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Comment on Crypto Is Not A Panacea by Mike Kozlowski

Mike Kozlowski — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:16:26 +0000

FWIW, Bruce Schneier doesn’t think they can break AES: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/03/can_the_nsa_bre.html

Comment on Summertime by Jasper Janssen

Jasper Janssen — Tue, 07 May 2013 10:38:17 +0000

And the living is easy?

Comment on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service by mhoye

mhoye — Mon, 06 May 2013 17:29:14 +0000

I didn’t really think there was a substantive argument to address there. “Let history decide” is a classy-sounding abdication, not a position of any substance or merit.

Comment on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service by Kenneth Cavness

Kenneth Cavness — Thu, 02 May 2013 17:33:49 +0000

So, yeah, I get the whole “I’m going to keep things terse and not really respond to arguments thing beyond reiterating my original position, because that’s cool” vibe you’ve got going here, Hoye, but it’s a little annoying to read.

Comment on All Scrollbars Are Fleeting by Zeynep

Zeynep — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:57:12 +0000

Oh, please do not spare Adobe.

Comment on Majora’s Mask by mijkel

mijkel — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 03:20:51 +0000

Thank you, this post was very interesting and I barely remember the game, becuase I did not acquired it.

I got more interest in play it.

Comment on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service by mhoye

mhoye — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:31:26 +0000

At some point the megaphone was new technology as well, and it turns out there’s plenty of middle ground between “omg problems, we need to stop it” and “what cool new things can we do with this, and oh yeah, we’ll deal with the problems”, particularly when the “cool new things” involve rudely imposing yourself on other people.

Comment on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service by Buck

Buck — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:19:20 +0000

“deal with the problems” uh-huh

Comment on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service by Mike Kozlowski

Mike Kozlowski — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:38:49 +0000

Every technology has problems. Heck, most of the terrifying things being bandied about with Glass are also possible with cameraphones (specifically including surreptitious creepshotting, which was hardly even a word before cameraphones). And yet, still and all, we’re not in a dystopia, and most of us think these techs are totally sweet on net.

Maybe this time is different, but when one’s first instinct is “new technology, omg problems, we need to stop it” rather than “new technology, wow, what cool new things can we do with this, and oh yeah, we’ll deal with the problems”… well, that’s curmudgeonism.

Comment on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service by Buck

Buck — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:48:16 +0000

I’m with the camera-haters BUT it feels futile to me.

People are outraged that they can’t take photos of their meals at high-end restaurants to post to their fucking Instagram accounts. Rapists post photos of their acts and are supported by their communities. The social capital people accumulate from their social media fronting outweighs any ethical qualms.

Plus the “if you’re not doing anything wrong” argument seems to still be all the rage.

I don’t detect any strong threads of resistance to these trends, us objectors may end up being just as marginal as Facebook abstainers (also me). But I guess campaigns like this are an attempted discursive intervention so we can have a grand critical discussion.