October 2010 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Fw: Info DEL-CNRS Bulletin Board
by Mariella Berra Oct. 19, 2010

Oct. 19, 2010

di sicuro interesse per i nexiani ciao m ----- Original Message ----- From: INFOS Réseau DEL/CNRS To: destinataires inconnus: Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:04 PM Subject: Info DEL-CNRS Bulletin Board -------- Message original -------- Sujet: Re: Fwd: DEL-CNRS Bulletin Board Date : Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:01:53 +0100 De : Eleanor Burt <eb19(a)st-andrews.ac.uk> Pour : Stephanie Wojcik <stephanie.wojcik(a)u-pec.fr> Copie à : Gérard Loiseau <loiseau(a)univ-tlse2.fr> Dear Stephanie Thanks for this very helpful response and information. It is much appreciated. I have attached the Call for Papers. Kind regards. Eleanor -- Dr Eleanor Burt Senior Lecturer The School of Management University of St Andrews St Andrews Fife KY16 9SS Tel: 01334 462804 Managing NGOs module link: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/management/student/undergraduatemodules/mn4266/ The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland: No. SC013532. -- Gérard Loiseau, CERTOP/CNRS (loiseau(a)univ-tlse2.fr) Stéphanie Wojcik, Université Paris-Est, Céditec (stephanie.wojcik(a)u-pec.fr) Réseau de recherche "Démocratie électronique" / Research network "Electronic Democracy" www.certop.fr/DEL Pour vous désabonner, envoyez un mail à loiseau(a)univ-tlse2.fr" / "To unsuscribe from the DEL mailing list, send an e-mail to loiseau(a)univ-tlse2.fr

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The Atlantic: "A Shift on the First Amendment and Internet Speech"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 19, 2010

Oct. 19, 2010

A Shift on the First Amendment and Internet Speech By Garrett Epps William Shakespeare would have liked Justice Stephen Breyer. At oral argument, Breyer does not just hurl tendentious questions at hapless counsel. Like Hamlet, he likes to hear himself think. The most significant moment in Wednesday's bizarre oral argument <http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/09-751.pdf> in /Snyder v. Phelps/, the Westboro Baptist Church funeral-picketing case, may be this question from Breyer to Sean Summers, the lawyer representing grieving father Albert Snyder. Snyder's claim was that picketing his son Matthew's funeral (even at a distance), and publishing an "epic" ridiculing Matthew's religious upbringing (even though on a website not sent to the family) constituted "intentional infliction of emotional distress." Straightforward application of First Amendment precedent suggests that the claim can't succeed. But Breyer seemed willing to think aloud about whether new precedent is needed: So now we have two questions. One is, under what circumstances can a group of people broadcast on television something about a private individual that's very obnoxious? . . . And the second is, to what extent can they put that on the Internet, where the victim is likely to see it? Either on television or by looking it up on the Internet. Now, those are the two questions that I'm very bothered about. I don't know what the rules ought to be there. Breyer went on to speculate about a radical new rule for such cases: allow compensatory damages--intended to repair actual harm done (like the effect on Albert Snyder's health) by the speech--but not punitive damages, which are designed to deter others from doing the same thing. Note long before, in an interview <http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/09/the_koran_and_justice…> on /Good Morning America/, George Stephanopoulos asked Breyer whether the nature of free speech has changed in a world where threatened Koran burning by obscure publicity-hounds in Florida could spark riots in Kabul. Breyer responded: And you can say -- with the Internet, you can say this. You can't shout fire in a crowded theater. Holmes said [the First Amendment] doesn't mean you can shout 'fire' in a crowded theater. Well, what is it? Why? Because people will be trampled to death. And what is the crowded theater today? What is the being trampled to death? It will be answered over time in a series of cases which force people to think carefully. [...] Continua qui: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/10/a-shift-on-the-first-am…

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ERCIM issue on cloud computing
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 19, 2010

Oct. 19, 2010

Dear ERCIM News Reader, *ERCIM News No. 83* has just been published at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/ *Special Theme:* "/Cloud Computing/" - coordinated by: Frédéric Desprez, Ottmar Krämer-Fuhrmann and Ramin Yahyapour - featuring the keynote "Cloud Computing: The Next Big Thing?" by Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz, Keith Jeffery, Maria Tsakali and Lutz Schubert. Ciao juan carlos

