Stranger Than Fiction, Cory Doctorow Edition

Tim Wu—a Future Tense fellow at New America, the author of The Master Switch, and a professor at Columbia Law School—talks to a contemporary science fiction writer about whether we’re living in the future.

This week, Tim speaks with his childhood friend Cory Doctorow, who is digital rights activist, the co-editor of BoingBoing, and the author of several science fiction novels, including Little Brother and Homeland. Cory discusses why he writes for young adults, the state of copyright law, and more.

Cory Doctorow joins Tim Wu for the Slate podcast Stranger Than Fiction. - Slate Magazine

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Links from 2013-05-17

Speeding up your Android emulator

There are three ways to speed up the emulator: 1) Using emulator snapshots for fast startup 2) Using x86 hardware acceleration on Android images ver. 10 and 15+ (2.3.3 and 4.0.2+) 3) Using GPU OpenGL acceleration for interface rendering on images ver 14+ (Android 4.x)

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Space Oddity

David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station:

 

And, as it fits, once more my all time favourite video from the ISS: Cady Coleman gives a tour of the International Space Station and an exclusive performance of the song Get Yourself Paroled (Honey I Miss You), written by Brendan McKinney & Joel Racheff and played with her band Bandella (on laptop).

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Forschungsinstitut für Textilchemie und Textilphysik

Aus „NZZFormat: Kunstfasern - leuchten, leiten, filtern”:

Eine weitere Forschung gilt Batterien für Elektroautos. Lassen sich nicht auch die Elektroden für Autobatterien sticken?
 
Die Firma Tegra in Hohenems fertigt sie auf ihrer traditionellen Stickmaschine. Das Polyestervlies wird mit Kupfer- oder Stahlfäden bestickt. Sie werden den Strom leiten können.
 
Die Grösse und Form der gestickten Elektroden kann passgenau auf die bestehenden Batterien der Hersteller abgestimmt werden. Sie werden nur die Kupferplatten ersetzen.
 
Mehrere Elektroden werden übereinandergelegt, bis die gewünschte Dicke erreicht ist.
 
Chemieprofessor Thomas Bechtold ist einer der Väter dieser Idee. Seit mehreren Jahren hat er zusammen mit der Vorarlberger Textilindustrie und österreichischen Fördergeldern daran gearbeitet.

 

„Europa hat den Textilbereich nach der Krise neu erfunden, Vorarlberg nimmt die technologische Spitze ein. Das Know-how der Vorarlberger Betriebe in Kombination mit unserem wissenschaftlichen Know-how stellt eine große Stärke des Standorts dar”, so Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Bechtold, Leiter des Instituts für Textilchemie und -physik.

Aktuelle Projekte:
Stromlose Metallabscheidung auf Textilien
Bei der stromlosen Abscheidung von Metallfilmen werden auf nichtleitenden Materialien elektrisch leitfähige Schichten erzeugt. Durch diese Technik lassen sich leitende Fäden und Gewebe erzeugen.

Hocheffiziente Stromkollektoren für E-Mobilität durch technische Stickerei
Die technische Stickerei bietet mit ihrer strukturellen Flexibilität die Möglichckeit dreidimensionale Stromkollektoren herzustellen, die in Batterien, Akkumulatoren und Brennstoffzellen ihren Einsatz finden.

Werkstoffverbunde mit 3D-Stickerei
Bewehrungen aus technischen Fasern erlauben die Herstellung von Betonfertigelementen mit geringem Gewicht bei zugleich hoher Stabilität. Mit herkömmlichen Fertigungs- techniken sind Bewehrungen für gekrümmte Formen nur schwer realisierbar.

Textiles for ageing Society
The purpose is to make a new alliances and collaborations between material research and industrial entrepreneurs including care-givers and technology transfer organizations, stimulate the creation of new ideas/materials, constituting teams of innovators, and boosting competitiveness and accelerate success.

Research Institute for Textile Chemistry and Textile Physics

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Post Scriptum: Why We Can't Solve Big Problems

Why We Can’t Solve Big Problems”, the MIT Technology Review.

Quotes:

President John F. Kennedy had asked the United States Congress to “commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” […] Kennedy’s goal was also absurdly ambitious. A few weeks before his speech, NASA had strapped an astronaut into a tiny capsule atop a converted military rocket and shot him into space on a ballistic trajectory, as if he were a circus clown; but no American had orbited the planet. The agency didn’t really know if what the president asked could be done in the time he allowed, but it accepted the call.

In all, NASA spent $24 billion, or about $180 billion in today’s dollars, on Apollo; at its peak in the mid-1960s, the agency enjoyed more than 4 percent of the federal budget. The program employed around 400,000 people and demanded the collaboration of about 20,000 companies, universities, and government agencies.

The agency’s solutions were often inelegant. To escape from orbit, NASA constructed 13 giant, single–use multistage rockets, capable of lifting 50 tons of payload and generating 7.6 million pounds of thrust. Only an ungainly modular spacecraft could be flown by the deadline

“But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? . . . Why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? . . . We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills . . .”
 
Apollo was not seen only as a victory for one of two antagonistic ideologies. Rather, the strongest emotion at the time of the moon landings was of wonder at the transcendent power of technology.
 
To contemporaries, the Apollo program occurred in the context of a long series of technological triumphs. The first half of the century produced the assembly line and the airplane, penicillin and a vaccine for tuberculosis; in the middle years of the century, polio was on its way to being eradicated; and by 1979 smallpox would be eliminated.
 
Since Apollo 17’s flight in 1972, no humans have been back to the moon, or gone anywhere beyond low Earth orbit. No one has traveled faster than the crew of Apollo 10. (Since the last flight of the supersonic Concorde in 2003, civilian travel has become slower.) Blithe optimism about technology’s powers has evaporated, too, as big problems that people had imagined technology would solve, such as hunger, poverty, malaria, climate change, cancer, and the diseases of old age, have come to seem intractably hard.
 
That something happened to humanity’s capacity to solve big problems is a commonplace. Recently, however, the complaint has developed a new stridency among Silicon Valley’s investors and entrepreneurs, although it is usually expressed a little differently: people say there is a paucity of real innovations. Instead, they worry, technologists have diverted us and enriched themselves with trivial toys.
 
