Gucci Mane Teams With Young Thug for 'Heart Attack'

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Even though Gucci Mane has been locked up since last year, he’s still serving his fans new music. His latest product to hit the streets is the Young Thug-assisted song ‘Heart Attack,’ produced by Zaytoven.

Thugger does the singing while Gucci handles the rap verses and uses pretty solid wordplay. “Lamborghini with the doors up, pull up and she chose up / Froze up so she chose us / Better ask these hoes, they know us / She watching me like a movie, Gucci Mane got his numbers up,” he raps.

Young Thug starts the song and uses his signature whiny flow to describe a certain female. “She don’t remember that designer on her, I don’t remember how many times I boned her / And she the bomb like Lotus Flower on her, I ain’t snitchin’ but I told her I really wanna change to a pimp,” he sings.

‘Heart Attack’ will be on Gucci’s ‘Brick Factory 3' album. The rapper will be released from prison in 2016.

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Gadgetwise: A Scale That Measures Your Heart

The Quantified Self movement, which advocates measuring and tracking physiological data, has a new tool. A Withings scale not only measures your weight when you stand on it, but also your heart rate, and it sends the findings to a personal Web page and your phone.

The scale, the Withings WS-50 Smart Body Analyzer, connects by Bluetooth to Android and Apple phones through an app, as well as connecting to the Web by Wi-Fi to send your results to a Withings Web page called a dashboard. That allows you to track fluctuations over time.

The scale also calculates your body mass index. And it has a CO2 monitor, to give you indoor air quality. Elevated CO2 can raise your heart rate and affect sleep quality.

The data from your scale can be shared with other apps, and other devices can share with the Withings app. If you are using a BodyMedia monitor, your activity and sleep data can be linked to the Withings dashboard.

It connects with other devices as well, like Withings’s own blood pressure monitor and some popular apps like the exercise tracker RunKeeper.

If you don’t want to get all of those extra tracking devices, some of the data, like blood pressure, can be typed in manually. Withings doesn’t track your food intake, but will send its data to sites that do, like Daily Burn.

In a test, using the scale was a little complicated. For instance, when someone else stepped on it, the scale stopped recognizing me. It took quite a few steps to get reconnected. When reconnected, at first it wouldn’t record my heart rate (when it finally did, I was so exasperated my ticker rate was abnormally high). When it did read my heart rate again, at first it didn’t send it to the phone, and then later it did.

The Smart Body Analyzer is available online for $150.

After Cyberattack, Sven Olaf Kamphuis Is at Heart of Investigation

Mr. Kamphuis, who is actually Dutch, is at the heart of an international investigation into one of the biggest cyberattacks identified by authorities. He has not been charged with any crime and he denies direct involvement. But because of his outspoken position in a loose federation of hackers, authorities in the Netherlands and several other countries are examining what role he or the Internet companies he runs played in snarling traffic on the Web this week.

He describes himself in his own Web postings as an Internet freedom fighter, along the lines of Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, with political views that range from eccentric to offensive. His likes: German heavy metal music, “Beavis and Butt-head” and the campaign to legalize medicinal marijuana. His dislikes: Jews, Luddites and authority.

Dutch computer security experts and former associates describe Mr. Kamphuis as a loner with brilliant programming skills. He did not respond to various requests for interviews, but he has communicated with the public through his Facebook page, which includes photos of himself, a thin, angular man with close-cropped hair and dark, bushy eyebrows, often wearing a hoodie sweatshirt.

“He’s like a loose cannon,” said Erik Bais, the owner of A2B-Internet, an Internet service provider that used to work with Mr. Kamphuis’s company, but severed ties two years ago. “He has no regard for repercussions or collateral damage.”

Mr. Kamphuis’s current nemesis is Spamhaus, a group based in Geneva that fights Internet spam by publishing blacklists of alleged offenders. Clients of Spamhaus use the information to block annoying e-mails offering discount Viagra or financial windfalls. But Mr. Kamphuis and other critics call Spamhaus a censor that judges what is or isn’t spam. Spamhaus acted, he wrote, “without any court verdict, just by blackmail of suppliers and Jew lies.”

