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'This site is intended to give the public a chance to comment on, and hopefully [collaboratively] improve, the text of a proposed submission to the [Irish] Copyright Review Commission.' (ie. CRC2012, deadline 31 May.)

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2 days ago by jm

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The Walton Bridge petition

'IOP Ireland is campaigning to have the new bridge across the Liffey in Dublin at Marlborough Street named for ETS Walton – Ireland’s only physics Nobel prizewinner.'

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9 days ago by jm

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Digital Rights Forum - Online Privacy

'The Digital Rights Forum is a public debate on the important issues surrounding digital rights, with each event designed around the general over-arching topic of digital rights, puls a more narrowly focused subject. On Friday, the 18th of May, the forum will tackle the issue of Online Privacy.

With our lives ever more integrated with the web and social media, staying safe online is becoming an increasing concern to everyone. From mobile apps to websites and email, protecting our personal information and online privacy has never been more complicated and more important. Faced with software vulnerabilities such as contacts being leaked onto the Internet by mobile application providers, the increasing push toward revealing more private and personal information on social networks, and attempts by some to protect their businesses through litigation or processes which require the disclosure of personal information, the modern digital landscape has made protecting one's privacy more difficult than ever before.

With this in mind, this Digital Rights Forum will discuss the current state of data protection and online privacy in the current context of social networks and mobile applications.'

Featuring Billy Hawkes (the DPC, no less!), and Devore from Boards.

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10 days ago by jm

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McGarr Solicitors' sternly-worded letter to Newspaper Licencing Ireland Ltd

In response to a letter received by a charity, warning of dire penalties for 'reproducing copyright content without permission', since doing so 'is theft'. It gets better, since in correspondence they were then informed that “a licence is required to link directly to an online article even without uploading any of the content directly onto your own website”. Looking forward to seeing how this one plays out...

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15 days ago by jm

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Don't discount the value of price comparison sites - The Irish Times

Conor Pope recommends home-saver.ie and bonkers.ie for insurance and utilities price comparison. I've used the latter, with great results

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4 weeks ago by jm

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First Music Contact - Music3.0

'We talk a lot about what the world of music and artists will look like five or ten years from now. But for changes to happen then, the conversations need to happen now. We believe that the next big thing in music is not going to ever appear on a stage. After the record industry (music 1.0) and the live music industry (music 2.0), it's time to pay more attention to innovation (music 3.0) and what can come from constructively disrupting how the music industry operates.

It's time to open up the shop. It's time for unvested interests to see if they can use existing data and ecosystems to make a better music business. For far too long, music has been a conservative sector which views the influence of outside forces with abject suspicion and rank horror. Chalk this down to some bad experiences over the last 15 years due to misunderstandings with and ignorance of the tech and telecoms worlds. Chalk this down to rampant music industry egos which lead folks to believe no-one else can sell music bar music players. Chalk it down to fear of disruption.

So, it's time for change. You can't keep doing the same things in the same way and hope you won't make the same mistakes again. It's time to listen to and learn from smart people in other areas. It's time for people who have innovative ideas or even just the stirrings of innovative ideas to take stock from people who operate in other areas and who deal with ideas, technology and the valuable currency of innovation every single working day. It's time for some different talking which is going to lead to some very different make-and-do experiences.'

Looks excellent. (via Jim Carroll)

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4 weeks ago by jm

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The Cake Cafe map of Ireland

'Now that Dublin is in our bag, on our Tea Towel and across our Aprons, The Cake Café is going to create a new map of Ireland. We want to fill this map with all of your favorite places in land. Please send us locations that turn you on, fire your imaginations, or just fulfill your dreams; what ever you think should be included. Please pass the request on to friends in far flung parts of the land so they too can send their suggestions; natural or unnatural, animal or man made, a view, a corner of a field, an island or even a journey or hidden places to enjoy a picnic. -- thecakecafe /at/ gmail.com'.

Their map of Dublin is a work of genius -- I love that they include a decent chunk of the Northside, which was a notable failure of the Alljoy Design version. I can't wait to see what they come up with for Ireland.