The motto of Founders Fund, a venture capital firm started by Peter Thiel, a cofounder of PayPal, is “We wanted flying cars—instead we got 140 characters.”
 
Thiel is caustic: last year he told the New Yorker that he didn’t consider the iPhone a technological breakthrough. “Compare [it] with the Apollo program,” he said.The Internet is “a net plus—but not a big one.”
 
Max Levchin, another cofounder of PayPal, says, “I feel like we should be aiming higher. The founders of a number of startups I encounter have no real intent of getting anywhere huge … There’s an awful lot of effort being expended that is just never going to result in meaningful, disruptive innovation.”
 
But what seemed futuristic at the time of Apollo 11 “remains futuristic, in part because these technologies never received the sustained funding lavished on the electronics industries.
 
It’s not true that we can’t solve big problems through technology; we can. We must. But all these elements must be present: political leaders and the public must care to solve a problem, our institutions must support its solution, it must really be a technological problem, and we must understand it.
 
We don’t lack for challenges. A billion people want electricity, millions are without clean water, the climate is changing, manufacturing is inefficient, traffic snarls cities, education is a luxury, and dementia or cancer will strike almost all of us if we live long enough. In this special package of stories, we examine these problems and introduce you to the indefatigable technologists who refuse to give up trying to solve them.

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Neal Stephenson: Innovation Starvation

Please read the whole text. Interesting quotes:

Some of my earliest memories are of sitting on a braided rug before a hulking black-and-white television, watching the early Gemini missions. This summer, at the age of 51—not even old—I watched on a flatscreen as the last Space Shuttle lifted off the pad. I have followed the dwindling of the space program with sadness, even bitterness.

My parents and grandparents witnessed the creation of the airplane, the automobile, nuclear energy, and the computer to name only a few.

I lamented the decline of the manned space program, then pivoted to energy, indicating that the real issue isn’t about rockets. It’s our far broader inability as a society to execute on the big stuff.

A good SF universe has a coherence and internal logic that makes sense to scientists and engineers. Examples include Isaac Asimov’s robots, Robert Heinlein’s rocket ships, and William Gibson’s cyberspace. As Jim Karkanias of Microsoft Research puts it, such icons serve as hieroglyphs—simple, recognizable symbols on whose significance everyone agrees.

Communication among them can become a mare’s nest of email threads and Powerpoints. The fondness that many such people have for SF reflects, in part, the usefulness of an over-arching narrative that supplies them and their colleagues with a shared vision.

the techno-optimism of the Golden Age of SF has given way to fiction written in a generally darker, more skeptical and ambiguous tone.

The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with slide rules. It’s the only way for the human race to escape from its current predicaments. Too bad we’ve forgotten how to do it.

At a modest marginal cost, the space shuttle’s external tanks [ETs] could have been kept in orbit indefinitely. […] Not destroying them would have roughly tripled the total mass launched into orbit by the Shuttle. ETs could have been connected to build units that would have humbled today’s International Space Station.

A grizzled NASA veteran once told me that the Apollo moon landings were communism’s greatest achievement.

Today’s belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of our age. […] Any strategy that involves crossing a valley—accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance—will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.

 

Tim Wu talks with Neal Stephenson, a science fiction writer and author of such books as Anathem and Snow Crash, as part of the „Stranger Than Fiction” series:

If you take someone from 1967 and send them forward to 2012, they wouldn’t really much that was different. And in some ways they would see things missing. People still drive around in cars. […] They’re still flying around in the same 747s and 737s we got now. SSTs [Super Sonic Transport] don’t exist anymore. We’ve lost the ablility to launch human beings into space, let alone send them to the moon and bring them back.

as if we have hit the wall in terms of introducing new technologies and I am curious as to why that happened.

When that [the mobile electronics market] opened up, it just created a big sucking sound – to paraphrase Ross Perot – that pulled in every single technically minded inventive geek for the next generation or so. The people who, in a previous generation, would have been designing airplanes or so ended up working on apps.

 

Solve for X: Neal Stephenson on getting big stuff done:

In the first two thirds of the 20th century we went from not believing that heavier then air flight is possible to walking on the moon.

Human spacetravel is a lost art.

Diseases that we could easily treat with antibiotics have become intractable and are making a comeback.

And even diseases that could easily be snuffed out by vaccines are coming back, simply because parents aren’t getting their kids vaccinated because they don’t believe in science anymore.

To be fair, there is a partial explanation of this in the rise of the personal computer and the Internet which has siphoned of a huge fraction of inventive energies to work on forms of progress that aren’t as obvious as space rockets and nuclear bombs.
 
I saw the best minds of my generation writing spam filters.

Deep Water Horizon and Fukushima kind of converted me to the view that the threat now has not become ‘too much innovation’ but ‘not enough innovation’.
 
The reactors that melted down in Fukushima were build in the early 1970ties, based on designs from the 1960ties. So if you look under the hood of a 1960ties automobile – if you can even find one that is still running – and you compare it to what you can see under the hood of a modern vehicle, it has to send a little chill down your spine to think that nuclear reactors built in and designed in that era are still hot today.

It’s my thesis that a small number of people have to shoulder greater risks in order to create changes eventually that reduce risk for civilization as a whole. And when they stop fulfilling that responsibility, a decline sets in that may require some concious effort to reverse.

Here’s an airplane. Argue with that. I just saved your kids life with penicillin. Argue with that. Here’s a mushroom cloud. Polio vaccine. A guy walking around on the moon. Argue with those.
 
But when those inarguable triumphs stop coming, the anti-science people come back and begin making inroads to a degree educated people can’t even comprehend. For example by denying that the moon landing has ever happened.
 
So it’s entirely plausible that a 100 years from now, it may be believed by 99 percent of all the people in the world, that the moon landing were a hoax. And the idea, that they actually happened may have the status of a totally marginalized conspiracy theory. [.. ] And there are people who are actively working on making that happen.

