The Australian government has ditched its plan to fund a privately built fiber-to-the-node broadband network. Instead, it will directly build an open-access, 100Mbps+, fiber-to-the-home network that will reach 90 percent of Australian homes within eight years.

Welcome to our brief guide to living a DRM-free existence. We want to provide a range of links pointing you toward online stores, video/music players, software and hardware that will help you take back your rights as a concerned customer and citizen.

The EFF has put its entire archive of government documents online. These have been "pried loose from secretive government agencies" through Freedom of Information Act requests and lawsuits over the years, but EFF has scanned and indexed all of them, then created a custom search engine to make browsing or digging much easier.

Neil’s new book, Emergency, teaches you how to become Jason Bourne. Multiple passports, moving assets, lock-picking, escape and evasion, foraging, even how to cross borders without detection (one preferred location: McAllen, Texas, page 390)–it’s a veritable encyclopedia of for those who want to disappear or become lawsuit-proof global citizens…

Here is an excerpt from an article about Carol Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stanford University: Through more than three decades of systematic research, [Carol Dweck] has been figuring out answers to why some people achieve their potential while equally talented others don’t—why some become Muhammad Ali and others Mike Tyson. The key, she found, isn’t ability; it’s whether you look at ability as something inherent that needs to be demonstrated or as something that can be developed. To anyone who is into personal growth and self-improvement, this seems obvious. But clearly, it is not obvious to everybody: look at the this diagram by Nigel Holmes representing the two types of mindsets and I’ll sure you’ll recognize the attitudes of many people you know.

As the word "free" in English does not distinguish between gratis and libre, members of the free software community draw a distinction between "free" as in "free speech" (libre) and "free" as in "free beer" (gratis). By "free software", they mean libre. The phrases "free as in beer" and "free as in speech" have become common catchphrases, along with libre and gratis, in the software development and computer law fields for encapsulating the distinction.

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The primary objectives and purposes of this organization shall be: to educate the public and governmental officials and entities concerning elections systems based upon open source software, and further to promote the adoption of open source voting and elections solutions worldwide. We believe that vote tabulation must be publicly observable, and that proprietary hidden software code makes public observation of tabulation impossible Open Voting Foundation is a nonprofit nonstock corporation applying for tax exempt status as a 501(c)(3) organization.

GPG-TO-GO is a portable version of GnuPG which can be used from a removable medium (floppy disk, USB drive, etc) on Windows machines without leaving a trace in the registry that encryption has taken place.