10 most popular Internet videos

It is Off-Top again, nevertheless I believe it's quite interesting.

The most popular Internet video is a video of Canadian schoolboy Ghislain Raza who feigns that he is fighting with the Star Wars laser sward. Two-minutes’ clip became the most popular video in the whole Internet history: the users watched this movie 900 million times. Such data were presented by Viral Factory Company which makes marketing surveys in the field of video and places the most popular ones in accordance with the number of hits.

The second place is given to the movie of 19-year-old teen with the dull nick Numa Numa. He made a video in which he moves with his lips to the accompaniment of Romanian pop-song. By now this clip has been watched 700 million times.

TOP-3 is ended by the clip “X One Night In Paris” with the participation of well-known Paris Hilton, on its account there are 400 million demonstrations.

The fourth place belongs to Kylie Minogue in Agent Provocateur underthings spicy TV-ad (360 million demonstrations). On the fifth position there’s a movie of the explosing whale, news program fragment of the 70s years. There is showed the whales’s body which was beached and detonated with dynamite. This video was watched 350 million times.

The rest of the top-10 is cited below.

1. "Star Guy" - 900 million demonstrations

2. Numa Numa - 700 million demonstrations

3. "One Night In Paris" - 400 million demonstrations

4. Kylie Minogue in Agent Provocateur underthings TV-ad - 360 million demonstrations

5. Detonating Whale - 350 million demonstrations

6. John West Salmon Bear Fight (300m) - 300 million demonstrations

7. Trojan Plays - 300 million demonstrations

8. Kolla2001 - 200 million demonstrations

9. AfroNinja - 80 million demonstrations

10. The Shining Redux - 50 million demonstrations

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'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders

Eweek.com reports that the recent surge in e-mail spam hawking penny stocks and penis enlargement pills is the handiwork of Russian hackers running a botnet powered by tens of thousands of hijacked computers.

Internet security researchers and law enforcement authorities have traced the operation to a well-organized hacking gang controlling a 70,000-strong peer-to-peer botnet seeded with the SpamThru Trojan.

According to Joe Stewart, senior security researcher at SecureWorks, in Atlanta, the gang functions with a level of sophistication rarely seen in the hacking underworld.

For starters, the Trojan comes with its own anti-virus scanner—a pirated copy of Kaspersky's security software—that removes competing malware files from the hijacked machine. Once a Windows machine is infected, it becomes a peer in a peer-to-peer botnet controlled by a central server. If the control server is disabled by botnet hunters, the spammer simply has to control a single peer to retain control of all the bots and send instructions on the location of a new control server.

The bots are segmented into different server ports, determined by the variant of the Trojan installed, and further segmented into peer groups of no more than 512 bots. This allows the hackers to keep the overhead involved in exchanging information about other peers to a minimum, Stewart explained.

Click here to read more about a malicious Trojan that comes with its own anti-virus scanner.

Stewart, a reverse engineering expert with expertise in deconstructing malware samples, gained access to files from a SpamThru control server and found evidence that the attackers are meticulous about keeping statistics on bot infections around the world.

For example, the SpamThru controller keeps statistics on the country of origin of all bots in the botnet. In all, computers in 166 countries are part of the botnet, with the United States accounting for more than half of the infections.

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The botnet stats tracker even logs the version of Windows the infected client is running, down to the service pack level. One chart commandeered by Stewart showed that Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2) machines dominate the makeup of the botnet, a clear sign that the latest version of Microsoft's operating system is falling prey to attacks.

Another sign of the complexity of the operation, Stewart found, was a database hacking component that signaled the ability of the spammers to target its pump-and-dump scams to victims most likely to be associated with stock trading.

Stewart said about 20 small investment and financial news sites have been breached for the express purpose of downloading user databases with e-mail addresses matched to names and other site registration data. On the bot herder's control server, Stewart found a MySQL database dump of e-mail addresses associated with an online shop.

"They're breaking into sites that are somewhat related to the stock market and stealing e-mail address from those databases. The thinking is, if they get an e-mail address for someone reading stock market and investment news, that's a perfect target for these penny stock scams," Stewart said in an interview with eWEEK.

The Greenhouse Effect: Everybody Will Be Guzzled

Well, well, well... If it goes on longer there will be nothing to write in this blog about soon as no Russians will survive: they'll be gobbled.

How come the global warming alarmists never warned us about the bears? Russian media reports that "insomniac bears" are freaking the crap out of people in Siberia as the weather is still too warm for them to hibernate. Apparently there are still flowers and buds on the trees of the Kemerovo region of Russia, which is usually covered in snow and ice by November ... and bears continue to roam the countryside looking for food and sometimes atacking people as "insomniac" or "con-rod" bears are the most dangerous and agressive ones.

Some more information:

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Off-Top (Sorry, but I Couldn't Pass by)

Innovation Lab located in Denmark reported about the creation of the first concrete display. The innovation world demonstration occurred on November 17 in Copenhagen IT-University (IT-Universitetet i Kobenhavn).

