Firefox Add-on DeSopa developer Tamer Rizk created a simple way to defeat SOPA--the Stop Online Piracy Act. Today we present an exclusive interview with him on his motivation, the troubles it may case and the ways tactics to defeat Internet Freedom will fail.
On the old TV show, The Twilight Zone, people would often wake up to find that the world had changed in some weird and inexplicable way. The holidays are kind of like that. Our music tastes, our fashion, and even our work habits, are temporarily transformed.
Instances of alleged censorship of Twitter profiles aligned with controversial topics such as Occupy Wall Street, SOPA and NDAA continue to be exposed, and leading Web experts are scrambling to debunk the claims.
Tourism is a plague that threatens to destroy culture and society.
Talk about dead on arrival, SOPA, the pathetic Stop Online Piracy Act aimed at clamping down of freedom of speech-excuse me-on copyright infringement--is already toast, thanks to an easy Firefox add-on developed by Tamar Rizk of Cambridge, Mass., company Inficron.com and launched Dec. 19.
Democratic State Sen. Carl Kruger pleaded guilty to several corruption charges on Tuesday as part of a deal with federal officials. He is accused of accepting about $1 million in bribes in order to support his extravagant lifestyle in the Mill Basin section of Brooklyn with two other men and their mother. Kruger was allegedly intimate with one of the men.
It's an age-old question: What is justice? So integral a question is it, as a foundation for human existence, influential political philosophers like Plato and John Rawls wrote philosophical works seeking the answer. And as the question of justice is fundamental to America's political divide, it deserves to be asked.
That's what Kevin Ryan, founder and CEO of Gilt Groupe, intended to do after leading DoubleClick, the online advertising platform, to a $1.1 billion sale as CEO of the company. And in the three years following that sale, from 2005-2007, he did exactly as he'd intended. But despite Ryan's previous entrepreneurial success, he never imagined that one of the five companies he'd start would change e-commerce forever. That groundbreaking company was Gilt Groupe, a members-only website orig...
Twitter is not censoring Tweets related to NDAA, SOPA, Occupy Wall Street and Anonymous, according to claims by a growing chorus of observers, and the social media giant itself. But a number of Twitter users are not convinced.
Take this day for instance. When I got up, I read that North Korea dictator Kim Jong-il had died. I wanted to make sure it was true. So I check one source, and another source. And it appeared that yes, it was true, Kim Jong-il, North Korea's tyrant, had indeed died.
Globalization has provided the United States with many benefits, but it is not without liabilities or problems.
Ron Paul is the saint of the 2012 presidential race. He is not corrupted by money, has been married to the same wife since 1957 and by all accounts raised his five children (including Rand Paul) to be upstanding citizens.
Has there ever been an American athlete who elicits such admiration and derision simultaneously?
NDAA and SOPA aren't even approved yet, but closures of the accounts of Twitter users who write on controversial topics such as Occupy Wall Street and the bills themselves seem to suggest that their effects may already be trickling down to the web.
More Americans are ending up never getting married -- in 2010, 72 percent of U.S. adults had been wed at least once, down from 85 percent in 1960.
Wow, the NYPD mobilized a massive sting operation to arrest 141 guys who were selling hot iPhones. Where are all the undercover guys pretending to be clients of high-end financial houses getting those guys on a wire and busting them?
The real purpose of the SOPA and NDAA bills is to target Occupy Wall Street, Anonymous and other web-based movements that have fueled revolutionaries both here and abroad.
Last week, investors could finally buy a share of Internet gaming site Zynga, which was priced Thursday at $10 a share in the company’s $1 billion initial public offering. What did they say about other IPOS as well as Facebook's for 2012?
Kobe Bryant, who was divorced by his wife of 10-and-a-half years, Vanessa Bryant, on Friday after she cited irreconcilable differences in their relationship, is reported to desperately want to win Vanessa back and to be willing to do whatever it takes to save the marriage.
MVRDV's The Cloud has attracted criticism, but the risk taken is essential for design to move forward.
Now something new has been added: in 2012, Ch. 55 will be owned by CBS, whose WCBS 2, has dominated local airwaves for years along with the other network-owned stations, Disney’s WABC 7, and NBCUniversal’s WNBC 4.
The internet is under attack. And it's from our own damn countrymen. In the past week, both the National Defense Authorization Act 2012 (NDAA 2012) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) have taken aim at restricting the thus far unobstructed use of the internet. Not only are these policies an infringement on the civil rights of all internet-using Americans, not only do these laws stifle innovation and business, but they also prevent the country from freely exchanging information.
Two-in-three voters say most members of Congress should be voted out of office in 2012--the highest on record. And the number who say their own member should be replaced matches the all-time high recorded in 2010, when fully 58 members of Congress lost reelection bids-- the most in any election since 1948, the Center states in the Poll's overview.
U.S. overspending on the military has diverted resources from civilian / social investments, including public goods, weakening the U.S. economy, and, by extension weakening the nation. If it doesn’t substantially cut defense spending, the U.S.’s empire will likely share the fate of two other empires that overspent on the military -- the British Empire and the Soviet Union.
That's sure to be the rumor once (if?) the ubiquitous website goes back online after going down shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday amid news that the Obama administration will not be vetoing the bill.
When it comes to our national debt, the economic crisis has recalibrated the nation's sense of the normal. We have grown remarkably comfortable with being in the red. We gaze upon the ever-escalating national debt with a sense of boredom. $15 trillion? Yawn. Adding a few trillion to the debt ledger every so often has become a national pastime.
Elsa Then purposely performed botched surgeries after preying on Hispanic women.
The tragic shooting death of Officer Peter Figoski highlights the need for control of illegal firearms in New York. This is now being addressed by New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who recently announced this month that she will back a bill to target those gun dealers and criminals involved in bringing guns illegally into New York State.
Christine O'Donnell may think a lawn gnome can beat Barack Obama next year, but a new Reuters/Ipsos poll says otherwise. If the general election were held today, the poll found, Obama would beat Newt Gingrich by 13 percentage points and Mitt Romney by 8 points.
Celebrities generally don’t like being noticed or bothered.
