America’s Moral Degeneracy
On May 31, 2010, the Israeli right-wing government sent armed military troops to illegally board in international waters Gaza aid ships of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla organized by the Free Gaza Movement...
View ArticleSay Hello to World War III, Obama Just Signed another Executive Order
by Henry Shivley President Barack Hussein Obama AKA Barry Soetoro AKA Barry the Rat, the south side Chicago back alley socialist insurgent pimp, just signed another Executive Order. You know,...
View ArticleNobel’s will ‘blatantly disrespected’ in Norway
On the eve of the announcement of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, The Local catches up with Norwegian lawyer and Nobel historian Fredrik S. Heffermehl, who claims the Norwegian Nobel Committee isn't...
View Article‘It was an easy decision’: Swedish Academy
The Locals Rebecca Martin catches up with Peter Englund, the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy (Svenska Akademien), to find out more about why one should read the work of 2012s Nobel Prize...
View ArticleU.S Military Plans to Prevent Veteran Suicides by Taking Away Their Guns
by J.G. Vibes It has long been known that there are more veterans who end up committing suicide than there are who actually die on the battlefield. This fact has been so unsettling for many people in...
View ArticleFacebook bounce brings more firms to Luleå
A year after Facebook announced it would open a data centre in Lule, three more multinational companies are set to follow suit, opening branches in the northern Swedish town.After Facebook, Lule sets...
View ArticleUS and Israel Prepare to Declare WWIII Against Iran, China and Russia
Obama and Netanyahu are currently deciding how to best strike Iran’s nuclear power facility in Natanz. There are talks of using drones and bomber jets so that the attack would only take a day or two....
View ArticleMalmö sniper Peter Mangs demands retrial
Convicted serial killer Peter Mangs demanded a retrial on Thursday, accusing one of the lay judges who presided over his trial of having a conflict of interest in the case.Malm sniper Peter Mangs 'not...
View ArticleGov. Jesse Ventura & Gov. Gary Johnson Tear it Up in Minnesota
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View ArticleWhere’s the Discussion of Trojan Horses?
It was striking that the word "Trojan" was not mentioned in a 52-page Congressional report focusing on the activities of two giant Chinese telecommunications firms. Huawei and ZTE have long been...
View ArticleThe Dangers of Allowing an Adversary Access to a Network
It was striking that the word "Trojan" was not mentioned in a 52-page Congressional report focusing on the activities of two giant Chinese telecommunications firms, Huawei and ZTE, which have long been...
View ArticleClinton Sends Lackey to House Committee to Cover Her Involvement in Benghazi...
Reading from a prepared statement, Patrick Kennedy, Under Secretary of State for Management, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that criticism of the US government’s response to...
View ArticleEgypt seals Gaza tunnels
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View ArticleA New iPad Browser Surfs the Web So You Don’t Have To
Rockmelt, a start-up that made a desktop browser that incorporates social media updates, has introduced a version for the iPad that shows you images, posts and articles from around the Internet before...
View ArticleDigital Ad Report Finds Big Growth in Mobile
Mobile continues to be a sweet spot for digital advertising according to a report issued by the Interactive Advertising Bureau on Thursday. For the first half of 2012, revenue in the category increased...
View ArticleWhy Mainstream Media, Main Street And Institutions Fail To See The Benefits...
Many of today’s investors have only lived through the long term bull market of financial assets, between 1980 and 2000. Those two decades have been characterized by strong growth in bond and equity...
View Article3 Portland Activists Indefinitely Detained for Refusing to Speak at Grand...
Since late July, three activists have had their lives torn apart by the police and the legal system, simply because they refused to answer any questions in a grand jury case, regarding crimes that...
View ArticleTeen Pakistani activist moved to Rawalpindi for treatment
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View ArticlePakistani teen activist moved to Rawalpindi for treatment
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View ArticleRon Paul Refuses to Endorse Romney
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View ArticleWhat the Presidential Candidates Say About Tech
NYCTechMeetUp, a nonprofit group that represents computer coders and other technology industry people in New York, asked the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates to explain how their...
View ArticleDaily Report: Panetta Warns of Threat of Cyberattack on U.S.
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta warned Thursday that the United States was facing the possibility of a "cyber-Pearl Harbor" and was increasingly vulnerable to foreign computer hackers who could...
View ArticleOne on One: Robin Sloan, Author and ‘Media Inventor’
Robin Sloan, a former media manager at Twitter, is the author of the book "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel." He talks about how his work at Twitter influenced the book's themes. … Read More
View ArticleDespite Maps Debacle, Demand for New iPhone Appears Strong
The release of Apple's new maps app was met with such furor that the company's chief executive even apologized for it. Still, the flawed maps are not turning people off from wanting the phone. A new...
View ArticleGraphene Could Usher in Flexible, Ultra-Slim Gadgets
Graphene, which is considered a "wonder material," could allow manufacturers to make cell phones as thin as a piece of paper and fully flexible. … Read More
View ArticleUN to vote on Mali military intervention
http://www.youtube.com/v/vbVgoHfMPt4?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Visit site: UN to vote on Mali military intervention
View ArticleFirst Open Forum Academy Conference Proceedings
Last week, I mentioned that I attended the Open Forum Europe 2012 conference. Preceeding it was the first meeting of the Open Forum Academy (OFA), of which I am a member. Here's how it describes...
