Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
Blog 
Feeds
Category: freedom and privacy
Finally something done on dutch press propaganda
I couldn’t find any websites carrying the news item, but I just heard it on the radio. Something is finally being done about propaganda in the dutch press. For months now, I’ve been hearing news items in which some criminals race/ethnic background was mentioned which had absolutely nothing to do with the news report in […]
Censorship
I keep finding more and more insightful or otherwise interesting articles on useless-knowledge. For instance, an article on press censorship. A small quote from the article: Now, I do recall a certain FIRST AMENDMENT in the Constitution that prohibits censorship. Furthermore, there is a reason that we have free press. It is to keep us […]
The Joys Of Smoking
The Joys Of Smoking.
More funny quotes from microsoft.com
I’m having so much fun reading microsoft.com, I’ve decided to share some more with you: Learn how Internet Explorer is setting the new standard in privacy, reliability, and flexibility on the Web. (source) Q.How do I turn off pop-up ads? A. This fix is for advanced users because it may affect your Web browsing experience. […]
No EU software patents for now
GrokLaw announces, in this article the following: “In a totally unexpected turn of events, the EU Council took its proposal for a software patent directive off its agenda during today’s meeting. […] Polish undersecretary Wlodzimierz Marcinski asked for additional time in order to be able to write up a “constructive declaration”. The meeting chairman accomodated […]
NL withdraws software patents vote
“The Dutch Parliament has decided to direct Minister Brinkhorst and Secretary of State van Gennip (Economic Affairs) to withdraw the Dutch vote in support of the Council of Ministers’ text for the Directive on Software Patents. This is the first time in the history of the EU that such a course of action has been […]
Software patents in the EU
Against it? Sign here.
Debian Social Contract amendments
There has been a vote on an amendment to the Debian Social Contract. The amdendment extends the non-free policy of Debian to cover not only software but just about everything about Debian. Where in the past documents and things such as firmware where apparentely allowed in the main archive even if they were not free […]
Gay marriage
Bush supports an amendment to the constitution that would ban gay marriage. This I really do not understand? I thought the constitution of America was there to protect the right and equality of all its citizens? Life, liberty and the persuit of hapiness, my ass. ‘the persuit of hapiness as long as it fits within […]
Search this blog:
The text of all posts on this blog, unless specificly mentioned otherwise, are licensed under this license.