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Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Open source needs to be more than just Linux | Opensource.com - 0 views

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open source needs be indeed is more than Linux

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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 13 May 15
     
    "Linux took a principle and filled in an important technology gap that inspired the filling of a thousand other gaps too. This led to the rise of the venerable Linux distribution, as myriad as consumer-grade platforms such as Ubuntu and Fedora, to server-grade such as CentOS and Debian, and down to the downright weird such as RebeccaBlackOS. "
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 13 May 15
     
    "Linux took a principle and filled in an important technology gap that inspired the filling of a thousand other gaps too. This led to the rise of the venerable Linux distribution, as myriad as consumer-grade platforms such as Ubuntu and Fedora, to server-grade such as CentOS and Debian, and down to the downright weird such as RebeccaBlackOS. "
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Windows 7, 8, and 10: Now all collecting user data for Microsoft | InfoWorld - 1 views

www.infoworld.com/...g-user-data-for-microsoft.html

Microsoft Windows windoz Windows 10 Windows 8 Windows 7 collecting user data slurp spy

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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 03 Sep 15
     
    " Uncomfortable with Windows 10 slurping personal data? Too bad -- Microsoft rolls out similar snooping capabilities to Windows 7, Windows 8"
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 03 Sep 15
     
    " Uncomfortable with Windows 10 slurping personal data? Too bad -- Microsoft rolls out similar snooping capabilities to Windows 7, Windows 8"
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Big Tech Does Not Speak for the Internet | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 0 views

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Big Tech Internet technology people rules

shared by Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 12 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 12 Jul 15
     
    "Too often, media and policymakers take seriously the claim of government officials that secret trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) promote and protect "Internet freedom," even though the traditional guardians of Internet freedom-users and innovators who rely on it-have said precisely the opposite."
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 12 Jul 15
     
    "Too often, media and policymakers take seriously the claim of government officials that secret trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) promote and protect "Internet freedom," even though the traditional guardians of Internet freedom-users and innovators who rely on it-have said precisely the opposite."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

MPAA says 1st Amendment protects studios from Google "fishing expedition" | Ars Technica - 1 views

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MPAA vs Google freedom of expression 1st Amendment

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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 19 Jun 15
     
    "Google has gone too far and has undertaken a "fishing expedition" in its bid to substantiate allegations the motion picture studios and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood conspired with each other as Hood probed the search giant."
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 19 Jun 15
     
    "Google has gone too far and has undertaken a "fishing expedition" in its bid to substantiate allegations the motion picture studios and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood conspired with each other as Hood probed the search giant."
Gary Edwards

Wolfram Alpha is Coming -- and It Could be as Important as Google | Twine - 0 views

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stephen-wolfram wolfram-alpha google-killer

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  • The first question was could (or even should) Wolfram Alpha be built using the Semantic Web in some manner, rather than (or as well as) the Mathematica engine it is currently built on. Is anything missed by not building it with Semantic Web's languages (RDF, OWL, Sparql, etc.)? The answer is that there is no reason that one MUST use the Semantic Web stack to build something like Wolfram Alpha. In fact, in my opinion it would be far too difficult to try to explicitly represent everything Wolfram Alpha knows and can compute using OWL ontologies. It is too wide a range of human knowledge and giant OWL ontologies are just too difficult to build and curate.
  • However for the internal knowledge representation and reasoning that takes places in the system, it appears Wolfram has found a pragmatic and efficient representation of his own, and I don't think he needs the Semantic Web at that level. It seems to be doing just fine without it. Wolfram Alpha is built on hand-curated knowledge and expertise. Wolfram and his team have somehow figured out a way to make that practical where all others who have tried this have failed to achieve their goals. The task is gargantuan -- there is just so much diverse knowledge in the world. Representing even a small segment of it formally turns out to be extremely difficult and time-consuming.
  • It has generally not been considered feasible for any one group to hand-curate all knowledge about every subject. This is why the Semantic Web was invented -- by enabling everyone to curate their own knowledge about their own documents and topics in parallel, in principle at least, more knowledge could be represented and shared in less time by more people -- in an interoperable manner. At least that is the vision of the Semantic Web.
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  • Where Google is a system for FINDING things that we as a civilization collectively publish, Wolfram Alpha is for ANSWERING questions about what we as a civilization collectively know. It's the next step in the distribution of knowledge and intelligence around the world -- a new leap in the intelligence of our collective "Global Brain." And like any big next-step, Wolfram Alpha works in a new way -- it computes answers instead of just looking them up.
  • Gary Edwards on 09 Mar 09
     
