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[NEXA]PI: USA, Google contro Microsoft per le nuvole del governo

by vale.it＠gmail.com

Sul tema dei bandi di gara di prodotti compatibili con il software di una determinata casa: http://punto-informatico.it/3066328/PI/News/usa-google-contro-microsoft-nuv… V

Jan. 10, 2011

Re: [nexa] Servizio del TG5 su Wikipedia

by E.Richiardone

On Mon, January 10, 2011 1:36 am, Marco De Rossi wrote: > Se l'ha già segnalato qualcuno, scusate. Avete visto questa > sottospecie di cosa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RygPOmuTBc0 ? Si`, me lo hanno fatto vedere, vergognoso. Sembra un tentativo di screditare Internet per favorire i canali multimediali e di stampa di qualcuno. Non si capisce poi cosa ci sia di incongruente per un progetto libero chiedere donazioni... -- E.Richiardone

Jan. 10, 2011

"Democracies Confront Their Own Growing Censorship Tendencies"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty January 05, 2011 Democracies Confront Their Own Growing Censorship Tendencies by Arch Puddington, Christopher Walker The murders of journalists in Russia, the jailing of bloggers in China, and the crackdown on the media in Iran regularly remind us that freedom of expression is under duress, even in an era of expanding global communications. However, considerably less attention has been paid to a new, more insidious threat to this fundamental human right. It involves campaigns by a variety of actors --- from foreign governments and business moguls to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) --- to discourage journalists, scholars, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and others from speaking out or publishing material on certain subjects. This creeping censorship is manifesting itself in venues including the United Nations, the judicial systems of established democracies, and elsewhere. Often, the objective is to place restrictions on what people can say or publish about Islam. But the offensive is also being carried forward by others, including oligarchs in the former Soviet Union. *Targeting Democracies* The focus of the free-speech debate has traditionally been on societies where freedom was lacking. What really sets apart this contemporary strain of censorship, however, is that it is increasingly focused on restricting information and opinion in Europe, North America, and other bastions of free expression. Today, standards in democracies are the target. Consider the following developments of the past few years: -- Two units of the UN system, the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council, passed resolutions that call for restrictions on what people can say or write about religions, especially Islam. The principal targets of the resolutions were clearly the democracies of Europe rather than autocracies where both free speech and religious liberty are already heavily constrained [...] Continua qui: http://www.rferl.org/content/creeping_censorship_freedom_of_expression/2267…

Jan. 10, 2011

Servizio del TG5 su Wikipedia

by Marco De Rossi

Se l'ha già segnalato qualcuno, scusate. Avete visto questa sottospecie di cosa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RygPOmuTBc0 ? Trasmesso dal TG5 il giorno 2 Gennaio 2011. un saluto m. -- Marco De Rossi Oilproject - Be Free To Learn ( http://www.oilproject.org/ ) Pangloss: Poteva andar peggio, poteva piovere ( http://pangloss.info/ )

Jan. 10, 2011

Bill Snyder: "The Internet at risk: A return to the Ma Bell era"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

By Bill Snyder DECEMBER 02, 2010 The Internet at risk: A return to the Ma Bell era Comcast's bullying of Level 3 and Zoom Telephonics reveals the lack of broadband competition that threatens the Internet Back in the bad old days of Ma Bell's ascendancy, you couldn't attach anything to the monopoly's telephone network without express permission: not an answering machine, not an extension, not nothin'. Those days are long gone -- unless you or your users connect to the Internet via Comcast, the giant cable network that delivers television and broadband connectivity to millions of customers. In a stunning display of arrogance, Comcast is stopping Zoom Telephonics from providing cable modems to its subscribers by imposing a ridiculous set of conditions. How ridiculous? In addition to meeting unrealistic standards about heat resistance and packaging, Zoom would be forced to pay business-class airfare and hotel accommodations for Comcast employees who journey to Asia to approve Zoom's modems, according to a complaint filed with the FCC [PDF]. ...... Continua qui: http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/the-internet-risk-return-t…

Jan. 9, 2011

NY Times: "Playing Catch-Up in a Digital Library Race"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

