April 12, 2012

Funny .gif animation: Facebook's purchase of Instagram

Purchase of Instagram
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Apr 12, 2012 2:37:19 AM | Facebook, Funny stuff

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Must-read Article: In the Battles of SOPA and PIPA, Who Should Control the Internet? | Vanity Fair Wow. This a one example of great, thorough journalism - read the whole thing!In the Battles of SOPA and PIPA, Who Should Control the Internet? | Culture | Vanity Fair http://m.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/05/internet-regulation-war-sopa-pipa-defcon-hacking.print The War for the Internet was inevitable—a time bomb built into its creation. The war grows out of tensions that came to a head as the Internet grew to serve populations far beyond those for which it was designed. Originally built to supplement the analog interactions among American soldiers and scientists who knew one another off­-line, the Internet was established on a bedrock of trust: trust that people were who they said they were, and trust that information would be handled according to existing social and legal norms. That foundation of trust crumbled as the Internet expanded. The system is now approaching a state of crisis on four main fronts. The first is sovereignty: by definition, a boundary-less system flouts geography and challenges the power of nation-states. The second is piracy and intellectual property: information wants to be free, as the hoary saying goes, but rights-holders want to be paid and protected. The third is privacy: online anonymity allows for creativity and political dissent, but it also gives cover to disruptive and criminal behavior—and much of what Internet users believe they do anonymously online can be tracked and tied to people’s real-world identities. The fourth is security: free access to an open Internet makes users vulnerable to various kinds of hacking, including corporate and government espionage, personal surveillance, the hijacking of Web traffic, and remote manipulation of computer-controlled military and industrial processes. Get my free iPhone & Android apps http://mobileroadie.com/apps/Futurist

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