This law itself, in it's current form, nullifies the newly passed IPRED law.
The law says that stored information can only be requested by the police or prosecutors if a serious crime has been committed (or the suspicion of a serious crime).
Hence a third party like RIAA cannot request information to file a suit according to the IPRED law.
Another law in Sweden, currently active, says that all identity information MUST immediately be DESTROYED when it is no longer required for completion of business transactions.
here you can see a few other ISP's that erases logs.
This behaviour is not a circumvention of the IPPRED law but an enforcement of law of electronic communication that states that customerinformation that is not needed for daily operations must be erased as soon as possible.
This law in itself nullifies the IPRED law.
Seems like Linus was right about some kind of takeover. Alexis de Tocqueville Institute website seems to be down currently. This might be for reasons of heavy traffic though but we'll find out soon enough.
And please do not forget the Remedy. Going now fot the 10th year the focus now is to rejuvinate the demo scene. If you have attended the Remedy earlier years you know that the party is divided into 2 parties. First SceneZone for the demo scene and then GameZone for, yes you guessed it, the hardcode gamers out there.
I've been in the organization of the Remedy for a few years now and we have gotten really good at these types of events, if I may say so myself.
The Remedy is a 2-part LAN-party. The first part is directed to the Scene and the second part is directed to Gamers. Scenezone starts on Thursday 26 of June and ends on Sunday 29 of June. Gamezone starts on Thursday 3 of July and ends on Sunday 6 of July.
Since these two events differ in requirements the organization also differs. But not much.
On Scenezone we have organized it so that we have a Maincrew, a Netcrew, an Electricscrew, a Salescrew and something you could call a Workercrew.
The Maincrew is composed of the main organizers of the event. This is a rather small section composed of 4 members. The Netcrew ofcourse controls and maintains the network. There are approx. 6 members of which one is the section coordinator. In the Electriccrew we have about 4 members including a section coordinator. The Electricscrews job is ofcourse to make sure there is no power outage and if there is to quickly fix it. The Salescrew has about 5 members and a coordinator. Their assignment is to make sure the kiosk is manned and to simply sell stuff. The Workingcrew is composed of members not assigned to other crews. This is the largest crew and varies from 20 to 40 members. This crew has the assignment to set up tables and chairs, build the stage, build the network, build the powergrid, put up the spotlights, speakers, the viewscreen, set up the kiosk and just about everything else that has to do with setup. Their responsibilities are also to take everything down at the end of the event.
In addition to these crews there is a crew-coordinator that handles all the communication between the crews.
On Gamezone we have also have a Gamecrew composed of 2 coordinators and and about 5 other members. Their task is to coordinate the competitions in various games and to maintain the gameservers.
This sound like a rigid organization but in reality it is a rather loose fit. Most of us know eachother very good but every year there are some new faces and they are as welcome as any other member.
Our goal is not to profit from this event (as it is with many other parties) but to have fun and make it possible for computer enthusiasts to meet old and new friends.
This years event is our 9th Remedy. We have tried a couple of smaller events (in addition to the main event) but their success was not as good. Since there are quite many LAN-parties here in Sweden people seem to limit their visits to a few every year.
The key to an event like this is planning and organization. We have, through the years, expanded from a small party to a rather large one but will no longer grow in size. We feel that about 1200 is a comfortable size and we are reluctant to move from our current location, which we must if we are to expand. Planning is not something one can do in a week. It takes months to plan a larger party. In fact we start to plan for next years party as soon as this years is over. We look through this years event and see what we could make better and what must be changed. There are always new ideas and improvements. Some for the better and some for the worse. The key is to sift through everything and identify what can be accomplished. If one never has organized a party or even attended one then a good idea is to start small.
If you wish to have more information or an exchange of ideas you can find me at ckret(at)home(dot)se.
