Archive for February 2012
Logging More Findings
2012-02-24 by , tagged as
- ARM/Server/Install - Ubuntu Wiki
- BeagleBoard.org - Ubuntu
- BeagleBoard-xM | Arch Linux ARM
- BeagleScanSpec Project
- British government draws up Big Brother style communications law - Protection from "terrorism" | TechEye
- Debian Project News - February 20th, 2012
- False Recovery 2.0: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like 2011 - Atlantic Mobile
- Freedom-crushing govts close to ruling our web, fears FCC boss • The Register
- Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Gentoo on the Marvell SheevaPlug
- Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings
- Iran disables VPNs ahead of election; postpones national "halal" internet until June.
- ITU vote allows member states to take "necessary actions" against satellite interference.
- Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Ubuntu in your pocket
- 'Miss' officially banned in France - FRANCE 24
- Muse Development Wiki : | BeagleBox / BeagleBox | browse
- Open Access Pledge – Spurious Tuples
- PCWorld Google Says IE Privacy Policy Is Impractical in Modern Web
- PJ Media » Drunkblogging the Last (?) GOP Debate of 2012 » Print
- Taylor & Francis Online :: HIDDEN LEVERS OF INTERNET CONTROL - Information, Communication & Society -
- The PJ Tatler » The Republican War on Women!
- The PJ Tatler » Valerie Jarrett: Unemployment Checks Stimulate the Economy
- Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)
- Ubuntu for Android: Canonical brings Ubuntu desktop to docked smartphones
- Ubuntu for Android: Penguins peck at Nokia's core problem • The Register
- Ubuntu for Android | Ubuntu
- Ubuntu Linux Unveiled for Android Phones | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- VideoLAN - VLC 2.0 Twoflower
- Who's adding DRM to HTML5? Microsoft, Google and Netflix • The Register
- GPS jammers and spoofers threaten infrastructure, say researchers
- Schneier: government, big data pose bigger 'Net threat than criminals
- USPS to Cut Another 35,000 Jobs: Can the Post Office Be Saved? Should It Be? | Daily Ticker - Yahoo! Finance
- PhysOrg Mobile: Eastern Europeans fuel fight for Internet freedoms
- Prediction: Mitt Romney Will Not Be the GOP Nominee This Year, And Barack Obama Will Not Be Re-Elected | Daily Pundit
- Animal rights group says drone shot down
- Copyright enforcement and the Internet: we just haven't tried hard enough?
- Eamon Delaney : ... but we must regulate the Net - Analysis, Opinion - Independent.ie
- Gas prices are highest ever for this time of year - Yahoo! Finance
- Governments Become Financially Insolvent When TheyBecome Demographically Insolvent - Investors.com
- Happy Valentine's Day: US government breaks up with LightSquared
- Members of UK Parliament Recommend Censoring Online Extremism | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Mobile internet devices to outnumber humans this year • The Register
- Mobile Internet devices will outnumber humans this year, Cisco predicts
- Penguin move causes outrage at ToC | The Bookseller
- BeagleBoard.org - Ubuntu
- Book Publishing Industry News. Regular news updates from The Bookseller's news desk. The latest press reports about the publishing sector and updates from the City
- Althouse: "Once we get through the next couple of years of mania... people will... say, 'ok the book is not dying.'"
- British Library seeks taxpayer-funded Wikipedia-fiddler • The Register
- Congrats, US Government: You're Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US | Techdirt
- Drones, Privacy, and Air Rights | The Volokh Conspiracy
- Ed Driscoll » #Occupyfail: When the Paper Chase Becomes a Mobius Loop
- EU Court of Justice: Social Networks Can’t Be Forced to Monitor and Filter to Prevent Copyright Infringement | Electronic Fr...
- Ex-Akamai man: Stop being faithful to your CDN • The Register
- From encryption to darknets: As governments snoop, activists fight back
- Girls Gone Hyper - WSJ.com
- Glenn Reynolds: A Syllabus for the 'Occupy' Movement - WSJ.com
- Google’s New Privacy Policy | Emerging Technologies Librarian
- If we can buy Alaska, can’t we purchase OverDrive for a national digital library system? | TeleRead: News and views on e-boo...
- Iranians' Internet access blocked temporarily: experts - Yahoo!7
- Iran police clamp down on satellite TV users
- Jack of Kent: Who is David Rose?
