WebOS opens up
From www.webosnation.com …
Open webOS 1.0, Enyo 2.0, and fulfilling the revised dreamThe SOPA/PIPA Result
But it isn't over. The powerful media forces will try to get new versions back to the House and Senate in the future. We must remain vigilant and prepared.
Once, the internet was the plaything of the USA Department of Defense. Then it moved into academe and commerce. Now, the internet is the tool of people all around the world; every minute of each day and from every country around the globe people use it to freely communicate with each other. To share news, photographs, information, their life.
The internet is no longer the private property of one country, or a single guiding mind. It was created by many many people and is for the benefit of all human kind.
And any time it may be threatened again it will be all human kind who will respond: "KEEP YOUR HANDS OF OUR INTERNET!"
20-Jan-2012 23:37 · Trackback ·
tags: human rights · law · politics
tags: human rights · law · politics
The SOPA/PIPA effect
18-Jan-2012 22:48 · Trackback ·
tags: censorship · law · open knowledge · state v society
tags: censorship · law · open knowledge · state v society
Age and DNA
There seems to be some received wisdom that you get more 'right-wing' as you get older, and though this has been supported by some others had suggested the reverse has applied to them. I'm certainly aware that while I've always had personal views which could be considered to cover the entire gamut from broad-left to far-right on specific topics — I've never been a believer that single Political Parties, no matter how broad a church they try to make out that they cover, are a valid answer — I can see in myself some 'focus' changes over maybe the last 15-10 years.
Making this a matter for a blog post though was prompted by one of the questions in today's YouGov survey request, "Different people have different ideas about whose DNA should be held on a national database, with the police allowed access when seeking to investigate crimes. Which of these options do you personally favour?"
They've supplied four answers, alongside the "don't know" get-out, being
- There should a national database of everyone's DNA
- There should be a national database of the DNA of everyone who has been arrested by the police in the course of investigating crimes, including those not charged, or charged and found not guilty
- There should be a national database of the DNA of people found guilty of a criminal offence
- Keeping anyone's DNA is an invaion of their privacy: no national DNA database of any kind should be kept
But then my knowledge of the ease with which databases may give the wrong results (or fail to give the right one) and that, just as with the common cold you have no idea what the route of contagion was five or ten steps back, you have no idea where your DNA — be it a fleck of blood, 2mm of hair, or a few skin cells — might be carried completely innocently, then the idea of having everything on record becomes a case of 'too dangerous to take the first answer'. There are over seven billion souls on this planet and unless you have the complete DNA record of every single one then you will be searching against an incomplete set which might easily have a close match but not the exact, correct, guilty match. And we've returned to the past dangers of hanging the wrong person.
05-Jan-2012 16:30 · Trackback ·
tags: human rights · law · politics
tags: human rights · law · politics
The #Fail Culture
From www.zdnet.com …
Failure, failing, and being “a failure” is such a part of tech culture that it is a cultural locus for entire posts, blogs, pep talks and conventions. Failure is universally feared and derided, yet framed and re-framed again and again as a means of staying positive, of learning from mistakes, of using failure as a measure of working hard for success.30-Dec-2011 23:18 · Trackback ·
tags: Fail
tags: Fail
IPv6 down
I just did :-(
Seems that my London gateway server's IPv4 connection is all happy and content but its IPv6 one is not. Doing the SSH thing suggests that I can't resolve it remotely as the external tunnel turns out to depend on the live state of the internal interface. Somewhat weird and unexpected behavior, but the drop in IPv6 connectivity appears to be the same time I turned off the internal routers (which I do if I'm going to be away a while).
Guess I'll never be turning them off again then!
27-Dec-2011 20:32 · Trackback ·
tags: servers
tags: servers
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