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The gamers' voice on the backbenches: ePolitix.com | Dec 2009
Extensive interview with Tom Watson MP - a very interesting man, both an IT geek and a democracy geek
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"My message to them… was transparency and accountability wasn't a goal, it was a process to which we would achieve collaborative democracy using these tools.
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"This is now Britain's youth and under-30s saying we want a different settlement with copyright, don't mess around with the way we live our lives. I just really hope that the Government and the Tory front bench listen to that.
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Brighton photographer stopped for taking 'terror' festive lights photos (From The Argus) | Dec 2009
Who has the time to risk arrest in order to stand up for human rights?
Lawyer sacked from £150,000 job after DNA is wrongly put on national database | Mail Online
Guilty even when proven innocent :(
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'And my reputation has been tainted purely by a false allegation.'
Ms Elliott was just about to take up working on the government's own national identity card scheme which required the routine checks to be made before she was 'cleared' for the role.
- This stinks - on 2009-11-13
Schneier on Security: Zero-Tolerance Policies
a system, not a headline
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It's the combination of the four that work: rules plus discretion plus appeal plus audit.
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Zero-tolerance simply means that the discretion of authorities becomes UNAPPEALABLE. Once they've decided to start the turning of the wheel, there is no process to stop it, or to punish the authority for poor use of discretion -- since, nominally, no discretion exists.
It's the exact reverse of what is aimed for -- a blind justice system that is automatic and equitable. By removing discretion, you give authorities infinite discretion.
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Sense About Science | BCA v Singh The Story So Far 3 June 2009
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my conclusion remains that there is a lack of evidence supporting the use of chiropractic for treating various childhood conditions.
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Add Sticky NotePossible improvements would be rapid enforced mediation or a "libel small claims court model", as either approach would reduce the disproportionate cost of libel cases compared to the potential damages.
- Singh proposes simple reforms - on 2009-11-09
Sense About Science | The law has no place in scientific disputes
The law should not punish scientific or journalistic scrutiny. Parliament should tighten up this law to punish only malicious attacks on natural persons. We also need to cut the cost of access to the law, and punish vexatious prosecution.
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English libel law, though, can serve to punish this kind of scrutiny
England’s libel laws don’t just gag me, they blindfold you | Simon Singh - Times Online
Do England and Wales really have drastically less free speech and public information about science than other Western countries? It sounds like it.
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Even if a
blogger is 90% confident of victory, there is still a 10% chance of failure,
which is why bloggers often back down, withdraw and apologise for material
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My reason for not backing down
is that I believe my article is accurate, important and a matter of public
interest, as it relates to the use of chiropractic in treating various
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Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions: Three Strikes and a Global DMCA | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Nov 3 2009
Looks like this secret deal will curtail the human right to a fair trial in many industrialised countries.
I don't condone unlawful copying, but cutting citizens off from digital democracy for an alleged infringement by a family member or neighbour is far worse.
Are Software Patents Evil? - paul graham - 2007 : reddit.com
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the costs for filing lawsuits are too high and don't get to a result anyway. So he has to be more innovative, has to have the better product, higher quality, better support, etc. That protects him far better than any patent could.
And the same applies to the software industry. Make your product, your service better than the competition, even if they try to copy you. Has Michael Dell patented "Direct Sales" ? Why should he ? And he is still the market leader, although everyone is free to copy him
Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own - Ars Technica
"Many times, incumbent providers simply file lawsuits while keeping speeds the same.
If your town is really unlucky, the incumbent will just head right to the state legislature, seeking to pass laws constraining the practice."
Maybe we should try this more in the UK.
Hosting Your Windows 7 Torrenting Party from FoD Team UK, dawsonbros, and Al_Campbell - Video
I can't help smiling!
Tomorrow I plan to legally torrent Ubuntu 9.10
In Industry First, Voting Machine Company to Publish Source Code | Threat Level | Wired.com | Oct 2009
Interesting. I prefer marking x's on paper :)
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She said the firmware on the company’s new Frontier optical-scan machines is written in C# programming language and runs on Linux.
UK Parliament - Early Day Motions - ILLICIT FILE SHARING 12.10.2009 - Tom Watson
Ensure due process - this is a sledgehammer to crack a nut
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calls on the Government to ensure that any citizen accused of illicit file-sharing is given the right to legal redress in a court of law before sanctions are imposed.
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calls on the Government to ensure that any citizen accused of illicit file-sharing is given the right to legal redress in a court of law before sanctions are imposed.
Robservatory » Blog Archive » How to (not!) Fast Play a Disney DVD
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Add Sticky Notethe ironic thing is that when other parents see my reauthored DVD’s in action, they always ask for copies… So, basically, having all that crap on the DVD (including the piracy warnings) is actually ENCOURAGING people to become pirates.
- Eeek! - on 2009-09-04
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Do use the ‘menu’ and ‘title’ buttons on your remote to see if you can skip stuff – also ’stop’ then ‘menu’ or ‘play’ works some of the time.
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 25 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Video Professor incident
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what we succeeded in doing was more important, in that we demonstrated that compliance with the kind of laundry-list subpoena originally offered by Video Professor was something we are not going to do, and that compliance with a narrower subpoena is not going to be helpful for litigants fishing for information.
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what we succeeded in doing was more important, in that we demonstrated that compliance with the kind of laundry-list subpoena originally offered by Video Professor was something we are not going to do, and that compliance with a narrower subpoena is not going to be helpful for litigants fishing for information.
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