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Tech Review: "Censorship Circumvention Tools Aren't Widely Used"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 19, 2010

Oct. 19, 2010

Monday, October 18, 2010 *Censorship Circumvention Tools Aren't Widely Used* *Users in authoritarian regimes either don't know about them or aren't interested.* By Erica Naone Tech humanitarians have put a lot of effort into producing tools like Tor and Freegate that can be used to access the Internet freely from anywhere, fighting the restrictions placed by the governments of such countries as China and Iran. But according to a new study from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, not many people are using the tools. What's more, the researchers found that the most popular circumvention tools aren't the ones designed to protect dissidents. Instead, most of the people who are avoiding censorship restrictions are using simple proxies to do so, which connect users to blocked content but don't typically take steps to conceal the identity of the person accessing the information. The researchers are now working to figure out how to encourage adoption of the tools that better protect people. The researchers found that in countries that filter the Internet heavily, no more than 3 percent of the Internet-using population turns to censorship circumvention tools to get around restrictions. And even this estimate is high, they say. It's hard to measure usage under these circumstances, and the figures may include people who aren't in countries where Internet traffic is filtered. The numbers might also count people multiple times if they use multiple tools. "It's a worrying finding," says Ethan Zuckerman <http://ethanzuckerman.com/>, one of the lead authors of the report and cofounder of the blogging advocacy group Global Voices. "I think those of us in countries where Internet access is virtually unfettered tend to assume that there would be massive, pent-up demand to access blocked content. But it's easy to forget--it's hard to want what you don't know about and have never had. [...] Continua qui: http://www.technologyreview.com/web/26574/?nlid=3655

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Fw: [Creis_Terminal] A history of virulence
by Mariella Berra Oct. 19, 2010

Oct. 19, 2010

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mariella Berra" <mariella.berra(a)unito.it> To: <nexa-server(a)server-nexa.polito.it> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:35 AM Subject: Fw: [Creis_Terminal] A history of virulence > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "antonio.casilli(a)gmail.com" <antonio.casilli(a)googlemail.com> > To: <creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org> > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:12 AM > Subject: [Creis_Terminal] A history of virulence > > > Bonjour, > > pour ceux d'entre vous qui travaillent sur les hackers, mais aussi pour > ceux qui travaillent sur le marketing viral, mais aussi pour ceux qui > travaillent sur le militantisme en ligne... bref, j'ai mis en ligne un > drôle de texte. C'est un essai de 36 pages (on connaît mon don de la > synthèse) qui va paraître dans le numéro de décembre 2010 (vol. 16 n. 2) > de la revue 'Body & Society' (Sage). > > Il est d'ores et déjà disponible sur mon blog : > > A History of Virulence: The Body and Computer Culture in the 1980s (part > 1) > http://www.bodyspacesociety.eu/2010/10/15/a-history-of-virulence-the-body-a… > > A History of Virulence: The Body and Computer Culture in the 1980s (part > 2 – with illustrations and references) > http://www.bodyspacesociety.eu/2010/10/18/a-history-of-virulence-the-body-a… > > Bonne lecture à tou(te)s et n'hésitez pas à transmettre à vos listes de > contacts, > ---a > _______________________________________________ > Creis_terminal mailing list > Creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org > https://listes.globenet.org/listinfo/creis_terminal > >

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invio di un link
by Mariella Berra Oct. 19, 2010

Oct. 19, 2010

Cari amici di Nexa, vi comunico che all'indirizzo:http://hdl.handle.net/2318/702 è disponibile il rapporto di ricerca del progetto Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Gruppo didattico del Politecnico e Scienza della Formazione ,finanziato dalla CRT sulla"Divulgazione della cultura umanistica e scientifica" Esso rigurada la analisi di esperienze di didattica collaborativa nelle scuola e la diffusione sotto CPldelle pubblicazioni del Dipartimento. Un caro saluto Mb

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Key4biz: "Wi-Fi libero: abolizione del decreto Pisanu in prossimo Cdm"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 18, 2010

