Tag: culture
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Booklist for the Network Revolution
I’ve been asked by a number of people for a list of books that would cover the “new ideas” that are driving the current transitional confluence of forces in those civilizations reaching the end of the Industrial Age. I have chosen to not list books in the domains of Technology, Economics, Business, and Politics because…
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Privacy isn’t anonymity
Over on Radar O’Reilly there is this entry about Schneier’s wholesale surveillance concept, with some excerpts focusing on the privacy issues/concerns of this increasingly common practice. I wrote some comments on the site, which I’ve reproduced here: “Isn’t this more about anonymity than privacy? Anonymity is the ability to interact with society without being recognized…
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London, again
The Guardian is reporting more bombs in the London Tubes. This is interesting as it makes the local terror intensify in the pattern of the D.C. Sniper – dull, disruptive, numbing of the local inhabitant’s desire to travel. In Washington, this meant targeting people at gas pumps and mall parking lots, in London this means…
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London
Three things about the bombs in the London transportation system:
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How to solve the copyright distribution issue – the practical approach
I really dig the way in which Richard Stallman has approached the problems inherent in copyright, but they aren’t very practical – a little too idealistic and abstract for a bunch of greedy MBAs and CEOs to deal with. Andrew Orlowski gave this address, titled, After Grokster: why (almost) everything we’re told about P2P is…
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the end times are here
It is 10pm Pacific, Saturday July 2nd, and NBC is showing NASCAR in Primetime.
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Revenge of the Sith
Well, it wasn’t as bad as the first two, but I have to say the best thing about the movie-going experience were the previews of Stealth, Batman Begins, and War of the Worlds. This movie did not ‘kick ass’. Nor did it scare me. Nor did it make me feel anything at all. It was,…
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Baseball, round two
The guy who is in charge of the World Anti-Doping Agency doesn’t like American pro-sports league’s policies on drugs [story here (http://http/slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Baseball/MLB/2005/03/18/965642-ap.html)] [ link broken, no archive ] Why does this guy think that his agency’s rules for amateur athletics matter for professional sports-entertainment? Why do people not understand that the fan experience is more…
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sport, steroids, and the sovereign
Maybe I haven’t been paying attention, but I’m still trying to figure out how we got here. What is the compelling interest of Congress in the internal efforts of a professional entertainment industry’s attempts to regulate performance enhancement on the part of it’s entertainers? What is it that makes it a Congressional issue? No one…
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hyperbole or creative?
Being a sneaky, go where you aren’t supposed to, cracker, the kind of thing that most people think of when you say “hacker”, is pretty damn hard. There are two kinds – those who get caught and those who don’t. The ones that you should be afraid of are the ones who have come and…