“We know their identity confirmed by payment details such as credit card or phone number. We comply with all requirements of the UK Telco Regulation and collaborate with authorities if requested to identify copyright infringement cases. Just like other hotspot operators.”

UK to forbid Open WiFi – FON can help.

Read that again. He’s just said that he’ll hand over the logs of your Fon to the government on request.

A few questions…

• Under what conditions will you hand over my logs?
• If I’m in a log when you hand it over the government. Will you tell me?
• Do I have a right of appeal?
• Will you hand over my credit card information?
• Will you give over my logs to a foreign government?

My Fon just got placed in a box this afternoon. It’s still not stable. This news means that it’ll probably never leave the box again.

This is well worth a read…

“But really, what are we shedding tears over?

We’re losing the throwaway paperback.
The airport paperback.
The beachside paperback.

We’re losing the dregs of the publishing world: disposable books. The book printed without consideration of form or sustainability or longevity. The book produced to be consumed once and then tossed. The book you bin when you’re moving and you need to clean out the closet.

These are the first books to go. And I say it again, good riddance.”

Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod.

Many years ago, almost all my electronics were made by Sony.

Then two things happened. First, they started implementing DRM, I couldn’t copy a CD to a MiniDisc and getting my Sony Viao to play music was a nightmare.

Then Apple got into the music business.

A decade later, the only Sony object I use every day is a basic alarm radio.

I’m not the only one. Check out the Gizmodo article and the comments here…

Great hardware, shame about everything else. Guess who! – Boing Boing.

Publishing something in public that is this critical takes real guts…

“In the Supplier Responsibility Report they state, “when social responsibility performance consistently fails to meet Apple expectations, [they] terminate business.” In many of the cases of violations the wrongs have been righted, for instance underpaid workers have been paid for the discrepancies and the underage workers are all now at the legal working age.”

Apple Announces it’s Suppliers Violated Company’s Workers Rights Rules | Inhabitat.

Watching this makes me feel sorry for the policemen involved. Under-educated and under-trained they’ve become used to using intimidation; take that away with a camera and they’re lost.

The best quote in the show… “Hold on lets bring some logic into this”

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/06/howto-beat-the-londo.html

This is fantastic…

RadarVirtuel.com

It works as well. I can see planes from my home office window and there is only a couple of minutes of delay.

It’s time for the best annual report of the year…

“Our gain in net worth during 2009 was $21.8 billion, which increased the per-share book value of both

our Class A and Class B stock by 19.8%. Over the last 45 years (that is, since present management took over)

book value has grown from $19 to $84,487, a rate of 20.3% compounded annually.”

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2009ltr.pdf

If only the song was as good as the video.