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Lords' report on superfast broadband must be taken seriously
The government is not bold enough in its Internet strategy, and should do more to give the UK the network you need
that will make uncomfortable reading for ministers, but the House of Lords report on the national strategy to accelerate and expand the UK network of broadband should be taken very seriously.
If implemented, practical suggestions proposed could trigger a wave of new funding to help many remote communities desperate to get online more quickly and make it more likely to result in current plans.
Broadband for all - an alternative view is the result of a six-month investigation by the Committee of Lords communication that was in testing regulators, technicians and businesses ranging from small projects BT community such as broadband in Great Asby Cumbria.
and the conclusion is that the government is not being brave enough. The current goal of reaching speeds of 24 Mbps to 90% of the country by the year 2015 or 2017 - the deadline is not clear - can get more bandwidth than most homes need TODAY 'Today
However, the speed at which the Internet has evolved in the past, demand doubles every year or two, suggests that the house takes on average two or three times the speed to come by in 2020.
to offer connections become faster, the Lords committee concluded that several technologies will be needed than are currently paying for the government and installed by BT. And he is worried about the final 10% of households, more difficult to achieve in the UK.
is far from certain that the government's goal to give these rural areas, with a minimum of 2 Mbps and it barely covers the minimum needs of the average family today.
not be enough in 2015 for home workers, or families with teenagers who do their homework, watch videos, and calls to friends on Skype.
Figure 2 Mbps was chosen because it is the minimum necessary to offer Internet television, but things are changing. TalkTalk budget YouView Internet TV service, launched in late July, requires a minimum connection 3Mbps.
- Even with government help, BT is not guaranteed for everyone. An alternative is needed.
- Under current rules, communities can build their own broadband networks, but they must deliver the property to BT if you want to be able to connect to their exchange. This is obviously a major obstacle to private investment.
This, of course, see BT lost its monopoly of the telephone connection at home in many rural areas. This is something that ministers should be concerned?
BT has pledged to match every pound invested by the government with their own money, and spend 2.5 billion pounds the deployment of fiber to more easily reach two-thirds of the United Kingdom without the subsidy. This is a big commitment and BT may withdraw if changes in the competitive landscape.
BT works fast. 26m 11m has already improved housing in the UK with the fiber to the street cabinet. But current plans in the coming years, much of its broadband network are still based on copper old son to carry the signal of the cabinet at home.
Copper not often in bad weather, leaving rural users without service for hours at a time. Also decreases speeds down. And it can carry signals over long distances, leaving the isolated houses that depend on basic dial-up internet.
Superfast broadband will be available in 90% of UK by 2015, says Ed Vaizey
culture minister says the government puts in place the infrastructure for the report of Lords, criticizing broadband strategy failed "
culture minister Ed Vaizey said that 90% of the country will have ultra-fast broadband by 2015.
The minister insisted the government was working to put the right infrastructure in place to "the vast majority of the country" by 2015 to "future proof" the service.
Those who want "in fact, very quickly," then it would be able to connect to a network and choose to upgrade, he said.
Vaizey's comments came as a report of the House of Lords said that the government's policy of broadband has become "interested" in the provision of certain speeds for consumers when it takes an accent on increased access through a national broadband network.
of Lords Communications Committee has concluded, after an extensive six-month investigation that Britain needs a broadband network to better cope with future technologies. Concerns were raised about how the network was built in Britain, describing the government's strategy as "flawed" and likely to widen the digital divide between communities with easy access to the Internet and those who live in the band of black spots range.
Buddiesbroadband said to be understood as an important national asset, such as roads, railways and energy.
The report, Broadband for all - another point of view, recommends planning a national network of "exchanges of local, regional, national and Internet, where several operators to work and equipment traffic exchange, all united by a broad optical fiber that can be implemented by competing suppliers. "
- Conservative Lord Inglewood, Chairman of the Communications Committee, told BBC Radio 4 Today program: "The current strategy is based on providing a certain level of speed throughout the country and we believe in all that is a good place to start thinking about a policy and program for the deployment of broadband infrastructure. "
Vaizey said the UK was one of the "digital nation in the world", with a thriving e-commerce economy in which people spend more online and use technology.
