Everyone agrees. The unemployed should get a job. But should the unemployed have the right to refuse a bad job?
Currently, refusing a job results in eight weeks without Newstart allowance. Tony Abbott wants to go further than this, suspending all payments for people who just happen to live in areas where unskilled work, like cleaning and fruit picking, is available — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Whenever Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott or anyone else in a position to influence and shape public views conjures the notion of their being an orderly queue which asylum seekers must join, they know that they are triggering a strong emotional response in many people. They also know that they are practicing the dark art of the big lie
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
In a move designed to draw attention to the genocide in Darfur, in 2008 a young fashion student took the decision to juxtapose an image of a starving child with a Louis Vuitton-inspired bag. The French fashion giant responded by sending in their lawyers in pursuit of crushing damages. This week, however, they lost not only the case, but the all-important PR battle — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One of Premier Ted Baillieu’s newly elected MPs, Geoff Shaw, has deeply offended a young gay man by suggesting that his desire to love who he wanted was as illegitimate as a dangerous driver wanting to speed or a child molester wanting to molest — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The FBI might be asking your permission soon to reach into your computer and rip something out. And you don’t know it’s there.
In a first for US law enforcement efforts to make the Internet more secure, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has seized control of a Russian cybercrime enterprise that has enslaved millions of personal computers and may have gained access to US diplomatic, military, and law enforcement computer systems — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google infringes the copyrights of Belgian newspapers by placing links to and portions of their articles on Google News, the Belgian Court of Appeals has ruled.
As a result, Google is required to remove all articles and photos from all Belgian newspapers in French and German. Google faces a daily fine of roughly $35,500 (25,000 euros) if it fails to implement this judgment — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Brazil’s Supreme Court has voted overwhelmingly in favour of allowing same-sex couples the same legal rights as married heterosexuals — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In Australia, immigration detention is becoming a legal twilight zone; a place where the normal rules of fairness do not apply.
Both Mohammed Sagar and Muhammad Faisal left Iraq to seek asylum in Australia around 2001. Both were sent to Nauru. Both were recognised by Australia as refugees in 2005 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Homeland Security’s ICE unit is not happy with a Firefox add-on that allows the public to circumvent the domains seizures carried out during the past several months. In an attempt to correct this vulnerability
in their anti-piracy strategy, ICE have asked Mozilla to pull the add-on from their site. Unfortunately for them Mozilla denied the request, arguing that this type of censorship may threaten the open Internet — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A major furniture rental chain provides its customers with computers that allow it to track keystrokes, take screenshots and even snap webcam pictures of renters using the devices at home, a Wyoming couple said in a lawsuit Tuesday.
Computer privacy experts said the firm has the right to equip its computers with software it can use to shut off the devices remotely if customers stop paying their bills, but they must be told if they’re being monitored — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A possible landmark ruling in one of the mass-BitTorrent lawsuits in the U.S. may spell the end of the pay-up-or-else-schemes
that have targeted over 100,000 Internet users in the last year. District Court Judge Harold Baker has denied a copyright holder the right to subpoena the ISPs of alleged copyright infringers, because an IP-address does not equal a person — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Many of you have been asking what the big deal is about the new copyright legislation (Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill 119-2). Isn’t it a good measure for stopping illegal downloads? The answer is quite clear: No — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Human Rights Commission says it has heard disturbing stories of discrimination against gay and transgender Australians — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It turns out that one man — a jazz musician and technical genius — figured out a way. But during his lifetime, William Savory kept these recordings largely to himself. He refused to reveal how many recordings he had and what performances they contained. He let only a very few of his recordings be heard by a small number of acquaintances. Over time, the Savory collection became a tantalizing enigma to jazz connoisseurs who yearned for access to its treasures.
The mystery ended last summer. Six years after Savory passed away, his collection was acquired by the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. And jazz experts were stunned. The extent and quality of the Savory collection was beyond anything they had imagined.
I figured there was maybe 50 to 100 unreleased recordings,
says Loren Schoenberg, the museum’s executive director. I expected to see one box. Instead, I saw dozens of boxes. The Savory collection comprised about a thousand discs of the greatest performers of all time. And all of this was unknown music. It was immediately clear this was a treasure trove
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge from lessig on Vimeo.
Lecture at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 18 April 2011: A new talk about open access to academic or scientific information, with a bit of commentary about YouTube Copyright School.
Copyleft crusader and Harvard professor Larry Lessig gave a new talk at CERN last week about copyright and how it has affected open access to academic or scientific information, with a bit of commentary about YouTube Copyright School. As usual, it’s blistering commentary. It’s time to recognize that free access – as in ‘free’ as in speech access – is no fad, and it’s time to push this non-fad war broadly in the context of science,
says Lessig — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The operators of two 7-Eleven stores have been fined $150,000 for exploiting international workers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia’s Fair Work Ombudsman is investigating claims foreign workers on a multi-billion dollar oil rig project off the West Australian coast worked 84 hours a week for as little as $3 an hour — via redwolf.newsvine.com
GPS manufacturer TomTom has apologised for sending its customers’ user data to Dutch Police, which had used the information to set speed traps — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A lawyer says sex offender laws are jeopardising the lives of young South Australians who are convicted of underage sex.
The law requires that anyone convicted of a child-sex offence be put on the sex offenders register.
But Adelaide lawyer David Stokes says the law is also catching teenagers who are not dangerous sexual predators — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Utah church is giving away free copies of the Koran in an Easter season ecumenical riposte to the recent burning of the Islamic holy book by a controversial Florida pastor.
The Wasatch Presbyterian Church has ordered 50 copies of the Koran to be distributed at a local bookstore starting on Monday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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