Arto's news clippings

Sähköinen äänestysjärjestelmä rikkoo sekä lakia että vaalisalaisuuden

2008-06-27T17:57:12+03:00

Syksyn kunnallisvaaleissa testattava uusi sähköinen äänestysjärjestelmä rikkoo sekä lakia että auditointiraportin mukaan myös vaalisalaisuuden.

Suomen sähköinen äänestysjärjestelmä ei täytä suosituksia

2008-06-27T17:57:12+03:00

Effi: Suomen sähköisen äänestysjärjestelmän pilottitoteutus ei täytä Euroopan neuvoston suosituksia

Sähköisen äänestyksen eteneminen - Oikeusministeriö tyrmää myös akateemisten tahojen kritiikin

Jyri Luostarinen — 2008-02-29T10:24:35+02:00

Oikeusministeriö ei yllättänyt, vaan jatkaa reagoimistaan samalla tyylillä kuin Effin lehdistötiedotteeseen vastatessaan. Ministeriö jättää kritiikin auditoinnin kilpailutuksesta huomiotta perusteettomana.

KRP ja Lindén: Uhrataan rehellinen mies

Kai Puolamäki — 2008-02-27T12:17:14+02:00

Suomen nettisensuurista syntynyt kohu ei ota laantuakseen.

Effi: Opetusministeriön virkamiehillä röyhkeää vallankäyttöä

2008-02-26T13:47:15+02:00

Electronic Frontier Finland ry (Effi) kertoo, että järjestö on hyvin pettynyt opetusministeriön yhä yksipuolisemmaksi käyvään valmisteluun tekijänoikeusasioissa.

FCC varoitti operaattoreja nettiliikenteen blokkaamisesta

2008-02-26T13:16:19+02:00

Yhdysvaltain viestintäkomissio FCC teki johtajansa suulla selväksi, että operaattorien mahdollisesti harjoittamaa verkkoliikenteen estoa ei hyvällä katsota.

Tekijänoikeustoimikunta siirrettävä osaksi ÄKT:tä

Kai Puolamäki — 2008-02-26T09:24:38+02:00

Effi on hyvin pettynyt opetusministeriön yhä yksipuolisemmaksi käyvään valmisteluun tekijänoikeusasioissa. Effi ehdottaa, että opetusministeriön juuri nimeämä tekijänoikeustoimikunta siirrettäisiin osaksi Suomen Ääni- ja kuvatallennetuottajat ÄKT ry:tä.

Miksi Suomi sensuroi Hollantia

2008-02-22T13:54:37+02:00

Matti Nikin lista poliisin sensuroimista sivuista päätyi myös Hollannissa sensuroiduksi. Nikin listalla on 138 138 hollantilaista sivustoa. Nyt Hollannissa kysellään miksi Suomi sensuroi Hollantia.

Daemon Tools 4.12.1

2008-02-20T10:33:42+02:00

Daemon Tools is a virtual CD/DVD-ROM emulator. It is able to emulate nearly all known copy protections on the market today. Mount BIN/CUE, ISO, NRG, IMG... iso files as a virtual CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive.

Finnish Internet censorship

Kai Puolamäki — 2008-02-19T10:55:50+02:00

Recent developments in the Finnish Internet censorship system. The Finnish police censors much more than was originally intended.

Exact Audio Copy 0.99 prebeta 4

2008-02-01T12:58:50+02:00

Exact Audio Copy allows you to get audio tracks off a CD and save them to your hard drive. It uses the Windows ASPI Interface, so both SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROM drives are supported. It supports hidden sector synchronization and has a secure, fast and burst extraction method selectable.

Ruotsin salasanaskandaali koskee jo yli puolta miljoonaa ihmistä

2008-01-17T14:39:20+02:00

Ruotsia koetellut salasanamurto on laajentunut. Tuoreimpien tietojen mukaan se koskee yli puolta miljoonaa ruotsalaista, kertoo Ruotsin radiokanava P3.

