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Cause of Super Bowl power outage remains unclear
The cause of a 34-minute blackout at the Super Bowl remains under investigation, but public records show that Superdome officials were worried about a power outage several months before the big game.
An Oct. 15 memo released Monday by the Louisiana Stadium & Exposition District, which oversees the Superdome, said tests on the dome's electrical feeders showed they had "some decay and a chance of failure."
The memo also said 2011 blackouts that struck Candlestick Park, where the San Francisco 49ers were playing a nationally televised Monday night football game, was one reason for ordering the tests.
The state board later authorized spending nearly $1 million on Superdome improvements, including more than $600,000 for upgrading the dome's electrical feeder cable system.
Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Buffalo forecast: Warming + rain = flooding
Teen son cited in crash that killed 5 family members traveling to Disney World
Family vacation to Disney World turns to tragedy after 5 killed in late-night crash in Louisiana
Attorney: Police had 'duty' to cite teen son in fatal crash that killed 5 family members
Robber shot in chest after snatching iPhone from victim, NOPD says


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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
SOFTWARE - Hardware Monitor on My Windows 7 64bit Rig
Quite awhile back I posted an article bout CPUID's Hardware Monitor (aka HWMonitor).
Well, above is what it is showing for my custom built Windows 7 64bit 'Super Rig.'
I was surprised by the display of my UPS (Uninterpretable Power Supply) info.
This was not displayed in my dead-and-berried WinXP Rig. Maybe it's because on my new rig the UPS is connect via USB.
Note that HWMonitor comes in a free none-Pro version. HWMonitor Pro ($) allows you to create graphs.
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Labels: Hardware Monitor, software, win7
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
WINDOWS - WinXP vs Win7
As I said in my previous post, I was forced to go to Windows 7.
I have found that Microdunce has 'broken' features in Win7:
[Send to]: This is the first broken feature I ran into. In WinXP you can put any shortcut in your [SendTo] folder and it will work when using the Context Menu [Send to] option. NOT in Win7, you cannot use normal shortcuts in your [SendTo] folder.
POINTERS: In WinXP you can set custom pointers sourced from anywhere, any CUR file. In Win7 ALL pointers must be in C:\Windows\Cursors. This means you have to copy cursors/pointers from your other sources to that folder for any Pointer Customization to hold on next boot, ALSO you should save a the DEFAULT cursor theme.
SOUNDS: In Win7 there is no "Start Windows" sound listed. "Exit Windows" is listed. Luckily I found a utility to change the "Start Windows" sound. Now tell me, what is the logic of NOT having "Start Windows" listed?
I consider features 'broken' if any change makes it HARDER to use Windows.
I will add more 'broken features' here as I find them.
I have found that Microdunce has 'broken' features in Win7:
[Send to]: This is the first broken feature I ran into. In WinXP you can put any shortcut in your [SendTo] folder and it will work when using the Context Menu [Send to] option. NOT in Win7, you cannot use normal shortcuts in your [SendTo] folder.
POINTERS: In WinXP you can set custom pointers sourced from anywhere, any CUR file. In Win7 ALL pointers must be in C:\Windows\Cursors. This means you have to copy cursors/pointers from your other sources to that folder for any Pointer Customization to hold on next boot, ALSO you should save a the DEFAULT cursor theme.
SOUNDS: In Win7 there is no "Start Windows" sound listed. "Exit Windows" is listed. Luckily I found a utility to change the "Start Windows" sound. Now tell me, what is the logic of NOT having "Start Windows" listed?
I consider features 'broken' if any change makes it HARDER to use Windows.
I will add more 'broken features' here as I find them.
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Labels: operating system, win xp, win7, windows
Saturday, September 13, 2014
HARDWARE - My New Super-PC
Well.... after 20+ years my old WinXP desktop PC died, gave up the ghost.
So I got new custom built PC, went BIG.
What the hybread hard does? Think of the SSD as a super-cache. The drives copies the most used programs to SSD, which is actually memory, and works much faster.
AND..... I upgraded to broadband network (AT&T U-verse, really had no choice, they're dumping DSL). Speed test below.
So I got new custom built PC, went BIG.
- Windows 7 64bit
- CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 @ 3.50GHz (aka Quad Core)
- Memory: 8gb
- Hard Drive: 4 Terabytes, Hybread (Solid State + SATA)
- Video Card: GeForce GTX 770, 2k memory
What the hybread hard does? Think of the SSD as a super-cache. The drives copies the most used programs to SSD, which is actually memory, and works much faster.
AND..... I upgraded to broadband network (AT&T U-verse, really had no choice, they're dumping DSL). Speed test below.
|via Speed Test NET
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Labels: Microsoft, pc hardware, software, win7
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
SECURITY - NSA's Secret 'Google'
"The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google" by Ryan Gallagher, The Intercept 8/25/2014
The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a "Google-like" search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The Intercept.
The documents provide the first definitive evidence that the NSA has for years made massive amounts of surveillance data directly accessible to domestic law enforcement agencies. Planning documents for ICREACH, as the search engine is called, cite the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration as key participants.
ICREACH contains information on the private communications of foreigners and, it appears, millions of records on American citizens who have not been accused of any wrongdoing. Details about its existence are contained in the archive of materials provided to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Earlier revelations sourced to the Snowden documents have exposed a multitude of NSA programs for collecting large volumes of communications. The NSA has acknowledged that it shares some of its collected data with domestic agencies like the FBI, but details about the method and scope of its sharing have remained shrouded in secrecy.
ICREACH has been accessible to more than 1,000 analysts at 23 U.S. government agencies that perform intelligence work, according to a 2010 memo. A planning document from 2007 lists the DEA, FBI, Central Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency as core members. Information shared through ICREACH can be used to track people's movements, map out their networks of associates, help predict future actions, and potentially reveal religious affiliations or political beliefs.
The creation of ICREACH represented a landmark moment in the history of classified U.S. government surveillance, according to the NSA documents.
"The ICREACH team delivered the first-ever wholesale sharing of communications metadata within the U.S. Intelligence Community," noted a top-secret memo dated December 2007. "This team began over two years ago with a basic concept compelled by the IC's increasing need for communications metadata and NSA's ability to collect, process and store vast amounts of communications metadata related to worldwide intelligence targets."
The search tool was designed to be the largest system for internally sharing secret surveillance records in the United States, capable of handling two to five billion new records every day, including more than 30 different kinds of metadata on emails, phone calls, faxes, internet chats, and text messages, as well as location information collected from cellphones. Metadata reveals information about a communication — such as the "to" and "from" parts of an email, and the time and date it was sent, or the phone numbers someone called and when they called — but not the content of the message or audio of the call.
