<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html">Terms of use for video produced by a Canon IXUS 130 digital camera</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-09-09 23:55</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/165_norske_overv__kningskamera_registert_s___langt_i_OpenStreetmap_org.html">165 norske overvåkningskamera registert så langt i OpenStreetmap.org</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-12-24 11:20</div>
<div class="body">
-<p>A few days ago I had the mixed pleasure of bying a new digital
-camera, a Canon IXUS 130. It was instructive and very disturbing to
-be able to verify that also this camera producer have the nerve to
-specify how I can or can not use the videos produced with the camera.
-Even thought I was aware of the issue, the options with new cameras
-are limited and I ended up bying the camera anyway. What is the
-problem, you might ask? It is software patents, MPEG-4, H.264 and the
-MPEG-LA that is the problem, and our right to record our experiences
-without asking for permissions that is at risk.
-
-<p>On page 27 of the Danish instruction manual, this section is
-written:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>This product is licensed under AT&T patents for the MPEG-4 standard
-and may be used for encoding MPEG-4 compliant video and/or decoding
-MPEG-4 compliant video that was encoded only (1) for a personal and
-non-commercial purpose or (2) by a video provider licensed under the
-AT&T patents to provide MPEG-4 compliant video.</p>
-
-<p>No license is granted or implied for any other user for MPEG-4
-standard.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>In short, the camera producer have chosen to use technology
-(MPEG-4/H.264) that is only provided if I used it for personal and
-non-commercial purposes, or ask for permission from the organisations
-holding the knowledge monopoly (patent) for technology used.</p>
-
-<p>This issue has been brewing for a while, and I recommend you to
-read
-"<a href="http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Video_Art_and_Culture_is_Threatened_by_the_MPEG-LA">Why
-Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the
-MPEG-LA</a>" by Eugenia Loli-Queru and
-"<a href="http://webmink.com/2010/09/03/h-264-and-foss/">H.264 Is Not
-The Sort Of Free That Matters</a>" by Simon Phipps to learn more about
-the issue. The solution is to support the
-<a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">free and
-open standards</a> for video, like <a href="http://www.theora.org/">Ogg
-Theora</a>, and avoid MPEG-4 and H.264 if you can.</p>
+<p>Jeg flikket litt på OpenStreetmap.org i går, og oppdaget ved en
+tilfeldighet at det er en rekke noder som representerer
+overvåkningskamera som ikke blir med på kartet med overvåkningskamera
+i Norge som
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kart_over_overv__kningskamera_i_Norge.html">jeg
+laget</a> for snart to år siden. Fra før tok jeg med noder merket med
+man_made=surveillance, mens det er en rekke noder som kun er merket
+med highway=speed_camera. Endret på koden som henter ut kameralisten
+fra OSM, og vips er antall kamera økt til 165.</p>
+
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.no/pere/surveillance-norway/">Kartet</a>
+er fortsatt ikke komplett, så hvis du ser noen kamera som mangler,
+legg inn ved å følge instruksene fra
+<a href="http://personvern.no/wiki/index.php/Kameraovervåkning">prosjektsiden</a>.
+Hvis du vet om noen flere måter å merke overvåkningskamera i OSM, ta
+kontakt slik at jeg kan få med også disse.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fildeling">fildeling</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>.
</div>
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Navteq_bruker_3_12_m__neder__OpenStreetmap_org_trenger_noen_dager.html">Navteq bruker 3-12 måneder, OpenStreetmap.org trenger noen dager</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-09-07 21:40</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_test_if_a_laptop_is_working_with_Linux.html">How to test if a laptop is working with Linux</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-12-22 14:55</div>
<div class="body">
-<p>Jeg ble riktig fascinert av
-<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article3800967.ece">en
-artikkel i Aftenposten</a> om hvor hardt Navteq jobber for å oppdatere
-kartene som brukes i navigasjons-GPSer, der det blant annet heter at
-"på grunn av teknikken tar det alt fra tre til tolv måneder før
-kartene er oppdatert". Når en kjenner hva slags oppdateringshastighet
-som er tilgjengelig på
-<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreetmap</a> som
-oppdateres på dugnad, blir det litt trist å se hva noe av det beste en
-kan kjøpe for penger får til.</p>
-
-<p>Fra en endrer kartdataene i databasen til OpenStreetmap tar det
-ca. 15 minutter før endringen er synlig på kartet som alle kan se på
-web. Dernest overføres det daglig til en kartdump som lastes ned av
-personen som lager Garmin-kart for Norge ca. en gang i uken. Med
-OpenStreetmap.org og <a href="http://www.frikart.no/">Frikart.no</a>
-kan en altså ha korreksjonene på plass i sin Garmin-GPS i løpet av en
-uke. Det er også av tekniske årsaker at det tar så langt tid.
