[Jaspersharpe]

bring back the old man shaking his cane smilie!
:old:

[Jaspersharpe]

http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2865

Spot on this article. Brown bangs the drum about "internet for all" and yet the Digital Economy Bill will restrict internet usage in libraries and other places where those who don't yet have access will be most likely to get it. All in a desperate and short sighted attempt to protect the interests of Mandy's mates in the recording industry. It's a fucking joke.

[slackline]

http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2865

Spot on this article. Brown bangs the drum about "internet for all" and yet the Digital Economy Bill will restrict internet usage in libraries and other places where those who don't yet have access will be most likely to get it. All in a desperate and short sighted attempt to protect the interests of Mandy's mates in the recording industry. It's a fucking joke.

  Good find.  Very interesting and important detail they pick up on too about open data formats.

[Jaspersharpe]

Got it from @glynmoody who is well worth following on Twitter (if people aren't already).

[Jaspersharpe]

More of the same via @bengoldacre:

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/networking/2010/02/26/open-wi-fi-outlawed-by-digital-economy-bill-40057470/

I've written to my MP about this. It's a total and utter disgrace.

[ChrisC]

It's old and probably posted before, but every time I read anything about the digital economy bill it reminds me of this daily mash article, that sums up the corruptness of the bill quite nicely.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/mandelson-pledges-to-support-geffen-yacht-dream-200908181990/

It also bears some similarity to last nights dispatches program thinking about it. 

[Tris]

Not sure who to vote for in the general election? Vote Pirate Party 

[Tris]

Adobe CS5 coming in April

[Jaspersharpe]

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/regulation/2010/03/30/lib-dems-to-fight-digital-economy-bill-over-wash-up-40088498/

[slackline]

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/regulation/2010/03/30/lib-dems-to-fight-digital-economy-bill-over-wash-up-40088498/

Hope it has some effect.

[Jaspersharpe]

Increasingly I'm finding that the Liberal Democrats are the only party who have any policies I agree with.

[Tris]

 

[Jaspersharpe]

http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2010/04/01/the-digital-economy-bill-the-power-of-not-being-elected/

[Tris]

Google street view gets a warm welcome in Germany

[Jaspersharpe]

Another good post about the DEB.

[Jaspersharpe]

Fuck me, Jack of Kent's blog is a mine of good stuff:

http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2009/10/copyright-infringement-is-not-theft.html

[Tris]

First man to be convicted of fixing Ebay auctions in the UK...

"I didn't know I was doing anything wrong,”

[Jaspersharpe]

This disgraceful act must be removed. Vote the corrupt bastards who rushed it through out:

http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/when-it-meets-politics/2010/04/has-the-digital-economy-prohib.html

[Jaspersharpe]

http://reason.com/blog/2010/04/21/first-they-came-for-hitler

[Tris]

Windows 7 coming to your TV

[Tris]

Gigabit WIFI or not?

[Johnny Brown]

The future of social networking?

[Control freak]

Limewire likely to be no more??

Slashdot

[slackline]

The Red Queen is about to shift up a gear (although overall its a good thing).

Now all we need is everyone to switch to IPv6.

[dobbin]

IPv6 will fundamentally revolutionise networking. I cant be bothered to explain NAT and RFC1918 but there will no longer be requirement for private networks. Never before has the firewall and IDS been more important.

The IPv6 address space delivers 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses as opposed to 4,294,967,296 which is why we havent enough now and we must use things like NAT to preserve address space.

Mind boggling. Arguably, less so than NAT is now, but when you've got your head round that then this is a paradigm shift.