No Agenda Show for Sunday January 29th 2012

Pooper & Blitzer

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Pooper & Blitzer

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 1/29/2012; 1:16:53 PM.   .

No Agenda Show for Thursday January 26th 2012

Cleanest Dirty Shirt

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Cleanest Dirty Shirt

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 1/26/2012; 1:32:32 PM.   .

No Agenda Show for Sunday January 22nd 2012

Party@Ecropolis

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Party@Ecropolis

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 1/22/2012; 12:50:50 PM.   .

Reading legal documents is a hobby of mine.

I just finished reading the 72 page indictment of the 'Mega Conspiracy', as the feds call it, and have 3 thoughts:

1. Megaupload was a 'pirate' operation and everyone knows it.

2. The Dutch guy is an idiot for sending so much confidential information on email. What was he using? GMail?

3. This case proves there is a real business to be built by 'Hollywood' with their content on-line.

The entire document is filled with examples of how the company owners, employees, but also their viral business model of referrals and advertising resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. People ultimately were paying for content, either with cash or time they invested in building a referral network to continue their access to this content.

Wow. People are willing to pay. Who would have thought??

This is powerful evidence that all content can benefit from new models, that aren't built on locked-in, locked-up, fenced-in gatekeeper denial of service.

Two remnant thoughts:

1. PayPal and several hosting companies were also well aware of what MU was doing, yet they are not indicted (as far as I know).

2. Why the hell do we need SOPA? Seems the current system worked just fine.

 1/19/2012; 8:02:39 PM.   .

No Agenda Show for Thursday January 19th 2012

Problematic Woman

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Problematic Woman

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 1/19/2012; 1:24:03 PM.   .

I didn't turn my blog black today, nor did I change my twitter icon.

While I agree and encourage protest, I submit the fight is on the wrong battlefield.

SOPA/PIPA/OPEN and the new ICANN rules are bought and paid for by the mainstream entertainment industries.

The majority of your government representatives do as they are told by their overlords. The very same companies who finance their (re) election campaigns and give them broadcast airtime.

Turning off our own 'entertainment' and information plays right into their hands. I'm sure they're laughing their heads off right now, giggling with glee at how stupid the sheep are.

If you want to really protest, hit them were it hurts.

Follow the money.

Stop going to movies, stop buying DVD's and downloading songs from iTunes. Stop watching television.

Do that for a month and you'll really have their attention.

 1/18/2012; 10:40:17 AM.   .

I received a lot of feedback on yesterday's post.

This is helping ICANN come into view for me.

Not only is it's CEO a former DHS Director, but I was surprised to learn that the current ICANN Chief Security Officer is none other than Jeff Moss who is on the Homeland Security's Advisory Council.

Spot the fed anyone?

Is DNS being attack from the outside or already infiltrated and slowly being hollowed out?

[related post: SOPA:Follow the Money]

 1/17/2012; 8:08:45 AM.   .

As usual, the bought and paid for self-fulfilling tech press is missing the elephant in the room.

The blogosphere discussion surrounding a self-imposed 'blackout' of "key" websites and services that we apparently can't live without, is scheduled for this wednesday. All in protest of proposed legislation in the house and senate.

I submit this is a big fat red herring.

First some background:

Actually there are 3 pieces of legislation; the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) and the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act (OPEN,) which is currently in draft form, initially proposed by Darrel Issa (R) who will be holding a hearing on Wednesday regarding the strong opposition to DNS 'tampering' as a punitive measure against foreign registered websites infringing on intellectual property and trademarks of US companies within the borders of the United States.

I have read all three pieces of legislation (its a hobby) and can confidently say that not only are they pretty much identical in scope. The key differences are that only SOPA proposes the DNS 'tampering', which would allow US officials to remove an infringing website's DNS records from the root servers if deemed to be operating in defiance of Intellectual Property and Trademark law, effectively rendering them unfindable when you type in a corresponding domain name website address.

The boundaries of what is legal and not is not actually contained in any of the bills, as they all universally refer to mainly the Lanham Act. All of it tried and true legislation. Nothing new there.

All three bills further provide language that will allow justice to forbid US based financial transaction providers, search engines and advertising companies from doing business with a 'website' that is found to be guilty of infringement.

Of the three proposals, OPEN appears most fair to all parties in any dispute, by requiring a complainant to post a bond when requesting an investigation of infringement in order to combat frivolous use of the provisions available.

The outrage over SOPA's DNS provisions is justified, but misdirected, Congress is already backpedaling on including it in any final legislation and even the Administration's own response to the "We the People Petitions on SOPA" included an firm stance against measures that would affect the DNS infrastructure:

We must avoid creating new cybersecurity risks or disrupting the underlying architecture of the Internet. Proposed laws must not tamper with the technical architecture of the Internet through manipulation of the Domain Name System (DNS), a foundation of Internet security. Our analysis of the DNS filtering provisions in some proposed legislation suggests that they pose a real risk to cybersecurity and yet leave contraband goods and services accessible online. We must avoid legislation that drives users to dangerous, unreliable DNS servers and puts next-generation security policies, such as the deployment of DNSSEC, at risk.

Without the DNS clause, it would appear perfectly logical that the government pursue action against websites that attempt to cash in on fake products and stolen intellectual property of it's people.

The entire reason for even trying to get a DNS provision into law is because it is nearly impossible to track down the owner of a website, or domain name, through today's registration tools.