"Lapsipornolistat ovat tehottomia ja laittomia"

2008-01-09T11:12:15+02:00

Kaikki eivät suinkaan taputa ihastuneena käsiään lapsipornon suodatuslaille. Jo lainsäädäntövaiheessa sitä kritisoitiin ankarasti. Kyse on sanavapauden rajoittamisesta ja siitä, ettei suodatus estä lapsipornon levittämistä.

Digiboksifarssi laajenee teräväpiirtoon

2008-01-09T11:09:32+02:00

Tv-lähetysten digifarssi paisuu. Ensin oli pakko ostaa reistailevat digiboksit. Seuraavaksi kansasta on tulossa kahden kerroksen väkeä: teräväpiirtolähetysten meno antenniverkkoon on törmännyt seinään. Kaapelissa digiboksit pitää vaihtaa terävien lähetysten takia.

Hovioikeus torppasi taas Finreactor-valituksen

2007-12-11T13:37:42+02:00

Jo toinen hovioikeus on vahvistanut, että torrent-tiedoston vieminen Bittorrent-palveluun rikkoi tekijänoikeuksia. Helsingin hovioikeus on hylännyt yksittäisen Finreactor-tapauksessa tuomitun miehen valituksen.

Daemon Tools 4.10

2007-08-24T12:55:42+03:00

EFFI:n lausunto viestintäministeriölle urkintalaki 1.:stä

Ville Oksanen — 2007-08-20T11:06:25+03:00

Viestintäministeriön esitys uudeksi urkintalaiksi avaisi yhteisötilaajille hyvin laajat tunnistetietojen seurantamahdolliksuudet. Päinvastoin kuin lakia käsitelleistä uutisista olisi voinut päätellä, laki ei mitenkään rajoitu sähköpostiin (se koskee ihan kaikkea IP-pohjaista viestintää) ja sen piirissä on kaikki yhteisötilaajat (eikä pelkästään työnantajat).

Lapsi karttaa vanhempien apua verkon vaaratilanteissa

2007-08-14T15:31:15+03:00

Eurooppalaiset lapset tuntevat internetin vaarat yhä paremmin, mutta kääntyvät ongelmatilanteissa harvoin vanhempiensa puoleen, selviää tuoreesta Eurobarometri-kyselystä. Lapsi pyrkii ratkomaan tilanteet yksin tai muiden verkon käyttäjien avulla. Vanhempien neuvoihin turvaudutaan vasta sitten, kun muut keinot ovat loppu.

Saksa kieltää tietoturvatyökalujen hallussapidon

2007-08-14T15:30:11+03:00

Saksan hallitus hyväksyi lakiehdotuksen, jossa kielletään epämääräisesti tietoturvatyökalujen teko, hankkiminen, myynti, levittäminen ja muu käyttö. Lakiesitys on jo aiheuttanut joidenkin tietoturvaan liittyvien ohjelmistojen kehittämiseen ja levittämiseen muutoksia.

Phonograph Tech Used to Amplify iPod Sound

Mike — 2007-08-07T10:56:13+03:00

Before iPods, before CDs, before even records, there was the venerable phonograph. The music players of 100 years ago -- the Victrola, Zon-o-phone, Graphophone -- used a tuba-horn shaped bell to amplify sound without electricity. Now, a company called Science + Sons is selling a gadget called the Phonofone II, which works the same way. Simply connect your iPod earbuds to the device, and the

Microsoft Threatens Its Most Valuable Professional

2007-06-11T12:50:55+03:00

"What's the best way to attract a pile of threatening lawyers' letters from Microsoft? Sell pirate copies of Windows? Write a DRM-busting program? Londoner Jamie Cansdale has just discovered a new approach. He had the temerity to make Redmond's software better. As a hobby, Cansdale developed an add-on for Microsoft Visual Studio. TestDriven.NET allows unit test suites to be run directly from within the Microsoft IDE. Cansdale gave away this gadget on his website, and initially received the praises of Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft was so pleased with him, it gave him a Most Valuable Professionals award, which it says it gives to 'exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who voluntarily share their high quality, real world expertise with others'. However, his cherished status did not last."

