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First they came for the Whistleblowers, and I did not speak out

First they came for the Whistleblowers, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Whistleblower. Then they came for the Boing Boing Readers, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a  Boing Boing Reader. Then they came for the Linux Users, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Linux User.…

Message to My Senator Boxer: Uphold your Oath of Office: Squash Shadow Secret Gov’t

Just a reminder you swore an oath of office to uphold the Constitution but you are not upholding it if you are not investigating and prosecuting those in all branches of the government that have been sidestepping the Constitution. The 13 years of Cheney/Obama administrations has set up a shadow secret government with its own courts, laws and interpretations of…

Data Wants to be Free (as in Freedom)

Tonight I was at the Sensored Meetup #10: Data! APIs! Standards!. Besides some great thought provoking talks, there was some great discussions afterward that got me thinking more clearly about some stuff that has been bubbling in my brain. Scott McNealy Was Right – Privacy: ‘Get Over It’ I really thought McNealy was wrong when he said way back in 1999 that consumer privacy issues…

Self-Driving Cars: Biggest Societal Change Since… Cars

New Scientist is having a contest with the prize being a trip of a lifetime to the Arctic Circle and the bottom of the North Sea. I discovered after I wrote my entry that they only wanted less than 100 words. So here is what I originally wrote before I had to truncate it to something like Self Driving Cars FTW!…

Gigabit Internet for $70: the unlikely success of California’s Sonic.net WHY NOWHERE ELSE? Hint: Oligopoly

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationThey offer each house up to one gigabit per second in bandwidth, making this one of the fastest streets in America. For only $69.95/month (100MBps for $39.95, both include phone service. … Wondering “why can’t somebody else do this?” You’re asking the right question. But you may not like the answer.Via arstechnica.com