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5 hours and 50 minutes ago
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width="1" height="1" //divpThe British National party has made advances because mainstream
political parties, including Labour, have abandoned sections of the white working class, ignoring
people's needs while taking their votes for granted, a government minister admits today./ppWriting
in the Guardian, the communities and local government secretary, Hazel Blears, warns that
politicians must work hard at grassroots level to win back the trust and confidence of people
alienated from mainstream political life./ppWith the BNP's areas of strongest support revealed this
week by the posting of the party's secret membership list on the internet, Blears also calls upon
her Labour colleagues to take their opposition to the far right to the streets in those places. "We
must continue to campaign vigorously against the BNP: demonstrate, picket, leaflet and argue," she
says./ppIn a strongly worded piece, Blears argues that demonstrating against the BNP is not enough,
however. "Shouting 'Nazi' is not the answer," she writes. /ppThe government, Blears insists, must
devise a long-term strategy to bring different communities together, working with councils and
different community groups; some Labour backbenchers have blamed the party's drive to capture
middle class votes for the rise of the BNP in some areas that were previously Labour
strongholds./ppBlears writes: "We must recognise that where the BNP wins votes, it is often a
result of local political failure." She adds: "Estates that have been ignored for decades; voters
taken for granted; local services that have failed; white working-class voters who feel politicians
live on a different planet. In such a political vacuum, the BNP steps in with offers of
grass-cutting, a listening ear and easy answers to complex problems."/ppBlears acknowledges that
the BNP, under Nick Griffin, has a "cunning strategy", and that it has "started a process of
detoxification". Using websites, blogs, newsletters and petitions, it has reached thousands and
"played on people's apprehensions". It has peddled, she says, "pernicious but plausible
lies"./ppShe points out that support for the far right remains small, but says a revival of
mainstream politics is paramount in those areas where the BNP is now known to be at its strongest.
Her comments echo what some Labour backbenchers and rank-and-file party members have been saying
about the BNP's strategy for several years./ppThere have been warnings that BNP activists have
targeted neighbourhoods where few people vote in local or general elections, and introduced
themselves on doorsteps as representatives of "a party that's like Labour in your parents' days".
/ppBlears is one of the most senior Labour figures to voice such concerns, and in such forthright
terms. Her wake-up call came as the fallout from the posting of the membership list continued to be
felt by the BNP. Police forces across the country were continuing to scour the lists for the names
of serving officers - who are banned from joining the party. But the General Medical Council said
it would not be taking action against any medical practitioners found to be members of the
party./ppIn West Yorkshire, police investigating the petrol bombing of a car outside the home of a
man whose name appears on the list were trying to establish whether it was the result of a
vigilante attack. The petrol bomb exploded on Thursday night in Liversedge. The Peugeot 206, which
belonged to a neighbour of the man named on the BNP list, was destroyed./pdiv style="float: left;
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P2P Blog -
14 hours and 35 minutes ago
a href="http://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-to-sue-vuze-limewire-and-sourceforge-081114/"
target="_blank"Torrentfreak reported yesterday/a that the French music industry has sued a
href="http://slsknet.org" target="_blank"Soulseek/a after also taking Vuze, Limewire, the a
href="http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-884.html"long-defunct Morpheus /aand the open source hosting
site Sourceforge to court. Soulseek has been a well-known secret amongst music sharing enthusiasts
for a long time. The system initially just focused on electronic music, but now serves many
non-mainstream niches.br / br / I've been following Soulseek for a long time and in fact still have
physical copies of the first two Soulseek Records releases in my CD shelf. I also did an early
interview with Soulseek founder Nir Arbel in 2002, which at the time got published by the German
electronic music magazine a href="http://www.de-bug.de" target="_blank"De:Bug/a. Obviously a lot of
things have changed since then, but I think at least parts of the interview are still relevant,
which is why I decided to re-publish it on P2P Blog in light of the lawsuit, minus a few parts that
aren't that interesting to this adience or don't make sense at all anymore six years later.br / br
/ One should note that I wasn't able to find the original transcript of the interview on such a
short notice, which I believe was done through the Soulseek chat. Fortunately someone decided to
