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tool kit assembling
Sun Feb 10 15:13:04 UTC 2019
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Aussie Anti-Encryption?
Mon Jan 14 00:34:44 UTC 2019
Not an area of expertise for me, which, now that I think of it, is the point of the blog.
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Population Decline?
Fri Jan 11 20:28:22 UTC 2019
I was intrigued by a headline about a state paying for internet. That's not quite what's happening however. Check the links.
Percent population increase contemplated? 50 / 100 = 0.000080257, or eight-thousandths of one percent?
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- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/new-laws-2019-vermont-pays-people-10k-move-there-internet-n951711
- https://www.vnews.com/Vermont-to-pay-remote-workers-to-move-to-the-state-22460637
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont
Viet Nam Has A Problem With Facebook
Thu Jan 10 17:30:39 UTC 2019
As is often the case, the results of a web search are interesting in their own right. I favor the search engine in the link below, but there's no reason you can't concoct your own search or use your preferred engine.
Meanwhile, looks like Facebook is in trouble with (in?) Viet Nam.
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- https://www.google.com/search?q=viet+nam+facebook
- https://www.jurist.org/news/2019/01/vietnam-enforces-new-security-law-against-facebook/
- https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Facebook/Facebook-runs-afoul-of-Vietnam-s-new-cybersecurity-law
- https://www.pymnts.com/news/security-and-risk/2019/vietnam-goes-after-facebook-over-what-it-calls-slanderous-content/
- https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/vietnam-accuses-facebook-of-violating-new-cybersecurity-law/67465541
dev environment upgrades
Wed Jan 9 18:11:36 UTC 2019
Sorry for the interruption. I've spent the past few days upgrading my dev environment, and can now back up my (ahem) vast internet empire to a clean debian 9 install on virtualbox hosted on linuxmint 19. I'm very happy about this, and it's been a long time coming.
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Congo Net Shutdown
Fri Jan 4 2019 (revised)
Congo shuts down internet. Ebola? Elections?
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- https://www.google.com/search?q=congo+internet+shutdown
- https://www.reuters.com/article/congo-election/congos-internet-shutdown-after-election-could-cause-violent-backlash-un-idUSL8N1Z42Y1
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/01/drc-electoral-fears-rise-as-internet-shutdown-continues
- https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a25734506/democratic-republic-of-congo-internet-shutdown-ebola-election/
Netflix & MBS
Fri Jan 4 16:21:19 UTC 2019
My favorite from the headlines invokes the Streisand effect
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- https://www.google.com/search?q=netflix+mbs
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/netflix-comic-video-ban-since-when-did-netflix-take-marching-orders-from-saudi-arabia
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewhusband/2019/01/01/netflix-patriot-act-hasan-minhaj-saudi-arabia-episode/#6d6bf0a4856a
- https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190102/09280641317/saudi-arabia-discovers-streisand-effect-gets-netflix-to-take-down-hasan-minhajs-show-about-mbss-atrocities.shtml
Spectrum Tribune Spat
Thu Jan 3 21:00:45 UTC 2019
Lots of folks missing their favorite shows today.
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- https://www.google.com/search?q=spectrum+tribune
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/01/02/our-stations-will-no-longer-be-accessible-tribune-blackout-begins-fee-dispute-with-charter-intensifies
- https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tribune-goes-dark-spectrum-subscribers-1172580
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/media/2019/01/03/charter-spectrum-tribune-dispute-means-millions-lose-tv-channels/2470752002/
Must See Movies
Wed Jan 2 19:23:35 UTC 2019
Some amazing films came into the public domain yesterday. Content creators of the world, saddle up! The notion is that studios always had some public domain rabbit they could pull out of a hat to force a settlement, most often to the arguable benefit of the studios. Will these titles change this?
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SEC/bitcoin
Tue Jan 1 20:16:39 UTC 2019
SEC understandably wants transparency. bc naturally responds that such is against the nature of crypto-anything. Caveats and disclaimers at the fore, I reckon I'd have to side with the SEC on this one.
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Virtual- crypto- and related "currency" Under Scrutiny
Fri Jul 3 21:16:55 UTC 2015
United States regulators, from the SEC to New York Department of Financial Services are looking closer at bitcoin and related technologies. The rough countours of the issue seem to be consumer protection and market regulation, on the one side, and efficiencies of reduced transaction costs, in the Coasian sense of the term, on the other. In the middle, of course, are the many individuals and establishments already accepting these new forms of payment.
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- http://www.gibsondunn.com/publications/pages/Developments-in-Virtual-Currency--Regulation--Enforcement-Actions-Gain-Momentum.aspx
- http://www.cooley.com/70734
- http://www.banklawmonitor.com/2015/03/why-banks-should-care-about-bitcoin-and-new-yorks-proposed-virtual-currency-regulation/
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/beware-bitlicense-new-yorks-virtual-currency-regulations-invade-privacy-and-hamper
Cosian transaction costs explained:http://lsolum.typepad.com/legal_theory_lexicon/2003/09/legal_theory_le_1.html
Visa Follows Mastercard at Cook County Request
Thu Jul 2 02:22:08 UTC 2015
Visa will join Mastercard in a ban of backpage.com, on request from Cook County, Illinois, law enforcement. A quick search finds articles suggesting backpage is too permissive with ads which may implicate sex-trade or human-trafficking, and by cutting ties with backpage credit card companies thereby assist, however indirectly, law enforcement efforts to curtail same.
suggested search: visa mastercard backpage cook county
Kimble v Marvel Proposed at BHBA
Thu Jul 2 00:38:08 UTC 2015
I have proposed a panel for the Beverly Hills Bar Association, to discuss the Kimble v Marvel(pdf) case recently decided at the United States Supreme Court. More details as they become available.
relaunch
Thu Jul 2 00:37:03 UTC 2015
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