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DRM is a system for prohibiting legal conduct that manufacturers and their shareholders don't like.Laws like the US DMCA 1201 (and its equivalents all over the world) ban tampering with
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20 years on, #BushVGore is back in our discourse - an election stolen by mobs at the polling places, a media blitz, and a Supreme Court at its most antidemocratic
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My statistician/data-science friends all tell me that if you're using a spreadsheet, you're not doing science, you're courting disaster. Real analysis requires Python, or, possibly, #julialang.https://arstechnica.com/science/202
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If you live in California, you have been blitzed by messages to vote for #Prop22, a rule that would allow Uber, Lyft, Postmates and other money-losing, destructive bezzles to continue
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Thing about the "herd immunity" debate is, there isn't one. Herd immunity was discarded by WHO virologists and epidemiologists and their US/UK counterparts. So why are we still talking about
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I have a column up in today's @Slate's @FutureTenseNow: "The Dangers of Cynical Sci-Fi Disaster Stories."https://slate.com/technology/2020/10/cory-docotorow-sci-fi-intuition-pumps.html1/ It's an exploration of fiction
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The right has long held that homelessness is a symptom - of a lack of self-control, a lack of foresight, of addiction, mental illness, etc - and therefore the solution
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Sometimes you have conversations that just stick with you. In 2006, I went to lunch with @EricFlint at the World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim; we got to talking about
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If you meet someone who claims to have created a system for controlling other peoples' minds, you know that they are:a) Delusional;b) A fraudster; andc) A sociopath.1/ This goes for
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After more than a year of investigations, House Dems have produced a 450-page report on market concentration in the tech industry, with a slate of findings that are obvious and
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Identifying a problem is just step one: then you have to figure out what's causing the problem and what to do about it. When it comes to the internet, there's
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One of the most profound latent political statements in internet history was the decision to make "user-agent" the technical term for a web-browser - implying that the browser should work
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