As mentioned at the first day this year, this year it will be 100 years ago that Alan Turing was born.
Instead of waiting till the media bandwagon will start in June, giving us the information overload, why not spread it a little bit? Why is Turing relevant?
This time more on his technical side..
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Jan 242012
Het Arcus College in Heerlen wist 60 miljoen euro te sparen en werd zo het rijkste ROC. Het geld werd opzij gezet voor de bouw van een futuristisch scholencomplex. Het onderwijs werd er niet beter op. [via]
En nu allemaal heel veel centjes sparen om later goed privaat onderwijs te fixen voor de kleine 
Update: 3 man uit TU Delft Top declareert bijna 1 miljoen in 3 jaar aan reiskosten. Hoezo videoconferences?
Jan 242012
INTERNETS, 18th of January 2012.
PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.
Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would “do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear”. He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture.
Jan 232012
Bill Maher gets OWNED by Guests for Supporting SOPA
Bill Maher seems to think that just because his crappy religious hit piece “Religulous” was pirated, that Washington D.C. should control the internet totally with the SOPA bill. He refers to people downloading copyrighted materials as people who “just want free shit”. Mr. Maher perhaps there are some of us out there who would rather download something to see if its worth buying, instead of spending our hard earned money and being disappointed.
Most shocking part of this Youtube clip is the notice the user added to the video:
NOTICE: Fair Use Copyright Law
This video may contain copyrighted material, the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, scientific, and social justice issues etc. We know that our use of any such copyrighted material constitutes a ‘fair use’ as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this video is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
The fear the entertainment industry, nitwit politicians and other 20th century dinosaurs try to evoke seems to work … Sadly with these penny-wise pound-foolish remarks Bill Maher, his network and of course the advertisers of his show lost me as a fan.
Let’s forget Bill for a while and watch some Michael Moore retro clips from e.g. 2006.
Jan 222012
A nice summary by Bill Clinton on why media has become more useless and ruthless where political resolve is needed.
From the February 2012 issue of Esquire, an interview with former President Bill Clinton about the current political and governmental landscape in America.
One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp distinctions. But in real life, what works is networks and cooperation. And we need victories in real life, so we’ve got to get back to networks and cooperation, not just conflict. But politics has always been about conflict, and in the coverage of politics, information dissemination tends to be organized around conflict as well. It is extremely personal now, and you see in these primaries that the more people agree with each other on the issues, the more desperate they are to make the clear distinctions necessary to win, so the deeper the knife goes in.
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Nederland kent 414 gemeentes.. Naast de 18 miljard die het kabinet wil bezuinigen, de 7 miljard die het plots extra moet bezuinigen, komt hiermee dan dus mogelijk nog tussen de 2-10 miljard aan tekort bij.. En dan hebben we het nog niet over de financiele strop voor de bovenmatige kantoor bouw die niks waard is.
In welke mate die meteen ook in de bezuinigingen meegaat is nog niet bekend, maar overheid/nl heeft zijn zaakjes nog niet helemaal crisisproof geregelt. Misschien wat transparanter jezelf opstellen?
Jan 182012
The campaign for understanding seems running today a bit, good for now, so how about the wide spectrum? We got ACTA and other monsters.. good that there also things happen.. [among democracy haters]
Jan 172012
We noticed it before, but now it’s live.. legal recourse for financial offences..
The world’s first international tribunal for complex financial litigation has opened in the Netherlands, headquartered at the Peace Palace in The Hague.
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Jan 092012
The reading package for our pension funds…
Truly eye-opening: According to a recent book, The Hedge Fund Mirage, by Simon Lack, from 1998 to 2010, 84% of the investment gains of the entire hedge fund industry went to the managers, and only 16% to the investors. More analysis from Financial Times or Economist.
Jan 092012
Western cuisines tend to use ‘pairs’ that share many flavours. But east Asian cuisines tend to avoid ingredients that share them. Read more.
Jan 072012
While looking back to 2011 in film, the cultural film festival 2012 @rotterdam is upon us already again.
Jan 012012
Year of the dragon, International Year of Co-operatives, International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, Alan Turing Year, Year of Gastronomy, National Year of Reading, Year of the farmer, year of opportunities, year of youth, jaar van de buitenplaatsen, jaar van de bever, jaar van immaterieel erfgoed, zeeuws jaar van het water, 400 year Dutch-Turk relations, jaar van het geloof, European Year for Active Ageing, creative scotland, etc. (More about 2012)
See also 2011.
Dec 292011
De Europese Commissie weigert de lonen van zowat 44.000 Europese ambtenaren te bevriezen. Maar de lidstaten vinden dat in crisis iedereen moet inleveren, zelfs de bureaucratie van Brussel. Zij stapten naar het Europees hof van Justitie om de commissie te dwingen te stoppen de lonen te verhogen. Als het aan de Commissie ligt, wordt het loon van alle 44.000 ambtenaren vanaf januari met 1,7 procent verhoogd.
De Europese raad van ministers, die de nationale regeringen vertegenwoordigt, heeft besloten om naar het Europese hof van Justitie te stappen. Een meerderheid van 20 landen stemde voor. België heeft zich onthouden.(via)
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Dec 252011
most true, most searing, most depressing Hitler video yet… where is the outrage? …. damn sheep
Dec 192011
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Dec 142011
Een motie van D66-Kamerlid Kees Verhoeven die Verhagen een spreekverbod zou moeten opleggen, is door een meerderheid van de Kamer verworpen. Aanvankelijk toonde de PVV zich een voorstander voor een dergelijk spreekverbod voor Verhagen, maar de partij draaide op het laatste moment en stemde tegen. (sign)
ACTA is een verdrag dat piraterij van door copyright beschermde goederen tegen moet gaan.
Het Nederlandse parlement moet nog instemmen met het verdrag, maar een groot deel van de Tweede Kamer wil alleen over het verdrag praten als de geheimhouding op belangrijke stukken wordt opgeheven.
Als een groot deel van de 2e kamer dat wil, waarom is de motie dan weggestemd?
Talk is cheap. Goed bestuur ver te zoeken. Note: China leads the way.
Occupy Harvard Teach-In #1 12/7/2011
“Why Has Inequality Grown in America? What Should We Do?” Archon Fung, Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship and Co-Director of Transparency Policy Project, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Visit Occupy Harvard @ Occupyharvard.net or read more here
Dec 122011
USA military bases around Iran. Geeh … why would Iran want nucluar weapons?
International aid groups make the same mistakes over and over again. At TEDxYYC David Damberger uses his own engineering failure in India to call for the sector to publicly admit, analyze, and learn from their missteps.
The sound is annoying bad, but hang in there.
Dec 102011
Earlier today, Megaupload released a pop video featuring mainstream artists who endorse the cyberlocker service. News of the controversial Mega Song even trended on Twitter, but has now been removed from YouTube on copyright grounds by Universal Music. Kim Dotcom says that Megaupload owns everything in the video, and that the label has engaged in dirty tricks in an attempt to sabotage their successful viral campaign.
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