California Sues EPA In Order To… Protect the Environment?
To most of us outside the United States the concept of an Environmental Protection Agency seems like a pretty obvious one: surely it must be an agency who’s mandate is to protect the environment, no? Alas more and more within the US it seems that the EPA has really just become a laughable example of […]
Western Digital to Consumers: “We Own You”
In one fell swoop Western Digital has taken itself out of the running for any future hard-drives I might buy by deciding they’re the arbiters of user data:
One of the world’s largest hard disk manufacturers has blocked its customers from sharing online their media files that are stored on networked drives.
Western Digital says the decision […]
An Idea I Can Get Behind
My respect for the city of Portland, Oregon has grown immensely today (not that it had any room to diminish, having never been there):
On May 11, 2001 a very talented writer and activist was taken from this world far before his time. Not yet 50 years of age, Douglas Adams passed on and left a […]
Facebook vs. You Too
Facebook’s business model is the opposite. It pits Facebook against its customers. The amount of money that Facebook can make is defined (and constrained) by the degree to which its users will allow themselves to be exploited.
- Faceberg: We’re sorry. Really. Okay, not really.
OpenSocial Risk Profile?
Today I read in the Washington Post article U.S. Plans to Screen All Who Enter, Leave Country that the United States plans to:
screen all people who enter and leave the United States, create a terrorism risk profile of each individual and retain that information for up to 40 years.
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“We gather, collect information that is needed […]