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6 weeks ago by jm

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Karl Whelan: Promissory Note “Deal”: Not What Had Been, Em, Promised

'I can only assume that the “assuming this arrangement works out” element of Honohan’s reply to Michael McGrath didn’t actually work out. And the likely reason for this failure was that the ECB insisted, as it appears they had all along, that a €3.1 billion ELA repayment be made, something which required a cash payment. That this cash has been temporarily sourced from NAMA and then Bank of Ireland doesn’t at all change the fact that this deal is not what had been flagged and does not have nearly the benefits of that deal.' oh ffs

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8 weeks ago by jm

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Can we make Irish promissory notes a bit more bonkers? Yes we can

you know Noonan's "deal" with the ECB is insane when the FT compares it to the South Park underpants gnomes. oh dear

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8 weeks ago by jm

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Stats from an Irish guy's EV driving

EUR 529.07 over ~4000 miles in his Nissan Leaf; that works out as a yearly savings of EUR 1587.21. not to be sniffed at -- although what's the premium for a Leaf over a standard diesel?

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9 weeks ago by jm

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Colm McCarthy: This burden of bank debt is simply not sustainable

Powerful burn-the-bondholders editorial from Colm McCarthy in the Indo. 'No other eurozone member has incurred bank-related debt under ECB duress. There are no provisions in the Maastricht Treaty, in the Stability and Growth Pact or in any other pact or international treaty which grant this power to the ECB, nor was any eurozone member state ever asked to accede to such an arrangement. Commissioner Rehn's Latin phrase ("pacta sunt servanda") has no pact to refer to, insofar as these imposed debts are concerned. Ireland never signed a pact or treaty which empowered the ECB to behave in this fashion. One can only speculate as to the ECB's motives, since it does not deign to explain. European banks have come to rely heavily on unsecured bond financing and the ECB may have felt that no bank bondholder should suffer losses, in order to encourage the survival of this market in bank debt. If this was the motive, the policy is being paid for, not by the ECB, but by Irish taxpayers and sovereign bondholders and financed by European taxpayers and the IMF. There is no pact which confers powers of taxation on the ECB.'

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9 weeks ago by jm

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Senator Mark McSharry call Boards.ie and Politics.ie "subversive"

'we have Boards.ie and Politics.ie, for me frankly that doesn't amount to free speech what it amounts to is legalised subversion of the state. I think it's fundamentally wrong.' Incredible quote

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10 weeks ago by jm

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Is it any wonder the country is the way it is?

Auto-generated complaints about the dreadful state of Ireland, for the pessimistic begrudger on the go. 'We might as well face it - the cast of Fade Street, without any legal grounds, never gave a shit about people in the midlands.'

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11 weeks ago by jm

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Why I'm Voting "No" to the Fiscal Compact

Cormac Lucey's reasons to vote against the proposed Fiscal Compact in the upcoming referendum

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11 weeks ago by jm

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FOI docs regarding lobbying of Sean Sherlock on the copyright SI

Truly amazing outcome from Mark Tighe's FOI request regarding lobbying on the copyright SI. It turns out that (a) IRMA want all Irish ISPs to enact "3 strikes", and view the SI as a way to force this; but (b) Eircom are of the opinion that "3 strikes" is now illegal and unenforceable under EU and Irish law. Despite knowing this, Sherlock then went ahead and signed the SI into law *anyway*, just to avoid the hassle of IRMA's members bringing the government to court. Which they did anyway, regardless. What an utter shambles

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11 weeks ago by jm

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95 questions for the public, corresponding to the Copyright Review Committee's Consultation Paper at http://www.djei.ie/science/ipr/crc_index.htm . I need to sit down and get through these at some stage...

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11 weeks ago by jm

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Adrian Weckler with "6 reasons why Irish SOPA may not work"

All spot on. 'Despite all this, the government - through Minister Sherlock - has passed this statutory instrument.
In all likelihood, Sherlock’s department had decided to do it a long time ago (probably before the last election), in a (now failed) effort to get the music companies off its back.
It’s a shame that Sherlock has gone along with this so easily: he is taking all the flak. It’s also not that common to see a government determined to pass new law that it knows - or strongly suspects - won’t work.'

