Posts published in “How the World Works”

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation“The control of US military spy drones appears to have shifted from Windows to Linux following an embarrassing malware infection.”   I still can’t believe there is Windows in any mission critical application, especially Military. Glad to see that the US Military is finally seeing that light. Now they need to go thru all their systems…

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Less than 24 hours after the SOPA victory, the Government seizes one of the world’s largest websites with no trial…   The U.S. really is a society that simply no longer believes in due process: once the defining feature of American freedom that is now scorned as some sort of fringe, radical, academic doctrine.Via www.salon.com

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationArs Technica alum Julian Sanchez has a timely redux of the research he did on how the made-up piracy numbers quoted during debates about SOPA and PIPA come from, and how little relation they bear to reality. It seems like every discussion of SOPA/PIPA includes a phrase like “Everyone agrees that piracy is huge problem,” but…

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationWhat does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto — a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.Via www.ted.com

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationLessig said the type of corruption rampant in the US Congress is not the old type of bribery, where congressional representatives had safes in their offices to hold the cash they received for voting in certain directions. That is now illegal and eliminated.   This new type of corruption is more subtle, indirect and harder to…