He said he was a "very competitive" in Britain in terms of optical fiber placement in homes where two-thirds of the country, "government intervention" is necessary in the rest.
Vaizey said today that 500 pounds had been set up to support this initiative, with funding from the devolved administrations, for a total of around £ 1.2 billion, plus additional funds in the pockets of the cities where the broadband connection was poor.
"We set a target that by 2015, 90% of the country have high-speed broadband," says Vaizey. "In general most people define it as around 35 megabits per second (Mbps) speed but we said that 100% of the country should have access to 2 Mbps. To put this in context, for example, if you want to see the iPlayer team would need about a 1.5Mbps. "
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When celebrities become philanthropists
Trevor Neilson, the man who advises the stars in their good causes. But who benefits the most for their assistance: charities or celebrities
On a recent afternoon in Santa Monica, Trevor Neilson met with his team at the Global Philanthropy Group, a company that directs the philanthropic activities of the very rich. Since the beginning of the company in 2007, Neilson was a surprisingly rapid rise as an advisor to celebrities, who constitute about half of its staff, its clients have included Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore Ben Stiller, Shakira, and Madonna. At the meeting, went in search of strategies for using the fame of its customers to raise money. A tall man, 40, Neilson was wearing jeans, a shirt and Converse. Offices, a few blocks from the beach, had the atmosphere of the advertising agency of fashion.
Neilson opened the meeting by saying: "I have no idea is a bad idea," but it was not until the latest version, a large, 24 year old woman blond named Molly Swenson, who had excited. GPG image combines entertainment and political quirks and Swenson is a graduate of Harvard University, a former intern of the Obama administration, and a competitor in the past
American Idol
. (She sang "(Sittin 'On) The Dock of the Bay", before being cut in a lap later.) His idea was to build applications that offer philanthropic-style iPhone push notifications. She explained: "A celebrity is encouraging fans to download the application to an organization if you drive along a particularly philanthropic organization, you get a warning message.".
"I love this!" Neilson cried. "Has anyone done this?"
"No," said Swenson. "You just push a button and donate a dollar."
"It's crazy!" Neilson said. "We struggled with ... if you're at a concert, how to attract the public philanthropic? Put something on the screen and ask them" to give the text does not work. "He paused and said with respect. "Well, Bono has done successfully, but it creates a totally different thing, we must build the implementation of the Global Philanthropy Group».
Everyone agreed - with the exception of Maggie, the wife of Neilson and business partner. In addition to managing business relationships of the company, temperaments Maggie enthusiasms of her husband, and his ego. "Nobody will download the application of Global Philanthropy," said Maggie out. "You download applications from our customers."
"Well, well," Neilson agreed, but then excited again. "Give a mobile application," he reflects. "One of the main reasons we started this company was to make it easier for people to get involved in philanthropy. That's all! "
The use of celebrities to raise money for causes is not new. Shirley Temple enhance connectivity of war and Audrey Hepburn traveled to Africa to get donations to Unicef. But the rise of celebrity philanthropy has generated some skepticism. Last December, Kim Kardashian, visited Haiti shortly after the end of a 10-week marriage to basketball player Kris Humphries.
"Nobody believes that Kardashian went to Haiti for humanitarian reasons, because we think of her as an opportunist and a dealer in the media," Terry Press, a consultant who was formerly the Hollywood DreamWorks marketing manager, he said. According to press reports, visit Kardashian joined a time-honored public relations strategy in which a star recommends that drivers show their philanthropic side. "It could be as simple as you need to start doing things that may make you sacrifice and compassion," says the press. "And you can dress more like a prostitute."
