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Archive for 2011/03/04
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange – The Cypherpunk Revolutionary
Posted: 2011/03/04 in Education / AwarenessAlthough there are tens of thousands of articles on Julian Assange in the world’s newspapers and magazines, no mainstream journalist so far has grasped the critical significance of the cypherpunks movement to Assange’s intellectual development and the origin of WikiLeaks.
Cypherpunks saw themselves as Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe. It must have been more than a little gratifying for a self-educated antipodean computer hacker, who had not even completed high-school, to converse on equal terms with professors of mathematics, whiz-kid businessmen and some of the leading computer code-writers in the world.
http://cryptome.org/0003/assange-manne.zip
Previously: http://vrritti.com/?s=cypherpunk
Personal Blogging at Work Increases Productivity
Posted: 2011/03/04 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportspulls employees closer to one another, builds relationships
http://blogs.forbes.com/susanadams/2011/03/01/personal-blogging-at-work-increases-productivity/
Are Tablets Ruining Watching TV Together?
Posted: 2011/03/04 in Education / Awareness, Future Developments?, Tech EvolutionThe phone was one thing. Pulling it out in social settings is dicy, but at least you can slip it out and slip it back in. Tablets, on the other hand, cast a shadow over who you’re sitting next to. They have a presence in the room. You hold them with both hands. You can glance at a phone—it’s harder to glance at a tablet
http://gizmodo.com/#!5775732/are-tablets-ruining-watching-tv-together
China is looking to track 17 million Chinese citizens by tapping into their cell phone’s location
Posted: 2011/03/04 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Tech EvolutionThe ‘research’, as China would like their people to think of it, is part of an initiative to improve Beijing’s public transportation system.
http://gizmodo.com/#!5775745/china-wants-to-track-their-citizens-by-tapping-into-their-cell-phones
BBC’s global iPlayer iPad app to cost less than $10 a month
Posted: 2011/03/04 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsThe corporate wrangling over Web video standards, already a technically and legally complex matter, is getting a lot more complicated with the arrival of a Justice Department antitrust investigation
Posted: 2011/03/04 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, GoogleDOJ is looking into whether the actions of patent licensing group MPEG LA are stifling a Google video encoding technology called VP8
‘Star Wars’ 3D coming to theaters in early 2012
Posted: 2011/03/04 in Education / Awareness, Tech EvolutionThe studios announced yesterday that “Star Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace” will be coming to theaters on February 10 in all its 3D glory. Purists will be happy to hear that Lucasfilm is guaranteeing that the conversion to 3D is “being done with utmost respect for the source material, and with a keen eye for both technological considerations and artistic intentions.”
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20039230-17.html
See also:
The Force is strong with ‘Clone Wars’ writer
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20039076-52.html
A former UK Labour party Minister (MP), Lord West, has called for a crackdown on broadband ISPs and internet email hosting firms that abuse Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) style technology to snoop on private customer emails without consent
Posted: 2011/03/04 in Education / Awareness, Filtering, Public Policy, Tech EvolutionIn particular the BBC reports that some providers, such as freemail operators, have used similar techniques to inject adverts into private messages, which in fairness is also used to support the services “free” status
A coalition of 19 US congressmen is now demanding an investigation into a “campaign to sabotage and discredit critics of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce”
Posted: 2011/03/04 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyBehind it were HBGary Federal, Palantir Technologies and Berico Technologies (collectively calling themselves ‘Team Themis’) and law firm Hunton & Williams, says a Government Security News post.
The European Commission has ended an investigation into the major Hollywood studios after they changed contract provisions on installing digital kit at cinemas
Posted: 2011/03/04 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyEurocrats reckon the changes will make it easier for small, independent films to get decent distribution
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/04/hollywood_digital_cleared/
The trend in online music is certainly moving towards streaming, and ISPs are keen to offer something – well, anything – in the hope it builds up loyalty and reduces customer churn
Posted: 2011/03/04 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution, The CloudBut there are strings attached when your music is in the cloud
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/04/virgin_music_unlimited_outdated/
The Google Review – or to give its official title, The Intellectual Property Office’s Independent Review of IP and Growth – has come under a sustained fire
Posted: 2011/03/04 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Google, Public Policy, Stats / reportsThere is nothing like a recession to focus attention on growth and jobs, and IP is a much bigger part of the economy than music industry-bashers like to acknowledge
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/04/cbi_roasts_hargreaves/
Australian Federal Police has warned a group of Australian parliamentarians that the country’s planned National Broadband Network (NBN) will “make it harder” for them to “track people downloading and sharing child pornography”
Posted: 2011/03/04 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public Policy, Tech EvolutionThe AFP has warned the parliamentarians that too many service providers and service bundling are the problem. Triple-play services (with TV, Internet and broadband under a single account) are particularly terrifying, apparently.
Why the current mass litigation approach to dealing with P2P file-sharing infringement is so damaging: it pits those with money and legal expertise against those who may have neither, and even attempting to clear your name can cost huge amounts of cash
Posted: 2011/03/04 in Education / Awareness, LitigationGoogle and Microsoft team up to battle geotagging patent troll
Posted: 2011/03/04 in Education / Awareness, Google, LitigationUnlimited music re-downloads may come as part of MobileMe revamp
Posted: 2011/03/04 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionApple is reportedly working out deals with the Big Four music labels to let users re-download their purchased music an unlimited number of times. A deal could be announced mid-year, and may come as part of the rumored MobileMe revamp.
The alleged owner of Channelsurfing.net has been arrested and faces up to five years in prison for providing links to TV streams online. Here’s how the US government tracked him
Posted: 2011/03/04 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Public PolicyNewly unsealed court documents show that Brian McCarthy, the 32-year old alleged operator of Channelsurfing.net, got the complete treatment—investigators dug into his domain name registrar, his ISP, his Gmail account, his ad brokers, and the Texas driver’s license database. They even sent a surveillance team to the Deer Park, Texas home where McCarthy lived with his parents
Dutch Telco KPN acquired Dutch Internet Exchange Point NL-ix
Posted: 2011/03/04 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionNL-ix is the fourth largest internet exchange point in the world, offering services to 270 participants
NL-ix will continue to operate as an autonomous organization within KPN
Dutch language article: http://www.nu.nl/internet/2460275/kpn-neemt-internetknooppunt.html
