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We must concede that though we can maintain the paths of URIs over the lifetime of a service, most domain names are inevitably ephemeral. A two year registration to host a joke, a fifteen year registration to build a company. All will be resold.

What to do? We need to not fight the fragility. We need to look at the very heart of the web, the directory that connects the names of our services to the servers they run on, and we need to apply the concept of the Wayback Machine to it. We need temporal DNS, maintainable by librarians to keep the domains of the past connected to their archived futures. Your DNS provider as Time Lord*; rather than searching for what Geocities was like, picking a date at the DNS level could route all of your internet traffic through 1998.

Building the Great Libraries of the Internet with a DNS time machine · Ben Ward (via iamdanw)

God what a cool idea.

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laughingsquid: Social Roulette, A Game With a One in Six Chance of Deleting Your Facebook Account Digital life as analogy for just plain life. I like this. Zoom

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Social Roulette, A Game With a One in Six Chance of Deleting Your Facebook Account

Digital life as analogy for just plain life. I like this.

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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

The Shirky Principle (via explore-blog).

This quote encapsulates so much about modern America. It’s of my favorite quotes I’ve heard in a very long time.

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[W]hen we launch in a territory the Bittorrent traffic drops as the Netflix traffic grows. So I think people do want a great experience and they want access – people are mostly honest. The best way to combat piracy isn’t legislatively or criminally but by giving good options. One of the side effects of growth of content is an expectation to have access to it. You can’t use the internet as a marketing vehicle and then not as a delivery vehicle.
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thedailywhat: Stats Pr0n of the Day: Almost Half of Justin Bieber’s Twitter Following are Fake According to a recently released study by Socialbakers, nearly half of Justin Bieber’s 37 million strong Twitter” followers are made of either fake or inactive accounts. Graph courtesy of Statista.

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Stats Pr0n of the Day: Almost Half of Justin Bieber’s Twitter Following are Fake

According to a recently released study by Socialbakers, nearly half of Justin Bieber’s 37 million strong Twitter” followers are made of either fake or inactive accounts. Graph courtesy of Statista.

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We’re committed to broadcast, but we need to be fairly compensated from people who redistribute our signal… The dual revenue system is essential,” Carey said. “We will pursue our legal rights and we want to be clear that if we can’t defend our rights, we will take our network and make it a subscription service… We’re not going to sit idly by and let someone steal our signal.

News Corp COO Threatens To Pull Fox Broadcast Signal If Aereo Prevails In Legal Battle | TechCrunch (via infoneer-pulse)

All I can say is, Fox should DO this. They’ll see how much worse things are for them once they’re a cable channel and they aren’t getting all of the freebies and privileges that come from being a broadcast network. Good luck, Fox!

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As an example, the Michigan Tech paper describes an item known as a “parametric automated filter wheel changer.” The item would cost about $2,500 from a commercial vendor but could be made with a 3-D printer for less than $100. It’s essentially a plastic wheel that holds colored filters in place as they rotate, testing the effects of the varying colors on the number of electrons that are emitted for each photon fired into a solar cell, Mr. Pearce said. “It was $2,500,” he said, “and all it does is move the filter around.

Lab Equipment Made With 3-D Printers Could Cut Costs by 97% - Percolator - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via infoneer-pulse).

3D printing will change the world. At least that’s the hope.

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Is Community A Postmodern Masterpiece? | Idea Channel.

Maybe not a challenging question, because obviously the answer is “yes.” But I love this for so many reasons, and the main one is not even “Community” related: it’s a great primer on postmodernism, and also mentions the problems with it. If you are not a regular Idea Channel subscriber, become one.

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Cord-Cutters Rejoice: Streaming Broadcast TV Wins Big in Court

This is really important. Traditional spectrum-using broadcast television could be a thing of the past. This is so cool.

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Long Prison Term Shortened by Judge’s Regrets

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — When Denise Dallaire was arrested at age 26 on charges of selling a few ounces of crack cocaine here a decade ago, she was sentenced to prison for more than 15 years. Last month, shackled inside the same court and facing the same judge, she received an apology and was set free.

The reversal by Judge Ronald R. Lagueux highlights how mandatory sentencing guidelines, though struck down by the Supreme Court eight years ago, continue to keep hundreds of small-time offenders behind bars for longer than many today consider appropriate.

Ms. Dallaire was lucky enough to get herself noticed and for a technical flaw in her case to have surfaced. The result was a moment of courtroom drama and human redemption led by an 81-year-old judge eager to make amends for a decision he had long regretted.

“I felt bound by those mandatory guidelines and I hated them,” Judge Lagueux (pronounced la-GUEUR) said from the bench as Ms. Dallaire sobbed quietly and the room froze with amazement. “I’m sorry I sent you away for 15 years.” He urged her to get home quickly to her ill mother but not to run down the court steps as people do in the movies. “Those steps are dangerous,” he told her.

I love this story. I have only once in my job as a public defender ever read a transcript of a sentencing proceeding in which a judge showed remorse for giving out a very long sentence. Often, at least in Ohio drug law, these kinds of long sentences are, in fact, mandatory and cannot be reduced by a judge. Federal guideline sentencing is a little more complicated. But this story is really great.

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