Neilson argues that the use of celebrities-grabbing title is the only way for nonprofit groups to draw attention to prestigious places such as Haiti, Darfur and Somalia. "When it comes to engaging the public on complex issues, celebrities are powerful - like it or not," said Neilson. "When you look at the number of new people consumed entertainment oriented foreign policy carried over, you realize that if you can use the celebrity to pay attention to the famine in Somalia, then they will pay attention. And if you do not, they are not. "
Competitors Neilson to praise the speed with which it has built its client list. Also described as a "star fucker," and an "egocentric", all that comes as a surprise to Neilson, who looks like a regular guy, unpretentious. "I am from Olympia, Washington, for the love of God ! " is his mantra, and said, without apparent irony, "I must do what we can to correct some of the things wrong with the world." Father
Neilson, Scott, was a juvenile judge of the court, and his mother, Janice, was a schoolteacher. But Janice in 1970, inspired by the television coverage of orphans left by the airline in Vietnam, helping to create an NGO to adopt children from Asia. Lobbying governments for permission to operate in China and India, she helped build the agency into one of the largest U.S. foreign adoption and the welfare of children. When Neilson was eight, her parents began to adopt orphans from Korea, two girls and two boys there. "Of the five, I'm the only white boy," he said. "I think my worldview has helped shape."
Neilson attended Washington State University and in 1993, won an internship with the Clinton White House, where he showed an instinct to approach the most famous man in the room. "They said, 'What office do you want to be placed in?" Neilson said. "Someone told me to be on the team in advance means that in reality would be around the president, and he would come to make things interesting." Neilson has learned that one of Clinton's first summit will be held at Blake Island, off the coast of Seattle. "I went into my boss's office and said," I'm from Seattle, I know every street in the city - perhaps slightly exaggerated went from being a practitioner of the advance team. ". A few months later, Neilson began working in the office of the White House race.
In early 1999, he received a call from a recruiter looking for a communications director of a new non-profit organization, whose mandate is to provide Internet access for schools and libraries. The organization, the Gates Foundation, learning, fled the office above a pizzeria in Redmond, Washington.
began shortly after Neilson, Bill Gates donates $ 5 billion of shares of Microsoft, and Neilson was found for the Bill & Melinda Gates, the richest company in the philanthropic United States. "There is no way I could have learned more and faster, on philanthropy."
In early 2001, Neilson was contacted by Bobby Shriver, a lawyer and a member of the Kennedy family. Shriver had worked for years with Bono on the debt of poor countries, and both were trying to raise $ 3 million for its data base (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa). Neilson, has long been a U2 fan, was eager to donate. But the idea, he says, "got stuck" because their heads were sober and skeptical. Without telling his superiors, Neilson held a meeting between Gates and Bono at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York in 2002. Soon thereafter, the Gates Foundation made its first contribution to the data, and since then has given tens of millions of dollars for campaigns Bono. singer, in an email, Neilson said, "helped data the ground, "adding:" To watch it, "Street Fighter" the word does not come to mind, but in reality it is a difficult question. "
Some, however, I think Neilson took too much credit for the campaign data. Shriver said: "Trevor terms of its original role is exuberant." But he added, "the good news about Trevor is that, because it's a little crazy and fickle, shit happens that could not have happened otherwise. "
In 2002, Neilson left the Gates Foundation, concerned, he says, to "run something". It was inspired by how Bono had used her fame to get audiences with leaders like George Bush and Tony Blair. "He gave me the idea for the Global Philanthropy Group," said Neilson. "With regard to the way he took his fame and fan base and used it to draw attention to issues that, frankly, nobody cared."
Neilson was not famous, so he had to hire people who were, and its largest customer was the beginning of Angelina Jolie. Neilson Jolie met in 2005 while working as executive director of the Global Business Coalition on HIV / AIDS. Neilson said Jolie befriended in a bar in the World Economic Forum in Davos (a current account that disputes philanthropic advisors). In any event, invited the actor to face a Congressional panel on AIDS, and she agreed. A year later, Neilson left the coalition to become a partner in the Endeavor Group, a consulting firm that deals with issues of "high net worth" individuals. Jolie brought their marquee customer.