-Jobbene som tegner kartene, henter ut kartdumpene og konverterer til
-Garmin-format tar minutter og timer å gjennomføre, slik at de ikke
-gjøres kontinuerlig men kun regelmessing.</p>
+<p>The last few days I have spent at work here at the <a
+href="http://www.uio.no/">University of oslo</a> testing if the new
+batch of computers will work with Linux. Every year for the last few
+years the university have organized shared bid of a few thousand
+computers, and this year HP won the bid. Two different desktops and
+five different laptops are on the list this year. We in the UNIX
+group want to know which one of these computers work well with RHEL
+and Ubuntu, the two Linux distributions we currently handle at the
+university.</p>
+
+<p>My test method is simple, and I share it here to get feedback and
+perhaps inspire others to test hardware as well. To test, I PXE
+install the OS version of choice, and log in as my normal user and run
+a few applications and plug in selected pieces of hardware. When
+something fail, I make a note about this in the test matrix and move
+on. If I have some spare time I try to report the bug to the OS
+vendor, but as I only have the machines for a short time, I rarely
+have the time to do this for all the problems I find.</p>
+
+<p>Anyway, to get to the point of this post. Here is the simple tests
+I perform on a new model.</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>Is PXE installation working? I'm testing with RHEL6, Ubuntu Lucid
+and Ubuntu Maverik at the moment. If I feel like it, I also test with
+RHEL5 and Debian Edu/Squeeze.</li>
+
+<li>Is X.org working? If the graphical login screen show up after
+installation, X.org is working.</li>
+
+<li>Is hardware accelerated OpenGL working? Running glxgears (in
+package mesa-utils on Ubuntu) and writing down the frames per second
+reported by the program.</li>
+
+<li>Is sound working? With Gnome and KDE, a sound is played when
+logging in, and if I can hear this the test is successful. If there
+are several audio exits on the machine, I try them all and check if
+the Gnome/KDE audio mixer can control where to send the sound. I
+normally test this by playing
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20101012-chef/ ">a HTML5
+video</a> in Firefox/Iceweasel.</li>
+
+<li>Is the USB subsystem working? I test this by plugging in a USB
+memory stick and see if Gnome/KDE notices this.</li>
+
+<li>Is the CD/DVD player working? I test this by inserting any CD/DVD
+I have lying around, and see if Gnome/KDE notices this.</li>
+
+<li>Is any built in camera working? Test using cheese, and see if a
+picture from the v4l device show up.</li>
+
+<li>Is bluetooth working? Use the Gnome/KDE browsing tool to see if
+any bluetooth devices are discovered. In my office, I normally see a
+few.</li>
+
+<li>For laptops, is the SD or Compaq Flash reader working. I have
+memory modules lying around, and stick them in and see if Gnome/KDE
+notice this.</li>
+
+<li>For laptops, is suspecd/hibernate working? I'm testing if the
+special button work, and if the laptop continue to work after
+resume.</li>
+
+<li>For laptops, is the extra buttons working, like audio level,
+adjusting background light, switching on/off external video output,
+switching on/off wifi, bluetooth, etc? The set of buttons differ from
+laptop to laptop, so I just write down which are working and which are
+not.</li>
+
+<li>Some laptops have smart card readers, finger print readers,
+acceleration sensors etc. I rarely test these, as I do not know how
+to quickly test if they are working or not, so I only document their
+existence.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>By now I suspect you are really curious what the test results are
+for the HP machines I am testing. I'm not done yet, so I will report
+the test results later. For now I can report that HP 8100 Elite work
+fine, and hibernation fail with HP EliteBook 8440p on Ubuntu Lucid,
+and audio fail on RHEL6. Ubuntu Maverik worked with 8440p. As you
+can see, I have most machines left to test. One interesting
+observation is that Ubuntu Lucid has almost twice the framerate than
+RHEL6 with glxgears. No idea why.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
</div>
</div>
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_notes_on_Flash_in_Debian_and_Debian_Edu.html">Some notes on Flash in Debian and Debian Edu</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-09-04 10:10</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html">Some thoughts on BitCoins</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-12-11 15:10</div>
<div class="body">
-<p>In the <a href="http://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_vote">Debian
-popularity-contest numbers</a>, the adobe-flashplugin package the
-second most popular used package that is missing in Debian. The sixth
-most popular is flashplayer-mozilla. This is a clear indication that
-working flash is important for Debian users. Around 10 percent of the
-users submitting data to popcon.debian.org have this package
-installed.</p>
-
-<p>In the report written by Lars Risan in August 2008
-(«<a href="http://wiki.skolelinux.no/Dokumentasjon/Rapporter?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Skolelinux_i_bruk_rapport_1.0.pdf">Skolelinux
-i bruk – Rapport for Hurum kommune, Universitetet i Agder og
-stiftelsen SLX Debian Labs</a>»), one of the most important problems
-schools experienced with <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian
-Edu/Skolelinux</a> was the lack of working Flash. A lot of educational
-web sites require Flash to work, and lacking working Flash support in
-the web browser and the problems with installing it was perceived as a
-good reason to stay with Windows.</p>
-
-<p>I once saw a funny and sad comment in a web forum, where Linux was
-said to be the retarded cousin that did not really understand
-everything you told him but could work fairly well. This was a
-comment regarding the problems Linux have with proprietary formats and
-non-standard web pages, and is sad because it exposes a fairly common
-understanding of whose fault it is if web pages that only work in for
-example Internet Explorer 6 fail to work on Firefox, and funny because
-it explain very well how annoying it is for users when Linux
-distributions do not work with the documents they receive or the web
-pages they want to visit.</p>
-
-<p>This is part of the reason why I believe it is important for Debian
-and Debian Edu to have a well working Flash implementation in the
-distribution, to get at least popular sites as Youtube and Google
-Video to working out of the box. For Squeeze, Debian have the chance
-to include the latest version of Gnash that will make this happen, as
-the new release 0.8.8 was published a few weeks ago and is resting in
-unstable. The new version work with more sites that version 0.8.7.
