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How companies learn our secrets (NYT): do you always feel like somebody's watching you? well, you're right—http://j.mp/zF4oEP
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Google secretly tracked iPhone users (WSJ): what happened to "Do No Evil?" Paraphrasing Godin: All brands might be liars—http://j.mp/z3TETE
about 3 hours ago from Ping.fm -
@snapshotsbymike should be re-enabled now.
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I am sure this has been expressed more elegantly elsewhere, but it just popped in my head in this way: copyright was es…
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@maiki yes but s/value/rent/ cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent
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@maiki ... and 2nd "value" probably "cost", 3rd might actually be "value". but then I'm probably being silly.
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In Cryptonomicon there is a character working to create inexpensive, modular weapon systems that can be deployed to com…
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proof-based "DRM": possible? desirable? blog.ezyang.com/2012/02/how-to-build-drm-you-can-trust/ http://redd.it/prapt !dbd (or not; read 1st)
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nice to hear mention of copyright holders opposing SOPA; we need to stop acknowledging Hollywood as the sole "content industry" #smwsopa
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Pessimistic about sustaining energy on these issues: so many awful bills, so hard to get attention except in few exceptional cases. #smwsopa
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At Social Media Week panel on story behind the SOPA blackouts. (For the Wikipedians: no, I did not bring a "citation needed" sign.) #smwsopa
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!Mozilla's Plan to Devour !Android http://identi.ca/url/66710913
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@rms "People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world." - Richard M. Stallman http://redd.it/psz19 !gnu !lp
about 20 hours ago from web- Evan Prodromou, gdk and Christopher Allan Webber and 9 others like this.
- Víctor Salmerón, Evan Prodromou and Christopher Allan Webber and 6 others repeated this.
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♻ @dpic: @rms "People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world." - Richard M. Stallman http://redd.it/psz19
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This quote is so beautiful.
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@dickturpin when are you gonna invite me on the show? /cc @yamatt.
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@dickturpin I’m really looking forward to that episode!
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So am I. Just need to arrange it. :-D
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All right, send me an email. evan@status.net.
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I'm looking for an apartment in Berlin. Any leads to a nice place, internetz? http://ur1.ca/87mj0
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Poll: When should StatusNet servers ping a central system to make a global firehose of public activities?
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I imagine the difference between opted in and opted out is a radio button on the install screen, similar to the option …
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Watching Drive. Liked the beginning, now I'm pretty bored.
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Really? Did you get to the hammer part yet?
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@evan I hadn't when I wrote that. I was in the awkward silences/falling for girl part.
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how to identify #HTML5 http://i.imgur.com/2Kq6Y.jpg
- Evan Prodromou, John Doe and jpope like this.
- Brian van den Broek, djturtlep and Evan Prodromou repeated this.
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what about those of us that do not have IE? How do we know?
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@douglasawh u don't need to know, it just works ;)
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New blog post for EFF: A decade of Open Access (and the challenges ahead) - https://eff.org/r.S7F
- Mike Linksvayer repeated this.
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NewNewNewNewTwitter causes Fx13.0a1 to use 100% cpu. thanks, @twitter
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@mlinksva well, my scientific instrument was closing tabs and looking at sys monitor. It may have been another tab, but unlikely.
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@mlinksva happened again. npviewer.bin was the culprit, but it was killed when I closed the #NewNewNewNewTwitter tab. Confirmed with top ;)
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@greg never heard of npviewer.bin but wow search results not charitable. I don't have Flash installed, probably explains difference.
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About #Patents. Again - http://bit.ly/zxyxc7 great post; key point is we live in age of inventive abundance - patents designed for scarcity
- Mike Linksvayer repeated this.
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Do you know a video using sounds from freesound and decent attribution? http://blog.freesound.org/?p=204 !cc
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