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11 weeks ago by jm

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Irish Government signs disastrous (SOPA) law to reinforce online copyright laws | Manhattan Diary | IrishCentral

'This is Fine Gael Junior Minister Sean Sherlock. It's probably not important that you remember his face because his career in Irish politics may soon be over. [...] What's particularly galling is the government's high handed act. In the United States they dropped SOPA legislation because voters objected, but in Ireland they just waited for the controversy to die down and railroaded it through. I had hoped Ireland had learned enough in recent years to move beyond this style of governance.'

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12 weeks ago by jm

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**IMPORTANT** Copyright policy - boards.ie

Boards' new post-SOPAIreland copyright policy, at least for the Rugby forum. Wonder how widespread this is to the rest of the site

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12 weeks ago by jm

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Facts Are Sacred

A new Irish news site with some familiar names. 'What is a fact? In philosophy, a fact is something that makes a statement true. In science, it is a verifiable observation. In our case, we take a fact to be something that we can provably demonstrate to be true. This means that we can check the truth of a statement about the current state of affairs but we cannot check claims about the future. Inevitably, as the evidence gets more granular, our view of a fact can change but we should take the scientific approach of going where the evidence leads us, rather than the all too common habit today of starting with a conclusion and looking for supporting data. We are holding ourselves to a high standard and we want you to call us on it where you believe we have fallen short. It is more important that, as readers and writers, we collaborate to put verifiable facts into our daily discourse rather than that we save face. We are looking forward to what we’re sure will be a challenging and rewarding experience and hope you enjoy the ride.'

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12 weeks ago by jm

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DJEI - Copyright S.I. signed and consultation process launched on copyright and innovation - Minister Sherlock

Sean Sherlock says the new SI will "establish Irish copyright law on a firm footing to encourage innovation, foster creativity", which is pretty bloody hilarious. plus a nice little dig at the online campaign: "As there are clearly many diverse interests, it is important that interested parties come together and work in a constructive way to map the path forward." They really don't have a clue what they've done. After 20 years of Labour first prefs, I'm never voting Labour again

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12 weeks ago by jm

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On The Record » The hue and cry over buying and selling tickets

'If you really think that all 14,500 tickets for a hot show at Dublin’s O2 like, let’s say, One Direction will go on sale to the general public, you probably also still believe in the tooth fairy. While 10 per cent of the tickets are usually held back for O2’s priority customers, there will always still be far less than the remaining 13,000 tickets available on Ticketmaster’s system when the show purportedly goes on sale. How else do you think tickets for those One Direction Dublin shows in March 2013 can on sale minutes after they are sold out on the supposed primary ticket-selling site, on a secondary site like Viagogo at a hugely inflated premium? Do you really think people queued overnight for those tickets to go “nah, not bothered, have to wash my hair that night” five minutes after getting them in their hands about a show 13 months away? Perhaps we need a Dispatches-type expose over here to lift a few rocks and show the type of fat, avaricious worms wiggling around underneath feasting like parasites on the wallets and credit cards of Irish music fans.'

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12 weeks ago by jm

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Irish Film Board/Bord Scannán na hÉireann - Filming in Ireland - Made in Ireland

nice work IFB! A great locations map from recent movies filmed (entirely or partially) in Ireland, showing where they were shot, what location they stood in for, and with screengrabs and clips

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february 2012 by jm

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Syria Bars Text Messages With Irish-Made Gear - Bloomberg

Anti-spam/AV filtering technology turned to a different purpose: political repression. 'The next day, 225 instructed Syriatel to block messages containing the word “massacres.”'

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february 2012 by jm

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An Irishman's Diary - The Irish Times - Thu, Feb 09, 2012: A History Of Ireland In 100 Excuses

'4. A shortage of natural resources.' very good

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february 2012 by jm

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Vladimir Lenin and the ‘Rathmines accent’

this is brilliant. Turns out Lenin spoke English with what would now be called a "D4" accent, roysh!