The URL for remedy is http://www.remedy.se I hope to see some of the readers there.:)
Many years ago when broadband was new to the home user I was fortunate to be living in a town where the local community pioneered in the technology. Since they were one of the first to deliver broadband to private users they had some initial problems. They couldn't get enough qualified engineers to keep the network running smoothly since the demand was a lot higher then they expected. This led to a poor quality of service and I (and others) who were there first got sick of the treatment they gave us when we came with suggestion on how to improve the efficiency. After a number of months with almost daily interruptions on the connection I thought it was time to pay back. I started a campaign of "computer warfare". I used my knowledge to bring their systems down to that degree that I was the only one beeing able to use it. I hogged the bandwidth. Sent out false BootP packets put up a DHCP server so that other users couldn't get a genuine IP and a lot more. They searched their networks for errors (since they already knew they had problems they didn't suspect anyone was intentionally causing problems for them) and after about 3 months the came up with a solution. Kick me out and all will be ok. Well... They kicked me out and all wasn't ok. They still had problems with their network. (Not as much though). A friend of mine also had a subscription from them and he thought he'd put up a webpage of my accomplishes. All over the page you could read the message: "DO NOT DO THIS OR YOU WILL BE SUSPENDED". He wrote up everything I had done. (Almost everything. I did some more stuff I didn't want to go to jail for so he wasn't allowed to put them up). The webpage was located on the ISPs servers.:) After 2 weeks they disconnected him and told him that he would never get an account with them. And nowhere in the ToS did it say he wasn't allowed to put up his own thoughts or reports about the ISP in question. He could have fought it but it was easier to get a subscription in someone elses name. Imagine the look on the face of the technician installing the services when he came back to the same address 2 days later and finds the same guy there and there is nothing he can do about it.
This is not the case in Sweden. Here we have different rates depending on to which carrier you make your call.
Calls to the same carrier as you have are cheaper than to other carriers. This has evolved from the monopoly Telia had (TeliaSonera is the company name today). The rate setting still lives on despite there now are MANY more carriers today than 5 years ago.
I still have my first cellnumber I got 11 years ago. That is a conveniece for me since all my contacts know of my number and if I change carrier I do want to keep the same number only for this reason. I'm always looking for a carrier with better prices and since I can keep my number if I change I don't hesitate in changing carriers. This is good for competition since the cellnumber is not an obstacle anymore.
Slashdot Mirror
... anyone?
Just input slashdot (in lower case) into the Vash generator.
...is rather fitting.
I'm a girl. A real one.
Oh no, you're not fooling me! You don't win the Turing test...
The ITU's current technical definition in no way affects our plans to launch the world's first large-scale LTE network later this year.
Ahem... Stockholm and Oslo already did that while back. I do think they are part of what you call "the world".
It's even more funny when you take into consideration that Sweden was one of the nations proposing this directive.
This law itself, in it's current form, nullifies the newly passed IPRED law.
The law says that stored information can only be requested by the police or prosecutors if a serious crime has been committed (or the suspicion of a serious crime).
Hence a third party like RIAA cannot request information to file a suit according to the IPRED law.
Another law in Sweden, currently active, says that all identity information MUST immediately be DESTROYED when it is no longer required for completion of business transactions.
That's some fine politics there, Lou!
The data retention directive is to be implemented in law on January 1, 2010.
It was supposed to be implemented on March 1, 2009 but was postponed.
So why sue now when it's coming anyway?
Earlier this week the first 4G base station was installed in central Stockholm.
The next generation mobile technology (LTE) provides speeds up to 150 Mb/s.
here you can see a few other ISP's that erases logs.
This behaviour is not a circumvention of the IPPRED law but an enforcement of law of electronic communication that states that customerinformation that is not needed for daily operations must be erased as soon as possible.
This law in itself nullifies the IPRED law.
Seems like Linus was right about some kind of takeover. Alexis de Tocqueville Institute website seems to be down currently. This might be for reasons of heavy traffic though but we'll find out soon enough.
And please do not forget the Remedy. Going now fot the 10th year the focus now is to rejuvinate the demo scene.
If you have attended the Remedy earlier years you know that the party is divided into 2 parties.
First SceneZone for the demo scene and then GameZone for, yes you guessed it, the hardcode gamers out there.
Hey look here!
I made a life size replica of "the Invisible Man". Aint it cool?
I've been in the organization of the Remedy for a few years now and we have gotten really good at these types of events, if I may say so myself.
:)
/CKret
The Remedy is a 2-part LAN-party. The first part is directed to the Scene and the second part is directed to Gamers. Scenezone starts on Thursday 26 of June and ends on Sunday 29 of June. Gamezone starts on Thursday 3 of July and ends on Sunday 6 of July.
Since these two events differ in requirements the organization also differs. But not much.
On Scenezone we have organized it so that we have a Maincrew, a Netcrew, an Electricscrew, a Salescrew and something you could call a Workercrew.
