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Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)

Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)

Do NOT Drink and Drive Con su padre, 1998. This is Jacqueline on vacation in Venezuela. De vacaciones en Venezuela Birthday party as a child. Aquí con sus padres. At a party with friends. Con sus amigos. The car in which Jacqueline travelled when she was hit by a car driven by a 17-year old student on his way home after a couple of beers with his friends. Jacqueline venía de una fiesta de cumpleaños con sus amigos, cuando un joven de 18 años que había estado bebiendo cervezas con sus amigos chocó contra ella. Jacqueline was caught in the burning car and her body was heavily burnt for around 45 seconds. Estuvo expuesta al calor de las llamas 45 segundos. After the accident Jacqueline has needed over 40 operations. Jacqueline ha necesitado más de 40 operaciones. With her Father, 2000. Con su padre, 2000. Getting treatment. Recibiendo tratamiento. Three months after accident. Tres meses despues del accidente. Without a left eyelid Jacqie needs eyedrops to keep her vision. Not everyone who gets hit by a car dies.

The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook About Facebook is a great service. I have a profile, and so does nearly everyone I know under the age of 60. However, Facebook hasn't always managed its users' data well. In the beginning, it restricted the visibility of a user's personal information to just their friends and their "network" (college or school). This blog post by Kurt Opsahl at the the EFF gives a brief timeline of Facebook's Terms of Service changes through April of 2010. Let me be clear about something: I like Facebook. Data The data for this chart was derived from my interpretation of the Facebook Terms of Service over the years, along with my personal memories of the default privacy settings for different classes of personal data. I welcome data corrections, so please leave a comment below if you have better numbers to share. Types of Personal Data Facebook's classification system for personal data has changed significantly over the years. Audiences Implementation I built this sketch using Processing.js. About me

MegaUpload fermé : la riposte des Anonymous - High-Tech "Allez chercher du popcorn, ce sera une longue nuit". A peine l'annonce de la fermeture de MegaUpload était-elle tombée que le collectif Anonymous promettait des représailles, avec quelques mots menaçants postés sur un de ses comptes Twitter. Celles-ci ont pris la forme classique "d'attaque en déni de service" - une forme d'offensive informatique très difficile à parer pour les sites visés, puisqu'il s'agit de saturer les serveurs de demandes de connexion de manière à les ralentir jusqu'à les rendre inaccessibles. La réaction a été foudroyante : la contre-offensive a été déclenchée en un quart d'heure... Divers sites emblématiques ont ainsi été rendus inacessibles. "Nous ne resterons pas assis" "Le jour que nous attendions tous est malheureusement arrivé. Le collectif Anonymous n'a toutefois pas été le seul à réagir de manière aussi virulente.

Megaupload, c'est comme le Paic citron ! Megaupload, c'est comme le Paic citron, quand y en a plus, y'en a encore. Après maints rebondissements, voilà que les perquisitions et saisies effectuées en janvier ont été jugées illégales par les instances judiciaires Néo-Zélandaises. En effet, la Justice a tranché, les mandats ayant permis de fouiller la maison, comme les dossiers de Kim Dotcom, ont été considérés comme irrecevables. On en connait un qui doit faire la danse de la victoire. Les conséquences sont loin d’être anodines. Comprenez bien, toutes les données perquisitionnées doivent être restituées. C’est donc une nouvelle erreur de procédure qui pourrait faire la différence lors du jugement final. Reste que cela ne signifie pas l’abandon des charges pour Dotcom qui ne sera fixé qu’au mois de juillet.

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Can Ben Silbermann Turn Pinterest Into The World's Greatest Shopfront? For a guy running such a beautiful website, Ben Silbermann looks like hell: He has prominent bags under tired, watery eyes; his shoulders hang heavy; his shirt is wrinkled; and his dark hair is uncombed. When he speaks--with the open-vowel inflections of his Iowa upbringing--his voice is so slight that it often gets lost beneath the din of other conversations. When he moves, it is with the economy of a marathon runner trying to conserve every last bit of energy on the eve of a big race. "I’m tired," says the 30-year-old CEO of Pinterest, the social scrapbook that’s the hottest website on the planet, as he prepares to shovel down a bowl of noodles a few feet away from his desk. Silbermann leaves for the office at 7 a.m. most mornings and works nonstop until dinner. His only respite, if you can call it that, comes in the predawn hours when he takes his newborn son, Max, into his arms and fires up his laptop to check email. Pinterest gets none of that. This too is by design.

HADOPI Wants To Research File Downloads: Shouldn't It Have Done That First? One of the most important aspects of the UK's Hargreaves Report was that it called for copyright policy to be based on evidence. It also noted that so far that simply hadn't been the case, and that practically all of the so-called "studies" used to justify laws in this area came from the copyright industries, with missing or dubious methodologies. The French three-strikes scheme known as HADOPI (actually the name of the government agency that oversees its implementation) is a perfect example of such dogma-based legislation: no research was done into how files were being shared or even whether they did any harm (there's a fair amount of evidence that file sharing increases sales). So it's interesting to see HADOPI putting out a call for some research into streaming sites (original in French): The commissioned study focuses on an economic analysis of streaming sites and direct download where illegal practices are the most common, offering cultural property in the areas of music and video.

Des députés ont trouvé une solution pour sauver les ayants-droits de la faillite Le net, c'est magique ! Grâce à tous les gens qui vont se faire choper par l'Hadopi, les ayants droits (maisons de disques, Sacem, SCPP et autres machins dans le genre) vont pouvoir encore plus s'engraisser ! En effet, cette semaine, Hadopi est passée du statut de loi éducative à une machine à cash pour les industries qui dupliquent et vendent cette technologie du passée qu'on appelle le CD. Comment ? Et bien grâce à une poignée de députés qui dans la nuit du 4 au 5 juillet de cette semaine, ont adopté la loi dite de "Répartition des contentieux et allègement de certaines procédures juridictionnelles" Ce qui touche les internautes ici et plus particulièrement les gens qui se feront choper par l'Hadopi, c'est l'article 20 de la loi qui dit que : En langage clair, cela signifique qu'une fois que vous aurez reçu vos emails d'avertissement, vos lettres recommandées et que votre dossier est envoyé au juge, vous pourriez avoir à payer des dommages et intérêts aux ayants droits qui le réclament.

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