Blogging is not the only things that Athens 2004 Olympic Committee is forbidding. Hyperlinks are forbidden too.
In fact there is to warn Athens 2004 that you are linking to athens2004.com, with some details about the reason of the links. You can only link with the words Athens 2004 (or the translation in other languages). After a review of your request, if they do not agree with the link, you will get an answer with their disapproval and an order to remove it. I am curious about the legal weight of such a request. Anyway, this is unenforceable as the majority is not aware of this policy.
The details about this are on this page (oops I linked!)
Some french-speaking blogs have launched a Google bomb against this policy, with the word médaille de la marchandisation which means approximately medal of the mercantilism (approximately because "mercantilisme" and "marchandisation" are slightly different in French, but I think the English world is about theses two almost identical ideas)
Tivo should consider making business and selling their machines in Europe, Asia^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H the rest of the world too. The War in the Living Room is not only in North America. Is it?
Anyway, in Europe, AFAIK, it's too late. It has been a long wait for such Tivo-like products, but from now on the market exists here for 2 years.
Unfortunately, this sequel of the worm is spreading the sources, too...
There are some ironic commentaries in the code like:
What's the bug about "75% failures"?
and even a readme file indicating that it can't be compiled under MSVC.NET
The only thing I am waiting from Mandrake is that they include my awaiting XFree86 patch (yet approved by XFree86 and committed in their CVS) before their freeze...
Now I am considering that maybe they are reluctant to do so in order to avoid offering me an "advance" account. More seriously, it seems that during the finalization period, there is a little less concern about the content of some types of Bugzilla reports.
I can understand that from their point of view there are things more important than a defective graphic driver on some rare configurations. But at the same time, it can't prevent me from thinking that the distribution could be with this kind of enhancements a little, little better.
Much is said on the Yahoo case that has created jurisprudence in France about some contents on Internet. That it is censorship, denying the freedom of expression and so on..
In fact, the judge decision (in emergency proceeding), that was later confirmed in appeal, is based on a law called Loi sur les propos incitant à la haine raciale i.e. "Law on utterances inciting to racial hatred" for the auction part.
Indeed, there are three part in this case: the auction, the hosting and the directory parts. For the hosting and directory parts, the judge has ruled against negationism that is a crime in France, a crime against the memories of all the victims of the Shoah.
An interesting quote in the subpoena (Assignation) says that a previous sentence about selling Nazi object (not on the WWW) rules that "Such activities trivialize dangerously horror and ensure mawkishly an obnoxious proselytism."
For those of you, who are interested with some details about the case, you can get there all the judicial file in French, and some translations in English on the links on this page.
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Blogging is not the only things that Athens 2004 Olympic Committee is forbidding. Hyperlinks are forbidden too.
In fact there is to warn Athens 2004 that you are linking to athens2004.com, with some details about the reason of the links. You can only link with the words Athens 2004 (or the translation in other languages). After a review of your request, if they do not agree with the link, you will get an answer with their disapproval and an order to remove it. I am curious about the legal weight of such a request. Anyway, this is unenforceable as the majority is not aware of this policy.
The details about this are on this page (oops I linked!)
Some french-speaking blogs have launched a Google bomb against this policy, with the word médaille de la marchandisation which means approximately medal of the mercantilism (approximately because "mercantilisme" and "marchandisation" are slightly different in French, but I think the English world is about theses two almost identical ideas)
Tivo should consider making business and selling their machines in Europe, Asia^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H the rest of the world too. The War in the Living Room is not only in North America. Is it?
Anyway, in Europe, AFAIK, it's too late. It has been a long wait for such Tivo-like products, but from now on the market exists here for 2 years.
Unfortunately, this sequel of the worm is spreading the sources, too... There are some ironic commentaries in the code like: What's the bug about "75% failures"? and even a readme file indicating that it can't be compiled under MSVC .NET
The only thing I am waiting from Mandrake is that they include my awaiting XFree86 patch (yet approved by XFree86 and committed in their CVS) before their freeze...
Now I am considering that maybe they are reluctant to do so in order to avoid offering me an "advance" account. More seriously, it seems that during the finalization period, there is a little less concern about the content of some types of Bugzilla reports.
I can understand that from their point of view there are things more important than a defective graphic driver on some rare configurations. But at the same time, it can't prevent me from thinking that the distribution could be with this kind of enhancements a little, little better.
Much is said on the Yahoo case that has created jurisprudence in France about some contents on Internet. That it is censorship, denying the freedom of expression and so on..
In fact, the judge decision (in emergency proceeding), that was later confirmed in appeal, is based on a law called Loi sur les propos incitant à la haine raciale i.e. "Law on utterances inciting to racial hatred" for the auction part.
Indeed, there are three part in this case: the auction, the hosting and the directory parts. For the hosting and directory parts, the judge has ruled against negationism that is a crime in France, a crime against the memories of all the victims of the Shoah.
An interesting quote in the subpoena (Assignation) says that a previous sentence about selling Nazi object (not on the WWW) rules that "Such activities trivialize dangerously horror and ensure mawkishly an obnoxious proselytism."
For those of you, who are interested with some details about the case, you can get there all the judicial file in French, and some translations in English on the links on this page.