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february 2012 by jm

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Politics.ie - Labour Senator takes to twitter to defend comments, insults all around him

In which Ben Walsh memorably takes on racist/right-wing comments from a Labour senator, and gets told to "go back to D4". ho ho

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february 2012 by jm

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Adrian Weckler confims that "Ireland's SOPA" will be vague and open-ended

'The clear implication from [Adrian's] interview with Sean Sherlock is that the proposed measures will be lacking in any real detail, leaving it entirely up to the judges as to what types of blocking might emerge. (Possibly going beyond web blocking to also target hosting and other services.) This ambiguity -- as well as jeopardising fundamental rights -- will create intolerable uncertainty for businesses such as Google who might find themselves at risk of business threatening and unpredictable injunctions and will certainly deter others from setting up in Ireland.' -- this is much, much worse than I thought, particularly given the level of technical knowledge among Ireland's judges (if Mr. Justice Charleton's performance in EMI v. UPC is anything to go by).

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january 2012 by jm

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Freeman on the land - RationalWiki

fantastically encyclopedic description of the "freeman on the land" pseudolegal gibberish, now being employed in an attempt to evade unpleasant taxes or fees -- this stuff is on the rise in post-economic-collapse Ireland, unsurprisingly

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january 2012 by jm

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SiliconRepublic story on CoderDojo

'it's both incredible and poignant that a voluntary movement that was born in Ireland during the summer is about to go international. Coder Dojo, the brainchild of 19-year-old entrepreneur and programmer James Whelton from Cork and tech entrepreneur Bill Liao, began as a Saturday morning club for kids to teach each other software programming. It has grown into a national movement up and down Ireland, a place where kids and their parents can go and learn to write software code in a friendly environment. The first UK Coder Dojo was held in London only last week and other countries in Europe are clamouring to get the initiative started there, too.' Good on them!

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december 2011 by jm

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How would my finances change if euro collapsed? - RTÉ News

RTE's sketch of the repercussions of a Euro collapse for Irish consumers. basically: you won't have any finances, particularly if you have a mortgage

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december 2011 by jm

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the legend of St. Columba, patron saint of copyright infringers

'At this point IPKat team member Jeremy dons his old academic hat and excitedly draws attention to some research he did on the St Columba case. The goodly saint was given access to a psalter that was in the possession of Abbot Finian in around the year 560. A psalter is a book of psalms -- definitely public domain stuff, having been compiled during the reign of King David, who is generally reckoned to have died around 970 years before the common era. Even on a life + 70 year basis, copyright would have expired around getting on for 1,500 years before Columba came on to the scene. Having illicitly copied the psalter he refused to deliver it up to King Dermot of Tara, who famously said “to every cow its calf, to every book its copy” -- not "to every cow its calf, to every author his work". Anyway, to cut a long story short, Columba refused to hand it over, fled the country for the safety of England (like the founder of Wikileaks), converted the Picts to Christianity, settled in Iona and became a saint. You can read this all in "St Columba the Copyright Infringer" [1985] 12 European Intellectual Property Review 350-353.' (via Eoin O'Dell). Someone fill in the misquoting High Court judges....

st-columba books via:cearta ireland law history filesharing copyright
november 2011 by jm

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xbmc-vodie

'XBMC Plugin for browsing and watching RTE Player streams, TV3 streams and TG4 streams (Ireland only), An Lár TV and Magnet WebTV' (via John Looney)

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september 2011 by jm

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Conor O'Neill on his freesat/DTT system

'Our replacement for Sky TV cost €99. Ariva 120. No monthly fees!' -- sounds very intriguing, that's a good price point

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september 2011 by jm

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echolibre & Orchestra

'In particular, we want to thank the Irish and Dublin web communities. I've met other web communities in Europe and in the USA, and I can say, hand on heart, they don't have a patch on you guys.' awww ;) Congrats, guys

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august 2011 by jm

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Bog body found in Co Laois could be that of sacrificed king

'All of the other bog bodies were found on significant boundaries. The idea is that because the goddess is the land, by inserting bodies and other items relating to their inauguration as king along the boundaries, it gives form to the goddess.' things were pretty damn gory back then

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august 2011 by jm

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IT expenditure and failure – submission to public expenditure consultation

Antoin lays into the disfunctional Irish IT procurement system. "The status quo isn’t just making things expensive and slow, it’s asphyxiating the government’s ability to serve."