Jolie won an Oscar in 1999, but had also drawn attention for his erratic behavior off the screen. He married one of the first co-star Jonny Lee Miller, while wearing a shirt with his name written in his blood, made with his brother at the Oscars, and after divorce Miller married briefly to actor Billy Bob Thornton, who told a television reporter at the MTV Music Awards, while Jolie nodded sheepishly, that the couple had "taken the car on the way here." However, in 2000, while Jolie was filmed
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
, she began to repair his public image. Some parts of the movie were filmed in Cambodia, and the suggestion of Michelle Kydd Lee, who heads the Creative Artists Agency, home of philanthropic consulting, Jolie visited a refugee camp. The following year she was appointed Goodwill Ambassador by the United Nations. According to press reports, Jolie has become a model of how philanthropy can remake the image of a star. "If a celebrity is going to do, he or she has to do with all my heart a thing can be said about Angelina Jolie is that she is consistent about his attention to his charity. Are beings who come and use it as a priest, then move on. This is what makes people more cynical about it. "
But in 2004, during the filming of
Mr & Mrs Smith
she met Brad Pitt, and shortly after, the wife of Pitt Jennifer Aniston filed for divorce. As his image as a breaker met at home, Neilson encouraged philanthropic activities of the new couple.
In December 2006, Jolie posed for pictures with his adopted son Cambodian Maddox, and photos of auction Neilson to celebrity magazines, with conditions. "While Angelina and Brad understand the interest of his family," he wrote in a letter to the editor "to expect that the publications who purchase these photos will use them in a way that also draws attention to the needs of the Cambodian population. "Time Inc. has paid $ 750,000 for photographs and, although the company refused to submit to editorial restrictions, January 8, 2007 people
produced a report entitled "Angelina Jolie: Mission to Cambodia". Other pieces followed by praise, the one in America Esquire
who asked , "Why not just go ahead and make the argument that it is the women the best worlds in terms of their generosity, dedication and courage? "Neilson was quick to sign celebrity clients at a breakneck pace." One after another, "he said." Boom, boom, boom. "
Neilson left Endeavor in August 2007 after a dispute with its founder, Adam Waldman. He and Maggie started GPG, with Ann Kelly, who led a technology company in Seattle. Neilson Jolie with him to the new company - with Pitt, soon to be launched Make It Right, a foundation for rebuilding the Ninth Ward of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Despite this success, Jolie and Pitt soon left and returned to GPG Waldman. The New York Times
said Jolie was furious with references in Neilson press that his "publicist", and repeatedly cited in his name on aid humanitarian help.
Neilson argues that everyone has the philanthropic impulses, even those who do not know until they become customers. One of the functions of his office is to help celebrities to find out where the charities of their passions. To determine the interests of a star, GPG uses an exercise called "100 Questions." Neilson said: "We ask things like," What fills you with rage when you see the news? "Qu ' Is it arouses empathy? "
said Ken Berger, president and CEO of the monitoring group Charity Navigator, the participation of celebrities is a "mixed bag" for nonprofit organizations. Stars raise awareness, but with a greater visibility comes the endemic problems of fame, scandal, PR-mongering, vacillating commitment and what Berger calls the "forgotten factor". "If the celebrity enters a kind of personal problem and your organization is closely associated with the celebrity, you can have a real impact negatively on their work," he said.
"We all had the experience of working with celebrities who expect to be treated like royalty," the director of a nonprofit organization said. "People expect receive free drinks, get angry if you do not have all accumulated in and leave with parting gifts. "
Neilson, however, his feet touched the risks. "When you deal with a high-profile people of any kind will not always be a chance that things happen that either increase or decrease its influence in the world of philanthropy," he said. "So for me it's just part of working with human beings."
- In April 2011, television cameras caught Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers shooting guard, referring to an umpire who had issued a technical foul as a "fucking fagot." In a postgame interview, Bryant agreed to meet with groups of gays and "turn into something positive."
- In January 2011, Bryant GPG contact with a desire to become more involved in charities, Neilson said she had reached a stage in life when he felt like "giving back ". Bryant was a client appealing: recognizable and a rich source of potential donors. "I had my team to analyze the net worth of season tickets holders rank Lakers Games," said Neilson. "These are some of the richest people in the country."
