May accept such behavior in 2047, when only Dutch parliament members are still using iPads ;-)
Dutch language news article and video:
http://www.geenstijl.nl/mt/archieven/2012/04/tofik_dibi_buigt_voor_dictaat.html
Archive for 2012/04/28
Chair Of Dutch Parliament Only Accepts Formal Proposal (To Be Discussed And Voted On) When It Is Being Read From Paper. Not If It Is Being Read From An iPad
Posted: 2012/04/28 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Tech EvolutionWe’re not actually living in an era of great innovation
Posted: 2012/04/28 in Education / Awareness, Future Developments?, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionMore prosaically, the 15 years since the internet became a major part of our lives has been marked here in the U.S. — birthplace of the internet — by mostly disappointing economic growth. The only exception was in the late 1990s, when excitement over how much the internet was going to change everything spurred an investment bubble that briefly drove real growth. (And yes, the story has been different outside the U.S., but the emerging markets boom has generally been more about catching up than exploiting cutting-edge technology.)
Electricity is still electricity, and still generated mostly with fossil fuels; cars are better but not all that much better, and still propelled almost entirely by fossil fuels. Only communication has been truly transformed, but is the transformation really as profound as the advent of telegraphs, radio, and TV? (For much more on this, consult economist Robert J. Gordon’s productivity research.)
We have no colonies on Mars, we still can’t get by without prehistoric fuel, the dishwasher still doesn’t get all the dishes clean, and very few of us have personal jetpacks. You call this progress?
More:
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/04/opinion-fox-net-innovation/
US Music Pirates Face New $150,000 Damages Claims
Posted: 2012/04/28 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, LitigationNow Anyone Can Hack A Website Thanks To Clever, Free Programs
Posted: 2012/04/28 in Cybercrime, Education / AwarenessDutch court bans pot for foreigners
Posted: 2012/04/28 in Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public PolicyThe country known for “coffee shops” where joints and cappuccinos share spots on the menu may see its famed tolerance for drugs go up in smoke. A Dutch judge upheld a government plan to ban foreign tourists from buying marijuana.
If the government gets its way, the pass will roll out in the rest of the country, including Amsterdam, next year. It will turn coffee shops into private clubs with membership open only to Dutch residents and limited to 2,000 per shop.
http://rt.com/news/netherlands-marijuana-drug-ban-182/
At 92, a Bandit to Hollywood but a Hero to Soldiers
Posted: 2012/04/28 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Stats / reportsHyman Strachman, 92, has sent hundreds of thousands of illicitly copied movies to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
One of the world’s most prolific bootleggers of Hollywood DVDs loves his morning farina. He has spent eight years churning out hundreds of thousands of copies of “The Hangover,” “Gran Torino” and other first-run movies from his small Long Island apartment to ship overseas.
“Big Hy” — his handle among many loyal customers — would almost certainly be cast as Hollywood Enemy No. 1 but for a few details. He is actually Hyman Strachman, a 92-year-old, 5-foot-5 World War II veteran trying to stay busy after the death of his wife. And he has sent every one of his copied DVDs, almost 4,000 boxes of them to date, free to American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Microsoft backs away from CISPA support, citing privacy
Posted: 2012/04/28 in Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public PolicyMicrosoft is no longer as enthusiastic about a controversial cybersecurity bill that would allow Internet and telecommunications companies to divulge confidential customer information to the National Security Agency.
The U.S. House of Representatives approved CISPA by a 248 to 168 margin yesterday in spite of a presidential veto threat and warnings from some House members that the measure represented “Big Brother writ large.”
http://news.cnet.com/8301-33062_3-57423580/microsoft-backs-away-from-cispa-support-citing-privacy/
But what if buying a ticket were as simple as tweeting?
Posted: 2012/04/28 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Online advertising, Tech EvolutionTweetAFlight promises to get you deals in ads you see on Twitter if you just tweet “buy” in response.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57423067-1/tweet-buy-to-purchase-flights-by-twitter/
Big Content eyes Google Fiber deployment in Kansas City warily
Posted: 2012/04/28 in Education / Awareness, Google, Stats / reportsApple indeed has a TV in the works, claims Reuters
Posted: 2012/04/28 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionThe year of the ecosystem
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/04/apple-indeed-has-a-tv-in-the-works-claims-reuters.ars
Scuba is helping Facebook gather important data on the health and status of its server infrastructure – and fast
Posted: 2012/04/28 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionAs a result, queries now take less than a second to fulfill, “even traversing hundreds of millions of samples and hundreds of gigabytes of data.” Employees also have the ability to view heat maps of racks and servers based on such factors as CPU consumption and packet throughput, or find data on “sick” machines that are performing the least effectively.