re-translate it to English after De:Bug published it in German. There is a chance that the back and
forth between the two langages introduced a few inaccuracies, but I think it's worth reading
nonetheless - especially when t comes to the last question. I tried to get back in touch with Nir
today to get an update, but haven't heard anyhihng back. I'll publish an update as soon as I do.br
/ br / So here we go:br / br / DEBUG: With which filesharing networks did you as a user feel more
comfortable?br / br / NIR: I love the audiogalaxy design very much. Features like the
artist-orientated clubs or the possibilty to write comments on tracks. That s extremely
community-orientated. KaZaa is some technological wonder, but the community-features are even worse
then in Napster.br / br / (...)br / br / DEBUG: And what do musicians and record companies say
about soulseek?br / br / NIR: Most of them either don t know about soulseek or they don t care. Up
to today none of them took a position. Once we got a polite letter from Warp with the request to
filter out some special tracks, but that was all.br / br / DEBUG: What did you answer them?br / br
/ NIR: I explained to them, it wouldn t be technivally possible, cause the server doesn t care
about search requests. And that we re a very small and very specialized filesharing community. That
our case would be more to inform us mutual about new music, then to steal music, we otherwise would
buy. These days i had this suspicion that this might not be true. So i asked the people within our
messageboard in a poll. It seems that pretty everyone of us is buying at least as much music as
before soulseek. A small minority is buying less. That confirmed me that we help the genre. I hope
that labels for electronic music and their musicians can acknowledge that.br / br / (...)br / br /
De:Bug: Can you tell us something about the architecture of Soulseek?br / br / Nir: Sure, but I can
t promise, that it will be the same when this interview will be published. While working for
Napster, I have learned a lot about the pros and cons of systems with centralized servers. When
decentralized networks got suitable for everyday life, I looked at them in order to make Soulseek
scalable. Soulseek is now a hybrid of centralized and decentralized networking. That means that it
can be shut down as easily as Napster. But a Soulseek server is scaling much better than a Napster
server. Besides, we have features that are only possible in a centralized system, e.g. the chat
rooms and the system of recommendations.br / br / br / De:bug: How can someone picture the division
of work between central server and decentralized network?br / br / Nir: Soulseek works with two
different, nearly completely disjoint networks. The centralized one, in which every user is
connected to the server, and the decentralized one, in which the server operates as a top node, but
almost every user is connected to another. This decentralized network inherits the inquiries und
looks more like KazaA than Gnutella.br / br / (...)br / br / De:Bug: What are you going to do about
the future of Soulseek?br / br / Nir: Absolutely nothing. I m enjoying it as a platform for
learning and experimenting. Maybe I ll get sued, or maybe I won t feel like it someday.br / br /
De:Bug: What would happen, if someone is going to sue Soulseek?br / br / Nir: I d give up and
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NewTeeVee -
15 hours and 19 minutes ago
The accelerating economic downturn is taking its toll on the entertainment industry, with DVD
sales lagging and Blu-ray sales disappointing, according
to the New York Times. DVD sales are down 4 percent so far this year, the paper reports,
citing data collected by Warner Brothers. The results for the third quarter are even worse, with
a 9 percent drop overall and a steep 22 percent decline for new titles, according to numbers from
Nielsen VideoScan quoted by the Times.
Meanwhile, free online content is doing better than ever. Hulu attracted 5.3
million unique visitors in October, a nearly 90 percent surge over the previous month. The
Pirate Bay doubled the number of simultaneously connected users within the last six months,
reaching a total of 25 million peers in November. The site’s admins apparently
couldn’t quite believe their logs either, asking
somewhat perplexed: “Wtf is going on(?)” The answer, in short, is this: We are in
a recession.
There’s an old belief that the entertainment business does well when the economy is
hurting. That used to be especially true for home entertainment. After the dot-com bubble burst, for example, people were
no longer willing to fork out tons of money for restaurants and movie tickets, but they were more
than happy to buy movies on DVD. Sales revenue of the shiny disc jumped more than 52 percent in 2002
compared to the previous year, jumping another 40 percent in 2003, according to
Videobusiness.com.
Part of that boom was due to the fact that DVDs were going mainstream, with prices for DVD
players plunging and movie enthusiasts buying not only new titles, but also catalog bestsellers
and TV seasons. U.S. households with a DVD player bought an average of around 16 DVDs on 2003. Quite a few of
them replaced old VHS tapes with faded recordings of favorite movies.