Virtualdub 1.6.18 / 1.7.2 exp

2007-05-22T21:42:49+03:00

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for Windows platforms . It is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files. Also built-in capturing and video frameserving.

Tutkimus: 25 maata suodattaa verkkosivuja

2007-05-22T12:45:23+03:00

Ainakin 25 maata suodattaa verkkosivuja poliittisista, sosiaalisista tai muista syistä, tuore tutkimus paljastaa.

Googlelta aikajanaparametri ja top 100 -lista

2007-05-22T12:23:35+03:00

Googlen uusi parametri näyttää hakutulosten sijoittumisen vuosikymmenille ja -sadoille. Nykypäivästä kertoo kuumimpien aiheiden lista.

Total Information Awareness In 12 Minutes

Mike — 2007-05-11T12:09:08+03:00

As a hardcore news junky, I've developed a list of 12 focused web pages that together give me an instant "fix" of every major event in the world in about 12 MINUTES.

DivX Codec 6.6

2007-05-04T14:11:01+03:00

The DivX codec is the latest and greatest release of DivX, the best compression technology for high-resolution movies. The DivX codec is the standard for high quality video over IP networks because it hits the sweet spot between superior visual quality and small file size.

OpenBSD 4.1 Released

2007-05-03T09:47:52+03:00

OpenBSD 4.1 has been released. "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.1. This is our 21st release on CD-ROM (and 22nd via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only two remote holes in the default install. As in our previous releases, 4.1 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system."

Linux Kernel 2.6.21 Released

2007-04-26T11:26:33+03:00

Linux Kernel 2.6.21 has been announced. Linus writes: "So the big change during 2.6.21 is all the timer changes to support a tickless system (and even with ticks, more varied time sources). Thanks (when it no longer broke for lots of people ;) go to Thomas Gleixner and Ingo Molnar and a cadre of testers and coders." More info here and here.

Winamp 5.3.4

2007-04-24T08:39:08+03:00

One of the best audio players. Also built in audio converting, audio streaming, video streaming and more.

Nettikameraseksi ryydittää teinirakkautta

2007-04-20T12:05:33+03:00

Tukholma - Joka kolmannella alle 21-vuotiaalla on kokemusta nettikameraseksistä, kertoo Malmön kaupungin julkaisema nuorisotutkimusraportti. Monet nuorista nakuilevat sen mukaan nettikameran edessä seurustelusuhteeseensa liittyen, mutta ehdotuksiin kytkeytyy toisinaan myös raha.

Daemon Tools 4.0.9

2007-04-14T14:37:05+03:00

Bush warns Dems to stop exercising congressional oversight

2007-03-24T16:21:54+02:00

(WASHINGTON - UCS News) A defiant President Bush warned Democrats Tuesday to accept his offer to have top aides testify privately and not under oath. The President stated "I'm not interested in the congressional oversight afforded by the democratic process and I will not allow Karl Rove to testify in public under oath, he lies to much!"

TrueCrypt 4.3 Released

kdawson — 2007-03-24T16:19:02+02:00

RedBear writes "A new update to the best open source transparent encryption software has been released. TrueCrypt is (the only?) open source encryption software capable of creating and mounting encrypted virtual disk images that can then be worked with transparently like any other storage drive, with data encrypted and decrypted in real-time. These virtual disks can be created as files, or entire partitions or physical drives can be encrypted and mounted transparently. Sadly there is still no Linux GUI or Mac OS X port in sight. If you are one of the thronging hordes who have been patiently awaiting ubiquitous multi-platform encryption, please consider donating time or money to the cause, and add your voice to the forum." From the site:"Among the new features [are] full compatibility with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista, support for devices and file systems that use a sector size other than 512 bytes (such as new hard drives, USB flash drives, DVD-RAM, MP3 players, etc.), auto-dismount when a host device (e.g., a USB flash drive) is inadvertently removed, and many more." Read on for more features of TrueCrypt and cached versions of all the links above.