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Labels: cybersecurity, government security, NSA, U.S.A.
Monday, August 11, 2014
INTERNET - Criminals Steal 1.2 Billion Web Credentials
"After criminals steal 1.2 billion web credentials, how to protect personal info from data breaches" PBS NewsHour 8/6/2014
GWEN IFILL (NewsHour): Computer hacking and the breaches of privacy that come with them are becoming a regular and unwelcome feature of our wired world.
Now The New York Times and a security firm based in the Midwest are reporting a massive one that includes the collection of more than a billion username and password combinations and more than 500 million e-mail addresses. What's more, the perpetrators appear to be a shadowy Russian crime ring.
Details, including the names of the victims, are hard to come by. But the news has raised eyebrows around the world. So, how serious is it?
For that, we turn to Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and chief technology officer of CrowdStrike, a Web security firm.
Mr. Alperovitch, tell us just in context of all these other breaches we have had in the past year, say, how — relative to those, how big is this?
DMITRI ALPEROVITCH, CrowdStrike: Well, the number is certainly striking; 1.2 billion credentials is a lot. In the past, we have seen some big breaches that numbered in the hundreds of millions.
But this is certainly the biggest one that I — that I can remember.
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Labels: Cybercrime, internet, PBS-Newshour, Russia, web
LINUX - More Cities and Nations Ditch Microsoft
"Turin to Be First Italian City to Adopt Ubuntu, Unshackle from the 'Tyranny of Proprietary Software'" by Silviu Stahie, SoftPedia 8/8/2014
Turin wants to be the first city in Italy to switch completely to open source and Ubuntu and entirely ditch all the Microsoft products.
The number of local authorities that decide to switch to open source to match the IT needs of a city is slowly increasing and now it looks like the city of Turin in Italy is also doing the same thing.
One of the main tools that are available for the local governments to decrease the public spending is to make some changes when it comes to upgrading the proprietary software. Usually, this procedure costs a lot of money and the only way that you can save funds is to adopt open source solutions.
In the case of Turin, that can be done by adopting Ubuntu, which is a Linux distribution developed by Canonical and which has complete support for the Italian language. Ubuntu is a free operating system and it's supported for a period of five years. Even when the support ends, the IT department only has to upgrade to the next release.
According to a report on repubblica.it, Turin wants to become the first city in Italy to move completely to open source for its 8,300 PCs used by the local authorities.
"The transition will begin this fall and it will take a year and a half to complete. It will become the first Italian open source city and we'll to get a saving on expenses for the computers that will go 20-40 percent compared to today," says one of the managers of the project, Gianmarco Montanari.
"If we abandon proprietary software we will save €6 million ($8 million) in five years. The initial investment is low but, once installed programs and taught employees how to use them, the system will go ahead on its own feet, allowing the city to lower the cost even more," notes the director of Information Systems, Sandro Golzio.
The complete price of migrating the PCs from a version of Windows to another, together with the Office suite, would cost the city €22 million ($29.5 million) over a five-year span, but with the adoption of Ubuntu, that price will go down to €16 million ($21,4 million).
A flurry of cities in Europe are doing similar things. In Germany, the city of Munich has already finished the transition to their own Linux distribution, and in Toulouse, France, the process is ongoing and it will be over in a couple of years.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
INTERNET - The Impossible to Block Tracking Device
"Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block" by Julia Angwin, ProPublica 7/21/2014
Update: A YouPorn.com spokesperson said that the website was "completely unaware that AddThis contained a tracking software that had the potential to jeopardize the privacy of our users." After this article was published, YouPorn removed AddThis technology from its website.
A new, extremely persistent type of online tracking is shadowing visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.com.
First documented in a forthcoming paper by researchers at Princeton University and KU Leuven University in Belgium, this type of tracking, called canvas fingerprinting, works by instructing the visitor's Web browser to draw a hidden image. Because each computer draws the image slightly differently, the images can be used to assign each user's device a number that uniquely identifies it.
Like other tracking tools, canvas fingerprints are used to build profiles of users based on the websites they visit — profiles that shape which ads, news articles, or other types of content are displayed to them.
But fingerprints are unusually hard to block. They can't be prevented by using standard Web browser privacy settings or using anti-tracking tools such as AdBlock Plus.
The researchers found canvas fingerprinting computer code, primarily written by a company called AddThis, on 5 percent of the top 100,000 websites. Most of the code was on websites that use AddThis' social media sharing tools. Other fingerprinters include the German digital marketer Ligatus and the Canadian dating site Plentyoffish. (A list of all the websites on which researchers found the code is here).
Rich Harris, chief executive of AddThis, said that the company began testing canvas fingerprinting earlier this year as a possible way to replace "cookies," the traditional way that users are tracked, via text files installed on their computers.
"We're looking for a cookie alternative," Harris said in an interview.
Harris said the company considered the privacy implications of canvas fingerprinting before launching the test, but decided "this is well within the rules and regulations and laws and policies that we have."
He added that the company has only used the data collected from canvas fingerprints for internal research and development. The company won't use the data for ad targeting or personalization if users install the AddThis opt-out cookie on their computers, he said.
Arvind Narayanan, the computer science professor who led the Princeton research team, countered that forcing users to take AddThis at its word about how their data will be used, is "not the best privacy assurance."
Device fingerprints rely on the fact that every computer is slightly different: Each contains different fonts, different software, different clock settings and other distinctive features. Computers automatically broadcast some of their attributes when they connect to another computer over the Internet.
Tracking companies have long sought to use those differences to uniquely identify devices for online advertising purposes, particularly as Web users are increasingly using ad-blocking software and deleting cookies.
In May 2012, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, noticed that a Web programming feature called "canvas" could allow for a new type of fingerprint — by pulling in different attributes than a typical device fingerprint.
In June, the Tor Project added a feature to its privacy-protecting Web browser to notify users when a website attempts to use the canvas feature and sends a blank canvas image. But other Web browsers did not add notifications for canvas fingerprinting.
A year later, Russian programmer Valentin Vasilyev noticed the study and added a canvas feature to freely available fingerprint code that he had posted on the Internet. The code was immediately popular.
But Vasilyev said that the company he was working for at the time decided against using the fingerprint technology. "We collected several million fingerprints but we decided against using them because accuracy was 90 percent," he said, "and many of our customers were on mobile and the fingerprinting doesn't work well on mobile."
Vasilyev added that he wasn't worried about the privacy concerns of fingerprinting. "The fingerprint itself is a number which in no way is related to a personality," he said.
