Brave New World


Dennis J. Kucinich:  There is nothing patriotic about the loss of our civil liberties. [John Burkhardt]

I don’t know much about this candidate yet, so I’m not endorsing him.  But I do like two things about him:

1.) He has a weblog.  Now that’s savvy, even though it really wasn’t his idea.

2.) He opposes intrusion on personal liberties through means like the Patriot Act.

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Can Net Whiz Kid Conquer Space?. After selling PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion, some entrepreneurs might retire to a tropical island. Not Elon Musk, who is determined to revolutionize the satellite-launching business with his new company, SpaceX. By Suneel Ratan. [Wired News]

. Get out your wallet. Big business has found another way to tighten the screws on customers, in league with its new partner: the notorious Digital Millennium Copyright Act. []

. JN writes “Now here’s a nifty invention. What started off as a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the Navy to a MIT professor has turned out to … [Slashdot]

Cool!  This should help recapture some of the energy that is converted into another type during a process/reaction.

“Super-DMCA” Bills In Tennessee and Arkansas. David Turner writes “Tomorrow, Tennessee’s Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on two nearly identical DMCA-like bills. These bills threaten … [Slashdot]

. Cnet’s Declan McCullagh interviews Cisco’s Fred Baker about the company’s plans to embed surveillance into routers. Baker says the “customers”… []

Goodbye privacy.  I see you slowly slipping away. :-( .

. andfarm writes “A few days ago, I sat in at a presentation of a what seems to be a new file system concept: Conquest. Apparently they’ve developed a FS that … []

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Dissapearing the opposition.

UK ID cards – the incredible shrinking consultation. Disappearing the opposition – every Home Secretary’s dream… [The Register]

[Curiouser and curiouser!]

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