The Maincrew is composed of the main organizers of the event. This is a rather small section composed of 4 members. The Netcrew ofcourse controls and maintains the network. There are approx. 6 members of which one is the section coordinator. In the Electriccrew we have about 4 members including a section coordinator. The Electricscrews job is ofcourse to make sure there is no power outage and if there is to quickly fix it. The Salescrew has about 5 members and a coordinator. Their assignment is to make sure the kiosk is manned and to simply sell stuff. The Workingcrew is composed of members not assigned to other crews. This is the largest crew and varies from 20 to 40 members. This crew has the assignment to set up tables and chairs, build the stage, build the network, build the powergrid, put up the spotlights, speakers, the viewscreen, set up the kiosk and just about everything else that has to do with setup. Their responsibilities are also to take everything down at the end of the event.
In addition to these crews there is a crew-coordinator that handles all the communication between the crews.
On Gamezone we have also have a Gamecrew composed of 2 coordinators and and about 5 other members. Their task is to coordinate the competitions in various games and to maintain the gameservers.
This sound like a rigid organization but in reality it is a rather loose fit. Most of us know eachother very good but every year there are some new faces and they are as welcome as any other member.
Our goal is not to profit from this event (as it is with many other parties) but to have fun and make it possible for computer enthusiasts to meet old and new friends.
This years event is our 9th Remedy. We have tried a couple of smaller events (in addition to the main event) but their success was not as good. Since there are quite many LAN-parties here in Sweden people seem to limit their visits to a few every year.
The key to an event like this is planning and organization. We have, through the years, expanded from a small party to a rather large one but will no longer grow in size. We feel that about 1200 is a comfortable size and we are reluctant to move from our current location, which we must if we are to expand. Planning is not something one can do in a week. It takes months to plan a larger party. In fact we start to plan for next years party as soon as this years is over. We look through this years event and see what we could make better and what must be changed. There are always new ideas and improvements. Some for the better and some for the worse. The key is to sift through everything and identify what can be accomplished. If one never has organized a party or even attended one then a good idea is to start small.
If you wish to have more information or an exchange of ideas you can find me at ckret(at)home(dot)se.
The URL for remedy is http://www.remedy.se
I hope to see some of the readers there.
Good luck with your event!
Many years ago when broadband was new to the home user I was fortunate to be living in a town where the local community pioneered in the technology. Since they were one of the first to deliver broadband to private users they had some initial problems. They couldn't get enough qualified engineers to keep the network running smoothly since the demand was a lot higher then they expected. This led to a poor quality of service and I (and others) who were there first got sick of the treatment they gave us when we came with suggestion on how to improve the efficiency. After a number of months with almost daily interruptions on the connection I thought it was time to pay back. :)
I started a campaign of "computer warfare". I used my knowledge to bring their systems down to that degree that I was the only one beeing able to use it. I hogged the bandwidth. Sent out false BootP packets put up a DHCP server so that other users couldn't get a genuine IP and a lot more.
They searched their networks for errors (since they already knew they had problems they didn't suspect anyone was intentionally causing problems for them) and after about 3 months the came up with a solution. Kick me out and all will be ok.
Well... They kicked me out and all wasn't ok. They still had problems with their network. (Not as much though).
A friend of mine also had a subscription from them and he thought he'd put up a webpage of my accomplishes. All over the page you could read the message: "DO NOT DO THIS OR YOU WILL BE SUSPENDED".
He wrote up everything I had done. (Almost everything. I did some more stuff I didn't want to go to jail for so he wasn't allowed to put them up). The webpage was located on the ISPs servers.
After 2 weeks they disconnected him and told him that he would never get an account with them.
And nowhere in the ToS did it say he wasn't allowed to put up his own thoughts or reports about the ISP in question.
He could have fought it but it was easier to get a subscription in someone elses name.
Imagine the look on the face of the technician installing the services when he came back to the same address 2 days later and finds the same guy there and there is nothing he can do about it.
This is not the case in Sweden.
Here we have different rates depending on to which carrier you make your call.
Calls to the same carrier as you have are cheaper than to other carriers. This has evolved from the monopoly Telia had (TeliaSonera is the company name today). The rate setting still lives on despite there now are MANY more carriers today than 5 years ago.
I still have my first cellnumber I got 11 years ago. That is a conveniece for me since all my contacts know of my number and if I change carrier I do want to keep the same number only for this reason. I'm always looking for a carrier with better prices and since I can keep my number if I change I don't hesitate in changing carriers. This is good for competition since the cellnumber is not an obstacle anymore.