We Can't Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership | WIRED
It’s official: John Deere and General Motors want to eviscerate the notion of ownership.
Hasnain says:
" If you bought it, you should own it—simple as that. It’s time corporate lawyers left the bullshit to the farmers, who actually need it."
Posted on 2015-04-21T15:26:15+0000
The Man Who Broke the Music Business
How an employee at a CD-manufacturing plant became the Patient Zero of Internet piracy.
Google’s Steely Foe in Europe
The European Union’s commissioner for competition has a reputation for being tough, but she says it’s her responsibility to make sure that competition is fair and open.
Hasnain says:
"As minister of the economy, for instance, she pushed for changes to Denmark’s generous social welfare benefits, including substantially curtailing unemployment benefits. Subsequently, a group of jobless builders presented her with a gift: a life-size sculpture of a hand with a raised middle digit. She keeps the artifact prominently displayed on a coffee table at her office in the European Commission."
Posted on 2015-04-20T16:35:49+0000
Workers Seeking Productivity in a Pill Are Abusing A.D.H.D. Drugs
Interviews with users and treatment experts suggest a growing number of young American workers are taking stimulants to enhance concentration and stamina at work.
Hasnain says:
"Those lawyers said they and dozens of young colleagues at their firms had casually traded pills to work into the night and billed hundreds of extra hours a year in the race for partnerships."
Posted on 2015-04-19T19:38:21+0000
Manna, Chapter 1, by Marshall Brain
Depending on how you want to think about it, it was funny or inevitable or symbolic that the robotic takeover did not start at MIT, NASA, Microsoft or Ford. It started at a Burger-G restaurant in Cary, NC on May 17. It seemed like such a simple thing at the time, but May 17 marked a pivotal moment i…
Hasnain says:
I don't know how I took this long to find this great story. It's a light 30 minute read that covers both possibilities of what happens when software, robotics and automation are taken to their logical conclusion. Scary, enlightening and uplifting.
Posted on 2015-04-19T19:13:02+0000
Clockmaker John Harrison vindicated 250 years after ‘absurd’ claims
The pendulum clock of Longitude hero John Harrison is tested and declared a masterpiece
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Posted on 2015-04-19T18:39:18+0000
United Airlines Stops Researcher Who Tweeted about Airplane Network Security from Boarding...
Our client, Chris Roberts, a founder of the security intelligence firm One World Labs, found himself detained by the FBI earlier this week after tweeting about airplane network security during a United Airlines flight. When Roberts landed in Syracuse, he was questioned by the FBI, which ultimately s…
FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all criminal trials for decades
FBI and Justice Department for the first time acknowledge that nearly all hair examiners gave flawed testimony
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Posted on 2015-04-19T05:51:01+0000
The photographers who refuse to abandon traditional film cameras
Film photography was supposed to have been killed off by the digital era - but a committed band of enthusiasts refuse to abandon the traditional camera.
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Posted on 2015-04-18T18:54:30+0000
French Senate Backs Bid To Force Google To Disclose Search Algorithm Workings
In France, the upper house of parliament yesterday voted to support an amendment to a draft economy bill that would require search engines to display at least..