-The Gnash maintainers have asked for a freeze exception, but the
-release team have not had time to reply to it yet. I hope they agree
-with me that Flash is important for the Debian desktop users, and thus
-accept the new package into Squeeze.</p>
+<p>As I continue to explore
+<a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin</a>, I've starting to wonder
+what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
+and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.</p>
+
+<p>One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
+verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
+is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
+published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
+possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
+that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
+all transactions. There I can see that my address
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a>
+have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3">1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3</a>
+address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt">1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt</A>
+of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
+every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
+fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
+address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
+generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
+there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
+organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
+themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.</p>
+
+<p>In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
+regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
+without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
+laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
+If the Skolelinux foundation
+(<a href="http://linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">SLX
+Debian Labs</a>) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
+normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
+Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
+not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
+should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
+income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
+BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.</p>
+
+<p>For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
+accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
+the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
+easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
+access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
+a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
+so I wonder when my kind of shop would start accepting BitCoins. I
+would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
+and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
+if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
+to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
+will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
+probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
+believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
+currencies.</p>
+
+<p>The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
+CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
+competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
+to see which one get the next lump of cash). The "winner" get 50
+BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
+join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
+by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
+and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
+BitCoins. Check out
+<a href="http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/bitcoin-pool/">BitCoin Pool</a>
+if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
+machine to participate there yet, but have seen that running on ones
+own for a few days have not yield any BitCoins througth mining
+yet.</p>
+
+<p>Update 2010-12-15: Found an <a
+href="http://inertia.posterous.com/reply-to-the-underground-economist-why-bitcoi">interesting
+criticism</a> of bitcoin. Not quite sure how valid it is, but thought
+it was interesting to read. The arguments presented seem to be
+equally valid for gold, which was used as a currency for many years.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
</div>
</div>
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/My_first_perl_GUI_application___controlling_a_Spykee_robot.html">My first perl GUI application - controlling a Spykee robot</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-09-01 21:00</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Pornoskannerne_p___flyplassene_bedrer_visst_ikke_sikkerheten.html">Pornoskannerne på flyplassene bedrer visst ikke sikkerheten</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-12-11 10:45</div>
<div class="body">
-<p>This evening I made my first Perl GUI application. The last few
-days I have worked on a Perl module for controlling my recently
-aquired Spykee robots, and the module is now getting complete enought
-that it is possible to use it to control the robot driving at least.
-It was now time to figure out how to use it to create some GUI to
-allow me to drive the robot around. I picked PerlQt as I have had
-positive experiences with the Qt API before, and spent a few minutes
-browsing the web for examples. Using Qt Designer seemed like a short
-cut, so I ended up writing the perl GUI using Qt Designer and
-compiling it into a perl program using the puic program from
-libqt-perl. Nothing fancy yet, but it got buttons to connect and
-drive around.</p>
-
-<p>The perl module I have written provide a object oriented API for
