ACLU: Following Texas’s Lead on Location Tracking
Maybe next we can convince the carriers not to track us until after law enforcement asks.
Hack the Planet in Exile
This is a temporary refuge until I can rebuild Hack the Planet with alien technology.
—Wes Felter
The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.
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2013-05-23
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We’re not electing politicians here, to be confronted with a choice between self-entitled clueless arrogant fuckwit vs partially reanimated corpse. We can reject the entire slate no problem.
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2013-05-21
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Freedom to Tinker: CALEA II: Risks of wiretap modifications to endpoints
Yet another case where it seems like technologists are being disingenuous for a good cause. The idea of using a signaling server to insert a proxy is glossed over so that they can focus on a more dangerous strawman. I’m surprised they haven’t mentioned “breaking the Internet” yet (that’s the root password to hacker outrage).
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Poor Watson, fame really must have taken its toll. From Jeopardy winner to Help Desk agent, I can only assume a life of drugs and alcohol led to this.
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2013-05-19
(Source: youtube.com)
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2013-05-18
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2013-05-16
I came to realize that there was a real need to present business wisdom in a format that is more accessible to the younger generation.
— Andrew Mason
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2013-05-15
Last night I started reading Jaron Lanier’s Who Owns the Future?; watching the Google I/O keynote is pretty interesting in light of Lanier’s analysis. I noticed that Google showed a map of the world that indicated that a significant amount of Google Maps data was provided for free by “crowdsourced” users, but Google owns this data and uses it to create ad impressions against those very users that are sold for profit.
The epic scope of the keynote (3.5 hours) gives me a new appreciation of the true meaning of Google’s goal to “organize the world’s information”. To borrow a meme, they are going to organize All The Information. In Google’s demos it is just taken for granted that they know everything about you and that they can organize your life better than you can. They will tell you where to go, when to leave to get there, what music to listen to while you’re on your way, what to eat, then they’ll edit the resulting photos for you and post them to G+ with appropriate hashtags auto-added. For now you still have to actually take the photos, but I assume Glass will “solve” that (perhaps announced at I/O 2014). And in ten years you won’t actually drive; Google will drive you (will they bother to ask “where to?”).
It now seems that anything Google doesn’t do is conspicuous by its absence. When will they announce dating and job search?
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Connectify Switchboard: Faster Internet for Mac & PC
It’s a shame this probably isn’t based on IRON, though.
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2013-05-14
Bret Victor: Drawing Dynamic Visualizations
(Source: vimeo.com)
