Monday, 2 January 2012

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rupertmurdoch Rupert Murdoch
Great to see Mike Bloomberg getting some rewards for being New York's best mayor in memory!

zunguzungu Aaron Bady

I have just blocked @rupertmurdoch.

zunguzungu Aaron Bady
So tired of that guy's trolling.

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Can seeking happiness make you unhappy?

♪♫ Joseph Arthur - We Stand As One (#occupywallstreet)

Protest songs should be open and somewhat naive
They can't help but reference Bob Dylan referencing Woody Guthrie
They usually speak in somewhat general terms
And to be effective at all, they say things that even those coming from a similar space, may not fully agree with.
They are easy targets for the venom of music critics (because of all the reasons above)
And yet still sometimes
They are necessary
So with that I am happy to present you
We Stand As One.
I hope you love it
Or hate it
Or love to hate it
Or let yourself
Hate to love it
but either way,
In some small way,
I hope that it helps.
- Joseph Arthur

tom_watson tom_watson
@rupertmurdoch Welcome. I'm writing you a note on how to get the most out Twitter. Firstly though, you need links - freely shared knowledge.

28c3: Cory Doctorow - The coming war on general computation

The copyright war was just the beginning
The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by war against the general purpose computer, and the stakes are the freedom, fortune and privacy of the entire human race.
The problem is twofold: first, there is no known general-purpose computer that can execute all the programs we can think of except the naughty ones; second, general-purpose computers have replaced every other device in our world. There are no airplanes, only computers that fly. There are no cars, only computers we sit in. There are no hearing aids, only computers we put in our ears. There are no 3D printers, only computers that drive peripherals. There are no radios, only computers with fast ADCs and DACs and phased-array antennas. Consequently anything you do to "secure" anything with a computer in it ends up undermining the capabilities and security of every other corner of modern human society.
And general purpose computers can cause harm -- whether it's printing out AR15 components, causing mid-air collisions, or snarling traffic. So the number of parties with legitimate grievances against computers are going to continue to multiply, as will the cries to regulate PCs.
The primary regulatory impulse is to use combinations of code-signing and other "trust" mechanisms to create computers that run programs that users can't inspect or terminate, that run without users' consent or knowledge, and that run even when users don't want them to.
The upshot: a world of ubiquitous malware, where everything we do to make things better only makes it worse, where the tools of liberation become tools of oppression.
Our duty and challenge is to devise systems for mitigating the harm of general purpose computing without recourse to spyware, first to keep ourselves safe, and second to keep computers safe from the regulatory impulse.
Transcript:
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Fragments of a Defunct State

Sunday, 1 January 2012

asmo23 Stu Smith
In 1994 the KLF burned a £1000,000 people were incredulous. Last night the same thing happened in London & everyone went oooooh & aaaah!!