a screen on their screen that means people can't see it from the side," says Light. However, if you look at the privacy screens you can see that they block the view if you're sitting next to the computer, but move back just a bit and the picture's clear again. Dan Noyes: "I've seen the screens and I see how they work and the stuff is visible from behind, you can see everything with those screens."


News Article     Saturday, October 20th 2007, 9:59am EDT

Massive tax bill for Swedish porn king.

Swedish porn king Berth Milton has been ordered to pay back taxes for ten years in which he claimed he was not resident in the country.The bill could be as high as 650 million kronor ($101 million), reports Svenska Dagbladet, but Sweden's tax board is expecting to have to wait two years for the cash. Milton, whose father started the international porn empire Private Media Group in 1965, declared in 1989 that he had moved out of Sweden. He claimed to have lived in Barcelona since then and was therefore liable for tax in Spain. But according to SvD, his move away from Sweden was less than entirely committed. In fact, he was still running his companies in Sweden, did not have a permanent address in Spain and was personally overseeing the redevelopment of his property in Sweden. Milton's partner and two children lived in their Värmdö house until 1998 and the businessman had a number of luxury cars registered in Sweden.The Board of Taxation concluded that for the ten years after 1989, Milton was still resident in Sweden. During that time he earned 1.35 billion kronor from his pornography business.


Design     Saturday, October 20th 2007, 9:58am EDT

What Makes a Good Logo?

A logo is a design, graphical representation, image or symbol that represents a business or organization. Logos were initially used to distinguish and differentiate products, the logos assisted purchasers in finding the product they prefer or have come to trust (or not trust). When product selections were limited and items were marked with a logo which a consumer was familiar they would naturally assume a certain level of quality or value, even if they had not previously used that specific product from that vendor. Now many companies not only have a corporate logo, but they have a logo to represent each of their products or product lines.


News Article     Saturday, October 20th 2007, 9:57am EDT

The Porn Age's unsexiness.

It's been a tough couple of weeks for porn. On Oct. 12, two Arizona men were sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for generating pornographic e-mail spam, a venture in which they'd sent out millions of e-mails and earned more than a million dollars. That's justice well served, but the same day, a jury awarded a Nashville woman $85,000 in damages after her children were inadvertently exposed to hard-core pornography in a California motel room. It seems that in August 2006, Edwina McCombs and her two daughters, ages 7 and 8, checked into a Value Lodge in Artesia. While McCombs was taking a bath, her children channel surfed and, according to the lawsuit, eventually stumbled on close-up, explicit images of sex acts. The award was based on McCombs' claim of "negligence and emotional distress."


News Article     Saturday, October 20th 2007, 9:56am EDT

Marin transit agency fixing Web site after porn incident.

The Marin Web site that almost crashed California's governmental Internet network is under reconstruction to make sure it is porn-free.
The Transportation Authority of Marin is not only busy building freeway improvements along Highway 101, it must build a new Web site because a hacker turned it into a link to porn sites. After trying to clean up the site didn't work, TAM is constructing a new one with tighter security safeguards. TAM's porn infestation earlier this month prompted federal officials to pull the plug on the state's government Internet network. State officials reconnected its network before it could affect public-safety services that rely on Web communications. Soon after, TAM took down its Web page, replacing it with an "under construction" placeholder, and hired experts to build a hack-proof site. TAM Executive Director Dianne Steinhauser said that despite assurances that its old site was safe and secure, it turned out to be "vulnerable."




News Article     Saturday, October 20th 2007, 9:55am EDT

Women's panties threaten Burmese Junta.

The Burmese military is facing an unexpected threat from female opponents to its regime - a deluge of panties dispatched to the country's embassies in a "culturally insulting gesture of protest" against its recent crackdown on protestors. According to AP the Panties for Peace initiative is not merely symbolic, since the the group behind the campaign - Lanna Action for Burma - claims "superstitious generals, especially junta leader General Than Shwe... believe that contact with women's underwear saps them of power". Spokeswoman Liz Hilton (if she's a relation of Paris's then we now know where the heiress's conspicuously absent smalls ended up) said: "It's an extremely strong message in Burmese and in all Southeast Asian culture."