-controlling the robot. Here is an small example on how to use it:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-use Spykee;
-Spykee::discover(sub {$robot{$_[0]} = $_[1]});
-my $host = (keys %robot)[0];
-my $spykee = Spykee->new();
-$spykee->contact($host, "admin", "admin");
-$spykee->left();
-sleep 2;
-$spykee->right();
-sleep 2;
-$spykee->forward();
-sleep 2;
-$spykee->back();
-sleep 2;
-$spykee->stop();
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>Thanks to the release of the source of the robot firmware, I could
-peek into the implementation at the other end to figure out how to
-implement the protocol used by the robot. I've implemented several of
-the commands the robot understand, but is still missing the camera
-support to make it possible to control the robot from remote. First I
-want to implement support for uploading new firmware and configuring
-the wireless network, to make it possible to bootstrap a Spykee robot
-without the producers Windows and MacOSX software (I only have Linux,
-so I had to ask a friend to come over to get the robot testing
-going. :).</p>
-
-<p>Will release the source to the public soon, but need to figure out
-where to make it available first. I will add a link to
-<a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/robot/">the NUUG wiki</a> for
-those that want to check back later to find it.</p>
+<p>Via <a href="http://webmink.com/2010/12/10/links-for-2010-12-10/">en
+blogpost fra Simon Phipps i går</a>, fant jeg en referanse til
+<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/9/exposed-tsas-x-rated-scanner-fraud/">en
+artikkel i Washington Times</a> som igjen refererer til en artikkel i
+det fagfellevurderte tidsskriftet Journal of Transportation Security
+med tittelen
+"<a href="http://springerlink.com/content/g6620thk08679160/fulltext.html">An
+evaluation of airport x-ray backscatter units based on image
+characteristics</a>" som enkelt konstaterer at
+<a href="http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/?a=2389&c=124">pornoscannerne</a>
+som kler av reisende på flyplasser ikke er i stand til å avsløre det
+produsenten og amerikanske myndigheter sier de skal avsløre. Kort
+sagt, de bedrer ikke sikkerheten. Reisende må altså la ansatte på
+flyplasser <a href="http://www.thousandsstandingaround.org/">se dem
+nakne eller la seg beføle i skrittet</a> uten grunn. Jeg vil
+fortsette å nekte å bruke disse pornoskannerne, unngå flyplasser der
+de er tatt i bruk, og reise med andre transportmidler enn fly hvis jeg
+kan.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
</div>
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forslag_i_stortinget_om____stoppe_elektronisk_stemmegiving_i_Norge.html">Forslag i stortinget om å stoppe elektronisk stemmegiving i Norge</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-08-31 21:00</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Now_accepting_bitcoins___anonymous_and_distributed_p2p_crypto_money.html">Now accepting bitcoins - anonymous and distributed p2p crypto-money</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-12-10 08:20</div>
<div class="body">
-<p>Ble tipset i dag om at et forslag om å stoppe forsøkene med
-elektronisk stemmegiving utenfor valglokaler er
-<a href="http://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Saker/Sak/?p=46616">til
-behandling</a> i Stortinget.
-<a href="http://www.stortinget.no/Global/pdf/Representantforslag/2009-2010/dok8-200910-128.pdf">Forslaget</a>
-er fremmet av Erna Solberg, Michael Tetzschner og Trond Helleland.</p>
-
-<p>Håper det får flertall.</p>
+<p>With this weeks lawless
+<a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/06/wikileaks/index.html">governmental
+attacks</a> on Wikileak and
+<a href="http://www.salon.com/technology/dan_gillmor/2010/12/06/war_on_speech">free
+speech</a>, it has become obvious that PayPal, visa and mastercard can
+not be trusted to handle money transactions.
+A blog post from
+<a href="http://webmink.com/2010/12/06/now-accepting-bitcoin/">Simon
+Phipps on bitcoin</a> reminded me about a project that a friend of
+mine mentioned earlier. I decided to follow Simon's example, and get
+involved with <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin</a>. I got
+some help from my friend to get it all running, and he even handed me
+some bitcoins to get started. I even donated a few bitcoins to Simon
+for helping me remember BitCoin.</p>
+
+<p>So, what is bitcoins, you probably wonder? It is a digital
+crypto-currency, decentralised and handled using peer-to-peer
+networks. It allows anonymous transactions and prohibits central
+control over the transactions, making it impossible for governments
+and companies alike to block donations and other transactions. The
+source is free software, and while the key dependency wxWidgets 2.9
+for the graphical user interface is missing in Debian, the command
+line client builds just fine. Hopefully Jonas
+<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/578157">will get the package into
+Debian</a> soon.</p>
+
+<p>Bitcoins can be converted to other currencies, like USD and EUR.
+There are <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/trade">companies accepting
+bitcoins</a> when selling services and goods, and there are even
+currency "stock" markets where the exchange rate is decided. There
+are not many users so far, but the concept seems promising. If you
+want to get started and lack a friend with any bitcoins to spare,
+you can even get
+<a href="https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/">some for free</a> (0.05
+bitcoin at the time of writing). Use
+<a href="http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/">BitcoinWatch</a> to keep an eye
+on the current exchange rates.</p>
+
+<p>As an experiment, I have decided to set up bitcoind on one of my
+machines. If you want to support my activity, please send Bitcoin
