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Neubot 0.4.9 released
by Simone Basso Feb. 28, 2012

Feb. 28, 2012

Neubot/0.4.9 released http://www.neubot.org/neubot-0.4.9 Version 0.4.9 is the latest generally-available stable release of Neubot, distributed for Ubuntu >= 10.04, MacOSX >= 10.6, Windows >= XP SP3 and FreeBSD, as well as in source format. If you have already installed Neubot for Ubuntu, MacOSX or FreeBSD, it should update automatically, and we just kindly ask you to verify that this is the case. As a rule of thumb, if it has not updated after a couple of weeks, that is probably a bug and you should report it. Neubot for Windows, instead, needs manual intervention and you can find instructions here: http://www.neubot.org/install-windows#upgrade Instructions for installing from scratch are available here: http://www.neubot.org/download This release contains 142 commits. The diffstat says: 73 changed files with 3,562 additions and 1,025 deletions. Here are the most relevant changes: - MacOS: keep neubot directory clean This commit teaches Neubot updater to periodically check whether the base directory (/usr/local/share/neubot) contains old releases files and directories. If so, old files and directories are removed. https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commit/18cf09e Requested by Alessio Palmero Aprosio some time ago. - www: add latency plots This commit adds latency plots to Neubot Web User Interface, both for speedtest and bittorrent. https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commit/0a523988 Suggested by Francesco Corazza, written by Alessio Palmero Aprosio. - www: less annoying win32 browser notifications This commit makes sure that Neubot does not open the Web User Interface in the default browser more than once per day per type of notification. This means that, for example, you will be notified at most once per day when a new version is available on our servers. https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commit/f0bef78b Reported and prodded by many. - doc/FAQ.rst doc/FAQ-it.rst import and revamp A couple of commits have imported the website faq into the sources tree, allowing for better maintenance. Now the faq is written in restructured text and the html on the web is automatically generated. After the import, both FAQs have been revamped and updated significantly. https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commit/843247c7 https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commit/1badc97d - Revamped manpage The manual page has been revamped and updated as well. https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commit/4e154a2a - Bug fixes Since Neubot 0.4.6, I've started collecting know bugs information at: https://github.com/neubot/neubot/wiki/errata Here is the list of bugs that have been fixed since the previous release, along with the link to the relevant commit: - Make sure that the Web API always returns sorted keys to the Web User Interface. Fixes settings keys being not properly sorted in settings.html. https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commit/7b3a9689 - More code rationalizations, cleanups and regression tests. Full change log available here: https://raw.github.com/neubot/neubot/0.4.9/ChangeLog Diff since previous version here: https://github.com/neubot/neubot/compare/0.4.8...0.4.9 Commit history here: https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commits/0.4.9 SHA256sums here: https://github.com/neubot/neubot/wiki/sha256 Errata here: https://github.com/neubot/neubot/wiki/errata Data here: http://www.neubot.org/data -- Simone <http://www.neubot.org/people#basso>

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Rif: R: Libertà d'informazione: Assemblea Nazionale di Articolo 21
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Feb. 28, 2012

Feb. 28, 2012

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Libertà d'informazione: Assemblea Nazionale di Articolo 21
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Feb. 28, 2012

Feb. 28, 2012

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"THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY IS SEARCHING YOUR FACEBOOK AND TWITTER FOR THESE WORDS"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 28, 2012

Feb. 28, 2012

*THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY IS SEARCHING YOUR FACEBOOK AND TWITTER FOR THESE WORDS * The Department of Homeland Security monitors your updates on social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, to uncover "Items Of Interest" (IOI), according to an internal DHS document released by theEPIC <http://epic.org/>. That document happens to include a list of the baseline terms for which the DHS--or more specifically, a DHS subcontractor hired to monitor social networks--use to generate real-time IOI reports. (Although the released PDF is generally all reader-selectable text, the list of names was curiously embedded as an image of text, preventing simple indexing. We've fixed that below.) [...] Continua qui: http://animalnewyork.com/2012/02/the-department-of-homeland-security-is-sea…

