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I have little faith that the government is interested in earning back our trust.

He got so many broad concepts right, but the underlying tech wrong. Basically predicted Google Glass and Wikipedia, without understanding how digital would change everything. Thermionic tubes!

I agree, journalists need to ask scientists more questions when reporting a study broadly.

A Return to Democracy

The sound of sorting. I know I saw this a couple of years ago, but apparently I didn't save it.

Could be useful for video chatting.

Mmm, milk.

Nice little review of what was arguably the first tablet. What I find most interesting is how strongly iOS has rejected the stylus.

I've only read 26 of these, mostly classics and/or award winners.

Classic bro culture. I don't think it's just a Texas thing, as evidenced by brogrammer startup culture - it's a problem anywhere women are breaking in to a formerly male-dominated community. (Note: a friend who is a female staffer claims she's never experienced this, which is surprising.)

Amazing self-parody from the Mumford guys.

Carbon taxes work, plain and simple. And they don't hurt anyone.

Creepy and weird, but cool.

Obama's in favor, so they oppose. It doesn't matter if it countermands their principles.

Heh.

The quotes from my ISP, RCN, and very heartening. Definitely will have to pick the little guy going forward.

Jesus. This is exactly what all of us "paranoids" were worried about - and it's been happening for years.

Very cool. Will have to play this.

Having the data, even with supposed safeguards, is a temptation to violate the 4th.

Plus an M83 soundtrack. Cool.

I don't know what the solution is, but the current system is not acceptable.

Seems like something out of William Gibson.

I love Boggle.

Quite the creative project. At first I thought it had something to do with his wife's cancer treatment.

The party is so far gone these moderate voices proposing conservative solutions will go unheard.

This hits my interpretation of the degrees of whistleblowing well.

Cool view from the obstacle camera on Curiosity over one year.

I don't know what tracking program found them, but it's a deeply disturbing violation of 1st (say what you want online that isn't a threat) and 4th (search of personal effects, which IMO includes your data) amendments.

I think this is an important point - while I'd like game developers to have some responsibility to their dedicated players when it comes to hosting, that's not realistic. I think the right thing to do is, as part of sunsetting a game, allow players to run their own servers. That will probably never happen for IP reasons.

I should try to read these books, it sounds amazing. Funny how ridiculous the program was given the technology of the time.