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YouTube wins case against Viacom
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Anatomy of a Noob - Why your Mom Suck at Computers
Essays by Thomas Petersen
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It's Your Data, It's Your Bot: It's Not A Crime
Can public websites decide who is and is not a criminal through their terms of service? A brief EFF filed yesterday argues no. The amicus brief is a follow-up to one we filed last month in Facebook v. Power Ventures. Facebook claims that Power breaks California criminal law by offering users a tool...
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Maybe Jason Calacanis isn't being totally honest about Mahalo?
Last Thursday, in response to Matt Cutts stating that he needed more than “arbitrary inurl searches” to sway him (which was in turn in response to a Hacker News submission about Mahalo and the plethora of keyword rich domains they were apparently building out) I wrote a post explaining in some detail how the latest…
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The Alot is Better Than You at Everything
As a grammatically conscientious person who frequents internet forums and YouTube, I have found it necessary to develop a few coping mechani...
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'First to Do It' vs. 'First to Do It Right'
Apple wasn’t going to include a front-facing camera until they had software that made it useful in an iPhone-caliber way. HTC is happy to include a front-facing camera and leave its utility (and user experience) in the hands of third-party developers.
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A guide to the latest Mahalo spam techniques
On Tuesday of this week someone posted the following question to the Hacker News website: How long has Mahalo been using keyword domains like this? The link in the story points to a search in Google, [inurl:tip_guidelines mahalo]. The results of this query show a list of somewhere between 180 and 270 sites (Google…
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Schneier on Filming the Police
In at least three U.S. states, it is illegal to film an active duty policeman: The legal justification for arresting the “shooter” rests on existing wiretapping or eavesdropping laws, with statutes against obstructing law enforcement sometimes cited. Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland are among the 12 states in…
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Things I Learned Eating On $1 A Day For A Month
Learn what 10 lessons one writer took away from eating on $1 a day for a month, and use the real-world insights to plan your own food budget challenge.
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John Gruber: I'll Tell You What's Fair
What’s goofy is the idea that Google would do this — to aggressively change Android from a BlackBerry/Windows Mobile competitor into an iPhone competitor — and that anyone would expect Apple not to retaliate, to instead just sit there and take it and allow all other aspects of their previous buddy-buddy corporate…
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The 10:10 Code
Four years ago I wrote about a way to encode the latitude and longitude of any point on the Earth's surface to 10m of accuracy with a 10 ch...
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Hacker News and pseudonymity
Mark Suster has a post about improving civility on YCombinator’s Hacker News: I’ve seen vitriolic responses on HN on several occasion. I mostly get hammered on HN if I writ…
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Apple fears the killer app
Ok, so were finally getting down to it. On at least two fronts, Apple has now essentially thrown out its draconian rules on what developers can and cannot do on its platform, and replaced them with essentially, no rules. The new “rules” appear to be, “its OK to do what you want in your app if we say so. And we’ll…
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Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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AT&T Learns Exactly the Wrong Lesson About Data Usage
AT&T says that 65% of its users use less 200 megabytes per month; a whopping 98% use less than 2 gigabytes. (NYT) AT&T looked at these numbers and concluded it was time for tiered pricing; …
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The Just-World Fallacy
The Misconception: People who are losing at the game of life must have done something to deserve it. The Truth: The beneficiaries of good fortune often do nothing to earn it, and bad people often g…
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