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Wednesday, October 6, 2004 |
Mainichi: "The mausoleum of Genghis Khan, the feared military leader who founded the Mongol empire, has been found in eastern Mongolia, researchers have announced."
9:44:55 PM 
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- Conversation with a conservative.
- AlterNet: "Even though women are still a tiny minority of those incarcerated - just 3.7 percent of the 2 million behind bars - their prison-populating growth is outpacing that of men. The number of female inmates in state and federal prison systems grew by 5 percent between June 2002 and July 2003, compared to a 2.7 percent increase for male inmates.
The number of women arrested in Florida has increased more than 18 percent in just the past three years."
It seems the 'war on drugs' is another war being lost. When mam is in prison, what do the kids do?
9:32:42 PM
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In protest against the attack on social security by the Dutch government, a group of hackers started a DDoS attack on several government sites. These sites could not be reached for several days.
5:41:45 PM
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"Under the European E-Commerce directive internet hosting providers risk liability for apparently illegal content from their customers. Once they are notified, they should take immediate action to block or remove the content. How serious are
providers in the Netherlands about their responsibility for the online freedom of
speech? Should providers first ask their customer to respond to an allegation, or
does 'immediate' mean they have to first shoot and ask questions later? What if the
complaint about an alleged infringement lacks legal grounds?"
The Multatuli Project (pdf): Bits of Freedom made a test and published a text by Multatuli from 1871 on sites of 10 different providers. Then a fake complaint and request to remove the pages was sent to these providers from a hotmail address. Only 3 out of the 10 providers did not remove the site. Only one of them checked and concluded that the text was free of copyright and could therefore be published.
Providers should be much more careful when they remove pages. Compared with the Safe Harbour provisions in the US, the European legislation leaves plenty of room for doubt and misguided judgement by providers.
10:30:33 AM
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