Daily Archives: January 23, 2012


It's good to finally see the US Supreme Court slam the brakes on at least one…

It's good to finally see the US Supreme Court slam the brakes on at least one area of the rapidly encroaching police state we live in here. Since 2001, American police and private security have been given ever more power to interfere with perfectly legitimate activities including photographing public buildings as well as use more force through devices like tasers.

I suspect that even though police will now have to get a warrant to track suspects via GPS, it probably won't inject much of a speed bump into most investigations. It's not often that I agree with the likes of Justice Samuel Alito, but I do believe that the court opinion should have also addressed cell phone tracking, but hopefully they will do that soon.

#policestate

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Supreme Court: GPS Tracking By Cops Without Warrant Illegal, Unconstitutional
Antoine Jones, a nightclub owner in Washington, D.C., was sentenced to life in prison on a drug conspiracy conviction. Prosecutors built their case around police GPS tracking of Jones’ Jeep, which was…

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Another step along the path of educating the world via net along with +Khan Academy…

Another step along the path of educating the world via net along with +Khan Academy and iTunes U. The more people are educated, the better chance we have lifting society as a whole and improving our world.

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Breaking News: Sebastian Thrun launches Udacity.com, a new free online education platform:
http://dld.tumblr.com/post/16346331252/breaking-sebastian-thrun-launches-udacity-com

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Danny Sullivan explains with a real world example that gets repeated daily around…

Danny Sullivan explains with a real world example that gets repeated daily around the world why we should not even bother to try and protect the business models of Rupert Murdoch and his cronies. They create artificial scarcity where there is no technical or logical reason for it and then wonder why people say "screw it" and just go to Pirate Bay or some other site that is streaming their content.

Don't protect big Hollywood, it doesn't deserve it. Advertisers should go to smaller online content creators like Leo Laporte, Revision3, Felicia Day and many others. Support their production efforts so they can distribute original content online and transform the entertainment and information business.

#sopa #pipa #content

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Watching last week's episode of The Simpsons turned out to be impossible despite all the money I already pay that gets filtered to Rupert Murdoch through DirectTV, Hulu and Netflix. Yet, if I wanted to fire up my computer, he was willing to give it to me for free. A weird lesson this taught my son; bad business model it seemed to me.

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Dear Rupert Murdoch: Let’s Talk Piracy & “The Simpsons”
Rupert, my son had a simple request. “Daddy, can we watch last week's episode of The Simpsons?” No, son, we can't. You can blame Rupert Murdoch for that. Rupert, I know you're all upset ab…

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