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La Repubblica: La fiducia sul web ha valore. "E' una moneta di scambio"
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Feb. 28, 2012

Feb. 28, 2012

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WP 29 opinion n.16/2011 translations
by avv. Monica A. Senor Feb. 28, 2012

Feb. 28, 2012

Sono state pubblicate le traduzioni dell'opinion n.16/2001 del Gruppo di Lavoro Articolo 29 sull'online behavioural advertising che affronta il problema dei cookies: http://bit.ly/pLcW4K Un caro saluto. Monica

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Mother Jones: "I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 28, 2012

Feb. 28, 2012

Cosa c'è dietro quelle scatole che arrivano così in fretta: non solo logistica di prim'ordine e ottimo software, ma anche, eccome!, esseri umani. juan carlos I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine. ---By Mac McClelland <http://motherjones.com/authors/mac-mcclelland> | March/April 2012 Issue <http://motherjones.com/toc/2012/03> Don't take anything that happens to you there personally," the woman at the local chamber of commerce says when I tell her that tomorrow I start working at Amalgamated Product Giant Shipping Worldwide Inc. She winks at me. I stare at her for a second. "/What?/" I ask. "Why, is somebody going to be mean to me <http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/slave-elves-online-shipping> or something?" She smiles. "Oh, yeah." This town somewhere west of the Mississippi is not big; everyone knows someone or/is/ someone who's worked for Amalgamated. "But look at it from their perspective. They need you to work as fast as possible to push out as much as they can as fast as they can. So they're gonna give you goals, and then you know what? If you make those goals, they're gonna increase the goals. But they'll be yelling at you all the time. It's like the military. They have to break you down so they can turn you into what they want you to be. So they're going to tell you, 'You're not good enough, you're not good enough, you're not good enough,' to make you work harder. Don't say, 'This is the best I can do.' Say, 'I'll try,' even if you know you can't do it. Because if you say, 'This is the best I can do,' they'll let you go. They hire and fire constantly, every day. You'll see people dropping all around you. But don't take it personally and break down or start crying when they yell at you." [...] Continua qui: http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping…

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Atlantic: "The Trouble With New York's Teacher Data Dump"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 27, 2012

Feb. 27, 2012

Quando gli "open data" riguardano delle persone, occorre esercitare grande cautela e senso critico. E i primi a doverlo fare sono proprio i sostenitori degli open data, sia per motivi deontologici sia per evitare "backlash" esagerati. juan carlos The Trouble With New York's Teacher Data Dump By Emily Richmond Feb 27 2012, 12:38 PM ET 1 <http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/02/the-trouble-with-new-yo…> /Does the release of information on 18,000 educators really increase transparency, or does it open the door for unprofessional -- and misleading -- statistical analysis? / Following a court challenge last year by several media outlets, the New York City Department of Education -- which operates the nation's largest school district -- agreed to release individual evaluation rankings for 18,000 of its teachers. /The New York Times/ is publishing its analysis of the data, including the teachers' names and their school assignments. GothamSchools, an independent online publication, has opted out, citing significant concerns <http://gothamschools.org/2012/02/23/why-we-wont-publish-individual-teachers…> about both the fairness and the accuracy of the data. Indeed, there is potentially a wide margin of error. The final scores for teachers could be off on average by as much as 35 or 53 percentage points for English and math exams, respectively, the /New York Times/ reported <http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/02/24/teacher-data-reports-are-relea…>. [...] Continua qui: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/02/the-trouble-with-new-yo…

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"Report: Facebook Read Users' Text Messages"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 27, 2012

