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Until Today, If You Were 17, It Could Have Been Illegal To Read Seventeen.com
If you are 17 or under, a federal prosecutor could have charged you with computer hacking just for reading Seventeen magazine online—until today. It’s not because the law got any better. Earlier today, we wrote about news sites that alarmingly prohibit their youth audiences from accessing the news...
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How the Internet Archive is having a great time with Bitcoin
The Internet Archive jumped into bitcoin in 2011 after many people asked to donate bitcoins-- a non-techy set up our wallet (good sign), and we got about $2,000 worth of donations that first year. In 2012 we got about $6,000 worth-- interesting. I think of it as the local currency of the Internet. I figured
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Teenager Who Reads News Online? According to the DoJ, You May Be a Criminal
During his first term, President Barack Obama declared October 2009 to be “National Information Literacy Awareness Month,” emphasizing that, for students, learning to navigate the online world is as important a skill as reading, writing and arithmetic. It was a move that echoed his predecessor's...
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The Patent Protection Racket
The fastest growing industry in the US right now, even during this time of slow economic growth, is probably the patent troll protection racket industry. Lawsuits surrounding software patents have …
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Quote Meritocracy Unquote
Meritocracy is a political philosophy that holds power should be vested in individuals according to merit. Advancement in such a system is based on perceived intellectual talent measured through examination and/or demonstrated achievement in the field where it is implemented.
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What I've Been Thinking About
I’m starting to think about my next book, which will be about power and the Internet—from the perspective of security. My objective will be to describe current trends, explain where those trends are leading us, and discuss alternatives for avoiding that outcome. Many of my recent essays have touched on various facets…
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Online Education's Dirty Secret - Awful Retention
I’m extremely excited about online education, but I’ve noticed that online education products have a really serious problem: low retention. I’ve used Coursera, EdX, Hack Design, Duolingo, Codecademy… and I’ve churned from all of them. I bet you did too!
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Problems with the TSA
Coverage: Hacker News , Slashdot , BoingBoing , RT America News , Tumblr , RightThisMinute , RTM update , PapersPlease 2014 & 2015
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$10,000 Raised for PyLadies at PyCon 2013
In a first-ever event, the PyCon organizers hosted a charity auction with the proceeds benefitting PyLadies , a mentorship group to help bri...
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How to solve the problem that the topmost comments get all upvotes
[[Update: As of August 2015, I have partly implemented the approach in the first example below (but not the second example). ]]
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The Economics of Evil Google
Search as a public utility?
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What really happened at PyCon 2013
We are hearing a lot about what happened at PyCon 2013, but most of what is being passed around tells only a tiny part of what really happened. Here’s how PyCon went for me this year: The Ed…
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Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
Adria Richards was an attendee at PyCon, a tech conference, as part of her job as a developer evangelist at Sendgrid, a tech company that manages emails. She took offense to a conversation two men,…
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What happens when the Secret Service uses a NSL on you
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Wherein SFPD is still going surveillance-nutty
We got a funny phone call today, and by "funny" I mean "not actually even a little funny." Officer Chan, the permitting officer for SFPD, called to remind us that we're required to have video surveillance that records everything our customers do, and to give that footage to SFPD any time they ask, without a warrant or…
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Goodbye, Malcolm
Posted by Jacob Kaplan-Moss on March 19, 2013