The new screen is made of gauzy concrete – a material saturated with optical fibres which play the role of pixels: they conduct natural light as well as the artificial one. The source of light may be, for example, a projector placed behind the screen.

You can see working display yourself on YouTube.

The developers claim their screen “makes the way to the new world of unexampled possibilities” and it is “a new conception to change the building branch, architecture, design and plenty of other fields”.

Except this, Innovation Lab says that interested companies stood in queue before the end of a production process.

Strictly, the Danish concrete screen is not the first one in the world: in March of the current year British scientists created a computer-driven concrete-chameleon which also can be used as a monitor though not luminous.

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Russian AdSense Most Expensive Keywords

According to Russian Business Consulting, Russian most famous advertising agency “Begun” published the august rating of its most expensive context advertising keywords. It is cited below.

Don’t be surprised and don’t forget "expensive keyword" (high CPC) isn't equal to "profitable keyword" (high earnings) due to the low volume of traffic expensive (niche) keywords produce.

1 patients transporting – $9.63

2 monitor repair – $9.35

3 loader – $9.15

4 laser therapy equipment – $9.01

5 information recovery – $8.84

6 stacker – $8.53

7 diesel generator – $8.5

8 autoloader – $8.41

9 equipment repair – $8.11

10 gas electric power station – 8.07

11 work permit – 8.03

12 metal ware production – 7.98

13 electric power station – 7.78

14 furniture transportation – 7.75

15 remittance office – 7.49

16 office cleaning – 7.32

17 firm liquidation – 7.14

18 pay terminal – 7.05

19 wooden windows – $6.91

20 pay automat – 6.90

21 Rainbow vacuum cleaner – $6.64

22 flowers delivery – $6.58

23 notebook repair – $6.32

24 juridical accompaniment – $6.02

25 Internet advertisement – $5.84

Let's have a look at the top 25 most expensive Google AdSense keywords for the same period (based on www.freealerts.org).

1 selling structured settlements – $64.81

2 cash for structured settlements – $63.87

3 auto insurance quotes florida – $62.57

4 california auto insurance quotes – $57.34

5 auto insurance quotes California – $57.01

6 student loan consolidation interest rate – $56.86

7 lendingtree .com – $56.35

8 consolidate loan refinance student – $55.86

9 audio conference calling – $55.32

10 arizona divorce attorneys – $53.56

11 dui attorney los angeles – $52.75

12 business conference calls – $52.41

13 personal injury attorneys Chicago – $51.59

14 mesothelioma treatment options – $51.31

15 copper repiping – $50.94

16 conference calling services – $49.65

17 houston criminal lawyer – $49.59

18 criminal houston lawyer $ – 49.59

19 corporate conference calls – $49.35

20 sell annuity settlement – $49.11

21 student loan consolidation rates – $48.80

22irs tax attorney – $48.78

23 california criminal defense lawyers – $48.38

24 universal life insurance quote – $48.34

25 san diego criminal lawyer – $48.30

Well, according to the lists above whose economy is more advanced?;-) Make the conclusions. Such a business!

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An Appeal to George Bush: the Scandal Video of Russian State Duma Vice-Speaker’s

The video is dedicated to the military preparations for American intervention into Iraq. It is quite old – it was made in Bagdad in September of 2002. However it had a great social response in Russia and in fact wasn’t noticed in the USA.

In 2002, in time of his visit to Iraq, Russian Duma’s vice-speaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of Duma liberal-democrats and one of the most odious Russian politics gave the interview to Russian TV-channels “Moskovia” and TVS. Zhirinovsky in his informal and unofficial appeal to George Bush addressed critics to the American President and his government. Zhirinovsky’s speech wasn’t noted for any political correctness but was full of unconcealed threats and obscene expressions in Bush’s and his administration’s address.

Of course, this material couldn’t be put on the air but it was located into the WWW a few months later.

Download video from www.compromat.ru

Once a very few representatives of English-speaking audience can understand Russian I’m citing the contents of Zhirinovsky’s speech from www.compromat.ru in English missing numerous obscene interjections (they don’t represent any interest) but keeping the rest (semantic) part of the original speech.

“Don’t joke with the war. Here’re other guys. It’s not Germany, it’s not Afghanistan. George, they’ll tear in peaces your soldiers. 250 000 picked Iraq soldiers! They’ll smash you. They’ll go through the whole desert for an hour! They’ll blow up all your torpedo-boat destroyers, all your journalists, diplomats. George, you’re a cowboy. Stop, you, end it, hide your ammunition to the dump as far as you can and forget about your dad. We had one bustard, he revenged for his brother and the Great Russian Empire crashed (Zhirinovsky means Lenin, whose brother was put to death by the tsar government. – Dustman). And there was another cranck – he revenged for his grandpa and the Soviet Union crashed (It’s about Mikhail Gorbachyov. – Dustman). And you will repeat the same mistake. Forget your dad, dad’s done his work. Think of the future of America! It will go down! Your youth runs away from your country. Nobody wants to live in America, nobody! It’s the second-hand market. Dollar, dollar, dollar… This dirty green piece of paper! You’ve no soul, no music, no writers, shit! The whole world listens to Tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky, shit. Festivals, sport – in Russia only… And here, in Iraq. Here they love president and despise you, despise.
Your predecessor Clinton – they’ve got into his fly on his workplace exactly. It is already the full bull shit! She sucked in the office of the State Head. Is it America? What are you doing?! Monica, shit! What the fucking president? What the Middle East? Fucking suckers, masturbators, sods!

