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Ahem. Bloated nerd jail hubcap, more like it. Competes (perhaps unfavorably) with the world's ugliest yacht.

(No I'm not joking. Trust me, that scow was actually built to Steve Jobs' specifications. Obviously you need to sail it right, because the first breaking wave that hits one of those windows is going right through it as if it wasn't there.)

Most of the world is hardly impressed with Apple. Pretty much just the 5 eyes (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States).

0. 57% Japan

Five Eyes:
1. 48% G.Britain
2. 46% Australia
3. 43% USA
4. 39% Canada
5. 31% New Zealand

Rest of the World:
5. 24% France
6. 24% EU5
7. 20% China
8. 20% Germany
9. 16% Italy
10. 13% Spain
...

Sources:

Apple regains top spot in New Zealand smartphone shipments
Apple tops Samsung in Canadian smartphone market share: comScore
iPhone market share grows 6.4% in USA, takes share from Android in most markets
iPhone market share by country

The defendant acknowledged downloading the first song but without knowing it was from an unlicensed source. She says the download of the first song caused a a bit torrent client to be installed automatically. She was unaware of the download of the second song. She was given a notice for downloading the first song twice. She is not sure how that occurred since she believed she had downloaded it only once. Then the third strike was a completely different song. The $360 is a made up on the spot "deterrent" on very shaky ground. One of the aggravating factors the tribunal claims in setting this deterrent is: "The fact that the account holder had BitTorrent protocol (uTorrent version 2.2.0) software installed on her computer. It notes that the locating, downloading, installing and configuring of such software is a deliberate act and does not occur without direct action on behalf of a computer user" http://www.nbr.co.nz/sites/default/files/images/2013%20NZCOP%201%20-%20RAINZ%20v%20Teleom%20NZ%202592_1.pdf

This third round of action in âOperation in Our Sitesâ(TM) took control of the domains of Rojadirecta, one of Spainâ(TM)s most popular sites.

The people who operate Firstrow donâ(TM)t live in the US, and neither are their servers located there. In fact, Firstrow says that their site is perfectly legal where they are based

November when ICE seized Rojadirecta.org, a sports site held to be a legal website by Spanish courts on two occasions. The agency may have a desire to protect consumers from foreign websites. Steve Tepp, ICE senior director for Internet counterfeiting and piracy, explains that âoetheir jurisdiction is limited to the United Statesâ¦â However, Tepp argues that âoe[w]e need legislation to provide enhanced remedies to cut off foreign rogue sites from the U.S. market

U.S. Claims Global Jurisdiction of .net and .com Web Sites: Is .edu Next?

It appears to be the US asserting jurisdiction over any website in any country.

ICE seized the TVShack.net in June 2010

This article by Chris Keall of the NZ National Business Review gives a very good summary of the context of the remarks, including a link to the video of him making the Pogo reference and a podcast of the subsequent comment that caused the trouble.

Judge Harvey is an interesting person. Here is the page on his web-site where he describes his love of The Lord Of The Rings, and how he won the International Mastermind quiz in 1981 with LOTR as the topic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeHTziiFVx0

so yes, transparency.org might list NZ as high - but what does't get told much is the relationship between big business and MP's, and the fact that corporate law in NZ is the fastest changing in the world.

http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/warner-bros-sought-job-law-change-film-the-hobbit-nz-135087

"Warner Brothers used the threat of filming The Hobbit movies elsewhere to gain changes to New Zealand's employment laws, it was reported tonight. An email obtained under the Official Information Act showed the production company wanted "stability" to film the movies in New Zealand and was worried about "grey areas" of employment law, Radio New Zealand reported."

http://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/us-lobbied-nz-over-copyright-laws-wikileaks-cables-4149178

"The cables also show that the US offered to spend more than $500,000 to fund a recording industry-backed IP enforcement initiative. According to the cables, the US actively lobbied several cabinet members while New Zealand was working through its copyright reform in 2008"

"A February 2008 cable notes that Consumer Affairs Minister Judith Tizard and Trade Minister Phil Goff were presented with a list of shortfalls to submit as the legislation was being drafted. "Post has presented the list of noted shortfalls in the draft legislation to Minister Tizard (Consumer Affairs), Minister Goff (Trade) and to officials within the Ministry of Economic Development, the agency primarily responsible for drafting legislation and monitoring IP enforcement. "Post remains engaged with Bronwyn Turley, Senior MED Policy Advisor for IP issues to maintain a dialogue to address the needed technical corrections," the cable noted. New copyright laws were passed in April 2008."

