privacy
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This is a lot easier than whatever I've been doing.
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"Differences between Republican and Democrats exist...but those differences are often dwarfed by the differences between those entrenched in and dependent upon the Washington Establishment and...American citizens -- who are not." [via
rc3]
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"The U.S. Senate this afternoon passed the FISA Amendments Act...granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the president's illegal domestic wiretapping program." Discouraging.
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This is going to change my life.
Paul Bausch
Paul Bausch
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[via magnetbox]
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Lots of trails around Corvallis I didn't know about. I have my work cut out for me this summer.
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"In this paper, EFF offers some suggestions, both legal and technical, for best practices that balance the needs of OSPs and their users' privacy and civil liberties."
Paul Bausch
Paul Bausch
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Matt and Jessamyn discuss the week in Metaflter that was. They have a nice rapport, and I think it'll be a great way to find gems across MeFi that I might have missed. (It's like a living, breathing sidebar!)
filed under: metafilter, mp3, podcasts
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Cringely speculates that the *real* purpose of the AppleTV is building a massive P2P network for iTunes video distribution. Clever!
filed under: media, tv, video, mac
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Someday everything will be tagged whether we know it or not. I, for one, welcome our new powdery RFID overlords.
filed under: future, privacy, security, tagging
Paul Bausch
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danah starts a discussion about virtual walled gardens, gated communities, whatever you want to call them. Be sure to check out the comments. The central question to me is: "who owns the walls?"
filed under: internet, privacy, community, identity
Paul Bausch
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Google is considering adding data portability--the ability to easily move your information out of Google to competing services. [via Slashdot]
filed under: google, future, productivity, privacy
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rafe comments on his recent experience with a PDF book.
filed under: books, future
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great story about a Neuroscientist using ideas from his field to help win a gameshow. [via Mind Hacks]
filed under: science, hacks
Paul Bausch
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a quick, straightforward explanation of data portability and why companies like Google should support it. [via battelle]
filed under: amazon, google, internet, privacy
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Flickr applies for a patent on "interestingness" as a way of determining which media objects are getting the most attention from users. [via kottke]
filed under: flickr, future, law, tagging
Paul Bausch
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John Battelle has a great idea about storing data in info-privacy friendly countries. But I'd go a step further and say that big data stores should also store data in an encrypted format, so only someone with a key can make the data useful.
filed under: privacy, law
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put in some text, and see if this script can guess the author's gender based on word usage. (I was looking for a Perl module that does this, but no luck.)
filed under: language, writing, psychology, gender
Paul Bausch
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Easy-to-install version of GPG for Mac folk.
filed under: privacy, software
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I just tried Enigmail again after a couple years, and it actually works well. This plugin handles encrypting/decrypting email on the fly. (If you have GnuPG installed.)
filed under: email, privacy, software
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"Marine scientists say archaeological remains discovered 36 metres (120 feet) underwater in the Gulf of Cambay off the western coast of India could be over 9,000 years old." [via
sterling]
filed under: history, science
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rael and michael's startup has a blog now.
filed under: startup, weblogs, oregon
Paul Bausch
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Valid criticism of the official Google Blog's headlines, and good advice for any weblog author. Headlines are insanely important in the age of aggregation.
filed under: google, weblogs, writing
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free VPN application [thanks, mathowie]
filed under: development, privacy, security, software, productivity
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now you can talk like Mr. Burns! [via
kottke]
filed under: language
Paul Bausch
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filed under: google, hacks, development
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This talk at Google by Dan Frankowski shows you can identify people based on anonymous movie ratings if you have another non-anonymous set of related data. [via
O'Reilly Radar]
filed under: privacy, internet
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"A 2005 report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project called 'Teens and Technology' found that teenagers preferred new technology, like instant messaging or text messaging, for talking to friends and use e-mail to communicate with 'old people.'" [via
cameron]
filed under: email, im, future
Paul Bausch
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