News Bytes     Friday, October 19th 2007, 10:46am EDT

The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously

Blasts hit Bhutto’s convoy, killing over 100 in Karachi.
http://www.buffalonews.com/180/story/187448.html

Nobel Winner Issues Apology for Comments About Blacks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/science/19watson.html?ref=science

Boys jailed for stoning cricket player to death.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL1952716720071019

'Check on Kate and the children'.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article3076800.ece

Gas Gangs Hit Florida; Steal Hundreds Of Gallons Of Fuel.
http://www.local6.com/news/14371886/detail.html

Australian leaders promise billions in tax cuts.
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSSYD5258720071019

Drunk man survives crocodile 'swim'.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/19/asia/AS-ODD-Australia-Crocodile.php

Severe Weather Slams Southeast, Plains.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_on_re_us/severe_weather_18

Historic bill in Senate to fight warming.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/19/MNKCSSD3I.DTL

Internet pedophile suspect arrested in Thailand.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/19/asia/thai.php


News Article     Friday, October 19th 2007, 10:44am EDT

Proposed Law Could Be a Cold Shower for YouPorn.

YouPorn is the highest trafficked adult website in the world and boasts a higher Alexa rating than both CNN and Weather.com, reports Portfolio. Saw that one coming, didn't we? But YouPorn and other blue Web 2.0 startups could be out of business in the near future if proposed changes to 18 U.S.C. 2257 are accepted into law. Known in the industry as "2257," 18 U.S.C. 2257 defines requirements porn producers must follow to verify the age of every performer, keep records about the performers' identities and make those records available to the government. The proposed changes would extend the statute's reach beyond adult-content producers to include social networking websites. That could mean every adult who wants to upload a naughty picture to a social network would have to submit a photo ID and state their full name, date of birth and other personal information. The network would have to maintain that record for as long as the picture exists -- likely in perpetuity throughout the universe -- and ensure the record is available without question to The Authorities for 20 hours a week, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.


News Article     Friday, October 19th 2007, 10:43am EDT

Surrounded by images that desensitize us to porn.

After reading the article on pornography in Saturday's Faith and Value's section ("You heard him correctly: It's Porn Sunday," Oct. 6). I wondered why porn, which the article says affects 50 percent of men in this country, became such a huge problem. Obviously, the Internet, TV and other media have contributed to this problem, but can't we blame ourselves to some extent? Haven't we allowed more and more images of women dressed with less and less into all areas of our society? Our own family shopping malls have windows like Abercrombie, Victoria's Secret and Hollisters that have mannequins and models half-dressed and in provocative positions. I know it isn't porn, but doesn't it desensitize us? A speaker at our church gave testimony of how he became addicted to porn. He said it started with an image when he was a boy. What images are we giving our children? Shouldn't our children be thinking of noble causes and dreaming of how to contribute to society and not dreaming of the model in sexy underwear?


News Article     Friday, October 19th 2007, 10:42am EDT

Joe Elkind Seeks Trial in Case Against Lawyer.

The legal battle between former partners Joe Elkind and John Bennett over business ownership has taken a turn, with Elkind now seeking a trial by jury for his claim that his former attorney plotted against him with Bennett. When Elkind and Bennett were partners, they hired attorney Richard J. Cahan to devise a way to hide their various assets through a series of complex corporate transactions, Elkind notes in a lawsuit filed earlier this month in a Florida court. The scheme, Elkind contends, allowed him and Bennett to avoid taxes, but gave Bennett an opportunity to prevent Elkind from maintaining his share of ownership in Breaker Assets Holdings, AVV and half of Net Management Services Inc.


Video     Friday, October 19th 2007, 10:41am EDT

Make Your Wordpress Blog Search Engine Friendly.

Tips on how to avoid duplicate content and set up theming or siloing on your wordpress blog installation.


News Article     Friday, October 19th 2007, 10:39am EDT

RIAA's Next Target: Usenet.

The music industry switched gears last week in its legal campaign to squash piracy of its intellectual property and filed a lawsuit against Usenet.com which it calls "a haven for those seeking pirated content." In recent months, the industry, through its trade organization -- the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) -- has attempted to discourage music piracy by suing individuals it suspects of infringing on the copyrights of its record label members. This lawsuit against Usenet.com harkens back to the early days of the RIAA's anti-piracy efforts, contends Ross A. Dannenberg, an intellectual property attorney with Banner & Witcoff in Washington, D.C. Usenet Loophole: "It looks like they've [RIAA] come full circle," he told the E-Commerce Times. "They started off suing the proprietors of peer-to-peer file sharing networks -- Napster, AIMster, Grokster -- and they won those cases," he continued. "Then the RIAA said, 'Let's start going after the individual users and instill the fear of a lawsuit into society in an attempt to curb copyright infringement,'" he added. "And they've met with some success in that strategy."


