Comment I'm Guessing that... (Score 1, Funny) 236
...someone in the US Navy is in a world of ship.
Comment Spamming Propaganda (Score 0) 164
Isn't this sorta like what's going on in the US with the Tea Party?
Submission + - Organization Crowdsourcing Bounty Funds for the Leaking of the TPP (zeropaid.com)
Dangerous_Minds writes: An organization called Just Foreign Policy has created a website devoted to a pool of user contributed pledge money to be rewarded to Wikileaks should it publish the full text of the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). ZeroPaid notes that the campaign has raised over $17,000 in pledge money to date and that the organization has tried to prove itself to be a legitimate organization through a page on Guide Star.
Submission + - Green Party Releases International Joint Statement Criticising the TPP (zeropaid.com)
Dangerous_Minds writes: ZeroPaid is reporting that the New Zealand, Australian and Canadian Green Party have released a joint statement on the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP). Among the concerns are the secretive nature of the talks and "could hinder access to safe, affordable medicines, weaken local content rules for media, stifle high-tech innovation, and even restrict the ability of future governments to legislate for the good of public health and the environment." ZeroPaid also notes that the statement is starting to appear in New Zealand and Australian media.
Comment Unblinking Eye (Score 1) 150
"to fly at speeds between 30 and 80 knots without ceasing for 21 straight days while providing an 'unblinking' eye of surveillance"
So, by day 22, will there be the paddling of the swollen rump before I get to be a member of the surveillance Stonecutters?
So, by day 22, will there be the paddling of the swollen rump before I get to be a member of the surveillance Stonecutters?
Submission + - Running 16 Bit Windows Applications on 64 Bit Operating Systems (zeropaid.com)
Dangerous_Minds writes: ZeroPaid has recently posted a guide on how to get 16 bit Windows video games and applications running again on 64 bit operating systems. While the guide is directed at video games running on Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit), it could possibly be used on just about any operating system. The difficulty in running these particular applications is the fact that you need the Windows environment to run (not just Dosbox). The guide also points out that if you are running at some of the higher resolutions, the memory footprint of this concept is only about 100k. What 16 bit applications do you remember toying with back in the day?
Submission + - Leap Second Crashes The Pirate Bay (zeropaid.com) 1
Dangerous_Minds writes: Some were concerned about the leap second causing havoc on many websites. It seems that the leap second was the cause of the recent downtime of Swedish BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay. ZeroPaid has been watching the story closely, debunking the various theories circulating including a DDOS attack or a brand new raid. A staff member of The Pirate Bay confirmed that this was the cause of the outage, however, it is unclear when the site will be back up.
Submission + - The Pirate Bay Goes Down For Unknown Reasons (zeropaid.com) 1
Dangerous_Minds writes: ZeroPaid is covering the current downtime of Swedish BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay. ZeroPaid has pinged both the domain name and server IP address, but both were unsuccessful, leading to the conclusion that it's unlikely a DNS issue. While some theories were cast aside including a DDOS attack by the person who previously took the site down, it still remains unclear why the site is down this time.
Comment Why Not Talk About Real Threats to the Internet? (Score 3, Informative) 326
Submission + - TPP Leaks Again - Investment Chapter Makes Fresh Revelations (zeropaid.com)
Dangerous_Minds writes: ZeroPaid alerts us to a brand new leak from the secretive TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership). The leak shows that the TPP contains the framework for an entire tribunal system for corporations to use separate from a domestic court system. It also requires countries to provide more rights to corporate entities and allows corporate entities to sue the government if their rights afforded by these new rules are not met. In essence, if TPP is ratified as-is, it looks like corporations will be permitted to operate by their own rules — literally.
Submission + - Could Selling Your Computer One Day Be a Criminal Offense? (zeropaid.com)
Dangerous_Minds writes: The Atlantic is reporting that the Supreme Court will decide later this year whether or not re-selling a product that is manufactured outside the US could be a violation of copyright law. Apparently, a lower court ruled that this would be a violation of copyright law due to the wording of first-sale doctrine. Demand Progress is not happy about this saying that sites like Craigslist and eBay will be undermined should the Supreme Court agree with the lower court ruling. ZeroPaid is wondering: if the Supreme Court agrees with the lower courts ruling and the TPP is later ratified, could that mean that selling things like your personal computer one day be a criminal offense?
Submission + - Pictures of the June 9 Anti-ACTA Protests Surfacing (zeropaid.com)
Dangerous_Minds writes: ZeroPaid reported yesterday that June 9 would be a global day of action against ACTA. Today, ZeroPaid is gathering numerous links to galleries of the protests. The cities involved include Göteborg, Mannheim, Frankfurt, Kassel, and Brussels. Are you aware of any other cities that took part where pictures are surfacing as well?
Submission + - CryptoCat Developer Questioned at Canada/US Border (zeropaid.com)
Dangerous_Minds writes: ZeroPaid is documenting some comments made by an encrypted chat developer who was interrogated at the US border recently. According to the CryptoCat developer, border guards confiscated his passport and interrogated him about the application he developed. Most notably, he commented, "The interrogator (who claimed 22 years of computer experience) asked me which algorithms Cryptocat used and about its censorship resistance."
Submission + - Megaupload Case: US Authorities Call New Zealand Court Order 'Unrealistic' (zeropaid.com)
Dangerous_Minds writes: ZeroPaid is reporting on an interesting development in the MegaUpload case. In an article on the BBC, the New Zealand court has ordered crown prosecutors to hand over the evidence they've been building over to the defense so that Kim Dotcom and his lawyers can build a defense for the extradition hearing. The problem is that, according to the crown, prosecutors can't even hand over their evidence. According to Stuff, the volume of evidence is too large which apparently means that there is no way that they can realistically give the evidence to the defense within the 30 day deadline. In fact, the prosecutors have only managed to copy 2 of the 18 seized servers for themselves. Seems like prosecutors have dug themselves into quite a hole here. It will be interesting to see how things pan out here.
Submission + - Fourth European Committee Rejects ACTA (zeropaid.com)
Dangerous_Minds writes: Last month, ACTA was rejected by three European committees (the industry committee, the civil liberties committee, and the legal affairs committee). Now, the fourth European committee, the the Development Committee, has voted to reject ACTA as well, making it zero for four. ZeroPaid is offering a quick timeline of the series of blows to ACTA all last month as well. The next stop for ACTA will be the lead committee, the Trade Committee which is scheduled to hand down a decision later this month on June 21. From there, it'll head to the full house for a vote in July.