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Ubuntu 12.04 won't show WWAN/UMTS Stick

Ubuntu 12.04 didn’t show my A1 Huawei UMTS stick in the Network-Manager, thus prohibiting me to connect to the Internet. I finally had the time to research this.

The fix is easy:

sudo apt-get install modemmanager
sudo service network-manager restart

Now everything works.

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Solaris Tech Day Vienna

From the invitation:

We invite customers, partners, SystemEngineers, DBAs, ApplicationEngineers, and anyone else interested in Solaris technologies to join us on the 23rd May, in Vienna in the Urania to review past, present and future Solaris technologies, discuss real-world customer usecases, learn about the ways Solaris features are utilized in different scenarios.
 
What do you need to know?
  1. The event is on May 23, in Vienna, in the Urania.
  2. The presentations will be held in english, for we have invited and expect an international audience
  3. There will be a registration link put up (here too!) very soon, this blogpost is to inform you so that you can save the date into your calendar (do it now!)
  4. To participate in the technical Hands-on-Labs bring along your laptop with a 64-bit OS and an up to date VirtualBox installation (can be done withing minutes).
  5. We are looking forward to seeing you!

 
Here’s the preliminary agenda to raise your interest:
 
kvegh@s11u2:~$ cat projects/Solaris_Day/agenda.txt
12:45: Registration
13:15: Opening and Welcome 
13:30: Oracle Solaris - Features, Oracle on Oracle Optimizations, and Futures - Joost Pronk, Solaris Product Manager
14:10: What's new in Solaris 11.1? - Jörg Möllenkamp, Senior Account Architect 
14:50: CoffeeBreak
15:10: Partner Session I: Arrow ECS: Empowering the Solaris Community
15:30: Partner Session II: cons4you: Real World Solaris Experiences: Advanced Technologies - Rudolf Rotheneder, CEO cons4you
16:20: Solaris Cluster: High Availability options integrating with Solaris Virtualization - Karoly Vegh Principal Systems Consultant
17:00: Parallell Tracks:
        - Hands-on-Lab: Zones
        - Hands-on-Lab: ZFS
        - Demo: LDoms
        - Networking, informal information exchange
kvegh@s11u2:~$

Solaris Technical Day on the 23rd May in Vienna (Oracle Systems Blog Austria)

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Bruce Sterling on Fantasy prototypes and real disruption

In the closing keynote of NEXT Berlin 2013, acclaimed science-fiction author and journalist Bruce Sterling tackled a variety of topics like design fiction, start-up culture, and the mass adoption of disruptive technology. He sees science fiction as a form of design – design fiction that is part of the

Quotes:
Those who live by disruption die by disruption.
 
You will never see a design fiction which is about getting married, buying a house, having kids and living in a stable environment with civil rights.
 
In the startup world, you move fast and work hard to make other people rich. Other people, not you! … So they can buy national governments, shout governments down, destroy the middle class and destroy the nation state. That’s been going on a long time.
 
They will say, that the 20-teens were all about that. There was a tacit allegiance between the hackerspace-favelas of the startups and offshore capital and tax avoidance money laundries. And they were building a global, networked society. And that is coming next!   And as long as you are making rich guys richer, you are not disrupting the austerity. You are one one of its top facilitators. What’s the answer to this problem? It’s simple. Keep more money for yourself.
 
Are the your allies? No, they are not. They kicked your ass in the 1990ties. They destroyed you in the dot-com boom. They wrecked your dreams, the took everything you build. You have never avenged yourself for that.
 
It was not your technology that caused the dot-com crash, it was them. And in 2008 they did the same thing again and now they are doing it again.

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Grund für Tariferhöhung der Wiener Linien geklärt

Die Wiener Linien heben mit 1. Juli die Tarife an: Die Einzelfahrscheine werden in Zukunft 2,10 Euro kosten. Das Monatsticket wird mit 47 Euro, die Wochenkarte mit 15,80 Euro geringfügig angepasst.

Falls Ihr Euch fragt, wofür die Wiener Linien das Geld brauchen, so denkt nicht an das veraltete Schienennetz, Taktverkürzungen oder andere sinnvolle Infrastrukturverbesserungen, sondern an folgende Meldung im Online-Standard vom Jänner:

Die Wiener Öffi-Betreiber wollen nun bis Jahresende die Videoüberwachung in den Stationen, aber auch in den U-Bahnen und Bims weiter ausbauen und nehmen dafür 1,2 Millionen Euro in die Hand.

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Agentur des Kunstprojekts „KunstHatRecht” für PR-Award nominiert

Die „The Skills Group GmbH” wurde für einen „Sabre Award” (the world’s largest awards competition for the public relations industry) – laut Stefan Bachleitner, Managing Partner der Skills Group GmbH – den „PR-Oskar” nominiert.

Nominiert wurde die PR-Agentur in der Kategorie „ISSUES MANAGEMENT” für die „Aktion von Kunstschaffenden in Österreich” (Eigendefinition) namens „Kunst hat Recht”:

Art Has Rights Initiative „Art Has Rights”/”Kunst hat Recht”, 2,700 Austrian Artists, Collecting Societies with The Skills Group

Muss man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Eine PR-Agentur wird für eine „Aktion von Kunstschaffenden” für einen PR-Award nominiert.

Ich gehe davon aus, dass das Preisgeld für notleidende KünstlerInnen gespendet wird, falls es einen Preis für die PR-Agentur gibt.

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„Was, SSH kann auch das?” bei den Linuxwochen Wien 2013

Aus mir unerfindlichen Gründen ;) durfte ich meinen Talk „Was, SSH kann auch das? – Produktivitäts- und Sicherheitstipps für SSH” auch im Rahmen der Linuxwochen Wien 2013 vortragen.

