In the Debian -popularity-contest numbers, 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.
- -In the report written by Lars Risan in August 2008 -(«Skolelinux -i bruk â Rapport for Hurum kommune, Universitetet i Agder og -stiftelsen SLX Debian Labs»), one of the most important problems -schools experienced with Debian -Edu/Skolelinux 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.
- -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.
- -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.
+Jeg registrerer med vond smak i munnen at Den Norske Dataforening +hedrer +overvåkning av barn med Rosingsprisen for kreativitet i år. Jeg +er glad jeg nå er meldt ut av DND.
+ +à 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.
+ +For å sitere Datatilsynets nye leder, Bjørn Erik Thon, i +et intervju +med Computerworld Norge:
+ ++- 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. ++ +
Det er skremmende å se at DND mener en tjeneste som legger opp til +slike overgrep bør hedres. à flytte oppveksten for barn inn i en +virtuell +Panopticon 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.
+ +Blipper-tjenesten får meg til å tenke på bøkene til +John Twelve +Hawks, 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.