George, George! Watch some westerns! So many corpses, so much blood! There are killed, here are killed! I tell you here: look at this sky, shit, Bagdad! Bagdad is Berlin! It’s Kabul! You will never reach the victory as we know this people, we know this president. He is the only one on the planet to fuck you. The only one! All the others fawn upon you. They lined up for bowing to you. Here they’ve been standing up to you, and you can do nothing with your powerful fucking economy, with your million strong army, with the fleet, with rockets.

You’re bombing this land every day, you’re killing children and Iraq soldiers are sitting ready to fight. You are afraid to direct your soldiers here. And you were afraid some years earlier. But an apple doesn’t fall far from the apple-tree. You will never win. It is your last defeat. Napoleon played over Waterloo, Hitler played over Berlin battle. You will play over Bagdad. Bagdad is your grave. Caught, you, George, fucking cowboy? Back to Texas, to the rancho, go through your empty land and study Spanish. In New York they’ve been speaking Russian for years. We will direct to America 10 million Russians more and will elect our President. And you, George, will receive a good ward in Butirka prison. Understood, George?

And you will never be able to reach the victory. All Arabs of the world, all Moslems of the world, Eastern Europe, Moscow – everybody is against you. Moscow, Moscow doesn’t want this war to occur, and our President told it clearly, in Russian: “Take your hands away from Bagdad”. That’s better to fuck Tbilisi together. Baku, other cities. So much earth. Do you want us to put Australia to the bottom of the ocean? Should we show you our rocket? We’ve got so much weapon…

In the night our scientists will change the terrestrial gravitational field and your country will go down in the water. 24 hours and the whole your country will be under the water of Atlantic Pacific Ocean. Who are you joking with? Think over! Did you understand what Bonaparte had finished with, what Hitler had finished with, all others? You’ll make the historical mistake! Your dad won’t thank you. Forget him, your dad. Your generals tell you not to begin the war. It’s still not late! It’s only July, 21 of 1941.”

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What Do Russians Really Think of the USA?

Some fresh sociological data. It’s for a start.

In September of the current year The Analitical center of Jury Levada (Russian Federation) published the results of Gallup poll, which was conducted in parallel with the survey of WorldPublicOpinion.org and Knowledge Networks Company. Here is cited «Russian» part of the poll as I believe American opinions of RF are clearer to the world.

For the most part Russians evaluate the US-foreign policy low. 61% of Russia inhabitants regard in general the USA have a negative impact on the world (25%, in the opposite, consider the American influence as a positive one). 74% of Russians believe that the usage of military forces or the threat of such forces application by the USA influence in a bad way on the world (an opposite point of view is supported by 22%). 56% of respondents are sure that the US foreign policy as applied to Russian Federation damaged Russia and its interests (22% think in a different way).

In their turn, Russian citizens tend to evaluate positively the actions of their motherland. 80% of respondents consider Russian impact to the geopolitical environment as wholesome. 65% support the contemporary strategy of military forces application or of their application threat.

The US political regime is estimated positively by 45% of Russians and 9% of respondents give the top-mark to it. Russian government provokes much stronger aversion. It is honoured with the top-mark of 5% only and with positive marks of 42%.

The analogous situation is observed in perception of economical systems of Russia and the USA. An American one seems more preferable. 27% of Russians evaluate it very high, good mark is given to it by a half of respondents. Russian economy has much worse rating. 3% of natives state the worst value of it, 28% think it’s good.

In their preferences for both Presidents – George Bush and Vladimir Putin – Russian citizens discover following opinions. Bush causes good feelings of 25%, Putin – of 84% of Russians. The American President repel 20% of Russian Federation’s inhabitants. Putin causes the same feelings of 2% only.

The poll’s authors also asked to estimate the level of the US and RF democracy (10 is a top mark, 0 is the lowest one). The first one received 6.66, the second one – 4.56.

Within the bounds of the present survey Russian respondents also uttered their opinions of China and Iran. Particularly, most of Russians (57%) think China has a constructive impact on the world (20% believe that it’s negative). But the interviewed people estimated the state of China democracy as quite low.

The poll shows that most Russians agree with the fact that Iran tries to make the nuclear weapons and 63% are alarmed with it. However just only 25% support the idea of economical restrictions application and overwhelming majority of respondents thinks diplomatic means are required for stopping Iran. And most of Russians (79%) dispute Iran nuclear objects bombing.

Well, how do you like it? Russian and American people have the common ground, don’t they?

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