Category Archives: Links
links for 2011-08-21
Critics label cybercrime bill 'invasion of privacy' A CONTROVERSIAL bill that extends the powers of Australia's police and security agencies to retain emails, text messages and other data used in alleged cyber crimes has encountered a roadblock, with a committee … Continue reading
links for 2011-08-17
Stop Coddling the Super-Rich – NYTimes.com Warren Buffett thinks that the USA's leaders are asking the poor and middle class to make a 'shared sacrifice' but not the mega-rich, who he believes are not paying enough tax. (tags: WarrenBuffett rich … Continue reading
links for 2011-08-07
Internet use ‘rampant’: ASIO boss • The Register Australia’s national security is at risk, according to the Director-General of ASIO – the Australian National Intelligence Organisation – partly because of “rampant use of the Internetâ€. (tags: Australia ASIO DavidIrvine Internet … Continue reading
links for 2011-08-02
Grandmother has Tokyo's measure on radiation Grandmother in Tokyo buys her own dosimeter and shows that the government has not been telling the truth about radiation levels. (tags: Tokyo radiation grandmother KiyokoOkoshi dosimeter GeraldCurtis ColumbieUniversity ChuheiSakai KazuyoshiSato ShinzoKimura NewYorkTimes SMH … Continue reading
links for 2011-07-20
Masses need transport to escape a cold, wet Sydney CBD | Leefe rates the world… Today has been a very wet day in Sydney. This morning you almost needed a bathysphere to go outside. This afternoon, as the masses tried … Continue reading
links for 2011-07-13
Pirate Party Opposes AFACT’s Extortion Tactics | Pirate Party Australia Pirate Party Australia is opposed to the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft’s (AFACT) latest offensive against Australian internet users[1]. They have demanded that ISPs attend ‘voluntary talks’ to implement a … Continue reading
links for 2011-07-12
Verisign obeys court orders for domain takedowns- The Inquirer INTERNET REGISTRY Versign has said that it “takes the appropriate actions” when handed a court order after the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) claimed it had jurisfiction over all … Continue reading
links for 2011-07-05
All things considered … – WikiLeaks’ Brilliant Mastercard Commercial Parody… Wikileaks' parody of MasterCard Commercial. (tags: wikileaks satire parody MasterCard digitaleskimo video)
links for 2011-06-30
Single-Payer in Vermont, A State of Healthy Firsts | Common Dreams The USA state of Vermont has decided to single-player health care as a cost saving measure. It had Harvard conduct a study which found that free health care will … Continue reading
links for 2011-06-28
Censors should grow up: adults can handle sex The Australian censorship system blanches most consistently not at violence, but at sex. Torturing people to death presents relatively little problem to the censors. But dare to show actual sex on film … Continue reading