The industry had hoped to replicate that format shift with Blu-ray, and things looked good after
the unnecessary fight with HD DVD finally got settled. Blu-ray players are quickly reaching the
sub-$200 price point, yet The Times is reporting that Blu-ray disc sales for the year are
tracking at roughly 25 percent below industry expectations.
One obvious reason for this trend is that consumers with tight wallets prefer to get their
content for free online. Rips of the Dark Knight DVD, which will be released
commercially in early December, are already topping the
charts of various torrent sites. Mininova.org alone has clocked well over a million downloads
for various torrents of the movie so far.
Hulu, on the other hand, is getting a big boost by people looking to catch up on TV shows for
free. Networks have
dismissed the site as a “replacement for reruns” in an attempt to play down the
fact that some people might use the site to replace their cable subscription. Of course, there
used to be another popular replacement for reruns — the DVD.
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Hackint0sh - iPod Touch -
17 hours and 25 minutes ago
via MacNN:
Early tests conducted with Intel's upcoming Nehalem-based Xeons by TechRadar today show the
processor running approximately twice as fast as its current equivalent. Based on the same basic
design as Core i7 mainstream chips, a pair of 2.8GHz quad-core Xeon X5560 chips received a SPEC
score of 160 in floating-point math tests versus 90 for two 3.4GHz Xeons from the current
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Wii -
17 hours and 29 minutes ago
The a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/hollywood/4126" id="tag" title="the historical center of movie
studios and stars"Hollywood/a Music Awards hailed the greats of mainstream and indie artists once
again, and thankfully, giving video a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/game-music/6191" id="tag"
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align="right" border="0"/abrspan style="font-weight: bold;"Best Original Score: /spana
href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/wataru-hokoyama/14905" id="tag" title="noted composer who will be
working on the Afrika musical score"Wataru Hokoyama/a, a
href="http://ps3.qj.net/category/Afrika/cid/2551"span title="More Afrika news" style="font-style:
italic;"Afrika/span/a (Rhino Studio, SCE Japan)brbrspan style="font-weight: bold;"Best Original
Song/span: Azam Ali, span style="font-style: italic;""Logan's Shadow/span" (a
href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/Syphon-Filter-Dark-Mirror/cid/820"span title="More on Syphon Filter:
Dark Mirror" style="font-style: italic;"Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror/span/a)brbrspan
style="font-weight: bold;"Outstanding Music Supervision: /spana
href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/steve-schnur/14474" id="tag" title="EA Worldwide Executive of Music
and Music Marketing"Steve Schnur/a - span style="font-style: italic;"Madden a
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href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/electronic-arts/784" id="tag" title="Game Developer and
Publisher"Electronic Arts/a)brbrCongrats to the winners, and we hope to see your great work on
future titles.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"More
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PlayStation 3 -
17 hours and 29 minutes ago
The a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/hollywood/4126" id="tag" title="the historical center of movie
studios and stars"Hollywood/a Music Awards hailed the greats of mainstream and indie artists once
again, and thankfully, giving video a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/game-music/6191" id="tag"
title=""game music/a a slice of the pie. These are the winners for the video game category.bra
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href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/wataru-hokoyama/14905" id="tag" title="noted composer who will be
working on the Afrika musical score"Wataru Hokoyama/a, a
href="http://ps3.qj.net/category/Afrika/cid/2551"span title="More Afrika news" style="font-style:
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Song/span: Azam Ali, span style="font-style: italic;""Logan's Shadow/span" (a
href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/Syphon-Filter-Dark-Mirror/cid/820"span title="More on Syphon Filter:
Dark Mirror" style="font-style: italic;"Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror/span/a)brbrspan
style="font-weight: bold;"Outstanding Music Supervision: /spana
href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/steve-schnur/14474" id="tag" title="EA Worldwide Executive of Music
and Music Marketing"Steve Schnur/a - span style="font-style: italic;"Madden a
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href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/electronic-arts/784" id="tag" title="Game Developer and
Publisher"Electronic Arts/a)brbrCongrats to the winners, and we hope to see your great work on
future titles.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"More
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PSP Updates -
17 hours and 29 minutes ago
The a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/hollywood/4126" id="tag" title="the historical center of
movie studios and stars"Hollywood/a Music Awards hailed the greats of mainstream and indie artists
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href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/wataru-hokoyama/14905" id="tag" title="noted composer who will