The spat that rocked the Internet escalated in mid-March when Spamhaus blacklisted two companies that Mr. Kamphuis runs, CB3ROB, an Internet service provider, and CyberBunker, a Web hosting service. Spamhaus contended that CyberBunker was a conduit for vast amounts of spam. CyberBunker says it accepts business from any site as long as it does not deal in “child porn nor anything related to terrorism.”

Mr. Kamphuis responded by soliciting support for a hackers’ campaign to snarl Spamhaus’s Internet operations. “Yo anons, we could use a little help in shutting down illegal slander and blackmail censorship project ‘spamhaus.org,’ which thinks it can dictate its views on what should and should not be on the Internet,” he wrote on Facebook on March 23.

Mr. Kamphuis later disavowed any direct role in the so-called distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack, which spilled over from Spamhaus to affect other sites. He took to Facebook to inform the world that the flood of Internet traffic that threatened to cripple parts of the Web emanated from Stophaus, an ad-hoc, amorphous group set up in January with the aim to thwart Spamhaus, a company it claims uses its “tiny business to attempt to control the Internet through underhanded extortion tactics.” Stophaus, which lists no contact or location for the group, claims to have members in the United States, Canada, Russia, Ukraine, China and Western Europe.

Mr. Kamphuis said Stophaus was not a front for him; he is merely acting as a spokesman.

Nonetheless, the authorities are curious. The Dutch national prosecutor’s office said on Thursday that it had opened an investigation. Wim de Bruin, a spokesman for the agency, which is based in Rotterdam, said prosecutors were first trying to determine whether the DDoS attacks had originated in the Netherlands. Authorities in Britain and several other European countries are also looking into the matter.

Mr. Kamphuis, who is believed to be about 35, is singled out because of his vocal role. “For the Dutch Internet community, it’s very clear that he has a big role in this, even if there isn’t 100 percent airtight proof that he is behind it,” said J. P. Velders, a security specialist at the University of Amsterdam. “He could not be not involved. How much is he involved — that is for law enforcement to figure out and to act upon.”

Greenhost, a Dutch Internet hosting service, said in a detailed blog post that it had found the digital fingerprints of CB3ROB when it examined the rogue traffic that had been directed at Spamhaus.

Mr. Kamphuis created CB3ROB in 1996 and helped set up CyberBunker in 1999. From 1999 to 2001, he worked on the help desk at a Dutch Internet service provider, XS4ALL, according to one senior manager at the company who declined to be named, citing company policy. One co-worker said Mr. Kamphuis was constantly being reprimanded for hacking into his employer’s computer system. He was known for eccentric behavior; during a company trip to Berlin, the former co-worker said, Mr. Kamphuis refused to travel with his colleagues and rode alone in a bus.

“Sven absolutely hates authority in any form,” this person said. “He was very smart. Too smart for customers, by the way. Oftentimes they couldn’t understand his technobabble when he tried to help them.”

After leaving XS4ALL, he continued to run his Web hosting business, which was based for a time in a former army bunker in Goes, the Netherlands. Photos on Mr. Kamphuis’s Facebook page show him holding a flag in front of the bunker, like a freedom fighter defending his redoubt.

CyberBunker still lists its address as the bunker. But Joost Verboom, a Dutch businessman, says the address is occupied by his own company, BunkerInfra Datacenters, which is building a subterranean Web hosting center at the site. Mr. Verboom said CyberBunker and Mr. Kamphuis left the site a decade ago. It is not clear where the servers of CyberBunker and CB3ROB are now.

Associates say Mr. Kamphuis moved to Berlin in about 2006, and his Facebook page displays photos indicating his interest in the Pirate Party, a small political movement focusing on Internet issues that holds some opposition seats in Berlin’s city-state government assembly, and in the Chaos Computer Club, a group that discusses computer issues.

