November 2011
31 posts
Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on... →
Another potential failure of “open” systems: when a system is open to someone whose interests don’t line up very well with yours, like a cellular carrier, and then it’s closed and handed to you, you have no way to know that they didn’t sneak in huge security holes and privacy violations behind your back.
You guys enjoying your “openness” over there in Androidland?
Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on... →
See what “open” gets you? Open for the carriers to do whatever they want.
“Ford Prefect explaining to Arthur Dent about why a robot said “take me to...”
– Douglas Adams So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been....”
– Isaac Asimov
Time Magazine doesn't publish the hard stuff here. →
This is actually kind of scary. Why wouldn’t we get the stories about world issues? And it’s not the first time.
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Customers hit by pepper spray at Wal-Mart describe... →
Shoppers went to the Wal-Mart in Porter Ranch on Thursday night for the Black Friday sale but instead were caught in a pepper-spray attack by a woman who authorities said was “competitive shopping”Matthew Lopez went to the Wal-Mart in Porter Ranch on Thursday night for the Black Friday sale but instead was caught in a pepper-spray attack by a woman who authorities said was...
http://seattlesubway.org/vision/ →
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Louis C.K.: The Next Steve Jobs Will Be A Chick |... →
The fact that people have kids because they want something from them is bizarre. As soon as you have a child, that script gets flipped for the rest of your life anyway. It’s not about you anymore.
One of the funniest guys around always makes a cogent argument.
UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up... →
What is it we’re actually defending?
It sure isn’t liberty.
Occupy Flash - The movement to rid the world of... →
Flash makes the web less accessible. At this point, it’s holding back the web.
An Occupy movement I can get fully behind.
When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality? →
Much as viewers tune in to American Idol to laugh at the inept, borderline dysfunctional early auditions, these tea-party champions provide a ghoulish type of news entertainment each time they reveal that they know nothing about public affairs and have never attempted to learn. But Cain’s gaffe on Libya or Perry’s brain freeze on the Department of Energy are not only indicators of bad...
Daily Kos: Welcome to PHASE 2 of Occupy Wall... →
It is time to STOP the spending cuts and start investing in America, and if we have to raise taxes on the rich and corporations in order to force them to invest in America, then so be it.
Life Below 600px | Paddy Donnelly →
Do you try to design with the prize “above the fold”?
Time Lapse View From Space on Devour.com →
Whoa.
Alt Text: Lose Your Way to Victory With the... →
Their main complaints seem to be that politics is influenced by people with political influence, and that powerful people have all the power. In other words, they’re protesting the futility of their own protest. That’s the sort of recursive, discursive incursion I can get behind.
Cops With Machine Guns: How the War on Terror Has... →
The most serious consequence of the rapid militarization of American police forces, however, is the subtle evolution in the mentality of the “men in blue” from “peace officer” to soldier. This development is absolutely critical and represents a fundamental change in the nature of law enforcement.
Oligarchy, American Style - NYTimes.com →
[A]lmost two-thirds of the rising share of the top percentile in income actually went to the top 0.1 percent — the richest thousandth of Americans, who saw their real incomes rise more than 400 percent over the period from 1979 to 2005.
The inside story of how Microsoft killed its... →
One group, led by Xbox godfather J Allard, was pushing for a sleek, two-screen tablet called the Courier that users controlled with their finger or a pen. But it had a problem: It was running a modified version of Windows.
A perfect example of what’s wrong at Microsoft. They’ll kill off an amazing product (idea?) because it has the potential to cannibalize Windows.