be working on the Afrika musical score"Wataru Hokoyama/a, a
href="http://ps3.qj.net/category/Afrika/cid/2551"span title="More Afrika news" style="font-style:
italic;"Afrika/span/a (Rhino Studio, SCE Japan)brbrspan style="font-weight: bold;"Best Original
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href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/Syphon-Filter-Dark-Mirror/cid/820"span title="More on Syphon Filter:
Dark Mirror" style="font-style: italic;"Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror/span/a)brbrspan
style="font-weight: bold;"Outstanding Music Supervision: /spana
href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/steve-schnur/14474" id="tag" title="EA Worldwide Executive of
Music and Music Marketing"Steve Schnur/a - span style="font-style: italic;"Madden a
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2008/span (a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/electronic-arts/784" id="tag" title="Game
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Early tests conducted with Intel's upcoming Nehalem-based Xeons by TechRadar today show the
processor running approximately twice as fast as its current equivalent. Based on the same basic
design as Core i7 mainstream chips, a pair of 2.8GHz quad-core Xeon X5560 chips received a SPEC
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Media Matters for America -
19 hours and 23 minutes ago
In a November 21 Washington Times
article about President-elect Barack Obama's plan to lift the ban on gays and lesbians
serving in the military, Robert Knight, director of the Media Research Center's Culture and Media
Institute, was quoted as saying that the efforts of activists to lift the ban will lead to "a
Pearl Harbor moment." Knight is also a columnist for Townhall.com
and
Human Events.
According to the Times, Knight said: "Homosexual activists are overconfident because
they have not yet seen a counterforce emerge as occurred in 1993. ... But as the threat grows
stronger, we will see groups forming and the resistance building." Knight was then quoted as
saying: "Americans go about their business and are not activists until they have a Pearl Harbor
moment. That has yet to happen, but it will." The Times also reported that Knight said
most Americans "are unaware that gay activists have the military in their gun sights."
Knight previously compared the legalization of same-sex marriage to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
In his June 17 Townhall.com
column, Knight wrote that former Human Rights Campaign executive director Elizabeth Birch
"not[ed] that the natural elements had remained intact in the Bay State [Massachusetts] following
the beginning of 'gay marriage.' She assured the young audience, which soaked up her utterly
illogical argument, that the 'sun still came out, the birds still chirped and the flowers still
bloomed,' or something to that effect." Knight continued: "Well, the birds chirped and the
flowers bloomed in Pearl Harbor on December 8, 1941, as the American fleet lay smoldering."
Knight has also previously stated
that "the endgame of the gay rights activists, and I've said this before, is the criminalization
of Christianity," and
claimed that "gay rights advocates are laying the foundation for the criminalization of
Christianity, Judaism and every other religion that preaches God's view of sexual morality."
From The Washington Times November 21 article:
"Homosexual activists are overconfident because they have not yet seen a counterforce emerge as
occurred in 1993," said Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Media Institute at the Media
Research Center, an organization that seeks to balance perceived liberal bias in mainstream news
coverage.
"But as the threat grows stronger, we will see groups forming and the resistance building," he
said. "Americans go about their business and are not activists until they have a Pearl Harbor
moment. That has yet to happen, but it will."
He added that most Americans "are unaware that gay activists have the military in their gun
sights."
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GigaOM -
21 hours and 4 minutes ago
 The Wall Street Journal this morning had a short article pointing out the
somewhat obvious reasons why location-based services on cell phones
are still not mainstream. It also helpfully pointed out that carriers were working on it. To
recap, LBS services need three main things: a way to get location (which we have thanks to
GPS chips and even the ability to
triangulate using Wi-Fi networks), software that can make sense of geographic information and
do something with it (which are out), and cooperation between handset makers and carriers to
enable developers to access such services easily.
It’s the cooperation piece that fails, but the article points to several companies such as
Nokia, uLocate’s Where application and SkyHook Wireless that are
attempting to bridge that gap by offering a platform that will sit between carriers and smaller
developers. For example, uLocate has signed a deal
with Sprint to act as the LBS platform for its WiMAX network. Smaller developers can sign on
through Where and get access to WiMAX subscribers without worrying about working with Sprint or
getting the location information form a provider. I suppose since we’ve waited this long for LBS, most
of us can wait a little longer.
image courtesy of Where
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pNokia has yet to make touch-based interface a mainstream method of navigation on its handsets, but
that could soon change with news of the Finnish cell phone manufacturer leaking out that it is
working on gesture control for cell phones in a recent patent that was filed in January this year.