News Article     Friday, October 19th 2007, 10:38am EDT

Porn Star Ron Jeremy Visits Central Washington University.

A big debate about porn. In a place where thousands of students surf the internet everyday. One of the biggest performers in the adult entertainment industry, Ron Jeremy, was at Central Washington University Thursday night to discuss porn with a man who opposes it. "People who say porn ruins their life have a problem with it and I tell them, don't watch!" explained Jeremy in the green room before the debate. "Internet pornography is like crack cocaine of sexual addiction. It's highly addictive, highly available and you can be totally anonymous when viewing it," said Jeremy's competition, Michael Leahy, a recovering sex addict.


News Article     Friday, October 19th 2007, 10:37am EDT

Pornographers hijack Somerset's Web address.

Looking for a "nude man club" or "nude mideastern teens?" Try searching for the city of Somerset's Web site, which was hijacked by cyber-criminals last week. Surfers typing somersettx.gov into the search engines Google or Yahoo encountered thousands of porn sites, all of which appear to be connected to the city's domain name. But city officials insist they weren't trying to start a gentlemen's club. Hackers got into the servers for iPowerWeb, the company hosting Somerset's Web site and created spoof sites linking to porn, all of which include somersettx.gov in their Web addresses.


News Article     Friday, October 19th 2007, 10:36am EDT

Brian Surewood Enters Not Guilty Plea.

Adult performer Brian Surewood (aka Gilbert Brian Barnes) entered a plea of not guilty Wednesday to the eight counts against him stemming from a tragic road accident in Reseda that killed a five-year-old boy and critically injured the boy's mother and infant sister. Barnes, 44, faces charges of vehicular manslaughter, reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident. His case has been set for an initial conference setting December 3.




News Article     Friday, October 19th 2007, 10:35am EDT

Spammers' New MP3 Trick May Be Short-Lived.

A variation of spam is sliding past spam filters into inboxes, but it’s not likely the new trick will be successful much longer, a security expert said Thursday. The spam messages, urging recipients to buy a stock, have an MP3 audio attachment but no subject line or text, said John Graham-Cumming, an antispam consultant and researcher who is based in France. “I think this is the first time we’ve seen this,” said Graham-Cumming, who tracks new kinds of spam. The audio messages, which vary in length, contain a warbled, robotic voice with a British accent encouraging people to invest in Exit Only Inc., a company that owns a Web site, www.Text4Cars.com, which connects vehicle buyers and sells through SMS (Short Message Service). Exit Only says it’s not involved in sending the spam. Graham-Cumming said the spam falls into the category of “pump-and-dump” fraud. Scammers invest in a company with a low-priced stock and send out a round of spam, causing gullible investors to buy it and increase the stock’s price. As the stock price peaks, fraudsters cash out, which causes the stock to precipitously fall, burning other investors. The practice is illegal.


News Article     Friday, October 19th 2007, 10:34am EDT

Bad hair day for alternative browser users.

There's bad news for users of alternative browsers this Friday, with both Opera and Firefox subject to security vulnerabilities. A trio of faults in Opera create a means to construct cross-site scripting attacks and other mischief. The worst flaw of the bunch involves the possibility that external news readers or email clients might be used to inject hostile code onto vulnerable systems. Providing a user has configured Opera to use an external newsgroup client or email application, maliciously crafted web pages taking advantage of the vulnerability might be created that can cause Opera to run that application incorrectly, potentially leading to the execution of arbitrary code. Secondly, a bug in processing frames from different websites lends itself to cross-site scripting attacks.


News Bytes     Thursday, October 18th 2007, 12:07pm EDT

The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously.