AddThis improved upon Vasilyev's code by adding new tests and using the canvas to draw a pangram "Cwm fjordbank glyphs vext quiz" — a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. This allows the company to capture slight variations in how each letter is displayed.
AddThis said it rolled out the feature to a small portion of the 13 million websites on which its technology appears, but is considering ending its test soon. "It's not uniquely identifying enough," Harris said.
AddThis did not notify the websites on which the code was placed because "we conduct R&D projects in live environments to get the best results from testing," according to a spokeswoman.
She added that the company does not use any of the data it collects — whether from canvas fingerprints or traditional cookie-based tracking — from government websites including WhiteHouse.gov for ad targeting or personalization.
The company offered no such assurances about data it routinely collects from visitors to other sites, such as YouPorn.com. YouPorn.com did not respond to inquiries from ProPublica about whether it was aware of AddThis' test of canvas fingerprinting on its website.
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Labels: browsers, internet, privacy, ProPublica
Thursday, July 10, 2014
NSA - How to Insure Your Are On the Watch List
"Here's One Way to Land on the NSA's Watch List" by Julia Angwin and Mike Tigas, ProPublica 7/9/2014
Last week, German journalists revealed that the National Security Agency has a program to collect information about people who use privacy-protecting services, including popular anonymizing software called Tor. But it's not clear how many users have been affected.
So we did a little sleuthing, and found that the NSA's targeting list corresponds with the list of directory servers used by Tor between December 2010 and February 2012 – including two servers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tor users connect to the directory servers when they first launch the Tor service.
That means that if you downloaded Tor during 2011, the NSA may have scooped up your computer's IP address and flagged you for further monitoring. The Tor Project is a nonprofit that receives significant funding from the U.S. government.
The revelations were among the first evidence of specific spy targets inside the United States. And they have been followed by yet more evidence. The Intercept revealed this week that the government monitored email of five prominent Muslim-Americans, including a former Bush Administration official.
It's not clear if, or how extensively, the NSA spied on the users of Tor and other privacy services.
After the news, one of Tor's original developers, Roger Dingledine, reassured users that they most likely remained anonymous while using the service: "Tor is designed to be robust to somebody watching traffic at one point in the network – even a directory authority." It is more likely that users could have been spied on when they were not using Tor.
For its part, the NSA says it only collects information for valid foreign intelligence purposes and that it "minimizes" information it collects about U.S. residents. In other words, NSA may have discarded any information it obtained about U.S. residents who downloaded Tor.
However, according to a recent report by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, the NSA's minimization procedures vary by program. Under Prism, for example, the NSA shares unminimized data with the FBI and CIA.
In addition, the NSA can also later search the communications of those it has inadvertently caught in its Prism dragnet, a tactic some have called a " backdoor" search. It's not clear if similar backdoors exist for other types of data such as IP addresses.
In response to the Tor news, the NSA said it is following President Obama's January directive to not conduct surveillance for the purpose of "suppressing or burdening criticism or dissent, or for disadvantaging persons based on their ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion."
[Disclosure: Mike Tigas is the developer of an app that uses Tor, called the Onion Browser.]
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Labels: data security, NSA, ProPublica
Monday, July 7, 2014
LINUX - Rules on Supercomputers
"Where Linux rules: Supercomputers" by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ZDNet 11/25/2013
Summary: Linux is everywhere, except on traditional PCs. But when it comes to total platform domination, you can't beat Linux on supercomputers.
The latest Top 500 Supercomputer list is out. At the very tip-top, you'll find Tianhe-2. This supercomputer, developed by China's National University of Defense Technology, is once more the world's fastest supercomputer with a performance of 33.86 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) on the Linpack benchmark. Also on top, as it has been for more than a decade now, you'll find Linux.
When it comes to supercomputers, Linux is the operating system of choice and it has been since 2004. The latest round-up of the world's fastest computers underlines just how dominant Linux is in supercomputers.
In the November 2013 listing, 482 of the world's top supercomputers run Linux. The free, open-source operating system is followed by Unix, with eleven; four systems running a mix of operating systems, two with Windows and a single system running BSD Unix. That's an advantage of 96.4 percent for Linux to 3.6 percent for everyone else, if you're keeping score at home.
The vast majority of these Linux hot-rod computers use cluster architectures with 86.4 percent. Only 15.4 percent use a massively parallel processor (MPP) design.
A related development, behind the high-tide of Linux, is that most of these supercomputers use AMD and Intel chips. To be exact, 82 percent use Intel Xeon chips with the Xeon E5 SandyBridge processor leading the way. 9 percent use AMD Opteron and 8 percent use IBM Power processors. All of these chips can, and do, run Linux on supercomputers.
Just over 10 percent of supercomputers, 53 systems, use accelerator/co-processor technology. Of these, 38 use NVIDIA chips, 13 systems with Intel's Xeon Phi and two use ATI Radeon.
Looking ahead, the supercomputer testers are well aware that the Linpack benchmark is dated. Jack Dongarra, distinguished professor of computer science at the University of Tennessee, creator of the TOP500 and Linpack's inventor, is working on a new supercomputer benchmark: the High Performance Conjugate Gradient.
We don't have a date yet for when the HPCG will appear. We can, however, be certain that whenever it appears, Linux will still be the top supercomputer operating system.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
LINUX - Opinion, 7 Suggested Improvements
"7 Improvements The Linux Desktop Needs" by Bruce Byfield, Datamation 6/7/2014
In the last fifteen years, the Linux desktop has gone from a collection of marginally adequate solutions to an unparalleled source of innovation and choice. Many of its standard features are either unavailable in Windows, or else available only as a proprietary extension. As a result, using Linux is increasingly not only a matter of principle, but of preference as well.
Yet, despite this progress, gaps remain. Some are missing features, others missing features, and still others pie-in-the sky extras that could be easily implemented to extend the desktop metaphor without straining users' tolerance of change.
For instance, here are 7 improvements that would benefit the Linux desktop:
7. Easy Email Encryption
These days, every email reader from Alpine to Thunderbird and Kmail include email encryption. However, documentation is often either non-existent or poor.
But, even if you understand the theory, the practice is difficult. Controls are generally scattered throughout the configuration menus and tabs, requiring a thorough search for all the settings that you require or want. Should you fail to set up encryption properly, usually you receive no feedback about why.
The closest to an easy process is Enigmail, a Thunderbird extension that includes a setup wizard aimed at beginners. But you have to know about Enigmail to use it, and the menu it adds to the composition window buries the encryption option one level down and places it with other options guaranteed to mystify everyday users.
No matter what the desktop, the assumption is that, if you want encrypted email, you already understand it. Today, though, the constant media references to security and privacy have ensured that such an assumption no longer applies.
