20th Century Fox gets bitten by belated Streisand Effect

Snapshot from Google Search found at Torrent Freak

Hat tip with a flourish to Lauren Weinstein’s tweet for alerting us all to the fact that Twentieth Century Fox Corporation has an image problem after sending yet another DMCA takedown notice to Google Inc. on 28 January 2011 demanding mention and links be removed from its search engine results:

Fox DMCA Takedowns Order Google to Remove Fox DMCA Takedowns : WTF

7 Mar 2011 ... Fox got itself into an endless loop. Stack overflow is imminent. This is what we are going to fight that DCMA shit with - recursion! ...
reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/fz2ko/

Fox tries to censor its own censorship - Gets caught in a ...

8 Mar 2011 ... Fox has been caught out trying to use the DCMA to prevent Google from telling the world about its DCMA take-down notices. ...
www.techeye.net/.../fox-tries-to-censor-its-own-censorship - United Kingdom

Fox DMCA Takedowns Order Google to Remove Fox DMCA Takedowns ...

7 Mar 2011 ... The Chilling Effects web archive was founded in 2001 as a response to the usually secretive practice of sending so-called 'takedown notices' ...
nivun.com/.../fox-dmca-takedowns-order-google-to-remove-fox-dmca-takedowns/

Fox DMCA Takedowns Demand Google to Remove Fox DMCA Takedowns ...

The DMCA complaint in question was sent by Fox to Google and contains dozens of links its anti-piracy division has culled from the web, allegedly linking to ...
www.torrent-invites.com

Fox DMCA Takedowns Demand Google to Remove Fox DMCA Takedowns

7 Mar 2011 ... The DMCA complaint in question was sent by Fox to Google and contains dozens of links its anti-piracy division has culled from the web, ...
gxiso.com/.../2358788-fox-dmca-takedowns-demand-google-remove-fox-dmca-takedowns.html

Fox DMCA Takedowns Order Google to Remove Fox DMCA Takedowns ...

7 Mar 2011 ... The DMCA complaint in question was sent by Fox to Google and contains dozens of links its anti-piracy division has culled from the web, ...
torrentfreak.com/fox-dmca-takedowns-demand-google-to-remove-fox-dmca-takedowns-110307/

Fox DMCA Takedowns Order Google to Remove Fox DMCA Takedowns

7 Mar 2011 ... The DMCA complaint in question was sent by Fox to Google and contains dozens of links its anti-piracy division has culled from the web, ...
www.libertyvoice.net/.../fox-dmca-takedowns-order-google-to-remove-fox-dmca-takedowns/

The Flashlight » Fox tries to censor its own censorship

8 hours ago - Fox has been caught out trying to use the DCMA to prevent Google from telling the world about its DCMA take-down notices. ...
theflashlight.podbean.com/2011/03/.../fox-tries-to-censor-its-own-censorship/

Fox tries to censor its own censorship HappyMan - Happy Making ...

6 hours ago - Fox has been caught out trying to use the DCMA to prevent Google from telling the world about its DCMA take-down notices. TechEye ...
www.happyman.com/2011/03/08/fox-tries-to-censor-its-own-censorship/

Fox tries to censor its own censorship News for Dallas, Texas ...

8 hours ago - Fox has been caught out trying to use the DCMA to prevent Google from telling the world about its DCMA take-down notices. For a while now Google has ...
topics.dallasnews.com/article/04XZckEeGkec6

Fox tries to censor its own censorship

7 hours ago - Fox tries to censor its own censorship. China National News Tuesday 8th March, 2011 (Source: TechEye). Google from telling the world about its DCMA ...
story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/.../id/43608793/

On 9 March 2011 Chilling Effects listed 414 complaint entries under Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.

'Street Cruise' Underage Dance Party at Yamba, 7-10pm Saturday 12 March 2011

Clarence Valley Street Cruise
is supported by funding under the
Australian Government
National Binge Drinking Initiiative

Saffin continues to help NSW North Coast bring home the regional development dollars

Media release Friday, 4 March 2011:

Saffin urges councils to fine tune community projects for RDA-NR

PAGE MP Janelle Saffin has urged local councils and organisations to start fine tuning community projects to maximise their chances of winning a share of the Australian Government’s $1.4-billion Regional Development Australia Fund.

Ms Saffin has welcomed Federal Minister for Regional Australia Simon Crean’s announcement that the Regional Development Australia Fund was open for business and was receiving applications for the first allocation of funding from July 1 this year.

Mr Crean yesterday in Canberra told Regional Development Australia-Northern Rivers (RDA-NR) Chair Ian Tiley that only applications that had the backing of his RDA committee would be considered in a competitive, merit-based assessment process.

Ms Saffin said this meant local councils and organisations needed to clearly demonstrate that projects would boost economic development, create local jobs and lift the quality of life in local communities across the Northern Rivers.

“Late last year, I put a number of priority projects before RDA-NR for serious consideration, and I know councils have been fine tuning these and other worthy projects to get them to the next level, she said.

Priority projects for Page included $9.7 million for major refurbishment of Lismore City Hall; $4.5 million towards Ballina Shire Council’s $8.5-million Pyrolysis Demonstration Project to produce renewable energy and biochar from green waste; $2.9 million for Kyogle Museum and Art Gallery, incorporating a library extension; $2.5 million for Queen Elizabeth Park Redevelopment, Casino; and $1.5 million to Treelands Drive Community Centre Extensions, Yamba.

