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Now acceting bitcoins - anonymous and distributed p2p crypto-money
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2010-12-10 08:20
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With this weeks lawless +governmental +attacks on Wikileak and +free +speech, it has become obvious that PayPal, visa and mastercard can +not be trusted to handle money transactions. +A blog post from +Simon +Phipps on bitcoin reminded me about a project that a friend of +mine mentioned earlier. I decided to follow Simon's example, and get +involved with BitCoin. 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.

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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 +will get the package into +Debian soon.

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Bitcoins can be converted to other currencies, like USD and EUR. +There are companies accepting +bitcoins 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 without any bitcoins to spare, +you can even get +some for free (0.05 +bitcoin at the time of writing). Use +BitcoinWatch to keep an eye +on the current exchange rates.

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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 +15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b. Thank you!

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Martin Bekkelund: En stille bønn om Datalagringsdirektivet
2010-12-09 21:25
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Nå er 74 norske overvåkningskamera registert i OpenStreetmap.org
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2010-11-18 11:25
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Jeg oppdaterte nettopp kartet med overvåkningskamera som -jeg -startet for ca. et og et halvt år siden, og nå er det 74 kamera på -plass. I prosessen med å oppdatere kartet oppdaget jeg ved en -tilfeldighet at webreferansen til registermeldingen hos Datatilsynet -nå ikke lenger er gyldig (se -tidligere -melding). Antar Datatilsynet fjerner utdaterte meldinger fra -databasen. Konsekvensen blir at kameraoversikten i OSM må ha med -søkekriteriene som ble brukt for å finne registermeldingen -(dvs. virksomhetsnavn og organisasjonsnummer), slik at eventuelt nye -meldinger for samme kamera kan finnes igjen.

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Det er dukket opp kamera på -kartet -i Bergensområdet, Stavangerområdet, Osloområdet, Gjøvikområdet og i -Troms. Mange områder og kamera mangler, og jeg er overbevist om at -bare en brøkdel av den enorme mengden kamera som nå finnes i det -offentlige rom er registrert så langt. Instrukser for å legge inn -kamera finnes på websiden for kartet hos -personvernforeningen.

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