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Idiot MEPs want EU to regulate blogging?

June 25th, 2008  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in internet, notes, politics, technology

Good grief, what are these MEP asshats thinking?
I’m against ownership concentration as much as the next guy, but I wonder what pluralism in media policy has to do with blogs putting “journalists and other media professionals under pressure”. I don’t see how regulation of before unseen ways in which potentially independent, anonymous citizens can express [...]

HP GPLs the Tru64 Unix Advanced File System

June 23rd, 2008  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, linux/unix, notes, technology

Hewlett-Packard has released the source code of AdvFS under the GNU General Public License. AdvFS is an advanced file system (with features such as snapshots and storage pools) used by the company’s high end Tru64 UNIX operating system.
This probably means that HP does a lot of business with Linux, and that there really is a [...]

George Carlin Dead of Heart Failure

June 23rd, 2008  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, link tips, notes, politics

Carlin, who died at the age of 71, was an American author, comedian and actor known for his dislike of taboos and defence of Free Speech.
A recording of his Seven Dirty Words monologue, which after being aired by a radio broadcaster caused a 1978 American Supreme Court ruling establishing that the F.C.C. can regulate what [...]

Introducing omglog.com

June 22nd, 2008  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, link tips, linux/unix, notes, politics

For some time, I’ve wanted another blog with a significantly lower threshold for posting short shutouts of those random links that keep me distracted. The source of this text, the notes section on my personal site, should for a number of reasons be kept relatively tidy and reserved for longer posts with my own, [...]

Wiretapping in Sweden: all communications to be monitored?

June 4th, 2008  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, internet, link tips, notes, politics, technology

Rick Falkvinge, the leader of the Swedish Pirate Party discusses a wiretapping bill called “better adapted military intelligence gathering” that soon may hit hard on the privacy of anyone relying on any electronic communication routed through Sweden. A few quotes from the post:
“At about 20 points in the national information infrastructure network, all traffic [...]

Swedish copyright lobby avoids precedent by paying file sharer’s fines and court costs

May 27th, 2008  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, internet, notes, politics

The Pirate Bay blog has a recent post where the author claims to have received insider knowledge on why a recent verdict from a Swedish district court (tingsrätt) wasn’t appealed against by the defendant, a file sharer.
I quote a part of a translation of the text made by the third commenter on the original post’s [...]

Google suspends Finnish Pirate Party related blog

May 25th, 2008  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, internet, notes, politics

The process of properly establishing the Finnish Pirate Party took a leap forward this weekend.
A blog covering the party’s constitutive meeting in real time has however been suspended by Google/Blogspot. Xuenay, one of the party leaders writes the following on his personal blog:
I just got back from the founding meeting of the Finnish Pirate [...]

Finnish journalists disguised themselves as priests and social workers at scene of school shooting

May 20th, 2008  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, internet, link tips, notes

Much nonsense has been written on the Internet regarding the school massacre in the small town of Jokela last November, but an aspect of great interest to me is how the media involved itself in the aftermath.
As is common at scenes of human suffering all over the world, today’s news media for a moment [...]

File system expert from Sun posts “ZFS Pics” from meeting with Torvalds

May 19th, 2008  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, linux/unix, notes, technology

Something exciting may be going on. Jeff Bonwick, storage expert and leader of the ZFS team at Sun has posted pictures from a seemingly informal meeting with Linus Torvalds on his blog. Sr Program Manager at Sun, Jim Grisanzio also links to the pictures in a blog post of his own titled “ZFS Pics“.
Does this [...]

Brazilian ads reflect understanding of Money

May 18th, 2008  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, link tips, notes, politics

These money themed ads made by JWT for the Brazilian business newspaper Gazeta Mercantil are among the better marketing I’ve seen lately. I approve of their message.
Images found at I Believe in Advertising. Click on the images to view them in full size (there are some thoughtful details just waiting to be spotted).
[via:Gothamist, Disinfo]

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