Sony listaa Euroopan Playstation 3:lla toimivat vanhat pelit

2007-03-21T14:15:22+02:00

Sony on avannut Playstation 3:n eurooppalaisen version alaspäinyhteensopivuudelle omat sivut, jotka uudella pleikkarilla toimivat, vanhat PS2- ja PS one-pelit.

Kauan odotettu Optimus-näppäimistö saatavilla ensi jouluna

2007-03-19T12:52:14+02:00

Venäläisen Art Lebedev -suunnittelufirman mullistava, pieniä oled-näyttöjä näppäiminään hyödyntävä täysikokoisen Optimus-näppäimistön kerrotaan tulevan markkinoille ensi jouluksi.

Playstation 3:n yhteensopivuus taaksepäin heikkenee

2007-03-10T15:30:26+02:00

Sony jättää Playstation 3:n Euroopassa myytävästä versiosta pois itse valmistamansa, PS2: pelejä tukevan grafiikkapiirin ja vaihtaa tilalle halvemman. Säästötoimen takia PS3:n yhteensopivuus PS2:n kanssa heikkenee.

Isoveli iskee Ruotsista käsin

Kai Puolamäki — 2007-03-10T14:58:14+02:00

Ruotsin puolustusvoimien vakoiluyksikkö tulee saamaan kopion kaikista suomalaisten länsinaapurimme kautta kulkevista sähköposti-, faksi- ja puhelinviesteistä. Ruotsin hyväksymä urkintalaki käytännössä mitätöi suomalaisten viestintäsalaisuuden.

FreeBSD 6.2 Review

2007-02-27T13:48:00+02:00

It's been a long road to recovery, but after years of mediocre releases, and months of delays in the development process, FreeBSD is finally back on its feet with 6.2-RELEASE. Though it is an excellent operating system, even this latest version offers few or no competitive advantages over Solaris or the other BSDs in a server role, and can never hope to compete with commercial GNU/Linux distributions for desktop computers. FreeBSD 6.2 is what FreeBSD 5.0 needed to be, and for those who have already switched to other operating systems, there are few or no compelling reasons to go back. More here.

Visual Basic on GNU/Linux

CmdrTaco — 2007-02-23T12:46:34+02:00

jeevesbond writes "The Mono Project announced that it has developed a Visual Basic compiler that will enable software developers who use Microsoft Visual Basic to run their applications on any platform that supports Mono, such as Linux, without any code modifications."

Huono kohtelu työssä on yleinen valituksen aihe

2007-02-23T12:36:03+02:00

Kun aiemmin työsuojelussa puhuttivat tuki- ja liikuntaelinsairaudet sekä huonon sisäilman aiheuttamat oireet, ovat nyt esillä enemmänkin henkinen kuorma ja epäasiallinen kohtelu työpaikoilla, kertoo Uudenmaan työsuojelupiirin tuore raportti.

Kaikki haavoittuvuudet julki, vaatii tietoturvaguru

2007-02-16T14:06:44+02:00

Tietoturvaguru Bruce Schneier liputtaa tietokoneohjelmissa olevien haavoittuvuuksien täydellisen julkistamisen puolesta ja tyrmää ajatuksen siitä, että ohjelmistoyhtiöt korjaisivat tuotteitaan, jos niitä ei siihen julkistamisella painostettaisi.

Building an Relationship Economy

2007-02-16T12:47:17+02:00

Is there something new that open source development methods and values can bring to the economy? How about something old?

I think the answer may come from the developing world, where pre-industrial methods and values persist and offer some helpful models and lessons for a networked world that's less post-industrial than industrial in a new and less impersonal way.

This began to become apparent to me a few years ago I had a Socratic exchange with a Nigerian pastor named Sayo, whom I was lucky to find sitting next to me on a long airplane trip.

