Charles comments on charity actions and a petition for the MySQL database.
Sometimes inbetween Christmas and New Year’s Eve, the “Help MySQL” initiative was founded. This initiative, publicly supported by Monty Widenius, the co-founder of MySQL would be interesting if it wasn’t somehow indecent.
The petition Helpmysql seems to be quite successful: 22 945 confirmed signups
Jan Wildeboer [...]
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Whose MySQL?
Posted in European Union, Total Information Outsourcing (TIO), tagged mysql on 06/01/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ergänzung zum Swift Spiegelartikel
Posted in European Union, Total Information Outsourcing (TIO), tagged bankdaten, daten, Europarl, spiegel, swift on 03/01/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Gestern hatte ich schon was geschrieben über die vom Spiegel nur konstruierte Unstimmigkeit. Der Ralf Bendrath ergänzt im Blog von Markus:
“Das am 30.11. beschlossene SWIFT-Abkommen erlaubt keine “systematische anlassunabhängige Recherche”. Insofern trifft die BKA-Aussage treffsicher daneben. “
Genau das hatte ich mir gedacht, war aber auch nicht in der Stimmung die SWIFT-Abkommen-Dokumente zu recherchieren, und [...]
SWIFT: Verwaltungschinesisch richtig verstehen
Posted in European Union, Total Information Outsourcing (TIO), tagged Bank, Datenweitergabe, Finanzspionage, swift, Terrorbekämpfung on 02/01/2010 | 1 Comment »
Spiegel-Vorab zitiert aus einem Papier des Bundeskriminalamtes:
Für den Bereich der Bekämpfung der politisch motivierten Kriminalität besteht kein fachlicher Bedarf beziehungsweise kein operatives Interesse an der Nutzung des Swift-Datenbestandes zum Zwecke einer systematischen anlassunabhängigen Recherche.”
Markierung von mir. Die Spiegelautoren scheinen den Text fehlerhaft zu interpretieren. “Systematische anlassunabhängige Recherche” meint eine Art Rasterfandung, ein Data Mining auf [...]
Does the EU-Commission use Google Analytics?
Posted in European Union, Future of the Web, Total Information Outsourcing (TIO), tagged analytics, google, security on 08/12/2009 | 1 Comment »
From a European Union Commission website:
$(document).ready(function() {
// If Google Analytics used, also track document downloads as Pageviews
$(“a[href*='document.cfm']“).bind(‘click’,function(){
[...]
Cross-platform as in SkyDrive
Posted in Desktop Experience, Total Information Outsourcing (TIO) on 31/10/2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the SkyDrive Explorer, a kind of Dropbox clone, a new definition of cross-platform has been developed:
Cross-platform
32/64 bit OS support
SkyDrive Explorer works both in 32- and 64-bit Microsoft® Windows OS. Minimal required OS is Windows XP, and SkyDrive Explorer will successfully work in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, and Windows 7.
But anyway, tools [...]
More ACTA insights
Posted in ACTA, European Union, Total Information Outsourcing (TIO), Uncategorized, tagged ACTA, counterfeiting on 08/04/2009 | Leave a Comment »
From a Council document 13 February 2009 which was declassified:
VI. THE DRAFT ANTI-COUNTERFEITING TRADE AGREEMEMT
23. Since 2007, four negotiation rounds have taken place on an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The last one was held in Paris in December 2008 and should be followed by a round scheduled in March 2009 in Morocco.
24. This agreement should cover [...]
OSI approves license from the EU-Commission
Posted in European Union, Total Information Outsourcing (TIO), tagged EUPL, IDABC, legal interoperability, soft law on 14/03/2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved a license from the European Commission which the administration developed for its own software, the European Union Public License (EUPL) (cmp also the info resources of OSOR.eu and Wikipedia). It was written to be legally enforcable in all member states of the Union with its member states and does [...]
Mail Viewer
Posted in Future of the Web, Total Information Outsourcing (TIO) on 02/02/2009 | 1 Comment »
A program to view email boxes?
Mail Viewer is a standalone, portable software program for Microsoft Windows operating systems that can display a wide variety of formats used by Microsoft in its interface. It can read and display .idx, .mbx and .dbx message databases used in Microsoft Outlook Express 4,5 and 6 as well as Windows [...]
Data Protection in A Profiled World?
Posted in Conference, Total Information Outsourcing (TIO), tagged Brussels, Data protection, Microsoft, Privacy on 08/12/2008 | Leave a Comment »
Computers, Privacy & Data Protection conference: Data Protection in A Profiled World?
16 January 2009 – 17 January 2009 Brussels, Belgium: This event aims to offer a discussion forum for policy makers, academics, practitioners, activists and representatives from standardization bodies and ICT industries,on key issues related to data protection and privacy.
The main topic of this [...]