Aus der Einreich-Beschreibung:

Tipps zum effizienteren Umgang mit und Empfehlungen zum sicheren Betrieb von ssh(d). Sichere Kommandozeile auch von unterwegs mit Mosh. SSH Zwei-Faktor-Authentifizierung mit “Google Authenticator”. SSH (Secure Shell) ist für viele ein unersetzliches Werkzeug zur Verwaltung von Servern oder ganzen Serverclustern. Oft wird aber nur ein kleines Subset der Möglichkeiten von SSH genutzt. Daher zeige ich in diesem Vortrag Tipps zum effizienteren Umgang mit ssh(d) und Empfehlungen zum sicheren Betrieb von ssh(d). Darüber hinaus zeige ich, wie man mit Mosh (mobile shell) auch über schlechte, roamende Verbindungen (getestet auf der Zugfahrt nach Graz) eine sichere Kommandozeilen-Session benutzen kann. Zum Abschluss des Vortrages erweitern wir den SSH-Server dann soweit, dass man den “Google Authenticator” zur Anmeldung verwenden kann. Damit kann man SSH mit einer Zwei-Faktor-Authentifizierung nutzen, wenn man Zertifikate nicht einsetzen kann oder will. Der Vortrag richtet sich an Personen, die SSH zumindest schon einmal genutzt haben. ;)

Im Gegensatz zu Graz hab ich den Talk ein bissl umgebaut und umsortiert. Die Slides gibts wie immer auch auf Slideshare:

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Using a LONGSHINE LCS-WA5-45 as a WiFi-Client

TL;DR: note to self - how to use a cheap access point to connect very old hardware to the LAN.

In order to add my trusty old Lexmark E312e to the network, I am using an used AXIS 5600+. As I do not want to lay network cabeling across the flat, I am also pressing an old Longshine LCS-WA5-45 into service to act as a WiFi client, connecting the Axis box to the Wifi.

Setting up the WA5-45 is quite simple:
  1. Set the switch on the back of the LCS-WA5-45 (AP) to „client” and press the „reset” button for aprox. 10 seconds to reset the AP to factory settings
  2. Set your computer to a static IP-address of, for example, 192.168.1.3, connect it to the AP and open 192.168.1.1 in the browser, login with „admin/admin”
  3. Switch to „System Managment / LAN-Interfaces-Setup” and enter a free IP of your main LAN (e.g. 192.168.123.42). Keep DHCP on disabled. Apply changes.
  4. As the AP now listens on the new IP, we have to switch our computer to the new IP-Range (e.g. 192.168.123.242) and open the administrative interface of the AP at the new address in the browser (192.168.123.42).
  5. Navigate to „Security” inthe AP browser interface, set the security parameters (hopefully WPA2 with AES?) and enter your WiFi password. Apply and wait until the AP rebooted
  6. Now navigate to „Basic-Settings” and press the „Show Site-Survey” button. Refresh until your WiFi SSID is displayed. Select it and press „Connect” (I had to do this several times). Your SSID should now show up in the „Basic-Settingss. Apply, reboot and connect the AP to the Axis box.
  7. All done. :)

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Reading List Against Metathesiophobia

As Bruce Sterling said, „Just go ahead, Larry and Sergey. You don’t scare me. I read … ”:

  • The Verge – founded in 2011 in partnership with Vox Media, covers the intersection of technology, science, art, and culture. Its mission is to offer in-depth reporting and long-form feature stories, breaking news coverage, product information, and community content in a unified and cohesive manner.
  • Techcrunch – a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.
  • Rhizome – the Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of digital art containing over 2,500 art works. Encompassing a vast range of projects from artists all over the world, the ArtBase provides an online home for works that employ materials such as software, code, websites, moving images, games and browsers towards aesthetic and critical ends. The mission of the ArtBase is to provide free, open, and permanent access to a living and historic collection of seminal new media art objects.
  • The Creators Project – a global celebration of art and technology. Founded by a revolutionary partnership between Intel and VICE, The Creators Project celebrates visionary artists across multiple disciplines who are using technology in innovative ways to push the boundaries of creative expression. We seek to inspire new and emerging artists by showcasing the infinite possibilities presented by the advancement of modern technology. The Creators Project is proud to have showcased more than 500 artists from all around the world.
  • Hyperallergic – a forum for serious, playful and radical thinking about art in the world today. It combines the best of art blog and magazine culture by focusing on publishing quality and engaging writing and images from informed and provocative perspectives.

And what do you read to fight Metathesiophobia?

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The Future of General Computing

Bruce Sterlings take:

Where is the abandoned part?
 
The personal desktop computer. Lots of pads, and slates, and screens, and projectors. Where are the computers? Where’s the stone box?
 
I’m a futurist. One of the problems of being a futurist is that you learn that things are temporary. Stone boxes are temporary. Plastic boxes, very temporary. I am temporary.
 
I’m a mortal human being. It’s not weird or amazing to have a human life span. It’s ubiquitous. It’s universal. Death. It’s just somewhat taboo to dwell on the subject in public.
 
My parents didn’t live particularly long. I used to figure I should be dropping dead around now. Dropping dead: a massive heart attack at the podium in South By. That would be awesome. Imagine how that would look on Wikipedia.
 
So it’s kinda disturbing to me to realize that computers are dying, not me. Computers are dying off, and I am actually in pretty good shape.
 
I’m not Ray Kurzweil, I’m not gonna outlive the Milky Way Galaxy personally. But I might well be hanging around for some unconscionable length of time, like maybe age ninety. That would make SXSW 57, and I would still be tottering up here, having outlived the personal computer — this amazing device which might appear, and even disappear, during my own lifetime.
 
And it really seems to be going. I don’t think I heard any speaker at any panel here ever use the term “PC.” Where are they? It’s just vanished like the word “Computer” in the name of “Apple Computer.”
 
Why does nobody talk about them? Because nobody wants them, that’s why. Imagine somebody brings you a personal desktop computer here at South By, they’re like bringing it in on a trolley.
 
“Look, this device is personal. It computes and it’s totally personal, just for you, and you alone. It doesn’t talk to the internet. No sociality. You can’t share any of the content with anybody. Because it’s just for you, it’s private. It’s yours. You can compute with it. Nobody will know! You can process text, and draw stuff, and do your accounts. It’s got a spreadsheet. No modem, no broadband, no Cloud, no Facebook, Google, Amazon, no wireless. This is a dream machine. Because it’s personal and it computes. And it sits on the desk. You personally compute with it. You can even write your own software for it. It faithfully executes all your commands.”
 
