A nasty little company, McColo Corp, was knocked off-line this week and an emidiate result has been a sharp drop in the amount of spam being sent world wide.



As we can all see this is a big hit and a big win.

First I must say Senator Stephen Conroy shame on you, you need to learn about bullying, and the consequences of it. We have seen in the last few years an active push to stop bullying in schools (http://www.bullyingnoway.com.au/), but that seams to have slipped past the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.

So what am I harping on about, well there has been some debate on implementing a national internet filter in Australia. Well ok maybe that's not really true, it's more an argument about what to block, as it appears the decision has already been made and now it's up to the special interest groups to get as much stuff blocked as possible.

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YouTube, or maybe they should be called NoobTube, and no that's not a BF2 reference to people using grenade launchers at point blank. Any way back on the point, YouTube has once again done something that makes them look foolish after receiving 4000 DMCA take down notices from an organisation that does not exist. That's right they have started dropping peoples accounts based on false claims from a group that does not exist. The false group in question is American Rights Counsel LLC, a group that basically doesn't exist. The only results you will find in Google will be for people complaining about their accounts being suspended. For a group that sounds like a rights group, they sure know how to suppress peoples rights. Buy the way Filing a false DMCA claim is illegal.

Welcome to 'The Suck' if your a YouTube user.

Anyway here is a list of some forum threads and other articles on this current debacle:

• American Rights Counsel LLC Claiming Canadian content?
• 4,000 DMCA takedown notices
• Massive Takedown of Videos on YouTube
• Alleged ‘rights group’ tries to have 4,000 videos removed from YouTube
• Massive Onslaught of DMCA Takedown Notices
• 4,000 Videos Yanked From YouTube

Here are some pre-made lists for end user protection in P2P programs and other needs

eMule IPFilter.dat.gz - Download
Protowall P2P File - Download

Updated 4th September 2008

Damn I missed my chance to put something in my front yard for Google street view, but anyway I can see my house. Google Street view allows you to take a virtual tour of the streets on which they have taken photos with their fancy 360 degree camera system. One thing that disappoints me is however that they could have used this as an opportunity to fix some of the map mistakes that exist in my local area, for example the Pacific Highway in the area of Ocean Shores and Brunswick Heads. The image you see bellow is the intersection of Sharra Boolavad and Brunswick Valley Way, not the Pacific Highway like it shows. The highway was upgraded but the map was not.

What the hell, you can buy uranium on Amazon, thats just crazy.

You know what really grinds my gears? The following two videos.





Subway Incident

Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has made available the public submissions in regards to Australia's National Broadband Network. Some of the comment have come from companies like Google, Intel, most aussie providers etc.

Public submissions on regulatory issues associated with the National Broadband Network

Google has been continually trying to rattle the internet service provision industry over net neutrality. Their next step in a fight that they are more than equipped to handle is to develop a tool that detects if your ISP is interfering with your data flow.

Here is a question for you all, what will these ISP's do if Google starts killing the ranks of websites hosted on their networks and the customers want to know what going on with their page rank. Could Googles detection system be added to Google Bot and be counted as part of your page rank?

Would suck to be you if your host of choice is an ISP that isn't net neutral in Google's eyes, then again that wouldn't be very neutral would it.

Google To Develop ISP Throttling Detector

For no good reason here is a giant Awesome smiley. It's huge, massive, big.