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Sunrise Gaffe: Internet Full by 2012

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FraterNLST
FraterNLST writes "Australia's popular Channel 7 morning show Sunrise may have made an embarrassing mistake this morning (28/04/09) when they reported that US Scientists are claiming that the internet will be full by 2012.

They followed this claim in a well advertised segment with explanations about how YouTube is taking up all the space, the "big pipes" are getting clogged in "internet farms" and if it gets full there will be brown outs.

They appear to be getting at least some of their information from WA Today, who posted this story.

Unfortunately for Sunrise, this story was posted on the 01/04/09 — April Fools day.

Despite the loud coverage and the pre-segment hype given to the story during the show, all reference to it has since been removed from the site though a google search shows the following phrase had originally been indexed against it: "They're warning that by 2012 the internet will become an "unreliable toy"."."

Comment: Re:What is going on? (Score 1) 292

by FraterNLST (#25536799) Attached to: Australian Government Ignoring Problems With Proposed Filters

It's probably time to call an end to this particular discussion, as I've slipped into personal insults and you've started clipping my quotes to support your witticisms in an attempt to imitate fox news. Really, that kind of thing is beneath both of us.

We've identified the point where our world views diverge and it seems irreconcilable from that point onwards. I, like your founding fathers, am a strong believer in liberty and freedom from tyranny in all its forms, including militarily enforced environmental policy. Perhaps the founding fathers would have been less libertarian given the current environmental situation, but I'm not and never will be. I think it is the utmost height of arrogance to think that political boundaries are mere suggestions and your own countries will should be enforceable across them. A large part of this is likely that I don't believe the hype surrounding climate change, and don't believe the problem is as serious as it is made out to be. I am a minority in that view and my particular government is doing more and more to fix this "problem". This is a -good thing-, because it is the power of democracy that the majority should rule in a country - note, that this does not mean the majority in a completely separate country who happen to have bigger guns than you.

I also think borders are far more important than you seem to because without borders there is nowhere for dissidents to flee to. Early Americans would have understood that I imagine, as they understood tyranny and oppression all to well. I believe that any time your will is imposed via force of arms rather than compromise, treaty and rhetoric you are a dictator and a tyranny.

You are opposed to this view primarily because you think the environmental issue is powerful and important enough to call for the abandoning of sovereignty and the imposition of your own government and people's wishes on other countries. I can understand that view and if I shared your belief in the problem, might even share it. It is certainly true that you should defend yourself when attacked in any way, however this will-to-defend when combined with the current American belief in its own infallibility is always a concern to me. At this point we disagree, and we are both obviously acquainted with the issues so this disagreement is not due to a misunderstanding of the issue but rather a difference in personal values, so there is no point to further discussion.

I apologise if my comments earlier were rude in any way, I suspect they probably were.

Republicans

Conservapedia - The Truth Will Set You Free->

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FraterNLST
FraterNLST writes "Most of us have heard of that joke that is the conservative answer to wikipedia — well, it's still alive and growing. This article gives some words from its founders, and some more brilliant extracts of "unbiased, conservative opinion."

I particularly like the one about Hillary Clinton being unsuited for president as she displays all the signs of classical narcissism. Oh, and she's a democrat, not that that would matter to an unbiased conservative."

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Censorship

Outcry over Flickr's censorship in Germany->

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FraterNLST
FraterNLST writes "Once again everyone is up at arms about the enforced censorship of Flickr photo's in Germany, as some are in the United Arab Emirates and China. Are we lobbing blame at the wrong people however? Flickr and Yahoo aren't censoring photo's because they enjoy doing it (these same photos are available in the majority of countries) but to comply with local laws and regulations.

Perhaps it is the German government who should be held responsible for the censorship, those responsible for the laws in the first place?"

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Censorship

Electronic Frontier Foundation Sues Uri Geller

Submitted by reversible physicist
reversible physicist writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sued spoon-bender Uri Geller for using "baseless copyright claims" to silence critics who question his paranormal powers. Brian Sapient posted on YouTube a 14-minute excerpt from the 1993 PBS NOVA program "Secrets of the Psychics," in which magician James Randi says Geller's spoon-bending feats were simple tricks. YouTube took down the video after Geller complained — his lawyers claim that 10 seconds of the video are owned by Geller. A shorter excerpt is still up on YouTube."
Privacy

NSA installs secret room for illegal surveillance

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An anonymous reader writes "http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/20 07/05/kleininterview
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006 /05/70944
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006 /04/70619

Though the media is rife with general allegations, I haven't seen much out there about this in particular.

The first link is an interview with the whistleblower:
"Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, sits quietly at the center of a high-profile legal storm hitting the nation's largest telecommunications companies for allegedly helping the government spy on American citizens' phone and internet communications without court approval."

From the third article:
"AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers' phone calls, and shunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center, according to a former AT&T worker cooperating in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against the company.

Mark Klein, a retired AT&T communications technician, submitted an affidavit in support of the EFF's lawsuit this week. That class action lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco last January, alleges that AT&T violated federal and state laws by surreptitiously allowing the government to monitor phone and internet communications of AT&T customers without warrants.""
Media

Lawsuit Invokes DMCA to Force DRM Adoption

Submitted by TechnicolourSquirrel
TechnicolourSquirrel writes "Forbes.com informs us that Media Rights Technologies is suing Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and Real Networks for not using its DRM technology and therefore 'failing to include measures to control access to copyrighted material,' alleging that their refusal to use MRT's X1 Recording Control technology constitutes a 'circumvention' of a copyright protection system, which is of course illegal under the Digital Millenium Copryight Act. I would say more, but without controlling access to this paragraph with MRT's products, I fear I have already risked too much..."

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