So — if somebody tried to give you this device, this one I just made the pitch for, a genuinely Personal Computer, it’s just for you — Would you take it?
 
Even for free?
 
Would you even bend over and pick it up?
 
Isn’t it basically the cliff house in Walnut Canyon? Isn’t it the stone box?
 
“Look, I have my own little stone box here in this canyon! I can grow my own beans and corn. I harvest some prickly pear. I’m super advanced here.”
 
I really think I’m going to outlive the personal computer. And why not? I outlived the fax machine. I did. I was alive when people thought it was amazing to have a fax machine. Now I’m alive, and people think it’s amazing to still have a fax machine.
 
Why not the personal computer? Why shouldn’t it vanish like the cliff people vanished? Why shouldn’t it vanish like Steve Jobs vanished?
 
It’s not that we return to the status quo ante: don’t get me wrong. It’s not that once we had a nomad life, then we live in high-tech stone dwellings, and we return to chase the bison like we did before.
 
No: we return into a different kind of nomad life. A kind of Alan Kay world, where computation has vanished into the walls and ceiling, as he said many, many years ago.
 
Then we look back in nostalgia at the Personal Computer world. It’s not that we were forced out of our stone boxes in the canyon. We weren’t driven away by force. We just mysteriously left. It was like the waning of the moon.
 
They were too limiting, somehow. They computed, but they just didn’t do enough for us. They seemed like a fantastic way forward, but somehow they were actually getting in the way of our experience.
 
All these machines that tore us away from lived experience, and made us stare into the square screens or hunch over the keyboards, covered with their arcane, petroglyph symbols. Control Dingbat That, backslash R M this. We never really understood that. Not really.

Computers were really, truly disruptive. Mobile devices are so radically disruptive that they even disrupted computers. They’re a bigger deal then the dead bookstores. We’ve got guys who own cell phones in this world who can’t even read.
 
And I’m very intimate with this spectacle. I’m very keen on all its little ins and outs.
 
The thing that bugs me about your attitude toward it is that you don’t recognize its tragic dimension.
 
This is something that literature has always been very keen on, that technology never gets around to acknowledging. The cold wind moaning through the empty stone box.
 
When are you gonna own up to it? Where are the Dell PC’s? This is Austin, Texas. Michael Dell is the biggest tech mogul in central Texas. Why is he not here? Why is he not at least not selling his wares?
 
Where are the dedicated gaming consoles you used to love? Do you remember how important those were? I could spend all day here just reciting the names of the casualities in your line of work.
 
It’s always the electronic frontier. Nobody ever goes back to look at the electronic forests that were cut down with chainsaws and tossed into the rivers.


 

Now compare, mix, and enhance this with Cory Doctorow:

Cory Doctorow: Lockdown – The coming war on general-purpose computing

Regardless of whether you think these are real problems or hysterical fears, they are, nevertheless, the political currency of lobbies and interest groups far more influential than Hollywood and big content. Every one of them will arrive at the same place: “Can’t you just make us a general-purpose computer that runs all the programs, except the ones that scare and anger us? Can’t you just make us an Internet that transmits any message over any protocol between any two points, unless it upsets us?”
 
There will be programs that run on general-purpose computers, and peripherals, that will freak even me out. So I can believe that people who advocate for limiting general-purpose computers will find a receptive audience. But just as we saw with the copyright wars, banning certain instructions, protocols or messages will be wholly ineffective as a means of prevention and remedy. As we saw in the copyright wars, all attempts at controlling PCs will converge on rootkits, and all attempts at controlling the Internet will converge on surveillance and censorship. This stuff matters because we’ve spent the last decade sending our best players out to fight what we thought was the final boss at the end of the game, but it turns out it’s just been an end-level guardian. The stakes are only going to get higher.
 
We haven’t lost yet, but we have to win the copyright war first if we want to keep the Internet and the PC free and open. Freedom in the future will require us to have the capacity to monitor our devices and set meaningful policies for them; to examine and terminate the software processes that runs on them; and to maintain them as honest servants to our will, not as traitors and spies working for criminals, thugs, and control freaks.

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Bruce Sterling Closing Remarks - SXSW Interactive 2013

Yes, I am a Bruce Sterling fanboy. Give him about 25-30 minutes to warm up ;)

Text of SXSW2013 closing remarks by Bruce Sterling

Our democracy has been hacked. American democracy has never been perfect, but more often than not, the will of the people did drive policy. Congress today is utterly incapable of passing any reform of any significance until they get permission from special interests.

Then I look over the SXSW crowd. I’ve seen a lot of them. You look pretty good, for a SXSW crowd. More foreigners around, Koreans, Germans, Britons.
Even a neighborhood from London: Hackney. I was super-impressed by that: Hackney. Hackney! That is unheard-of global ambition by a district of a town. It’s like South Austin had it’s own presence at the London Olympics.
I’m gonna take Hackney a lot more seriously from now on. Hackney is a force to be reckoned with. I’ll probably overlook their surveillance cameras, and their miserable immigration and visa policies.

Whatever happens to musicians happens to everybody. Including you.
People like to say that musicians reacted badly to the digital revolution. They put a foot wrong. What really happened is that the digital revolution reduces everybody to the state of musicians. Everybody — not just us bohemian creatives, but the military, political parties, the anchor stores in retail malls, academics subjected to massive open online courses.
It’s the same thing over and over. Basically, the only ones making money are the ones that have big, legal stone castles surrounded with all kinds of regulatory thorns. Meaning: the sickness industry, the bank gangsters, and the military contractors. Gothic High-Tech.
If more computation, and more networking, was going to make the world prosperous, we’d be living in a prosperous world. And we’re not. Obviously we’re living in a Depression.

