Where ACTA Stands in the EU on Mon 23/01/2012

Thank you for contacting me about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.

ACTA, an agreement with Australia, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States, is aimed at establishing an international framework to improve the enforcement of intellectual property right laws and create improved international standards for actions against large-scale infringements of intellectual property. In general I support that aim, for instance to try and curb drug counterfeiting which can kill people and in order to safeguard legitimate investment and innovation.

But along with my group, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe (ALDE), I have had serious concerns about ACTA’s implications for privacy and freedom. During all the negotiations on ACTA, ALDE group has been at the forefront calling for transparency and tabled a resolution in September 2010 asking the Commission for all relevant studies and impact assessments before signing the agreement. ALDE colleagues have sponsored many of the Parliamentary questions on this matter, a compilation of which can be found here.

Negotiations were finalised in November 2010 and the relevant parties are now in the process of ratifying theAgreement through their internal procedures. In the EU this means that both the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers must give their approval. The Council adopted a decision on December 17th authorising the signature of ACTA, and the text now passes to the European Parliament for ratification. The International Trade Committee (INTA) and the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) have already asked the Parliament’s Legal Services for advice on the agreement, and then the INTA Committee will produce a report with input in the form of opinions from the Development Committee (DEVE), the Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) and the JURI Committee.

On 24 November 2010 the European Parliament adopted a Resolution in which we called on the Commission to confirm that ACTA’s implementation will have no impact on fundamental rights and data protection. MEPs welcomed the Commission’s confirmation that the ACTA provisions will be fully in line with EU law and that neither personal searches nor the so-called ‘three strikes and out’ procedure will be introduced. The Parliament also emphasised that any decision taken by the Commission as part of the ACTA Committee must not unilaterally change the agreement’s content, and that therefore any proposed change must be approved by the Parliament and the Council.

ALDE will finalise its decision on whether to support the agreement or not once the legal advice and INTA committee report are available and only if concerns about interference with internet freedoms and other civil liberties can be assuaged.

Arduino Code from lab

void setup()

{

Serial.begin(57600);

}

void loop()

{

//int analogData = analogRead(0);//10 bit value, max 1023, min 0.

int analogDataPin0 = analogRead(0);//Read Current analog pin value.

Serial.print(analogDataPin0 >> 7, BYTE);//shift high bits into output byte

//same as dividing by 128 But that

//takes much longer on an arduino.

Serial.print(analogDataPin0 % 128, BYTE);//mod 128 for the small byte

Serial.print(255, BYTE);//denotes the end of a package.

delay(10);

}

This particular code snippet works for one source of information, ie: a single sensor. If, perhaps there were to be two sections of information, say, a switch, there would be another Serial.print line. It would just print 0 or 1, but you could map that to some interesting effects in max.

Always be sure to watch your outputs from the zl group object to cover the extra inputs.

Week 5 Lecture

Sounds and ideas for your performance....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX5V_9s0Gfw&feature=related

Create a mock tesla coil with am LDR and a light source. Use samples similar to the sounds above or in the ghostbusters one.

Project is limited to;

2 continuous, 2 discrete, no screen, no mouse, one mic, one acoustic instrument and props. That's it!

Week 5 Lab

Using the arduino's internal pull-up

code to turn on pull-up

void setup(){

pinMode(3, INPUT);

digitalWrite(3,HIGH);}

void loop(){

int digin = digitalRead(3);

}

Arduino Serial

Serial transmission is one bit sent at a time. Serial speeds can range from 9.6k to 115.2k, but for practical reasons we mostly use 57.6k. That is the same speed as good old dial-up tinternets.

Impratical example of code*

void setup()

{

Serial.begin(57600);

}

void loop()

{

Serial.print(1);

delay (500);

}

This will print out the ASCII value for one every half second. This in and of itself is utterly useless, unless something is listening on the computer and knows what to do with that 49. so instead of worrying about the encoding values, we can get Serial.print to pass information as is. We do this by adding in the argument BYTE. Thus the new code would look like "Serial.print(1, BYTE);"

Sample Lab Test Question;

Build a light controlled oscillator using a Light Dependant Resistor, a potential divider, arduino and MaxMSP.

Solution:

Lec 2 - 15/09/09

Hardware (electronics and stuff) -> MaxMSP wizadry -> speakers

MaxMSP has Objects (functions), Message boxes (used for sending variables to an object), Number boxes (send info of type int/float)

Objects~ is a signal object. like cycle~. A signal object means that there is always 44,100 numbers coming out of that object every second.

How would you we control this without screen or mouse?

list all the parameters and actions you need to deal with.

select and load....

select start and end.... How do you deal with different sample lengths?

Divide the slider into 3, and allow the performer to either A) play backwards at regular/slow speed, B) playback slowly, C) playback at regular speed or D) playback faster than normal.

Also set it up so that the user can load a sound without seeing the instrument!! VERY IMPORTANT!

Looping point, -> set start and width. ->use some other thing to control it.... another twisty knob yoke?

Set something that will allow the user to just straight hit one button and then go time.

Lecture 1 09/09/09

Basic Intro to Electricity

• Voltage

• Current

• Resistence

Never create a short circuit. = Electricity will flow from the positive to the negetive insanely fast and fry the wire.

Voltage = pressure. Of a battery = 1.5V == the pressure difference from the positive to negetive. Measured with a voltmeter. Voltage also = potential difference.

Current is a measure of the amount of electricity that is flowing. (symbol = i)

The unit of current is the Amp.

Resistence = a measure of how well it resists the flow of electricity. Resistence is measured in Ohms. 100 ohms is about the same as a 60W lightbulb. In electronics, we mostly deal in 1Kohms or 10Kohms. The Resistence of a human (Rh) is roughly 1Mohm (1 mega ohm).

Voltage = 1.5V

I at 100ohms = X

I at 1Kohms = Y

X>Y

Ohms Law, V= IR where V = Volts, I = Amps, R = Ohms.

Voltage across something, current through it.

In electronics we deal with milliamps. mA.

Simple sensor circuit is created with 5V and two resistors. Each at 10Kohms.

Two 10Kohm resisters in series create a total resistence of 20Kohms. Rtotal = R1 + R2.

note

Current remains the same throughout a circuit, but the voltage drops through resisters.

Rt = 20Kohms, V = 5, V =IR => I = V/R = 5/20000 = 0.25mA.

Notes at http://seattlerobotics.org/guide/electronics.html

Lab 4 - 29th/Sept/2009

Pin 13 on the Arduino includes a resistor. None of the other pins do.

Pull DOwn Resistor is a resistor after a switch before ground, to allow current to flow without a short circuit.

150 Ohms resistor = Brown, Green, Brown

10k Ohms resistor = Brown, Black, Orange

LED - Long leg = +, short leg = -

5v -----|=150=|---|(led)>----|GND

*note* edit again before friday