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WOW, Android is still way behind iOS in enterprises
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العثور على أخطر التسجيلات التي ستهز حكام العرب؟
هل يأتي وقت تفرض فيه الشفافية على كل ما يجري وراء الأبواب المغلقة كي لا يكرر التاريخ نفسه وتقع الشعوب فريسة للكذب والرياء تحت مسمى السياسة؟
ذكرت مصادر شديدة الإهمية أن العقيد الليبى الراحل معمر القذافى، قام بتسجيل محادثات دارتبين عدد من الزعماء والسياسيين العرب، أثناء زياراتهم إلى ليبيا، حيث كانوا يتحدثون بحرية مطلقة دون أن يتوقع أحد منهم أن يقوم القذافى بتسجيل حواراتهم الجانبية وتابعت المصادر أن قطر التي قادت تصعيدًا عربيًا في الموقف السياسي ضد القيادة السورية في الأشهر العشرة الأخيرة، قد خففت كثيرًا من لهجتها السياسية التصعيدية ضد دمشق، لأسباب ظلت طى الكتمان، إلا أن حلقات صناعة القرار القطرى قد كشفت عما حصل في الكواليس بدءا من طرابلس الليبية، مرورا بالدوحة القطرية، وصولا إلى دمشق السورية، إذ حصلت القيادة السورية على ما يمكن وصفه بكنز من التسريبات والتسجيلات ومقاطع الفيديو، وهو ما دفع دمشق إلى فرض شروطها في الآونة الأخيرة.
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Pending US legislation - SOPA & PIPA - is the wrong answer to the wrong question
The Internet is an unparalleled platform for innovation, activism and self-expression that creates opportunities, growth and jobs in the U.S. and around the world. In fact, without the Internet’s global access, robust architecture, and freedom of speech, the likes of Wikipedia, YouTube and the Arab Spring probably never would have happened, or would have been verydifferent.
But all this is now at risk because of pending draconian legislation in the U.S. Congress - the ’Stop Online Piracy Act’ (SOPA) and the ‘Protect IP Act’ (PIPA) - as the following video from Fight for the Future explains beautifully…
So on January 18, to protest against this misguided SOPA / PIPA legislation hundreds of other websites like Wikipedia, Mozilla, Wordpress, Reddit, Twitpic, BoingBoing by going “dark.”
Very Serious - Make your voice heard Fight For The Future - Fight Against SOPA & PIPA
Pending US legislation - SOPA & PIPA - The Internet is an unparalleled platform for innovation, activism and self-expression that creates opportunities, growth and jobs in the U.S. and around the world. In fact, without the Internet’s global access, robust architecture, and freedom of speech, the likes of Wikipedia, YouTube and the Arab Spring probably never would have happened, or would have been very different. But all this is now at risk because of pending draconian legislation in the U.S. Congress - the ’Stop Online Piracy Act’ (SOPA) and the ‘Protect IP Act’ (PIPA) - as the following video from Fight for the Future explains beautifully… So on January 18, to protest against this misguided SOPA / PIPA legislation, dotSUB will join hundreds of other websites like Wikipedia, Mozilla, Wordpress, Reddit, Twitpic, BoingBoing by going “dark.” The dotSUB homepage will be black for 24 hours with links only to US Congressional representatives to show how constricted the Internet under these over-reaching ‘anti-piracy’ regulations would be. (Our full functionality, including inside pages, embedded videos, plugins, APIs and the dotSUB Translation Content Management System used by our customers will be available during the protest.) As drafted, this legislation would grant the government and private parties unprecedented power to interfere with the Internet’s underlying infrastructure. What that will do is compromise Internet security, inhibit online expression, and slow growth and job creation in the technology sector. The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia, provides a detailed analysis of how SOPA will hurt the Internet. SOPA / PIPA are simply the wrong answer to the wrong question, is also how Tim O’Reilly, founder & CEO of O’Reilly Media, puts it. We agree. It is the wrong question because piracy will never be stopped by new regulations when innovative pirates can satisfy global consumer demand at much lower prices or for free, and those corporations that could legally supply those products and services will not. And it is the wrong answer because the innovations in technology and business models which the Internet fosters will no longer be feasible due to unlimited liabilities that would become possible with SOPA. What can you do? 1. If you are a U.S. citizen, please contact your representative now to express your disagreement with the proposed legislation! 2. If you are in New York City on January 18 at 12:30pm, come join us for the Emergency Meeting of the NY Tech Meetup to protest outside the offices of U.S. Senators Schumer and Gillibrand at 780 3rd Ave. 3. If you are fluent in languages other than English, and passionate about open, public and global Internet sustainability, please volunteer to translate the short video ”SOPA / PIPA Break The Internet” from above. It is very easy to do, and this tutorial shows you how. 4. If you are a citizen of another country, check if similar legislation is being introduced, and make your voice heard! Meanwhile, let’s protest these unwanted U.S. laws together on January 18! David Orban CEO, dotSUB
