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tigerfort:
The glorious leaders of the UK have published a "Digital Economy Bill" as part of this year's legislative program. The main thrust of it is penalties for people suspected of illegal file sharing, and the ability for more penalties and requirements for ISPs to keep and hand over information to be added later by Mr Mandleson or his successor, with no further debate.
There is also a provision for a royalty collecting organisation to collect royalties on behalf of people not their members, and, presumably, keep them. This was not clear, but I believe it is what is done in the USA.
This is a pretty chilling piece of legislation. We rely increasingly on the internet, and it does not seem to me even vageuely in line with previous traditions of UK law to impose a far reaching penalty in response to accusations for which evidence need not be provided.
In the USA, academics have rigorously demonstrated false identification of illegal file sharing for such devices as printers and routers. Although it may turn out that the majority of the people so accused will be guilty, it would not be prudent to assume that. 'Course, if you've done nothing wrong, you have notihng to fear, right?
There is a Number 10 petition to sign, and I commend to all reading this in the UK that they do so.
Here are links to more info. I particulary liked this comment from one of them: Eroding Democracy and Constitutional Law should be a criminal offense, not a business model...
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Happy Birthday muninnhuginn
Hoppy Bird Day to the corbies
These words from gayalondiel
I won't post the meme rules this time because I am too tired to think of words for anyone else at present
Curry
I have always enjoyed considerable variety in food, and had eaten the generic curry that my mother made. Then, in my first year at university, I lived in a flat with some people from Sri Lanka, one of whom was a keen and skilful cook. I enjoyed the flavourful food he prepared – things like dall that you could eat with a fork, and that was normally served with a salad, because you would not want to eat it thermally hot, as spicy as it was.
Though I do not usually choose the spiciest curries in Indian restaurants, because I like variety, I certainly don't normally discover anything too spicy for me to want to eat it if I am in the right mood. Remember: 'Everybody likes … good curry'.
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Rules:
Reply to this meme by yelling 'WORDS!', and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your journal and explain what they mean to you. Keep in mind that if I don't know you that well, your words might end up kind of esoteric/oblique. You'll only get given five words if you do include 'WORDS!' in a reply to this post, meaning you can safely comment (should you wish to do so) without having to play.
Words from sally_maria
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| My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul |
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| alitalf goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Gandalf. |
| atreic tricks you! You get a rock. |
| chainmailmaiden gives you 12 orange vanilla-flavoured gummy worms. |
| crazyscot gives you 2 light green evil-flavoured pieces of bubblegum. |
| emperor tricks you! You lose 2 pieces of candy! |
| foradan gives you 4 dark blue lemon-flavoured gummy worms. |
| gayalondiel gives you 9 yellow peach-flavoured pieces of taffy. |
| gurthaew gives you 3 mottled green licorice-flavoured jawbreakers. |
| jason_finch gives you 1 brown tropical-flavoured gummy bats. |
| muuranker gives you 3 green grapefruit-flavoured gummy worms. |
| rustica tricks you! You get an eraser. |
| alitalf ends up with 32 pieces of candy, a rock, and an eraser. |
| Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern. |
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amused
It will be interesting to find out how often I use Win 7 instead of Mint. There are certainly some applications that need windows, which will prevent complete migration.
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Get those white mice revved up in their little mouse wheels! Add amphetamine to their water?
ETA: And it is back online now :-)
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You are The Hermit
Prudence, Caution, Deliberation.
The Hermit points to all things hidden, such as knowledge and inspiration,hidden enemies. The illumination is from within, and retirement from participation in current events.
The Hermit is a card of introspection, analysis and, well, virginity. You do not desire to socialize; the card indicates, instead, a desire for peace and solitude. You prefer to take the time to think, organize, ruminate, take stock. There may be feelings of frustration and discontent but these feelings eventually lead to enlightenment, illumination, clarity.
The Hermit represents a wise, inspirational person, friend, teacher, therapist. This a person who can shine a light on things that were previously mysterious and confusing.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
I don't really think that either the lack of wish to socialise nor yet the virginity quite fit, and as for the rest, who can tell? - but it is a silly meme!
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For many purposes it may be an up to date replacement for email. Think of the sharing capability of Google Docs, but with character by character interactivity between all participants, real time translation, hierarchy of waves in waves, multi media, realtime translation as messages are typed...
I hope they give me an invite code for the beta test version.
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There is a 22 episode TV series of Flash Forward starting on Channel 5 this evening, at 21:00. I have no idea whether the series will be as good as the book, but in case it is I suggest having a look.
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Happy Birthday emperor
I hope you have a good day
Have a good Birthday pellegrina
Consider yourselves reminded ;-)
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Happy Birthday na_lon
Happy Birthday malaheed
It seems that Microsoft has fallen foul of a fatuous software patent, that MS Office apprently infringes. Oh dear! My nose bleeds for them. Here is the story on ZDNET.
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Our route was from Montreal to Toronto, then from Toronto to London Heathrow. When we checked in, the flight we were booked on (18:00) had no known snags, but after lounging around for a while because we were very early for the flight, the departure board showed that two flights to Toronto were cancelled. As it turned out, Air Canada found seats for us on a flight scheduled to depart at 16:00, but which did not start boarding until about 16:30, so there was no need to run to the gate.
That departed a little earlier than the flight we were booked on *should* have departed. On arrival in Toronto, we asked where to go for the connecting flight we were booked on, and then spent about an hour at the departure gate waiting for boarding to start.
When we arrived at the desk they told us that because our flight from Toronto had been cancelled, we were no longer on the flight that our boarding cards said we would be on. Eventually, the customer services people discovered that there were two seats available, but, of courtse, not next to each other. At that stage we were relieved to be able to go to the right destination at the right time.
Later we were told that the luggage had not even been sent from Montreal to Toronto on the flight we were on, which seems to me to go against the current principles of security.
The customer information people at Heathrow called us on the public address system to tell us that the luggage was still in Toronto, and would be delivered to us on Thursday morning.
We are still a bit tired after an overnight flight and a 5-hour change of timezone back, so that it will seem like getting up at 3am for a while.
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The Panopticon Society
In the background of David Brin’s Earth, there were cheap cameras everywhere, and this affected how people lived, how crime could take place.
( David Brin believes... )- Mood: contemplative
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