Sunday, December 4, 2005

CNN.com - Device stops speeders from inside car - Dec 4, 2005 The system being tested by Transport Canada, the Canadian equivalent of the U.S. Department of Transportation, uses a global positioning satellite device installed in the car to monitor the car's speed and position. If the car begins to significantly exceed the speed limit for the road on which it's travelling the system responds by making it harder to depress the gas pedal, according to a story posted on the Toronto Globe and Mail's Website. 8:29:28 PM  PermaLink   / trackback []

Device Stops Speeders From Inside Car. Device Stops Speeders From Inside Car. frdmfghtr writes "CNN reports that the Canadian government is testing a new anti-speeding device." From the article: "The system being tested by Transport Canada, the Canadian equivalent of the U.S. Department of Transportation, uses a global positioning satellite device installed in the car to monitor the car's speed and position. If the car begins to significantly exceed the speed limit for the road on which it's traveling the system responds by making it harder to depress the gas pedal, according to a story posted on the Toronto Globe and Mail's Website."  [Slashdot] 8:27:33 PM  PermaLink   / trackback []

Public Interest Registry Co-Sponsors Privacy Conference RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2005--Public Interest Registry (PIR), the .ORG registry; the ICANN Noncommercial Users Constituency; The Registry Constituency; and Cole, Raywid & Braverman LLP co-sponsored a privacy conference at the Vancouver, Canada, ICANN meeting. More than 200 delegates from the global domain space community, noncommercial community and law enforcement attended "Building Bridges on ICANN WHOIS Questions" to discuss WHOIS data privacy issues; learn how the .UK., .JP and .CA country code top-level domain registries are protecting their customers' data; and gain insight from other industries' data protection models, including TELUS. In addition, for the first time in a public forum, registries, registrars and the Noncommercial Users Constituency proposed their own data protection models. The keynote speaker, Ms. Stephanie Perrin, director or research and policy for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, examined the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) that was passed in 2000 and its impact on the WHOIS data policy for the Canadian Internet Registrar Authority (CIRA), the registry for .CA. 8:24:41 PM  PermaLink   / trackback []

BBC NEWS | Magazine | Cut and paste The debate about old-versus-new media can get a bit heavy. Meet the bloggers who are getting their own back, and having a laugh. "But there isn't any rule against copying stuff off a website, is there?" So pleaded The Daily Mail when caught red-handed back in 2002, having run a feature called Blue Peter Saints & Sinners. The editorial process at the Mail turned out to be: a visit to nostalgia site TV Cream; a use of the "cut" and "paste" features found in web browsers and desktop publishers; then hiding when they got found out. With intellectual property such a hot issue, and with a new army of bloggers chomping at the bit to tear a strip off the "mainstream media", you might have thought that journalists would be a lot more careful about playing nice with the web. 1:22:43 PM  PermaLink   / trackback []

Bloggers create Press Plagiarist Of The Year Award. Bloggers create Press Plagiarist Of The Year Award. mccalli writes "The BBC is reporting that certain bloggers, fed up of seeing their work just lifted by the mainstream press, have created The Press Plagiarist Of The Year award. Examples are given of national newspapers simply cutting and pasting entire articles from web sites and passing them off as their own."[ Slashdot] 1:17:50 PM  PermaLink   / trackback []

Read the letter that won the internet governance battle | The Register The World Summit in Tunis last month was overshadowed by the global argument over internet governance. Its biggest controversy came with the proposition put forward by the EU a month earlier that there be a new inter-governmental body that oversee ICANN. The US government - which currently enjoys unilateral control over the internet infrastructure - was furious and launched an enormous lobbying campaign, both public and private, across the board to retain its position. Most significant among all those lobbying efforts was a letter sent from the US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice to the UK foreign minister Jack Straw acting in the role of presidency of the EU. In the letter, Rice used strong language for a diplomatic missive, to stress how seriously the US administration was taking the issue and how determined it was to retain ICANN in overall charge of the internet. European diplomats privately confessed that the letter had a significant impact on their position. The result was that the EU never raised its inter-governmental forum again in World Summit meetings, and the end agreement stuck with the US position. This is the first time time the full text of that letter has been published: 1:15:45 PM  PermaLink   / trackback []

The Letter That Won US Internet Control. The Letter That Won US Internet Control. K-boy writes "Pushing my own scoop, but I think it's a valuable piece of Net history, I have come into possession of the vital letter sent by Condoleezza Rice to the EU over Internet governance. And posted it on the Web. The letter is pretty stern but you should also read it bearing in mind that letters of this type are not only very rare but they are always written in very, very soft diplomatic language. This was not. The result of the letter was that the EU dropped its plan for an inter-governmental oversight body for the Internet and we have ended up with the status quo (ICANN, US government control). The letter was never meant for publication."  [Slashdot] 1:12:51 PM  PermaLink   / trackback []

Analysis: Sony rootkit problem raises questions for security vendors. Analysis: Sony rootkit problem raises questions for security vendors. Sony's copy-protection software technology went undetected by several major security vendors, who said they are now improving their ability to detect rootkits. [Computerworld Privacy News] 1:08:34 PM  PermaLink   / trackback []

TuxJornal: La WebZine Italiana dedicata a Linux, all'OpenSource e alla Tecnologia - A very long chat with Debian's Branden Robinson 10) What's your personal point of view about Security? I think it's important. To elaborate, security is important for pretty much the same reason software freedom is important. I believe the user needs to have control over his or her computing environment. A corporate colossus that won't let you modify the operation of your machine, and a malicious hacker who has turned your computer into a "zombie" for sending spam mail, are both examples of activity that disempower the person who should have authority over their property. 1:04:41 PM  PermaLink   / trackback []