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Nutshells: A Disingenuous Sensenbrenner

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G. Jack King, former NACDL Public Affairs Director, destroys Jim Sensenbrenner’s attempt to distance himself from the NSA’s recent data collection scandal by claiming that the PATRIOT Act didn’t authorize such broad data collection:

In a column published in today’s…

“A Disingenuous Sensenbrenner”

Your Body Does Not Want to Be an Interface

“I’m not a cyborg (yet) so I can’t be sure, but I suspect the effect is more the opposite: alienating you from the direct bodily experiences you already have by turning them into technological interfaces to be manipulated. “

Zuckerberg did that for two reasons: First, to buy his company time to build a proper OS that will come to us in dribs and drabs and then will wash over us suddenly, like a riptide. And secondly, to convince people that ”Home” is just like any other app. Unfortunately, Facebook’s Home is not as benign as that.

Facebook has only one goal in order to succeed as a business — keep eyeballs on Facebook and away from the real Internet, which is dominated by Google, including Google Search, Gmail, YouTube and, increasingly, Google .

A ‘Google map’ of human metabolism

Human Metabolism

Recon 2 allows biomedical researchers to study the human metabolic network with more precision than was ever previously possible. This is essential to understanding where and how specific metabolic pathways go off track to create disease,” said Bernhard Palsson, Galletti Professor of Bioengineering at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.

This isn’t the story about how Apple has lost its way and no longer innovates. It hasn’t and it still does. This is merely the story of one dude who got a new phone. Nonetheless, my tale presents a picture of the strengths of modern Android.

User context drives what people search for, and the actions they take. So for example, say I am at home in the evening, and I’m doing a search. The actions that I will take will be largely the same if I’m using a smartphone, tablet or notebook, because the context is the same. Particularly between notebook and tablet, the query patterns are very similar.

Unless Facebook finds dramatic new areas of growth, which seems less likely with each passing year, it’s not going to take over the Web. But it’s not going away either. We’re stuck with it’s mediocrity

Facebook is a continuing nightmare of privacy disasters. It’s the bathroom door that resists all efforts at locking, swinging open again and again while you’re trying to poop.

(via The Never-Ending Smartphone Cycle [COMIC])

(via The Never-Ending Smartphone Cycle [COMIC])