Category: Society
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[Tempora project] Internet, Surveillance and the "merits" of Technology...
Tempora project: Underwater Internet cables offer UK the unique opportunity to eavesdrop on 99% of the world's communications. [1] (yes, this is the percentage of the world's communications passing through UK via the Atlantic) Technology helps solve problems. But for whom? > Help translate the Harmonia Philosophica book in 6 new languages and get valuable perks…
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Suicides falling. Something to worry about...
Suicide rates are falling in the "civilized" world. [1] Something to be happy about? Or something to worry about? Remember that suicide is the ultimate expression of human freedom. But our society does not leave room for freedom. It dictates what you do and how you do it. That reminds me of Wilhelm Reich... "If you…
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deCODE common logic... NOT!
deCODE Genetics, a company known for mining the DNA of Iceland's population to find links between genes and diseases, has hit a snag. As Science reports in this week's print issue, a national agency that oversees data privacy in Iceland has rejected a request from deCODE to allow it to apply computational methods to the…
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Watching over us...
Yes. They are watching us. [1] And we like it. I cannot find any other reason for not protesting against it. Help translate the Harmonia Philosophica book in 6 new languages and get valuable perks in return! Support the Indiegogo project now!
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Ulysses, Moby Dick, Lolita v2.0
> Help translate the Harmonia Philosophica book in 6 new languages and get valuable perks in return! Support the Indiegogo project now! Researchers have created a program to catch pirates by their commas... to trap them with paragraph breaks. The new program, still under development at the Darmstadt Technical University in Germany, automatically creates subtle alternative versions of an e-book…
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