6. Thumbnails for Virtual Workspaces
Virtual workspaces offer more desktop space without requiring additional monitors. Yet, despite their usefulness, management of virtual workspaces hasn't changed in over a decade. On most desktops, you control them through a pager in which each workspace is represented by an unadorned rectangle that gives few indications of what might be on it except for its name or number -- or, in the case of Ubuntu's Unity, which workspace is currently active.
True, GNOME and Cinnamon do offer better views, but the usefulness of these views is limited by the fact that they require a change of screens. Nor is KDE's written list of contents, which is jarring in the primarily graphic-oriented desktop.
A less distracting solution might be mouseover thumbnails large enough for those with normal vision to see exactly what is on each workspace.
5. A Workable Menu
The modern desktop long ago outgrew the classic menu with its sub-menus cascading across the screen. Today, the average computer simply has too many applications to fit comfortably into such a format.
The trouble is, neither of the major alternatives is as convenient as the classic menu. Confining the menu into a single window is less than ideal, because you either have to endure truncated sub-menus or else continually resize the window with the mouse.
Yet the alternative of a full-screen menu is even worse. It means changing screens before you even begin to work, and relying on a search field that is only useful if you already know what applications are available -- in which case you are almost better off launching from the command line.
Frankly, I don't know what the solution might be. Maybe spinner racks, like those in OS X? All I can say for certain is that all alternatives for a modern menu make a carefully constructed set of icons on the desktop seem a more reasonable alternative.
4. A Professional, Affordable Video Editor
Over the years, Linux has slowly filled the gaps in productivity software. However, one category in which it is still lacking is in reasonably priced software for editing videos.
The problem is not that such free software is non-existent. After all, Maya is one of the industry standards for animation. The problem is that the software costs several thousand dollars.
At the opposite end of the spectrum are apps like Pitivi or Blender, whose functionality -- despite brave efforts by their developers -- remain basic. Progress happens, but far more slowly than anyone hopes for.
Although I have heard of indie directors using native Linux video editors, the reason I have heard of their efforts is usually because of their complaints. Others prefer to minimize the struggle and edit on other operating systems instead.
3. A Document Processor
At one extreme are users whose need for word processing is satisfied by Google Docs. At the other extreme are layout experts for whom Scribus is the only feasible app.
In-between are those like publishers and technical writers who produce long, text-oriented documents. This category of users is served by Adobe FrameMaker on Windows, and to some extent by LibreOffice Writer on Linux.
Unfortunately, these users are apparently not a priority in LibreOffice, Calligra Words, AbiWord, or any other office suite. Features that would provide for these users include:
- Separate bibliographic databases for each file
- Tables that are treated like styles in the same way that paragraphs and characters are
- Page styles with persistent content other than headers or footers that would appear each time the style is used
- Storable formats for cross-references, so that the structure doesn't need to be recreated manually each time that it is needed
Whether LibreOffice or another application provides these features is irrelevant comparing to whether they are available. Without them, the Linux desktop is an imperfect place for a large class of potential users.
2. Color-Coded Title Bars
Browser extensions have taught me how useful color coded tabs can be for workspaces. The titles of open tabs disappear when more than eight or nine or open, so the color is often the quickest visual guide to the relation between tabs.
The same system could be just as useful on the desktop. Better yet, the color coding might be preserved between sessions, allowing users to open all the apps needed for a specific task at the same time. So far, I know of no desktop with such a feature.
1. Icon Fences
For years, Stardock Systems has been selling a Windows extension called Fences, which lets icons be grouped. You can name each group and move the icons in it together. In addition, you can assign which fence different types of files are automatically added to, and hide and arrange fences as needed.
In other words, fences automate the sort of arrangements that users make on their desktop all the time. Yet aside from one or two minor functions they share with KDE's Folder Views, fences remain completely unknown on Linux desktops. Perhaps the reason is that designers are focused on mobile devices as the source of ideas, and fences are decidedly a feature of the traditional workstation desktop.
Personalized Lists
As I made this list, what struck me was how few of the improvements were general. Several of these improvement would appeal largely to specific audiences, and only one even implies the porting of a proprietary application. At least one is cosmetic rather than functional.
What this observation suggests is that, for the general user, Linux has very little left to add. As an all-purpose desktop, Linux arrive some years ago, and has been diversifying ever since, until today users can choose from over half a dozen major desktops.
None of that means, of course, that specialists wouldn't have other suggestions. In addition, changing needs can make improvements desirable that nobody once cared about. But it does mean that many items on a list of desirable improvements will be highly personal.
All of which raises the question: What other improvements do you think would benefit the desktop?
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014
INTERNET - Internet Giants vs Spy Agencies
"Internet Giants Erect Barriers to Spy Agencies" by DAVID E. SANGER and NICOLE PERLROTH, New York Times 6/6/2014
Just down the road from Google's main campus here, engineers for the company are accelerating what has become the newest arms race in modern technology: They are making it far more difficult — and far more expensive — for the National Security Agency and the intelligence arms of other governments around the world to pierce their systems.
As fast as it can, Google is sealing up cracks in its systems that Edward J. Snowden revealed the N.S.A. had brilliantly exploited. It is encrypting more data as it moves among its servers and helping customers encode their own emails. Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo are taking similar steps.
After years of cooperating with the government, the immediate goal now is to thwart Washington — as well as Beijing and Moscow. The strategy is also intended to preserve business overseas in places like Brazil and Germany that have threatened to entrust data only to local providers.
Google, for example, is laying its own fiber optic cable under the world's oceans, a project that began as an effort to cut costs and extend its influence, but now has an added purpose: to assure that the company will have more control over the movement of its customer data.
A year after Mr. Snowden's revelations, the era of quiet cooperation is over. Telecommunications companies say they are denying requests to volunteer data not covered by existing law. A.T.&T., Verizon and others say that compared with a year ago, they are far more reluctant to cooperate with the United States government in "gray areas" where there is no explicit requirement for a legal warrant.
But governments are fighting back, harder than ever. The cellphone giant Vodafone reported on Friday that a "small number" of governments around the world have demanded the ability to tap directly into its communication networks, a level of surveillance that elicited outrage from privacy advocates.
Vodafone refused to name the nations on Friday for fear of putting its business and employees at risk there. But in an accounting of the number of legal demands for information that it receives from 14 companies, it noted that some countries did not issue warrants to obtain phone, email or web-searching traffic, because "the relevant agencies and authorities already have permanent access to customer communications via their own direct link."
The company also said it had to acquiesce to some governments' requests for data to comply with national laws. Otherwise, it said, it faced losing its license to operate in certain countries.