January 8, 2011 Playing Catch-Up in a Digital Library Race By NATASHA SINGER AMERICA stood at the forefront of the public library movement in 1731, when Benjamin Franklin <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/benjamin_frank…> founded the Library Company of Philadelphia <http://www.librarycompany.org/about/index.htm>, our first successful lending library. Looking back on the project decades later, Franklin wrote in his autobiography <http://books.google.com/books?id=6wJSqhFuSt4C&pg=PT88&dq=%22these+libraries…> that the growth of lending libraries had played a role not only in educating but also in democratizing American society. "These Libraries," he wrote, "have improv'd the general Conversation of the Americans, made the common Tradesmen & Farmers as intelligent as most Gentlemen from other countries, and perhaps have contributed to some degree to the Stand so generally made throughout the Colonies in Defence of their Privileges." Lending libraries may have been the newfangled democratizing factor of their day. Centuries later, though, the United States finds itself trailing Europe and Japan <http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/cdnlao/meetings/pdf/Open_Seminar_%28Japan%29.pdf> in creating the modern equivalent: a national digital library that would serve as an electronic repository for the nation's cultural heritage. In other words, there's a real digital library divide. In contrast to the United States, the National Library of Norway <http://www.nb.no/english> has been a global early adopter. In 2005, it announced a goal of digitizing its entire collection; by now it has scanned some 170,000 books, 250,000 newspapers, 610,000 hours of radio broadcasts, 200,000 hours of TV and 500,000 photographs. And, last year, the National Library of the Netherlands <http://www.kb.nl/index-en.html>said it planned to scan all... [...] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/business/09stream.html

Jan. 9, 2011

[NEXA]Google e Facebook.

by vale.it＠gmail.com

http://www.google.com/mail/help/contacts_export_confirm.html V

Jan. 9, 2011

[NEXA]Wikileaks: US disclosure order to Twitter.

by vale.it＠gmail.com

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/07/twitter/subpoe…

Jan. 9, 2011

Fw: Argomenti della roadmap da Mariella

by Mariella Berra

Corte chiede a Twitter dati per incriminare Assange e Manning http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/notizie/2011-01-08/corte-statunitense-chiede… Segnalo l'articolo di Chris Anderson ,Aiuto, si è chiusa la Rete , L'Espresso 2 2011 Cresce l'interesse per applicazioni o piattaforme semichiuse. Dove passare contenuti a pagamento. E il Web libero deve trovare nuove strade. Quali e come?

Jan. 9, 2011

Re: [nexa] "Peep Wireless Proposes a Peer-To-Peer Cell Network"

by Stefano Quintarelli

condivido. aggiungo che cdma e tdma sono migliori per la voce rispetto a csma/cd ciao, s. On 08/01/11 14.40, E.Richiardone wrote: > Buongiorno tutti > > On Sat, January 8, 2011 3:52 am, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote: >> *Peep Wireless Proposes a Peer-To-Peer Cell Network* > ... >> Continua qui: >> http://www.shareable.net/blog/peep-wireless-proposes-a-peer-to-peer-cell-ne… > > Questo tipo di argomentazione l'ho gia` sentita in passato, non pero` da > una azienda ex spin-off bell. > Ci sono due argomentazioni che mi sento di contraddire: > - l'affidabilita`: una rete mesh e`, e resta sempre, best effort. Una rete > con dorsale a divisione di frequenza o tempo ridondata, con banda > garantita. > - la banda: le reti mesh sono di due tipi, basate su ieee 802.11 e > proprietarie. Le prime offrono una banda che decresce piu` che linearmente > al numero di nodi non connessi; le seconde sono in genere ottimizzate per > la mobilita` piu` che la banda, poiche` lato radio avere banda in mesh e` > uno dispendio notevole. In ogni caso una dorsale cablata o wireless di > ripetitore 3G offre una banda di ordini di grandezza maggiori. > > Benche` ero un entusiasta del progetto Fon a suo tempo (www.fon.com) devo > riconoscere che la realta` per offrire un servizio connettivita` voce > accettabile deve basarsi su una rete gerarchica con i costi che > conseguono. > -- blog.quintarelli.it www.eximia.it www.reeplay.it

Jan. 8, 2011