World Technology Newswire Archive

More and more people use Google as the only way to search the net. Nothing wrong, you may say. But Google is changing...

this protest news is slightly out of date but it should get you going. big up all tha true demonstrator!

nmap, the ultimate crackin' tool, is now threatened by the feds....

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today ( rough ) schedule...

update and links re: anti-nanotechnology protest in leeds

The US Army is testing robots armed with shotguns. The robots are called "Packbots" and have already seen some action in Iraq. It also has chemical sensors that detect nuclear, biological, and chemical contaminants.
More info from "Defense Update" magazine:
 http://www.defense-update.com/products/p/pacbot.htm

Some creatures paid a visit to EDO/MBM last night with a gift of ¼ a tonne of cement left on the entrance so the difficulty of crossing it to their livelihoods might remind ...

The FBI set out last month to conduct special "extraordinary measures" operations during October. Was this week's Indymedia server seizure part of these "measures"? And what's next?

 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/17/eveningnews/main644096.shtml

local social fora will continue to happen but can we develop a global network with todays continoully growing technology more of the planets people can participate in the global social fora

the ESF happens the week after the ISF and for various reasons* an alternative ESF festival has been created at the same time.
we here in dublin might be participating in these processes without having to travel to london
irish media activists will participate in the (alt) ESF and attempts have been made for those unable to get to london from dublin, or wherever in the world, who still want to be filled in or even participate in the social forum process, to be able to do so
heres whats going on

A hypothesis that Microsoft's Windows XP is a complex variation of a bugging device.

er, this is silicon valley news

super fast and linux info

below is a random news stream and comment, mostly drawn from the bbc, covering the last six months progress etc... big up

Know who is handling your personal data before you fly.

this was in my inbox.. it concerns the MMR vacine, seems quite informative

Despite all the expectations to deepen the Bolivarian process, the president Hugo Chavés Frias, made 2 partnership with the multinational companies Chevron-Texaco and Microsoft. Both agreements were signed before the referedum took place, but were as deliberately mugged by the progressive media and ignored by the conservative media.

One of them is a binacional gasoduto, sponsor by the Venezuela government and the Colombia government and coordinated by the American multinational Chevron-Texaco. Acording to Chavéz it´s a “direct way out of this giant asian market”. To construct the gasoduto, Venezuela volunteer to enter in the Plan Pueblo Panamá, a collection of infrastructure with the objective to respond to the American multinationals needs.

Parallel to that, the Venezuela´s government, via the education ministry, signed with Microsoft a contract to provide software to the schools across the country, contradicting the incentive policy of free software, which the government had adopted until Felipe Péres left the Planification and Development Ministry. According to Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU movement (free software): “The Venezuela´s government just made a critical error, which consequences will give control of computing to a global corporation: make a contract with Microsoft to use the program in the schools.”

The silence and the non-resistence of the popular movements just amplified this situation, disarticulated by the expectations of the left government speech. In case Chavéz continue with immune posture before popular movements, we will see those movements fight against the local bourgeoisie just to let a free way to the global bourgeoisie, which has no problem to negotiate with the “bolivarian revolution”.

Links :
Indymedia Brazil [pt]
Rebeldia magazine [es]
Venezuela: gasoduto binacional e Chevron Texaco [pt]
Mais do que nenhum lugar, as escolas devem usar software livre [pt]

The world's fifth largest producer and exporter of oil will be using a e-voting system produced by an american company in a presidential recall referendum called for by the Venezuelan elite and backed by Washington. Despite the use of a paper record of votes, some people claim to have found security flaws and weak cryptography. "Computers can be made to produce any outcome that you want without anybody really knowing that's what was done," said one US observer. One thing is clear, who ever wins the vote, the use of the untested e-voting system will leave room for doubt from either side about the results...

This is the sort of action that anyone interested in changing the world we live in for the better should be engaged in...what's to stop you? Tear down all the masts-forget about your phone- live a little- be uncontrollable for a while?

The Bombs out of Brighton website was set up as a means of reporting and publicising local protests of all types against the company. Unfortunately the site is becoming more of a sounding board for pro-EDO types than anti-EDO and anti-arms trade.

"World Without Waves" is about a man who develops a sudden and disabling allergy to EMF.

Wake up call for Americans

"World Without Waves" is about a man who develops a sudden and disabling allergy to EMF

We hope this film helps to serve as a cinematic start, a theatrical wake up call for Americans to consider our over dependency and overexposure to EMF.

* All those who wish to join us in Moscow which is one of the most happening, progressive cities on the planet, are encouraged to contact me at  davidj@oakwoodestates.net

The EU council yesterday voted to implement software patents in Europe. When they are implemented it may mean it's possible to patent any process (techies call this an algorithim). So we could have IBM 'owning' the "2+2" bit of 2+2=4!