• Total costs: NZ $533,000 (US $386,158)
• Start-up costs: NZ $78,000 (US $56,510)
• Salaries: NZ $215,000 (US $155,768)
• Operating costs: NZ $240,000 (US $173,880)
• Start-up costs (NZ dollars):
• Furnishings $25,000
• IT costs (equipment) $45,000
• Sundries $8,000
• Salaries (NZ dollars):
• Unit head $90,000
• Intelligence and policy development $60,000
• Licensing and enforcement officer $40,000
• Administrative support $25,000
• Operating costs (NZ dollars):
• Accommodations (rental, utilities) $55,000
• IT support $15,000
• Legal costs (investigation, prosecution)$75,000
• Training (internet piracy, law) $50,000
• Travel costs $35,000
• Employer liabilities $10,000

Ah, the lalalala I can't hear you school of thought.

http://www.nbr.co.nz/opinion/chris-keall/average-nz-internet-speed-just-297mbits-akamai

There's the US down in 22nd. You might not believe in it, but the US lags behind nations such as Sweden and Denmark, which are well known for government intervention.

Note that under this amended amendment a user's ISP access can only be cut off by court order. This is a far better process than was previously proposed.

Would they cut of your telephone if your kid used it to harass someone? No. Buy drugs? No. Hire a hitman? No. But they want to cut off your internet connection if he downloads some MP3s.

And lets not forget the ISPs. They now have a huge task to monitor and store large volumes of data for no benefit to them or their customers. They might lose business because people won't need their all-you-can-eat plans any more, because they stopped downloading DVDs. More importantly for the public, this makes it easier to later implement filtering, do traffic analysis, etc. This seems to tie in nicely with the "optional" ISP-level filtering coming in a few months.

Incidentally, The Pirate Party is starting to happen in NZ now. Well timed.

"If Telecom wants to make a serious pitch for taking part in this Initiative, then it should look at what is happening over the Tasman and consider the voluntary structural separation of Chorus from the rest of the Telecom group. Such a step could lead to Chorus being a viable investment partner in rolling out the high speed fibre New Zealand needs."

Sorry for the double post, but I forgot to link this - an article on Southern Cross Cable, explaining why our Australian internets are copiously more expensive than your Americanium internets.

I know from experience that educational institutes 'steer like asteroids'. There are however people inside almost every one of them pushing for something different. Here in NZ the DHBs District health boards are a projecting saving millions$ buy switching basic office functions to open office. For schools there has been the deal signed to get cheaper suse for schools http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39209666,00.htm But what really sways things is when and evile right wing publication like the national business review doesn't rubbish the idea. http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=12 417&cid=3 **NBR is like NZs print version of Fox (they even try to monkey with elections) And lastly, once linux machines are setup correctly a single part timer can maintain them. I know someone who did so with a small country school of 600.

Wiretapping also works: the Al Qaeda cell in Italy that was planning to outdo 9-11 was caught by wiretapping.

I did some quick Googling, and couldn't find answers to an importantquestion about the wiretapping you seem to be holding up as justification for the current situation in the US: was the Italian wiretapping legal or illegal?. Maybe the Italian police got a warrant. Maybe Italian law doesn't require a warrant. Does anyone know?

Wiretapping also works: the Al Qaeda cell in Italy that was planning to outdo 9-11 was caught by wiretapping.

This situation doesn't surprise me comming from Symantec however. I ditched them around NAV 2001 and never looked back, Especially when you could predict when the next antivirus version would come out because the previous version would "mysteriously" start having problems or crashing about a week before the next version release.

Even in servers, its strongest point of contention, Linux holds only a very minor share of the market.

Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

Agreed. This guy is just pissed off that his favorite convicted monopolist is not going to get a free ride from his government.

The funny thing is he can only back up his view of how things out to be by attacking the people instead of the issue and using paid for reports and studies as counter points. But this seems to be his MO:

http://www.nbr.co.nz/search/search_article.asp?id= 13097&cid=0&cname=Results
google & sun CEOs belittled

http://www.nbr.co.nz/search/search_article.asp?id= 12239&cid=0&cname=Results
patching windows cost less than patching open source, MS funded report

http://www.nbr.co.nz/search/search_article.asp?id= 12440&cid=0&cname=Results
linux growth slows, business model weakens

Perhaps he has just had too much koolaid.

Agreed. This guy is just pissed off that his favorite convicted monopolist is not going to get a free ride from his government.

The funny thing is he can only back up his view of how things out to be by attacking the people instead of the issue and using paid for reports and studies as counter points. But this seems to be his MO:

http://www.nbr.co.nz/search/search_article.asp?id= 13097&cid=0&cname=Results
google & sun CEOs belittled

http://www.nbr.co.nz/search/search_article.asp?id= 12239&cid=0&cname=Results
patching windows cost less than patching open source, MS funded report

http://www.nbr.co.nz/search/search_article.asp?id= 12440&cid=0&cname=Results
linux growth slows, business model weakens

Perhaps he has just had too much koolaid.