- Kazakhstan upgrades censorship to deep packet inspection | The Tor Blog
- 'Linux for cloud' floats anti-Amazon cloud taster • The Register
- Linux talent shortage drives up salaries • The Register
- Men's Journal - Features - Muscle Beach and the Dawn of Huge
- REFILE-Al Gore takes aim at unsustainable capitalism | Reuters
- Scott Gottlieb: Meet the ObamaCare Mandate Committee - WSJ.com
- Shortwave Central: Radio NZ International ready for Australian Radio 1922 documentary
- Super Star Trek 2.1
- Syria Arrests Razan Ghazzawi and Eleven Other Activists in Renewed Crackdown of Online Dissent | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- The Bugcast » Music and chat from South Yorkshire in the UK
- Today's sysadmin todo list:0. Get corporate membership with EFF.1. Identify all ... | Hacker News
- Twitter Censors Accounts Unfavorable To Nicolas Sarkozy
- WPR Article | Over the Horizon: Amphibious Ops a Dual-Use Tool for U.S. Policy Kit
- British Library seeks taxpayer-funded Wikipedia-fiddler • The Register
Mid-Week Findings
2012-02-15 by , tagged as
- Art's classical nudes get Photoshopped to be skinnier - NY Daily News
- Ed Driscoll » Time to Short Amazon? Jamie Gorelick Now Onboard
- FCC turns auction upside down for $300m rural 3G broadband • The Register
- Special Report: Towns go dark with post office closings | Reuters
- The PJ Tatler » Philadelphia’s Archbishop Chaput Calls the HHS Regulation “Insulting and Dangerous”
- Envisioning a Post-Campus America - Atlantic Mobile
- Interactive: Special Report: Towns go dark with post office closings | Reuters
- Iranians' Internet access blocked temporarily: experts | Reuters
- Ed Driscoll » Time to Short Amazon? Jamie Gorelick Now Onboard
- SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Most computer users in Iran were blocked from accessing email, social networking and other services in recent days, U.S.-based Internet experts said on Monday, raising fears the
- Shuttleworth remixes Ubuntu... for biz users • The Register
Related links (and then some) for Burning Circle 59
2012-02-12 by , tagged as
- Lawsuit: Defendant Breached a Duty Not to Shoot Bottle Rockets Out of His Anus - Lowering the Bar
- After seizure, online gamblers try to retrieve $150 million from Full Tilt Poker
- American Bandscan: Non-commercial stations will continue to be non-commercial
- Canonical aims for enterprise desktop with Ubuntu business remix
- Canonical ending support for Kubuntu, reassigning lead developer
- Ed Driscoll » The Paranoid Style, Then and Now
- Enough, Already: The SOPA Debate Ignores How Much Copyright Protection We Already Have - Atlantic Mobile
- Epistle of Obama 1:10 (Formerly Ephesians) « The Anchoress
- First Google hire leaving for online academy - FRANCE 24
- Google limits Android support for CDMA phones • The Register
- Harry Reid | Internet Regulation | Cybersecurity Bill | The Daily Caller
- If You See Something, Shut Up - Cliff May - Townhall Conservative
- Iran draws veil over secure internet access • The Register
- Iran government cuts off internet access as hardline regime makes a stand | Mail Online
- Iran reportedly blocking encrypted Internet traffic
- IT guy answers daughter's Facebook rant by shooting her laptop • The Register
- Jury rules that Eolas's "interactive web" patent is invalid
- Licked RIM has a lifeline: a social network in a box • The Register
- Need for jobs tops county survey » Local News » The Star Beacon; Ashtabula, Ohio
- Penguin halts e-books sales to libraries
- PocketBook unveils seven-inch Gingerbread tablet - News - Linux for Devices
- Quarter of Wolfram Alpha brainteasers come from Siri • The Register
- Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux computer on track to launch later this month
- RIAA still raging against Google, Wikipedia for "misuse of power" in SOPA battle
- Secret documents lift lid on WWII mutiny by US troops in north Queensland - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
- Teletweety – Mechanical Teletype doing Twitter | With Varying Frequency – Amateur Radio Ponderings
- Ubuntu 12.10 will bypass menus via predictive search - News - Linux for Devices
- www.teletweety.com/
- A license to link? Lowe's has one
- Commentary | Scoble: I'll Go Down With the Ship | Epicenter | Wired.com
- Hackers eavesdrop on FBI, Scotland Yard phone call - FRANCE 24
- The PJ Tatler » Rape Victims: The Latest Collateral Damage of Anonymous’ Hacking Crimes
- Peace, Love and C++ - Mapping the Ubuntu Community
- Andy Boyle » Step One: Setting up your Ubuntu server on Amazon Web Services
- Anonymous pokes fate bear, leaks FBI conference call about Anonymous
- Phil Bradley's weblog: Creative Commons Search Engine
- Guardian article on “the rise and rise of radio” | | The SWLing PostThe SWLing Post
- It’s too late for Dave Winer and John Battelle to save the common web — Scobleizer
- London Olympics Could Prompt Internet Slowdown | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- mashpodder - podcatching client based on BashPodder - Google Project Hosting
- MPs rattle telcos to help kill extremist material online • The Register
- Online dating may encourage 'shopping' for mate - Technology & Science - CBC News
- Hawaii may keep track of all Web sites visited | Privacy Inc. - CNET News
- After seizure, online gamblers try to retrieve $150 million from Full Tilt Poker
- The state legislature plans hearing on bill requiring Internet service providers to create dossiers on residents showing all Web sites they visit for two years. Read this blog post by Declan McCullagh on Privacy Inc..
