Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Jim Carrey's daughter on "American Idol" as any other applicant


"American Idol" had a special broadcast Sunday night auditions. This round was held in San Diego, California. That was Jane Erin Carrey stop, the daughter of Jim Carrey. When 24 year old girl appeared before the panel of judges, they knew who she was. Jennifer Lopez reminded her of the days it was a 'Fly Girl' on "Living Colour", where his father got his start in comedy. She admitted to not remembering Lopez because "I think it was about two years old" when he visited the forum of the very popular comedy in the early 90's.

When I saw his photo, I thought it was Miley Cyrus. She has a beautiful voice, but nothing special, but the judges said "We want more than they can offer" and send it to Hollywood. She said that having a famous father is as good as bad because the obligation to do more to demonstrate that she has talent.
Do you think Jane took advantage of his father?

Monday, January 23, 2012

Impact on closing Megaupload

Open silos, missiles in the air. After both the FBI and the Department of Justice of the United States closed the Megaupload site in a joint operation, the consequences are being seen across the Web. The most important response has been found between the group of Anonymous, who has deployed the largest attack in its history. According to published data, more than five thousand users have been involved in the attack on specific sites, breaking down the gates of the Department of Justice, the RIAA, MPAA and many others.

After the massive protests that took place on Web January 18 in protest to the advancement of SOPA laws and PIPA, came the news of an intervention by the FBI and the Department of Justice United States against the storage service of Megaupload website. As Max told here, its founder Kim Dotcom and six of his employees were arrested in the process. The short time interval between SOPA and the protest against the disappearance of PIPA and Megaupload almost impossible to think of an accident. This has seen as a retaliation by the U.S. authorities, but as I said on another occasion, the Web knows how to strike back.

Slowly, some of the sites attacked have recovered its normal operating state, but others are fallen, or were temporarily disabled by your administrators

This time, the Anonymous group launched the largest attack since their existence is recorded. According to the channels of the group (primarily via Twitter), more than five thousand users are armed with the famous "Low Orbit Ion Cannon", carrying out attacks against high-profile sites. The sites of the Department of Justice, the Universal Music Group and the RIAA have been among the first to fall. Then other targets have been added as the site of the "Broadcast Music Inc.", the MPAA, the portal for Warner Music, Viacom, the website of the French Hadopi, Intellectual Property Office of the United States, and for some minutes also FBI dropped the page. There was talk that the White House site could also be a potential target, but no data have been his downfall yet. Until we can ascertain, the sites of BMI, the FBI and the MPAA, the Intellectual Property Office and the Department of Justice and were in line, while the RIAA, Warner and UMG are still down.



Anonymous has said that "there is more on the way", but guess that will be fulfilled on both sides. The FBI quickly published information about the operation against Megaupload, including specific details of the detained goods. However, one thing remains unchanged: Beyond the arrests and interventions, all this must be prove, and should reach the court that are required to define at what point Megaupload is part of a conspiracy to violate copyright commercial purposes, as the rest of its functions (offering online space, place advertisements and sell special service subscriptions) are perfectly legal. At the same time, this reminds us of the conflict between Viacom and YouTube, a case that lasted more than three years and finally concluded in favor of the video site, although the government says that Megaupload does not qualify as a service that can be protected the concept of "safe harbor" of the DMCA, because in theory, who operated on Megaupload were aware of illegal content on the service and did nothing to remove. Of course, the FBI didn't went to Mountain View to arrest anyone...

Monday, January 2, 2012

Hackerspace Global Grid: A network of satellites to bypass censorship on the Internet

Hackerspace Global Grid: A network of satellites to bypass censorship on the Internet - Global Grid hackerspacesThe current onslaught of security, the available content, privacy and the freedom to surf the web, who are being awarded the task of defending these values ​​to develop strategies with very high expectations and ambitions. Very high. So much so that at the Chaos Communication Congress, a group of security experts announced plans to send a network of satellites into space, building the Global Grid hackerspaces to combat censorship and there exists more strongly on Earth.

 
With the law SOUP fluttering in the vast corridors of the U.S. Senate and lobby for its passage suggestively caressing the pocket of many of the protagonists of the debate, the community of security experts continues to discuss and predict what the state of the network in the case that this law is applied and leave others in the future may be even worse. Freedom and privacy are values ​​that can not be defiled, and the Chaos Communication Congress was interesting announcements at the censorship action. One of the most outstanding was the one who starred in called hackerspaces Global Grid, which expressed the intention to strengthen fundraising, research and community work to send a satellite into space and start a global satellite network that is an alternative to the Internet controlled by the powerful and their censors.



    
Collection stations would function as signal-geographical area - Global Grid hackerspaces capture stations as officials said geographic area-

    
Carrying several months of development ahead, the project hackerspaces Global Grid, will try, as in the past others have done so enthusiastic amateur, put several satellites in space through a service that the ground control without the need for constant presence of "owner" of the satellite. With this overhead, the idea is to create a communication network that is outside the territorial control of the intervening agencies, and users would connect to it through low-cost small stations that could be sold non-profit (100 ideal as a stop euros) or could even be built by the user. By partnering with the GPS satellite network, these stations will identify the satellite generating the appropriate feedback to surf the net without concerns about privacy and freedom of action. Mr. Bauer, a man in charge of the project, announced that the plan is to present 3 prototypes for half of 2012, and hopefully show the community in the next Chaos Communication Congress.
    
Bauer is a highly respected expert and leader in the community that will support this project. - Global Grid hackerspaces Bauer is a highly respected expert and leader in the community that will support this project.

    
While the project is feasible because it is not the first time a group of this kind send satellites into space (although these dimensions and integration with other projects, such as Constellation), technical difficulties as the amount of time may be operating these satellites, geolocation and efficiency, the possibility of repair and delays in the transfer of information because it would not count on such advanced technology. In addition to needing money to do so, the community of security experts and will require working together, because for 23 years in planning to launch the first computer to the moon, but that's another story.