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elham gheytanchi elhamu...@hotmail.com wrote:
I found this article on Iceland trying to ban pornography on the
internet fascinating:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/16/iceland-online-pornography
They considered this last year too,
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Hi all, just a quick announcement from this relatively new lurker:
Tech collective eQualit.ie http://equalit.ie/content/about-us is
running a one-day workshop for NGOs,
techtivists and other interested parties at the Human Rights
Foundation's
The short version is that Ubuntu is now pre-compromised. (Or if you
prefer Stallman's phrasing, and I agree with him, it's spyware.)
And given the appallingly tone-deaf nature of Shuttleworth/Canonical's
responses, I very much doubt that this will be the end of it --
that is, I fully expect other
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Maxim Kammerer m...@dee.su wrote:
Iceland's move has been welcomed by Dr Gail Dines, a professor of
sociology at Wheelock College in Boston and the author of Pornland: How Porn
has Hijacked Our Sexuality. Of course internet porn is damaging, she said.
We have
I don't think anyone would claim that every piece of free software is
automatically more secure than every piece of proprietary software,
because as you say there are many other factors involved.
Nor would I!
But in your definition of security, you seem to be discounting the
user's
Adam Fisk wrote:
but there are many other factors at play, including the resources and
expertise an organization is able to devote to the problem. Apple, for
example, has an overall great security track record, with most of that
code closed source.
Umm last time I looked, most of the
Rich Kulawiec:
The short version is that Ubuntu is now pre-compromised. (Or if you
prefer Stallman's phrasing, and I agree with him, it's spyware.)
And given the appallingly tone-deaf nature of Shuttleworth/Canonical's
responses, I very much doubt that this will be the end of it --
that is,
If the Ubuntu team can't be convinced to take a policy standpoint against
things like this, then the project suffers from a cancer that runs deep and
can't be mitigated with blog posts and patches. Most users won't know
they're being tracked like this and won't be the kind of user that looks up
