Week In Review 8W2010
Bloom Box claims to have develop a miracle fuel cell. Other people say otherwise.
On ACTA news, the EU Commission claims not to accept the disconnect provsionins. As an EUian I’m fairly concerned about how that will translate into action but things are looking up and public pressure seems to be having effect. If you’re inclined to read such things there’s a leaked EU memo about the proceedings here and Michael Geist’s digest is here
The US IP Alliance says using Open Source Software is equal to not respecting copyright. Maybe they should ripoff some “if you use OSS the communists win” posters. For the record, OSS is based on copyright and only copyright law enables OSS licensing.
Living upside down probably causes strange blood flow to Australian heads which push on stupid censorship. To the point of hamfisted, dorky, attempts to censorship self references to censorship. Maybe the Communications Minister should just send itself down the memory hole and he’d all pretend this never happened.
You might remember last week news broke about peeping tom school officials. Recaping, this is a public school that forced children to have and use the spying equipment and banned personal non-compromised computers. The FBI is looking into the case and the dorky peeping tom principal confused eating candy with popping pills. Without much surprise ACLU and EFF are having a field day and pointing out you can legally videotape anyone secretly as long as you don’t capture sound on the USA due to laws quirkiness. Meanwhile the peeping tom says she’s not a peeping tom.