Eric Grosse, Google's security chief, suggested in an interview that the N.S.A.'s own behavior invited the new arms race.
"I am willing to help on the purely defensive side of things," he said, referring to Washington's efforts to enlist Silicon Valley in cybersecurity efforts. "But signals intercept is totally off the table," he said, referring to national intelligence gathering.
"No hard feelings, but my job is to make their job hard," he added.
In Washington, officials acknowledge that covert programs are now far harder to execute because American technology companies, fearful of losing international business, are hardening their networks and saying no to requests for the kind of help they once quietly provided.
Robert S. Litt, the general counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees all 17 American spy agencies, said on Wednesday that it was "an unquestionable loss for our nation that companies are losing the willingness to cooperate legally and voluntarily" with American spy agencies.
"Just as there are technological gaps, there are legal gaps," he said, speaking at the Wilson Center in Washington, "that leave a lot of gray area" governing what companies could turn over.
In the past, he said, "we have been very successful" in getting that data. But he acknowledged that for now, those days are over, and he predicted that "sooner or later there will be some intelligence failure and people will wonder why the intelligence agencies were not able to protect the nation."
Companies respond that if that happens, it is the government's own fault and that intelligence agencies, in their quest for broad data collection, have undermined web security for all.
Many point to an episode in 2012, when Russian security researchers uncovered a state espionage tool, Flame, on Iranian computers. Flame, like the Stuxnet worm, is believed to have been produced at least in part by American intelligence agencies. It was created by exploiting a previously unknown flaw in Microsoft's operating systems. Companies argue that others could have later taken advantage of this defect.
Worried that such an episode undercuts confidence in its wares, Microsoft is now fully encrypting all its products, including Hotmail and Outlook.com, by the end of this year with 2,048-bit encryption, a stronger protection that would take a government far longer to crack. The software is protected by encryption both when it is in data centers and when data is being sent over the Internet, said Bradford L. Smith, the company's general counsel.
Mr. Smith also said the company was setting up "transparency centers" abroad so that technical experts of foreign governments could come in and inspect Microsoft's proprietary source code. That will allow foreign governments to check to make sure there are no "back doors" that would permit snooping by United States intelligence agencies. The first such center is being set up in Brussels.
Microsoft has also pushed back harder in court. In a Seattle case, the government issued a "national security letter" to compel Microsoft to turn over data about a customer, along with a gag order to prevent Microsoft from telling the customer it had been compelled to provide its communications to government officials. Microsoft challenged the gag order as violating the First Amendment. The government backed down.
Hardware firms like Cisco, which makes routers and switches, have found their products a frequent subject of Mr. Snowden's disclosures, and their business has declined steadily in places like Asia, Brazil and Europe over the last year. The company is still struggling to convince foreign customers that their networks are safe from hackers — and free of "back doors" installed by the N.S.A. The frustration, companies here say, is that it is nearly impossible to prove that their systems are N.S.A.-proof.
Most American companies said they never knowingly let the N.S.A. weaken their systems, or install back doors. But Mr. Snowden's documents showed how the agency found a way.
In one slide from the disclosures, N.S.A. analysts pointed to a sweet spot inside Google's data centers, where they could catch traffic in unencrypted form. Next to a quickly drawn smiley face, an N.S.A. analyst, referring to an acronym for a common layer of protection, had noted, "SSL added and removed here!"
Google was already suspicious that its internal traffic could be read, and had started a program to encrypt the links among its internal data centers, "the last chink in our armor," Mr. Grosse said. But the slide gave the company proof that it was a regular target of the N.S.A. "It was useful to have proof, in terms of accelerating a project already underway," he said.
Facebook and Yahoo have also been encrypting traffic among their internal servers. And Facebook, Google and Microsoft have been moving to more strongly encrypt consumer traffic with so-called Perfect Forward Secrecy, specifically devised to make it more labor intensive for the N.S.A. or anyone to read stored encrypted communications.
One of the biggest indirect consequences from the Snowden revelations, technology executives say, has been the surge in demands from foreign governments that saw what kind of access to user information the N.S.A. received — voluntarily or surreptitiously. Now they want the same.
At Facebook, Joe Sullivan, the company's chief security officer, said it had been fending off those demands and heightened expectations.
Until last year, technology companies were forbidden from acknowledging demands from the United States government under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. But in January, Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft brokered a deal with the Obama administration to disclose the number of such orders they receive in increments of 1,000.
As part of the agreement, the companies agreed to dismiss their lawsuits before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
"We're not running and hiding," Mr. Sullivan said. "We think it should be a transparent process so that people can judge the appropriate ways to handle these kinds of things."
The latest move in the war between intelligence agencies and technology companies arrived this week, in the form of a new Google encryption tool. The company released a user-friendly, email encryption method to replace the clunky and often mistake-prone encryption schemes the N.S.A. has readily exploited.
But the best part of the tool was buried in Google's code, which included a jab at the N.S.A.'s smiley-face slide. The code included the phrase: "ssl-added-and-removed-here-; - )"
Monday, June 2, 2014
SECURITY - Warning, Big Data Brokers
"FTC report warns consumers about big data brokers" PBS NewsHour 5/31/2014
HARI SREENIVASAN (NewsHour): Earlier this week, the Federal Trade Commission issued a report that contained consumer protection recommendations concerning what's referred to as "big data" – the companies that collect and sell billions of bits of information about all aspects of our online lives. Information that includes purchases, income, political affiliations – even religion. As FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez put it:
"It's time to bring transparency and accountability to bear on this industry on behalf of consumers, many of whom are unaware that data brokers even exist."
For some insight, we turn to Amy Schatz who covers tech policy issues for Re/code.
So, what were the things that this report uncovered that might surprise consumers?
AMY SCHATZ, Re/code: I think most of the things in the report would surprise consumers, although this isn't necessarily a new issue – this has been going around for a couple of years – but most people don't know that there are a bunch of data collectors out there who are collecting data about you. Whether it's who you voted for or your political beliefs. Whether it's your zip code or what you purchased at the store last week or what you're lookeingat online. There are these profiles that are being created online of most Americans now and that information is being traded and shared in a way that a lot of consumers might find a little troubling.
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Friday, May 23, 2014
MICROSOFT - Successfully Challenges FBI
"Microsoft Successfully Challenges FBI Order For User Info" by Amy Lee, Cruxial 5/23/2014
Documents related to Microsoft's successful challenge of a governmental request for information about one of the company's customers have been unsealed.
