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+               <title>Is Pentagon deciding the Norwegian negotiating position on Internet governance?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_Pentagon_deciding_the_Norwegian_negotiating_position_on_Internet_governance_.html</link>
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+                <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2015 13:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;In Norway, all government offices are required by law to keep a
+list of every document or letter arriving and leaving their offices.
+Internal notes should also be documented.  The document list (called a mail
+journal - &quot;postjournal&quot; in Norwegian) is public information and thanks
+to the Norwegian Freedom of Information Act (Offentleglova) the mail
+journal is available for everyone.  Most offices even publish the mail
+journal on their web pages, as PDFs or tables in web pages.  The state-level offices even have a shared web based search service (called
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oep.no/&quot;&gt;Offentlig Elektronisk Postjournal -
+OEP&lt;/a&gt;) to make it possible to search the entries in the list.  Not
+all journal entries show up on OEP, and the search service is hard to
+use, but OEP does make it easier to find at least some interesting
+journal entries .&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;In 2012 I came across a document in the mail journal for the
+Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications on OEP that
+piqued my interest.  The title of the document was
+&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oep.no/search/resultSingle.html?journalPostId=4192362&quot;&gt;Internet
+Governance and how it affects national security&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (Norwegian:
+&quot;Internet Governance og påvirkning på nasjonal sikkerhet&quot;).  The
+document date was 2012-05-22, and it was said to be sent from the
+&quot;Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations&quot;.  I asked for a
+copy, but my request was rejected with a reference to a legal clause said to authorize them to reject it
+(&lt;a href=&quot;http://lovdata.no/lov/2006-05-19-16/§20&quot;&gt;offentleglova § 20,
+letter c&lt;/a&gt;) and an explanation that the document was exempt because
+of foreign policy interests as it contained information related to the
+Norwegian negotiating position, negotiating strategies or similar.  I
+was told the information in the document related to the ongoing
+negotiation in the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).  The
+explanation made sense to me in early January 2013, as a ITU
+conference in Dubay discussing Internet Governance
+(&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunication_Union#World_Conference_on_International_Telecommunications_2012_.28WCIT-12.29&quot;&gt;World
+Conference on International Telecommunications - WCIT-12&lt;/a&gt;) had just
+ended,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/kommentarer/2012/12/18/tvil-om-usas-rolle-pa-teletoppmote&quot;&gt;reportedly
+in chaos&lt;/a&gt; when USA walked out of the negotiations and 25 countries
+including Norway refused to sign the new treaty.  It seemed
+reasonable to believe talks were still going on a few weeks later.
+Norway was represented at the ITU meeting by two authorities, the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nkom.no/&quot;&gt;Norwegian Communications Authority&lt;/a&gt;
+and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dep/sd/&quot;&gt;Ministry of
+Transport and Communications&lt;/a&gt;.  This might be the reason the letter
+was sent to the ministry.  As I was unable to find the document in the
+mail journal of any Norwegian UN mission, I asked the ministry who had
+sent the document to the ministry, and was told that it was the Deputy
+Permanent Representative with the Permanent Mission of Norway in
+Geneva.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Three years later, I was still curious about the content of that
+document, and again asked for a copy, believing the negotiation was
+over now.  This time
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://mimesbronn.no/request/kopi_av_dokumenter_i_sak_2012914&quot;&gt;I
+asked both the Ministry of Transport and Communications as the
+receiver&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://mimesbronn.no/request/brev_om_internet_governance_og_p&quot;&gt;asked
+the Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva as the sender&lt;/a&gt; for a
+copy, to see if they both agreed that it should be withheld from the
+public.  The ministry upheld its rejection quoting the same law
+reference as before, while the permanent mission rejected it quoting a
+different clause
+(&lt;a href=&quot;http://lovdata.no/lov/2006-05-19-16/§20&quot;&gt;offentleglova § 20
+letter b&lt;/a&gt;), claiming that they were required to keep the
+content of the document from the public because it contained
+information given to Norway with the expressed or implied expectation
+that the information should not be made public.  I asked the permanent
+mission for an explanation, and was told that the document contained
+an account from a meeting held in the Pentagon for a limited group of NATO
+nations where the organiser of the meeting did not intend the content
+of the meeting to be publicly known.  They explained that giving me a
+copy might cause Norway to not get access to similar information in
+the future and thus hurt the future foreign interests of Norway.  They
+also explained that the Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva was not
+the author of the document, they only got a copy of it, and because of
+this had not listed it in their mail journal.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Armed with this
+knowledge I asked the Ministry to reconsider and asked who was the
+author of the document, now realising that it was not same as the
+&quot;sender&quot; according to Ministry of Transport and Communications.  The
+ministry upheld its rejection but told me the name of the author of
+the document.  According to
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/unga69_rapport1/id2001204/&quot;&gt;a
+government report&lt;/a&gt; the author was with the Permanent Mission of
+Norway in New York a bit more than a year later (2014-09-22), so I
+guessed that might be the office responsible for writing and sending
+the report initially and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/mote_2012_i_pentagon_om_itu&quot;&gt;asked
+them for a copy&lt;/a&gt; but I was obviously wrong as I was told that the
