Category: Uncategorized
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links for 2010-12-17
The Internet Problem: when an abundance of choice becomes an issue | Technology | guardian.co.uk My internet problem is the one so many of us struggle with: how do you choose when the constraints of geography, income and circumstance disappear? What goes in a playlist when all the music ever recorded is one click away? […]
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links for 2010-12-16
Zakaria Answers Beck's "10 percent" comment (tags: video politics culture race religion) Is WikiLeaks' Julian Assange a Hero? Glenn Greenwald Debates Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News We host a debate between Steven Aftergood, a transparency advocate who has become a leading critic of WikiLeaks, and Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional law attorney and legal blogger for […]
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links for 2010-12-12
Anonymous isn't: LOIC leaks internet address of user Researchers at the University of Twente in the Netherlands report that the LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) software used in pro-Wikileaks Anonymous attacks discloses the identity of the user. (tags: internet technology) James Bond Is a Fake John le Carre's wonderful character is 10 times — no, […]
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links for 2010-12-11
2600 NEWS: PRESS RELEASE – 2600 MAGAZINE CONDEMNS DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS These attacks, in addition to being a misguided effort that doesn't accomplish very much at all, are incredibly simple to launch and require no technical or hacker skills. While writing such programs requires a good degree of ingenuity and knowledge of security weaknesses, […]
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links for 2010-12-10
Japan: A Quiet Revolution by the NEET [Not in Education, Employment, or Training] In a post titled “Revolution of the NEET (lol)“, Sayuri Tamaki explores a new breed of NEET and how they are changing the country. (tags: culture economy politics) Iranian Blogger 'Hoder' Reportedly Released From Prison Hossein Derakhshan, better known as "Hoder", has […]
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links for 2010-12-09
Visa & MasterCard: KKK Is A-OK, But Wikileaks Is Wicked As Charles Arthur points out, the Ku Klux Klan's website points you to a site that takes both MasterCard and Visa — suggesting the pure arbitrariness of both credit card companies' decision here. It's a bad idea when firms start making decisions for political reasons. […]
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links for 2010-12-07
Clay Shirky: Wikileaks and the Long Haul Over the long haul, we will need new checks and balances for newly increased transparency — Wikileaks shouldn’t be able to operate as a law unto itself anymore than the US should be able to. In the short haul, though, Wikileaks is our Amsterdam. Whatever restrictions we eventually […]
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The Problem With… The Black Eyed Peas’ “The Time Dirty Bit” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With… The Black Eyed Peas’ “The Time Dirty Bit” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night.
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links for 2010-12-01
6 Insane Conspiracies Hiding Behind Non-Profit Groups | Cracked.com Not a day goes by that you won't hear an ad or message from some well-meaning group called the "Council for (insert good cause here)" or "Concerned Citizens for (whatever) or "The _______ Committee for Responsible ________." They sound like charity groups, and they're always advocating […]
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links for 2010-11-29
The FBI successfully thwarts its own Terrorist plot But it may also just as easily be the case that the FBI — as they've done many times in the past — found some very young, impressionable, disaffected, hapless, aimless, inept loner; created a plot it then persuaded/manipulated/entrapped him to join, essentially turning him into a […]