Category — General

Privacy and Human Rights 2003.

Today, EPIC & Privacy International launch ‘Privacy and Human Rights 2003, an international survey of privacy laws and developments’. It is a meaty tome that summarises developments in privacy law and policy in 55 countries during the past year.

There’ll be a webcast of today’s launch at the National Press Club (1300 ET) on the EPIC home page.

[Crooked Timber]

Privacy is important even though it is socially constructed and seems to be highly disputed as a category

Italy forbids unsolicited email. “Sending e-mails without the permission of the receiver is against the law in Italy. Offenders now risk fines of up to 90,000 euros and between six months and three years in prison, if it is proved that they did it… [InternetPolicy.net]

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somebody had to do it, now to get an italian isp.

Debunking IPv6 Myths.

Geoff Huston has written an opinion piece in the Internet Protocol Journal debunking myths about IPv6.

[ITU Strategy and Policy Unit Newslog]

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This is an interesting and somewhat insightful paper that brings to light some of the questions we should ask about technological implementations.

PHILOSOPHY LESSON. An oldie but goodie received from an old friend via e-mail: A professor stood before his Philosophy 101 class and had some items in front… [OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY]

GUI vs. CLI: A Qualitative Comparison. 4 Sep 2003: In this article, I will be analyzing the specific properties that make the command line unique and irreplaceable. I will likewise analyze the graphical UI's features–though only giving it a cursory look, since I assume my audience does not need to be persuaded to make the most of its video hardware. I will be looking at the Unix shell, since it is the most full-featured and powerful of such interfaces (DOS, of course, had very few features worth talking about; it must be given its due, tho [RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix]

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more dissertation related stuff is good

Library Association shares RIAA's lawfirm [bOing bOing]

this is somewhat worrisome, they are getting the same sort of legal advice from one institution.

Incorporated Subversion.

I object, it’s good to subvert…

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Some useful links:

Teaching as a Subversive Activity – A review / summary of this revolutionary book

The DOGME Teachers of English Group – A group set up concerned with ‘a pedagogy of the bare essentials’

An earlier post on this in my weblog

[Xplana]

Hyper Text 2003 Papers posted.

The Hyper Text 2003 Conference has posted the Hyper Text 03 Papers online. There are some great reads in the pile, if you enjoy theoretical and future-current uses of hyper text as a tool and theory.

[vanderwal.net Off the Top]

there are some good ones there, i like 4.pdf and 30.pdf, though others are probably worth reading in their own right.

Please find attached the First Call for Papers (following text) for International Workshop onÊWeb Services:Modeling, Architecture and Infrastructure (WSI2004),In conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems – ICEIS 2004Êto be held at Universidade Portucalense, Porto ö Portugal, 14-17, April 2004.Ê Dr Jiankun Hu and Dr Savitri BevinakoppaÊ( Chairs ) and the organising committee invite you to submit a paper (or papers) for review and to attend in April. Further details are given in the Call for Papers. Please circulate this.

i'm not posting the rest cause it was all html email and that's just not my style.

this is something i'm watching, not being a local i can't do much other than that.

here is some protest news too:

http://news.com.com/2100-1008-5069279.html?tag=nl

http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5070092.html?tag=fd_top

and counterspin,

http://vrijschrift.org/swpat/press/final_factsheet1092003.pdf

most of this is from Seth Johnson who is doing great work with C-FIT