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july 2011 by jm

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Why we should expel the Vatican’s Ambassador, the Papal Nuncio

'In 2011, we have a new Government, who have stopped making excuses for the Vatican State. The Facebook campaign now has over 5,000 members, who continue to send emails and letters to their TDs and to the Minister for Foreign Affairs expressing the clear message that we want action. Enda Kenny said yesterday that the Vatican downplayed the rape and torture of Irish children to to uphold instead the primacy of the institution, its power, standing and ‘reputation’. We should expel the Vatican’s Papal Nuncio and send the message that they have destroyed the very things they prized the most.'

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july 2011 by jm

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Facebook group: Expel the Irish Papal Nuncio

"The Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Sexual Abuse in the Dublin ArchDiocese clearly states that the Papal Nuncio, the Diplomatic representative of the Vatican, refused to reply to investigators. Now the Cloynes Report has found that the Vatican's Ambassador intervened to undermine the efforts to protect children as recently as 1996. This is not acceptable. The Irish Government has the power to expel diplomats. If we are to take the reports' findings seriously, we must expel the Papal Nuncio."

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july 2011 by jm

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PSI License [PDF]

the license under which the open data from various councils around Fingal and Dublin (see www.dublinked.ie) is being published

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june 2011 by jm

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Data Protection Commissioner investigating Eircom's "three strikes" system

Eircom accused customers of piracy using systems that hadn't been updated for DST. 'this appears to show up ineptitude in relation to a very basic aspect of network management - i.e. making sure that the server clock reflects daylight savings time. As a result, it seems that users found themselves being accused on the basis of what somebody else did from the same IP address either an hour earlier or an hour later. Consequently, the users who were wrongfully accused should consider themselves lucky that this incompetence did not lead to their being accused of a serious crime - for example, being arrested and having their homes searched due to the wrong time being used.' As TJ explains, this could have very serious results

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june 2011 by jm

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Our 256,000 (and counting) atheists, agnostics, humanists and non-religious - The Irish Times

"The ‘non-religious’ are the largest group in the State after Catholics, according to the [2006] census." Doubtless higher in this year's, too...

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june 2011 by jm

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irishindoleaks

'leaking the indo's offline wikileaks coverage online where it belongs' - scans of each article

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june 2011 by jm

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bump2babe - The Consumer Guide to Maternity Services in Ireland

wow, they've done a really good job on the statistics collation here

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june 2011 by jm

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_Tim Robinson: Connemara_

a new documentary, based on the work of Tim Robinson, the great Connemara map-maker. showing this Sunday at 1pm at the IFI in Dublin

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june 2011 by jm

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Dylan Collins asks: has Ireland peaked as an Internet hub?

based on Twitter's surprise move passing over Dublin for London, and how to fix it: "launch the Internet Visa, an aggressive program that allows all Irish Internet companies to recruit from anywhere in the world. Reduce the red tape (combine all permit and visa documentation), guarantee a turnaround time measured in days (a small number) and avoid all the mistakes the UK has made with its Startup Visa initiative. Bring the talent from everywhere outside the EU to Ireland. Ireland doesn’t scale organically. So it needs to in-source. We need to be honest about our shortcomings and tackle them with something which will make HR Directors smile. Imagine a country with all the existing advantages of Ireland plus the ability to hire anyone in the world you wanted. Who in their right mind wouldn’t establish their European base there?" He's dead right, this is a massive problem for the Irish tech industry right now

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april 2011 by jm

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brandnewretro | scans from the past

a mate of mine, scanning Irish cultural artifacts from Ireland in the '70s and '80s. fanzines!

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april 2011 by jm

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Dublin - Europe’s Next Startup Petri Dish? - NYTimes.com

'Ireland’s tech scene continues to expand in spite of the woeful state of the rest of the economy with a plethora of accelerator programs, seed funds and events like Founders and the IBM smartcamp global finals happening there in the last year or two. '

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april 2011 by jm

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Review & Outlook: Ireland Bails Out Germany Again - WSJ.com

“As the banks’ losses deepen and Dublin’s credibility withers, now is an apt time to rethink the foundations of the European Union’s Irish-rescue strategy, one that is now effectively premised on sinking one country so that tough political choices may be avoided in another.” ouch

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april 2011 by jm

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IrishLeaks

hmm, interesting to see what develops here -- reminds me of "Cogair", the original Irish anonymous-whistleblower site from the '90s

