links for 2008-04-20

Interesting discussion on Slashdot of how to maintain the confidence in a site that exposes secrets.

I’m trying to sign up for this, let’s see what happens.

Thanks ISP’s I pay for my service you respond by injecting ads and otherwise interfering with my service. I pay for a service, you provide it. This does not allow you to do whatever you want to my service. I buy a burger from McDonalds they make it how I

The inherent lock in that comes about with even open source software because of the language that the software is written in and the ability of the programmer to modify the software.

Thanks Pirate Bay, support freedom of speech and all that fun stuff day in, day out.

Good job MPAA and RIAA, attacking p2p sites and making them public knowledge beyond just the geeks who used them all of sudden more people are using them.

This seems like a huge invasion of privacy along with the whole innocent until proven guilty thing.

Awesome, a free gift and we just give people ways to steal our identity and information. How stupid do you have to be to do this sort of thing?

This is awesome exactly what the web needs. Allows you to synch contacts across multiple systems, share data with systems, export data, and delete data easily.

Good arguement for why an an average American will never be president. Very similar to what Jon Stewart was arguing this week. I have to agree with it. I don’t want an average American to be President, our President should be extraordinary.

I find it fascinating that in this day and age of partisan politics Justice Stevens has changed his viewpoint so much. I would love to know why that is. What caused this shift from him.

Some the research into the dark side of the human mind. Also talks about the Abu-Ghraib incidents and how the system itself more than likely caused the problems.

So cameras don’t reduce crime at all, although in some cases they do move the crime away from the camera. Well great now just put a camera everywhere and crime won’t occur, that will work, not.

Dave Winer on some the very real problems with the current state of isp’s here in the US.

Okay so the FBI pushed to acquire documents that they legally aquired using a regular warrant with a National Security Letter so they could argue that this was one of the cases where a NSL was needed and should be used to acquire documents to prosecute ca