Kurds rally in Iraq against Turkish incursion vote.
http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSCOL841860

Romney calls the UN a 'failure'.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071018/ap_po/romney_un_2

Mexican crisscrossed border with TB -- 76 times!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071018/NATION/110180087/1001

Co-Defendant Says O.J. Wanted Armed Men.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071018/D8SBBCNG0.html

Atlanta Has '81 Days of Water Until Dry'.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/weather/10/17/southerndraught.ap/index.html

'Strong proof' of water found on Mars.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071018.wmars18/BNStory/Science/home

Chicago OKs wide outdoor smoking ban.
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/smoking.ban.beaches.2.377241.html

Mobile phones soon to be allowed on aircraft.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/18/mobiles_on_aircraft/

British actress Deborah Kerr dies at 86.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7051206.stm

Earliest humans lived complex lives, scientists find.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/18/2062604.htm


News Article     Thursday, October 18th 2007, 12:06pm EDT

'Girls Gone Wild' Founder Joe Francis Breaks His Silence.

Greta Van Susteren host: Tonight, a jailhouse interview with "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis. Now, we are in the Washoe County jail in Reno, Nevada, that Joe has called home since June 4. But his legal problems? Well, they started in Panama City, Florida, when his company filmed a "Girls Gone Wild" video during the 2003 spring break. Joe has not spoken publicly in at least six months, but tonight, he's breaking his silence. And you will not see this anywhere else.


News Article     Thursday, October 18th 2007, 12:04pm EDT

Porn King Found Dead in Motel.

As the news of Inkyo "Wanker Wang" Volt Hwang's death and the apparent murder of his new wife permeates the dark underworld of pornographic fame in Los Angeles, members of the adult entertainment industry are questioning how and why he died in a motel in Morgan Hill. Hwang's Sept. 29 death in the Economy Inn on Monterey Road was reported in the Oct. 2 edition of the Times, although his identity was not released by authorities at that time. He was found dead in his room at approximately 1:30pm when the manager attempted to ask him if he wanted to stay another night and received no response. Morgan Hill police officers found his body half-in and half-out of the bed. No one else was in the room or registered to the room, and police officials said his death was not considered suspicious. The cause of death won't be released until the toxicology tests are completed, which could be six to eight weeks. When a follow-up story ran in the Times Oct. 9, identifying the body as the 38-year-old porn director and linking him to a possible homicide in King City, the adult entertainment industry woke up, speculation flying fast and furious around the community. The Times received many calls from porn directors, producers and industry talent in the days following the second story, including a call from the "Hollywood Insider" to verify the lurid details.


Search Engines     Thursday, October 18th 2007, 12:02pm EDT

The Best Damn On-Page Optimization Process Checklist, Period.

Processes and checklists are an important part of my daily routine. I'm a very process oriented individual. Give me a checklist and I get things done. Give me a job without a checklist and I'll create one. Give me a job that falls outside of the routine or is difficult to put into a checklist and I'm screwed! I like to create systems for everything that I do and SEO is no exception. While not every aspect of search engine marketing can be programmed, categorized or easily referenced, (I have a mighty team to handle that stuff!) the bulk of the work can at least be outlined into a handy check list. With no further ado, I give you...The Best Damn On-Page Optimization Checklist, Period


News Article     Thursday, October 18th 2007, 12:02pm EDT

Ray Guhn Case to Depend on Community Standards.

Circuit Court Judge Ron Swanson ruled Tuesday that the community standards of a four-county area will be used in determining whether videos Ray Guhn produced are obscene. While Swanson rejected the grounds for the case's dismissal, which were brought by Guhn's attorney Larry Walters, the judge granted Walters' request that jurors use the community standards of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton counties, instead of those of only Santa Rosa County. The effect of this ruling was to nullify the prosecution's earlier transfer of the case from Esacambia to Santa Rosa County.


News Article     Thursday, October 18th 2007, 12:00pm EDT

Possession of child porn becomes a crime in Czech Republic.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus Thursday signed a bill that makes possession of child pornography a felony punishable by up to two years in prison, president's spokesman Petr Hajek said in a statement. The lower house first approved the bill last June outlawing possession of child pornography. The bill was struck down by the upper house in August. The lower house then overruled the Senate vote in September. While producing and selling child pornography is a crime in the Czech Republic, possessing such images was not.


News Article     Thursday, October 18th 2007, 12:00pm EDT

A crazed look at the porn industry.

Princess - a hypnotic thriller about the evils of the porn industry - may be controversial, but get past the headline-grabbing details and you will discover something intimate and disturbing. Princess is the most controversial Danish film since Lars von Trier's The Idiots - deemed religiously offensive by censors in Singapore because it contains an image of a nun being buggered by the cross. Get past the headline-grabbing details, however, and you discover something far more intimate and disturbing. A hypnotic thriller that combines stark Japanese-style animation and hand-held video footage, Princess is ostensibly about the evils of the porn industry but works just as well as a portrait of a toxically dysfunctional, explosively loving family.


