p2pnet World Headlines â Sept 10, 2009
Premier Campbell Refused to Disclose Holdings The Tyree
Other ministers revealed they invest in industries their decisions influence. Premier Gordon Campbell declined to disclose his stock holdings before the election, but most of his cabinet members did reveal their portfolios. In at least four cases, they hold stocks in industries their ministry does business with or regulates . Citizens` Services minister Ben Stewart`s declared assets include stock in Telus Corporation, a company that has hundreds of millions of dollars worth of business with the ministry he now heads . Telus subsidiaries were paid some $70 million by the provincial government last year, according to the detailed schedule of payments included with the public accounts for 2008-2009. They include Telus Advanced Communications, Telus Communications Corp., Telus Communications Inc., Telus Sourcing Solutions and Telus Mobility. Telus` business with the province includes a ten-year, $133 million contract to process the government`s payroll and a $245 million contract to connect B.C. communities to the Internet. Both are managed through the Citizens` Services ministry. Stewart`s form does not say how much he or his companies had invested in Telus, and the law does not require filers to include that detail. Stewart`s form does not say how much he or his companies had invested in Telus, and the law does not require filers to include that detail . The assets include Bell Canada, Shaw Communications, Rogers Communications, West Fraser Timber, Finning International, Encana Corporation, Fortis Inc., Husky Energy Inc., TransAlta Corp., TransCanada Corp., SNC Lavalin Group Inc., and Shoppers Drug Mart, as well as stocks in several banks and pharmaceutical companies. Nor is Stewart the only cabinet minister whose public and private interests may overlap. [Comment: Smells corrupt!]
Last chance for input on copyright legislation The Star
Canadians have until Sunday to weigh in on updating law Canadians have until Sunday to give their two cents on how best to protect intellectual property at a time when words and music can be uploaded and downloaded in seconds around the world.
P2P pushes IPv6 surge The Register
Next gen protocol finally appears on the radar IPv6 traffic levels surged over the last 12 months, with the 15-fold increase down to just one application and one ISP, according to a study by Arbor Networks. Support for IPv6 in µTorrent version 1.8, a version of the world`s most popular BitTorrent client released in August 2008, had a huge effect. The introduction of IPv6 P2P succeeded where most previous IPv6 inducement efforts had failed (i.e. liberal peering, high quality IPv6 porn, IPv6 ASCII animation of Star Wars, etc.), writes Arbor Networks researcher Craig Labovitz. In the space of ten months µTorrent helped drive IPv6 traffic from 0.002 per cent to 0.03 per cent of all internet traffic (a dramatic 15x jump).
Numerous holes in Firefox 3.0 and 3.5 fixed Heise Online
The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox versions 3.0.14 and 3.5.3, which close several critical security holes in previous versions. Attackers were able to exploit a flaw in FeedWriter to execute JavaScript code in a victim’s browser with Chrome privileges, the highest rights code can run at within the browser. In addition, a flaw in the management of columns of a XUL tree element to manipulate pointers can be exploited to allow the execution of injected code. Victims need only visit a specially crafted website for the attack to take place.module.
Jobs in Fighting Form After Liver Transplant New York Times
After a five-month absence, Mr. Jobs said, “I`m back at Apple and I`m loving every day of it.” “I feel great. I probably need to gain about 30 pounds, but I feel really good,” said Mr. Jobs, Apple`s chief executive, in an interview after the event. “I`m eating like crazy. A lot of ice cream.”
Philippine fury at text tax The Register
F@ck off Filipino consumer groups have reacted with outrage to a proposed law imposing a tax on text and multimedia messages sent from mobiles. Despite attempts to include a no-pass-it-on proviso in the bill it passed yesterday with no such safeguard.
UK police watchdog finally gets off its butt to investigate terrorism detention-and-search of children, theft of electronics BoingBoing
The UK police watchdog is finally looking into the widespread use of anti-terrorism stop-and-search powers by cops. The event that spurred them into it? Two plainclothes cops stopped a 43-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter and her six-year-old friend. They took the man`s USB sticks, phones, camera and CD, made him stand in front of a CCTV to be photographed, and then they searched and photographed the children. They never told the man where he could go to get his property returned. They never returned it. Where I come from, that`s called being mugged.
Standards group debuts online games for safer workplaces CBC
CSA Standards is rolling out nine online training games to help workers handle industrial explosions, train derailments, chemical spills and other emergencies. The training games are aimed at companies and will be available on the association`s website, some for a fee. The new online games can help reduce workplace injuries, said CSA Standards, a non-profit association that develops standards and helps people learn to apply them.
SPCA seeks to be master of domain name Montreal Gazette
Local animal shelter starts court case to regain control of fundraising website The Canadian SPCA has begun arguments in Quebec Superior Court for an injunction to prevent its former director, Pierre Barnoti, from using the SPCA.com domain name through an organization he created. Montreal`s SPCA discovered in 2008 that SPCA International has used its website to solicit funds around the world since 2006. At the time, the SPCA claimed the site was getting 30 million hits a year, the animal shelter`s lawyer, Marc-André Blain, said outside a Montreal courtroom.
100 fired at Bruce Power over Web, email use The Star
Bruce Power, a nuclear generating facility on the shores of Lake Huron, has fired close to 100 employees at its site at Tiverton, Ont. Spokesman Ross Lamont says the firings announced Wednesday follow an investigation of code of conduct violations in such areas as email and internet use.
Can a mere domain name be defamation? Glenn Beck says yes Ars Technica
Hugely popular conservative talker Glenn Beck has sicced his lawyers on a satirical website that`s been up for a week, but the attorneys may have a point on this one. The site, called glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com, toes the line on defamationâand may have stepped across it.
Google expects increasing video in search ads Reuters
Google Inc is infusing its paid search ads with video, product images and other features as the Internet company strives to refine its money-making capabilities in a tough advertising environment. In a Webcast with investors on Wednesday, Google executives walked through a variety of innovations designed to make its search ads more relevant to users and more effective for advertisers. “Our search ads have largely looked the same over the course of the past seven or eight years,” said Nick Fox, a Google director of product management, referring to the text ads that appear alongside Google’s search results.
090909: BitTorrent Meets Art Freak Bits
Swedish artist and filmmaker Anders Weberg has exhibited his work at various art festivals, galleries and museums throughout the world. But unlike most artist, he is also producing art on filesharing networks. Since 2006, Anders has been running the website P2P-art, where he announces films that will be available as long as they are shared. All the original footage is deleted and the films are made available exclusively on filesharing networks, for as long as there are people who continue to share them. Today, Anders has released his latest production, 090909, A 9hour 9minute, 9seconds and 9 frames long audio visual excursion. After the first user has downloaded the film and all source material, Anders will stop seeding it and it`s up to the BitTorrent community to keep it alive.
September, 2009
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September 10th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Rogers and Shaw now in court.
Suing over 10-year old divide and conquer plans:
http://www.mediacastermagazine.com/issues/PrinterFriendly.asp?aid=1000340371&RType=&PC=&issue=09102009
September 10th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Of course the big Bittorrent news of 9/9/9 is the Beatles Stereo Remasters torrent, which has actually been up for about a week now.