View ArticleEU Copyright Holders Cling To Old Levies, As New Ones Start To Appear On...
Levies on blank storage media are a relic of older times when copying was a new possibility for copyright works. You no longer needed an LP pressing plant, say, you could copy music in the comfort of...
View ArticleOut of Africa: More Microsoft FUD
One of the most heartening developments recently has been Africa's current embrace of computer technology. That includes open source: for example, Nigeria has been running an open source conference...
View ArticleWhy ECJ Must be Ultimate Arbiter of the Unitary Patent
As I've noted a couple of times, one of the key issues that has yet to be resolved concerning the proposed EU Unitary Patent system is which court will have the final say. Will it be the European...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament Committee Calls For Creation Without Copyright To Become...
The European Union's governmental machine is a complicated beast, with its intertwining of supra-national, national and party-political levels (if you're interested in understanding how it works, the...
View ArticleCalifornia To Commission 50 Open Textbooks For 2013; Finnish Teachers Write...
Techdirt has been following open textbooks for some time now, and 2012 looks to be a bumper year for them. Here, for example, is a major initiative in the US: On Techdirt. … Read More
View ArticleTeenage Engineering: If Our Parts Are Too Expensive, Here’s How To Print Your...
There's plenty of breathless writing about the imminent 3D-printing revolution, but realistically, what is it likely to mean for most people? They probably won't all be printing out their own planes,...
View ArticleDeclaration on Parliamentary Openness
An increasing number of Open Enterprise posts are about moves to open up government in myriad ways. That's not really surprising, since open source clearly is a perfect match for public...
View ArticleGerman Pirate Party Makes Some Shockingly Unshocking Proposals For Copyright...
As Techdirt has reported, after a year of amazing successes, the German Pirate Party is going through something of a bad patch at the moment. One reason is that it seems to spend more time squabbling...
View ArticleEmerging Countries Take Note: Big Pharma’s Losing Patent Battles In India
Techdirt has been following the important story of the kidney and liver cancer drug marketed under the name Nexavar since March, when India granted a compulsory license for the first time since...
View ArticleCreepy Smartphone Malware Re-creates Your Home For Stalkers
It's become something of a cliché that anyone with a mobile phone is carrying a tracking device that provides detailed information about their location. But things are moving on, as researchers (and...
View ArticleLacking Fair Use Rights, Argentina Tries To Increase Access To Copyright...
If you think copyright is bad in regions like the US or Europe, this post from Intellectual Property Watch points out that things could be much worse: On Techdirt. … Read More
View ArticleFighting Lack of Transparency And Engagement With Parliamentary Openness
A recurrent theme here on Techdirt is the persistent lack of transparency during the drafting of new laws or the negotiation of new treaties. Most governments, it seems, retain the view that they know...
View ArticleEU Unitary Patent Vote: It’s On, Again, Probably
This is getting silly. Over the last year I've been warning about problems with the EU's plan to bring in a Unitary Patent system, culminating in a call to write to your MEPs a few weeks ago about an...
View ArticleBefore and After ACTA – the Video
In the last year I've written what some might have felt were rather too many thousand words about ACTA. But I'd argue that it was an important moment, not least because of the European Parliament's...
View ArticleThe Philippines’ Awful New ‘Cybercrime’ Law Put On Hold — For Now
Last week Tim Cushing wrote about the hugely-worrying new "cybercrime" law passed in the Philippines that seemed likely to criminalize all kinds of everyday online activities. As an article on Radio...
View ArticleOpen source’s secret ally: Moore’s Law
Linux went from being a cool personal hack in a bedroom to software that would eventually change world just over 21 years ago when Linus sent out his famous "Hello everybody out there using minix"...
View ArticleGerman Gov’t Inadvertently Reveals Police Monitor Gmail, Skype, Facebook &...
Transparency is worth having for itself, since governments often tend to behave a little better when they know that someone is watching. But occasionally, requests for data turn up something big and...
View ArticleThe French Pigeons Are Revolting — And That’s Good
One of the reasons the copyright lobby has been able to get so far with Net-hostile legislation like SOPA/PIPA and treaties like ACTA and TPP is that the companies affected adversely -- both big...
View ArticleYes, Network Effects Are a Problem for Open Formats
As we know, lock-in is one of the biggest obstacles to moving from closed, proprietary formats, to open ones. But so far as I know, no one has tried to quantify the extent to which people cling to old...
View ArticleSnooper’s Charter: 19,000 Emails Against, 0 In Favour
Back in August, I urged people to respond to the consultation on the truly dreadful Draft Communications Bill, aka Snooper's Charter. Obviously, I wasn't alone in doing that: many organisations...
View ArticleUK Continues To Criminalize Bad Taste And Stupidity In Online Postings
In the wake of the Twitter joke trial fiasco, which saw Paul Chambers dragged through the courts for two years before being acquitted, the UK's Director of Public Prosecutions announced that there...
View ArticleCryptoParty Like It’s 1993
As Techdirt stories regularly report, governments around the world, including those in the West, are greatly increasing their surveillance of the Internet. Alongside a loss of the private sphere, this...
View ArticleLast Chance: Consultation on Net Neutrality in EU
Back in July, I wrote about a consultation on net neutrality from the EU, entitled On-line public consultation on "specific aspects of transparency, traffic management and switching in an Open...
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