- With the help of the performance of 100 questions, Bryant became homeless youth at the center of their charitable efforts. In June, Neilson arrangements to appear on the site of my friend, a shelter in East Hollywood to announce the launch of Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Family Foundation. The timing was fortuitous. When the Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah used a gay insult in the yard a couple of weeks before the
it against Bryant.
my friend, Bryant stood in front of a mural by graffiti and intimidating tone of a coach to give a talk in the locker room, spoke to two dozen reporters: "We will attack this because, for our young people to be there, lost in the street, feeling like no one else can support or help or advise them to follow or pursue their dreams, is weak. "
Bryant told reporters: "This is just the beginning We want to reach as many children as possible.". But when Neilson returned home in October, Bryant did not come. "He and Vanessa are on vacation somewhere exotic," said Neilson. (In December, she filed for divorce.) Heather Carmichael, executive director of the center, members of the board and Neilson was sitting in front of a group of homeless youth.
"We are a group that works with Kobe Bryant, the basketball player, for his philanthropic work," said Neilson. "He did a lot of money and fans, and he hopes it can use to make LA a better place. Tell me what you want on the site, or my friend is what you do not like. "
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How Google Street View is inspiring new photography
You can take a virtual tour of almost any street in the developed world - and gives rise to a new and fascinating art
"All streets in time are visited."
- Philip Larkin, ambulances
In pre-computer world of the 1960s, various board games promised "all the thrills and spills" of Formula 1 or football "in the privacy of your own home." There was even a beer - "Beer at home means Davenport" - beer offers without having to go to the pub. This desire for voluntary house arrest since then has been so completely satisfied by the Internet, we now expect to be able to get, do and buy almost anything without leaving our dens. But who would have thought it might be a street photographer housewife? only realized this breakthrough, when Michael Wolf (born in Germany, 1954) have received awards of honorable mention in the 2011 World Press Photo of the job is sitting at his computer terminal, photography - and more and the fly - moments of Google Street View. Ironically, the wolf fell into this way of working when he moved from Hong Kong to Paris - one of the traditional high street photography - only to discover that the city had nothing to offer photographically. Compared with changing urban landscapes of Asia, Paris was an outdoor mausoleum which had remained virtually unchanged for over a hundred years. Haussmann in Paris had changed radically in the 19th century to mid-afternoon, but the pockets of the "old" Paris by Eugene Atget photographed will be familiar to any contemporary visitor. Atget made his living by providing "documents for artists" and the Wolf knew of the connection between Atget careful study of the city and the ability to deploy integrated Street View - if it does not understand -. Vacuum-crawl to his own artistic purposes quickly saw that the indifferent gaze of the Street View camera sporadically what he called (in a series as a result of this discovery) Unfortunate Events: altercations and accidents, and pukings Pissings, fighting and death. Street View cars usually unnoticed business - or at least neglected - but sometimes people react to your presence that sees everything, giving them the finger (hence the title of another series Wolf, the exercise). And if Wolf combed through miles and miles without incident image for boring moments that may or may not be decisive. This is not to represent a break, but a continuity with his previous work.
The Transparent City
(2008) Wolf took pictures of telephotoed tall buildings in Chicago, a project which itself was a extrapolation of the previous study of the architecture of the density that had fascinated him in Hong Kong. The results have been razed and light patterns depending on Hopper-esque occasional views of human beings trapped in the vastness of the urban geometry. Imagine the joy of Wolf, when he saw one of these apartments a reality TV show was a great rear window
! Yes, it was James Stewart with his telephoto lens looking at another person in your department, photographed by Lobo with it. (Was it a fluke exceeded this photographer? An occupant who is in the permafrost of the image as a generous gift of irony and warning anyone who happened to be a spy, or was it a Doisneau-esque element? artifice involved) Later, when Wolf was watching some other images through a magnifying glass, he saw something that had eluded him when the photo was taken: a resident in one of the windows of an apartment in a nearby building saw what was happening - and gave the finger. The pioneers of photography spontaneous - Paul Strand Street, Walker Evans in the subway, had come to end difficult to work unnoticed. For Wolf, being recognized and abused - people realized when being photographed - was both an encouragement and an invitation as an insult. After seeing this wonderful, pixelated face, we proceeded to trawl through each window in each apartment
TheTransparent City
to see what other intimate details had been inadvertently revealed. Perhaps the film could produce images that normally observed potential reality right? The results for the most part, were disappointing: boredom, isolation of the series as the people watch TV, or watched the computer screen. It is also possible that other undetected reciprocity was at work: some of these people very closely at their computer terminals could conceivably be scanning Street View, so that your own images
Wolf- journalism
- in every sense of the most aggressive critics have argued that it was not a photo
Blow-Up -like sense of implied warranties, unresolved and potentially incriminating story. But while David Hemmings in
Blow-Up
or Stewart rear window
were forced, in its various forms, to confine their attention to a small fragment of their respective cities, Lobo had at his disposal a monitoring project on an unprecedented scale, which in turn is merely a strand in the largest network of state and corporate control of everyday life. Needless to say, curiosity Wolf soon went beyond their local origins. If he was bored hanging around the streets of Paris, which could bring another city in the world and see what happens there.