+document was unknown to them and that the author did not work there
+when the document was written.  Next, I asked the Permanent Mission of
+Norway in Geneva and the Foreign Ministry to reconsider and at least
+tell me who sent the document to Deputy Permanent Representative with
+the Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva.  The Foreign Ministry also
+upheld its rejection, but told me that the person sending the document
+to Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva was the defence attaché with
+the Norwegian Embassy in Washington.  I do not know if this is the
+same person as the author of the document.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If I understand the situation correctly, someone capable of
+inviting selected NATO nations to a meeting in Pentagon organised a
+meeting where someone representing the Norwegian defence attaché in
+Washington attended, and the account from this meeting is interpreted
+by the Ministry of Transport and Communications to expose Norways
+negotiating position, negotiating strategies and similar regarding the
+ITU negotiations on Internet Governance.  It is truly amazing what can
+be derived from mere meta-data.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I wonder which NATO countries besides Norway attended this meeting?
+And what exactly was said and done at the meeting?  Anyone know?&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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                <title>New book, &quot;Fri kultur&quot; by @lessig, a Norwegian Bokmål translation of &quot;Free Culture&quot; from 2004</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_book___Fri_kultur__by__lessig__a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_translation_of__Free_Culture__from_2004.html</link>
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                <title>New book, &quot;Fri kultur&quot; by @lessig, a Norwegian Bokmål translation of &quot;Free Culture&quot; from 2004</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_book___Fri_kultur__by__lessig__a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_translation_of__Free_Culture__from_2004.html</link>


@@ -13,13 +129,13 @@
                 <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2015 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;People keep asking me where to get the various forms of the book I
 published last week, the Norwegian Bokmål edition of Lawrence Lessigs
                 <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2015 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;People keep asking me where to get the various forms of the book I
 published last week, the Norwegian Bokmål edition of Lawrence Lessigs

-book Free Culture.  It was published on paper via lulu.com, and is
-also available in PDF, ePub and MOBI format.  I currently sell the
-paper edition for self cost from lulu.com, but might extend the
-distribution to book stores like Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble later.
-This will double the price and force me to make a profit from selling
-the book.  Anyway, here are links to get the book in different
-formats:&lt;/p&gt;
+book &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt;.  It was
+published on paper via lulu.com, and is also available in PDF, ePub
+and MOBI format.  I currently sell the paper edition for self cost
+from lulu.com, but might extend the distribution to book stores like
+Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble later.  This will double the price and force
+me to make a profit from selling the book.  Anyway, here are links to
+get the book in different formats:&lt;/p&gt;

 
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-       <item>
-               <title>The life and death of a laptop battery</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_life_and_death_of_a_laptop_battery.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2015 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;When I get a new laptop, the battery life time at the start is OK.
-But this do not last.  The last few laptops gave me a feeling that
-within a year, the life time is just a fraction of what it used to be,
-and it slowly become painful to use the laptop without power connected
-all the time.  Because of this, when I got a new Thinkpad X230 laptop
-about two years ago, I decided to monitor its battery state to have
-more hard facts when the battery started to fail.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-09-24-laptop-battery-graph.png&quot;/&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;First I tried to find a sensible Debian package to record the
-battery status, assuming that this must be a problem already handled
-by someone else.  I found
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats&quot;&gt;battery-stats&lt;/a&gt;,
-which collects statistics from the battery, but it was completely
-broken.  I sent a few suggestions to the maintainer, but decided to
-write my own collector as a shell script while I waited for feedback
-from him.  Via
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ifweassume.com/2013/08/the-de-evolution-of-my-laptop-battery.html&quot;&gt;a
-blog post about the battery development on a MacBook Air&lt;/a&gt; I also
-discovered
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/jradavenport/batlog.git&quot;&gt;batlog&lt;/a&gt;, not
-available in Debian.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I started my collector 2013-07-15, and it has been collecting
-battery stats ever since. Now my
-/var/log/hjemmenett-battery-status.log file contain around 115,000
-measurements, from the time the battery was working great until now,
-when it is unable to charge above 7% of original capacity.  My
-collector shell script is quite simple and look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-#!/bin/sh
-# Inspired by
-# http://www.ifweassume.com/2013/08/the-de-evolution-of-my-laptop-battery.html
-# See also
-# http://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2013/01/02/debian-how-to-monitor-battery-capacity/
-logfile=/var/log/hjemmenett-battery-status.log
-
-files=&quot;manufacturer model_name technology serial_number \
-    energy_full energy_full_design energy_now cycle_count status&quot;
-
-if [ ! -e &quot;$logfile&quot; ] ; then
-    (
-       printf &quot;timestamp,&quot;
-       for f in $files; do
-           printf &quot;%s,&quot; $f
-       done
-       echo
-    ) &gt; &quot;$logfile&quot;
-fi
-
-log_battery() {
-    # Print complete message in one echo call, to avoid race condition
-    # when several log processes run in parallel.
