according to the eu privacy commissioners opinion the searches themselves are part of the traffic, as such they are protected and not to be collected and stored under the data retention directive.
the Data retention directive is unconstitutional in a number of EU countries, in Sweden it hasn't even been adopted yet, since the government does not want to drive voters to the pirate party, let's see what happens after the elections in autumn.
it's also important, that the EP rejected the Data retention directive multiple times, only after pressure from the council was it adopted, so extending it will be a hard time for the initiators.
One of the MEPs who started this initiative Mr Motti is an interesting figure. After the vote on the Telecoms package - one of the MEPs who initiated this topic - Mr Motti already foreshadowed his intentions:
"Today, we have indicated our agreement to complete freedom of the internet, to the promotion of an electronic civil society, to the promotion of fundamental freedoms and best practices and to the identification and isolation of all those individuals, in particular, paedophiles and sex offenders"
Also notable is, how much he is is interested in anonymity and blogs:
"Subject: Blogs, freedom of speech and protection of personal dignity Answer(s)The right to freedom of opinion thus becomes a tool with which to harm other people's dignity, including that of children, by hiding behind the anonymity of blogs. This gives rise to a kind of Internet free-for-all, in which citizens do not all enjoy the same rights; it also allows the administrators of blogs defined as 'open', i.e. unmoderated, and the service providers which host them to avoid prosecution for the published content, unlike the editors and publishers of online newspapers."
In another speech Mr Motti also addressed freedom of speech in Italy, i guess this points in the same direction like what is happening currently in Italy regarding google.
On an ironic side note Mr Motti also seems to be highly interested in setting up cameras in kindergartens:
Use of video surveillance systems in childcare centres:
"...whether the need to protect the privacy of people exercising a number of key occupations (such as childcare workers and teachers) should be regarded as secondary to the right of babies and children to a serene educational environment?"
and
"...making childcare centres, kindergartens and schools safer for those attending them, installing video cameras..."
It's ironic, how someone fighting pedophilia wants to setup cameras in childcare centers.
This move might also result in google moving their servers back to the usa from europe. Causing that the european data protection laws do not apply anymore to the data on those servers.
there are so many free solutions. tikiwiki beats sharepoint in most aspects, especially with the new workspaces feature comming in v4.0. couple that with some other solutions like horde, or some other online solution and you've achieved more, than you ever could with sharepoint.
The use of open source software by the federal government has been gaining attention as organizations continue to search for opportunities to enhance their information technology operations while containing costs. For the federal government and Congress, the debate over the use of open source software intersects several other issues, including, but not limited to, the development of homeland security and e-government initiatives, improving government information technology management practices, strengthening computer security, and protecting intellectual property rights. Currently, the debate over open source software often revolves primarily around information security and intellectual property rights. However, issues related to cost and quality are often raised as well.
This report considers the impact of intellectual property rights upon open source software. It provides an introduction to the open source movement in the software industry. It reviews the intellectual property laws, including copyrights, patents, and trade secrets. After identifying issues of interface between open source software and the intellectual property laws, the report concludes with a discussion of possible legislative issues and approaches.
The United States and Japan are negotiating over Japan's costly rates for telecommunications companies to hook into the telephone network owned by the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Company (NTT), Japan's dominant provider of telecom services. The U.S. has argued for a 41 percent cut in the rates, while Japan has insisted on a 22 percent cut. NTT also is attempting to acquire Verio, an Internet service provider in the United States.
Both houses of Congress have begun debating how to modify the 1996 Act, most of which resides within the Communications Act of 1934, as amended. That debate focuses on how to foster investment, innovation and competition in both the physical broadband network and in the applications that ride over that network while also meeting the many non-economic objectives of U.S. telecommunications policy: universal service, homeland security, public safety, diversity of voices, localism, consumer protection, etc.
The Patent Act provides protection for processes, machines, manufactures, and compositions of matter that are useful, novel, and nonobvious. Of these three statutory requirements, the nonobviousness of an invention is often the most difficult to establish. To help courts and patent examiners make the determination, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit developed a test called "teaching, suggestion, or motivation" (TSM). This test provided that a patent claim is only proved obvious if
I know that the only accepted way is by pen and paper. Can anyone please tell me why Secure Multi-party Computations - which also bears some of RSAs Adi Shamirs work - cannot satisfy basic requirements?
zimbra might be interesting, but the license is not *FREE* and it is now a yahoo owned product, thus there is still the possibility of a yahoo buyout by microsoft, which would probably mean the end of a competitor to exchange.
