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31 July 2010

We are in the information age, will our society adapt and prosper or fail and decline?

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Calling time on mobile internet nonsense?

12 June 2010

Are Mobile Internet plans fair?

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What the Pirate Bay trial means for the future of entertainment

08 March 2009

In this post I talk about the end of the Pirate Bay trial, and what this means for the future of entertainment.

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The Pirate Bay Trial Begins

17 February 2009

The Pirate Bay is depending on your perspective, either an accessory to unauthorised distribution of copyrighted works, or a modern day library of Alexandria providing the largest catalog of human culture and media ever seen in the history of humanity.

However, this week it has hit the courts where that argument will be put to the test, so lets look at the issues.

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Newspapers please link to your sources

20 August 2008

Are newspapers acting like the Internet's leeches, copying content from websites and blogs but not linking back?

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Rehash for the win

20 July 2008

Is the free software community over, or is it just that tech journalists are covering the wrong projects.

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Filesharing is the democratic choice

18 April 2008

If 20 million people in the UK have been or are involved in filesharing, then that is more people than voted for the government.. With 20 million people, filesharing is not a crime, it is a mandate. The government, policy and the old media industries need to find fresh approaches because the cultural changes at work cannot be undone.

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The government are the real cyber-terrorists

16 March 2008

The end of Britannia

For the ascension of George I, a song was commissioned, one that celebrated both the act of union and the hard fought for independence from Europe, the chorus went:

> Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves! Britons never, never, never shall be slaves!

Today, all the warships in the Royal Navy won't help when us Britons have become slaves inside our own country, tracked and counted like a flock of cattle.

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Planet of the Apes

20 January 2008

Ray Beckerman is a New York Lawyer and the author of Recording Industry vs The People, a blog covering "the RIAA's attempt to monopolize digital music by redefining copyright law, through the commencement of tens of thousands of extortionate lawsuits against ordinary working people".

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Why the government cannot be trusted with our data

21 November 2007

Gordon, where are the CDs?

In 1945-6, the British government brought in a system of child benefit, this paid parents a cash payment of 5 shillings per week per child. Today in 2007, for your first child, you get £18.10 a week (38 dollars) per week, and £12.10 (25 dollars) for every additional child.

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Freedom on Campus

26 October 2007

Now for something completely different...

Almost everything in computer software today has roots in the work done from the late sixties to the early eighties in universities such as the University of California, Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Back then, the Computing Industry was dependent on the knowledge and expertise contained within the hallowed labs and bearded academics of such Universities.

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Don't go to the University of Florida

19 September 2007

Tazering is putting around 3,000 kilovolts into a person with significant chance of heart failure or internal or external burns.

Occasionally you hear about someone who was electrocuted by mains electricity, well that is only 240 volts, not 3,000,000 volts.

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Digital Anarchy vs Control

03 September 2007

A series looking at different models of control:

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Digital Anarchy vs Control - part 3 - fearing the crowd

03 September 2007

The crowd makes the ballgame

There are some horrible diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cystic fibrosis, certain cancers and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease that involve 'misfolded proteins'. If biologists can better understand protein folding, then it might shed light into how to cure these diseases.

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Transformers and why I am not buying HD-DVD or Blu-ray

22 August 2007

Autobots Roll Out

I was a subscriber to the British version of the Transformers comic as a child. It gets worse, in the original 1980s movie, the scene when Opitmus Prime died, I burst out into tears (I was 7 or 8 at the time) and I was not the only one by any means. Prime, the personification of good and courage, led the decisive final push that won the battle but he was mortally wounded in the process.

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What is truth?

19 July 2007

Three short reflections on binary absolutes:

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What is truth? - part 3 - All you need is one and zero

19 July 2007

Almost every aspect of our modern technology is filled with iconography and metaphors from the Judeo-Christian tradition (i.e. the 'West'), perhaps not surprising as all technologies are man-made systems, made, that is, in the image of their creators. Some of these links are obvious, I am writing this post in a web browser called 'Epiphany', then I will 'save' it, and then it will be available as part of the Ethernet (i.e. the heaven-net). Some of these links are not so obvious. in this post I look at binary numbers, the basis of all computing.

What is truth?

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What is truth? - part 2 - true vs one

15 July 2007

So following on from part one, we have True and False in Python, which are somewhat equivalent to the Boolean 1 and 0:

> "The two-element Boolean algebra is the simplest Boolean algebra, ... having just two elements, named 1 and 0 by convention." Source

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What is truth? - part 1 - false vs zero

14 July 2007

Iverson VS Boolean?

In my recent post, Python CGI contact forms, I open sourced my little contact form processor I use on my webpage and solicited comments from you, the reader.

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