Instant long pan-Loup global drift, viewers soon discovered that there were a number of people who are roughly the same as the wolf. Almost exactly the same thing, actually. If you scoot around the internet, see the question of the wolf, which will not be long before Google - the search engine, not the cars of the camera - elbows in the direction of Jon Rafman, an artist who works with the same source material. Your website has made the culture of some of the same scenes as Wolf Google - whose images for
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Anonymous Courtroom Notes Raise Serious Questions About SurfTheChannel Conviction
update:.
The blog was removed, but still a Google cache
just wrote about the rules of great concern in the UK, which left Anton Vickerman, the operator of the website SurfTheChannel television with links to a maximum of ten years in prison. The load is the most ambiguous of "conspiracy to commit fraud", which is not surprising, because still do not know what really TCC did was illegal, of course, was not a violation of copyright, since similar sites in the UK were considered non-infringement in the past. These sites do not host pirated content, links to video evidence on other sites and there is no evidence that their support operatives to load third party content. At worst, it can be argued that they were somehow implicitencouragingBut even when it comes to the conspiracy charge, there are serious questions must be answered, especially after a look at this collection of notes from a study published by anonymous blogger. I take this information with a grain of salt, because the source is not identified, and can not be ignored that the notes are on one side and focus on the flaws in the prosecution case by what may be another important aspect of the story. But there is enough specific information about the event it seems unlikely that the notes are wrong, and some of the things that happened are very bad, no matter what other evidence was presented.
- its users post infringing content and post links, so that "conspiracy to defraud" About is just the charge that only he could get. The UK has a remarkably low bar to charges of conspiracy, which can be used to prosecute people who got on the nerves of someone without breaking the law, which was controversial for some time .
First, there are several things that the judge who are related:
SportsRadar which states that if the offense takes place takes place in the country is based on the server (link to illegal content legal in Spain, which is based SurfTheChannel ); judge stated that "if I'm wrong, then a higher court of law will resolve it,"judge let the jury's choice to lead soon after as a matter of law who knowingly link to infringing content is illegal, even if no offense in the UK; ignores the trial judge of the Supreme Court
the entertainment industry has wanted all along was simply to be a link to illegal content, so that revolves around the interpretation of different laws to try to do. From the sound of the judge let this happen to some extent, despite the precedents to the contrary. Note then move on to detail the activities of fact, the Hollywood private group, supported by an independent research Vickerman (unbeknownst to the police) and then helped set up the raid on their offices. Her research included spending by prospective homebuyers to access your home, and tell the service providers (such as your Internet service provider) who has been selling counterfeit DVDs for sharing information about it . There was even a dispute as to whether or not wearing a strange Vickerman beard at some point, but details are unclear, and the agent said the court lost the logbook on the incident. This fact also admitted carrying out about 15 of these surveillance operations every month. Other statements of fact show that was very careless in their methods of gathering evidence, and had a clear objective to close STC, regardless of legal authority:What
Ltd. FACT support staff to assist in the management Vickerman raid with a USB flash drive with a replacement home must be placed on the site SurfTheChannel that says "This site is under investigation," despite no legal authority to do so and in violation of the Computer Misuse Act 1990; DONE entrepreneur Ben Clelland Ltd supports to copy all the evidence Vickerman computer on a USB drive, put the USB into your pocket and leave the house without alerting the police that there are evidence or bagging and labeling thereof. All forensic evidence in cases arising from the USB drive.
