Adobe info. The Adobe Licensing Repair Tool doesn’t work on OS X 10.7 Lion or OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

Recommendation from forum post:

1. Download and mount the utility.
2. Open Terminal, cd to the volume \mac_install_11.6.1 and run sudo ./install_fnp.sh

Download links to Adobe trials: CS3, CS4, CS5, CS6 if clean reinstalling.

Update: Yes I upgraded to CS6 now Retina support is available.. Thanks Adobe.

3. When discussing mandatory filtering, I think we need to resist issues being conflated when we are pointing out the flaws. i.e. the technical problems vs the risk of impairing civil liberties and free flow of ideas vs whether we need censorship at all. At the same time, we need to point out the goals of scheme also conflate or confuse issues. e.g. If mandatory filtering is blocking content to a RC level, how is that content feed age appropriate for children?

I wanted to ask why mandatory filtering was a necessary component of the various strategies that were being set out to achieve the scheme’s goals to protect children but the discussion got a bit mangled.

4. We also need to ask for a list of risks and how these will be mitigated:
- technology being used to curb free speech / free flow of ideas
- arbitrary addition of URLs to blacklist
- parents / schools becoming complacent about monitoring their children’s use of the internet
- technology censoring content that should not be refused classification (false positive)
- technology causing degradation of service

It’s interesting to see how the Conroy/ALP response shifts over time. The current response (as mirrored by my Federal member) seems to be: there are a number of topics you can’t publish / sell / buy in a book or a DVD, so you shouldn’t be able to do this on the internet and he was yet to hear a good answer to this from no filter advocates. So lets get some good answers — I have some ideas.

Things that he said will derail mandatory filtering: if it causes tall poppies (big business) in Sydney and Melbourne to notice degradation, then filtering will likely be stopped.

Other points:
- impressed that he was across the issues.
- might be interesting to talk about civil disobedience / historical and contemporary examples / if that should be censored.
- Lastly, attack by Anonymous was inadvertently raised by someone else. While I think EFA may be too conservative (I think the notion of censorship board approving types of women’s bodies is beyond outrageous) however, it appears EFA were right — in Federal Member’s mind, he sees us and them as arguing for the same thing — and said if anything, taking down the APH site made him want to legislate more. I didn’t respond other than checking he realised that it was an international protest, not the people in Aus who were advocating for open internet.

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It is clear that filtering (censorship) does not prevent access to child pornography (Enex TestLab Report, 2009: Circumvention Testing). It is not clear how mandatory filtering protects children. How does this approach do anything to prevent exploitation of children through child pornography?
(Maybe delete first para)

It is also clear from the ISP Filtering – Frequently Asked Questions that governments with a majority in both houses of parliament can use this technology to censor information from public access.

This is bad policy that will do long term damage to the freedoms we enjoy and espouse throughout the world, while doing nothing to curb the production of child pornography or to prevent access to child pornography to those who seek it. It is also an extremely blunt instrument to protect children from inappropriate material on the internet, something that parents should either take responsibility for in the restricted access services they give their children or by participating in their children’s activity online.

While I feel strongly about many issues that the government and opposition debate, I’m taking the step of writing this letter to you because what’s the point of any of the other policy positions you or I may care about now or in the future if we can’t guarantee open and uncensored forums to discuss them in.

(update 2)
Resources:
nocleanfeed site by EFA
#nocleanfeed on twitter

Pic from map when I was working out locations..

Click map to take game. I learnt on a simple just text version that no longer exists. I made this one to replicate it but with names on the map.

I like the flash based ones at sporcle: Africa and World.

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• ACM Creativity & Cognition 2009 – Everyday Creativity: Shared Languages and Collective Action
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• JQuery Contains Exactly – Jquery extend

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• Create Digital Motion » Progress Bars, What is the Fundamental Nature of Time? – I wish my progress work had been as accessible but I guess I was making work about other things.. inequality, collapse of progress and challenges to freedom
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• toxiclibs – Google Code –