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april 2011 by jm

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Ireland banking crisis: is the worst really over? | Business | guardian.co.uk

still a disaster, and the new government are proving disappointing. Pimco CEO says fail: '"The creditors most of the creditors so far have not gone through any burden sharing, it is remarkable; it is inadvisable; but it is a political decision that has been taken. It surprises me. What they are hoping for is by maintaining the credits intact, that they creditors they are going to rush back in with new money. What they haven't read is the history of debt crisis and the history of debt crises is very simple. Whenever you have a debt overhang, whenever you have this big cloud of debt no new creditor will come in in a big way."'

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april 2011 by jm

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Daragh O'Brien on the Gardai's plans to force ISPs to implement IP filtering

'Internet blocking is ineffective. The current proposal lacks sufficient checks and balances, and may even require ISPs and telcos to break other laws to comply. It will inevitably result in innocents being tarred as offenders. Data Protection principles (such as “Adequate, Relevant, and Not Excessive” are being blatantly ignored to implement an ineffective solution. Far better is to shut down the shop by removing the images at source and invest time, energy, and resources into a more transparent effort to manage this issue.' well said

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march 2011 by jm

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Digital Rights Ireland » Garda plans to introduce web blocking in Ireland

'Last year we revealed that the Department of Justice was working on secret plans to introduce internet filtering in Ireland. Now, despite a complete lack of any legislation, public consultation or democratic discussion, these plans have moved to the implementation stage.' wtf, this is just appalling lack of oversight

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march 2011 by jm

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Ireland’s new coalition on media, IT & IP law | Lex Ferenda

'some first thoughts on how the just-published coalition agreement (Fine Gael and Labour) in Ireland proposes to deal with issues of interest to cyberlaw and media law.'

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march 2011 by jm

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Backdoor legislation is no way to tackle thorny issue of copyright - The Irish Times - Fri, Mar 11, 2011

good article by Karlin Lillington on the attempted sneaking-through of an SI to 'deal with' filesharing. agreed on all counts

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march 2011 by jm

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TechWire: Don't do it, Enda and Eamon

Adrian Weckler with a plea for the incoming govt regarding the attempt to rush through '3 Strikes' by the outgoing one: 'Such a law will have absolutely no effect on the practice of illegal filesharing. None. Zero. It hasn't worked in France. It hasn't worked in Britain. And it certainly won't work in Ireland. On the other hand, it may well send a signal to huge, jobs-creating digital IT companies that Ireland is a place that tries to legislate away personal digital freedoms.'

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march 2011 by jm

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BallotBox.ie Posts Emigrant-Vote Results

FG 63 seats, Labour 51, SF 23, Greens 10, Ind 11, FF 2. interesting to see SF's strong showing among emigrants -- something for electoral reformers to think about ;)

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february 2011 by jm

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Votomatic

Brilliant! "find out which political parties are compatible with you." The app asks a few questions, you furnish survey-style responses, and it figures out which party is closest in published policy. It works quite well, determining that my optimum is Labour (correct)

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february 2011 by jm

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BallotBox.ie

A symbolic online vote for Ireland's emigrants, courtesy of Joe "ICTE" McCarthy -- the site is now open, and 'will remain open for one week until 12:00 GMT on Tuesday 22nd. Only those living outside Ireland will able to cast a ballot.'

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february 2011 by jm

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Greens propose usage-based internet tax

Jesus H. Christ, this is incredibly nonsensical. Green Party candidate Eamonn Ryan proposes replacing the TV license fee with an internet tax -- 'some small charge on the volume of data.' WTF

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february 2011 by jm

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Storymap

great UI for a little Dublin oral-history site -- just a GMaps mashup with links to YouTube, but it works very well

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february 2011 by jm

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HEA now requiring all research positions obtain its approval before hire

regardless of the source of the funding, be it external EU grants with no HEA/exchequer input. pretty stupid stuff (via Brian Lucey)

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february 2011 by jm

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Irish data retention law now in force

quietly passed into law on the 26th Jan. DRI say 'the Bill requires telecommunications companies, internet service providers, and the like, to retain data about communications (though not the content of the communications); phone and mobile traffic data have to be retained for 2 years; internet communications have to be retained for one year … This will impose significant costs on those obliged to retain and secure the data, and those costs will be passed on to their already hard-pressed customers. And it is likely to drive international telecommunications and internet companies to European states which have introduced far less demanding regimes.'