DONEcontractor Clelland Ltd Ben admits that "a mistake" by failing to accompany a write-blocker on your computer before examining the test data from USB drives. All dates of creation of data files have changed.not know the details of the procedure in the UK, but it seems that there must be serious doubts about the admissibility of such evidence. The other component of the case of FACT was their star witness, Brendan DeBeasi, who had been involved with the STC in the past and has admitted that the site offers for "knees" to the highest bidder. DeBeasi is facing charges in the United States, and testified in exchange for immunity and more:
DeBeasi MPAA supports offered him a job shortly after he agreed to cooperate in pursuing Vickermans
- DeBeasi said he did not adjust his testimony to help support despite the fact that his immunity agreement with the United States depends on "good performance" in pursuing Vickerman;
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Simon Hoggart's week: An old mugging scam through the wonder of Wi-Fi
historic moment in the subway is marred by a message that was obviously not everything that seemed
? Thanks to modern technology, it has installed Wi-Fi in some of the biggest subway stations in London. This is a great idea, you can spend hours browsing the Guardian website, or pornography, while waiting for your train is canceled due to report the failure
Thanks to this miracle, I was at Waterloo Station, when my BlackBerry was "brung!" It was a historic moment for me. I pressed the button, and then a few hundred feet underground, could read - a message scam! "We can not remember me, but I desperately need your help, we are in Spain and has just been attacked ...". These seem laughable, while recognizing the name - a chance a thousand - can be easy to say it was a scam.
When I worked in downtown Washington DC was common to be approached by well-dressed men, who had been robbed and needed only a few dollars for the house underground. Since asking only about $ 3 or less, you probably did well enough. I would say, "this is terrible, we must now go to the police that thief is probably still off the streets - Hey, why are you leaving"
? The House of Lords had a brief discussion this week on reforming the House of Lords. Amid the bustle of Commons on the bankers tax and fuel corruption who missed it, but I liked it.
Lord Richard, who chaired the joint committee on reform, said: "It was really a privilege and a pleasure, but perhaps not a treasure beyond measure." So, let Dr. Seuss to the House! Lord Strathclyde Law Lords wanted to return, but he told me sadly that may not be possible because you can not get the toothpaste in the tube. This should be the only time the greatest of the great legal Euthymol were compared. [[Opt court]] Mr. Williamson, who is 78, said sadly that he could not wait for "the breakdown of staff" before co-agreement in his own composition. [End [opt cut]]
was left to Lord (formerly John) Reid to destroy the estimated costs, which involves the payment of their peers when you come to work. "What we think of any new business that starts with 450 employees and the basis of their overhead and cost estimates in the hope that it will not work?"
- heartburn is, in part, on the theme of Margaret Jay Bernstein. Then married Peter Jay, the British ambassador in Washington, and presented a news program on NPR, the chain of non-commercial radio and admirable in the United States. She was not, as I understood, universally loved. The offices have a sound system designed to locate any employee.
? Stanley Hall, a farmhouse surrounded by water with the deep network in north Essex, is like the house in Le Grand Meaulnes, impossible to find, idyllic when you get there, and almost impossible to find again. Each year, a weekend devoted to opera. This year had the bright idea to combine the Contractor of Mozart, adapted for an opera company in the bankruptcy Pagliacci, with the same distribution later in Pagliacci. So it was an opera about an opera company to place an opera is a play. It was absolutely beautiful.
Last year, the temperature was in the 30s, and the scene of the forest in Eugene Onegin was played by two men in great coats Russians. This year, the rain washed down the tent and complained of the wind, as we have enjoyed an opera set in an Italian city in August
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Zynga unleashes new social network
giant game Zynga Social Network reveals With Friends, simulation and the City after a Farmville to its users 300 meters
This is- Zynga, the next generation. In its second annual Zynga Unleashed on Tuesday in his ultra-hip San Francisco office, the company unveiled Zynga with friends, a social gaming network designed to connect to other players of Zynga, if you are playing on Facebook, smartphone or on the Web.
