Stoere praat in het buitenland, maar je gedragen als een verwend kind dat vindt dat regels alleen voor anderen zijn. Prat gaan op de vrijheid van meningsuiting, die anderen eerder narcistisch en ziek zouden noemen. Nederland is normloos, schrijft Ramsey Nasr.(..)
Om te ontsnappen aan een vacuüm zonder normen en waarden, zullen wij dus moeite moeten doen. De burger zal die moeite pas ondernemen als hij merkt dat de politiek én de media hetzelfde doen.
Just where red letter left something for others to comment moooore on.
Kenyon Graduation Speech (2005) by David. Enjoy.(via open culture) (more…)
According to NITEC chief Johnny Lundberg, it began when an employee at the police center decided to move from his own computer to that of a colleague.
“He sat down and was about to make an investigation, and in doing so he placed a list of legitimate sites in the wrong folder,” Lundberg explained. “Before becoming aware of the error, two ISPs retrieved the list of sites.”
Result: the Danish police similarly “accidentally” had 8,000 legitimate sites declared as child porn sites that needed to be blocked. Among the sites listed? Google and Facebook. Visitors to those sites, from ISP Siminn were greeted with the following message (translated, of course):The National High Tech Crime Center of the Danish National Police [NITEC], who assist in investigations into crime on the internet, has informed Siminn Denmark A/S, that the internet page which your browser has tried to get in contact with may contain material which could be regarded as child pornography…
Oeps! Again. Let’s not go this way of thinking that blocking sites is going to help us. Its quite the opposite.
Who are these companies and what do they want from me? A voyage into the invisible business that funds the web.
Volkswijsheid van de afgelopen jaren… de toekomstige generatie krijgt niks. Zembla ging eens kijken hoe we er nu voorstaan. Note: Nederland schijnt volgens internationale kenners het nog het “beste” geregelt te hebben.. Dat zegt wel wat. Dit is dus de staat van 1 dag in de week werken mensen.
Zie ook de eerdere aflevering: Het verdwenen pensioengeld.
Allthough I don’t like the ausweiss policy for IDs, we have in the netherlands (upfront penalties are ridiculous if you can show it later), your religion to avoid the law is NEVER a legitimate reason. The spirit of the law goes before strict law in some cases, but plain religious authority/commandments has NOTHING to do with the law. Yes there is a web of laws (international law, human rights, etc.) connected to dutch law, but there is no such thing as religious law. Lawyers who don’t draw that line are ending their own legal rights to act as lawyers. We can’t have that. Fullstop.
It is not Goldman, but the moral and game (both economic and political) with these trades that goes wrong here. Profit for nothing, gone bad… but is it alone for Greece or are we next?
Link: Move4oneMen.org
oneMen heeft al een paar weken een leuke spot van hun Move4oneMen YOCO op TV!
Als manager nieuwe media van WWAV ben ik betrokken bij deze YOCO (product van WWAV).
Yet as of today, www.wikipedia.org remains nestled in the GoDaddy bosom, according to WhoIs directory records, a fact that has not gone unnoticed by some, including users of Reddit, which along with Wikipedia was among the most high-profile and active SOPA opponents.
Allthough GoDaddy did the worst by supporting SOPA, Wikipedia should stay consistent and thus move somewhere else.
110
Mrs Green joined the Women’s
Royal Air Force aged 17, two months before the armistice
A woman thought to be the world’s last known surviving
service member of World War I has died aged 110.
Florence Green, from King’s Lynn, Norfolk, served as a mess steward at RAF
bases in Marham and Narborough.
She had been due to celebrate her 111th birthday on 19 February.
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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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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?
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.
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:
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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.
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?
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]
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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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.