-    msg=$(printf &quot;%s,&quot; $(date +%s); \
-       for f in $files; do \
-           printf &quot;%s,&quot; $(cat $f); \
-       done)
-    echo &quot;$msg&quot;
-}
-
-cd /sys/class/power_supply
-
-for bat in BAT*; do
-    (cd $bat &amp;&amp; log_battery &gt;&gt; &quot;$logfile&quot;)
-done
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The script is called when the power management system detect a
-change in the power status (power plug in or out), and when going into
-and out of hibernation and suspend.  In addition, it collect a value
-every 10 minutes.  This make it possible for me know when the battery
-is discharging, charging and how the maximum charge change over time.
-The code for the Debian package
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/battery-status&quot;&gt;is now
-available on github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The collected log file look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-timestamp,manufacturer,model_name,technology,serial_number,energy_full,energy_full_design,energy_now,cycle_count,status,
-1376591133,LGC,45N1025,Li-ion,974,62800000,62160000,39050000,0,Discharging,
-[...]
-1443090528,LGC,45N1025,Li-ion,974,4900000,62160000,4900000,0,Full,
-1443090601,LGC,45N1025,Li-ion,974,4900000,62160000,4900000,0,Full,
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I wrote a small script to create a graph of the charge development
-over time.  This graph depicted above show the slow death of my laptop
-battery.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;But why is this happening?  Why are my laptop batteries always
-dying in a year or two, while the batteries of space probes and
-satellites keep working year after year.  If we are to believe
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries&quot;&gt;Battery
-University&lt;/a&gt;, the cause is me charging the battery whenever I have a
-chance, and the fix is to not charge the Lithium-ion batteries to 100%
-all the time, but to stay below 90% of full charge most of the time.
-I&#39;ve been told that the Tesla electric cars
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://my.teslamotors.com/de_CH/forum/forums/battery-charge-limit&quot;&gt;limit
-the charge of their batteries to 80%&lt;/a&gt;, with the option to charge to
-100% when preparing for a longer trip (not that I would want a car
-like Tesla where rights to privacy is abandoned, but that is another
-story), which I guess is the option we should have for laptops on
-Linux too.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Is there a good and generic way with Linux to tell the battery to
-stop charging at 80%, unless requested to charge to 100% once in
-preparation for a longer trip?  I found
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://askubuntu.com/questions/34452/how-can-i-limit-battery-charging-to-80-capacity&quot;&gt;one
-recipe on askubuntu for Ubuntu to limit charging on Thinkpad to
-80%&lt;/a&gt;, but could not get it to work (kernel module refused to
-load).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I wonder why the battery capacity was reported to be more than 100%
-at the start.  I also wonder why the &quot;full capacity&quot; increases some
-times, and if it is possible to repeat the process to get the battery
-back to design capacity.  And I wonder if the discharge and charge
-speed change over time, or if this stay the same.  I did not yet try
-to write a tool to calculate the derivative values of the battery
-level, but suspect some interesting insights might be learned from
-those.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Update 2015-09-24: I got a tip to install the packages
-acpi-call-dkms and tlp (unfortunately missing in Debian stable)
-packages instead of the tp-smapi-dkms package I had tried to use
-initially, and use &#39;tlp setcharge 40 80&#39; to change when charging start
-and stop.  I&#39;ve done so now, but expect my existing battery is toast
-and need to be replaced.  The proposal is unfortunately Thinkpad
-specific.&lt;/p&gt;
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