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february 2011 by jm

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Michael "Liar's Poker" Lewis on Ireland's economic collapse

PDF of the 15-page Vanity Fair article -- from interviews I've read in advance, this seems pretty good

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february 2011 by jm

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Dublin bikes revisited

Fantastic comparative number crunching on the JC Decaux Dublin Bikes scheme, compared to their other European cities (Brussels, Lyons, Paris, Seville), times of day, busiest stations, rainfall, etc.

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february 2011 by jm

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Lady On The Rock by Jessie Ward [YouTube]

A Dublin mystery solved! those white plaster statues that covered Dublin, appearing in almost every council house window, explained

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january 2011 by jm

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Keeping Track of Electioneering | Election Leaflets 2011

'See or post leaflets shoved through your door by parties and candidates across the land. RSS feeds and email alerts available by constituency. Add new leaflets through a web form or by email.'

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january 2011 by jm

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Martin investigated over sending unsolicited e-mails

fast work from new FF leader Micheal Martin: 'None of those who complained consented to their details being used to contact them in this way and none could establish how Fianna Fáil obtained their addresses.'

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january 2011 by jm

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Data Protection Commissioner warns the parties not to spam in advance of the coming election

Any teeth though?

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january 2011 by jm

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The worst week for the worst Taoiseach in the State's history

incredible insider account of Cowen's final ineptitudes as FF leader. Beyond GUBU

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january 2011 by jm

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Why did annon attack the FG website? : ireland

all signs point to 'they didn't.' also, interesting comment in the Reddit thread: 'From a source close to the situation; the forms [on the FG site] were not being sanitised [against SQL injection attacks] at all.' incredibly amateurish, if true

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january 2011 by jm

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Reset Ireland

'Greater access to information on the workings of government empower the public in making informed decisions on the direction they want the country to take. Open Government and media reforms can make this a reality. The key inspiration for Reset Ireland comes from projects such as the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative along with various other projects promoting openness, transparency and accountability in Government around the world.'

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january 2011 by jm

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Bring your bike on DART / Commuter rail during off-peak and all day at weekends

hooray, and about time too

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january 2011 by jm

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Your Country Your Call: How bloggers pushed a story into the media limelight

good round-up on this FF quango fiasco

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december 2010 by jm

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opendata.ie

'to help citizens access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Irish Government and public sector authorities; to improve access to the Irish Government data and to establish an innovative platform that can demonstrate to government how and why they should share data'

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december 2010 by jm

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Digital Socket Awards

'We’d like you to nominate the longlist of best music of 2010 on www.digitalsocketawards.com. From this, 26 blogger judges from towns and cities all over Ireland will each score their top choices to reach a shortlist of three finalists in each category. The winners will be announced on 3 February 2011 at a live event in Dublin’s Grand Social.'

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december 2010 by jm

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Bondholders safe even if opposition win election - European, Business - Independent.ie

'<br />
In a private phone call this week with hedge funds and other investors from across Europe, the EU team which negotiated Ireland's rescue package, reassured the firms that senior bondholders cannot be burned as part of the €85bn rescue package, even if Fine Gael and Labour seek to reopen the question.' Argh! this makes me so angry

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december 2010 by jm

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Eric Cantona's call for a bank run

a French campaign to "bring down the banks" by engineering a massive consumer bank run, tomorrow, Dec 7th. I can see this happening in Ireland if we don't get an election soon

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december 2010 by jm

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Here are the Anglo Irish Bank Bondholders | Newswhip

according to Guido Fawkes (who was an ex-bond trader), and seemingly the same list David Norris attempted to read into the Senate record before being ruled out of order. The vampire squid makes an appearance

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december 2010 by jm

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Bailout will sink Ireland before we can even swim | David McWilliams

'This is not capitalism, it is not European diplomacy; it is a stitch-up.' Adding another voice in favour of default -- starting to look like the only sane option given the crappy ECB deal :(

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december 2010 by jm

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