Valentine's Day Flash

2007-02-15T13:16:21+02:00

A new spam e-mail has been seen in the wild taking advantage of Saint Valentine's Day. Below is a sample of such an e-mail:

It disguises itself as a Valentine's eCard notification. When you click on the link in the e-mail, it will redirect you to a page that asks you to install a fake Macromedia Flash Player (Adobe Flash Player). This fake player is actually a trojan that downloads and installs a BZub variant onto the system. Both files are now detected as Valenavir.A and Bzub.HZ respectively using our latest database updates. So, please be cautious in opening those Valentine's Day greeting cards.

Make sure to patch your systems, get the latest database updates and enjoy your Valentine's Day!

PS – Our PC Wellness campaign has been updated. You can now use it to send Valentine's Greetings in English, Finnish, French, and Italian. It's Flash based. Install the legitimate Flash Player from Adobe here.

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0

2007-02-09T15:22:21+02:00

After being in beta for some twelve months Adobe has today announced the availability of Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 'Final' at an introductory price of $199 (until April 30; after that $299). This new offloading, browsing, organizing and editing tool promises improved professional workflow for everyone including easy to use pick/reject features and tagging. In addition Lightroom leverages Adobe Camera Raw meaning it can read and display hundreds of Raw formats. Photoshop Lightroom should ship in mid-February.

Firefoxista löytyi kaksi haavoittuvuutta

2007-02-08T12:03:29+02:00

Tietoturvayhtiö sanoo löytäneensä Firefoxista kaksi korjaamatonta haavoittuvuutta tällä viikolla. Toinen haavoittuvuus liittyy ponnahdusikkunoiden ja toinen tietojen kalastelun estoon.

Virtualdub 1.6.17 / 1.7.1 exp

2007-02-07T15:08:44+02:00

Internetin selkärankaan hyökättiin

2007-02-07T11:44:11+02:00

Internetin juurinimipalvelimet olivat hajautetun palvelunestohyökkäyksen kohteena tiistaina. Hyökkäys alkoi tiistaina noin kello kaksitoista Suomen aikaa, Cert-fi kertoo.

Linux Kernel 2.6.20 Released

2007-02-06T15:22:35+02:00

After two months of development, Linux 2.6.20 has been released. This release includes two different virtualization implementations: KVM: full-virtualization capabilities using Intel/AMD virtualization extensions and a paravirtualization implementation usable by different hypervisors. Aditionally, 2.6.20 includes PS3 support, a fault injection debugging feature, UDP-lite support, better per-process IO accounting, relative atime, relocatable x86 kernel, some x86 microoptimizations, lockless radix-tree readside, shared pagetables for hugetbl, and many other things. Read the list of changes for details.

Virus Top Twenty for January 2006

2007-02-02T11:22:17+02:00

For the moment at least, all Warezov variants are being beaten back by Bagle and other malicious programs. This is supported by the fact that only Warezov.do has remained in the ratings, and in seventeenth place at that.

Do Terrorists Lie?

2007-01-18T10:40:30+02:00

Terrorists might bomb airplanes, take and kill hostages, and otherwise terrorise innocents. But there's one thing they just won't do: lie on government forms. And that's why the State of Ohio requires certain license (including private pilot licenses) applicants to...

Rumsfeld Leaves Most Recent Job Off Resumé

2007-01-16T10:01:28+02:00

ST. MICHAELS, MD—After including his four terms in Congress, a two-year stint in banking, and volunteer work, Rumsfeld said he "ran out of room" for the high-ranking cabinet post.

Back Up Hard Drives, Partitions with Ghost4Linux

2007-01-12T10:22:20+02:00

"This tutorial shows how you can back up and restore hard drives and partitions with Ghost4Linux. Ghost4Linux is a Linux Live-CD that you insert into your computer; it contains hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tools similar to Norton Ghost. The created images are compressed and transferred to an FTP server instead of cloning locally."