Agreed. This guy is just pissed off that his favorite convicted monopolist is not going to get a free ride from his government.

The funny thing is he can only back up his view of how things out to be by attacking the people instead of the issue and using paid for reports and studies as counter points. But this seems to be his MO:

http://www.nbr.co.nz/search/search_article.asp?id= 13097&cid=0&cname=Results
google & sun CEOs belittled

http://www.nbr.co.nz/search/search_article.asp?id= 12239&cid=0&cname=Results
patching windows cost less than patching open source, MS funded report

http://www.nbr.co.nz/search/search_article.asp?id= 12440&cid=0&cname=Results
linux growth slows, business model weakens

Perhaps he has just had too much koolaid.

It's poorly researched and little more than "MS good, FOSS bad". The fact that he uses Laura DiDio to support one of his points (with a minor disclosure about her being viewed as a troll) says all I needed to see. Atleast is marked as a commentary.

http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=12 417&cid=3

My take - I'm a student at Perth, Western Australia. My school recently got a whole bunch of iMac G5's, and Panther, and they are a nice set of machines. I run a heavily customized ubuntu/Gnome 2.10 setup at home and I would have to say that OS X is all that it's cracked up to be. It has a great interface and file/folder management system (finder), is stable, and seems to be easy to administrate (given that the sysadmins seem to do little work :D).

It's a great choice for a school desktop, due to it's ease of use and solid support base. I use Linux at home and prefer it's data management capabilities, but there will always be a place for OS X in my heart.

At least until the GNOME team creates an expose-like function

The National Business review reported the sea recue on the 26th.

...well, as mainstream as the business press gets in NZ! (disclaimer, yes, I am a Kiwi)

National Business Review - Tsunami 'hack' -- London cops Swat lynx

Of course, you have to deal with a complete lack of anything resembling broadband, which is probably why they have the shortage in the first place; no techie wants to move somewhere 256kbps is considered broadband and worth paying $50/month for.

That would be a powerful argument if it were true.

Somebody submit this.

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Methinks I dislike Michael.

I had more links, to boot.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/emergingtech/0,39 020357,39160027,00.htm
http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=95 31&cid=5&cname=Asia+%26+Pacific

I think CNN had a story, too, but I can't find it.

According to this article in the (New Zealand) National Business Review the Niue Government doesn't like the competition from the Niue Internet Users Society and is using strongarm tactics to protect it's phone monopoly.

According to this article in the (New Zealand) National Business Review the Niue Government doesn't like the competition from the Niue Internet Users Society and is using strongarm tactics to protect it's phone monopoly.

Possible trouble with the government owned monopoly telco according to the NBR magazine.

According to this article, Niue shut down the wireless network because it was interfering with the government's ability to gouge citizens with insanely expensive phone service.

Not to mention, of course, copycat regulation in many other parts of the world. Happens faster than you think.

OK, if that was the case then wouldn't these WMDs have been found by US/UK troops upon inspecting Iraqi troops that they had captured or killed?

This colonel also claims that the WMD is still in hands of fedayeen, and that Saddam deployed secret weapons caches throughout the country to supply resistance fighters after the war. He also said that "Only when Saddam is caught will people talk about these weapons".

But tell me, just how did Iraq pre-invasion pose a threat to US national security?

Do the math:
1) Saddam has used WMD in the past
2) Saddam has large amounts of WMD that were unaccounted for by the UN
3) Saddam says he will use WMD against the US
4) Terrorists say they want to use WMD against the US
5) Terrorists have proven their ability to attack inside the US

How is that not a threat?

Almost as laughable as your statement that "nobody has tried to deny that claim" - why do you think the majority of the world's nations were opposed to the US-led invasion?

Why do you think the UN Security Counsel passed 17 Chapter 7 resolutions condemning Iraq for non-compliance on WMD? The fact that the UN doesn't have the balls to enforce their own resolutions doesn't change anything.

Naturally, there are few lawyers here, but isn't it obvious that regardless of how big or scary a company is, it has no jurisdiction outside of US. Nothing in US has jurisdiction outside of US (besides the army maybe...)

Well considering the Aussies have tried the same tactics on the US how far fetched is it really? This ruling was the reult of the Aussies wanting to sue Dow Jones for an article hosted on a US webserver for libel because it was viewable in Australia... of course the US courts basically told them to shove it after the ruling though, just like the Aussies should do here ;)

Here's another interesting It has a lot of quotes from Peter Jackson, who makes it quite clear that report box office figures are theater sales, not studio or distributor grosses.