The order, a Federal Bureau of Investigation National Security Letter, sought "basic subscriber information" about one of Microsoft's enterprise customers, according to according to a post by Microsoft's general counsel and executive VP of Legal and Corporate Affairs, Brad Smith on the company's TechNet blog.
A federal court in Seattle unsealed the documents on May 22 2014.
"This marks an important and successful step to protect Microsoft's enterprise customers regarding government surveillance," Smith wrote.
Microsoft challenged the nondisclosure provision of the Letter in June 2013, arguing that it would violate the First Amendment.
"It did so by hindering our practice of notifying enterprise customers when we receive legal orders related to their data," Smith wrote.
After the petition was filed, the FBI withdrew the Letter. According to Smith, governmental requests for information related to enterprise customers are "extremely rare."
In the previous cases where similar requests for information occurred, Microsoft was able to obtain permission from the customer in question, or to ask directly. In this case, the FBI was able to get the info from the customer, according to the notice of withdrawal.
Microsoft, along with major tech firms like Apple, Facebook and Google, have ramped up their efforts to gain greater abilities to disclose the government's requests for data to their customers.
"As more users migrate from locally installed software and locally stored data to cloud-based computing platforms, Microsoft increasingly is entrusted to store its customers' data safely and securely," the petition states.
In December 2013, Smith wrote a post on the TechNet blog reaffirming Microsoft's commitment to protecting customer data, and promising to inform customers of any legal orders Microsoft receives or to challenge any gag orders prohibiting them from doing so.
Smith also stated the company's belief that when seeking information, government agencies should go directly to customers except in exceptional circumstances, "just as they did before customers moved to the cloud."
With cloud services, such as Microsoft's Office 365, customer data is stored in Microsoft data centers, rather than on the customer's own systems.
"As more users migrate from locally installed software and locally stored data to cloud-based computing platforms, Microsoft increasingly is entrusted to store its customers' data safely and securely," the petition states.
Earlier this month, Glenn Greenwald, who has been a key part of disclosures related to how the National Security Administration collects information, published documents including details of Microsoft's relationship with the agency.
Greenwald had previously claimed in July 2013 that Microsoft had worked with the NSA to circumvent encryption on Outlook and had also worked with the FBI to help them better collect information from OneDrive. Microsoft responded to the allegations shortly after, with the basic message that the company complies with data requests only when legally necessary.
"This new capability will result in a much more complete and timely collection response [...] for our enterprise customers. This success is the result of the FBI working for many months with Microsoft to get this tasking and collection solution established," the recently revealed document states.
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Labels: FBI, government surveillance, internet, Microsoft
NET NEUTRALITY - A Myth?
"Net Neutrality Fans Aren't Going To Like This Chart" by Gerry Smith, Huffington Post 5/22/2014
When news broke in February that streaming giant Netflix would pay Comcast for direct access to the cable company's broadband network, some experts said it marked the beginning of the end of net neutrality.
Yet a new report says that such deals are far more widespread than many realized at the time.
Many large tech companies -- including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Facebook -- have quietly brokered deals with Internet providers to ensure their content is not slowed as it travels through their networks, according to a blog post published Wednesday by telecom analyst Dan Rayburn.
It's unclear whether these deals were brokered before or after a federal court in January struck down rules that maintained net neutrality, which is the principle that all Internet traffic should be equally accessible to consumers. But Rayburn, an analyst at the research firm Frost & Sullivan, said such arrangements between web companies and Internet providers are nothing new.
"There are a lot of these deals in the market and have been for many, many years," he wrote on his blog.
Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Facebook did not return requests for comment.
Netflix, for example, accounts for roughly 30 percent of all web traffic. Because data-heavy videos can create traffic jams on broadband networks, the company is paying Comcast to ensure its videos are streamed to customers more smoothly.
Such deals pertain to how Internet traffic flows between your Internet provider and third-party middlemen who operate the backbone of the web.
Those deals are technically beyond the scope of the Federal Communications Commission's recent proposal to allow Internet providers to charge web companies more to deliver their content via a "fast lane." The FCC's proposed fast lanes only relate to the so-called last mile of online traffic that flows directly to customers' homes.
On Tuesday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler told a congressional panel that the FCC would start looking more closely at the type of deals that Rayburn highlighted.
In his blog post, Rayburn said the deals are fair. If companies like Netflix didn't pay extra to ensure their content was delivered smoothly, Internet providers would be forced to raise prices on customers by passing on the extra cost of handling the increased traffic from all of Netflix's streaming videos.
This chart from Rayburn's blog indicates deals between tech companies and Internet providers:
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Labels: Huffington Post, internet, net neutrality
Monday, May 19, 2014
SUPERCOMPUTERS - Canonical and China Collaboration in Cloud Computing
"NUDT and Canonical bring OpenStack to world's fastest supercomputer" by Canonical 5/4/2014
China's National University of Defense Technology, NUDT , developers of the Tianhe-2 supercomputer, and Canonical , the organization behind Ubuntu, today announce a collaboration to bring OpenStack to the world's fastest supercomputer for high performance cloud environments.
The new collaboration with Canonical will enable Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu OpenStack and Ubuntu's orchestration tool, Juju, to run Tienhe2. Today, Ubuntu OpenStack is running on 256 high performance nodes and this will grow to over 6400 nodes in the coming months. The nodes will be available to Government departments in Guangdong province as well as other NUDT partners for analysis, census, and eGovernment applications.
Both OpenStack and Ubuntu's orchestration tool, Juju, will run on Tianhe-2 to enable NUDT partners and affiliate to rapidly deploy and manage very high performance cloud environments. The Juju orchestration tool makes it easy to design, deploy, scale and manage cloud workloads in OpenStack (cloud) environments. Workloads running on Tianhe-2 will enjoy higher inter-connect bandwidth and computing power for point heavy or memory intensive application.
Professor QingBo Wu at NUDT comments; "NUDT is a pioneer of technology, especially in the area of high performance. Tianhe-2, the world's fastest supercomputer runs on Ubuntu Kylin and now with OpenStack and Ubuntu Juju, we are able to deliver high performance OpenStack."
"To see the fastest supercomputer running OpenStack is already a beautiful thing," said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu. "To see it running OpenStack with workloads orchestrated by Ubuntu Juju is incredibly powerful. We can't wait to see it rolled out further."
NUDT designed and built Tianhe-2, which runs on its own Kylin Cloud Linux operating system and has held the record for the world's fastest supercomputer since 2013, having recorded results of Linpack Performance (Rmax)33,862.7 TFlop/s. The servers use Intel Xeon processors, Intel Xeon Phi co-processors and a 160Gb per second interconnect for super-fast data transfer between nodes.
