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by rsingel 14y ago
As the editor of the story, I can say the point of the story is that Congress has given out the administrative subpoena very widely and there's almost no supervision whatsoever of them. You blithely conclude that "the overwhelming majority"
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by rsingel 14y ago
I think it's good to not confuse what we typically think of as links with recommendations, which I think both the OP and the commenter do. Zemanta's widget isn't about permalinks, it's about recommendations. The former are a human art form,
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Acxiom, Choicepoint, etc. For those interested, check out Robert O'Harrow's great book No Place to Hide. Insanely well-reported.
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There are other backup measures, including a trusted friend's phone as backup. But being totally locked out is a feature, not a bug.
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Errg, I hate Tynt - the copy/paste busting slice of JavaScript masquerading as a company.
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Contextly - San Francisco - Local, Possibly Remote Contextly is making online news better. We're currently in a closed beta of our related links service, a beta that includes Wired.com and other top tech blogs. We're looking for a technical
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by rsingel 14y ago
That's mighty purty. Bug: if you try to type in something that doesn't exist, say an actor's name like Walter Matthau, it autocorrects so aggressively you can't finish typing Feature requests: If it's available on Netflix/other streaming se
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by rsingel 14y ago
I love that this showed up the same day as the post about how Alexis Ohanian built reddit. For those that don't know, Alexis doesn't code. And he and Steve are from the East Coast. But who am I to bash another good round of technical vs. no
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Actually today DDG was totally useful. I was trying to find a result for "Marketly LLC DMCA" trying to run down the top company filing DMCA reports with Google. Google was useless. DDG got me to a Chilling Effects page. Lots of time when I
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by rsingel 14y ago
As the editor of the piece, I'll completely agree with your assessment. Free speech rights are more important than property rights. The founders thought so too. But the implication that property rights don't matter at all to Wired because f
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Contextly - San Francisco - Local, Possibly Remote Contextly is making online news better. We're currently in a closed beta of our related links service, a beta that includes Wired.com and other top tech blogs. We're looking for a technical
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by rsingel 15y ago
Rackspace's Cloudfiles has been fantastic for us - we spent about $60 to serve 300GB of images to over 40 million visitors last month. That's over the superior Akamai network. In contrast, Amazon Cloudfiles charges per 10K requests, while o
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by rsingel 15y ago
Name a single YouTube user who has gotten "really screwed." They get their submitted vids taken down via DMCA notices and occasionally banned.
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Pintrest is very much covered under the DMCA safe harbor. As for users, to get real damages under copyright law, a copyright owner need to register your copyrights with the Copyright office AND prove monetary loss. Almost no one does the fo
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by rsingel 15y ago
Yes, this is exactly right. I've covered TSA and edit a blog that just covered this very story. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/bodyscanner-video/ Sometimes a flak can save you embarrassment and other times you disregard them bec
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Show HN: AngelHack Project - ConfessionCall.com(confessioncall.com)
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Intentionally bypassing user settings to track users might seem like a practical, albeit ethically wrong, business decision, right up to the point that you get caught. Ask Hulu and KISSmetrics, for two. (search "zombie cookies" and those co
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by rsingel 15y ago
In your list of "choice excerpts," an obituary for Anthony Shadid, one of the greats in journalism. He won 2 Pulitzer prizes and a bullet in the shoulder for his coverage of the Middle East over the last decade. Go read his obit and some of
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My response to Arrington - e.g. why start-ups need to learn the basics of Fair Information Practices: http://ryansingel.net/blog/2012/02/13/stop-screwing-users-pr...
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Path said it was sending over HTTPS, but storing in plaintext - protected by a firewall. No server-side encryption.
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This is exactly the data Google and MSFT and others get from toolbars. Google and MSFT use this kind of data to improve search results (noting how long users stay on a site, etc.). It's key to the Panda update. So it's no wonder Google pays
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by rsingel 15y ago
Also realize that Dropbox's architecture leaves an evidentiary trail - nothing is ever actually deleted from your account. If you upload anything copyrighted, you have opened yourself up to the possibility of being sued or prosecuted for co
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Feds Shutter Megaupload, Arrest Executives(wired.com)
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Rep. Smith Waters Down SOPA, DNS-Redirects Out(wired.com)
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Ballers Battle to Break Out - Wired on Talent Shortage(wired.com)
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I'm going to disagree from experience. I'm a non-technical founder (admittedly versed in tech, but not a coder) and I've managed to build a stealth company that's in a very successful invite-only beta with the help of two talented freelance
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Ah, no problem. Plus you gave me the opportunity to give a shout-out to my writers. And, I'll cop to your criticism. I assigned the story to Kravets, saying I didn't want a typical year end in review story and instead wanted to pick one the
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by rsingel 15y ago
While I appreciate the debate over the article's thesis, as the editor of that piece and of Wired's Threat Level blog, I'm going to quibble with you about Wired's coverage. Threat Level has been all over Occupy: http://www.wired.com/threat
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There's an argument that this counts as fair use case. And in that case, charging or not charging can make a difference.
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Yes, they have the valuable Congressional Research Service to do non-partisan evaluations. Their reports are great, though often not made public.

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