Oct. 18, 2010

*Wi-Fi libero: abolizione del decreto Pisanu in prossimo Cdm, mentre il ministro Brunetta promette 'l'Atlante dell'innovazione'* Il prossimo Consiglio dei ministri dovrebbe esaminare l'abrogazione dell'art. 7 del *decreto ** legge 155/2005 ** * <http://www.camera.it/parlam/leggi/05155l.htm> *(Decreto Pisanu)* sull'obbligatorietà del deposito dei dati anagrafici sulle reti *Wi-Fi*. Lo ha reso noto il ministro* Renato Brunetta* a Venezia a margine del convegno "La sfida Europa 2020", organizzato dalla Presidenza del Consiglio dei ministri e dall'Agenzia per la diffusione delle tecnologie per l'innovazione. La questione era stata sollevata nelle scorse settimane da *Paolo Gentiloni *(PD), *Luca Barbareschi* (FLI), *Linda Lanzillotta* (API) e *Roberto Rao* (UDC), che hanno presentato una * proposta di legge <http://www.key4biz.it/files/000149/00014943.doc>* mirante ad abolire l'articolo 7 della legge, [...] Continua qui: http://www.key4biz.it/News/2010/10/18/Policy/Renato_Brunetta_WiFi_Barbaresc…

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LAPSI position paper on boosting cultural heritage on line
by Cristiana Sappa Oct. 18, 2010

Oct. 18, 2010

Dear All, LAPSI Thematic Network submitted an answer to the Consultation on behalf of the Comité des Sages on boosting cultural heritage on line a couple of weeks ago. This is to inform you that In addition to that LAPSI took the chance to raise a number of related and additional issues in a position paper that you find on LAPSI website: http://www.lapsi-project.eu/archive/LAPSIrelatedmaterial Kind Regards, Cristiana Sappa LAPSI and EVPSI project manager

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wifi in olanda
by Stefano Quintarelli Oct. 18, 2010

Oct. 18, 2010

Il portavoce del regolatore olandese, OPTA, ha detto che gli alberghi che offrono WIFI devono registrarsi quali operatori di telecomunicazioni. Non e' che ci sono solo i 250 euro di contributo annui, come scrive l'articolo. Ci sono le carte dei diritti degli utenti, le norme sulla privacy, le prestazioni di giustizia, le tenute dei log, ecc. ecc... http://is.gd/g6zh4 -- blog.quintarelli.it www.eximia.it www.reeplay.it

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Fwd: [ NNSquad ] The Zombie Network: Beware 'Free Public WiFi'
by Stefano Quintarelli Oct. 17, 2010

Oct. 17, 2010

> ----- Forwarded message from Monty Solomon <monty(a)roscom.com> ----- > > Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:31:34 -0400 > From: Monty Solomon <monty(a)roscom.com> > Subject: The Zombie Network: Beware 'Free Public WiFi' > To: undisclosed-recipient: ; > > > The Zombie Network: Beware 'Free Public WiFi' > by TRAVIS LARCHUK > > October 9, 2010 > > It's in your airports, your coffee shops and your libraries: "Free > Public WiFi." > > Despite its enticing name, the network, available in thousands of > locations across the United States, does not actually provide access > to the Internet. But like a virus, it has spread - and may even be > lurking on your computer right now. > > Wireless security expert Joshua Wright first noticed it about four > years ago at an airport. > > "I went to connect to an available wireless network and I saw this > option, Free Public WiFi," he remembers. "As I looked more and more, > I saw this in more and more locations. And I was aware from my job > and analysis in the field that this wasn't a sanctioned, provisioned > wireless network, but it was actually something rogue." > > Free Public WiFi isn't set up like most wireless networks people use > to get to the Internet. Instead, it's an "ad hoc" network - meaning > when a user selects it, he or she isn't connecting to a router or hot > spot, but rather directly to someone else's computer in the area. > > Though it doesn't actually provide Internet access, the network has > spread across the country thanks to an old Windows XP bug. > > ... > > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130451369 > > > http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=… > > http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=130451369 > > > ----- End forwarded message -----

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