Strangely Perfect

Copyright Theft Introduction There are a heap of websites which try and get round international copyright legislation by acting as “pointers” to copyright material, while not actually holding any on their servers.  Pirate  Bay, …and the rest.  Over the last year or two, a heap of copycat sites have sprung up that act as pointers [...]

There’s now an official UK Pirate Party. It’s founded on the guiding principles that all art & creativity should be free for people sat in their bedrooms and that those people in the bedrooms should have absolute privacy! True. They want the Swedish model of the convicted file-sharers in the UK.  Also, they want Google [...]

Yay.  I’ve spotted another batch of file-sharing websites recently.  Like the cash-cop-out neep-heeds at Pirate Bay (see news item “Cash for Pirate Bay file-sharers” on their cash sell-out – ha,ha, so much for freedom of speech; the real motive has now panned out), these sites don’t host files, they just tell people where to go, [...]

Sex and Death, Death Sex, Death and Sex, AND the Death of Democracy. I’m yet again struck by the rampant hypocrisy from America.  It’s citizens seem to think that everyone in the world has to follow their peculiar mores and morals to the letter, conveniently forgetting that they won’t abide by their own rules written [...]

I’ve Been Pinged from My Own Unknown Sub-Domains! One day I’ll figure how this http protocol and the rest work…. Last night I had some hits looking for a feed and the domain root from http://forum.strangelyperfect.tv/board/ Now this doesn’t exist!  So I got pinged by myself from something that doesn’t exist! In fact I haven’t [...]

It’s funny how things change and how the world has different perceptions of a people.  You see, people have long memories. Somali Pirates Vow Revenge on U.S., France on Rescues – is the news currently.  Also, the Somalis have taken pot-shots at a US politician in Mogadishu according to Voice of America. This all flies [...]

In an amazingly co-incidental follow up to my earlier post, Not all Pirates Win, but Most Do!,  on the very same day news was just being released that some Royal Navy ships had their NavyStar (N*) computers compromised by a virus originating from “the former eastern bloc”. Token News Links: Royal Navy warships lose email [...]

Two news items this week display the different fortunes of different sorts of pirate. First we have a Pirate ‘washes ashore with cash’ from Monday when the Somali pirates en route home from collecting their ransom for the Sirius Star super-tanker capsized.  Most swam ashore without the loot, one kept the loot and drowned – [...]

This is not a rant comparing the US military against others for effectiveness.  It’s purely my observation of events and appearances surrounding the current (10 years!) piracy problem on the high seas. This is the homepage of the US 5th Fleet above. All clean and big and modern and powerful and heroic (Take My Breath [...]

Admiral Mark Fitzgerald told the BBC that  Somali pirates ‘hard to defeat’.  So even though NATO want to install missiles all over Europe to counter a mythical threat, and even though they have highly advanced RADAR, monitoring and communication systems, they still can’t manage to do what the Royal Navy did very effectively 200 years ago [...]

In another twist in the constantly churning world of the “Credit Crunch”, it was revealed on Sunday that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has NO FAITH in the banking system!  Yes.  It’s true. Apparently, as revealed in Sunday’s Le Journal du Dimanche, his bank account was hacked by cyber-criminals and “only a small amount of money” [...]

In an interesting twist to the news today, both the UK military, the US military, the Russian military and the Ukrainian military have shown themselves to be totally useless! The UK have had RAF personnel files stolen from a high security base in Gloucestershire!  Personnel records stolen from MoD In the current climate, this is [...]

“NOD32 has pulled out another nasty from an email that arrived today on one of my spam honeypot addresses.  Unlike last time, this time the identical (to me) message contains a Worm instead of a Trojan as an attachment.  NOD32 identifies it as an exe file inside a zip file called “a variant of Win32/Nuwar [...]

I had an “interesting” bit of crap email this morning.  I’m not sure that thieving threatening bastard email counts as “spam”, so I’ll continue to call it crap. Basically, it’s a poorly spelled email that threatens me to stop downloading illegally copied copyright material from the web or else their “organisation”, ICS, will get me [...]