I just managed to sync an outlook client and a nokia mobile with egroupware, a completely free collaboration suite, other (albeit still in infancy) interesting systems are simplegroupware and everything supporting funambol or syncml in general.
i believe that it is not true, that floss sw is behind in this regard, the problem is, that the communication lacks.
i just talked with a guy from the pharma industry and he told me that they were working with about 800 colleagues on developing new drugs, but they would come up with only about 1 *prospective* result per annum. while there was a competing startup, which employed instead of manpower other means - extensive simulations, it know-how, etc - they succeeded to come up with 3-6 prospective results per annum. so might be that these guys are really just stalling the transformation from a heavily human based research to a high-tech approach?
one more thing, pharma research is expensive and thus highly contributing to the innovation expenditure of states, so there might be also political motives behind the financial ones...;)
anyway pfizer seems to be closing up their research shops, a lot of the pharma brainshare is going to have to cope with the biotech wave.
> The European Union is reexamining its biofuels policy after finding evidence that increased demand might be endangering rainforests and causing other nasty side effects.
very interesting this mentioning of this patent, especially in the light of this news of today:
> GENEVA and ARMONK, NY--(Marketwire - January 14, 2008) - Leading members of the corporate community have come together in a first-of-its-kind effort to help the environment, unleashing dozens of innovative, environmentally responsible patents to the public domain.
I recently read one of his papers:
Collective Memory and Spatial Sorting in Animal Groups. It is a great read, the most interesting results? states of individuals have an effect on the swarm, you don't have to be aware even of the swarm, simple parameters such as perimeters, closeness to other swarm individuals can have a dramatic effect.
the other interesting result is, that the next state of the swarm can depend on states in the past, this leads to spatial memory effect.
i think the article raises an interesting point. virtualization technology. if you think about it, this could mean that ms ships as a host operating system and one preinstalled 'guest' operating system.
from this point on, anyone can run his sw in windows, older versions of windows (with which it is competing) and most of all: any linux distro or other OS.
this further on means, that non-technical people will run linux on their boxes, like any other application. for them, there is no big difference whether it's an application or a complete operating system. this means also, that ms has found it's niche, where it always was. the end user. i doubt that there will be many non-technicals, that will later change to have another OS as their host operating system.
this also solves the 64bit problem, the old 32 bit apps can still be run.
i think this story demands a lot more comments than these few. this is history in progress (11 comments so far from posting, till my comment). the next gpl should and will hopefully revolutionize IT.
i understand that the transcripts are long, as well as the recordings. but for god sake, please these are the guys who will regulate some of our future.
btw i think that the ideas presented, and the process leading up to the next gpl are really fascinating. READ IT NOW!
what about my rights to privacy? where i live we still have at least the illusion of privacy >:) what about restricted areas (numbers sadly increasing again nowadays), where photos are not allowed? what about my medication battling my paranoia?
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This is not the consent vote, this was only a resolution reminding the comission on a couple of things.
One of the MEPs who started this initiative Mr Motti is an interesting figure. After the vote on the Telecoms package - one of the MEPs who initiated this topic - Mr Motti already foreshadowed his intentions:
Also notable is, how much he is is interested in anonymity and blogs:
In another speech Mr Motti also addressed freedom of speech in Italy, i guess this points in the same direction like what is happening currently in Italy regarding google.
On an ironic side note Mr Motti also seems to be highly interested in setting up cameras in kindergartens:
and
It's ironic, how someone fighting pedophilia wants to setup cameras in childcare centers.
all his debates are available, also his parliamentary questions
This move might also result in google moving their servers back to the usa from europe. Causing that the european data protection laws do not apply anymore to the data on those servers.
afaik you can DOS the UMTS layer, in which case the phone reverts to GSM encryption.
there are so many free solutions. tikiwiki beats sharepoint in most aspects, especially with the new workspaces feature comming in v4.0. couple that with some other solutions like horde, or some other online solution and you've achieved more, than you ever could with sharepoint.
sidreporter could be used to gather such security logs more or less respecting privacy.
