Manifiesto: "In deffense of the fundamental rights in the internet"

A group of journalists, bloggers, professionals and creators want to express their firm opposition to the inclusion in a Draft Law of some changes to Spanish laws restricting the freedoms of expression, information and access to culture on the Internet. They also declare that:

1. Copyright should not be placed above citizens' fundamental rights to privacy, security, presumption of innocence, effective judicial protection and freedom of expression.

2. Suspension of fundamental rights is and must remain an exclusive competence of judges. This blueprint, contrary to the provisions of Article 20.5 of the Spanish Constitution, places in the hands of the executive the power to keep Spanish citizens from accessing certain websites.

3. The proposed laws would create legal uncertainty across Spanish IT companies, damaging one of the few areas of development and future of our economy, hindering the creation of startups, introducing barriers to competition and slowing down its international projection.

4. The proposed laws threaten creativity and hinder cultural development. The Internet and new technologies have democratized the creation and publication of all types of content, which no longer depends on an old small industry but on multiple and different sources.

5. Authors, like all workers, are entitled to live out of their creative ideas, business models and activities linked to their creations. Trying to hold an obsolete industry with legislative changes is neither fair nor realistic. If their business model was based on controlling copies of any creation and this is not possible any more on the Internet, they should look for a new business model.

6. We believe that cultural industries need modern, effective, credible and affordable alternatives to survive. They also need to adapt to new social practices.

7. The Internet should be free and not have any interference from groups that seek to perpetuate obsolete business models and stop the free flow of human knowledge.

8. We ask the Government to guarantee net neutrality in Spain, as it will act as a framework in which a sustainable economy may develop.

9. We propose a real reform of intellectual property rights in order to ensure a society of knowledge, promote the public domain and limit abuses from copyright organizations.

10. In a democracy, laws and their amendments should only be adopted after a timely public debate and consultation with all involved parties. Legislative changes affecting fundamental rights can only be made in a Constitutional law.

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stolen plans that can save her
people and restore
freedom to the galaxy....

Opening Crawl: A New Hope

Check out this pic...

"Not again! Obi-Wan's going to kill me"
Anakin Skywalker

A very expensive javascript...

Hallvord R. M. Steen GeekDancer and Sith hacker at Opera Software explains in his blog how, by the time they were increasing the computing capacity of the company, they found some nice and smart javascript.

The thing is that, by the time, Opera Software was about to buy some servers to fulfill the growth of their services. The management department turned on the green light to spend a hefty quantity of money in the new purchase, so all the big hardware companies wanted a bite of the cake and servers samples were travelling from all over the world to Oslo trying to satisfy the sysadmins needs.

One of those major hardware vendors, name not revealed but apparently whose name you would be familiar with, didn't do it very well. When Opera's sysadmins booted up the server and tried to test the web-based administration interface, they founded some wonderful javascript able to piss off everyone there.

Apparently it had been written by some sub-contractor they had outsourced in order to come up with the programing of the administration interface. This cost them a lot of money in unsuccessful sales.

Here you have some of the code sent to Opera Software for testing:

if (is.opera)
{
window.location.href="config/error.htm";
}

"Watch what?"
Princess Leia Organa

Not everything is perfect...

"...they might find a weakness and exploit it."
General Tagge

Europe keeps Internet free...

The European Parliament has rejected to allow governments to disconnect Internet users. By 407 votes, they approved the amendment that will force the European governments to ask for a judge's warrant in order to be able to disconnect someone.

These are some new impediments for those countries, such as France, that want to obtain the power to disconnect P2P users without having to ask for any warrant. This is a new step in the fight to preserve the rights of the users as well as the freedom over the Net.

Yes, this is a new victory in our battle against the dark side of the source. We blew up the death star, but don't get too excited they might come with a new one soon...

Yahoo! [just after the Death Star is blown up]
Han Solo

Letter to the European Parlament

Next 5th of May the European Parliment will be voting to decide if they would give the Internet Providers the power to limit the number and type of pages you can see or the services you can use over the Internet. They call it "New options for the consumer matching his necessities", but it is just a new law in order to control the flow of music, films and other entretainment and cultural stuff. In summary: Just another try to privatize the Internet

Hacktivistas, Jedis knights fighting for the freedom of the universe have made this form in order to help us send the Eurpean Parliment our thoughts about the privatization of the Internet...

...More than 300.000 mails has been already sent! Don't be the last one!

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Filling in the following form you can send a message to the 876 members for the Eruopean Parliment related to the Open Letter to the European Parliment. Write them what you think is right, but try to be respectufl, only this way our requests would be listened.

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If you strike me down,
I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

Obi Wan Kenobi

The picture of the Dark Side of the Source

The main and more powerful OS until now from the Dark Side of the Source (Windows XP) comes with a picture that has become pretty famous for being its default wallpaper. It is a picture called "Bliss" taken by Charles O'Rear at the Napa Valley, east of Sonoma Valley, county of Napa (Californa, United States). Charles O'Rear is a photographer from USA, he has worked for the National Geographic for more than 25 years. In year 2000, Microsoft bought this picture, paying 200 million dollars for it.

But things are usually quite different in those Napa Valley Hills, actually that wavy green hill is covered with a bunch of vines. Between 1990 and 1995 the vines from Napa Valley got infected by a plague called Phylloxera, which forced people to remove a 30% of the vines growing instead the nice green grass showed in the famous picture.
O'Rear took that picture while he was driving down the 12/121 road just stopping by on one of the sides of it. So, let's see how it looks right now:

"Faith in your new apprentice, misplaced may be.
As is your faith in the dark side of the Force."
Master Yoda