"Amazon has included mobile data before in its Kindles, but those were strictly for books"
That is incorrect. I have a Kindle with 3G, and it comes with a web browser that works on 3G. They limit the amount of data you can use web browsing per month, but it has it. And it's free (not this price-per-year stuff). I'll attempt to post here from my Kindle in a few minutes.
There's a particularly good short story section of Larry Niven's "The Draco Tavern" dealing with this sort of thing.
A species genetically engineers a yeast-style organism that will act as a contraceptive. Unfortunately, the yeast causes complete infertility after a few generations. Since the species failed to limit the changes in a contained experimental area, their entire population is wiped out.
This can obviously be extrapolated to the human population. If we experiment with things like trait selection, we could end up wiping ourselves out because of problems we don't foresee. It would be nice if we'd perform our genetic experiments (with ourselves, our food supply, diseases) in a way that they couldn't completely destroy our species.
No, I'm not a luddite. But we shouldn't turn future humans into bananas, just waiting for a well-suited plague to kill us all.
The same argument you're using is an argument used for spying and throttling/capping of internet connections. It's an attempt to get us to turn on each other instead of the corporations screwing us over. Don't take the bait.
I find myself far less likely to vote for national candidates that send direct mail. More-local candidates that send direct mail make more sense, since I wouldn't likely know their positions otherwise.
Cases in point:
I get junk mail from "Romney For President" because I'm registered Republican. I would never vote for him for president (though I voted in the primary). They're wasting their money. They even ask you to put your own postage on donation envelopes so they don't have to pay it. That's led me to consider sending it back empty.
My girlfriend gets junk mail from "Obama For President" because she's registered Democrat. All the direct mail they send her talks up his Obamacare and Immigration policies, the two things she most dislikes that he's done. The junk mail has almost let me convince her to vote third-party in the election.
I don't think these political groups know what they're doing as much as they think.
Once again: seeking to stifle speech online is only likely to give that speech much, much, much more attention.
We really don't have any idea how often the censorship is effective; we generally only hear about the cases where it's successfully protested. I would presume that it's effective a lot of the time, or else the "reputation management" companies that do it would be completely out of business.
In the episode, a carbon tax was an example of taxing things that we want to reduce the use of. Think of it separately as energy-usage tax to encourage energy efficiency.
That probably isn't on the list because their "broad range of political backgrounds" economists don't agree on it. The things on this list are things that shouldn't be controversial. Our level of military intervention in the rest of the world has always been controversial.
What about all the coverage of Amanda Palmer? Or the older coverage of Kevin Smith? Techdirt loves content creators and hates "gatekeepers". I highly doubt you're actually confused about that.
They come with two versions of firmware: the dd-wrt version and the "User-Friendly" version. I had very poor results with my recently-purchased router, especially compared to my old reliable WHR-G54S.
"The new Linksys EA4500, EA3500, and EA2700 routers are available now and cost $199, $139, and $99, respectively. Cisco promises that a full range of its cloud-enabled services will be available by June."
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Wrong info
That is incorrect. I have a Kindle with 3G, and it comes with a web browser that works on 3G. They limit the amount of data you can use web browsing per month, but it has it. And it's free (not this price-per-year stuff). I'll attempt to post here from my Kindle in a few minutes.
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Typo
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Science Fiction
A species genetically engineers a yeast-style organism that will act as a contraceptive. Unfortunately, the yeast causes complete infertility after a few generations. Since the species failed to limit the changes in a contained experimental area, their entire population is wiped out.
This can obviously be extrapolated to the human population. If we experiment with things like trait selection, we could end up wiping ourselves out because of problems we don't foresee. It would be nice if we'd perform our genetic experiments (with ourselves, our food supply, diseases) in a way that they couldn't completely destroy our species.
No, I'm not a luddite. But we shouldn't turn future humans into bananas, just waiting for a well-suited plague to kill us all.
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Direct mail
Cases in point:
I get junk mail from "Romney For President" because I'm registered Republican. I would never vote for him for president (though I voted in the primary). They're wasting their money. They even ask you to put your own postage on donation envelopes so they don't have to pay it. That's led me to consider sending it back empty.
My girlfriend gets junk mail from "Obama For President" because she's registered Democrat. All the direct mail they send her talks up his Obamacare and Immigration policies, the two things she most dislikes that he's done. The junk mail has almost let me convince her to vote third-party in the election.
I don't think these political groups know what they're doing as much as they think.
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Streisand Effect
We really don't have any idea how often the censorship is effective; we generally only hear about the cases where it's successfully protested. I would presume that it's effective a lot of the time, or else the "reputation management" companies that do it would be completely out of business.
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Re: Suggestion #5 is utter nonsense
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100712/23482610186.shtml
And this one for Movie Studios:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100708/02510310122.shtml
And now we have book publishers. As it turns out, they're all crooks.
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Making a new one
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If you're going to pointlessly correct someone, at least do it right!
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(I don't tend to trust cloud services.)
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Here's an article about the router family:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57409483-1/cisco-launches-app-enabled-router/
"The new Linksys EA4500, EA3500, and EA2700 routers are available now and cost $199, $139, and $99, respectively. Cisco promises that a full range of its cloud-enabled services will be available by June."
It sounds like they kept their promise.
And here's an Amazon product page:
http://www.amazon.com/Linksys-EA2700-App-Enabled-Dual-Band-Wireless-N/dp/B007IL72CI/
"Cisc o Connect Cloud (Coming Summer 2012) - Over time, continue to get new apps and capabilities that will enrich your connected lifestyle"
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