A whois lookup on a domain name merely provides whatever information is given at time of registration, and there is no verification of the registrant.

So, here's what the press has missed;

During all the shouting about SOPA and proposed blackouts to 'protest', the organization that actually runs the DNS root servers, ICANN, the backbone of the web, has been quite busy in plain view on changing the game, in favor of the government.

It's been highly underreported that ICANN is now accepting submissions for new gTLD's, or 'generic top level domains'.

Without getting into all the details of what that means, other than possibly hundreds if not thousands of new domains like .shop .dork .shill and .drone that you will be able to register vanity domain names under, ICANN has come up with a new requirement upon registration:

You must verify who you are when you register a new domain name, even an international one.

So, if I pay GoDaddy or any other outfit my $9 for curry.blog and have it point to my server at blog.curry.com, I will have to prove my identity upon registration. Presumably with some form of government approved ID.

This way, when OPEN or perhaps a non-NDS-version of SOPA is passed, if you break the rules, you will be hunted down, regardless of where you live or operate since this also includes international domain names.

The Administration like this approach as well. Just read the language from the International Strategy For Cyberspace document [pdf]:

In this future, individuals and businesses can quickly and easily obtain the tools necessary to set up their own presence online; domain names and addresses are available, secure, and properly maintained, without onerous licenses or unreasonable disclosures of personal information.

onerous licenses and unreasonable disclosures of personal information clearly indicates you will have to provide verification of your identity, which in today's world is not a requirement.

"Hey Citizen, if you have nothing to hide, what are you worried about?" Just follow the rules and all will be fine. I don't think I need to explain the implications of this massive change in internet domain name policy and to your privacy.

The term for this new type of registration is Thick Whois and you'll be hearing about it eventually, when the so called 'tech press' stops their circle jerking around the latest facebook/google/twitter cat fights and actually starts reporting on things that matter.

Until then, feel free to make your google+ facebook and twitter icons all black, as your faux protest is futile. The real change, that of your privacy online, is being made in plain sight by former Director of the National Cyber Security Center of the Department of Homeland Security Rod Beckstrom, current CEO of ICANN. Shill anyone?

This topic was originally discussed on the No Agenda Podcast of Janury 15th 2012.

Disclaimers: I am not a lawyer, nor am I a journalist. I am not distracted by shiny gadgets.

[related post: SOPA:Follow the Money]

 1/16/2012; 5:05:21 PM.   .

No Agenda Show for Sunday January 15th 2012

Fractals on the Bone

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Fractals on the Bone

Executive Producers: Sir Martin Anderson, Andrew

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 1/15/2012; 1:25:41 PM.   .

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 1/14/2012; 10:49:07 PM.   .

No Agenda Show for Thursday January 12th 2012

Paraphilia

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Paraphilia

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 1/12/2012; 12:56:22 PM.   .

Darren Tieste has been at the top of the photography field for 18 years. He's had the biggest names in fashion and show business in front of his camera

In 2010 he started a project to benefit brain cancer research. The result is The Beauty Book. Darren skypes in from his home in Los Angeles to tell us all about it.

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 1/11/2012; 4:08:03 PM.   .

No Agenda Show for Sunday January 8th 2012

Free Ponies for Everyone!

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Free Ponies for Everyone!

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 1/8/2012; 1:29:05 PM.   .

No Agenda Show for Thursday January 5th 2012

Dead Herring in Norway!

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Dead Herring in Norway!

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Associate Executive Producers: Inger & Chuck Moe, Charles Friedman, Jesse B Anderson,, Michael Levin

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 1/5/2012; 12:46:25 PM.   .

On Sunday's No Agenda Podcast, I accurately predicted the outcome of the 2012 Iowa caucus.

Do I have a crystal ball? An inside source with the elites?

Nope, I simply view this televised reality show as any television producer does. The photo finish was prefectly scripted, right down to Santorum's speech while he was ahead with 4% of the vote outstanding and Romney pulling ahead by a nose.

And then someone went overboard by deciding to drag out the final 2% for another two hours. Maybe viewership was lower than expected and they needed to air 'make-good' ads. Luckily CNN pulled 'Edith' in for some needed comedy.

With 25 years of mainstream broadcast experience, I know that it's all about the art of the tease, keeping the audience engaged till the very end and tuned in for the next elimination round...which will be New Hampshire. I bet we can call who will get voted off the island next on Thursday's show....

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 1/3/2012; 11:34:00 PM.   .

I supported Ron Paul in the 2008 election process and am supporting him in this cycle as well. Hell, I've even registered as a republican to vote in the primary, which is a big deal since I despise the entire 'two party system' the media presents as our only choices.

It is the same mainstream media that continues to infect intelligent people with myths about candidates. Presumably they do this on purpose.

My current pet peeve is the meme that Ron Paul wants to return us the 'the dark ages' of the Gold Standard. Calling 1971 the 'dark ages' is in itself questionable.

In his "Plan to Restore America" he makes no such claim. The mainstream media wants you to believe this and is fooling a lot of people into believing it is true.

All I have ever heard Paul state is that the USA leaving the Gold Standard is the root of the economic bubbles we have witnessed since.

Turn off your television.

 1/2/2012; 11:34:20 AM.   .

No Agenda Show for Sunday January 1st 2012

Tag and Track

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Tag and Track

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Associate Executive Producers: Sir Oleg Rakitine, Jerri Jones (B.A.B.)

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 1/1/2012; 1:10:28 PM.   .