The Pirate Bay is shutting down its BitTorrent tracker, made unnecessary by DHT (Distributed Hashtable) and PEX (Peer Exchange) support. The site will continue to operate. (more)

Data about Data - don't you hate that? (more)

iOS is the Operating System on IPhone-s and IPad-s. (more)

Steve Yegge spoke at OsCon-Data. (more)

programmer, associated with SmallTalk (more)

Mozilla got together some folks to envision the future of the Web Browser. (more)

Mozilla project - Distributed Membership System/Single Sign-On protocol. (more)

aka Reptile Brain (more)

David Miranda, who lives with Glenn Greenwald, was returning from a trip to Berlin when he was stopped by officers at 8.05am and informed that he was to be questioned under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The controversial law, which applies only at airports, ports and border areas, allows officers to stop, search, question and detain individuals. The 28-year-old was held for nine hours, the maximum the law allows before officers must release or formally arrest the individual... Miranda was released, but officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles... While in Berlin, Miranda had visited Laura Poitras, the US film-maker who has also been working on the Edward Snowden (NSA) files with Greenwald and the Guardian. The Guardian paid for Miranda's flights... Those stopped have no automatic right to legal advice and it is a criminal offence to refuse to co-operate with questioning under schedule 7, which critics say is a curtailment of the right to silence.

First: Less than a month after it was identified as the email service that Edward Snowden used to leak NSA documents, Lava Bit has suddenly and mysteriously shuttered... "Without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would strongly recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States." (more)

London is Dealing With Terrorism - multiple explosions. There's a blog covering the event and a Wikipedia page. (more)

Commercial closed-EmailBlast service. (more)

cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships (more)

EMail BroadCast process - an Email List with only one sender. (more)

Bryan Goldberg, having sold/left Bleacher Report, plans to start another web Content company. In my opinion, it is probably the single best venture sub-sector to create, and one that venture capitalists should be scrambling to invest in. In fact, I’ll wager that the venture community is going to have to start putting money into content companies, because they are going to be one of the best performers of the 2010 decade... It is unlikely to yield at 100-times return, but a 10-15-times return is very real. (more)

Is your student 'competent'? A new education yardstick takes the measure. (more)

Phil Zimmermann company selling secure EMail, Instant Messaging, VoIP, etc.

NSA/PRISM Leaker

Time for Number One Son to have his own computer. Giving in to his whining for an MsWindows system so he can run the games "all his friends" play. I know I will will regret this.... (more)

saw them on NPR back in the 90s (more)