Marketing     Thursday, October 18th 2007, 11:59am EDT

Everything You Wanted to Know About Customers.

The purpose of marketing has always been clear—to facilitate customer acquisition—but one of the most important things that a marketer can do is help his or her company learn more about its customers. Who are they? What do they read? What do they search for? What do they shop for? And what’s the maximum we’re willing to pay to acquire their business? There was a time when very little of this was really knowable. Now, much more of this data is available. The next generation of media buying will allow advertisers to bid on acquiring customers based on the answers to all these questions, plus one more crucial question. Who is my customer friends with?




News Article     Thursday, October 18th 2007, 11:58am EDT

Pump-and-dump scammers debut MP3 spam.

Stock spammers have abandoned PDF files and image spam with a new campaign featuring MP3 files. The audio files pose as music from stars such as Elvis Presley and Fergie, but actually contain a monotone voice encouraging punters to invest in an obscure Canadian company. The MP3 files are being widely spammed in emails that often contain no subject line or message body, net security firm Sophos reports. Some of the filenames used include hurricanechris.mp3, allforone.mp3, carrieunderwood.mp3, elvis.mp3, baby.mp3, fergie.mp3, and bbrown.mp3. The female (apparently British) voice on the MP3 file, recorded at low bit-rate and randomly altered to avoid detection by anti-spam filters, seeks to attract interest in Exit Only, a Canadian firm that runs a website marketplace for new and used motors.


News Article     Thursday, October 18th 2007, 11:57am EDT

UK.gov makes bizarre threat to throw self off internet.

The UK Government has given itself until the end of next year to get its act together on accessibility, after which any .gov.uk site failing to achieve the minimum, Level Double-A of the W3C Guidelines will have its domain withdrawn. This brave, nay, foolhardy commitment could conceivably result in carnage across national, local government and miscellaneous hanger-on .gov.uk sites - and we can perhaps look forward to a more overtly outsourced future containing sites such as homeoffice.tv, mod.cn and basildon.eu. Or not. UK Government web sites may not generally be a great deal of use when it comes to basic objectives such as communication, reference, organisation and consistency, but the major sites generally either achieve the guidelines or come sufficiently close for them not to find the December 2008 deadline particularly challenging. So they're accessible already, and we can all be confused by them on a level playing field.* But a Southampton University study last year found that 61 per cent of Government and local council web sites did not comply with the guidelines, and it seems reasonable to expect that quite of number of sites beyond the major central Government ones still fail to make the grade.


News Article     Thursday, October 18th 2007, 11:56am EDT

Skype Trojan steals login credentials.

Skype users, Beware a new Trojan that uses subtle social engineering tricks to try to steal your login credentials The malware, which calls itself ‘Skype Defender’, poses as a security plug-in. Infected users are prompted to log-into their Skype accounts. Cleverly the Trojan displays what looks like a Skype login screen, the internet telephony company warns. If a user enters his Skype username and password, the Trojan displays a message saying that the name and password are unrecognized. Behind the scenes, this information - as well as all usernames and passwords saved in Internet Explorer - is sent to a hacker-controlled website. By compromising user Skype accounts, hackers gain access to SkypeOut credits, which might be resold, and a possible means to access the PayPal accounts used to pay for those credits.


News Bytes     Wednesday, October 17th 2007, 10:54am EDT

The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously.

Senate Gears Up for Mukasey Confirmation.
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3738348&page=1

McCanns deny they think Madeleine is dead.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2678181.ece

Migrants in Britain - the official verdict.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2673795.ece

Cheney and Obama are distant cousins, says VP's wife.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2673795.ece

Africans are less intelligent than Westerners.
http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article3067222.ece

10 JFK Airport Workers Charged In Major Drug Ring.
http://wcbstv.com/local/jfk.airport.drug.2.375457.html

Blood test predicts onset of Alzheimer's.
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/10/16/blood-alzheimers.html

Cop Saves Woman from Oncoming Train.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7048882.stm

Princess Margaret's 'illegitimate son' wins appeal right.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/monarchy/story/0,,2193054,00.html

Footprints at watering hole lead to the first reptiles.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2673352.ece


News Article     Wednesday, October 17th 2007, 10:53am EDT

House Approves Extension to 'Net Tax Ban.

