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The 'Me' Generation Isn't So 'Me'
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Hackers to RIAA: "Nyaa, Nyaa"; RIAA to hackers: "It's cool, we're lawyered up."
The RIAA's website was hacked on Sunday. Frankly, I'm just surprised it's been so long since the last rash of attacks--six times in as many months back in 2002. And while the RIAA hasn't issued any lawsuits or pressed charges (yet), it's unlikely an organization with that much lobbying power will stay silent.
So enjoy it while it lasts, hackers. The RIAA may not understand technology, but I'm willing to bet the big, lumbering Tyrannosaurus Rex didn't fully understand what the small creatures running around beneath it were either. It just grabbed them with its teensy, greedy arms and chowed down (not really).
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Swedes debate decriminalizing file sharing, warm my heart
"Decriminalizing all non-commercial file sharing and forcing the market to adapt is not just the best solution," wrote Karl Sigfrid and six other Moderate Party Swedish Parliament Members in an Expressen article last week. "It’s the only solution, unless we want an ever more extensive control of what citizens do on the Internet. Politicians who play for the antipiracy team should be aware that they have allied themselves with a special interest that is never satisfied and that will always demand that we take additional steps toward the ultimate control state."
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BigThink video site has science interviews, needs more nudity
BigThink sells itself as "YouTube for smart people," and they've collected 2,000 interviews from luminaries in politics, business, media, pop culture and science. Instead of a willy-nilly, user-uploaded content format, BigThink instead asks these Illuminati important questions and videotapes their answers against a stark white background. It's sort of like Errol Morris, but in a doctor's office and less engaging.
While the science side of the site seems kind of spare and sterile, they at least make an effort to include vids from people like Stephen Pinker, NIH bioethicist Ezekiel Emmanuel and Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia.
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Bill Gates Funds Futuristic Internet-Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert
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"LSST is truly an Internet telescope, which will put terabytes of data each night into the hands of anyone that wants to explore it. The 8.4-metre LSST telescope and the 3-gigapixel camera are thus a shared resource for all humanity — the ultimate network peripheral device to explore the universe."
— Bill Gates -Microsoft co-founder.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, partially funded by $30 million from Microsoft founders Bill gates and Charles Simyoni, the developer of Word and Excel, is projected for ‘first light’ in 2014 in Chile's Atacama Desert -the world's Southern Hemisphere space-observatory mecca. The 8.4-meter telescope will be able to survey the entire visible sky deeply in multiple colors every week with its 3-billion pixel digital camera. The telescope will probe the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, and it will open a movie-like window on objects that change or move rapidly: exploding supernovae, potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids and distant Kuiper Belt objects.
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China's anti-graft website not corrupt, just broken
So I wouldn't want to be the IT administrator for a Chinese graft-reporting website for all the tea in, well, China. I might however do it for all the server space in China if, that is, the servers weren't monitored by corrupt, grafty politicians.
The website, now live again, was launched on Tuesday by the National Bureau of Corruption Preventio to collect information on corrupt activities. The server crashed one day later. Apparently China is either incredibly corrupt or so boring that complaining ranks as one of the most popular past times. I.e., it's like the 1969 Whitehouse or my Grandparent's retirement center. Oh wait. It's the former.
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You're so vain you probably think this post is about you (Or: 53% of everyone you know is stalking you online)
According to a new Pew Research Center study, the Internet is watching you.
47% of all Internet users have searched for information about themselves online, but 53% of adult users have used the Internet to suss out information on family and friends, romantic interests, or business colleagues. Even so, 60% of Internet users aren't worried about how much information is available.
We all know how that turns out. You blow off work for a "sick day," dress up like Tinkerbell, and then have your face plastered all over the Internet.
Internet brown-outs 'imminent'; World of Warcraft shamans summoned to emergency guild council
When Al Gore was building the Internet with his bare, bit-encrusted hands, I told him we were going to need bigger pipes (I planned to download an ungodly amount of cosplay porn, so I already knew). Turns out I was right: A study by Nemertes Research Group, an independent analysis firm, speculates that corporate and consumer use of the Internet could lead to brown-outs in two years, unless primary service providers invest $137 billion into upgrades and repairs to account for growing capacity.
“Our findings indicate that although core fiber and switching/routing resources will scale nicely to support virtually any conceivable user demand, Internet access infrastructure, specifically in North America, will likely cease to be adequate for supporting demand within the next three to five years.”
Obama Loves Net Neutrality
On MTV, of all the weird places, Barack Obama was asked if he would support Net Neutrality and appoint FCC commissioners that toe the same line. Short answer? "Yes."
Could 'War of the Worlds"-style scare happen again?
In 1938, the preternaturally gifted Orson Welles stunned the nation with his "War of the Worlds" radio play, causing mass hysteria and panic. An article at CNet News asks, would we believe it in today's modern world, what with our high-speed Innernets and infotainers?
The article essentially concludes with a 'not really, unless you're a gullible douchebag,' but then goes on to examine the foundations of modern skepticism by speaking with experts and exploring modern-day hoaxes like the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Mooninite scandal in Boston.
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24% of Americans would rather date Facebook than you
Nearly one in four Americans say the Internet can serve as a substitute for a significant other for at least some period of time according to a new poll by Zogby International and 463 Internet Attitudes. At its snippiest the press release touts that "Not surprisingly, the percentage was highest among singles, of which 31% said it could be a substitute." Thanks for the judgment, Internet. I love you a little less now.
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