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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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? GagaGate, DRM and How To Cripple The Cloud
I’ve been watching the music marketing stunt that Amazon have pulled today with some interest. The story is that Amazon US are selling the new Lady Gaga album Born...
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links for 2011-05-23
Open source .NET mimic rises from Novell ashes I'd heard Miguel was looking for funding to do this so I'm not surprised, but I still offer him warm congratulations...
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? OO.o, TDF and CLAs
Having read LWN’s (paywalled but accessible from here) interview with Mark Shuttleworth, where he is quoted as saying that the formation of The Document Foundation...
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? Software freedom and the cloud
Cloud computing is not just disruptive to the software market; it’s also disruptive to software freedom advocacy. Software freedom has been defined as being present...
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? Speaking at OSBC
If you’re at the Open Source Business Conference, OSBC, in San Francisco today and tomorrow, you have three opportunities to hear me speak (or three sessions to...
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links for 2011-05-14
Conway's Game of Life in one line of APL This is a really good introduction to the mind-numbing complexity that is APL. It's not just the terse, obscure syntax;...
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? Wormtongue
As Glyn Moody discussed yesterday, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) annual report on “piracy” is out. I hate that usage – the word “piracy” refers to about...
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? A Chain Of Cause And Effect
Overinstaller Awareness Day Excellent and insightful comments from SSRC on the BSA’s as-poor-as-you’d-expect 2010 report. I just hope that there are legislators...
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? ChromeBook, SunRay Reborn?
Some people seem to think Google’s ChromeBook is just a cheap laptop with Linux on it. But I think that’s short-sighted. This is yet another attempt at a network...
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? Bureaucracy Rebooted?
Rebooting Public Notices Public notices and inquiries should be moved from the newspapers and the bowels of the web online to where we are: networks like Facebook...
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? Meddling In Foreign Affairs
The Special 301 Report is an annual publication by the US Trade Representative (USTR), fulfilling US legal requirements to identify countries whose copyright, patent...
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links for 2011-05-10
Might Be Evil Firefox extension that allows you to keep your Google Docs private from Google if you want to. (tags: FireFox Google Docs Privacy) On Changing horses...
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? Launching OpenICF
I have a firm belief that open source software communities become strong when people with many different reasons for being present are free to meet their needs...
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? One To Follow
@ForgeRock ForgeRock has a Twitter account! Follow us to hear all about ForgeRock's news, views and happenings. about 1 hour ago via webReplyRetweetFavorite
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links for 2011-05-07
Skype bug gives attackers access to Mac OS X machines Serious, exploitable bug in the Mac version of Skype. Best not to run Skype until they have it fixed. Actually...
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? Special 301
I’ve read the USTR‘s Special 301 report so you don’t have to. The worrying conclusions are over on ComputerWorldUK.
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? Interference
Canada still in copyright “hall of shame” according to the US The US interference in the copyright policies of other countries – in order to create a benefit for...
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links for 2011-05-04
13 reasons why the Infringing File Sharing Act is bad for you by Christopher Wood This is an excellent list of reasons why internet disconnection laws are such...
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