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Submission + - UK Pirate Party Launches Policy2011 - Looking for (pirateparty.org.uk)

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on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @04:45AM

Ajehals writes: "The Pirate Party UK is asking for ideas from the public and members alike with it's Policy2011 programme, providing an opportunity for everyone to get involved in an open, public and presumably slightly different policy consultation.

The Pirate Party UK will be holding a public policy consultation from the 3rd of October until the 3rd of November at piratethispolicy.co.uk...

Here in the UK the party has faced criticism for having too narrow a focus and for not communicating its principles and ideas well. This process will deal with that criticism and allow the party to build a strong foundation of principles as well as broad policy objectives for the coming years. It will make clear what we are fighting for and, while we may not agree entirely in all areas, it will show that our principles are relevant and important to the country."

Submission + - So much for Civil Liberties online in the UK... (pirateparty.org.uk)

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on Saturday September 03, 2011 @05:41PM

Ajehals writes: "It's "acceptable to shut Twitter and Facebook off for an hour or two"... But Government has "no intention of restricting Internet services"? Governments don't get technology.

At every turn, the coalition has been exposed as having no coherent policy on digital rights. Nothing illustrates this better than its zig-zag course on Internet filtering and website blocking."

Submission + - Axe the Act - Digital Economy Act Challenge (pirateparty.org.uk)

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on Friday June 17, 2011 @03:45AM

Ajehals writes: "he Pirate Party is constantly working hard to protect the rights of citizens across the country. From the outset we have been vocal critics of the Digital Economy Act.

On the 14th of June a group of brave MPs, Julian Huppert, MarkDurkan, Andrew George, Robert Halfon, Eric Joyce and Tom Watson brought Early Day Motion 1913 to the House. The Motion criticises some of the worst aspects of the bill, and presses for a much needed re-examination.

The Pirate Party certainly supports them, but we need your help. We need you to make your representatives aware that you oppose this legislation, we need your voice to be heard before it is silenced by draconian and ill thought out legislation."

Submission + - The future of electoral reform in the UK (pirateparty.org.uk)

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on Friday May 06, 2011 @03:10PM

Ajehals writes: "A statement on the failure of the AV referendum and on the future of electoral reform in the UK by UK Pirate Party Leader Loz Kaye.

On behalf of the Pirate Party, I would like to thank the voters that turned out to cast their ballots in the national referendum on whether to change the electoral system to the Alternative Vote. The outcome is not what The UK Pirate Party or I had hoped for, even if it is what we had come to expect over recent weeks."

Submission + - UK PIrate Party Leader Loz Kaye on anything (reddit.com)

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on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @08:48AM

Ajehals writes: "Loz Kaye answers questions in a reddit AMA"

"I'm the elected leader of a small but growing political party that you may have heard about. I have supported a number of elections whilst a party governor, stood for parliament at the Oldham East & Saddleworth by-election and am currently working with party members on campaigns in Scotland and Manchester.
I also campaign on a number of issues ranging Jokes on Trial in the UK to Bradley Manning's plight in the US and as well as more core PPUK issues like the Digital Economy Act."

"Oh and I should probably say that I am also a composer, musical director, and lecturer."

Submission + - UK Pirate Party launches 2011 manifesto (theinquirer.net)

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on Saturday April 16, 2011 @04:29AM

Ajehals writes: "THE UK Pirate Party has launched its 2011 manifesto and promised to fight off the Digital Economy Act, support web fairness and make it a fundamental right to be a whistleblower.

Opposing the Digital Economy Act and supporting Net Neutrality will be high on its agenda though, and Kaye said that in its current state the former is "Unacceptable".

He added, "We face whole families just being kicked off the Internet. That is unacceptable. We would repeal those parts of the Act.""

Comment FBI (Score 1) 1

by Ajehals on Friday January 28, 2011 @10:44AM (#35031888) Attached to: DDoS Attacks and the Law

It seems LOIC may not have been such a great idea (I seem to remember someone hailing this as the first wave of cyber-activism, others categorising it as cyber-warfare..) although I wonder what proportion of those involved in the attacks this group of under 50 actually is...