Google already disrupted newspapers, basically destroyed ‘em single-handed. That wasn’t okay. What happened when Android disrupted Nokia, that wasn’t particularly okay.
But I’m okay with disruption. I’ve seen a lot of it, I know how it works. I’ve participated in it. I’ve personally known people who’ve benefited by it. I’ve known people who’ve suffered by it.
I have seen disruption in music, literature, the arts, entertainment publishing, the fourth estate, the military, political parties, manufacturing — pretty much everywhere except finance, health, the law, and the prison/military industry. Which is why they’ve got all the money now and the rest of us are pretty much reduced to disrupted global peons.
Computers were really, truly disruptive. Mobile devices are so radically disruptive that they even disrupted computers. They’re a bigger deal then the dead bookstores. We’ve got guys who own cell phones in this world who can’t even read.

It’s always the electronic frontier. Nobody ever goes back to look at the electronic forests that were cut down with chainsaws and tossed into the rivers.

And then there’s this empty pretense that these innovations make the world “better.” This is a dangerous word. Like: “If we’re not making the world better, then why are we doing this at all?”
Now, I don’t want to claim that this attitude is hypocritical. Because when you say a thing like that at South By: “Oh, we’re here to make the world better” — you haven’t even reached the level of hypocrisy. You’re stuck at the level of childish naivete.
The world has a tragic dimension. This world does not always get better. The world has deserts. Deserts aren’t better. People don’t always get better.

Since the financial panic of 2008, things have gotten worse across the board. The Austerity is a complete policy failure. It’s even worse then the Panic. We’re not surrounded by betterness in 2013. By practically every measure, nature is worse, culture is worse, governance is worse. The infrastructure is in visible decline. Business is worse. People are living in cardboard in Silicon Valley.

However, just because it’s interesting doesn’t mean it’s good.

the first step, really the proper step, is to accept that our hands are not clean. We don’t just play and experiment: we kill.
When you disrupt the stone box, the stone box goes empty. It’s not merely irritated or disturbed, it’s dead. It’s dead media. It’s dead, it has been killed, and to be a phoenix you have to admit your complicity in the barbecue fire.
It’s your fire, it’s not somebody else’s. Yes, we killed the past. We didn’t pull the trigger on it directly, but it died for our benefit, it died through things we did.
Own up to that. Own up to that: yes, we burned it up. No one is historically innocent. Yes, we are carnivores at this barbecue. Yes, it died, we roasted it, we ate it. And the saving grace here is we eat what we kill.
Go on, eat it. No, don’t pretend to be the child bride in white lace who thinks that babies are found under the cabbages. You’re not that young, you’re twenty-six years old. You ought to be slaughtering the hog of the twentieth century, roasting it over a bonfire. Live up to it, come on.

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„Was, SSH kann auch das?” bei den Grazer Linuxtagen 2013

Die Veranstalter der Grazer Linuxtage 2013 war so freundlich, meinen Talk „Was, SSH kann auch das? – Produktivitäts- und Sicherheitstipps für SSH” in ihr Programm aufzunehmen.

Aus der Einreich-Beschreibung:
Tipps zum effizienteren Umgang mit und Empfehlungen zum sicheren Betrieb von ssh(d). Sichere Kommandozeile auch von unterwegs mit Mosh. SSH Zwei-Faktor-Authentifizierung mit “Google Authenticator”.
 
SSH (Secure Shell) ist für viele ein unersetzliches Werkzeug zur Verwaltung von Servern oder ganzen Serverclustern. Oft wird aber nur ein kleines Subset der Möglichkeiten von SSH genutzt. Daher zeige ich in diesem Vortrag Tipps zum effizienteren Umgang mit ssh(d) und Empfehlungen zum sicheren Betrieb von ssh(d). Darüber hinaus zeige ich, wie man mit Mosh (mobile shell) auch über schlechte, roamende Verbindungen (getestet auf der Zugfahrt nach Graz) eine sichere Kommandozeilen-Session benutzen kann. Zum Abschluss des Vortrages erweitern wir den SSH-Server dann soweit, dass man den “Google Authenticator” zur Anmeldung verwenden kann. Damit kann man SSH mit einer Zwei-Faktor-Authentifizierung nutzen, wenn man Zertifikate nicht einsetzen kann oder will. Der Vortrag richtet sich an Personen, die SSH zumindest schon einmal genutzt haben. ;)

Überfüllter Hörsaal bei den Grazer Linuxtagen 2013
Photo von @heinz.

Ich denke, wir hatten in den 40 Minuten in dem überfüllten Hörsaal (wo sind die ganzen Leute her gekommen?) viel Spaß und ich konnte ein paar interessante Dinge erzählen.

Wer den Talk nochmal hören will: Bei den Linuxwochen Wien 2013 gibts noch eine Möglichkeit am Donnerstag den 2. Mai um 15:00 Uhr.

Hier noch die Slides dazu:

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Aber so wars ja gar nicht gemeint ...

Du weißt, Du hast als Partei ein Problem, wenn selbst der Verfassungsdienst im Bundeskanzleramt – von dem man sonst NIE etwas hört – meint, dass Dein Gesetzsvorschlag bedenklich sei.

So geschehen mit dem Demokratiepaket. Dieses sollte uns unter anderem die Möglichkeit geben, per Bürgerkartenfunktion den Antritt einer Partei bei Nattionalratswahlen zu unterstützen (natürlich erst nach der nächsten Nationalratswahl).

Der Verfassungsdienste meinte nun aber zu dem Demokratiepaket:

… Bürger, die sich an einer neu geschaffenen Bürgeranfrage, an Bürgerinitiativen oder Volksbegehren beteiligen, eine Vormerkung im geplanten Zentralen Wählerregister bekommen sollen.

Der Verfassungsdienst kritisiert nun, dass damit Informationen gesammelt werden, dass ein bestimmter Wähler an einem bestimmten direktdemokratischen Instrument teilgenommen hat. Durch die zentrale Verarbeitung dieser Informationen werde zumindest technisch das Potenzial dafür geschaffen, dass durch die Kumulations- und Kombinationsmöglichkeit von „Vermerken” Rückschlüsse auf die politische Partizipation von Personen oder Gruppen von Personen gezogen werden können.

Und jetzt holen wir die nassen Fetzen raus, weil:

ÖVP-Klubobmann Karlheinz Kopf, der gemeinsam mit seinem SPÖ-Kollegen Josef Cap den Gesetzesentwurf ausverhandelt hat, versichert in der Freitag-Ausgabe der „Vorarlberger Nachrichten”: „Das ist nicht die Intention.”

