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Revised jury instructions: Do not use the Internet
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| Type the name âJennifer Strangeâ into your favorite search engine
| and see how many hits come up.
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| Or try the terms âHold Your Wee for a Wiiâ or âwater
| intoxicationâ and look at the tallies. You get tens of thousands
| of results.
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http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/sep/13/revised-jury-instructions-do-not-use-internet/?metro
Slipping through the net - how EU countries evade new budget transparency rules
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| European Union countries are failing in the promise to make the
| common fisheries policy more transparent, claims a new report
| from FishSubsidy.org. With the policy undergoing a fundamental
| review, the reportââSlipping through the net: How EU countries
| evade new budget transparency rulesâ, by investigative journalist
| Brigitte Alfterâprovides a timely overview of access to
| information about EU fish subsidies and illustrates how weakness
| in the legal framework for transparency and bureaucratic
| obfuscation by member states are making it harder for EU citizens
| to know how their money is being spent.
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http://www.followthemoney.eu/through-the-net/
PM welcomes Sir Tim Berners-Lee to Downing Street
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| The Prime Minister welcomed the creator of the World Wide Web,
| Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and Professor of Artificial Intelligence at
| the University of Southampton, Nigel Shadbolt, to Downing Street
| this morning.
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http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20595
Publishing Open Government Data
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-gov-data-20090908/
Recent:
Ideas sought for open government
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| A DIY guide to becoming an MP and a database of the connections between the
| powerful could soon be created online.
|
| The two ideas are among those being considered by MySociety - a charitable
| group that helps construct civic tools.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8194859.stm
Transparency against malpractic
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| As a result of my new enthusiasm to 'get out more' I found myself listening
| to a detailed and balanced 'non-advocacy' presentation from a respected OSS
| Watch staffer.
|
| He explained patiently how open source licencing worked and how it differed
| from proprietary licences. But what he did say whilst looking for an everyday
| resonance to make his points accessible to a non-geek audience, and which
| really sharpened every-one's attention, was that proprietary software was
| built on secret code whereas open source software had transparent code.
|
| Proprietary software IS composed of secret code. You can't read it, you don't
| know what it does (other than what you can see it do), you don't know how it
| does it and you can't change it.
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http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/secret-code-and-the-damage-it-does-to-our-society.html
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