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Labels: China, cloud computing, linux, software, super computers, ubuntu
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
SECURITY - Comic Book With a Cybersecurity Theme as a Teaching Tool
"'Cynja' battles botnets and other cyber-scourges" by Larisa Epatko, PBS NewsHour 5/12/2014
The PBS NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan speaks to co-authors Chase Cunningham and Heather Dahl about their new comic book, "The Cynja".
Fictional character Grant Wiley, 11, is a wiz on computers. One day, his favorite teacher disappears, leaving nothing at his desk but a smoldering USB stick. Suspecting his help might be needed, Grant grabs the stick and plugs it into his computer at home.
He's instantly sucked into the Internet and thus begins his adventures as a newly trained "cynja" fighting computer worms, hackers, malware … and worse.
Authored by Chase Cunningham and Heather Dahl, who both work for cybersecurity consulting firms, "The Cynja: Volume 1" aims to introduce children to the world of cybersecurity and teach them how to protect their computers.
Dahl said in an interview with the PBS NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan that she was motivated to take on the project when she tried to find a book to teach her young nephew about "the bad guys who live in our computers." But "I couldn't find anything that showed the world I work in," so she approached Cunningham to help fill the void.
Cunningham said his goal was to create a relatable character that could explain to children what people are doing to protect their cyber-future. "I've worked in this industry for a long time and a lot of the guys that are out there doing what they can to protect the Internet and keep us safe, they don't have badges and they're not policemen or firemen or something like that."
His hope is readers will better understand the role of these protectors and think, "You're a cynja, you're a cyberspace ninja — that's cool."
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Labels: children, comic book, cybersecurity, education, PBS-Newshour
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DAVE DORMAN STAR WARS PRINTS SALE – Last Time Many Items Are Available for SalePosted in 501st, Art Lithographs, Blog, Blogger, Blogging, Chicago Comic Book Artists, Christmas Gifts, Collectibles, Collections, Collectors, Comic Book Art, Comic Book Artist, Darth Vader, DAVE DORMAN ART FOR SALE, DAVE DORMAN NEWS, Entertainment, Facebook, Fan Culture, Geek, Geek Culture, Hannukah Gifts, Hanukkah Gifts, Hasbro, Holiday Gifts, Illustration, Lucasfilm, Nerd Culture, Pop Culture, Rolling Thunder: The Art of Dave Dorman, Star Wars, Star Wars Original Art Sale, Twitter, WASTED LANDS OMNIBUS with tags Art, Dave Dorman Star Wars Art, Dave Dorman Star Wars Print Sale, Entertainment, FaceBook, Fan Culture, Fandom, Geek Culture, Illustration, Lucasfilm, PayPal, Pop Culture, Star Wars, Star Wars Celebration, Twitter, Wasted Lands Omnibus on November 22, 2014 by DaveandDeniseDorman
Star Wars Celebration: Dave Dorman Artwork RejectedPosted in Comic Book Artist, DAVE DORMAN NEWS, Geek, Geek Culture, Pop Culture, Star Wars, Uncategorized with tags Dave Dorman, Dave Dorman Star Wars Art, Entertainment, Geek Culture, Pop Culture, Star Wars, Star Wars Celebration 7 on November 18, 2014 by DaveandDeniseDorman
Hi All.
Well, now that Lucasfilm has announced the artists selected for the SW Celebration 7 Art Show, I can publicly confirm that I was not selected to participate this year. It is with great sadness and disappointment that I am now announcing this, but the judging has been made, and there is no reversing that.
The judging was done differently this year, asking for comps of the art proposed, then submitted anonymously to be judged. There was no respect for the reputation or the years of good will put in by any artist–just the comp, rough, or finished art submitted for approval.
So…here was my piece–a color rough featuring Vader continuing to pursue the genocide of the Jedi after Order 66. I guess I missed the mark in idea… or perhaps not doing a more finished rough..it's not EU… ties directly into the gap between EP3 and 4…
I don't know. And because the judged submissions were anonymous and a one shot deal, I will never know.
What I do know is that I will not have a print available this year at Celebration, nor will I be attending Celebration to support it.
I thank all you who have supported me through the 6 Celebrations (including Europe) where I sold out of prints, and the first Celebration in Denver, which I attended only as a fan. I would like to thank the 501st for their support and helping unselfishly when called to pose for me.
I hope to see you all at Celebration 8…if the Force is still with me.
Take care,
I'll Be at GrandCon Tomorrow Through Sunday in Grand Rapids, MichiganPosted in Chicago Comic Book Artists, Collectibles, Collections, Collectors, Comic Book Art, Comic Book Artist, Comic Book Convention, Comic Book Cover Art, Comic Books, Dark Horse Comics, DAVE DORMAN ART FOR SALE, DAVE DORMAN NEWS, Entertainment, Fan Culture, Geek, Geek Culture with tags Comic Book Convention, Comics and Gaming, Dave Dorman, Denise Dorman, Entertainment, Geek Culture, Grand Rapids, GrandCon, Magnetic Press, Michigan, Nerd Culture, Pop Culture, Publishing, The Wasted Lands, WriteBrain Media on September 17, 2014 by DaveandDeniseDorman
Dear Friends,
Please join me at the GrandCon Comics & Gaming Convention this weekend in Grand Rapids, Michigan if you can – I will be there with my new book, THE WASTED LANDS OMNIBUS! Here is the address, for your convenience:
Collectors: If you want me to bring anything specific, please ping firstname.lastname@example.com immediately with your specific requests and I'll do my best to bring what you need; I'll be busy packing up for the show. I look forward to seeing you!
Dave Dorman's WASTED LANDS OMNIBUS Limited Edition PackagePosted in Chicago Comic Book Artists, Collectibles, Collections, Collectors, Comic Book Art, Comic Book Artist, Comic Book Convention, Comic Book Cover Art, Comic Books, DAVE DORMAN ART FOR SALE, DAVE DORMAN NEWS, Entertainment, Fan Culture, Geek, Geek Culture, Mike Kennedy, Pop Culture, Wasted Lands, WASTED LANDS OMNIBUS, WriteBrain Media, Writer, Zombie, Zombie Art with tags Comics, Dave Dorman, Dave Dorman Wasted Lands, Eisner Award Winner, Entertainment, Fantasy, Horror, Illustration, Inkpot Award Winner, Limited Edition Art, Magnetic Press, Pop Culture, Publishing, San Diego Comic-Con, Science Fiction, Wasted Lands Omnibus on September 6, 2014 by DaveandDeniseDorman
Dave Dorman Horror Art from Dance of the Demented WildClaw Theater FundraiserPosted in Collectibles, Collections, Collectors, Comic Book Art, Comic Book Artist, Entertainment, Facebook, Fan Culture, Fundraising, Geek, Geek Culture, Horror, Horror Art, Horror Play, Horror Play Competition, Nerd Culture, Painting, WildClaw Theatre with tags Charlie Athanas, Chicago Horror, Chicago Theater, Colleen Elizabeth Miller, Fundraiser, Horror Art, WildClaw Theatre on September 5, 2014 by DaveandDeniseDorman
Dear Friends,
My friend and fellow artist Charlie Athanas posted this on Facebook, and I thought you might be interested to see a piece I did at a WildClaw Theatre fundraising event called "Dance of the Demented" in 2010. As you will note, I did a much looser style of painting here and I was pleased with the result. Let me know what you think of it?
