US court starts Internet WAR.

    The U.S. Magistrate Judge Honorable Susan K. Gauvey, working with ICE has seized a foreign Internet domain. This has happened before, as many as 6 or 7 HUNDERED times! These seizures COULD be seen as declarations of war by seizing foreign property. This recent seizure was for the domain name bodog.com , a gambling site based in Canada. So far as I know, the US did not attempt to pursue the matter in Canadian courts.
    “ICE only goes after websites whose Top-level domain is located within the U.S., such as .com or .net. This makes sense for more than just jurisdiction - .com and .net are established and often more trusted Top-level domains, and the risk of consumers confusing the counterfeit site with a legitimate storefront would probably be higher.” according to Erik Barnett from ICE. Actually, ICE is using Top-level domain REGISTRARS to close sites. The registrar is located in the U.S.
    What about the on-going legitimate businesses? For quite some time the gaming company behind bodog has mainly relied on bodog.eu, and more recently has been offering a different domain called Bovada.lv for US-based players. So it looks like although ICE still pushes it’s weight around, they are a day late, and we a few dollars short.
    Additional details and source of my plagiarisms can be found at:
http://www.creeksidecommunications.com/web-development/domain-registration-a-new-perspective/
http://www.gamblingnetwork.com/forums/general-poker-forum/15667-breaking-poker-news-bodog-domain-seized-us-authorities.html
http://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=ice

My Leo Laporte RANT...

[This is a STUB. I've run out of time to think about this; it makes me mad anyhow. Now I need to get on with life so here is what I have...]

After listening to Leo Laporte RANT ON AND ON about cookies on Security Now with Steve Gibson (Episode #342) and on TWiG (#136), I thought I should write a blog post about how Leo has sold out.

Not only is he a broadcaster (think about it), who does NOT listen to his audience (I have found NO WAY for me to send an email to him). And he is no longer an open source entrepreneur geek, if he even ever was one. Now he is only interested in making money, he has SOLD OUT to big money.

Postage Stamp Petition:

"The nation has an opportunity to honor a truly exemplary accomplishment of humankind in general, and the US space program in particular with a new US postage stamp in 2015 honoring the flyby and reconnaissance of the Pluto system by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft."

Storm Chasers:

So I figured out the twitter list my daughter kept trying to send me. It is called "storms" and is a public list by her that she calls "Armchair storm chasing". (De Brevitate Vitae)

Words I like:

Gina Trapani’s immortal words: "I am a full on capitalist, I have apps in the app store, I charge money. I use to be a hippy, commie, now I’m a complete capitalist, so I’m all for it; buy Jeff’s book" (Jeff Jarvis author of Public Parts).

Not to recent high lights:

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