+donations to the address
+<b>15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</b>. Thank you!</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/
norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/
bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
</div>
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_hard_link_handling_with_sshfs.html">Broken hard link handling with sshfs</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-08-30 19:30</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Martin_Bekkelund__En_stille_b__nn_om_Datalagringsdirektivet.html">Martin Bekkelund: En stille bønn om Datalagringsdirektivet</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-12-09 21:25</div>
<div class="body">
-<p>Just got an email from Tobias Gruetzmacher as a followup on my
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_umask_handling_with_sshfs.html">previous
-post about sshfs</a>. He reported another problem with sshfs. It
-fail to handle hard links properly. A simple way to spot this is to
-look at the . and .. entries in the directory tree. These should have
-a link count >1, but on sshfs the count is 1. I just tested to see
-what happen when trying to hardlink, and this fail as well:</p>
-
-<pre>
-% ln foo bar
-ln: creating hard link `bar' => `foo': Function not implemented
-%
-</pre>
-
-<p>I have not yet found time to implement a test for this in my file
-system test code, but believe having working hard links is useful to
-avoid surprised unix programs. Not as useful as working file locking
-and symlinks, which are required to get a working desktop, but useful
-nevertheless. :)</p>
-
-<p>The latest version of the file system test code is available via
-git from
-<a href="http://github.com/gebi/fs-test">http://github.com/gebi/fs-test</a></p>
+<p><a href="http://www.bekkelund.net/">Martin Bekkelund</a> ved
+<a href="http://www.friprog.no/">friprog-senteret</a> har skrevet
+følgende
+<a href="http://www.bekkelund.net/2010/12/09/en-stille-bonn/">korte
+oppsummering</a> rundt datalagringsdirektivet, som jeg videreformidler
+her.</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><strong>Det pågår i disse dager en intens diskusjon om
+innføring av Datalagringsdirektivet (<acronym
+title="Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD</acronym>) i norsk rett. Kanskje
+har du gjort deg opp en mening, kanskje er du usikker. I begge
+tilfeller ber jeg deg lese videre.</strong></p>
+
+<p>Samtlige fagmiljøer, både i Norge og EU, har konkludert med at
+<acronym title="Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD</acronym> ikke bør
+innføres på nåværende tidspunkt. Den tekniske kvaliteten på direktivet
+er dårlig, det griper uforholdsmessig inn i personvernet, det har
+store mangler og viktige spørsmål som hvem som skal ha tilgang og
+hvordan data skal lagres er fortsatt uavklart.</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://ikt-norge.no/norge-kan-slippe-datalagringsdirektivet/">EU-ekspertene sier</a> at konsekvensene av å benytte vetoretten er minimale</li>
+<li><a href="http://www.regjeringen.no/pages/2281080/Deninternasjonalejuristkommisjon.pdf">Juristene påpeker</a> at direktivet er i strid med EMK</li>
+<li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/12/06/kultur/debatt/kronikk/dld/personvern/14594699/">Datatilsynet sier</a> direktivet får store konsekvenser for personvernet og at direktivet er irreversibelt</li>
+<li><a href="http://www.bekkelund.net/?s=dld">Teknologene sier</a> at sikker lagring ikke er mulig, at det er svært enkelt å omgå og mulig å manipulere data og produsere falske beviser</li>
+<li><a href="http://www.regjeringen.no/pages/2281080/NJ_247460_1_P.pdf">Pressen sier</a> nei av hensyn til kildevernet</li>
+<li>Det er store <a href="http://tetzschner.blogspot.com/2010/03/den-tyske-forfatningsdomstol.html">interne</a> <a href="http://stoppdld.no/2010/03/02/datalagring-stoppet-av-tysk-forfatningsdomstol/">stridigheter</a> i EU. Blant annet har den tyske forfatningsdomstolen funnet at måten <acronym title="Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD</acronym> er innført på er i strid med tysk grunnlov</li>
+<li>Alle de store <a href="http://www.bekkelund.net/2010/12/08/lokasjonsdata-og-datalagringsdirektivet/">operatørene og tilbyderne sier nei</a>, av tekniske og personvernmessige årsaker</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Jeg liker å tro at jeg er en hyggelig fyr. Jeg har et rent
+rulleblad, og med unntak av to fartsbøter har jeg aldri vært en byrde
+for samfunnet. Det akter jeg å fortsette med. Det er mange som meg,
+lovlydige, pliktoppfyllende borgere som aldri vil utgjøre en trussel
+mot noe som helst. Vi synes derfor det er trist og sårende at all vår
+atferd skal overvåkes døgnkontinuerlig.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Understøttet av faglige vurderinger kan du trygt si nei til
+<acronym title="Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD</acronym>.</strong></p>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.bekkelund.net/kontakt/">Ta kontakt med meg</a>
+hvis du har spørsmål om <acronym
+title="Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD</acronym>, uansett hva det måtte
+gjelde.</p>
+
+<p class="info">Denne teksten er å anse som <a
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/"><em>Public
+Domain</em></a>. Spre den videre til alle som kan ha nytte av
+den!</p>
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Siste <a href="http://www.nettavisen.no/it/article3043918.ece">melding
+fra Nettavisen</a> er at regjeringen planlegger å fremme sitt forslag
+til implementering av datalagringsdirektivet i morgen, i ly av
+fredprisutdelingen for å få minst mulig pressedekning om saken. Vi
+får snart se om det stemmer.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>.
