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Wimp sender tabsfri musik til de hungrende og velbeslåede audiofile. 25 millioner sange i alt. Det efterlader stadig nogle store huller i musikhistorien. Wimp forsøger sig også med noget upassende mersalg. Men alt i alt er det en af de bedste musiktjenester derude.

http://www.fagbladet3f.dk/temaer/digitalt/df94489bb71e4d08aa0681fa93bd0eab-20140827-wimp-gte-hifi-musiktjeneste-p-nettet-med-gte-problemer ⟲

"If people who were born homosexual hadn’t insisted on being who they were, despite it being illegal, laws would not have changed to make it legal. Make them legal. This required privacy, and it didn’t just have an individual benefit for a few lawbreakers – it had the collective benefit of repealing unjust laws, something that could not have happened without privacy."

Falkvinge er som altid helt klar i mælet og har blik for de store linjer.

Originally shared by Rick Falkvinge

Privacy, like vaccination, is primarily a collective benefit - not an individual one. New column on Privacy News.

Privacy isn’t there for the purpose of protecting people who want to do wrong. Privacy is a more than a random civil right: it is a safeguard in a democratic society, a crucial safety valve against unjust laws that shouldn’t be able to be enforced. As such, it is not an individual benefit as much as it is a collective one: a mechanism that benefits everybody, even those who don’t use it.

If we had had today's surveillance in place 50 years ago, homosexuality would still be illegal. As would marriages between people of different shades of skin. It was only because of privacy that these laws could be questioned, debated, and changed.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2014/08/privacy-like-vaccination-is-primarily-a-collective-benefit-not-an-individual-one/

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2014/08/privacy-like-vaccination-is-primarily-a-collective-benefit-not-an-individual-one

Privacy, Like Vaccination, Is Primarily A Collective Benefit - Not An Individual One

Privacy isn?t there for the purpose of protecting people who want to do wrong. Privacy is a more than a random civil right: it is a safeguard in a democratic society, a crucial safety valve against unjust laws that shouldn?t be able to be enforced. As such, it is...

Privacy, Like Vaccination, Is Primarily A Collective Benefit - Not An Individual One

Privacy isn?t there for the purpose of protecting people who want to do wrong. Privacy is a more than a random civil right: it is a safeguard in a democratic society, a crucial safety valve against unjust laws that shouldn?t be able to be enforced. As such, it is...

Bwahahaha! The Onion er endnu engang helt ustyrligt skarpe.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/elderly-lobbyist-always-droning-on-about-how-littl,36793/ ⟲

Elderly Lobbyist Always Droning On About How Little Legislation Cost In His Day

WASHINGTON?Citing his habit of haranguing younger colleagues about the way things used to be, sources confirmed Wednesday that 74-year-old veteran ExxonMobil lobbyist Hank Foraker is constantly droning on about how much cheaper legislation was back in his day.

Det direkte link virker ikke pt., men her er en ret interessant historie om Navnehjulets fødsel.

http://www.kaasogmulvad.dk/

Forside - Kaas & Mulvad

Kaas & Mulvad er specialister i at trække værdifuld viden ud af komplekse data og at visualisere og præsentere resultatet på nettet. Vi forstår data.

"The New York Times ran the story under a headline “The Tribune Company’s publishing unit is being spun off, as the future of print remains unclear.”

The future of print remains what? Try to imagine a world where the future of print is unclear: Maybe 25 year olds will start demanding news from yesterday, delivered in an unshareable format once a day. Perhaps advertisers will decide “Click to buy” is for wimps. Mobile phones: could be a fad. After all, anything could happen with print. Hard to tell, really.

Meanwhile, back in the treasurer’s office, have a look at this chart. Do you see anything unclear about the trend line?"

https://medium.com/@cshirky/last-call-c682f6471c70

Last Call

The end of the printed newspaper.

Man kan sådan set godt slæbe sig syngende og trallende gennem livet med et it-budget på 4.200 kr. pr. år. Se matematikken hos

http://www.fagbladet3f.dk/temaer/digitalt/a9ecefa9c0214bab853ced5d7af4d85b-20140818-den-noejsomme-og-intelligente-koeber-noedigt-nyt-it-udstyr ⟲

Den nøjsomme og intelligente køber nødigt nyt IT-udstyr

Det koster penge og besvær. Hvis man tager en dyb indånding, kan man se, at man egentlig ikke har brug for så meget it-udstyr.

Idé til CPR-numre v2.0: "Men hvorfor egentlig begrænse sig til cifre: Man kan begrænse antallet af nødvendige tegn ved at bruge bogstaver. Med a-z alene kan man nøjes med 5 tegn (som giver 26⁵ = 11881376 muligheder). Man kan gøre koden udtalelig ved at [...] Jeg vil tro, at langt de fleste vil kunne huske koder i stil med "kahpontig" lige så let som fire tilfældige cifre."

http://www.version2.dk/blog/cpr-nemids-bedstefar-2mange-68210#comment-284578 ⟲

CPR: NemIDs bedstefar 2/mange

I forrige blogindlæg ridsede jeg [det historiske forhold imellem person-identitet og statsmagt](http://www.version2.dk/blog/zoom-ud-fra-nemid-1mange-68190) op.

Ah, en ny Cyriak-video at begynde weekenden med. God fornøjelse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnWP2Emps1M&list=UU9Ntx-EF3LzKY1nQ5rTUP2g ⟲

malfunction

I've no idea what this video is. It crawled out from some dark corner of my computer after evolving from the virtual maggots that feast on rotting film foota...

"The data paint a bleak picture. The economists find that pharmaceutical companies conduct 30 times more clinical trials for recurrent cancer drugs than for preventive drugs (the effect persists even after adjusting for market size). The authors also show that firms divert their R&D expenditures away from more curable, localised cancers and focus on incurable metastatic and recurrent cancers instead. The patent system encourages pharmaceuticals to pump out drugs aimed at those who have almost no chance of surviving the cancer anyway. This patent distortion costs the U.S. economy around $89 billion a year in lost lives."

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/08/innovation ⟲