Douglas Adams was right. ;)
check out edukalibre.
Intellectual Property, Computer Software and the Open Source Movement, March 11, 2004
Telecommunications Japans Telecommunications Deregulation: NTTs Access Fees and Worldwide Expansion, August 9, 2000
Telecommunications Act: Competition, Innovation, and Reform, June 7, 2007
Patent-related The Obviousness Standard in Patent Law: KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc., May 31, 2007
I know that the only accepted way is by pen and paper. Can anyone please tell me why Secure Multi-party Computations - which also bears some of RSAs Adi Shamirs work - cannot satisfy basic requirements?
zimbra might be interesting, but the license is not *FREE* and it is now a yahoo owned product, thus there is still the possibility of a yahoo buyout by microsoft, which would probably mean the end of a competitor to exchange.
I just managed to sync an outlook client and a nokia mobile with egroupware, a completely free collaboration suite, other (albeit still in infancy) interesting systems are simplegroupware and everything supporting funambol or syncml in general.
i believe that it is not true, that floss sw is behind in this regard, the problem is, that the communication lacks.
i just talked with a guy from the pharma industry and he told me that they were working with about 800 colleagues on developing new drugs, but they would come up with only about 1 *prospective* result per annum. while there was a competing startup, which employed instead of manpower other means - extensive simulations, it know-how, etc - they succeeded to come up with 3-6 prospective results per annum. so might be that these guys are really just stalling the transformation from a heavily human based research to a high-tech approach?
;)
one more thing, pharma research is expensive and thus highly contributing to the innovation expenditure of states, so there might be also political motives behind the financial ones...
anyway pfizer seems to be closing up their research shops, a lot of the pharma brainshare is going to have to cope with the biotech wave.
just one more newsitem from today:
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/7715
> The European Union is reexamining its biofuels policy after finding evidence that increased demand might be endangering rainforests and causing other nasty side effects.
very interesting this mentioning of this patent, especially in the light of this news of today:
> GENEVA and ARMONK, NY--(Marketwire - January 14, 2008) - Leading members of the corporate community have come together in a first-of-its-kind effort to help the environment, unleashing dozens of innovative, environmentally responsible patents to the public domain.
source: http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=809733
- aaah, btw there is a highly interesting report by the OECD claiming that biofuels might be worse than oldschool fuels: http://www.cfr.org/publication/14293/oecd.html
the other interesting result is, that the next state of the swarm can depend on states in the past, this leads to spatial memory effect.
I think it is interesting to look a the involved parties stockquotes:
NovellAcacia
Redhat
Microsoft
Looks like the market reacted negatively at friday afternoon, but then everyone seemed to be back on level at least...
in soviet russia of course...
besides the question, i really digg the logo associated with this story.
i think the article raises an interesting point. virtualization technology.
if you think about it, this could mean that ms ships as a host operating system and one preinstalled 'guest' operating system.
from this point on, anyone can run his sw in windows, older versions of windows (with which it is competing) and most of all: any linux distro or other OS.
this further on means, that non-technical people will run linux on their boxes, like any other application. for them, there is no big difference whether it's an application or a complete operating system. this means also, that ms has found it's niche, where it always was. the end user. i doubt that there will be many non-technicals, that will later change to have another OS as their host operating system.
this also solves the 64bit problem, the old 32 bit apps can still be run.
what about the solution posted on9 81
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=136
doesn't this solve the problem, or did i not grasp the bug?
i'm actually thinking of burning the recordings to cd/dvd and make it mandatory for all my friends to view them :)
i think this story demands a lot more comments than these few. this is history in progress (11 comments so far from posting, till my comment). the next gpl should and will hopefully revolutionize IT.
i understand that the transcripts are long, as well as the recordings. but for god sake, please these are the guys who will regulate some of our future.
btw i think that the ideas presented, and the process leading up to the next gpl are really fascinating. READ IT NOW!
what about my rights to privacy? where i live we still have at least the illusion of privacy >:)
what about restricted areas (numbers sadly increasing again nowadays), where photos are not allowed?
what about my medication battling my paranoia?