http://qbit.cc Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:11:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://qbit.cc/google-censoring-bittorrent-other-search-terms/ http://qbit.cc/google-censoring-bittorrent-other-search-terms/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:12:12 +0000 qbit http://qbit.cc/?p=3527 To Google and shadow government homeland security types who are probably doing a lot of arm-twisting in the form threats and payoffs, I have a message for you… There are a lot of legitimate uses for BitTorrent other than piracy. It can be used to share ANY data.  You are attempting to restrict access to [...]]]> http://qbit.cc/google-censoring-bittorrent-other-search-terms/feed/ 1 http://qbit.cc/alex-jones-removed-from-google-news-since-november-youtube-channel-may-be-deleted/ http://qbit.cc/alex-jones-removed-from-google-news-since-november-youtube-channel-may-be-deleted/#comments Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:50:46 +0000 qbit http://qbit.cc/?p=3308 After “they” flushed the video of Donald Rumsfeld saying “missile hit the pentagon” down a memory hole (I swear I’ve seen it with my own eyes… once), I started saving videos- usually FLV or Mp4 files from my browser cache.  If YouTube wants to censor videos selectively for political gain, I have a few TB/month [...]]]> http://qbit.cc/alex-jones-removed-from-google-news-since-november-youtube-channel-may-be-deleted/feed/ 0 http://qbit.cc/forces-of-good-repurpose-google-trends/ http://qbit.cc/forces-of-good-repurpose-google-trends/#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:06:30 +0000 qbit http://qbit.cc/?p=3198 ]]> http://qbit.cc/forces-of-good-repurpose-google-trends/feed/ 0 http://qbit.cc/cia-money-behind-wi-fi-positioning-system-wps/ http://qbit.cc/cia-money-behind-wi-fi-positioning-system-wps/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:10:55 +0000 qbit http://qbit.cc/?p=2788 How amazing would it be if you could walk into a fast food restaurant and order that mid-morning bacon taco meal with Mountain Dew Big Gulp from your mobile device?  Just imagine… as you approach the restaurant, a menu pops up on your screen, the phone makes suggestions and helps you super-size your order, before [...]]]> http://qbit.cc/cia-money-behind-wi-fi-positioning-system-wps/feed/ 0 http://qbit.cc/wayne-madsen-wikileaks-is-a-cia-front/ http://qbit.cc/wayne-madsen-wikileaks-is-a-cia-front/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:34:34 +0000 qbit http://qbit.cc/?p=2502 ...on Wikileaks advisory board is Ben Laurie, a one-time programmer and Internet security expert for Google, which recently signed a cooperative agreement with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and has been charged by China with being part of a U.S. cyber-espionage campaign against China. ]]> http://qbit.cc/wayne-madsen-wikileaks-is-a-cia-front/feed/ 0 http://qbit.cc/map-of-government-takedown-requests-issued-to-google-youtube/ http://qbit.cc/map-of-government-takedown-requests-issued-to-google-youtube/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:59:23 +0000 qbit http://qbit.cc/?p=1681 Google has created a map page indicating the number of takedown requests received from various countries around the world. It's a positive step toward transparency but now if we could just have a description of what was taken down... like the BBC video reporting the collapse of WTC7 20 minutes early. Trying to keep that little gem from going viral proved futile. They were taking videos down as fast as they could be uploaded and finally gave up.]]> http://qbit.cc/map-of-government-takedown-requests-issued-to-google-youtube/feed/ 0 http://qbit.cc/three-google-employees-convicted-in-italian-court-for-user-uploaded-content/ http://qbit.cc/three-google-employees-convicted-in-italian-court-for-user-uploaded-content/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:53:53 +0000 qbit http://qbit.cc/?p=1431 In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then uploaded a video to Google Video that showed them bullying an autistic schoolmate. The video was totally reprehensible and we took it down within hours of being notified by the Italian police. We also worked with the local police to help identify the person responsible for uploading it and she was subsequently sentenced to 10 months community service by a court in Turin, as were several other classmates who were also involved. In these rare but unpleasant cases, that's where our involvement would normally end.]]> http://qbit.cc/three-google-employees-convicted-in-italian-court-for-user-uploaded-content/feed/ 0