Climate change 'real and severe'

Seeded on Thu Jul 6, 2006 2:40 AM EDT (news.bbc.co.uk)

An expert panel convened by BBC News has concluded that climate change is "real and dangerous". Temperatures are likely to rise by 3C to 5C by the end of the century, with impacts likely to be "severe" but not "catastrophic", the panel said.

science, nuclear, energy, climate-change, bbc, james-lovelock, the-revenge-of-gaia

Congdon Fired from RocketBoom

Seeded on Wed Jul 5, 2006 2:36 PM EDT (techcrunch.com)

Amanda Congdon has been forced to leave popular RocketBoom video blog over a disagreement with her partner, Andrew Baron. For details, see the video Amanda recorded and placed on her blog. She says “My partner, Andrew Baron, is no longer interested in being my partner.”

technology, internet, video, vlog, rocketboom, videoblog, amanda-congdon, andrew-baron

U.S.: 40 Years Of The Freedom Of Information Act

Seeded on Tue Jul 4, 2006 12:16 PM EDT (rferl.org)

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a cornerstone of media freedom and open society in the United States, celebrates its 40th anniversary today.

world-news, government, cia, this-day-in-history, foia

Israel defeated at UN Human Rights Council

Seeded on Sat Jul 1, 2006 9:48 AM EDT (ynetnews.com)

With 29 countries in favor, 12 opposed, Arab countries pass decision according to which Council’s inspectors will prepare special report on human rights violations committed by Israel in territories, issue will be discussed in all Council meetings

world-news, israel, palestine, human-rights, united-nations, human-rights-council

Your Own Personal Internet

Seeded on Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:33 PM EDT (blog.wired.com)

The Senate Commerce Committee deadlocked 11 to 11 on an amendment inserting some very basic net neutrality provisions into a moving telecommunications bill.

technology, internet, net-neutrality

IT expert: I worked with 7/7 bombers and warned police

Seeded on Sat Jun 24, 2006 5:18 AM EDT (guardian.co.uk)

"A computer expert who worked alongside two of the July 7 bombers claims today that he tried to warn the police about their activities almost two years before the suicide attacks."

world-news, terrorism, al-qaeda, propaganda, mi5, 7-7

Concerns Raised Over AT&T; Privacy Policy

Seeded on Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:08 PM EDT (washingtonpost.com)

"Consumer advocates said yesterday that a new privacy policy from AT&T; Inc.

technology, privacy, nsa, big-brother, domestic-spying, eff, at-t

Brewster Kahle's modest mission: Archiving everything

Seeded on Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:10 AM EDT (news.com.com)

"Brewster Kahle is on a mission. He wants the whole planet to have access to human knowledge. All human knowledge. And he's striving to make that possible--one byte at a time."

technology, internet, microsoft, google, web, history, yahoo, preservation, internet-archive, brewster-kahle

Torrentspy names alleged MPAA hacker

Seeded on Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:02 AM EDT (news.com.com)

"A month after accusing the Motion Picture Association of America of conspiring to commit data theft, the operators of a file search engine presented more details regarding the alleged relationship between the MPAA and a man who admits hacking the small company's network."

technology, p2p, mpaa, bittorrent, hackers, filesharing, data-theft, torrentspy

Tim Berners-Lee on Net Neutrality

Seeded on Thu Jun 22, 2006 2:35 AM EDT (dig.csail.mit.edu)

Tim Berners-Lee explains Net Neutrality as: "If I pay to connect to the Net with a certain quality of service, and you pay to connect with that or greater quality of service, then we can communicate at that level."

technology, internet, web, net-neutrality, regulation, innovation, tim-berners-lee

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