</div>
</div>
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sikkerhetsteateret_p___flyplassene_fortsetter.html">Sikkerhetsteateret på flyplassene fortsetter</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-08-28 10:40</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Student_group_continue_the_work_on_my_Reprap_3D_printer.html">Student group continue the work on my Reprap 3D printer</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-12-09 19:30</div>
<div class="body">
-<p>Jeg skrev for et halvt år siden hvordan
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sikkerhet__teater__og_hvordan_gj__re_verden_sikrere.html">samfunnet
-kaster bort ressurser på sikkerhetstiltak som ikke fungerer</a>. Kom
-nettopp over en
-<a href="http://www.askthepilot.com/essays-and-stories/terrorism-tweezers-and-terminal-madness-an-essay-on-security/">historie
-fra en pilot fra USA</a> som kommenterer det samme. Jeg mistenker det
-kun er uvitenhet og autoritetstro som gjør at så få protesterer. Har
-veldig sans for piloten omtalt i <a
-href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article2057501.ece">Aftenposten</a> 2007-10-23,
-og skulle ønske flere rettet oppmerksomhet mot problemet. Det gir
-ikke meg trygghetsfølelse på flyplassene når jeg ser at
-flyplassadministrasjonen kaster bort folk, penger og tid på tull i
-stedet for ting som bidrar til reell økning av sikkerheten. Det
-forteller meg jo at vurderingsevnen til de som burde bidra til økt
-sikkerhet er svært sviktende, noe som ikke taler godt for de andre
-tiltakene.</p>
-
-<p>Mon tro hva som skjer hvis det fantes en enkel brosjyre å skrive ut
-fra Internet som forklarte hva som er galt med sikkerhetsopplegget på
-flyplassene, og folk skrev ut og la en bunke på flyplassene når de
-passerte. Kanskje det ville fått flere til å få øynene opp for
-problemet.</p>
-
-<p>Personlig synes jeg flyopplevelsen er blitt så avskyelig at jeg
-forsøker å klare meg med tog, bil og båt for å slippe ubehaget. Det
-er dog noe vanskelig i det langstrakte Norge og for å kunne besøke de
-delene av verden jeg ønsker å nå. Mistenker at flere har det slik, og
-at dette går ut over inntjeningen til flyselskapene. Det er antagelig
-en god ting sett fra et miljøperspektiv, men det er en annen sak.</p>
+<p>A few days ago, I was introduces to some students in the robot
+student assosiation <a href="http://www.robotica.no/">Robotica
+Osloensis</a> at the University of Oslo where I work, who planned to
+get their own 3D printer. They wanted to learn from me based on my
+work in the area. After having a short lunch meeting with them, I
+offered them to borrow my reprap kit, as I never had time to complete
+the build and this seem unlike to change any time soon. I look
+forward to see how this goes. This monday their volunteer driver
+picked up my kit and drove it to their lab, and tomorrow I am told the
+last exam is over so they can start work on getting the 3D printer
+operational.</p>
+
+<p>The robotic group have already build several robots on their own,
+and seem capable of getting the reprap operational. I really look
+forward to being able to print all the cool 3D designs published on
+<a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/">Thingiverse</a>. I even got
+some 3D scans I got made during Dagen@IFI when one of the groups at
+the computer science department at the university demonstrated their
+very cool 3D scanner.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/reprap">reprap</a>.
</div>
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_i_Osloskolen.html">Skolelinux i Osloskolen</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-08-26 22:25</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_development_gathering_and_General_Assembly_for_FRiSK.html">Debian Edu development gathering and General Assembly for FRiSK</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-11-29 18:40</div>
<div class="body">
-<p>Denne høsten skal endelig alle Osloskolene få mulighet til å bruke
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>. Ny IT-løsning
-har vært rullet ut i noen måneder nå, og så vidt jeg fikk vite før
-sommeren skulle alle skoler ha nytt opplegg på plass før oppstart nå i
-høst. På alle skolene skal en kunne velge ved installasjon om en skal
-ha Windows eller Skolelinux på maskinene, og en kan i tillegg
-PXE-boote maskinene over nett som tynne klienter eller diskløse
-arbeidsstasjoner. Jeg er spent på hvor mange skoler som velger å ta i
-bruk Skolelinux, og gleder meg til å se hvordan dette utvikler seg.
-Løsningen leveres av
-<a href="http://www.logica.no/">Logica</a> med
-<a href="http://www.slxdrift.no/">Skolelinux Drift AS</a> som
-underleverandør, og jeg har vært involvert i utviklingen av løsningen
-via Skolelinux Drift AS siden prosjektet starter. Jeg synes det er
-fantastisk at Skolelinux er kommet så langt siden vi startet i 2001 at
-alle elevene i Osloskolene nå skal få mulighet til å bruke
-løsningen. Jeg håper de vil sette pris på alle de
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.no/linux-signpost/">fantastiske
-brukerprogrammene</a> som er tilgjengelig i Skolelinux.</p>
+<p>On friday, the first Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+<a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2010-12-03-05-Oslo">development
+gathering</a> in a long time take place here in Oslo, Norway. I
+really look forward to seeing all the good people working on the
+Squeeze release. The gathering is open for everyone interested in
+learning more about Debian Edu / Skolelinux.</p>
+
+<p>On Saturday, the Norwegian member organization taking care of
+organizing these development gatherings, Fri Programvare i Skolen,
+will hold its
+<a href="http://friprogramvareiskolen.no/Genfors/2010">General Assembly
+for 2010</a>. Membership is open for all, and currently there are 388
+people registered as members. Last year 32 members cast their vote in
+the memberdb based election system. I hope more people find time to
+vote this year.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
</div>
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_umask_handling_with_sshfs.html">Broken umask handling with sshfs</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-08-26 13:30</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html">Why isn't Debian Edu using VLC?</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-11-27 11:30</div>
<div class="body">
-<p>My file system sematics program
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_if_a_file_system_can_be_used_for_home_directories___.html">presented
-a few days ago</a> is very useful to verify that a file system can
-work as a unix home directory,and today I had to extend it a bit. I'm
-looking into alternatives for home directory access here at the
-University of Oslo, and one of the options is sshfs. My friend
-Finn-Arne mentioned a while back that they had used sshfs with Debian
-Edu, but stopped because of problems. I asked today what the problems
-where, and he mentioned that sshfs failed to handle umask properly.
