Yesterday’s public FCC hearing on net neutrality was so packed that many activists, concerned citizens, and reporters were turned away at the door. It turns out that Comcast secretly paid people to “hold seats” and cheer for industry execs during the hearing.
美國網路供應商買通"座位工"佔據FCC公聽會
中國時報 2007.12.13 跳上90cm水管逆游9公尺 鱒魚大逃亡 潘勛／綜合報導 英國英格蘭「漢普郡養鱒場」的老闆近來一直很沮喪，怎麼他們養殖的褐鱒一直不翼而飛？直到一位野生動物攝影專家拍到鱒魚非凡的逃亡路線，發現那些養殖鱒居然跳上懸空將近1公尺的輸水管，這個謎題才告解開。 英國《每日電訊報》11日報導，現年59歲的野生攝影家布萊特日前在現場拍到鱒魚表演特技般，一躍而上離池面超過90公分的金屬輸水管，然後逆流游了9公尺多，抵達寬80公分的水管另一頭，那兒接通伊欽河的支流。 布萊特表示，看到養殖褐鱒能那麼做，覺得不可思議；逆流而上是鱒魚本能，牠們想到溪流上游產卵，但能穿越輸水管，真是了不起。 布萊特表示，養殖場的鱒魚大批逃亡，追求自由，但他認為逃魚的下場只怕也很悽慘，因為河流裡有蒼鷺、水獺等掠食者等著牠們。 漢普郡養鱒場老闆瑞利表示，就算有一兩條魚游過水管，就夠令他驚異了；他在當地養魚約30年，沒瞧過有條魚能成功辦到的。但是布萊特拍的照片赫然在目，叫他不得不服。 瑞利表示，因為大自然的掠食者，養殖場已經損失很多鱒魚了，他可不想因為那條輸水管而損失更多，所以準備用格柵及偏轉器，安裝在輸水管口，斷掉以後鱒魚再逃之路。 「英國鱒魚協會」人士巴塞特表示，養殖鱒誤以為水不斷流下來的輸水管是瀑布，可以通往溪流上游，所以出自本能往上跳。「鮭魚鱒魚協會」的耐特則表示，輸水管流出來的水溶氧多多，也吸引養殖鱒跳上去。
追尋自由是生物的天性... 找到圖了... http://news.xinhuanet.com/photo/2007-12/12/content_7233651.htm
Intentional Community is an inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives, alternative communities, and other projects where people strive together with a common vision.
生活可以多自主/自由/和諧? 在知道理念社區的概念之前我們可能想像不到.
There is no more important cause for electronic freedoms and privacy than the call for action to stop DRM from crippling our digital future. The time is now.
如果再鬥，除了禁止上網，還會將有關人員送交給大學司法部。如果確實有必要合法使用P2P軟件，必須與IT服務中心聯繫，否則任何私自使用P2P軟件的行為都會招致懲罰。 根據新規定，Ares、Azureus、BitTorrent、BitLord、KaZaA、LimeWire、Shareaza、uTorrent絞移v軟件均vb封殺之列。 美國唱片工業協會(RIAA)已經在近期向美國的各所學院和大學發去了1200多封信函，其中俄亥浸製學接到了100多封，他們為此花費了120個小時的時間進行研究。
資本法西斯入侵校園
Private industry and eventually government is planning to use microphones in the computers of an estimated 150 million-plus Internet active Americans to spy on their lifestyle choices and build psychological profiles which will be used for surveillance and minority report style invasive advertising and data mining.
「Anarchism」源於希臘語單詞「αναρχία」，意思是沒有統治者。所以被翻譯成中文時，根據這一最基本的特徵譯成「無政府主義」。也有文獻音譯為「安那其主義」。無政府主義包含了眾多哲學體系和社會運動實踐。它的基本立場是反對包括政府在內的一切統治和權威，提倡個體之間的自助關係，關注個體的自由和平等；它的政治訴求是消除政府以及社會上或經濟上的任何獨裁統治關係。
Major telecommunications companies are spending millions lobbying the U.S. congress to make the Internet into a private network. In political lingo this mean abandoning what is called "Net Neutrality".
"you know who won't be able to pay is the little guys and you'll be crushing the future of inovation..." A look at the history of the communication and where it's going next.
網路將淪為"主流媒體"?
The Free State Project started with a collective vision of liberty-minded individuals who are committed to working together with unprecedented success to reduce the size and scope of government while expanding free markets and personal freedom.
自由州計劃 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project
The Independent Media Center (a/k/a Indymedia or IMC) is a global network of independent journalists and alternative media, which takes a generally left-wing perspective on political and social issues. It was and remains closely associated with the global justice movement, which criticizes neoliberalism, NAFTA, and the World Trade Organization. Indymedia is one manifestation of the growing Democratic Media movement.
獨立媒體中心IMC(Indymedia)是全球性的替代媒體網路,在31個國家(台灣的停掉了)設有網站(包括許多在地站台),任何人都可以透過這個平台發布新聞,可說是一種web2.0新聞網. 曾經被Google以某篇報導帶有歧視性文字的名義封鎖掉. 也有被英美政府單位無預警與無理由沒收硬碟的紀錄.
PirateBay isn’t the first organization that has ever tried to create an independent nation for free Internet and P2P. Indeed in 2001 there had been an attempt to move “dear,old” Napster to Sealand in order to save it.
P2P網民尋求獨立建國