Sg. Hr. Kopf und Hr. Chap, für € 8.160 bzw. € 13.872 (Klubobmanbezüge) MONATLICH (brutto und 14x) erwarte ich mir als Steuerzahler und Bürger von Abgeordneten, dass ein von ihnen verhandelter Gesetzesvorschlag bereits so ausgearbeitet ist, dass dessen Intention klar und eindeutig ist.

Ich merke mir das für die Nationalratswahl am 29. September 2013!

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Piraten rechts überholt

Wenn man mich fragen würde, wären die Themen Bürgerrechte, Informationsfreiheit, informationelle Selbstbestimmung, Begrenzung des willkürlichen Staatszugriffs auf Daten und Informationen, Internet, … meiner Erwartungshaltung nach die Kernkompetenzen der Piraten (deren Selbstbild mag davon abweichen ;).

Und genau bei diesen Themen werden sie gerade von ALLEN anderen Parteien rechts überholt. Ein Beispiel gefällig?

Beim Thema „Videoüberwachung zur Einhaltung der Rettungsgasse” haben es die NEOS mit einer OTS geschafft, in die Berichterstattung des FuZu zu kommen.

Die Piraten haben bis heute(!!!) nichts zu diesem Thema auf ihrer Homepage.

Ich hoffe darauf,dass die Piraten bei Ihrem Ideencamp dieses Wochenende Lösungen für dieses Kommunikationsproblem finden.

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SPÖ arbeitet wieder am Überwachungsstaat

Der Standard berichtet:

Für Aufregung hat am Donnerstag ein von Verkehrsministerin Doris Bures (S) präsentierte Vorschlag zur Novelle der Straßenverkehrsordnung (StVO) gesorgt. Demnach soll die Einhaltung der Rettungsgasse künftig mit rund 800 Videokameras überwacht werden
Eine ähnliche Forderung des niederösterreichischen Landeshauptmanns Erwin Pröll (ÖVP) aus dem Jahre 2010 hat Fr. Bures noch wie folgt abgeschmettert:
Für Bures […] ist das zwar grundsätzlich vorstellbar. Dazu müssten aber eben die gesetzlichen Grundlagen geschaffen werden - und zwar über das Sicherheitspolizeigesetz (SPG).
Allerdings hat Werner Faymann (SPÖ), als er 2008 noch Verkehrsminister war, auch schon mal laut (allerdings wie erwartet ergebnislos) über eine Videoüberwachung der Autobahnen nachgedacht. Allerdinsg hatte er das etwas „vorsichtiger” formuliert:
Ich habe eine Arbeitsgruppe […] eingerichtet, die sich genau mit diesem Thema auseinandersetzt”, sagte Faymann zur „Wiener Zeitung” [Wochenend-Ausgabe]. „Ich will umgekehrt zu Deutschland vorher eine Diskussion und genaue gesetzliche Richtlinien”, so der Minister. „Wenn ein Weg gefunden wird, wo Missbrauch ausgeschlossen ist, dann bin ich dafür”, sagte Faymann, der in Übereinstimmung mit Datenschützern vorgehen will.
Es entbehrt hier nicht einer gewissen Komik, dass auf einmal Innenministerin Johanna Mikl-Leitner (ÖVP) zu einer Datenschützerin wird
Mikl-Leitner hält gerade „im sensiblen Bereich des Datenschutzes” Schnellschüsse für „höchst bedenklich”, so die Ministerin in einem Statement. „Ich denke, in erster Linie wäre es richtig, die Autofahrer besser zu informieren und nicht stattdessen flächendeckend zu überwachen”.
und damit auch der Forderung ihres Parteikollegen Erwin Pröll aus dem Jahre 2010 widerspricht.

Die SPÖ setzt mit dieser initiative ihre abscheuliche Parteilinie fort, sich auf der einen Seite wie beispielsweise der Europaabgeordnete Josef Weidenholzer als „die Datenschützer” zu positionieren, Hinterrücks dann aber die Grundrechte der Bürgerinnen und Bürger weiter auszuhöhlen und den Überwachungsstaat zu fördern.

Zur Erinnerung. Dank der Zustimmung/Initiative der SPÖ haben wir unter anderem:

und die Speicherung, welche Volksbegehren, … wir im Laufe unseres Lebens unterstützt haben, kommt auch bald, wenn wir uns nicht wehren.

 

Die 25. Nationalratswahl in Österreich wird am 29. September 2013 stattfinden. Ich hoffe, Ihr erinnert Euch dann an diese „Erfolge” der SPÖ.

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Ein kleines Osterwunder

Am Mittwoch hab ich noch gelästert, am Freitag war schon alles anders. Die Verkehrsdaten der Wiener Linien sollen auf Geheiß von Vizebürgermeisterin Renate Brauner (SPÖ) als „Open Data” zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Als Zeitraum für die Umsetzung wird im Standard.at Artikel „bis zum Sommer” genannt.

Hier muss man nochmal Robert Harm (und natürlich auch die weiteren Beteiligten wie Patrick Wolowicz et.al.) hochleben lassen, die über Jahre hinweg für diese Freigabe gearbeitet haben. Wer sie trifft möge Ihnen seine/ihre Anerkennung aussprechen und ein Getränk zahlen!

Lustig zu lesen ist auch der Blog-Eintrag der Wiener Linien dazu (offizielle Kommunikation habe ich dazu noch keine gefunden). Wer die Thematik die letzten Wochen/Monate verfolgt hat, wird bei manchen Formulierungen schmunzeln müssen.

Ich persönlich bin ja noch immer skeptisch, da a) ich noch nix „offizielles” dazu gefunden habe und b) die Formulierungen teilweise so schwamming sind, dass es noch immer zu funktionalen/technischen/organsiatorischen Einschränkungen bei der „Freigabe” der Daten kommen kann, die eine sinnvolle Verwendung unmöglich machen.