Submission + - DDoS Attacks and the Law (pirateparty.org.uk) 1

Submitted by Ajehals on Friday January 28, 2011 @10:32AM

Ajehals writes: Earlier this week it was announced that five people had been arrested across the UK in connection with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on "major US companies across several industries" and was done on request from the FBI. While few details have emerged, it is understood that they were arrested under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. The aim of this post will be to examine the relevant part of this law and how it applies to DDoS attacks.

Submission + - UK ID Cards Are No More! (pirateparty.org.uk) 1

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on Friday January 21, 2011 @07:24PM

Ajehals writes: "In the last ten years, governments have fallen over themselves to try and obtain more information about their citizens. Sometimes it's databases, or new regulations, or cameras, but the one thing they have in common is that they can be used to identify you, and track you. Today is a positive step then, as in the UK, it's the last day for the "UK Identity Card" — after midnight GMT tonight, they will no longer be valid for use at all."

Submission + - Are You A Pirate? (amiapirate.org)

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on Friday April 16, 2010 @06:35AM

Ajehals writes: "With both the Labour & Conservative Parties set on criminalising more than 7 million people in the UK, it's time to ask "Am I a Pirate too?". amiapirate.org gives people the opportunity to raise awareness that piracy, as it is commonly referred to doesn't seem to nvolve ships anymore and is a term that in the UK can be applied to people doing rather reasonable things..."

Submission + - You wouldn't shoot a Policeman.. Are you a Pirate? (techideas.co.uk)

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on Thursday April 15, 2010 @08:44PM

Ajehals writes: "Tim Dobson, of the Pirate party (and standing as a candidate in the General Election in the UK as for Gorton) has launched a nice little test to determine whether you are you a Pirate. It’s clearly aimed at the layman rather than the tech saavy, or those well versed in the current copyright/patents/digital-economy/IPRED/ACTA , but might be worth a look. Its over at amiapirate.org."

Submission + - When an opt out isnâ(TM)t - Virgins new (techideas.co.uk)

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on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @07:51PM

Ajehals writes: "Virgin Media recently announced a new âoeAdvanced Network Error Searchâ a system whereby erroneously entered URLâ(TM)s, redirect to Virgin Media's own, Yahoo powered search pages. There was an opt out, but for one user at least, it seems to be being ignored..."

Submission + - Well it's not as if you need rm, or cp, ls, touch. (techideas.co.uk)

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on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @12:57PM

Ajehals writes: "So, sometimes people act before they think, sometimes that leads to problems that appear to the uninitiated to be catastrophic. But then the great thing about GNU/Linux, BSD and Solaris is that generally nothing is totally catastrophic, well almost nothing. In this case the problem occurred during an upgrade, the identities of the guilty will be obscured, but the lesson may be useful regardless."

Comment Cost of doing business (Score 1) 2

by Ajehals on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @08:33PM (#27322649) Attached to: Last.fm to start charging international users

The quote you are after is

The real reason is likely international licensing fees, which led Pandora to pull the plug on international users back in 2007. Itâ(TM)s unfortunate for users outside of Last.fmâ(TM)s top countries, but likely a necessary move to continue to provide sustainable service, even though the outfit is now owned by media conglomerate CBS.

If they aren't making enough money to cover their outgoings, whether that is licensing fees hosting or anything else, then I don't see this as such a bad thing. It is more sensible than trying to cram an advert in every corner and going under (or rather being wound down by the parent) anyway. It would be nice if this kind of service could be provided for free, but with licensing deals being as they are it might simply not be feasible.

Submission + - Linux, the adventure with benefits. (techideas.co.uk)

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on Saturday March 21, 2009 @03:43PM

Ajehals writes: "A not so brief response to Andrew Brown's article "Linux is still an adventure game, but now it's really worth playing" in the The Guardian, Thursday 19 March 2009:

"If you had compared the nightmare that is installing a boxed version of windows onto a machine and having everything work I would have applauded. It is a process I have gone through a few times (usually when someone turns up at my door with a computer so riddled with malware and adware that their own attempted reinstall and system restore failed to do anything terribly useful).

The week spent finding driver downloads for various internal hardware, motherboard, audio chipsets, graphics card, sound card and other device drivers is never much fun, indeed windows often makes this a little easier by pretending to have everything working until you realise that performance is abysmal, or something (that firewire port to hook up a camera..?) doesn't work later on down the line. This point may even require that you have a second computer handy (RAID card not supported on boot, network card not recognised? downloading them is rather hard when your machine has no network access or fails to boot at all...).""

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