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Why I'm a Pirate
Why I’m a Pirate! par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
Google IP Vandalizing OpenStreetMap [Not a comprehensive post]
Two OpenStreetMap accounts have been vandalizing OSM in London, New York and elsewhere from Google’s IP address, the same address in India reported by Mocality.
Trust is Fragile
Taylor’s post about our growth in 2011 included a bunch of numbers showing how the pistons inside the 37signals engine are pounding faster, but it all got swept away by what seemed like an innocent side-note: The 100 millionth file was called cat.jpg. Being as it is that the internet is co…
Commenting, community deterioration, and Hacker News
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An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%
The following article, and the two addenda that follow, were written by an investment manager who works with very wealthy clients. I knew him from decades ago, but in 2011 he e-mailed me with some concerns he had about what was happening with the economy. What he had to say was informative enough that I asked if he…
Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
I have a love/hate relationship with the Cato Institute. Most of their analysis I strongly disagree with, but some of it I equally strongly agree with. Last September 11—the tenth anniversary of 9/11—Cato’s David Rittgers published “Abolish the Department of Homeland Security“: DHS has too many subdivisions in too…
What everyone in the SOPA debate is missing: IP is not a fundamental right
Underlying the debate about the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is the unstated assumption that intellectual property rights have th...
My Call to Senator Schumer’s Office on PIPA: It’s So Much Worse Than I Thought
First, let me say how fantastic it is that when you call the office, a real-live human picks up the phone and can speak to you. There’s no annoying menus, no transfers, no answering machines. Washington, please don’t ever change this.
New York City gets a Software Engineering High School
This fall New York City will open The Academy for Software Engineering, the city’s first public high school that will actually train kids to develop software. The project has been a long time dream…
How Copyright Industries Con Congress
I’ve yet to encounter a technically clueful person who believes the Stop Online Piracy Act will actually do anything to meaningfully reduce—let alone “stop”—online piracy, and so I haven’t bothered writing much about the absurd numbers the bill’s supporters routinely bandy about in hopes of persuading lawmakers that…
Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices
The Software Freedom Law Center provides legal representation and other law related services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software.
The Strange Case of John Dillinger and the Fraudulent Apple ID
Programming Zen is a blog about programming and emerging technologies, authored by Antonio Cangiano, a Software Development Manager and AI Evangelist at IBM.
Martin Fowler: An Open Letter to Pearson about SOPA/PIPA
To: John Isley, Executive Vice President, Higher Education & CEO Pearson Technology Group
This photograph is free
I've just read This photograph is not free on Petapixel.com, and I should explain why I disagree with the author and decided to give away the picture below: The photo above is
The SOPA Debate and Congress's Understanding of Child Porn
Update (1/22/2012): SOPA was indefinitely postponed by Rep. Lamar Smith on Friday (PIPA is likewise stalled). Rep. Smith also has another Internet rights bill on deck though: the The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, which mandates that Internet services store customer data for up to 18…
Reddit to go dark on Jan 18 to protest SOPA
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