Here's the original photograph:
And here's the painting (a black and white version of it):
And here it is in color (sorry for the angle of the image):
And here's an XCU on the face:
3 New Dave Dorman Sketchbooks AvailablePosted in 2014 SDCC, Blog, Blogger, Blogging, Collectibles, Collections, Collectors, Comic Book Art, Comic Book Artist, Comic Book Cover Art, Comic Books, DAVE DORMAN ART FOR SALE, DAVE DORMAN NEWS, Entertainment, Fan Culture, Geek, Geek Culture, Holiday Gifts, Illustration, Nerd Culture, Painting, Pop Culture, Uncategorized with tags Aliens Art, Comic Art, Dave Dorman Art, Illustration, Magic: The Gathering Art, MTG, Pop Culture, Predator Art, World of Warcraft Art, WoW on July 31, 2014 by DaveandDeniseDorman
Dear Friends,
I have 3 new small books available featuring my art. They are as follows: DAVE DORMAN 2014 SKETCHBOOK "LEADWORKS No. 2," as well as NEW MAGIC/WOW and ALIENS/PREDATOR Books! Here's the link to place your orders: http://www.davedorman.com/leadworks2014.shtml
•The first is my new sketchbook LEADWORKS No. 2, featuring pencil art from my painting preliminaries for various paintings including Star Wars, as well as many new pencil drawing done specifically for this volume. Cost: $15 including Postage
•The second is a collection of fantasy art featuring many MAGIC the GATHERING (MTG) and WORLD of WARCRAFT (WoW) paintings.
Cost: $20 including Postage
•The third book is a much-asked-for collection of my most popular ALIENS and PREDATOR paintings, including many ALIENS v PREDATOR (AvP) paintings. Cost: $20 including Postage
Special Pricing for All Three Books: $45 including Postage.
As always, I thank you for your interest in and support of my work!!


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Too eloquent for such a stupid chorus/refrain. C'mon Mike, you're a smart and talented guy, why write Foo Fighters' songs? Soccer moms, retarded rappers and reality VD stars lay out the "mofos" plenty thick these days. It don't make you ruff, tuff or The Hard.
Steve's decidedly geeky here and very much wrong. He also hasn't recorded any interesting music since the '90s (those cat videos sucked Steve), when Touch and Go and Quarterstick put out great records recorded with care on analog tape. The amount of cockblocking going on with tech companies and music is hyper-corporate and a worse situation than with many of the most egregious record labels. Music culture has become decidedly dumber in all respects and decidedly more centralized. Who's paying Steve Albini today? Where does his paycheck come from? His studio rate should be reduced to nil. That's what musician's get today from the process of recording and in most cases touring today, unless they play those lame Festival Package Tours. The result of the live stream of an endless sea of digi-crap is that music has been devalued through the process of recording it, distributing it and consuming it. The process is less social, less physical and less human. Audio expression has been reduced to a steady stream of McRibz. Defending this devaluation process isn't democratizing or liberating. It just means we all get to participate in the erection of a virtual Dollar Store for all digital media, where everyone who engages the process knows it sucks, but the set of vampire novelty teeth sure were cheap.
Nah, record label execs used to want to be cool, have cool bands and foster talent. They promoted A&R and boutique labels as a way of banking on the future. Big Star made three albums. The Replacements made a healthy career, seven albums and several EPs on Twin Tone and then Sire (a Warner Bros subsidiary). These bands were able to operate in the margins for a short while and influence tons of other bands and people because there was adequate financing to get them on the road and on College Radio. There was also terrestrial support for local bands in the form of local radio, local news, local TV, local record stores, local clubes, etc. The Tech Cloud model is a strange multiverse, which only rewards click-through volume. To get that click-through volume, people pull dumb stunts to gain instant attention and release quasi-musical output with seductive visual content. The music is suffering because there's no money for bands and the money that does exist out there isn't wielded by savvy tastemakers.
Now that Dave Grohl has become Foo Fighters (The Celebrity Formerly Known as Nirvana Drummer), he can ham it up and watch the Benjys roll in. Problem is, the Punk and Indie rock world that used to be a healthy margin for vital touring bands has dried up because there's no way to stay on the road playing clubs for a real band. You either need to get BLOWN UP the size of Dave Grohl's Wembley Ego or you get lost in the shuffle of digital detritus. The only way any quality band today stands a chance is if they have a massive marketing budget and a SAG card. The club circuit doesn't allow bands to get on the road, get established, maintain and move forward. The business model is broken. Artists always get the raw end of the deal–just like Kurt Cobain did. Technologists are skimming 7- to 10-figure profits off ads, venture capital and other revenue streams pumped in generously, but the people who actually create the value–artists and musicians–are forced to act like beggars at the banquet, entering through the side door and getting scraps as the house is foreclosed or the rent goes unpaid. Guys like Dave Grohl just don't get it.
Someone poached one of Zach's Two Ferns.
Horrible line-up. Why would anyone want to watch?
This is probably a bargaining ploy to generate publicity for Swift and whatever platform her label has an exclusive agreement with. I wish someone with the pop clout that Swift does cared enough about the medium of audio recording and distribution to assure that artists in general benefit from emergent business models. But, like U2 and Thom Yorke, she's probably only looking out for herself, a big payout and some hype.
Sanitized Mega Biz pop stars do quite well in a monopoly economy with .001 cents per play. The people who suffer in this bogus new music model are real musicians making interesting and challenging music. This type of band/musician can no longer afford to press LPs because there's no capital upfront for them to do so. You're displaying a great amount of ignorance related to the devaluation of digital content and creation.
Bizarre. I like CSN&Y, but to be honest they're just a live performance franchise at this point. They haven't made music together in a very long time. Given David Crosby's checkered past, it's somewhat surprising he's taking that sort of false high ground approach. Neil and Pegi Young's marriage and divorce is their own business.


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