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	lunedì 10 gennaio 2005

Life is NOT random

Gates dà dei comunisti a quelli che vogliono una ragionevole riforma del diritto d'autore nell'era di Internet. Apple denuncia due blogger e scrive sui suoi nuovi computer (a bassa potenza) "Life is random". Questi stanno perdendo la testa. La fine della legge di Moore li ha messi in disarmo mentale. Ambedue sanno che un certo business facile dei pc è finito, morto. Il primo cerca di spillare quattrini dalla libera condivisione in rete, via stato di cyperpolizia (pubblica o privata che sia). Il secondo vuole cercarsi un business che non è il suo. Con i computerini usa e getta.... bah...poveracci. Direbbe Plutarco: due storie parallele della ricerca americana del successo e dei profitti ad ogni costo. Compreso l'accecamento per arroganza. Che ne dici? [] 10:31:40 PM

Leonardo's workshop
A real news: The Leonardo Da Vinci workshop in Florence has been discovered quite casually by three military geographers. The ancient rooms contains also some paints and some architectural findings. This discovery may be the biggest from many years for the story of the Rinascimento......more to come... Che ne dici? [] 7:19:55 PM

Urbani emigra in Iran?

Non scherzo. Se fosse passata la sua famigerata legge in prima stesura sarebbe successo anche in Italia più o meno questo: una internet preventivamente filtrata.... Iran cuts off access for bloggers. Reknowned Persian blogger Hoder reports that the Iranian government has cut off access to blogging and social networking services. (Via JOHO) Friends in Iran, journalists and technicians, are saying that judiciary officials have ordered all major ISP to filter all blogging services including PersianBlog, BlogSpot, Blogger, BlogSky, and even BlogRolling. They have also ordered to filter Orkut, Yahoo Personals and some other popular dating and social networking websites. For ISPs this means a big loss, since much of their recent sales have been because of people writing and reading blogs and surfing Orkut. So the government is effectively eliminating small and private ISPs by bankrupting them, whiteout paying a political price for it. As I had said before, I think we can adopt a three-level strategy for fighting Net censorship in Iran: 1. Technical: using proxies, email, P2P applications, etc. 2. Civil: creating consumer associations for internet users and organizing effective campaigns through them against the censorship. 3. Legal: filing local or even international lawsuits against the government and related organizations or officials for violating the constitution of Iran and international law. While still relevant and potentially effective, I believe they are not enough now. The EU and the US must seriously consider demanding for an end to the Internet censorship during their negotiations with the Iranian government. We also have to look for ways to beam Internet direcly to Iranian users in Tehran and other big cities via cheap satellite connections. I call this "open access" and it's actually one of the projects a few friends and I are working on: to use millions of satellite dishes in Iranian houses to access the net, without interference of local ISPs. [Smart Mobs] Sempre di oggi: Alle solite. L'industria discografica vuole pieni poteri (di polizia) su internet negli Usa (e oltre) L'accostamento delle due notizie è ovviamente del tutto causale...;-) Che ne dici? [] 6:34:48 PM

Sarà Bruxelles a farla finalmente cambiare?
Legge Urbani all'esame di Bruxelles. La normativa che ha messo in ridicolo le dichiarazioni di autorevoli esponenti del Governo italiano sara' passata al setaccio dalle autorita' comunitarie [Punto Informatico] Che ne dici? [] 4:11:29 PM

Quanto costa lo squilibrio
Even Without the Tsunami, 2004 Set Record Losses from Natural Disasters. Losses caused by natural disasters, most of them climate-related and headed by hurricanes in America and typhoons in Japan, crossed the $100 billion threshold for the first time this year, leaping to some $105 billion, according to preliminary estimates from... [Green Car Congress] Che ne dici? [] 2:16:48 PM

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