March 2009
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GO CATHOLIC SCIENCE! →
Woke up today in a world where a french Bishop can say that “AIDS virus can pass through the latex of condoms because it’s smaller” and not be blamed for that kind of sayings.
I guess it’s been a while the world is eating a whole bowl of bullshit for breakfast, but the past few weeks are going dangerously far beyond.
Right to privacy broken by a quarter of UK's... →
bossa:
shadowfirebird:
‘A quarter of all the largest public-sector database projects, including the ID cards register, are fundamentally flawed and clearly breach European data protection and rights laws, according to a report published today.’
See also: Ministers spending billions on unlawful databases | The Register:
’[…] claims that 40 out of 46 key government databases are not fit for...
Lambrinidis report →
The internet is a source of danger, but we should not get hung up on the “schizophrenia” of security, speakers said. While Internet criminality (such as identity theft) needs to be fought effectively, the right to access information must be maintained. Given the growing risk of e-illiteracy - “the new illiteracy of 21st Century”- cutting somebody’s internet access...
News from Europe
emonk:
Political deals are being done which remove users rights to distribute Internet content, impose conditions on Internet access and which could permit broadband providers to limit access to a specified list of websites or a premium paid-for Internet. Net neutrality, and millions of Internet businesses, are under threat if this goes ahead. - How the EU is bargaining away the Internet
“The Internet works because nodes benevolently forward packets to each other...”
– The Kindness of Strangers - WSJ.com
WatchHenry Markram: Designing the Human Mind
News from Australia
emonk:
Wikileaks has published a more up-to-date copy of the ACMA blacklist, current as of the 18 March. This list includes abortiontv, wikileaks itself and Philip Nitschke’s Poison Pill Handbook as well as a similar smattering of legal material and innocent sites.
At the moment, for me, wikileaks is down. But if this turns out to be credible information, which we have by the way no real way to...
Pope says condoms are not the solution to Aids -... →
bossa:
crowth:
In his first public comments on condom use, the pontiff told reporters en route to Cameroon that Aids “is a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, and that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems”.
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He said the “traditional teaching of the Church” on chastity outside marriage and fidelity within it had proved to...
“In reality, the number of followers you have should simply reflect the quality...”
– The Twitter Followholic: An Epidemic (via steph)
“The Asian Development Bank is estimating that the total sum of money destroyed...”
– spiegelfechter.com (via emonk)
Martin Pittenauer: dunno... that's a though problem. where does self-preservation stop and being rude start...
Digitalyn: (i think you start being rude when ppl dont see where your self preservation starts)
“Die sollten statt der Waffen lieber das Internet verbieten.
[They should rather...”
– Horst Grafenberger, gun club member.
It’s amazing how they manage to make this school shooting into an argument to censor the internet. The guy had BDSM porn - let’s ban the internet!
The weapons he used to shoot people cam from a gun club, btw. Not from the internet… (via emonk)
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