is the wrong answer to the wrong question
Many Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa regard Bouazizi as a hero and inspiration. He is credited with galvanising the frustrations of the region’s youth against their governments into mass demonstrations, revolts, and revolutions. Bouazizi is considered a martyr by the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) of Tunisia. Tunisian film director, Mohamed Zran, plans on making a feature film about Bouazizi, describing him as “a symbol for eternity.” Tarak Ben Ammar, also a Tunisian film director, intends to make a film on Bouazizi as well, stating he is “a hero for us as Tunisians and the Arab world as a whole.”
On 4 February 2011, Bertrand Delanoë, the mayor of Paris, announced that, as a tribute to honour Bouazizi, a square in Paris will be named after him; the Place Mohamed Bouazizi was unveiled four days later. On 17 February, the main square in Tunis that was previously called “November 7”, after the date of Ben Ali’s take-over in 1987, was renamed after Bouazizi.
Bouazizi was posthumously awarded the 2011 Sakharov Prize as one of “five representatives of the Arab people, in recognition and support of their drive for freedom and human rights”.
Outraged by the events that led to Bouazizi’s self-immolation, protests began in Sidi Bouzid within hours, building for more than two weeks, with attempts by police to quiet the unrest serving only to fuel what was quickly becoming a violent and deadly movement. After Bouazizi’s death, the protests became widespread, moving into the more affluent areas and eventually into the capital. The anger and violence became so intense that President Ben Ali fled Tunisia with his family on 14 January 2011, trying first to go to Paris, but was refused refuge by the French government. They were eventually welcomed into Saudi Arabia under “a long list of conditions” (such as being barred from participation in the media and politics), ending his 23-year rule and sparking “angry condemnation” among Saudis. In Tunisia, unrest persisted as a new regime took over, leaving many citizens of Tunisia feeling as though their needs were still being ignored.
Bouazizi’s actions triggered the Werther effect, causing a number of self-immolations in protests emulating Bouazizi’s in several other countries in the Greater Middle East and Europe. In Algeria in particular, protests against rising food prices and spreading unemployment have resulted in many self-immolations. The first reported case following Bouazizi’s death was that of Mohsen Bouterfif, a 37-year-old father of two, who set himself on fire when the mayor ofBoukhadra in Algeria refused to meet with him and others regarding employment and housing requests on 13 January 2011. According to a report in El-Watan, the mayor challenged him, saying if he had courage he would immolate himself by fire as Bouazizi had done. He died on 24 January. Maamir Lotfi, a 36-year-old unemployed father of six, also denied a meeting with the governor, burned himself in front of the El Oued town hall on 17 January, dying on 12 February. Abdelhafid Boudechicha, a 29-year-old day laborer who lived with his parents and five siblings, burned himself in Medjana on 28 January over employment and housing issues. He died the following day.
The wave of copycat incidents reached Europe on 11 February 2011, in a case very similar to Bouazizi’s. Noureddine Adnane, a 27-year-old Moroccan street vendor, set himself on fire in Palermo, Sicily, in protest of the confiscation of his wares and the harassment that was allegedly inflicted on him by municipal officials. He died five days later. In Amsterdam, Kambiz Roustay, a 36-year-old asylum seeker from Iran, set himself on fire on Dam Square in protest of being rejected asylum. Roustay had fled the country for publishing works undermining the regime, and feared being tortured by the Iranian regime upon his return.