The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to extend an Internet tax moratorium for just four years, despite calls from the tech industry to permanently bar state and local governments from taxing Internet access. By a vote of 405-2, the House on Tuesday voted to pass the Internet Tax Freedom Act Amendments Act, which would extend the moratorium on Internet access taxes and other taxes unique to the Internet until November 2011. The current ban, extended twice since first Congress first enacted it in 1998, is set to expire Nov. 1.


News Article     Wednesday, October 17th 2007, 10:53am EDT

Government Dismisses Charges Against JM Productions and Jeff Steward.

"Un-fucking-believable." That's how JM Productions owner Jeff Steward described the government's motion to dismiss all charges against him and his company for lack of evidence. Kenneth Witten, representing the US Department of Justice, moved this afternoon to dismiss six counts of interstate transportation of obscene materials by common carrier and three counts of engaging in a business of selling or transporting obscene material.


News Article     Wednesday, October 17th 2007, 10:52am EDT

Social Search: What It Is and Why It's Not Going Away.

Don't look now, but social search is pervasive. It's taking hold in large part because the Web itself is changing. What is social search? Broadly speaking, social search enables the masses to have greater influence on the results of a search, and in so doing, enables better, more interesting and more targeted search results. Some social search services prioritize search results based on the preferences of its entire user base, while others segment users to provide results that are more closely tailored to a particular user. Still others allow users to organize content into collections which can then be found by searchers. Whatever the form, the common thread with social search services is that users themselves have greater control over the results.


News Article     Wednesday, October 17th 2007, 10:50am EDT

Porn Typosquatter Fined Again by FTC.

A so-called typosquatter who served pornographic advertisements on domains such as Bobthebiulder.com and teltubbies.com has been fined again by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. John Zuccarini has agreed to give up US$164,000 in typosquatting revenue he is alleged to have raked in, the FTC said Tuesday in a statement. Five years ago, a federal court had barred Zuccarini from registering domains that are misspellings of legitimate brands, a practice called typosquatting, but he ignored the order, according to Carolyn Hann, a staff attorney with the FTC. "He was engaging in practices that violated certain provisions of the order," Hann said. "He had certain domain names that were transpositions or misspellings of popular domain names." After his 2002 settlement, Zuccarini pled guilty in 2003 to typosquatting and child pornography charges brought by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. But he resumed the domain name registration scam after being released from prison in late 2005, Hann said. This time around, however, his hundreds of Web sites were used to advertise legitimate products rather than pornography. "It seemed like he was linking his domain names to affiliate marketing programs where they had all sorts of ads," she said.


News Article     Wednesday, October 17th 2007, 10:50am EDT

Social websites pressed to enforce age checks.

MySpace, Facebook and other social networking sites are facing increased pressure from state law enforcement officials in the US to introduce controversial age verification technology aimed at rooting out online sexual predators. The calls for action follow meetings between state attorneys-general and executives from MySpace and its parent company, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. The use of social networking sites by online sexual predators targeting children has become a highly politicised issue. "There have been discussions at the highest levels over the past two weeks and [they] are still going on right now. People working on this have made it clear, particularly to MySpace, that this [age verification] needs to happen," said Chris Geidner, counsel to Marc Dann, the Ohio attorney-general. His is one of 11 states on an executive committee of a taskforce backed by all 50 states to address online child safety.


News Article     Wednesday, October 17th 2007, 10:49am EDT

Internext Registration Open on Official Website.

Internext Las Vegas 2008, the world's largest business-to-business trade show for the adult industry's online and digital-media sectors, has launched its official website with a new look and feel to go with the show's new format and venue. Online registration now is being accepted. Internext will run from Sunday, Jan. 13, through Tuesday, Jan. 15, at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nev. The show will kick off with a party Sunday night and offer seminars and exhibits on Monday and Tuesday . Internext Las Vegas will no longer have a traditional show floor: Instead, the show will be held in the 25,000-square-foot Rain nightclub at the Palms. It will offer an array of VIP rooms, private skyboxes, indoor cabanas, fully stocked bars and a stage with ongoing entertainment.




