November 2009
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Why the Digital Economy Bill is flawed
My MP, Meg Hillier, was kind enough to respond by post to my email about the proposed “three strikes” legislation in the UK. The main content of her response was to forward me a letter she received from Stephen Timms, the Minister for Digital Britain (his actual job title, I’m not making this up), to “clarify the Government’s position on this issue”.
The...
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Regex style in Ruby
Reading Patrick McKenzie’s excellent practical example of metaprogramming, I came across a line of code I didn’t understand:
caller[0][/`([^']*)'/, 1]
That line taught me three new things about Ruby:
The syntax for the subscript operator [] allows multiple arguments. (It turns out I already knew this in another context: [1,1,2,3,5,7][2,3] => [2,3,5])
You can...
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On "three strikes": email to my MP
An email I wrote to my MP (using the very handy WriteToThem) regarding the UK Government’s so-called “three strikes” proposals to combat illegal filesharing.
Dear Ms Hillier,
I am writing to ask you to vote against the Government’s forthcoming Digital Economy Bill, unless the currently proposed measures to impair or disconnect without trial the internet...