This patent will involve an ultrasonic-based system that is able to tell where your fingers are
pointing at the display, and can even detect basic gestures such as opening and closing one's hand
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The Register -
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h4Immature headline for immature technology?/h4 pstrongMini Poll/strong If you listen to a lot of
the vendors, server virtualisation is now pretty mainstream, and the impression you get is that
it’s just a case of getting on with it - if you haven’t done so already. But how
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22 hours and 24 minutes ago
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are often given the name of Moonies, is tomorrow staging its biggest ever event in Britain.
/ppAnti-cult activists fear it could mark a British renaissance for the group, which experienced a
growth in numbers during the 1970s and 80s./ppThe Global Peace Festival, at the Excel Centre in the
London docklands, is expected to attract thousands of activists from across Europe and features
addresses from Preston Moon, the third son of the church's founder, and Tom Brake, the Liberal
Democrat home affairs spokesman./ppCarrying the slogan of "One family under god", the event has
performances from diverse acts such as the Royal Philharmonic Ensemble and the Muslim singer Dawud
Wharnsby. /ppThere are also workshops on family, marriage and the environment. The morning session
is exclusively for members of Ambassadors for Peace, a global network with its roots in the
Unification Church./ppThe Universal Peace Federation, formerly known as the Inter-religious and
International Federation for World Peace, which has Moon as its founder, is organising tomorrow's
festival./ppIts spokesman Tim Read told the Guardian that although the UPF was a direct result of
the church, not all its members were unificationists. "Our association with the Unification Church
can put some off but people are starting to get over that./pp"They're seeing that we're practising
what we believe in. When people come to UPF events they're very interested that we can bring them
together without an agenda. We're trying to be a catalyst for like-minded organisations who focus
on community cohesion and inter-religious co-operation."/ppHe said the level of cooperation from
groups and individuals had been "surprisingly good". /ppHe added: "People have biased views of new
religious movements, all new religious groups have these problems and we're no different. We want
to hold this every two years and get more sponsorship and partners. If we get more support we get
more mainstream"./ppAttempts to enlist the support of public figures has had mixed results. Earlier
this year, Shahid Malik, the minister for international development, pulled out of a Commons
meeting organised by the UPF after learning of its links to the church. Julia Goldsworthy, the Lib
Dem MP for Falmouth and Camborne also withdrew once she too became aware of the connection./ppHer
party colleague, Brake, who is leading the session on community cohesion, has defended his decision
to take part. "I don't see eye to eye with their views but I don't see any particular problem with
speaking at their event, especially if it gives me an opportunity to challenge what Rev Moon
advocates."/ppThe Unification Church owns, operates or subsidises many international bodies
involved with political, commercial, cultural and social enterprises. br /Members, who prefer to be
called Unificationists, believe Moon is the messiah and that he and his wife have laid the
foundation for establishing the kingdom of heaven on Earth./ppAccording to Inform, an independent
charity that focuses on new religious movements, the church has 10 meeting houses across Britain in
Greater London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester, Bath and Bromley. It also owns houses
in Kent and Wiltshire for larger gatherings. /ppIn 2007, the movement reported there were around
1,200 members in Britain, slightly more than half of whom were born in the movement and were still
minors./ppOne campaigner, Audrey Chaytor of Family, Action, Information and Resource, said: "They
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via MacNN:
AMD's mainstream Phenom II processors should rekindle the competition with Intel for clock speed,
according to a collection of reports of an AMD demonstration session. Based on the recently
unveiled Shanghai architecture being used for new Opterons, the quad-core desktop chips should make
a modest leap to 3GHz in official clock speeds but will have room for overclocking previously only
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AMD's mainstream Phenom II processors should rekindle the competition with Intel for clock speed,
according to a collection of reports of an AMD demonstration session. Based on the recently
unveiled Shanghai architecture being used for new Opterons, the quad-core desktop chips should make
a modest leap to 3GHz in official clock speeds but will have room for overclocking previously only
available ... |
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an audience of more than 5,500 followers. The best part: He seems genuine, he seems to get it, and
he seems to be having fun./p pWe can't help but flash back to 2002, when we remember watching some
Fox Sports camera crew following basketball players around as they went shopping for MP3 players.
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