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EU Looks To Diffuse Internet Bomb Instructions
When I was in the tenth grade, before anybody'd heard of the Internet except this geek buddy of mine and the geek…
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Porn Picks Bone With Torrents
It's hard to have sympathy for a dirty, exploitative medium when the producers of it cry foul over piracy – after all dirty is as dirty does, and karma can be your friend or your enemy. But at the same time, copyrights are copyrights and are intended to protect the truly artful from thieves as much as they protect the scummy.
Google Puts $10M Towards Sustainable Transport
If these products come to your local car dealerships, they’ll need to have a better name than “sustainable transportation solutions.” But by issuing a $10 million request for proposals (RFP), Google intends to give the products an improved chance of making it that far.
Mechanical Turk Officially Closed Outside of the US
Being outside the US I wasn’t able to use Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program so far – they required me to provide a US bank account to start developing with their API. At least that was the case in the beginning; perhaps there were ways to still get into the system outside the US as Requester before.
Brands are Conversations
Ok, it’s been a while since I’ve disagreed with CNET’s Elinor Mills–something that rarely happens, as she’s a fantastic journalist–but here goes.
Google’s Big Plane, Using NASA’s Big Runway…
Wow, I go away on vacation for one week and the media goes gaga over Google - what’s new, right?