HOWTO choose a good password

Cory Doctorow — 2007-01-12T09:49:19+02:00

Cory Doctorow: Bruce Schneier on how to choose a secure password -- forget taking a common word, substiting some numbers for letters, and sticking a year with some punctuation on the end. Not good enough:

PRTK also runs a four-character-string exhaustive search. It runs the dictionaries with lowercase (the most common), initial uppercase (the second most common), all uppercase and final uppercase. It runs the dictionaries with common substitutions: "$" for "s," "@" for "a," "1" for "l" and so on. Anything that's "leet speak" is included here, like "3" for "e."
The appendage dictionaries include things like:
* All two-digit combinations
* All dates from 1900 to 2006
* All three-digit combinations
* All single symbols
* All single digit, plus single symbol
* All two-symbol combinations

Link

Britannian kouluviranomaiset kehottavat välttämään Vistaa

2007-01-12T09:47:14+02:00

Britannian kouluviraston tietokoneasiantuntijat sanovat, että Vista sisältää liikaa riskejä ja sen edut ovat epäselviä.

Democrats Demand Massive Troop Surge to End Iraq War

2007-01-12T09:46:51+02:00

Washington, DC (Ucs News) In a surprise move House Democrats voted to send 150,000 more troops into Iraq. House speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated "George W. Bush is a coward and he is afraid to take the tough measures required to finish the war he started." Pelosi went on to suggest a draft would be called to raise the required troops for deployment in Iraq.

Desktop Virtualization with VMware Player and Workstation

2007-01-11T13:17:18+02:00

More and more organizations are consolidating physical hardware using virtualization. But virtualization technology and tools aren't limited to big-dollar corporations. With the free-as-in-beer VMware Player, and the very cheap VMware Workstation, you too can use this fancy technology to utilize the processing horsepower of cheap multi-core hardware available off-the-shelf. More here.

Sadan miljoonan amerikkalaisen tiedot olleet vaarassa

2006-12-15T14:52:51+02:00

Yli sata miljoonaa amerikkalaista on vajaan kahden vuoden aikana ollut alttiina identiteettivarkaudelle, sanoo yksityisyyden suojaa ajava kuluttajajärjestö Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Luku vastaa kolmannesta koko kansakunnasta.

Christmas Brought To Iraq By Force

2006-12-15T10:58:19+02:00

BAGHDAD, IRAQ—On almost every corner in Iraq's capital city, carolers are singing, trees are being trimmed, and shoppers are rushing home with their packages—all under the watchful eye of U.S. troops dedicated to bringing the magic of Christmas to Iraq by force.

Decider To Defer Decision on Decision Deferral

2006-12-15T10:48:49+02:00

Iraq Plan Development Needs Further Development, Some Say President Bush decided to defer a decision on when he will decide on a new approach to the Iraq war until "some time next year," although he has not decided exactly when...

The Daedalus Starship

Alan Bellows — 2006-12-15T10:06:34+02:00

Rendered image of the Daedalus, courtesy of Adrian Mann (click for larger view)In the winter of 1973, the men and women of the British Interplanetary Society convened in London to engage in some lively interstellar discourse. The members' intent was to draw up a workable design for an extremely ambitious unmanned space probe, one capable of reaching a neighboring star system within fifty years. Moreover, they limited themselves to using only current and near-future technology, as this would allow the theories to be translated into practice one day if the concept proved feasible. In order to reach even the nearest stars within the allotted fifty-year window, the thirteen scientists and engineers of the research group had a formidable task ahead of them. Their space probe would be required to accelerate to astonishing speeds, and it would need to weather the constant battering of particles from the soup of... (More Inside)

Java 6 Released

2006-12-14T12:26:56+02:00

This morning Sun officially released Java 6 for download after over two years of development. The Java 6 development cycle has been the most open of any Java release with weekly builds available to the public and extensive collaboration between Sun and over 330 external developers. Sun has worked with over 160 companies to ensure backwards compatibility, stability and optimum performance of applications running on the JVM.

Puolisopestiläiset ratkaisevat usein ulkomaille lähdön

2006-12-08T13:08:42+02:00

Vaimoilla on sanan sijaa kansainvälisessä taloudessa, vihjaa Annika Oksasen väitöskirja suomalaisista siirtonaisista eli kotirouvista, jotka oleskelevat ulkomailla miehensä työkomennuksen myötä.

