Archive for January, 2012

Today’s articles of interest

January 31st, 2012 Comments(0)

Gloria Allred demanding TV stations nix anti-abortion ad in Super Bowl

30 January, 2012 10:38:00

Women’s rights advocate/President of the Women’s Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education fund Gloria Allred has fired off a letter to NBC affiliates planning on airing an anti-abortion ad during the Super Bowl, demanding that the ads not be aired because of their inflammatory nature. Right to life advocate Randall Terry, who is running for President, has bought ad time to air the commercials which depict “in graphic nature, an aborted fetus and or fetal parts,” Allred asserts in the letter which was sent to eleven local affiliates that intend to air the spot. -more-

 

Peanut Gallery.. it is a presidential or political Ad, stations may NOT ban those adds

” the relevant Federal law – those stations CANNOT refuse those ads, because they’re campaign ads for a legitimate candidate for Federal office. WCAU, Chicago, said they wouldn’t run it, and are now defendant to Federal action initiated by Mr. Terry to force the issue. I’ve seen the spot – and anyone else who wants to – it’s on Mr. Terry’s website. “

 

RTDNA Files Comments Opposing Proposed FCC Issues/Programs Recordkeeping Changes

January 31, 2012 at 3:53 AM (PT)

Opposes FCC Policy The RADIO-TELEVISION DIGITAL NEWS ASSOCIATION has filed comments in the FCC’s docket proposing new, more detailed record-keeping requirements including a standard form for issues and programs lists kept by broadcasters, saying that a survey of the organization’s members noted the “onerous burden” the new rules would place on stations. -more-

 

Noncoms Seek Carve-Out From Station Reporting Proposals

By John Eggerton — Broadcasting & Cable, 1/30/2012 5:03:18 PM

Public broadcasters have asked the FCC to exempt them from any new “burdensome” reporting requirements, arguing that their delivery of programming of interest to their communities is self-evident.-more-

 

 

Infographic: Music, movie & book biz bigger than ever

By Janko Roettgers Jan. 30, 2012, 3:30am PT

Is piracy really destroying the entertainment industry? Techdirt blogger Mike Masnick doesn’t think so, and he has some numbers to prove it. Masnick and his Floor64 colleague Michael Ho released a report titled “The Sky Is Rising” at the Midem music industry convention in Cannes Monday that shows how the global entertainment industry actually grew by 50 percent in the last decate, despite Napster, BitTorrent & Co. -more-

peanut gallery:….. told ya so… SOPA , PIPA not needed.

 

 

Obama green jobs program faces further investigation

By Gregory Korte,

USA TODAY WASHINGTON – House Republicans are expanding their probe into the Obama administration’s energy programs, investigating $500 million in green job training grants that placed just 10% of trainees in jobs, according to a government report. The program’s goal was to train 124,893 people and put 79,854 in jobs. But 17 months later, 52,762 were trained and 8,035, or roughly 1 in 10, had jobs. Those numbers come from an audit by the Department of Labor’s inspector general, which recommended that the administration end the program and return unspent money. -more-

 

Articles worth reading….

January 30th, 2012 Comments(0)


American Exceptionalism Means Politicians Who Take Responsibility and Face Our Problems

Gary Shapiro, Contributor to Forbes

President and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association

1/25/2012 @ 8:17PM

“To hear President Obama explain it in last night’s State of the Union Address, the real problem affecting job growth and economic recovery is that millionaires and billionaires don’t pay enough taxes. What a change from year ago, when the President spoke forcefully and eloquently about rebuilding America’s innovation engine. He mentioned the need for innovation last night, but it was your typical SOTU throw-away line, buried beneath mounds of class-warfare rhetoric. This might be good politics, but it won’t put a single American back to work. I heard brilliant oration but felt sad that President Obama chose to divide and campaign, and ignore our problems, rather than have an honest discussion of our fiscal reality, provide leadership and unite our country.” -Read More-

 

 


Aneesh Chopra leaving the White House, likely to run for Virginia lieutenant governor

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“Aneesh Chopra, tapped to serve as the first White House chief technology officer, is stepping down and is widely expected to announce that he will run for lieutenant governor in Virginia, according to Democrats familiar with his plan, but not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.”.. -more-

US Cybersecurity Efforts Trigger Privacy Concerns

 

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press
WASHINGTON January 27, 2012 (AP)
“”The federal government’s plan to expand computer security protections into critical parts of private industry is raising concerns that the move will threaten Americans’ civil liberties.

