Zinc...thanks. Cool album cover...

Hi Joe and friends!

I just wanted to share this information with everyone on the message board. Joe's new album artwork can be seen on: www.musictap.net

cuthbert1776

Yes - those 2 titles are similar - I would imagine 12 songs - maybe 1 or 2 longer ones (like Searching), a few faster, and then a few mid-tempo songs.

SupaaDave

mthead101

You are welcome, re: the link.

Hopefully others can find more cool links so we can ALL be in the loop.

Blue Moon Thanks for the help, I'll have to try the pedal out to see and hear the differences.

hey joe!!! o.k we all know you rock and the g3 dvds are super! lets get down to the next player for the next g3 tour. here is my personal favorites: 1st---eddie van halen 2nd----gary moore 3rd---ronnie letreko from tnt 4th-----nuno b. 5th-----neil s. (former journey axeman) 6th---vinne moore 7th----(steve vai better be there) 8th---vivian cambell (former dio axe) 9th----george lynch 10th----warren demartini 11th----jake e lee (he is out there somewhere) 12th----dweezil zappa (yes!) and finally------john norum.

what do you think joe?

Online, but out of sight: Anonymity gets more popular

Part One of Two

New York Times NEW YORK It may be easy to forget that there are people who want to remain anonymous on the Web while the online world is full of those who happily post pictures of themselves and their navels for all to see.

But interest in software that allows people to send e-mail messages that cannot be traced to their source or to maintain anonymous blogs has quietly increased over the last few years, say experts who monitor Internet security and privacy.

"People in the world are more interested in anonymity now than they were in the 1990s," when the popularity of the Internet first surged, said Chris Palmer, technology manager at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit group in San Francisco dedicated to protecting issues like free speech on the Web.

Increasingly, consumers appear to be downloading free anonymity software like Tor, which makes it harder to trace visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages and other communication forms back to their authors.

Sales are also up at companies like Anonymizer.com, which among other things sells software that protects anonymity.

"I get the feeling it's going up," said Roger Dingledine, Tor's project leader. "But one of the features I've been adding recently," he said, enhances anonymity protection by making it harder to count downloads of the software. Still, the number of servers forming layers in the Tor network has risen to 300 from 50 in the last year, Dingledine added.

A few reasons exist for the surge, which is hard to measure - it is nearly impossible to track how many people have made themselves invisible online. People who want to continue to swap music via the Internet but fear lawsuits brought by the recording industry want to hide their identity.

Some people wish to describe personal experiences that could land them in jail. And some Web authors share their thoughts about repressive regimes and face government reprisal if they are caught.

"The more equipment is acquired and produced by a repressive regime, the more important anonymity is," said Julien Pain, who heads the Internet freedom desk for Reporters Without Borders, an advocacy group that supports press freedom. The group has produced a guide, www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=542, for bloggers trying to protect their identities.

"We realized that bloggers were being arrested everywhere in the world," Pain said. One blogger in Nepal, for example, may risk arrest with every time he comments on the country's monarchy, he said.

"The problem is, you have on one side states with a lot of money," he said. "On the other side, you have small businesses" and nongovernmental organizations. Law enforcement or other government agencies have tremendous legal and technological resources to discover the identities and locations of people communicating online, though consumer software can make the task more difficult.

Despite the increased interest in anonymity, software companies have moved away from marketing products that protect identities, said Chris Jay Hoofnagle, senior counsel and director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center's office in San Francisco, a public research group that focuses on privacy and free speech issues.

"When I came into this field, it was on the heels of the failure of a number of companies that tried very hard to create privacy-enhancing technologies," Hoofnagle said.

Online, but out of sight: Anonymity gets more popular

Part Two

"The visibility and awareness of these issues goes much deeper into the general public than it did even five or six years ago," Fowler said.

Despite increased interest in anonymity and security, some providers of online anonymity protection have not been able to turn their products into successful businesses. People who want to communicate anonymously may not want anyone to know that they have obtained software to do so, and some of the available software is free, including the Java Anonymous Proxy, at anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html.