For a time, CyberBunker’s clients included WikiLeaks and The Pirate Bay, a Web site whose founders were convicted by a Swedish court in 2009 of abetting movie and music piracy. In May 2010, six American entertainment companies obtained a preliminary injunction in a German court ordering CB3ROB and CyberBunker to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay.

Since the attacks, Mr. Kamphuis has given television interviews from what appeared to be an empty Internet cafe or office. In a Russian television interview, he suggested that the people responsible for the attacks were in countries where there were no laws against cyberattacks or no serious enforcement.

Mr. Kamphuis also continued to provoke people in Facebook postings. “The Internet is puking out a cancer, please stand by while it is being removed,” he wrote.

Sheamus: Lawler's Heart Attack Was a "Real Fright"

This Sunday, the WWE holds its annual Night of Champions pay-per-view - a night where every single WWE title is on the line. CM Punk will defend the WWE Championship against John Cena, Kofi Kingston and R-Truth will defend the WWE Tag Team Titles against Kane and Daniel Bryan and World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus will face down Alberto Del Rio once last time.

I had a chance to talk to Sheamus about his upcoming title match with Del Rio, their lengthy feud, his porcelain-white skin, and last Monday's frightening RAW from Montreal where Jerry Lawler suffered an on-air heart attack. Sheamus, among others, was one of the WWE Superstars who had to head out the ring and perform while EMTs were working to revive Lawler backstage.

IGN: This will be the third pay-per-view in a row where you've defended your title against Alberto Del Rio. That doesn't happen very often in modern wrestling. Can you talk a little about this feud?

Sheamus: [laughs] Is it the third pay-per-view already? Time flies, Matt. It really does when you're having fun. Yeah, it rarely happens, as you said. This feud actually started off back after WrestleMania when Del Rio, who had been out for quite a while, came back and started to interrupt me when I was the new World Heavyweight Champion. But it's been a really cool thing for me, and a good feud for me, because we learn a lot from each other in the ring and it keeps going back and forth. I even got to drive around in a Ferrari, which was a lot of fun. [laughs] It sure beat my Hyundai that I had back in Dublin. But this feud's been good for both of us, since both of us were sort of in the same boat when we came to WWE. We both found success rather quickly here. I became WWE Champion back in '09 and Del Rio won the Royal Rumble and Money in the Bank and became WWE Champion himself so these matches have been about two guys who rose up the ranks very quickly. I've enjoyed it. I've enjoyed the way the storyline's progressed. With each one of us constantly trying to get the better of the other, and out-do each other over the past couple weeks.

IGN: Now, for your match on Sunday at Night of Champions, the Brogue Kick has been banned. But you have more finishers than anyone else in the company. When will you have enough finishers, sir?

Sheamus: [laughs] I really don't know, man. I'm like a kid in a candy store. You can never have too many finishers. I think Undertaker has 17. The thing about the Brogue Kick though, and why it's caught on, is that it's something that I've really tried to establish over the past three years. It's a great finisher that can come out of nowhere. That's a rare thing in the WWE. John Cena obviously comes to mind too. He can literally pick up a crane and hit the AA. We've seen him use it on Big Show and the like. Randy Orton's RKO is like that too. It's been so successful because can come out of nowhere. And the Brogue Kick is kind of the same way. It can take down anyone, anywhere no matter their size. I've got other finishers, yeah, but that's really my main move. But I'll just have to figure out another way to beat Del Rio. The Cloverleaf's new and it's been very successful as of late so I might go for that one.

IGN: What did you think about the segment from a few weeks ago when Punk called the World Heavyweight Title the #2 belt in the company?