-Trying to detect the problem I wrote this addition to my fs testing
-script:</p>
-
-<pre>
-mode_t touch_get_mode(const char *name, mode_t mode) {
- mode_t retval = 0;
- int fd = open(name, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, mode);
- if (-1 != fd) {
- unlink(name);
- struct stat statbuf;
- if (-1 != fstat(fd, &statbuf)) {
- retval = statbuf.st_mode & 0x1ff;
- }
- close(fd);
- }
- return retval;
-}
-
-/* Try to detect problem discovered using sshfs */
-int test_umask(void) {
- printf("info: testing umask effect on file creation\n");
-
- mode_t orig_umask = umask(000);
- mode_t newmode;
- if (0666 != (newmode = touch_get_mode("foobar", 0666))) {
- printf(" error: Wrong file mode %o when creating using mode 666 and umask 000\n",
- newmode);
- }
- umask(007);
- if (0660 != (newmode = touch_get_mode("foobar", 0666))) {
- printf(" error: Wrong file mode %o when creating using mode 666 and umask 007\n",
- newmode);
- }
-
- umask (orig_umask);
- return 0;
-}
-
-int main(int argc, char **argv) {
- [...]
- test_umask();
- return 0;
-}
-</pre>
-
-<p>Sure enough. On NFS to a netapp, I get this result:</p>
-
-<pre>
-Testing POSIX/Unix sematics on file system
-info: testing symlink creation
-info: testing subdirectory creation
-info: testing fcntl locking
- Read-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
- Read-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
- Unlocking 1 byte from 1073741824
- Write-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
- Write-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
- Unlocking 2 byte from 1073741824
-info: testing umask effect on file creation
-</pre>
-
-<p>When mounting the same directory using sshfs, I get this
-result:</p>
-
-<pre>
-Testing POSIX/Unix sematics on file system
-info: testing symlink creation
-info: testing subdirectory creation
-info: testing fcntl locking
- Read-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
- Read-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
- Unlocking 1 byte from 1073741824
- Write-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
- Write-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
- Unlocking 2 byte from 1073741824
-info: testing umask effect on file creation
- error: Wrong file mode 644 when creating using mode 666 and umask 000
- error: Wrong file mode 640 when creating using mode 666 and umask 007
-</pre>
-
-<p>So, I can conclude that sshfs is better than smb to a Netapp or a
-Windows server, but not good enough to be used as a home
-directory.</p>
-
-<p>Update 2010-08-26: Reported the issue in
-<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/594498">BTS report #594498</a></p>
-
-<p>Update 2010-08-27: Michael Gebetsroither report that he found the
-script so useful that he created a GIT repository and stored it in
-<a href="http://github.com/gebi/fs-test">http://github.com/gebi/fs-test</a>.</p>
+<p>In the latest issue of Linux Journal, the readers choices were
+presented, and the winner among the multimedia player were VLC.
+Personally, I like VLC, and it is my player of choice when I first try
+to play a video file or stream. Only if VLC fail will I drag out
+gmplayer to see if it can do better. The reason is mostly the failure
+model and trust. When VLC fail, it normally pop up a error message
+reporting the problem. When mplayer fail, it normally segfault or
+just hangs. The latter failure mode drain my trust in the program.<p>
+
+<p>But even if VLC is my player of choice, we have choosen to use
+mplayer in <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian
+Edu/Skolelinux</a>. The reason is simple. We need a good browser
+plugin to play web videos seamlessly, and the VLC browser plugin is
+not very good. For example, it lack in-line control buttons, so there
+is no way for the user to pause the video. Also, when I
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">last
+tested the browser plugins</a> available in Debian, the VLC plugin
+failed on several video pages where mplayer based plugins worked. If
+the browser plugin for VLC was as good as the gecko-mediaplayer
+package (which uses mplayer), we would switch.</P>
+
+<p>While VLC is a good player, its user interface is slightly
+annoying. The most annoying feature is its inconsistent use of
+keyboard shortcuts. When the player is in full screen mode, its
+shortcuts are different from when it is playing the video in a window.
