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...that the list on Wikileaks and the ACMA blacklist are the same, a denial that rang a little hollow when one of its partners, the Internet Industry Association (IIA), publicly condemned the release and posting of the list. "No reasonable person could countenance the publication of links which promote access to child-abuse images, irrespective of their motivation, which in this case appears to be political," said IIA chief executive Peter Coroneos. (See the 25 best blogs...
...More recently, Wikileaks updated the list, and the Minister acknowledged the similarities but stood firm on proceeding with testing the Internet-filtering software. "Does the [leaked list] mean we are going to stop blocking access to the sites? No. People can continue to put up the lists if they are proud to do that," he told a press conference in Sydney. "It is completely untrue that the leaked blacklist contains political content. This is a list which contains sites that promote incest, rape, child pornography and child abuse...
...There are two major arguments against the level of regulation that the Administration would like. The first is that regulations do not prevent people from acting rashly or dishonestly. Rogue traders can still lose hundreds of millions of dollars on an investment bank trading floor with a PC and access to their firm's capital. Inside trading and naked shorting of stocks happen all the time, although both are illegal. Fighting regulation because some people refuse to be regulated turns out to be indefensible because the alternative is chaos...
...Martin Nisenholtz has run the electronic and digital operations of The New York Times since 1995. He probably saw problems that the newspaper industry faced when they were still far off. Fourteen years ago, he was dealing with the internet in a period when consumer access to broadband did not exist. Whatever Nisenholtz shared with the people who run The New York Times will probably never see the light of day. It is very probable that if he warned about the possible disruption that the print business might face that the warning was ignored. (Read: "How to Save Your Newspaper...
...forcing pharmaceuticals to play ball by offering special discounts to Britain. How do you manage that? Our list price is used as a reference price in other countries, so drug companies believe that a no from NICE is damaging globally. So they set up what we call "patient-access schemes." Drug companies may either give away certain portions of treatment [such as the last few doses of a course] or reimburse the NHS for those patients who don't respond, which has the effect of reducing the price of the drug and lowering the cost per QALY - even though...