Aber lasst uns mal das Beste hoffen. Auf das wir dann ab Sommer mit Google Now auch in Wien U-Bahn Infos bekommen werden.

 

P.S.: Die Grüninnen waren in Zusammenhang mit dieser Ankündigung für mich eigentlich nicht präsent. Der Blogeintrag „Dort, wo Grüne mitregieren geht was weiter” hatte mit OpenData nix zu tun ;). Und Hr. Lobo hat sich seit Mittwoch auch nicht mehr per Blog gemeldet. Die Piraten btw. auch nicht.

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Links from 2013-03-30

Can Techie Oust Orrin Hatch?

WN: When I asked you if you had time for an interview, you referred me to your online calendar. I was thinking that this openness is admirable, when so many public figures seem to want to be anything but public, and I also saw that you have a MySpace page. What would you say the upsides and downsides of your open approach to this campaign have been? Ashdown: Well, I feel transparency is a big part of my campaign. That is needed in Washington. And what I see in Washington is certainly we have a lot of scandal (in which) the Democrats try and blame on the Republicans, but I view it as a larger scandal of money and politics. And what I see in Washington is the Democrats stomping around, and they stand up and sign these ethics declarations for the television cameras, and then they say, „We need more restrictions on lobbyists,” but they really don’t lead by example. And it’s a really simple thing to make your office transparent. And when somebody takes on the mantle of public service, they lose the privacy that is in regards to that job. Now certainly their personal privacy should still be respected, but when they are doing something in relation to making legislation, or meeting with individuals, that should be open and transparent. And it’s easy to do. I mean, what I’ve done is elaborate in comparison to what Google calendar allows you to do. And so for these people to make the excuse that they can’t do it, I don’t believe it. I believe that they want to preserve the status quo. They want to keep the American people in the dark. And you know, there’s also concern about safety. If people know where I’m gonna be next Friday, a sniper could come and kill me. Well, publish the calendar retroactively. I think people would still appreciate knowing what’s going on and who you’re meeting with.

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Open Data und die Wiener Linien: Das wird nix mehr

Ich freu mich ja, wenn mich jemand eines Besseren belehrt und zeigt, dass meine negative Erwartungshaltung falsch war. Beim Thema „Open Data in Österreich” wurde ich z.B. von Robert Harm vorgeführt. Entgegen meiner Befürchtungen/Erwartungen tut sich in dem Bereich schon Einiges.

In einem ähnlichen Bereich – der Bereitsstellung der Echtzeitdaten der Wiener Linien – schauts derzeit nicht danach aus, als ob ich hier auch eine Fehleinschätzung eingestehen müsste.

Trotz eines CreateCamp Wiener Linien/open3.at im Jänner – ebenfalls vom unermüdlichen Robert Harm organisiert – weichen die Wiener Linien, die sich im Eigentum der Stadt Wien befinden, von ihrem Standpunkt die Daten keinesfalls unter einer Open Data Lizenz frei zu geben, nicht ab. Ganz im Gegenteil. Potentielle Nutzer der Daten werden sogar verklagt.

Als „Argumente” gegen eine Freigabe der eigentlich sowieso im öffentlichen Besitz befindlichen Daten führen die Wiener Linien immer wieder „Sicherheitsbedenken” (vulgo „Hackerangriffe”) und die Unzufriedenheit der Kunden mit Applikationen, die sich nicht sauber aktualisieren, an. Dass derartige Datenfreigaben aber in Städten wie London oder New York mit ihrem doch „etwas” größeren öffentlichen Nahverkehr wunderbar funktionieren, verschweigen sie brav (Google Now zusammen mit den Transport for London Daten ist nur awesome).

Was mich dazu gebracht hat, doch einen Blogpost über dieses hoffnungslose Thema zu schreiben, war der Presse-Artikel „Open Data: Wiener Linien halten Daten zurück” von Erick Kocina, mit diesem Absatz

Sollte der Druck aus dem Rathaus stärker werden, werde man sich dem bei den Wiener Linien nicht verschließen. „Wenn es eine politische Entscheidung gibt“, so [Wiener-Linien-Sprecher, Anm.] Gries, „dann werden wir der als Unternehmen im öffentlichen Eigentum auch folgen.“

gefolgt von den Aussendungen „170 veröffentlichte Datensätze und 80 Apps und Visualisierungen sind ein großer Erfolg für OpenData Wien” der Stadträtin Sandra Frauenberger und „Open Data Evaluierung” des grünen Gemeinderats Klaus-Werner Lobo.

Liest man sich die beiden Aussendungen – die beide ganze Bullshit-Bingo Karten füllen würden – durch, so findet man kaum substanzielles. AutoZusammenfassen von Microsoft Word könnte die beiden Texte vermutlich jeweils auf 1-3 Sätze identischen Inhalts zusammenfassen.

Merken sollte man sich jedoch den Satz

Der wichtigste Startpunkt am Weg zu Open Government Wien war das rotgrüne Regierungsübereinkommen vom November 2010, das ein deutliches „Ja” zu Open Government verankert hat.

der in beiden Texten vorkommt.

Denn dieses deutliche „Ja” fehlt, wenn es um die Wiener Linien geht, nämlich ganz deutlich. Und die Wiener Linien dürften ja eigentlich nur mehr auf dieses „JA” warten, wenn man Hr. Gries im Presse-Interview glauben darf.

Darüber hinaus hat Robert Harm – ja der schon wieder ;) – auch noch eine offizielle „Petition für Open Data von den Öffentlichen Verkehrsunternehmen” ins Leben gerufen, die innerhalb weniger Tage die benötigten 500 Stimmen für eine Behandlung im Gemeinderat erreicht hat.

Und spätestens dann wird sich zeigen, ob dieses „Ja” zu Open Government wirklich so deutlich ist, oder ob es weiterhin bei dem Lippenbekenntnis bleibt.

 

P.S.: Nachdem es die österreichischen Piraten auch bei diesem Thema geschafft haben, elegant nichts dazu zu sagen, möchte ich auf deren Parteiprogramm-Wiki verweisen, in dem es auch einen Punkt zum Thema „Open Data” gibt.

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