Comment Re:lol (Score 0) 218
It is no longer CC-BY-SA, but rather ODbL. See http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License
Moglen: Facebook Is a Man-In-The-Middle Attack 376
jfruh writes "In an email exchange with privacy blogger Dan Tynan, Columbia law professor Eben Moglen referred to Facebook as a 'man in the middle attack' — that is, a service that intercepts communication between two parties and uses it for its own nefarious purposes. He said, 'The point is that by sharing with our actual friends through a web intermediary who can store and mine everything, we harm people by destroying their privacy for them. It's not the sharing that's bad, it's the technological design of giving it all to someone in the middle. That is at once outstandingly stupid and overwhelmingly dangerous.' Tynan is a critic of Facebook, but he thinks Moglen is overstating the case."
Comment Re:this, and then that other thing... (Score 2) 178
Note –Steve Coast now works for a competitor of Google (Maps).
Comment Re:I can't wait (Score 2) 231
To see all the domain names Penn State is going to have to buy.
They won't have to buy a single one, they'll just have to report any pennstate* website to the FBI's child abuse division.
Comment Re:Bla Bla Bla (Score 1) 420
I had a nuclear engineer describe it to me this way. Nuclear power stations for the grid's base load, step it up a few extra levels and use the extra power to crack hydrogen. Use that hydrogen to run turbines for the grid's variable load and produce enough of an excess to be able to sell it to fuel cars. It will require a lot of nuclear reactors, but completely replaces our dependence on fuels which may run out at some point and if the ecomentalists ever get over their fear of nuclear power, will solve what they see as the poisoning of the atmosphere. Except for the fissionable materials, the entire process is renewable and leaves no pollution, and if those fastbreed(I think) reactors which can run on spent fuel rods work as designed, we wouldn't have much of a containment issue either.
SlideShare Ditches Flash, Rebuilds Site In HTML5 154
Frankie70 writes "SlideShare has ditched Adobe Flash technology entirely, and rebuilt its website using the HTML5 markup language. This means that SlideShare is now viewable on every kind of mobile device, from iPads to iPhones to Android devices and beyond."
Comment Re:Cripe people, wake up and stand against this cr (Score 1) 189
There is a reason I got a CCW and carry in Atlanta.
Comment A much better article (Score 3, Funny) 93
Comment They're doing it wrong (Score 4, Funny) 91
The robot should have looked out the window and said "Hello World."
Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations 692
MadMartigan2001 writes with a pretty crazy article on a project involving floating libertarian paradises. From the article: "PayPal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters. Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties."
Comment Why Cheeto-stained? (Score 5, Funny) 272
When clearly Doritos are the superior snack food.
Comment Re:True. True. (Score 1) 688
If not for American Christianity, the War on Pot would be nothing more than some anti-Mexican racist rhetoric decades ago.
Umm... What?
I can't remember his name, but the guy who owned most of the paper production in the US would have lost everything when people began cultivating hemp for paper, because it was cheaper and produced higher quality paper. So hemp was dragged through the mud in a disinformation campaign to make it illegal so he could hold his monopoly on paper production. It has absolutely nothing to do with Mexicans or Christians at all, it was entirely an economic move which relied on people's prejudices to convince them it needed to be banned.
Comment Re:Silent? I don't think so... (Score 1) 289
That Dyson fan is extremely loud, much louder than a moderately expensive traditional fan that's clean and balanced.
Granted, you can do really cool things with it if you have a bunch of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WNcjkZ6d0w
Granted, you can do really cool things with it if you have a bunch of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WNcjkZ6d0w
Comment Re:New Books Maybe Old Books Never (Score 1) 669
I turned 21 about 8 months ago and I have at a guess around four or five thousand books. It's what happens when you read 2-4 books a week for about 10 years and keep everything you read. My favorites are on a wrap-around ceiling bookshelf around my room, with an entire wall sized bookshelf holding the rest, everything else gets boxed up and stored away.
I do read a lot of ebooks too, but it's quite hard to take an ereader or a phone and keep it charged and working when you go camping or kayaking or hiking or sailing. A physical paper book you shove in your bag is a much easier way to bring a story with you.
I reject your assumption that paper books will die off, and I cite vinyl records as my evidence.
I do read a lot of ebooks too, but it's quite hard to take an ereader or a phone and keep it charged and working when you go camping or kayaking or hiking or sailing. A physical paper book you shove in your bag is a much easier way to bring a story with you.
I reject your assumption that paper books will die off, and I cite vinyl records as my evidence.
Comment Re:Why the anti-litigation jab? (Score 0) 111
...the State of California.
I think you mean the People's Republic of California. And as a Georgian, I have no issues with not being allowed in California, I really don't have any desire to visit or live there. Reciprocally, I don't want any Californians in Georgia, so you need to add a few laws restricting them from ever leaving the state.
