Activism
I put on my $DAYJOB CTO hat for Midas Green Tech and facilitated a conference call with Sean McLaughlin, the Chief of Staff for the Judiciary Committee, and executives from CoreNAP and DataFoundry today. Sad to say, it's not dead yet. The "Internet experts hearing" that
Privacy
Former EFF-Austin Director Cory Doctorow thinks that there's a war on general purpose computing. Transcript at https://github.com/jwise/28c3-doctorow/blob/master/transcript.md But it's not as bad as all that. It's not a "war" on GP computers--in fact things
Free Speech
Ever wondered how these IntarTubes work to to build up the IntarWebzNet thingy? Next time you run into someone who thinks of the Internet like that, you might want to point them to this video produced by TheEuroIX. It's simple, clear, only has a slight bias to support