Users can chat with each other, organize meetings and multiplayer game to use a service called Twitter Feed Social, which is constantly updated participants on what others in the community general play, and marking the opening range of securities Zynga.
Several key features of the network has already been published by the Zynga.com company site, but this is the first time be combined into a single social service and is available in all platforms.
"We recognized that our players are on different devices," said Zynga CEO Manuel Bronstein. "But no matter where you play, you want to play with other people. While we try to ensure that we can connect all these experiences.
"There are days where you play on Facebook, others in the smartphone, but want to ensure that all your friends, your qualities, your accomplishments will follow you wherever you are. You are a player in the network. "
The company has also developed a back-end infrastructure for unified, all titles of current and future may be able to take advantage.
made the tools to access the system - Zynga API - available for third party developers, allowing further studies to quickly and easily put their titles on the site Zynga.com. Big names like Konami have registered, and a number of small studies and that 50 cubic Portalarium.
Similarly, the mobile division of the company also announced a new program partners. This gives developers the opportunity to work with smartphone Zynga, the availability of their games through their network of friends and directly to its 22 million active players daily mobile.
revenues will be shared between the studio and Zynga, with the final offer of advertising and infrastructure analysis. Several small studies have already signed up to offer their games through the partnership program, including two British teams:. Crashlab Pradesh Fat
The idea behind the concept is simple partners. Zynga is willing to enter into new genres and wants to create a broader ecosystem around their outlets the most important games. It is hoped to attract mobile developers who have experience in the areas of internal company studies have not explored.
"We are very pleased to genera that are not currently in," said Rob Dyer, director of the partner, who previously worked for the publisher on the relationship of Sony Computer Entertainment America.
"This means that sports, first person shooters, strategy games, role play hardcore ... this is what makes us really happy."
To emphasize this, a title associated with the event announced at Zynga Horn broke, a 3D action RPG Match Game Studios.
Dyer was sincere in his response to questions about Zynga less than favorable reputation in community development. The company was accused of concepts of cloning efficiency and recognize the ideas "inspired" by the developers of small size.
"We are considered Zynga fierce," he said. "People look at us and they fear that their ideas are torn But Zynga went and hired people like me - .. I found a third Sony
"I understand that if we do nothing about it, going out of business. I live in a different building from the rest of Zynga to maintain this separation. We take very seriously."
Much of this new service is an evolution towards a more "hardcore" elements that veteran players are accustomed to services such as PlayStation Network and Xbox Live.
- With Friends of the films Zynga.com, which allows players to find and challenge other players who like the titles are similar and of similar skill level, the company has set up multiplayer in real time to its portfolio in the title as Puzzle Bubble, bubble Safarai.
- This will cover most of the titles available on Zynga's website in the coming months.
- The idea of ??supporting small independent studios with a global network of game is also something we saw earlier in the console manufacturers. It's just that Zynga, of course, has a network of nearly 300 million players.
Arrival Wednesday to Facebook, and supervised by the key designer Mark Skaggs Zynga, the City is essentially the answer Zynga The Sims, a house-building simulation series, allowing participants to design homes dream and then invite your friends around.
Avatars are able to meet their respective homes, with the participation in social activities such as dance and watch movies. As players build relationships between their avatars, to unlock more advanced interactions, possibly able to play together in virtual instruments and even initiate sex.
"office is integrated into the main loop of the game," said Skaggs. "The relationships we build determine progress in the game."
ChefVille The company also announced a set of social kitchen that allows players to build their own theme restaurants, menus and design.
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WikiHouse: Get ready to design, "print" and construct your own home!
Created by a group of young designers from London, WikiHouse is an open source solution for the construction aims to make it possible for almost every person, regardless of skill level, as a free download and build affordable housing. Construction system WikiHouse was on the screen during the week the last month of Design in Milan, where the designer has demonstrated how technology can be applied. "We think this could herald a new industrial revolution," said co-founder Nick Ierodiaconou Gizmag. "The factory of the future will be everywhere and the designer will be everywhere." WikiHouse .. Continue reading: Prepare you to design, "print" and build their own home
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