arabellatv

A must read for Carl Sagan fans.

Not so sure I would've succumbed to the attacker. What are our rights here as a user? Could we call the police on it?

Excellent audio conversation on Turing's life.

I just realized that I've stopped using my Evernote account ever since I upgraded to iOS7...and that's just because it kept crashing on me even if I had a brand new phone. This post just reminded me to cancel my Evernote pro-account and move all my stuff over to -- I guess, Google Docs? (as others have recommended). For receipts, I've been using the Flickr app to auto-upload my iPhone photos into a private folder. Then, I just send download links to accounting for reimbursement. It's even easier than Dropbox -- and it's free for up to 1 TB. The security issues are scary...it'd be interesting to see Evernote's reply.

I've fallen even more in love with original hackerspace, Noisebridge, with this new course. Thank you Tom Lowenthal (https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/User:Flamsmark). Class starts next Wednesday, Jan 8, 2014 and occurs every second Wednesday of the month at 7pm.

Yes. I agree. What were MIT's and Heymann's true motivations for blowing it up to a security issue? Did they act out of fear or out of ego? Regardless, they exacerbated the issue (just as media sensationalizes stories). It's upsetting that such intelligent people would fail to think through the situation. Or even worse...they did think it through and planned to blow this up as big as possible to prove a point or make an example out of Swartz?

You've got a great voice! Are you intending to go to SXSW, is that why your tour ends there on March 7? Joshua Tree is beautiful and so is Big Sur. Happy to connect you to some folks here in SF. Will email. Good luck and great guerrilla marketing for your startup.

The best things in life are free. And that's the problem here. Knowledge sharing, MOOC's (massive open online courses) and open source education is awesome and gives accessibility to the best information in the world. When you have a lot of knowledge, it becomes a commodity--and a precious commodity should have a high price tag, right?But knowledge really is priceless, and like paying for love, when you pay for knowledge, you might not get what you pay. And like paying for love, sometimes pimps want to control the market. And is that necessarily wrong? Because to make knowledge profitable means to make it sustainably accessible. A friend of mine (@habib) is a product manager at Elsevier and I wonder what he thinks about this. He happens to have been recruited by the company years ago from his blog on library science, and now he works on finding up-and-coming knowledge innovations. I'm going to tweet this to him and see what he thinks.