Cabinet Paper: Illegal Peer-To-Peer file sharing

"This paper makes recommendations for amendments to the Copyright Act 1994 (the Act) to provide a process for right holders to pursue repeat online copyright infringers."

in reference to: http://www.med.govt.nz/templates/MultipageDocumentTOC____42332.aspx (view on Google Sidewiki)

What’s in Store for 2010? A Few Predictions

"Cloud API Proliferation Will Become a Serious Problem
Data as Revenue
Developer Target Fragmentation Will Accelerate
It’s All About the Analytics
Marketplaces Will Be Table Stakes
New Languages to Watch
NoSQL Will Bid for Mainstream Acceptance
FOSS Predictions"

Via Nat Torkington

in reference to: http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/11/12/2010-predictions/ (view on Google Sidewiki)

How to Give the People What They Want

"Demand Media has created a virtual factory that pumps out 4,000 videoclips and articles a day. It starts with an algorithm.
The algorithm is fed inputs from three sources: Search terms (popular terms from more than 100 sources comprising 2 billion searches a day), The ad market (a snapshot of which keywords are sought after and how much they are fetching), and The competition (what’s online already and where a term ranks in search results)."

in reference to: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia/all/1 (view on Google Sidewiki)

English libel law is becoming a global disgrace

"After a year-long Inquiry, English PEN and Index on Censorship have concluded that English libel law has a negative impact on freedom of expression, both in the UK and around the world. Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right, and should only be limited in special circumstances. Yet English libel law imposes unnecessary and disproportionate restrictions on free speech, sending a chilling effect through the publishing and journalism sectors in the UK. This effect now reaches around the world, because of so-called 'libel tourism', where foreign cases are heard in London, widely known as a 'town named sue'. The law was designed to serve the rich and powerful, and does not reflect the interests of a modern democratic society."

in reference to: http://libelreform.org/ (view on Google Sidewiki)

The patent system: End it, don't mend it

"A great deal of applied economic research has tried to answer this question. The short answer is that intellectual property does not increase innovation and creation. Extending IP rights may modestly boost the incentive for innovation, but this positive effect is wiped away by the negative effect of creating monopolies. There is simply no evidence that strengthening patent regimes increases innovation or economic productivity. In fact, some evidence shows that increased protection even decreases innovation. The main finding is that making it easier to get patents increases … patenting!"

in reference to:

"The patent system: End it, don't mend it"
- The patent system: End it, don't mend it | csmonitor.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence

"In investigating the question of whether men are smarter than women, British researcher Adrian Furnham came up with some startling results. His analysis of some 30 studies showed that men and women are fairly equal overall in terms of IQ, but women underestimate their own intelligence while men overestimate theirs. Surprisingly, both men and women perceived men being smarter across generations — both sexes believe that their fathers are smarter than their mothers and their grandfathers are more intelligent than their grandmothers. And if there are children, both men and women think their sons are brighter than their daughters."

in reference to:

"How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence"
- Slashdot Science Story | How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence (view on Google Sidewiki)

KAREN » NEN Evaluation Project

"The school is aware that sharing video can incur large data costs however where students are connected using a common ISP (Internet Service Provider) as the school this will reduce the cost to almost nothing. There has also been demand for French TV and an application is currently in progress to very soon be able to push out this out to schools on KAREN."

I wasn't aware of any ISP who discriminated in favour of intra-ISP traffic.

UPDATE: "SNAP offered free home to school traffic."

in reference to:

"KAREN » NEN Evaluation Project"
- KAREN - NEN Evaluation Project - Christ's (view on Google Sidewiki)