LinuxBIOS Ready to Go Mainstream

2006-12-08T12:02:11+02:00

After seven years of work, the LinuxBIOS project is on the brink of making a free BIOS a standard option for computers. Serious obstacles remain, including a lack of resources and resistance from some proprietary chipset manufacturers and OEMs, but the advantages of LinuxBIOS indicate that its availability to the average computer buyer may be only months away.

Bush Compliments Iraqi Prime Minister for doing a "Heck of a Job"

2006-12-01T12:02:17+02:00

Amman, Jordan (Rotters) - Iraqi prime minister, Miki al-Browni stated on Thursday that forces would be in place by July of next year to weather whatever storm of civil war might take place. He praised his own administration for a system of economic levies that they have put in place that should be able to withstand the ravages of even a category five civil war. He pledged also to work towards a "grateful exit" for US troops.

Vain yhdellä turvayhtiöllä Vista-valmius

2006-12-01T11:10:26+02:00

Windows Vistan tullessa markkinoille vain McAfeella on tarjota turvaohjelma käyttöjärjestelmään.

Venäjä suostuu sulkemaan Allofmp3.comin

2006-11-30T11:17:04+02:00

Venäjä on suostunut sulkemaan polkuhintaan musiikkia myyvän Allofmp3.comin ja muita musiikkipalveluja Yhdysvaltain vaatimuksesta.

GNU/DOS Project Discontinued

2006-11-30T10:10:33+02:00

The GNU/DOS Project has been discontinued. From the web site: "Further development of GNU/DOS has been discontinued due to: a lack of developer time for the project; the fact that the project's objectives were not fully met; and the fact that the latest stable release of FreeDOS, when combined with the DJGPP development tools, is very much superior to the final release of GNU/DOS."

Linux 2.6.19 Released

2006-11-30T10:09:47+02:00

After 2 months, 2.6.19 has been released. This release includes the clustering GFS2 filesystem, Ecryptfs , the first experimental version of EXT4 (aimed at developers), support for the Atmel AVR32 architecture, sleepable RCU, improvements for NUMA-based systems, and much more.

Kirby Dick and This Film is Not Yet Rated, Thu in LA

2006-11-28T15:42:56+02:00

Cory Doctorow: This Thursday, I'll introduce director Kirby Dick and his movie "This Film is Not Yet Rated" at a free screening at USC. The screening is sponsored by the USC Free Culture club, a campus organization dedicated to promoting liberty, openness, and access to information.

Kirby Dick has graciously agreed to present the screening of his movie, which I reviewed in September. This Film is Not Yet Rated is the best documentary I've seen all year, the kind of thing that inspired outrage and sympathy. It tells the hidden story of the MPAA's rating board, and its systematic discrimination against sympathetic portrayals of gay sexuality and sex in general, and its tacit support for ultra-violence.

The ratings board is shrouded in secrecy, and exists, supposedly, to forestall Congressional censorship of the film industry (an eventuality as unlikely as it is unconstitutional). The board's membership is secret, as are the names of the appeals committee that is meant to watchdog the organizing. The whole, secretive mess was established by Jack Valenti in his capacity as head of the MPAA, and so it bends over backwards to help filmmakers from the major studios (while shafting indies).

Dick's documentary revolves around his efforts to unmask the identity of the secret censor board. He hires a private eye and sets her to work (the CSI elements of the film are really juicy -- it's fun to see how private eyes really work). Threaded around this are interviews with filmmakers who've had run-ins with the board, and, as a climax, Dick's own Orwellian adventures in submitting his documentary to the censor board whose identities he has uncovered.

I can't wait to meet him -- one viewing of This Film is Not Yet Rated turned me into an instant, lifelong fan. I hope to see you there!

Where: University of Southern California, Los Angeles: University Park Campus, George Lucas Instructional Building, 108

When: Thursday, November 30, 2006 : 7:00pm to 9:00pm

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