Jiggling the flush handle
2012-02-06 by , tagged as
- RNW Dutch radio service to end on 11 May 2012
- The GNU Education Project — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
- The Thicket at State Legislatures: NCSL Podcast: The Buzz
- Turned on, tuned in: the rise and rise of radio | Television & radio | The Guardian
- Twitter to restrict user content in some countries | Reuters
- Voices for the Library» Blog Archive » Culture, Media and Sport Committee publish library inquiry responses
- A license to link? Lowe's has one
- Commentary | Scoble: I'll Go Down With the Ship | Epicenter | Wired.com
- Hackers eavesdrop on FBI, Scotland Yard phone call - FRANCE 24
- Lawsuit: Defendant Breached a Duty Not to Shoot Bottle Rockets Out of His Anus - Lowering the Bar
- The PJ Tatler » Rape Victims: The Latest Collateral Damage of Anonymous’ Hacking Crimes
- Peace, Love and C++ - Mapping the Ubuntu Community
- Andy Boyle » Step One: Setting up your Ubuntu server on Amazon Web Services
- BeagleBoardUbuntu - eLinux.org
- EC2StartersGuide - Community Ubuntu Documentation
- Anonymous pokes fate bear, leaks FBI conference call about Anonymous
- Censoring the Web Every Which Way | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com
- Google to Censor Blogger Blogs on a 'Per Country Basis' | Threat Level | Wired.com
- Phil Bradley's weblog: Creative Commons Search Engine
- The PJ Tatler » A Competitive Primary is Indeed Better for Conservatism
- The PJ Tatler » Breaking: Buckeye State GOP Passes Rule to Block Insurgent Central Committee Candidates
- The PJ Tatler » Topless In Seattle-Watching Porn In Public Library OK
- You Should Find the Anti-Komen Backlash Disgusting, Even If You’re Pro-Choice - By Daniel Foster - The Corner - National Rev...
- Guardian article on “the rise and rise of radio” | | The SWLing PostThe SWLing Post
- It’s too late for Dave Winer and John Battelle to save the common web — Scobleizer
- London Olympics Could Prompt Internet Slowdown | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- mashpodder - podcatching client based on BashPodder - Google Project Hosting
- MPs rattle telcos to help kill extremist material online • The Register
- Online dating may encourage 'shopping' for mate - Technology & Science - CBC News
- Since 2009, Mobile Internet Usage Has Doubled Every Year
- The GNU Education Project — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
- The growth of the mobile Web is on a steady rise. While pundits throw around words like "explosive" and "outrageous" the more precise word is probably "consistent." According to analytics firm StatCounter, users accessing the Web through mobile devices has almost doubled every year since 2009. In its latest report, StatCounter says that global Internet usage through mobile devices rose to 8.5%, nearly doubling the 2011 figure of 4.3%. StatCounter's analytics only include cellphones, excluding tablets from the mix. The global leader in mobile Web use is Nokia at nearly 40% of usage. The firm believes that Nokia's global dominance...
Looking ahead
2012-02-04 by , tagged as
Alternative modalities of distribution are being pondered. With the problems being dished out by Anonymous, having a free and open Internet may yet be imperiled. John C. Dvorak had plenty to say on PCMag.com about the Internet being imperiled. Episodes released on February 6th may address this further.
This has been a strange week...
2012-02-03 by , tagged as
Things Found
- Disgusting: Occupy Charlotte Used Water Supply as Toilet, Possibly for Months | Verum Serum
- Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist - Slashdot
- EFF ready to sue if "innocent customers" can't get Megaupload data back
- Five things you can't do on Twitter in the United States | FP Passport
- France 24 launches connected TV application
- French court protectionism fines Google Maps for succeeding | ITworld
- Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist - Slashdot
- Bottin Cartographes charges French companies for maps. Google Maps offers them free. French court levies 515,000 euro fine against Google.
- Georgia's Anna Watson Is College Football's Strongest Female Cheerleader | ThePostGame
- Google 'chooses' not to censor Mosley content, MP says • The Register
- Lawfare » The Internet “Kill Switch” Debate
- PCWorld Security Slackers Risk Internet Blackout on March 8
- Post-Sovereign Europe? | Hoover Institution
- Researchers boycott publisher; will they embrace instant publishing?
- South Korea Detains Man for a Retweet [VIDEO]
- Technology & Marketing Law Blog: Comments on Twitter's Country-by-Country Tweet Removal Announcement
- The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Needs You! – pleia2's blog
- Time for OverDrive to sell itself to America’s public libraries? Any foundation angels care to help? | TeleRead: News and vi...
- VHP Collects Vietnam Stories - News Releases (Library of Congress)
- America's first 'WhiteFi' network goes live - News - Linux for Devices
- Amid privacy fears, some still resist Facebook - FRANCE 24
- Andrew Lilico: The FU Treaty significantly changes our relationship with the EU so when's that referendum coming? Conservati...
- Android users more likely to put out • The Register
- Censoring the Web Every Which Way | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com
- County unemployment on rise » Local News » The Star Beacon; Ashtabula, Ohio
- Google 'chooses' not to censor Mosley content, MP says • The Register