Ms Saffin also has committed to working with Clarence Valley Council and State Member for Clarence Steve Cansdell to secure a skate park for young people in Iluka.

Guidelines for the Regional Development Australia Fund, to be allocated over five years, can be obtained by emailing regionalgrants@regional.gov.au with RDAF Interest in the subject line.

A total of $350 million of the Fund has been set aside for disaster relief in regional communities, assessed on the same criteria as the rest of the Fund.

Earth Hour, 8.30pm Saturday 26 March 2011 - will you be switched off?

From its debut in one city in one country in 2007 – Sydney, Australia – when 2.2 million individuals turned their lights off to take a stand against climate change, Earth Hour has become a truly global movement, embracing 128 countries and territories in 2010.

In four short years, Earth Hour has grown into the largest environmental campaign in history.

2011 marks a new phase for the initiative. The new campaign creative, 60+, will position Earth Hour 2011 as an hour of celebration where the community comes together and makes a pledge to do more to help the planet.

Sign up at earthhour.org.au

What political hypocrites!

What a week I picked to return home.

Today Tony Windsor decides that the Gillard Government made a mistake in announcing its plan to introduce a carbon price. "In a blunt warning to the Government, Mr Windsor accuses it of making strategic mistakes in the timing of the tax announcement, "putting the cart before the horse" because of "pressure from the Greens", and says a key reason Australians appear to have baulked at the plan is because it is too vague." Hello? Isn’t Saint Tony on the multi-party committee which recommended a carbon price mechanism to the government, didn’t he agree to the announcement of same ("Mr Tony Windsor and Mr Robert Oakeshott, have agreed that the proposal should be released for community consultation"), attend the joint press conference and the next day release his own media blurb in support of this announcement? As today’s prime example of political hypocrisy this about face takes some beating.

Yesterday Pauline Hanson was sprung registering as an Upper House independent candidate on a group ticket in the March 2011 NSW state election. Aw, the luvvie of the far-right must be running out of pin money and needs to top up the bank account. After all this has worked for her in the past – 3 weeks minimum campaigning and maximum reimbursement as an unsuccessful candidate to the tune of $150,000. This latest tilt at campaigning (which sees Hanson change both her mind on “goodbye forever” and the state in which she lives) garners her the title of über political hypocrite also.

On the importance of opinion polls

The Australian 7 March 2011

Click on image to enlarge

Something the media works hard to make us forget about most opinion polls………

@wolfcat Wolf Cocklin

One thing to remember about the polls there is not an election next week.. so they don't actually matter.

Feeling unwell? Take two aspirin and stay away from NSW hospitals

While bureaucrats are happily busy preparing to collate personal health information (supplied to them by everyone from doctors through to chemists and optometrists) in order to satisfy Federal Health Minister Roxon’s unnatural desire for a great big database on Australian citizens, this is one of the computer systems from which this data will be drawn. It is said to be installed in 59 hospitals having an estimated 80 per cent of all NSW public hospital beds.

The Sydney Morning Herald 7 March 2011:

THE computer system that runs emergency departments in NSW hospitals is compromising patients' care, according to the first systematic review of the troubled project that found it was crippled by design flaws.

The FirstNet system allows treatment details and test results to be assigned inadvertently to the wrong patient, according to the review. It is based on a technical study of the software and interviews with directors of seven Sydney emergency departments.

The system is so compromised it should be scrapped, a specialist doctors' group said yesterday.

Difficulties retrieving patient records could delay treatment, and the system - on which $115 million has been spent - automatically cancelled pathology and radiology requests if the person was transferred from the emergency department without checking whether these were still needed, according to the study by Jon Patrick, the director of the University of Sydney's health information technology research laboratory.

Sally McCarthy, the president of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, said Professor Patrick's findings confirmed that the system, loathed by doctors and nurses, was unsuitable for its purpose.........

The project, part of a 10-year electronic medical records plan intended to make patient histories, X-rays and test results accessible from any hospital in the state, had proceeded too fast - apparently because of contractual obligations - for clinicians' feedback to influence it, Dr McCarthy said.

The potential for records to be linked to the wrong patient raised a serious risk they would be given incorrect treatment, she said, and the inability to compile multiple patient records into reports meant doctors could no longer evaluate new treatments or disease epidemics. "Simple audits and research projects are just impossible now," she said.

Really inspires confidence doesn’t it?

These difficulties are not confined to large metropolitan areas as this 2010 quote from the North Coast Area Health Service indicates:

In response to the difficulties our small sites experienced in using FirstNet, NCAHS continues to work with HSS to develop a FirstNet work flow for small rural sites.

Little appears to have changed since the 2009 implementation of this e-health software on the NSW North Coast.

If the reader happens to live in communities covered by the Hunter Urban Division of General Practice this sick software system is probably informing e-discharge summaries etc. forming part of the data collection trial run currently underway in the Newcastle and Hunter Valley region.

Building on these shifting sands, on 1 March 2011 Roxon’s baby, the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA), awarded IBM a $23.6M dollar contract to develop nation-wide authentication system for electronic health records.