Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 140529 -
http://moodysmdd.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/140529.html yesterday's
tweets as a single Web page #MMDD
#Privacy call
for internet browsing in the wake of Edward #Snowden leaks
-
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/30/privacy-call-for-internet-browsing-survey-edward-snowden?CMP=twt_gu are
people waking up at last?
Security Experts Looking To Possibly
Fork And Rescue #TrueCrypt -
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140529/17060727396/security-experts-looking-to-possibly-fork-rescue-truecrypt.shtml makes
sense, but will the licence allow it?
#Chilcot inquiry
accused of whitewash over letters between Blair and Bush -
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/29/chilcot-inquiry-accused-of-whitewash-over-blair-and-bush-letters well,
there's a surprise...
Corporate capture: Europe trade talks
threaten environment -
http://www.foe.org/news/blog/2014-05-corporate-capture-europe-trade-talks-threaten-enviro good
post on #TTIP's huge
dangers
Capturing #Xibe,
“Language of Exile,” for Posterity -
http://bruce-humes.com/archives/7501 great
news #linguistics
Patent royalties may exceed $120 per
#smartphone,
undermine industry profitability: working paper -
http://www.fosspatents.com/2014/05/patent-royalties-may-exceed-120-per.html patent
insanity
Moms to EPA: End #Monsanto's
Poisoning of America -
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/28-9 &
nobody wants to fight mums, do they?
Will Big Oil Execs Ever Stand Trial for
Willful Climate Deceit? -
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/28-7 investors
should watch out, too... #carbonbubble
EU-Politik: Der Trick beim #TTIP -
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/41/41903/1.html "Nulltarif"?
Nein: "Nullkonjunkturprogramm"... (v @Liese_Mueller)
US cybercrime laws being used to target
#security researchers
-
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/29/us-cybercrime-laws-security-researchers just
as we predicted (v @AdV007)
#Copyright roundup
3 — Changes in UK law -
http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2014/05/30/copyright-roundup-3-changes-in-uk-law/ useful
summary of important changes
Blair should ask Chilcot to publish
full Iraq letters to Bush, says Major -
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/30/blair-should-ask-chilcot-publish-full-iraq-letters-bush-major
nothing to hide, etc. etc.
“Unitary patent” and court system -
http://www.stjerna.de/unitary_patent.htm great
set of resources about new Unitary Patent and its problems #UPC #EU
BEUC's letter to De Gucht, calling him
out for exaggerated growth claims for #TTIP -
http://www.beuc.eu/publications/beuc-x-2014-036_mgo_joint_letter_to_mr_de_gucht_on_economic_figures-final.pdf there
is simply no real benefit here
Merkel backs Jean-Claude Juncker for
European commission president -
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/30/angela-merkel-jean-claude-juncker-european-commission make
up your mind, Mutti...
Congressman bankrolled by ISPs tries to
halt Internet regulation -
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/congressman-bankrolled-by-isps-tries-to-halt-internet-regulation/ probably
just a coincidence...
#EU:
The importance of unbiased communication on #TTIP -
http://www.beuc.eu/blog/?p=260 "acknowledge
the whole spectrum of possible outcomes"
Software Patents Are Still a Threat to
Europe Due to ‘Unitary’ Patent -
http://techrights.org/2014/05/30/occupying-europe/ just
in case you thought they'd gone away...
Marie Curie: #Opensource pioneer
-
http://boingboing.net/2014/05/30/marie-curie-open-source-pione.html what
a star.
Why is it so acceptable to lie to
promote trade deals? -
http://www.bilaterals.org/?why-is-it-so-acceptable-to-lie-to #TTIP's
"annual growth is on the order of 0.03%" #TAFTA
How the #UK taught
#Brazil's dictators
torture techniques - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27625540 just
shameful
US Lawmakers Demand Immediate Action to
Protect Killer Whales -
http://mashable.com/2014/05/30/lawmakers-against-seaworld/ great
news: let's keep up the pressure on @SeaWorld
Defend Trade Secrets Act -
http://patentlyo.com/patent/2014/05/secrets-endorsement-criticism.html global
push to create new "trade secrets" right: v dangerous...
Vitiligo-Model Brown-Young: Die
Botschafterin -
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/leute/model-mit-hautkrankheit-vitiligo-bei-america-s-next-topmodel-a-972510.html wow:
kudos
Chamber Resorts to Cartoonish Analogies
to Defend Corporations’ ‘Right’ to Attack Policies -
http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2014/05/chamber-resorts-to-cartoonish-analogies-to-defend-corporations-right-to-attack-policies.html so
insulting #ISDS
BND will Echtzeit-Überwachung sozialer
Netzwerke -
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/BND-will-Echtzeit-Ueberwachung-sozialer-Netzwerke-2212289.html can't
think where they got that idea (v @Liese_Mueller)#nsa
Zazzle.com Thinks Depictions of Pi
Are Protected Intellectual Property -
http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/05/30/1518238/zazzlecom-thinks-depictions-of-pi-are-protected-intellectual-property more
monopoly madness
RESPECT Act Should Be HYPOCRISY Act
After How Often Labels Screwed Over Artists -
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140529/18563027400/labels-launch-laughable-campaign-to-get-pandorasirius-to-pay-artists-they-screwed-over-past.shtml
"Government must be vigilant, not
frightened, of risks of large data sets" -
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2014/06/ideas-bank/mark-walport rubbish:
risks are ours, not theirs
Has the NRA Finally Met Its Match in
Richard Martinez, Father of Isla Vista Shooting Victim? -
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/has-nra-finally-met-its-match-richard-martinez-father-isla-vista-shooting-victim
The $120 Smartphone Patent Tax: Patent
Royalties Cost More Than The Actual Hardware In Your Phone -
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140530/06531127408/120-smartphone-patent-tax-patent-royalties-cost-more-than-actual-hardware-your-phone.shtml bin
patents now
