Bij het online inchecken van je vlucht aan de hand van Facebook-profielen bepalen naast wie je in het vliegtuig komt te zitten, het zit er echt aan te komen. Begin volgend jaar lanceert KLM deze service onder de naam ‘social seating’. [via]
What happens when everyone does it?
C.G.P. Grey argues “why Pennies are economically inefficient and should be abolished.” [via]
No A.I. but looks are impressive. Now the software..
Spot on comments from Gilliam. Lack of Semiotics skills with what Kubrick left the public guessing for years don’t seem to show up as much on the main stage of cinema’s. The quantity and quality of filmmaking on film festivals maybe will compensate this in the future. Especially since filmmaking is becoming easier and more competitive.
AMSTERDAM – D66 wil een directe stop op de behandeling van het ACTA-verdrag dat online piraterij moet tegengaan. ACTA kan grote gevolgen hebben voor Nederland, maar de onderhandelingen zijn gedeeltelijk geheim.
D66 eist daarom van de Maxime Verhagen, minister van Economische Zaken, een onmiddellijke stop op de inhoudelijke behandeling tot de Tweede Kamer vrij inzicht heeft gekregen in de onderhandelingen.
Het ACTA-verdrag moet namaakgoederen en online piraterij bestrijden. Zo zou er worden gesproken over de omstreden ‘three strikes out’-aanpak waarbij consumenten na drie waarschuwingen van internet kunnen worden afgesloten als ze blijven downloaden.[via]
D66 heeft gelijk. De ondemocratische gang van zaken doet het ergste vrezen voor burgerrechten en democratie. Bijzonder kwalijk dat de partijen hierin meespelen…
Dit geldt ook voor lobby groepen in crisis tijd..
Apparently they are going to make the movie for real..
Gisteren heeft WWAV de Alpe d’HuZes 2012 website weer live gezet.
According to die Welt. Coming up soon the kind of “they rule”?
A brief history and explanation of the annual madness that is daylight saving time from Blog.cgpgrey.com
One of the most noticeable trends in copyright law around the world is the way countries tend to adopt similar approaches. So after the “three strikes” law was introduced in France, the UK followed suit, and other nations are at various stages of doing the same. A cynic might almost suggest the whole thing was coordinated somehow.(..) More recently, a German politician called Siegfried Kauder has proposed a “two-strikes” law. After just one accusation from rightsholders, there’s a warning; after two accusations, you’d be disconnected from the Internet for three weeks – without any need for a court order…
This entertaining saga shows a number of things. That, once more, the politicians most keen to bring in severe laws against copyright infringement – indeed, against just alleged copyright infringement – themselves often break them. And even if this happened by accident, it goes to show just how easy it is for people to break the law without realizing it; and yet that would presumably not be admitted as a defense. It also shows that Kauder’s “warning” system doesn’t work: he was warned, and removed some images, but left others that appear to infringe. Even Kauder’s colleagues in the pro-copyright CDU are distancing themselves from what are being called “Kauder-Strikes”. That is:
Kauder-Strikes are just not on. Someone who steals a book may be a criminal, but we don’t take away their reading glasses. And yet that is precisely what the “three strike” laws and their variants around the world are trying to do. [techdirt]
Again: No Acta.