Sheamus: You know, it's funny that came up because we were all doing a THQ event back in Los Angeles during SummerSlam and it was a roundtable discussion group for the WWE 13 game and Jim Ross talked about the WWE Championship is and how important it is to the business. And how it was the one. And it just reminded me of how important the World Heavyweight Championship is to me. And how it's just as important in the company. I don't see how Punk can call the World Heavyweight Championship a secondary because in my opinion, from what I've seen, people like Flair, Undertaker, Edge, Triple H, John Cena and even Punk himself have held this championship. And this championship was the one attached to RAW if you just look back a couple of years ago. So I don't believe that. I also object to the fact that Punk calls himself the "Best in the World" even though he's never faced me. Until he's beaten me, I don't think he can call himself the best champion or the "Best in the World."

Sheamus talks the burdens of being so pale, and Jerry Lawler's heart attack on RAW, on page 2...

Stockholm Journal: In Sweden, Taking File Sharing to Heart. And to Church.

Even as this Scandinavian country, like other nations across Europe, bows to pressure from big media concerns to stop file sharing, a Swedish government agency this year registered as a bona fide religion a church whose central dogma is that file sharing is sacred.

“For me it is a kind of believing in deeper values than worldly values,” said Isak Gerson, a philosophy student at Uppsala University who helped found the church in 2010 and bears the title chief missionary. “You have it in your backbone.”

Kopimism — the name comes from a Swedish spelling of the words “copy me” — claims more than 8,000 faithful who have signed up on the church’s Web site. It has applied for the right to perform marriages and to receive subsidies awarded to religious organizations by the state, and it has bid, thus far unsuccessfully, to buy a church building, even though most church activities are conducted online.

As regular church attendance drops among the 9.4 million Swedes, the Church of Sweden has been selling off disused churches, but it has not yet responded to the Kopimist bid.

“We have something similar to regular priests,” said Mr. Gerson, 20, who claims a permanent link to the divine through a Nokia smartphone. “We call them ops, or operators, and their task is to help people with things like meetings. There are not that many rituals. We are a tolerant community.”

Asked whether he believed in God, Mr. Gerson replied: “No, I just believe in our values. It’s just a belief in holy values.”

The Kopimists rose out of Europe’s growing piracy movement, which was born in Sweden about a decade ago. In elections to the European Parliament in 2009, the country’s Pirate Party got 7.1 percent of the vote, though in national elections the next year its share plummeted to less than 1 percent.

The movement has spread abroad, to at least nine European countries. In May, Germany’s Pirate Party won almost 8 percent of the vote in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state; in Berlin last year, it won 8.9 percent in elections to the state Parliament.

But Kopimists like Mr. Gerson, the son of a Jewish father and a Christian mother, insist that the church does not sully its hands with politics, though they admit that the line between politics and religion can be elusive.

“Look at the United States, in the primaries, the importance of religion, or in the Middle East,” said Gustav Nipe, another church founder. Mr. Nipe, 23, who studied economics, illustrates the thin line — he is chairman of both the Kopimist Church and the Pirate Party’s youth group.

Mr. Nipe, whose parents are churchgoing Christians, emphasizes with his coreligionists that Kopimism’s purpose is not to directly promote illegal file sharing, but rather to focus on the values of sharing information.

“I think we see it as a theological remix,” Mr. Gerson said. “Christianity took from Judaism and turned it into something new, and the Muslims did the same. We are part of a tradition.”

The government has no problem with that tradition, as long as its adherents do not break the law.

“It is our responsibility to register religious communities that fulfill certain criteria,” said Mareta Grondal, an official at the government agency that registered the church. “We do not look into how communities act in a practical way.”

A religious community is recognized, Ms. Grondal said, if it fulfills certain requirements, like writing a charter and filing it with the agency, electing a governing board and paying an annual fee, now about $70. The Kopimist request for registration was twice refused on technicalities before being granted.

“The government cannot, should not interfere with what people believe in,” Ms. Grondal said. “That would be a dangerous path to take.” But the government has been interfering with what people do of late, and shows few signs of allowing religious freedom to justify copyright infringement.