Jail Times....

An Email I put out:

Who received the longest jail term.

A) The man who committed DUI manslaughter.
B) The man who funded an illegal dog fighting ring.
C) The man who fixed NBA games for the mob.
D) The man who committed Felony assault while beating the crap out his girlfriend .
E) The man who stole a bike.



Answer: E

A) Donte Stallworth - NFL Receiver - (from wiki) Stallworth was charged with DUI and second degree manslaughter on April 1, 2009; he surrendered to police on April 2, 2009 and was released on $200,000 bail.[10] He pleaded guilty, and received a sentence of 30 days in jail, plus 1,000 hours of community service, 2 years of house arrest, and 8 years probation.[11] He has also received a life-time suspension of his driver's license.[12]

The Associated Press reported on June 16, 2009, that Stallworth and the Reyes family reached a financial agreement, avoiding a civil lawsuit. The amount of the settlement was not disclosed.

B) Michael Vick - NFL Quarterback - (from wiki) On December 10, Vick appeared in U.S. District Court in Richmond for sentencing. Judge Hudson said he was "convinced that it was not a momentary lack of judgment" on Vick's part, and that Vick was a "full partner" in the dog fighting ring, and he was sentenced to serve 23 months in federal prison.[50] Hudson also noted that, despite Vick's claims that he accepted responsibility for his actions, his failure to cooperate fully with Federal officials coupled with a failed drug test and a failed polygraph showed that Vick had not accepted full responsibility for "promoting, funding and facilitating this cruel and inhumane sporting activity" .... BUT: State charges: n late November, 2008 Vick was transported to Virginia to face the state charges.[57] On November 25, he appeared before the Surry County Circuit Court at a session held in neighboring Sussex County (because the Surry court building was undergoing renovation). He submitted a guilty plea to a single Virginia felony charge for dog fighting, receiving a 3 year prison sentence, imposition of which was suspended upon condition of good behavior, and $2500 fine. In return for the plea agreement, the other charge was dropped.

C) Tim Donaghy - NBA Ref - (from wiki): On July 29, 2008, Donaghy was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court to 15 months (he had faced 33 months, but Judge Carol Amon gave him credit for his cooperation) in prison for setting off the gambling scandal that tarnished the league's reputation and raised questions about the integrity of its officiating. His lawyer, John Lauro, had asked Judge Amon for probation.

D)Chris Brown - Singer- (AP) Brown will be sentenced on Aug. 5, but the terms of the plea deal call for him to serve five years of formal probation and six months - roughly 1,400 hours - of community labor. Brown will be able to complete his probation in his home state of Virginia; he will have to do either graffiti removal or roadside cleanup for his service.

E) Lee Monroe Crider - Thief - (from espn.com) One of the two men involved in the 2008 theft of a rare Lance Armstrong bike will be sentenced to a three-year prison term next week. Lee Monroe Crider, 40, pleaded no contest June 1 to second-degree burglary and grand theft, the Sacramento Bee reported on its Web site, citing court documents. Crider is scheduled to return to court next Monday for sentencing, the Bee reported.

Corporate Parenting

So if Corporate(RIAA/MPAA) is a Parent and Consumer the child, Corporate didn't practice some basic parenting skills. Starting with Napster, consumers were not behaving.. They slapped consumer, and said no and took Napster away. New ways were found to not behave by the consumer, again, heavy handed parenting took place with law suits and threats. This leads to contempt and other issues with the consumer/child. The parenting skill is this, when a child is doing something wrong, you let them know, and then offer an alternative activity to replace the original. The RIAA/MPAA as soon as Napster hit the internet should have been looking for the alternative activity, instead they used heavy handed tactics. Now it will take many years of therapy to bring the consumer/corporate relationship back to a decent working level.

A Great Roast of George Takei

Paul "Fitzy" Fitzgerald roasts George Takei with info he finds on the internet.

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I love Advertising....

What a tease... I see these because I am single on MySpace... but at least put a real girl on the ad..



She is a former adult model, now a married born again Christian. If only...

Almost makes me want to join the WoW Crowd..

Check out this amazing intro cinematic to the new World of Warcraft game. When does the movie come out?

Vigilante DoS.

Okay, more techy stuff here. I try to listen to Leo Laportes "This Week in Tech" Net(pod)cast at work every Monday. Sometimes with work things get behind and I don't have a chance to listen to it all on one day. I apparently missed this on Digg also but read this very well put explination to Revision3 going down.

http://revision3.com/blog/2008/05/29/inside-the-attack-that-crippled-revision3

I understand that there are copyright laws out there to protect the creative property of its creator or holder (as many copyrights are held by a company and not the artist). This allows them to sell, distribute and ultimately make money off of the creative property.

Napster, Bearshare, and Limewire type peer to peer offerings put a huge scare into the companies and their watchdog associations as people started distributing music over the internet. These programs and their respective developers have all faced highly publicised legal issues with the RIAA.

Now there is BitTorrent. Basically next generation peer to peer format to distribute very large amounts of data, with out the releasing party to burn up expensive bandwidth.

MediaDefender does something that I would do if I were a media company. Put out false torrents to limit the loss. But the turning around and sending a DoS attack on Revision3's system is wrong! If it had been Joe Computer Geek in some dorm room or the basement of his mother's home then he would have already been arrested! Is it because Media Defender has the backing of the heavy lobbying RIAA and MPAA as their clients that the feds are seizing all equipment from them? The FBI is looking into it, but DoS attacks have already been deemed illegal!

They say it was an accident, but also say that they fully use DoS attacks on other open trackers! They are admitting to breaking the LAW! Why are they even in business still?!?!?!?!?!? Okay the BitTorrent tracker has tracks to illegal copyrighted material, but to send a DoS is vigilante justice. Even though I catch a someone running out of my house with my laptop, I can't beat him to a pulp to the point he can't walk. I can make chase and try to get the laptop back, maybe even tackle and hold the guy down until the cops get there, but I can't beat him up. And there is no self defense here either.

I will be trying to follow this as much as possible as this has gotten on my nerves. The media has made BitTorrent and Peer-to-Peer = Illegal. There is illegal activity going on, sure, but illegal activity happens all the time utilizing a normally legal outlets.

Creep... How fitting!

Been a fan of the man in purple for a long while. Like his music and songs.. He covered Radiohead's Creep at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., which is pretty cool. But today I digg up this tidbit regarding how the Purple Princess Himself had YouTube take down postings of the performance due to copyright infringement. Who owns the copyright?? The writer of the song or the performer? Did he pay his performance fee to Radiohead for performing the song? Anyways here it is. Little shaky camera work but hey you get bumped around at a concert!

Creep live @ Coachella 2008
by fonkdoc

So who is the creep now?

Cheers...