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Banning the word ‘Internet’

November 30, 2014 No Comments

Padraig Reidy over at Index on Censorship wonders when people will stop blaming the tool (e.g. facebook) as opposed to the behaviour (e.g. terror planning, crime). Will this ever end? Hopefully. As time goes on, the distinction between the internet and THE INTERNET will become clearer. THE INTERNET is a culture; the place where the […]

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Films Internets Moving Pictures Oddities Oh Lol

Too Many Cooks…

November 8, 2014March 25, 2015 No Comments

Much Bizarre. ESQ: How did you come up with the idea for this? CK: It was one of those shower ideas that I know Andy Kaufman or David Letterman would have—to repeat something until it gets annoying and just keep going until it gets funny again. The idea was for it to be a sitcom […]

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Freedoms Internets Privacy

Facebook: Now available on Tor

October 31, 2014 No Comments

This is significant: The Facebook onion address (accessible only in Tor-enabled browsers) connects users to Facebook’s Core WWW Infrastructure, so as to provide end-to-end communication, directly from the browser into a Facebook datacentre, allowing for private and secure browsing sessions. An SSL certificate issued by Facebook to visitors confirms to them that they’re indeed accessing […]

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Computing History Internets

First (ARPANet) Post!

October 30, 2014 No Comments

“Lo.” Inauspicious, perhaps, but then an infant’s first word generally is. Besides, no one on Professor Leonard Kleinrock’s 40-person team suspected that they were starting a revolution of global proportions on Oct. 29, 1969. That was the day Kleinrock and a student assistant, Charley Kline ’70, M.S. ’71, Ph.D. ’80 sent the first “host-to-host” message […]

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Bits & Bobs Internets

Little Pork Chop

October 2, 2014 No Comments

This little app will neatly chop you message into multiple linked tweets – http://little.porkchop.io/

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Internets Privacy ReadWriteWeb

A new approach to social networks?

September 26, 2014September 26, 2014 No Comments

Ello is a new ‘social network’ which claims to be free, while not selling you ads or selling your data to any third party. Laudable goals, indeed. But it costs money to run services like these, and that money has to come from somewhere. Traditionally (if the commercial internet is even old enough for tradition), […]

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Big Business Europe Internets Privacy

Die Datenkraken

September 12, 2014September 12, 2014 No Comments

In Germany, they have a term for silicon valley companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook, the big beasts of the internet that have come to dominate our online lives. They are known as the datenkraken. The word means data octopuses, and it is intended to frighten – in Norse myth, the Kraken was a murderous […]

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