motters

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by motters 15y ago
I'm just wondering how long it will be before the moral panic. Social networking video opens up new horizons for copyright/trademark violations, "public broadcasts" and all manner of Chatroulette-like tomfoolery.
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by motters 15y ago
If it requires you to log in with Facebook, that's a red flag right there.
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by motters 15y ago
Well, when you live inside of a walled garden the proprietor can kick you, or your son, off the grass for any ephemeral or arbitrary reason they happen to have just thought of.
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The Evolutionist's Prayer(hmnh.org)
1 points by motters 15y ago|0 comments
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Open-source plans for a low-cost CNC mill(kickstarter.com)
30 points by motters 15y ago|5 comments
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"Cargo Cult Science" by Richard Feynman(youtu.be)
1 points by motters 15y ago|0 comments
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by motters 15y ago
"I’ve followed 2,723 people" This kind of thing baffles me. How can anyone meaningfully follow that number of people? Surely all you're going to get from that many is a stream of mostly trivia that you're not really interested in.
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by motters 15y ago
It sounds nice if you can pull it off, but on the occasions where I've been continually moving from place to place I've found it much harder to actually get anything done. Continual travel adds cognitive and other entropic overheads which
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by motters 15y ago
The "no one to pay for it" argument doesn't seem to be uniformly applied to to various highly expensive military adventures.
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by motters 15y ago
Don't let anyone tell you that universal health care is "not viable", especially in one of the world's wealthiest countries. Such statements are really just political manoeuvrings of a disreputable kind. In the UK universal health care has
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by motters 15y ago
It's amazing how similar Kurzweil's observations about technology are to Stafford Beer's same observations in the early 1970s. Beer even draws an exponential graph and talks about a succession of S-curve shaped technology paradigms.
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Rat Traders(rattraders.com)
2 points by motters 15y ago|0 comments
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Peak Facebook(google.com)
99 points by motters 15y ago|51 comments
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by motters 15y ago
People seem to have been predicting a "digital pearl harbour" for over a decade now. I think such a thing might only be possible if most computing moves into "the cloud" and cloud systems become highly homogenized, such that a single explo
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by motters 15y ago
No matter how sophisticated or amateurish this attack is, or was, you can be sure that it will be used by politicians as ammunition to help pass laws which most people reading this will probably disagree with.
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by motters 15y ago
http://youtu.be/T-CkD98FJ24
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by motters 15y ago
There is an inordinate amount of philosophising in the freedombox camp. Really it's just a distro project, and nearly all of the packages required already exist. What remains is just an easy installation procedure such that you can enter so
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by motters 15y ago
I regard Unity and Gnome shell as still being experimental, and not delivering a very comprehensive or polished experience. If you want to get serious work done then stick with Gnome 2.x (for example Mint 11).
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Data ownership(wiki.knownelement.com)
2 points by motters 15y ago|0 comments
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by motters 15y ago
The outlook for internet freedoms appears quite doomy over the next few years. Although in this case LulzSec doesn't appear to have done anything other than highlight security failings stories like this, along with the various doings of An
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by motters 15y ago
I think this is primarily about finding a hack which is a short-cut to doing something in the officially recommended way (with Windows and Access)
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by motters 15y ago
I'm ashamed to admit that I actually have a qualification in COBOL, obtained many many years ago. Even at the time it was a dead/obsolete language. Some COBOL programmers were employed in the last few years of the 20th century in order to
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Hacker ngrams(ngrams.googlelabs.com)
2 points by motters 15y ago|0 comments
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by motters 15y ago
I don't want the hub of my digital life moving to the cloud, where it can be data mined, surveilled, decompiled, accidentally erased, subject to arbitrary subscription ransoms or sold to anyone who will pay.
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Spirit obit(nasa.gov)
23 points by motters 15y ago|7 comments
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Delia Derbyshire - Sculptress of Sound(youtu.be)
12 points by motters 15y ago|0 comments
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A Federated Social Web for Peace(projectdanube.org)
4 points by motters 15y ago|1 comments
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by motters 15y ago
I agree that deflation is probably the biggest criticism of Bitcoin. The finite supply means that there's more of a temptation to sit on your heap of gold rather than to participate in transactions. This could lead to the currency becomin
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by motters 15y ago
Does this have anything to do with the backdoor API, or were the passwords just brute forced?
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by motters 15y ago
Degree or no degree, I bet almost nobody earns £100K per year in Glasgow.

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