Feb. 27, 2012

Dalla serie: "E' molto peggio di quello che sospettavamo". E non solo Facebook: questi comportamenti - che a me sembrano, se confermati, francamente criminali - sono a quanto pare diffusi (v. articolo). juan carlos Report: Facebook Read Users' Text Messages <http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/report_facebook_read_users_text_messag…> By Dave Copeland <http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/author/dave-copeland.php> / February 26, 2012 6:29 AM The London Sunday Times <http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/> is reporting that Facebook <http://www.facebook.com> read text messages of users who downloaded the social network's smartphone app. The story is behind a paywall, but Fox News summarized the article <http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/26/facebook-spies-on-phone-users-tex…> and said Facebook admitted to reading text messages as part of a trial to launch its own messaging service. It is not clear whether Facebook has discontinued the practice. We've asked Facebook for comment and will update when we hear back from them. [...] Continua qui: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/report_facebook_read_users_text_messag…

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Public Domain Day - 28 Febbraio 2012, Politecnico di Torino
by Giuseppe Futia Feb. 27, 2012

Feb. 27, 2012

*Public Domain Day* ** *Martedì 28 febbraio 2012* *Ore 10 -- 13* *Biblioteca Centrale di Ingegneria -- Politecnico di Torino* *Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 -- Torino* Il 28 febbraio 2012 dalle ore 10 alle ore 13, presso la Biblioteca Centrale di Ingegneria del Politecnico di Torino, il Sistema Bibliotecario del Politecnico di Torino <http://www.biblio.polito.it/>, in collaborazione con il Centro NEXA su Internet & Società <http://nexa.polito.it/> e MuseoTorino <http://www.museotorino.it/>, propone un incontro sul tema del *Pubblico Dominio*. Come ogni anno, infatti, scadono i termini di tutela del copyright sulle opere prodotte da autori deceduti da settant'anni: i loro contenuti non sono quindi più posseduti o controllati da qualcuno, ma diventano un *tesoro comune* disponibile a tutti. Nella prima parte dell'incontro, dedicata a un'introduzione al valore culturale e agli aspetti giuridici del Pubblico Dominio, interverranno *Paolo Messina*, responsabile delle Biblioteche civiche torinesi, *Federico Morando*, managing director del Centro NEXA, e *Sergio Pace*, responsabile della Biblioteca Centrale di Architettura del Politecnico di Torino. Nella seconda parte dell'incontro si costituirà *una tavola rotonda allargata in cui tutti i partecipanti sono invitati a condividere idee su progetti e iniziative* che, nel corso dell'anno, possano dare rilevanza a questi temi. In occasione dei festeggiamenti per il Pubblico Dominio di quest'anno, il Sistema Bibliotecario del Politecnico di Torino ha pubblicato in digitale il lavoro dell'avvocato *Massimo Travostino*, fellow del Centro NEXA, intitolato "Le fotografie nella legge sul diritto d'autore <http://www.biblio.polito.it/it/documentazione/pareri/fotografie.html>. Un excursus sulla loro tutela e gli specifici problemi connessi alle fotografie che riproducono opere d'arte figurativa". Su questi temi è inoltre disponibile il lavoro dell'avvocato *Deborah De Angelis*, fellow del Centro NEXA, dal titolo "Brevi note in tema di applicabilità delle licenze Creative Commons ai beni pubblici culturali <http://digitalia.sbn.it/upload/documenti/DIGIT%201-2009.pdf>" (la seconda parte è disponibile qui <http://digitalia.sbn.it/upload/documenti/Digit%202-2009.pdf?l=it>). Maggiori informazioni sul tema del Pubblico Dominio sono disponibili su http://publicdomainmanifesto.org/ <http://publicdomainmanifesto.org/>e http://www.publicdomainday.org/ <http://www.publicdomainday.org/%20><http://www.publicdomainday.org/%20>. -- Giuseppe Futia Communications Manager NEXA Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it <http://nexa.polito.it/> mail: giuseppe.futia(a)polito.it <mailto:giuseppe.futia@polito.it> tel. +39 011 090 7219

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