Category Archives: Virtual Reality Living

Facebook Violating European Privacy Laws

It’s not that the laws are onerous, it’s that Facebook wants the user data more than they want to comply with any pesky privacy regulations. Their CEO inspired a Hollywood movie, you know; that means laws don’t apply to them.

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Steve Jobs Has Changed Our Software

This is just like an eight year-old me sitting at my grandfather’s manual typewriter and asking him where the “on” button was located.

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Deontée Gordon At Alabama Community Leaders Institute

Deontée Gordon is a Senior Consultant at Infomedia, an online business consulting firm. I spoke with him on August 27th at the Alabama Community Leaders Institute on the campus of Alabama A&M in Huntsville.

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Further Proof That Apple Is Evil

The Hill reports Apple is buying up GOP-connected lobbying power: Apple has hired Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock to lobby on “innovation,” according to a disclosure form submitted Feb. 1. The disclosure form does not offer more details about what issues … Continue reading

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L’Affaire Assange

Unknown hackers are busy attacking various websites today in response to the U.S. pressure tactics on WikiLeaks; I expected as much. Without a sanction, corporations are more than willing to help the advance of fascism in America. If WikiLeaks is … Continue reading

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The End Of Everything

With Lady Gaga providing a clinic on posthumanist plasticity, it shouldn’t surprise us to see an attempted terrorist show up on the Canadian version of Idol. In the future, all terrorists will bomb on a reality show:

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Google Wars

Remember Cola Wars? Just like that, but with computers. Google wants to go social and that’s driving Facebook to mobilize for war: Rumors surfaced in June that the search giant was developing a Facebook competitor called Google Me, and the … Continue reading

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Morning Awful: Cyber Bullies

Gangs of them: This particular cyber-bully is also likely responsible for getting me banned from Digg: A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, … Continue reading

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Video And Fascism

From TIME, a look at efforts by police departments to arrest and prosecute civilians with videocameras. The operative ‘graff: The legal argument prosecutors rely on in police video cases is thin. They say the audio aspect of the videos violates … Continue reading

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Government By Google

This is why the ACLU had a booth at Netroots Nation pushing updated electronic privacy legislation. Via HuffPo: MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google Inc. is gearing up to sell its e-mail and other Web-hosted applications to a wider range of … Continue reading

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Music Industry Loses Money On Copyright Enforcement

At the end of the 20th Century, the Recording Industry Association of America set out to find and prosecute online music “thieves.” There was a brief celebration of their copyright “victory” when Napster went down; but downloaders simply moved on … Continue reading

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