Archives for July 2015
все идет по плану
17 July 2015 | Culturology | 1 Comment
нелзья, кстати, не отметить замечательное сходство.
to make the market safer
16 July 2015 | Censorship, Internet, Jurisprudence, Politics | No Comments
The UK’s porn filters could be made illegal under a proposed EU law heading for a vote in the European Parliament this autumn.
The law takes aim at roaming charges but it will have far-reaching implications for net neutrality and the UK’s adult content filters introduced in July 2013, say legal experts.
It boils down to the fact that “if you’re a German customer who wants specific content, you should be able to access it in the UK as well”, said Denis Keseris, a patent attorney who specialises in information and communications technology as a partner at the firm Withers & Rogers.
Approved on 30 June, the Single Telecoms Market law marks the end of mobile phone providers’ roaming charges throughout the EU from June 2017 onward. The new laws will also “enshrine the principle of net neutrality into EU law”. That means “no blocking or throttling of online content, applications and services”.
по-крайней мере, будет отличный повод для исков.
мозаика
15 July 2015 | Art | No Comments
Стэнтон Макдональд-Райт, из кусочков.
conventions only become conventions if they work
14 July 2015 | Cryptography, Privacy, Security, Software | No Comments
или, например, хороший Мокси Марлинспайк о GPG:
Eventually I realized that when I receive a GPG encrypted email, it simply means that the email was written by someone who would voluntarily use GPG. I don’t mean someone who cares about privacy, because I think we all care about privacy. There just seems to be something particular about people who try GPG and conclude that it’s a realistic path to introducing private communication in their lives for casual correspondence with strangers.
Increasingly, it’s a club that I don’t want to belong to anymore.
все так. вот и получается, что с одной стороны криптогфрафия жизненно необоходима каждому, а с другой — что пользоваться этими продуктами нет совершенно никакой возможности.
V for Vendetta
14 July 2015 | Politics, Privacy, Security | 3 Comments
The president of the German domestic secret service has filed criminal charges with the public prosecutor because of two of our (netzpolitik.org — me) articles. The accusation: leaking state secrets. We have learned that from a brodcast on public broadcasting radio station Deutschlandfunk on Saturday.
The investigation’s cause are the articles „mass data processing of the Internet’s content“ and „a new unit for expanding internet surveillance“ executed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution whereof we had reported with the aid of the original documents.
We have reported on this matter because we deem it necessary to start a social debate. Two years after after Snowden’s revelations, the Federal Government has no better ideas than spending more and more money and responsibilities on largely uncontrolled secret services instead of ensuring a better control of secret services and reducing the system of total surveillance.
отшлифованные грани
13 July 2015 | Art | 1 Comment
welcome, Neo, to the virtual world
12 July 2015 | Sex, Technology | No Comments
и не забудь свою Неомаху:
If you haven’t experienced virtual reality in any form — porn or otherwise — it’s a bit hard to grasp this, but VR is a legitimate breakthrough in entertainment and storytelling.
The difference between virtual reality and every storytelling medium that came before it is something called “presence.” For those unfamiliar with this term, presence is what happens when you are immersed in the virtual experience in front of you.
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As VirtualRealPorn co-founder Mike Kovalsky (fake name) said when I interviewed him, “When you watch standard porn, you have to see what the director decides to show you. But in VR, you have the actress in front of you, and you can choose to look into her eyes, watch her tits, or focus on her pussy.”
Even with a mid-range HTC phone and the barrel-scraping Google Cardboard strapped to my face, I found VirtualRealPorn’s videos to be a leap forward in erotic intensity.
And this is just the beginning.
о насыщении
12 July 2015 | Economics, Technology | No Comments
IHS estimates that by the end of this year every dollar spent in developing new shale oil wells in the U.S. will be 65% more productive in terms of additional oil extracted than in 2014. There may be a dip in output over the summer. But IHS expects that U.S. output will resume its growth later this year and into next.
surreal alchemy with ephemeral fossils
12 July 2015 | Art | 3 Comments
опять про Корнелла — в Королевской академии художеств открылась его выставка.
линия горизонта
11 July 2015 | Art | No Comments