+For example, space only work as pause when in full screen mode. I
+wish it had consisten shortcuts and that space also would work when in
+window mode. Another nice shortcut in gmplayer is [enter] to restart
+the current video. It is very nice when playing short videos from the
+web and want to restart it when new people arrive to have a look at
+what is going on.</p>
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+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
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- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Elektronisk_stemmegiving_er_ikke_til____stole_p_____heller_ikke_i_Norge.html">Elektronisk stemmegiving er ikke til å stole på - heller ikke i Norge</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-08-23 19:30</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/DND_hedrer_overv__kning_av_barn_med_Rosingsprisen.html">DND hedrer overvåkning av barn med Rosingsprisen</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-11-23 14:15</div>
<div class="body">
-<p>I Norge pågår en prosess for å
-<a href="http://www.e-valg.dep.no/">innføre elektronisk
-stemmegiving</a> ved kommune- og stortingsvalg. Dette skal
-introduseres i 2011. Det er all grunn til å tro at valg i Norge ikke
-vil være til å stole på hvis dette blir gjennomført. Da det hele var
-oppe til høring i 2006 forfattet jeg
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/dokumenter/valg-horing-2006-09.pdf">en
-høringsuttalelse fra NUUG</a> (og EFN som hengte seg på) som skisserte
-hvilke punkter som må oppfylles for at en skal kunne stole på et valg,
-og elektronisk stemmegiving mangler flere av disse. Elektronisk
-stemmegiving er for alle praktiske formål å putte ens stemme i en sort
-boks under andres kontroll, og satse på at de som har kontroll med
-boksen er til å stole på - uten at en har mulighet til å verifisere
-dette selv. Det er ikke slik en gjennomfører demokratiske valg.</p>
-
-<p>Da problemet er fundamentalt med hvordan elektronisk stemmegiving
-må fungere for at også ikke-krypografer skal kunne delta, har det vært
-mange rapporter om hvordan elektronisk stemmegiving har sviktet i land
-etter land. En
-<a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/uttalelser/2006-elektronisk-stemmegiving">liten
-samling referanser</a> finnes på NUUGs wiki. Den siste er fra India,
-der valgkomisjonen har valgt
-<a href="http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/electronic-voting-researcher-arrested-over-anonymous-source">å
-pusse politiet på en forsker</a> som har dokumentert svakheter i
-valgsystemet.</p>
-
-<p>Her i Norge har en valgt en annen tilnærming, der en forsøker seg
-med teknobabbel for å få befolkningen til å tro at dette skal bli
-sikkert. Husk, elektronisk stemmegiving underminerer de demokratiske
-valgene i Norge, og bør ikke innføres.</p>
-
-<p>Den offentlige diskusjonen blir litt vanskelig av at media har
-valgt å kalle dette "evalg", som kan sies å både gjelde elektronisk
-opptelling av valget som Norge har gjort siden 60-tallet og som er en
-svært god ide, og elektronisk opptelling som er en svært dårlig ide.
-Diskusjonen gir ikke mening hvis en skal diskutere om en er for eller
-mot "evalg", og jeg forsøker derfor å være klar på at jeg snakker om
-elektronisk stemmegiving og unngå begrepet "evalg".</p>
+<p>Jeg registrerer med vond smak i munnen at Den Norske Dataforening
+<a
+href="http://www.dataforeningen.no/hedret-med-rosingprisen.4849070-133913.html">hedrer
+overvåkning av barn med Rosingsprisen for kreativitet i år</a>. Jeg
+er glad jeg nå er meldt ut av DND.</p>
+
+<p>Å elektronisk overvåke sine barn er ikke å gjøre dem en tjeneste,
+men et overgrep mot individer i utvikling som bør læres opp til å ta
+egne valg.</p>
+
+<p>For å sitere Datatilsynets nye leder, Bjørn Erik Thon, i
+<a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article174262.ece">et intervju
+med Computerworld Norge</A>:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+- For alle som har barn, meg selv inkludert, er førstetanken at det
+hadde vært fint å vite hvor barnet sitt er til enhver tid. Men ungene
+har ikke godt av det. De er små individer som skal søke rundt og finne
+sine små gjemmesteder og utvide horisonten, uten at foreldrene ser dem
+i kortene. Det kan være fristende, men jeg ville ikke gått inn i
+dette.
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Det er skremmende å se at DND mener en tjeneste som legger opp til
+slike overgrep bør hedres. Å flytte oppveksten for barn inn i en
+virtuell
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon">Panopticon</a> er et
+grovt overgrep og vil gjøre skade på barnenes utvikling, og foreldre
+burde tenke seg godt om før de gir etter for sine instinkter her.</p>
+
+<p>Blipper-tjenesten får meg til å tenke på bøkene til
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Twelve_Hawks">John Twelve
+Hawks</a>, som forbilledlig beskriver hvordan et totalitært
+overvåkningssamfunn bygges sakte men sikkert rundt oss, satt sammen av
+gode intensjoner og manglende bevissthet om hvilke prinsipper et
+liberalt demokrati er fundamentert på. Jeg har hatt stor glede av å
+lese alle de tre bøkene.</p>
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