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2013-05-23 20:16:29 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

The EU has dropped its ridiculous plans to ban restaurants from putting olive oil in reusable bottles after attracting criticism not just from the UK but from many other EU countries.

Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, has called it a victory for common sense but his government allowed the ban to be driven through the EU's regulatory process by commercial olive oil producers without a murmur and then allowed a regulation to be drafted without opposition.  If it hadn't been for public opposition, his department would have allowed the ban to be passed into law without a murmur!

The EU Commissioner, Dacian Ciolos, admitted that there was no evidence that the widespread fraud in restaurants cited as the reason for trying to ban olive oil in reusable bottles and that the committee considering it was just acting on hearsay.

2013-05-23 02:25:52 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

In a time when “cybersecurity” is supposed to be a top priority in Washington, the FBI is pushing a scheme that directly undermines everyone's online security and interferes with both innovation and the freedom of users to choose the technologies that best protect them. 

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2013-05-23 00:01:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This:
For those of you who aren't suffering face-palm-induced concussion syndrome, you're probably already thinking about all the other everyday things that can cause your GPU to run hotter, such as graphic design work or, you know, watching HD movies. In fact, those activities can push the temperatures even higher. Or maybe you're thinking about how correlating how much work a GPU does to how violent a game is just might be the kind of thing that can cause a brain to commit suicide. Or maybe you're wondering if having your notebook computer on your lap every time you've played Doom has put your testicles at risk of mutation, turning them into monstrous, sentient testicilians, a race of self-reproductive hell-nuts bent on destroying the world.

2013-05-22 00:11:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

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2013-05-21 15:37:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Nigel Farage, pointing out the hypocrisy of the "let them eat cake" brigade.

2013-05-21 01:26:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-05-21 00:09:40 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Seems legit.

2013-05-20 19:09:56 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Our continued advance in the opinion polls, crystalised by our recent successes in the local elections, has led to much virtual ink been spilled trying to analyse the UKIP phenomenon. Much of this has amounted to the same old dross about us being a bunch of golf club reactionaries that we have always had to contend with but nonetheless is really quite useful, showing as it does that our enemies consistently underestimate us. As Michael Heaver aptly put it, how can the people who failed to anticipate the rise of UKIP expect to understand it, let alone stop it?

By far the best analysis put forward was by Russell Taylor's "In Praise of UKIP" on Bogpaper.com, who really nailed the cultural mind-set of the Metropolitan Liberal classes, how ill-equipped it is to deal with the rise of UKIP and why UKIP appeals so much to many people outside that bubble.

That said, it is worth... more »

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Legends of digital rights, Tim Wu and John Perry Barlow, will be leading Open Rights Group's 3rd national conference on June 8th. Join us for ORGCon2013 at the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Savoy Place, London for the UK's biggest digital freedoms event. ORGCon has always been a sell-out event so grab your tickets now before they all go!
This year topics covered include:

Snoopers' Charter: What's the situation now? 
Jim Killock and the author's of the Digital Surveillance report on what the Government are planning next after the defeat of the Comms Data Bill.

Lessons from creative citizens: How to win at the Internet
Sci-fi author Diane Duane (Star Trek, Young Wizards), Simon Indelicate (The Indelicates) and bassist Steve Lawson will be talking about the creative ways they have developed successful artistic careers in the digital age.more »

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2013-05-19 14:03:53 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

 Lamb Roast for The Lunch Party.

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2013-05-16 18:51:54 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Prosecutors in Sweden have sued the root domain registry of .SE domains to kill the domain name of The Pirate Bay. The root registry fights back heavily. This case is important to watch, as it can have thoroughly chilling results for the Internet’s domain name system if criminal secondary liability is established at the DNS level.

2013-05-16 15:46:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-15 22:14:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Dear Google,

Go back to the drawing board.
I'm off to Diaspora. Again.

2013-05-15 14:40:02 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Eurozone recession continues as GDP falls by 0.2%
#economy  
The eurozone has slumped into its longest recession ever, after economic activity across the region fell for the sixth quarter in a row. Economic output across the single currency area fell by 0.2% in the first three months of 2013, statistics body Eurostat reported today. France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands all saw their economies shrink as the economic crisis in the eurozone continued to hit its largest economies. Eurostat’s figures showed that the eurozone economy has now contracted by 1% over the last year, putting further pressure on leaders as unemployment climbs to new record highs.

2013-05-15 13:24:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

A high level government official is now saying that the country is considering pulling out of the TPP negotiations unless the US "significantly moderates its intellectual property demands."

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2013-05-13 20:51:10 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

 ...the proposed Regulation suggests that companies can award themselves the right to use your data without your permission if it is in their “legitimate interest” to do so. Parliamentarians have proposed that this should be extended to allow companies you have never heard of to use the data for reasons that are not even related to the original purpose of collecting the data. This was the suggestion of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (sic) Committee (see amendments 70 and 77).

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2013-05-13 18:18:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Yesterday’s Sunday Times carried an alarming story on its front page about the mobile phone data of 27 million EE customers being sold to IpsosMori, and in turn onto third parties including the Met Police.

The paper would clearly have not published without a sufficiently high standard of evidence and the Met police’s reaction – to suddenly announce it was abandoning the plans, despite high-level meetings in recent weeks – suggests a nerve has been touched.

2013-05-13 14:24:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

This is hilarious!