Although these cases, with the exception of Egypt, did not provoke the same kind of popular reaction that Bouazizi’s case did in Tunisia, the Algerian, Yemeni, and Jordanian governments have experienced significant protests and made major concessions in response to them. As such, these men and Bouazizi are being hailed by some as “heroic martyrs of a new Middle Eastern revolution.”
24 Hour English Wikipedia Blackout
To: English Wikipedia Readers and Community Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECTIP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate—that, if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia. This will be the first time the English Wikipedia has ever staged a public protest of this nature, and it’s a decision that wasn’t lightly made. Here’s how it’s been described by the three Wikipedia administrators who formally facilitated the community’s discussion. From the public statement, signed by User:NuclearWarfare, User:Risker and User:Billinghurst: In making this decision, Wikipedians will be criticized for seeming to abandon neutrality to take a political position. That’s a real, legitimate issue. We want people to trust Wikipedia, not worry that it is trying to propagandize them. But although Wikipedia’s articles are neutral, its existence is not. As Wikimedia Foundation board member Kat Walsh wrote on one of our mailing lists recently, The decision to shut down the English Wikipedia wasn’t made by me; it was made by editors, through a consensus decision-making process. But I support it. Like Kat and the rest of the Wikimedia Foundation Board, I have increasingly begun to think of Wikipedia’s public voice, and the goodwill people have for Wikipedia, as a resource that wants to be used for the benefit of the public. Readers trust Wikipedia because they know that despite its faults, Wikipedia’s heart is in the right place. It’s not aiming to monetize their eyeballs or make them believe some particular thing, or sell them a product. Wikipedia has no hidden agenda: it just wants to be helpful. That’s less true of other sites. Most are commercially motivated: their purpose is to make money. That doesn’t mean they don’t have a desire to make the world a better place—many do!—but it does mean that their positions and actions need to be understood in the context of conflicting interests. My hope is that when Wikipedia shuts down on January 18, people will understand that we’re doing it for our readers. We support everyone’s right to freedom of thought and freedom of expression. We think everyone should have access to educational material on a wide range of subjects, even if they can’t pay for it. We believe in a free and open Internet where information can be shared without impediment. We believe that new proposed laws like SOPA—and PIPA, and other similar laws under discussion inside and outside the United States—don’t advance the interests of the general public. You can read a very good list of reasons to oppose SOPA and PIPA here, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Why is this a global action, rather than US-only? And why now, if some American legislators appear to be in tactical retreat on SOPA? The reality is that we don’t think SOPA is going away, and PIPA is still quite active. Moreover, SOPA and PIPA are just indicators of a much broader problem. All around the world, we’re seeing the development of legislation seeking to regulate the Internet in other ways while hurting our online freedoms. Our concern extends beyond SOPA and PIPA: they are just part of the problem. We want the Internet to remain free and open, everywhere, for everyone. On January 18, we hope you’ll agree with us, and will do what you can to make your own voice heard. Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation
From: Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director
Date: January 16, 2012
Sue Gardner,
Robert Kiyosaki“In life, we don’t get to choose our family. But in business, you have the fortunate option to choose with whom you will be in relationship.”
Mohamed Bouazizi (29 March 1984 – 4 January 2011; Arabic: محمد البوعزيزي) was a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on 17 December 2010, in protest of the confiscation of his wares and the harassment and humiliation that he reported was inflicted on him by a municipal official and her aides. His act became a catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring, inciting demonstrations and riots throughout Tunisia in protest of social and political issues in the country. The public’s anger and violence intensified following Bouazizi’s death, leading then-President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to step down on 14 January 2011, after 23 years in power. The success of the Tunisian protests inspired protests in several other Arab countries, plus several non-Arab countries. The protests included several men who emulated Bouazizi’s act of self-immolation, in an attempt to bring an end to their own autocratic governments. Those men and Bouazizi were hailed by some Arab commentators as “heroic martyrs of a new Middle Eastern revolution.” In 2011, Bouazizi was posthumously awarded the Sakharov Prize jointly along with four others for his and their contributions to “historic changes in the Arab world”. The Tunisian government honored him with a postal stamp.The Times of the United Kingdom named Bouazizi as person of the year 2011.
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