mjsergey's comments

booom http://www.glitch.com/start/xYi02NjEyMC1lNGZmZg/

Obviously there are different kinds of trust. I trust restaurant employees not to poison my food, but that doesn't mean I trust them with my SS number, bank account, and the details of my personal life. Pre 12.04, if Canonical wanted access to the personal information of their users, it would have involved putting in a backdoor that would be 1)detectable by all Ubuntu users 2)illegal under most spyware laws and 3)cause an extremely large backlash and wide mistrust of Canonical. So I 'trusted' Canonical not to engage in widespread criminal hacking which would have severe legal and social consequences. These consequences now seem removed: 1)There's no way to know if they are misusing the information that is now passed through their servers, barring someone on their end leaking something. 2)They don't appear to have made a legally binding promise about what they are actually doing with the data. Even if they did, the legal consequence of breaking it may be ambiguous. Just because I _did_ trust Canonical doesn't mean I trust them forever. Canonical's method of dumping an obviously intrusive function on users and then issuing a smarmy response that downplays genuine concerns shows that they are missing the social intelligence that would be required to even properly understand issues of privacy invasion, and I'm certainly looking to migrate elsewhere.

The book "The Mathematics of Novelty" seems like a pretty good introduction to Badiou. As with most non-fiction published by re.press it is creative commons: http://re-press.org/books/the-mathematics-of-novelty-badiou%....

"Because we were unable to verify the deal from both ends, we have to inform our readers that TorrentReactor is known to carry out pranks and ludicrous actions."

Trevor Cox, president of the UK Institute of Acoustics, has an article in New Scientist explaining how they make their noise.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19041-what-makes-the-s...

Not everyone would agree with (seemingly) basing relationships on what criteria they fulfill, which would seem to reduce love to an I scratch your back, you scratch mine scenario. Often times love is seen as an ethical, selfless act, as well as--and even in spite of--one that fulfills happiness.

Does anyone else think they are calling the Chrome videos a 'red herring' or is this reading too much into it?

This reminds me of Tuper Tario Tros, in which you play a version of the NES Mario but have to switch to playing Tetris so you can have blocks to jump on when there are walls/gaps that are too large. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/522276

This reminds me of the artist(s) TrustoCorp that put up parodies of street signs http://www.flickr.com/photos/45644444@N05/ although I'm sure their's are way more likely to be taken down.

Okay, when reading various blogs (or checking facebook) I always get nervous that the page's owner will analyze the logs and call me out on just how many times and how rapidly i hit refresh waiting for new content to appear or hoping that someone has replied to my comment.

its not a torrent site, but http://a.aaaarg.org/ has a bunch of continental philosophy/economics pdfs (some are scans and some are ebooks).