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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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? Web Karma?
@webminkSimon Phipps Is the FBI's OpenBSD vulnerability the Universe's way of fixing a karma imbalance caused by the EFF winning 4th amendment rights for e-mail...
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? Open Source and Government
Australia Government Report Warns Against Including IP In Trade Agreements It ought to be obvious that concessions to create a copyright and patent regime that...
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Cloud Risks Article Available
My article on learning from the Wikileaks experience and managing the risks of cloud computing is now available in the Essays section.
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Mary Oliver Poetry Reading
I was delighted to have found a video of my favourite poet Mary Oliver reading her own poetry at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on August 4, 2001. The...
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? White Waves
The new Mixed Tape compilation is available – 10 free tracks awaiting download. Most of them got 3 stars in the Webmink Rating System but your taste may vary, and...
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? Cloud Correction
@webminkSimon Phipps Try adding "as long as you don't breach the terms of service – according to our sole judgement" to the end of any cloud computing pitch. about...
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links for 2010-12-11
WikiLeaks: Stop the crackdown As I said in the "Voltaire Moment" article I posted here yesterday, the attacks on our collective freedom resulting from Wikileaks...
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? Voltaire Moment Article Available
My article asserting that we need to stand up for Wikileaks’ ability to exist even if we don’t like Wikileaks is now available in the Essays area.
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? Non-Centralised Infrastructure
After discovering BitCoin (where such a large number of people were kind enough to send small donations to 1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3 that I’m now considering...
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? Apache Quits The JCP
The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee The Apache Software Foundation quits Java’s governing body claiming that “[the] JCP is not an open specification...
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? The Non-Practicing Entity Defence
@webminkSimon Phipps A patent troll that's made a few inventors rich is still a patent troll. December 8, 2010 22:16 via webRetweetReply
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? The Risky Cloud
It used to take a bailiff and a man with an axe for the door, but the cloud makes it so much easier. If I told you that your entire business infrastructure could...
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? Meta-Wikileaks
Defend WikiLeaks or lose free speech Dan Gillmor on leaks and journalism: “By [Washington Post journalist] Krauthammer’s sick standards, the death squads should...
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links for 2010-12-06
ICANN had no role in seizing torrent domains It was done directly by Verisign, over the registrars' heads: "VeriSign received sealed court orders directing certain...
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? Now Accepting BitCoin
As an experiment, I’ve set up BitCoin on one of the systems here at Webmink Central. BitCoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency, with no central bank or authority...
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links for 2010-12-05
Shopping-enabled Wikipedia Page on Amazon While the creative commons license that covers Wikipedia allows it, this attempt to divert traffic away from Wikipedia...
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links for 2010-12-04
Full Body Scanners: What's Next? definitive explanation from Bruce Schneier why the nude scanners at airports are a wate of money, and why the will always be accmpanied...
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Small Is Beautiful
On a whim I decided to go look for a domain name for my own link shortener. Within a few minutes I’d found that wmk.me was available, and even better that GoDaddy...
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? Defending Wikileaks
Let me say up front that I am not a massive fan of WikiLeaks. It seems to me that taking stolen correspondence and publishing it for everyone to read is a fundamentally...
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