Tor, first financed by the U.S. Department of Defense, received support from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for a year, but the money has run out, and Dingledine is working on the project unpaid and is looking for sponsors.

Tor uses "onion routing," in which layers of servers separate computer users from the Web sites they visit to hide a user's location. The software is easily installed and operates in the background, simply adding icons in Windows.

To make sure it is working, users can visit a site like www.showmyip.com and verify that their Internet Protocol address has changed. If it has, the software is working. The software may slow browsing, because Web pages must be transmitted through various servers around the world to get to your computer.

Software bundled with Tor, called Privoxy, prevents your computer from automatically sending certain personal information to Web sites.

It does not block sites from finding existing cookies on the computer, so those sites will still know you are you (but not where you are because of Tor), but it does delete new cookies after rebooting.

Some companies that focused several years ago on anonymity now focus on security, and rather than trying to sell sophisticated software to consumers, they sell to Internet service providers like Verizon and EarthLink, who in turn can promise customers protection from spam and hacker attacks.

"Privacy is a concern, it just isn't mass market," said Hamnett Hill, president and chief executive of Radialpoint, a Montreal company that provides security services for Internet customers of BellSouth, Adelphia and other U.S. companies. "One of the big enlightenments that we had at a certain point is that people don't want to buy security software. They want peace of mind."

Radialpoint used to offer software to protect identity. The idea was not enough to carry the business, which is why the company no longer focuses on such products. Of course, there still are businesses that sell software that provides anonymity protection. For example, there is Anonymizer.com and GhostSurf, which is sold by Tenebril, at www.tenebril.com. And some companies sell services to protect privacy in a way that is only tangentially related to the Internet.

PrivateTel, for example, offers to provide temporary phone numbers for people who, say, post personal ads.

"The need to have a conversation and to complete the actual telephone call and remain anonymous is what is the driving force," said Dan Kaluzny, the company's chief executive.

Grandma's birth control pills

The doctor that had been seeing an 80-year-old woman for most of her life finally retired. At her next checkup, the new doctor told her to bring a list of all the medicines that had been prescribed for her.

As the young doctor was looking through the! se, his eyes grew wide as he realized she had a prescription for birth control pills.

"Mrs. Smith, do you realize these are BIRTH CONTROL pills? "Yes, they help me sleep at night"

"Mrs. Smith, I assure you there is absolutely NOTHING in these that could possibly help you sleep!"

She reached out and patted the young Doctor's knee.

"Yes, dear, I know that.! But every morning, I grind one up and mix it in the glass of orange juice that my 16 year old granddaughter drinks................................. And believe me, it helps me sleep at night."

Check this out if you want to see some pics of Joe and Jeff in the studio working on the new album...

http://www.vai.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=16218

Check out http://www.guitarworld.com/

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Joe will be on next month's cover!!

Can watch a mini movie - Joe is in it

cuthbert1776

Figured you would be interested in that article.

It was just a hunch.

mthead, yer welcome for the studio link...

SupaaDave, my link was for the studio pics...Zinc gave a link for the album cover and name....whaddya think of it?

Cuth, my guess is the 13 songs will be whittled down to 10 or 11 at most. I'm thinking 10...and I'm betting the crowd chant song is the one Joe was telling us in the chat about, that everyone will have to learn... :D

Zinc, thanks bunches for the link for the magazine cover, can't wait! I have to do the video at home though, no Quicktime at work >:( Lol....something to look forward to at the end of the work day!!

Guitarmeister, DT April 1st when they're filming for a DVD??? Lucky you!!! I'm sure you'll have a great time...my son and I are looking forward to seeing them in San Fran March 11th...it'll be our first time to see them live.... :)))

I feel it....excitement getting bigger and bigger every day towards the new album....Feb magazine cover for guitar tips....wanta bet another March or April Joe cover for some other guitar mag with the new cd release??? YEAH BAYBEE!!

cheese101

Joe is only on the first few minutes of the quicktime video - says a few words, begins his song, then it goes to another person.

If you go to this link

http://www.click2music.fi/finland/viikkarit/2006/vk03/vk03.htm