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by rsingel 15y ago
Yes, and not only the moral context. A school's job is to help turn little animals into citizens by introducing them to the broader world. How does shoving them in a box for 8 hours a day where they have to sit in one place make any sense i
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by rsingel 15y ago
Thanks Paul. I didn't submit this to HN. But I'll disagree about the news value. The complaint's allegations about what Dropbox promised, versus how the architecture actually works, are pretty strong. Soghoian knows his tech and he knows th
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by rsingel 16y ago
There's no cost beyond what you pay for your Sprint service. This is just pure FUD.
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by rsingel 16y ago
Samsung forks Android. Google refuses to license Google Android software to it. Goodbye Market, Gmail, Nav, etc. Sorry, just don't see that happening. Oh, and HTC's phones are so much better quality than the Samsung phones.
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by rsingel 16y ago
No, the Department of Commerce wants to help create a standard . It's a damn hard task, but even harder when the net's FUD is the feds want to create an identity system. No, no they don't. And their process is pretty great. But they will f
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by rsingel 16y ago
Thanks for noticing that Kottke's post is really an epic troll.
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by rsingel 16y ago
And as you know, I made it clear that I thought Consumer Watchdog went way over the line and made unfair claims. I don't see this with DDG and its campaign. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/09/in-defense-of-google/
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by rsingel 16y ago
Hi Matt. Is there any technical reason why that tool can't provide full information? Clearly Google isn't opposed to not sending referrer data, given the existence of https search, but doesn't DDG have a point about third parties having acc
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by rsingel 16y ago
There's literally nothing in the proposal about an internet ID from the Commerce Department. While I'm not thoroughly convinced we need better identification on the net, the proposal here is about creating standards for stronger identific
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by rsingel 16y ago
Sorry the Engadget piece is full of FUD and light on details. I was at the event and covered it for Wired.com. This initiative is coming out of NIST inside the Commerce department, with smart folks there who know this 1) a tough problem, 2)
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by rsingel 16y ago
I'm not sure there's really anything to report back. Tynt is fairly widely used, and is really nothing more than a piece of javascript that watches copy and paste and inserts a link back to the original story into the paste buffer. It's ann
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by rsingel 16y ago
At the risk of sounding like a corporate apologist since I write for Wired.com, Wired.com did NOT use the javascript history hack. It was noted in the report for using Tynt.com, which notices which portions of a story a reader copies and pa
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by rsingel 16y ago
jdp23, you are hereby given the tl;dr Wired.com badge. Submit your Facebook UID and we'll let you prominently place it on your page.
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by rsingel 16y ago
Actually, I think that's wrong. A very small number of media owners think that. And even they did, they'd have to think that search in general, not just Google is the threat. Anyone writing about tech and especially those writing digitally
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by rsingel 16y ago
1. Search is hard and fascinating. 2. There's built-in conflict. Google is a huge near-monopoly. Journalists and their readers love conflict. It's the heart of any good story. 3. Most of the time, building a general purpose search engine re
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by rsingel 16y ago
Sutherland Gold, a small boutique agency that represents, among others, TheFind.com. No idea on their price.
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by rsingel 16y ago
As a journalist who agreed to Blekko's embargo, I'll give you my take. Very few companies can get journalists to agree to an embargo. Most startups don't have the luxury. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Zynga, Foursquare can do it. It's a ques
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by rsingel 16y ago
So what's the news on how/why the WSJ broke the embargo? What was their excuse?
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by rsingel 16y ago
Am I the only one here wondering "Why are you answering questions at all?" The Fifth Amendment still applies at the border and you aren't going to talk your way out of anything. When asked a question at the border -- IF you are a US citizen
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Ex-Digg CEO Jay Adelson is Starting an Incubator(wired.com)
27 points by rsingel 16y ago|5 comments
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by rsingel 16y ago
DNSSEC is signed, not encrypted.
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by rsingel 16y ago
There's no need to feel bad for the DoJ. They rarely encounter encryption and when they do they get around it. For instance in 2009, there were more than 2,300 criminal wiretaps that caught the communications of more than 230,000 people. Th
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by rsingel 16y ago
Fair use is a defense against a claim of copyright infringement. This is about whether you can publish someone's picture -- and perhaps even profit off it. Sorry to tell you but the First Amendment is clear here, like this kind of speech or
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by rsingel 16y ago
Sorry, the website owner might be being a dick, but it's long established that there's no expectation of privacy in a public place. If you want to use someone's image in news on, or on your Flickr account, or on a site showing off "Do's and
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What Happens When You Share A Cloud Server with Koran-Burning Church (renesys.com)
2 points by rsingel 16y ago|0 comments
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by rsingel 16y ago
As the author of the article, I'd argue that the evidence that the FTC is talking to developers about tools (not so much about blocking Flash) shows that Apple was feeling FTC pressure. Jobs argued hard, and not unpersusasively, that third-
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by rsingel 16y ago
Getting Cyanogen on your phone isn't always an easy task. I'm rooted on my EVO, but not rooted enough to get Cyanogen. Thanks Sprint for locking down an "open" phone.
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by rsingel 16y ago
Actually, airport fares aren't that great and they are getting worse for drivers (fee changes and cops on 101). But for the drivers who don't want to work much it's fun to hang out there. The problem with cabs in SF isn't SFO, it's simply t
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by rsingel 16y ago
Having tested this the last few days, I would raise a rebel army if Google tried to take it away.
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by rsingel 16y ago
Twitter is starting to take back and re-release inactive accounts. You can sign up to be notified when the ones you want are made public via Tweetclaims (not my startup, but I did write about them).

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