Update 19:33: funny story on Al Jazeera English just now. Following the resignation of Mubarak, an overjoyed taxi driver reportedly left his vehicle, leaving a camera man from the network to drive it. Just one day after he signaled he would not do so, Mubarak has resigned, according to USA Today and others. Excerpt from [...]
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Mubarak resigns (for real)
Posted in egypt, politics on February 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Mubarak stepping down tonight?
Posted in egypt, politics on February 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Update 22:12: listened to Mubarak’s speech on Al Jazeera English. He is not leaving, and it doesn’t seem like he’s offering anything new that is significant. The crowd in Tahrir Square definitely did not appreciate it, very angry response from there. It remains to be seen what the army and other parties will do going [...]
Stability in the Middle East
Posted in egypt, politics on February 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Al Jazeera (“Inside Story – Changing the US vision of the Middle East“, February 4, 2011), in the context of the political developments in Egypt, Khairi Abaza is asked about the desire for stability in the region. He points out several times that what matters would be how stability is achieved, and if it [...]
On opinion polls
Posted in politics on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Update 31 Aug, 17:30: my first attempt with Google translate yielded a horrible result for some reason. A later attempt performed better than Bing Translator. Try for yourself to see what works better since I will not investigate further right now. Update 31 Aug, 17:44: it seems I had attempted to try a Swahili-English translation [...]
European Patent Office asks itself about software patents
Posted in europe, ffii, patents, politics on March 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Software patents, ah… It’s like the seemingly never ending saga of SCO. Can’t they just leave us in peace? Soon, the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) at the European Patent Office (EPO) will decide on several questions about software patents, asked by the President of the same organization. We’ll soon find out what kind of [...]
Microsoft manager points out flaw of software patents
Posted in ffii, microsoft, patents, politics on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Eric Brechner of Microsoft says in his blog: (emphasis added) “When using existing libraries, services, tools, and methods from outside Microsoft, we must be respectful of licenses, copyrights, and patents. Generally, you want to carefully research licenses and copyrights (your contact in Legal and Corporate Affairs can help), and never search, view, or speculate about [...]
Swedish wiretapping war, part two
Posted in fra, politics, surveillance, sweden, wiretapping on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Update 00:30 : fixed an erroneous statement about the “special court”. See also: part one ; demonstrations. All references below are in Swedish, so you may want to use Google Translate. There’s an enormous amount of information available in Swedish blogs and other media, but not so much translated material. Nikke Lindqvist has gathered links [...]
Demonstrations against Swedish surveillance
Posted in fra, politics, surveillance, sweden, wiretapping on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m posting some thumbnails of pictures I took of a demonstration in Stockholm on Tuesday, coinciding with the opening of the Riksdag (Swedish Parliament) after the summer. It was cold and cloudy; moreover the event lasted the whole day (similar demonstrations also occurred in Göteborg (Gothenburg) and Malmö), so these things may have contributed to [...]
Swedish wiretapping war
Posted in fra, politics, surveillance, sweden, wiretapping on August 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One would think that the so-called Patriot Act, or the secret wiretapping leaves things to wish for in the US. In any case – given this and similar concepts around the world – Sweden seems to have felt left out (what do I know), so Ingvar Åkesson helped to write a law for giving FRA [...]
ACLU: abstract patents violates constitution
Posted in aclu, censorship, ffii, patents, politics on April 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
American Civil Liberties Union has filed a brief about free speech issues of an application for an abstract patent. FFII says hi; it’s great to see a major civil rights organization to bring this up in the patents sphere. With enough exposure, hopefully the insanity of business and software patents may come to an end [...]
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