January 2012
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“Matt Richtel’s recent NYT article on teenagers who share their Facebook...”
– Parents’ snooping teaches kids to share their passwords with each other via BoingBoing
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Pirate Bay Press Release →
PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would “do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear”. He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture. Because of Edisons patents for the motion pictures it was close to ...
Jan 20th
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Jan 18th
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“… Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via azspot)
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WatchWatch
If Mitt Romney really believes corporations are people, he’s a serial killer! Ha. Thank you Jon Stewart. via peterfeld
Jan 16th
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“As a member of the Walkman generation, I have made peace with the fact that I...”
–  Cory Doctorow
Jan 16th
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Umwelt →
In 1909, the biologist Jakob von Uexküll introduced the concept of the umwelt. He wanted a word to express a simple (but often overlooked) observation: different animals in the same ecosystem pick up on different environmental signals. In the blind and deaf world of the tick, the important signals are temperature and the odor of butyric acid. For the black ghost knifefish, it’s electrical...
Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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“one underlying thing that Cerf misses, is how vital universal network access is...”
– Information Diet | Why Horses Are Not in the Constitution (via interestingsnippets)
Jan 14th
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“There are some times,” Patil explains, “when you can predict weather well for...”
– This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business | Fast Company (via interestingsnippets)
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“The copyright wars are just the beta version of a long coming war on...”
– Cory Doctorow (via chrbutler)
Jan 14th
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That call center you reached? If they're in the... →
Is it starting to make sense yet?
Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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America Isn't A Company →
“The thing is — and this is kind of important — governments are not corporations. I cannot stress this enough. There’s the obvious point that in democracies, legislatures tend to impose a more powerful constraint than shareholders, making it that much harder for leaders to execute the policies…
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New virus raids your bank account - but you won't... →
The Trojan horse employs a powerful two-step process to commit the electronic crime. First, the virus lies in wait until a customer with an infected computer visits an online banking site, steals their login credentials and tricks the victim into divulging additional personal information such as debit card information.  Then, after the stolen card number is used for a fraudulent purchase, the...
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