VentureBeat published an article about Owncloud today. We’re hoping this will kick off some serious attention ahead AppNation IV.
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VentureBeat covers Owncloud
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Watercolor caricatures by John Cox
John Cox does excellent political/philosophical illustrations.
4 OUT OF 5 CARICATURES AGREE… (John Cox Art)
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Celebrate Xmas the Victorian way
Grabbing a flaming piece of fruit sounds like good fun. Also, Lord of Misrule sounds like a better job title than Founder or Chief Technologist. Maybe it’s time for new business cards.
Celebrating the Christmas of the Past
English Heritage has some tips for celebrating Christmas in the Tudor and Victorian styles, if you want to be more traditional than everyone around you. For example, a Tudor-style Christmas would start with putting one person in charge of Christmas and all its parties.
As we all know, once a bureaucrat writes a directive, the problem is solved. Thankfully, we have a directive in place to make sure it’s always a real human pressing a button to drop bombs from a drone. There will be no chance of incompetent humans making mistakes nor of a computer virus taking over the drones.
Pentagon: A Human Will Always Decide When a Robot Kills You | Danger Room | Wired.com
Worried about the day when the robots become self-aware and start deciding who lives and who dies? The Pentagon’s actually written a directive to make sure that can’t happen, whatever the next steps are in autonomous robots.
Also: Drone crashes mount at civilian airports overseas – The Washington Post
Stossel shares some entertaining outrage, but the WSJ coverage leads with a reference to Hollywood that’s closer to the mark. Intrade must have been terribly threatening to the practice of picking hit movies. Even a stinker makes some cash, but not if a market warns everyone beforehand.
Government Crushes Innovative Online Prediction Market
Today, Americans were told that they must close their Intrade.com accounts. That happened because the federal government agency known as the “Commodity Futures Trading Commission” (CFTC) today sued the prediction market, where people from all over the world bet about things like who will win elections.
Intrade decided all its U.S. customers must now close their accounts and withdraw their money from the site.
UPDATE 12/07: I wanted to note that probably first read about the Hollywood angle on the Overcoming Bias post Zitzewitz The Wise. I just couldn’t find that link when I wrote this post.
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