Netherlands first European nation to adopt net neutrality • The Register
The Dutch Parliament yesterday agreed to make the Netherlands the first nation in Europe to officially put net neutrality principles into law. The law will force ISPs and telecom operators to ensure access to all types of content, services or applications available on the network. The new telecom law has won a near unanimous vote, despite fierce opposition from telecom operators, who had been planning to charge for over-the-top services, such as Skype or WhatsApp Messenger, which bypass traditional cellular communications.
Ellison's Anti-Cloud Computing Rant - Thinking Out Cloud
Offer their middleware and database customers a pay-per-use pricing model on cloud environments such as EC2, Joyent, GoGrid and Flexiscale. Charge by the hour and only for cpu/hours actually used. Offer all of their application software on a SaaS/on-demand subscription basis To answer Larry's question, here are three things Oracle can do differently: Develop products that are suitable for virtualized highly-distributed environments, and therefore, or are not highly dependent on centralized components such as their database. [UPDATE: adding some more specifics based on additional research]] Specifically:
Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More | TorrentFreak
“We’d also like to point out that while Google doesn’t enable autocomplete for Xunlei (China’s largest software client that uses the BitTorrent protocol) Google did invest $5 million in the company in 2006, according to reports,” Morris says, adding, “We sincerely hope Google will recognize the value of BitTorrent and reevaluate this decision expeditiously.” RapidShare is not pleased with Google’s new filter either, at least not with its current scope in today’s roll-out. Morris further points out that the inclusion of Xunlei is a little hypocritical since Google is one of the investors in the Chinese BitTorrent client. “We knew about Google’s plans for quite a few weeks now. We embrace that certain search suggestions will not put a wrong complexion on RapidShare anymore, but we are concerned that at the same time the legitimate interests of our users will also be affected.
Social Media and Law Enforcement: Who Gets What Data and When? | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Also, in early versions of its guide, MySpace outlines that it will preserve data requested by law enforcement agents for 90 days. Law enforcement agents can then request a 90-day extension for a total preservation period of 180 days. This changed in the November 2007 guide, where MySpace said that it would “preserve the specific information identified in the request for up to 180 days and will extend the preservation as necessary at your request.” The November 2007 guide also describes MySpace’s Sentinel SAFE project, a previously unmentioned campaign designed to identify and remove registered sex offenders from the social network. Once MySpace matches a profile to a registered sex offender, it removes the user from the site and preserves the complete profile. Law enforcement officers who provide the appropriate legal process can then access the profile.
Perhaps the biggest surprise in the hearing was Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein's attack on EFF and our Best Practices for Online Service Providers (OSPs) whitepaper . As Weinstein testified, "In 2008, the Electronic Frontier Foundation published a user guide or a guide that was titled Best Practices for Online Service Providers which I think is unintentionally the best argument for Congress to intervene in this space than anything that I can say today." Weinstein went on to object to some of the guidelines in the whitepaper, designed by attorneys and technologists to best balance the business and technical needs of OSPs and their users' privacy and civil liberties.
House Subcommittee Revives Mandatory Data Retention Debate...With a Surprise Attack on EFF | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Long Live the Web: Scientific American
Yet people seem to think the Web is some sort of piece of nature, and if it starts to wither, well, that’s just one of those unfortunate things we can’t help. Not so. We create the Web, by designing computer protocols and software; this process is completely under our control.
Some people tend to credit Flash for just wathever issue they have on the Web... and this is often unfair. by Patrice Dec 6
Don't worry clarinette, you wont lose anything when will drop the "beta" logo. Besides you can export your data by clicking the "export" tab in the settings :-) by Patrice Dec 5
The values Tim Berners-Lee is advocating aren't they very much identical to the ones pearltrees is supporting? by perlenkette Dec 5
Jérémie Zimmermann , co-fondateur et porte-parole de l'association La Quadrature du net
Internet peut-il rester neutre ? - Sciences - France Culture
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Essential new book on 'Net Policy (blessed by Lessig!): "Internet Architecture and Innovation" - Boing Boing
Could this be the end of this bizarre turn of events? If AT&T is smart, it will be. Now, as quickly as it started, AT&T customers are reporting that 4chan is unblocked. Except for the fact that 4chan is currently suffering from a DDOS attack that’s taken the site down in a seemingly unrelated coincidence.
CEASEFIRE DECLARED: AT&T Unblocks 4Chan
Web inventor: 'Snooping' authorities threaten Internet | EU - Eu
You have campaigned hard in the US for 'net neutrality'. Why do you attach such importance to this issue? I see this as one of the biggest issues facing the future of the Web but the extent to which net neutrality is threatened differs from country to country.
La Commissaire Kroes s'engage en faveur de la Neutralité du Net
La Commissaire Kroes a abordé plusieurs sujets relatifs aux libertés dans l'environnement numérique, exprimant une opinion positive au sujet de l' amendement 138 1 et du principe d'interopérabilité. Elle a également affiché son soutien à la neutralité du Net . « Il est très encourageant de voir qu'un grand nombre de députés européens ont posé des questions au sujet de la neutralité du Net. Les propos de la Commissaire Kroes condamnant les pratiques commerciales qui violeraient la neutralité du Net sont rassurants et représentent un vrai pas en avant.
Report: AT&T Blocking 4chan
Note: We called AT&T, but were unable to confirm or debunk the reports since we do not have AT&T High-Speed Internet accounts Are you an AT&T customer and having problems reaching 4chan?
New York (CNN) -- Decades ago, when the Department of Defense was creating the predecessor to today's Internet, one of the main goals was to create a communications system that could endure catastrophic disasters. The Internet was designed to have no central point of failure, allowing anyone to run his or her own communications channel.
Don't let Twitter, Facebook, Google be the only game in town - C
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