News Article     Wednesday, October 17th 2007, 10:48am EDT

Microsoft Vista has a memory problem.

Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista is running out of memory faster than a politician in a corruption scandal. According to ZDNet, the 'Out of Memory' error, which is the same as Terry Pratchett's 'out of cheese' error, is seriously stuffing up Vista's file handling. The problem can be clearly seen when a user tries to copy 16,400 files or smaller groups of files that add up to 16,400 between reboots. After you get the 'Out of Cheese' message you will also suffer from menus and tabs disappearing within the Windows environment and even reboots and BSODs are reported. The problem occurs where users are running Kaspersky security products, but it is not the software that is causing the problem. Other software also suffers but it seems that the Kaspersky software shows the error in its full glory. The kicker is that despite Vole knowing about the problem for months it is not going to be fixed in SP1. Vole is currently offering a hotfix for the problem but you have to ask it nicely. ZDNet have also found some other file handling problems in Vista when it handles more than 1,500. A quick look at the memory use shows that it is causing serious spiking which does not go away until a reboot.


News Article     Wednesday, October 17th 2007, 10:47am EDT

Did Gay Porn Kill Danny Roddick?.

When the news broke on Sept. 13 that gay porn star Danny Roddick had died of an apparent drug overdose, it didn’t take long for friends and fans to mourn his loss. Unfortunately, it also didn’t take long for people to blame Roddick’s chosen profession for his death. David Forest, founder of Los Angeles-based David Forest Entertainment, doesn’t mince words when asked whether those opinions have merit. “That’s bullshit,” he says. “I’ve been in the porn industry for 27 years and I’ve known many stars who have taken their own lives or accidentally overdosed on drugs, but there’s no porn company out there that could make someone kill themselves.” Although Forest doesn’t believe Roddick intentionally took his own life, others in the industry who have done so in the past “were not happy people in general,” he says. “I don’t think what they were doing—making gay porn—was what caused them to be unhappy, though. I think their lives just weren’t going the way they had hoped.” That becomes an especially apparent issue the longer someone stays in the industry, Forest says. “A porn career doesn’t last forever. The longer you stay in the business, the longer you draw it out, the more you find it’s true that you’re only as big as your last hit.”


News Article     Wednesday, October 17th 2007, 10:46am EDT

US Patent Office decimates Amazon's 1-Click Patent.

Most of the claims in Amazon's controversial patent for shopping with a single mouse click have been rejected by the US Patent Office. It follows a campaign by a New Zealander who filed evidence of prior art with funding from readers of his blog. There are 26 claims in Amazon.com's patent for Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network, better known as its 1-Click patent. Only five of the claims – numbered six to 10 – have been deemed "patentable and/or confirmed". Twenty-one others were rejected.


News Article     Wednesday, October 17th 2007, 10:44am EDT

Opera and Mozilla step up mobile browser pressure.

The first key milestone on the road to a genuinely appealing mobile web experience is an effective browser, and the competition to provide that vital tool is heating up. The Apple Safari open source platform has made the running so far, both in the iPhone and Nokia's homegrown browser, which is Safari-based. Microsoft is still struggling to make Internet Explorer really at home on a mobile device and Google's promised offering has not yet materialised. Outside Safari, the strongest contender has been Opera, which has now signed up new allies Freescale and NEC to push its technology further into the mobile mainstream – just as internet players like Mozilla raise their own challenge, ahead of the inevitable attack from Google.


News Bytes     Tuesday, October 16th 2007, 11:34am EDT

The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously.

In Iran, Putin Stresses Nuclear Talks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/world/17iran.html?hp

First Baby Boomer Files For Social Security.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301997,00.html

Heathrow crash inquiry continues.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7046931.stm

French witnesses tell Diana jury of white flash and dark car.
http://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2007/10/16/diana-witness-flash/

McCanns face new claims over Maddie body.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=70797&in_page_id=34

OJ heist pals strike deals to testify against him.
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hRyk4u8O4IVIMK92gDq7iJWn0G6A

Stanford researchers find blood test for Alzheimer's.
http://www.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2007/10/15/daily5.html

Magnitude 4.2 earthquake strikes northwest of LA.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/16/america/NA-GEN-US-California-Quake.php

Japanese cult raided after woman's death.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2662749.ece

Top Lakeland restaurant serves up Peking duck-style squirrel pancakes
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=487915&in_page_id=1770


 

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