In a report for release Friday, The Constitution Project warns that as the Obama administration partners more with the energy, financial, communications and health care industries to monitor and protect networks, sensitive personal information of people who work for or communicate with those companies could be improperly or inadvertently disclosed.” -more-

 

NBC legally obliged to run Romney ad it wanted pulled

By JOSH GERSTEIN |

1/29/12 2:02 PM EST

“An NBC-owned TV station is reportedly continuing to air a Mitt Romney ad that the network has asked Romney to pull, prompting charges of hypocrisy.

But the situation isn’t particularly surprising since broadcasters are legally required to run any ads candidates present—as is.

NBC and former Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw asked Romney’s campaign to drop the ad—which consists almost entirely of a clip from a 1997 Nightly News broadcast discussing then House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s reprimand for ethics violations.” -more-

notes from the peanut gallery:

 agree with it or not,he is  paying customer and canidate , if the ad ,which I have not seen so I can’t comment on it’s contents , is  that offensive he is shooting himself in the foot any way …

 

 

GOP Woos High-Tech Industry

  • By Janie Lorber
  • Roll Call Staff
  • Jan. 30, 2012, Midnight
  • “Democrats, long the darlings of the technology industry, might be losing some of their fundraising edge in Silicon Valley.

    With major firms spending more than ever on politics, Silicon Valley has become a necessary stop on the campaign trail for Republicans, too, and lobbyists warn that the industry’s allegiance to Democrats might be waning.” -more-

     

Using a sledge hammer to operate on a brain tumor

January 19th, 2012 Comments(1)

 

 

 

Using a sledge hammer to operate on a brain tumor

 

WHO is Against:
http://www.cdt.org/report/list-organizations-and-individuals-opposing-sopa

Where your Rep stands
: http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/

WHAT do I DO??

do not waste your time signing petition for SOPA /PIPA..
you MUST contact your reps directly . they count direct contact not petition we learned this the hard way with the tea party . craigslist has a good page here for contact info: http://www.craigslist.org/about/SOPA

Say you own a brick and mortar store and some punk spray paint expletives on your wall over night . It’s 7 am in the morning and you don’t know there are naughty words on your building yet because you are in bed… At 8 am an hour before you get to work, the government comes by a bulldozes your store , the whole building, because the naughty words are visible to the public…. it’s like that.. this is the kind of bull this makes illegal..
other sites have been shut down for having ad-sense links..

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/211832/courts_shut_down_82_site…

as a host/designer . I do not have control over random adds feed to my site by google.. I’d also like to point out that those add appear based on people browser search history. IE. if an offical who regularly looks for counterfit and knock off products searches my site . it’s HIGHLY probable that Google will HELP them find those items . I’ve also had a blog red listed by google for an UNAPPROVED comment that listed “counterfeit Chinese products” . the comment was deleted

. everyday I have to screen users and members and i run a pretty tight ship as far as person spam filtering goes but why should i be punished for thing i do not condone or allow in the first place on my websites , just becuse i’ve had a busy day at work and havn’t clear my (not even visable to the public ) queue? Also just because another site with this links to my site.. that’s not me selling anything wrong or infringing on a copy-write of any individual.. that SEO scripts like the above mentioned doing there job by trying to lumping word searches .. Just because you see a link some where doesn’t even mean those sites are connected. bigger crime here is people who have NO CLUE how the internet works are writing laws to police it. SOPA and PIPA take a very generized approce to “combating Piricy” the way they work is much like the test runs we saw in 2010 . instead of contacting the websites admin and working with them to correct the problem , they shut own an entire server ….

for most websites the type of links and content that the governemt is “fighting” are items that are placed there by foriegn spamm bots , or malicious code. the admin may not even know they were infected yet . but instead of useing a scalple and working with the webadmin to correct a problem .

This Bill gives the government a sledge hammer.