    A Computational Knowledge Engine for the Web In a nutshell, Wolfram and his team have built what he calls a "computational knowledge engine" for the Web. OK, so what does that really mean? Basically it means that you can ask it factual questions and it computes answers for you. It doesn't simply return documents that (might) contain the answers, like Google does, and it isn't just a giant database of knowledge, like the Wikipedia. It doesn't simply parse natural language and then use that to retrieve documents, like Powerset, for example. Instead, Wolfram Alpha actually computes the answers to a wide range of questions -- like questions that have factual answers such as "What country is Timbuktu in?" or "How many protons are in a hydrogen atom?" or "What is the average rainfall in Seattle this month?," "What is the 300th digit of Pi?," "where is the ISS?" or "When was GOOG worth more than $300?" Think about that for a minute. It computes the answers. Wolfram Alpha doesn't simply contain huge amounts of manually entered pairs of questions and answers, nor does it search for answers in a database of facts. Instead, it understands and then computes answers to certain kinds of questions.
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Google Refuses MPAA Request to Blacklist 'Pirate Site' Homepages | TorrentFreak - 0 views

torrentfreak.com/t-pirate-site-homepages-141123

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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 24 Nov 14
     
    "The MPAA recently asked Google to remove the homepages of dozens of sites that offer links to pirated content. Google, however, refused to take down most of the URLs, likely because the takedown notices are seen as too broad. "
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 24 Nov 14
     
    "The MPAA recently asked Google to remove the homepages of dozens of sites that offer links to pirated content. Google, however, refused to take down most of the URLs, likely because the takedown notices are seen as too broad. "
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Meet the Dogged Researchers Who Try to Unmask Haters Online | MIT Technology Review - 0 views

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researchers online mit technology review meet trols haters Internet web www

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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 11 Jan 15
     
    "A group of journalists and researchers wade into ugly corners of the Internet to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites. Have they gone too far? By Adrian Chen on December 18, 2014 "
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 11 Jan 15
     
    "A group of journalists and researchers wade into ugly corners of the Internet to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites. Have they gone too far? By Adrian Chen on December 18, 2014 "
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Our Future | OpenMedia | Tell key leaders to stop Internet censorship... - 0 views

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our future Internet communication knowledge share censorship

shared by Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 08 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 08 Nov 14
     
    "It's Our Future. Tell key #leaders to #stop #Internet #censorship and stand up for #free #expression before it's too late." [# ! @ur ‪#‎Media‬, ‪#‎Our‬ ‪#‎Rules‬. # ! ‪#‎sign‬, ‪#‎share‬... ‪#‎celebrate‬.]
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 08 Nov 14
     
    "It's Our Future. Tell key leaders to stop Internet censorship and stand up for free expression before it's too late."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Don't Wreck The Net! Respond By January 6th - 0 views

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public consultation protect Internet European Commission deadline exteended January 6th 2016 act participate now freedom freedom of expression

shared by Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 03 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 03 Jan 16
     
    "The European Commission is asking the public critical questions about the future of our online world, but these questions are buried throughout a lengthy consultation survey that will probably make your eyes water. We need you to tackle the survey and make your voice heard. It's not easy, so we're here to help. Go ahead, take a look at the public consultation. It's got five pages of oblique questions and too much smallprint for anyone's taste. But it's really all asking one thing: what are the roles and responsibilities of service providers in the digital world? Our survey survival guide helps you overcome the bureaucratic barrier and answer that question, because it's at risk of being ignored."
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 03 Jan 16
     
    "The European Commission is asking the public critical questions about the future of our online world, but these questions are buried throughout a lengthy consultation survey that will probably make your eyes water. We need you to tackle the survey and make your voice heard. It's not easy, so we're here to help. Go ahead, take a look at the public consultation. It's got five pages of oblique questions and too much smallprint for anyone's taste. But it's really all asking one thing: what are the roles and responsibilities of service providers in the digital world? Our survey survival guide helps you overcome the bureaucratic barrier and answer that question, because it's at risk of being ignored."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Microsoft Office comes to Google's Chrome OS -- now who's Scroogled? - 1 views

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Google Microsoft ChromeOS not realy open source free software but proprietary intrusion

shared by Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 25 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 25 Nov 15
     
    "What was once the crown jewel of software, Microsoft Office, has arguably been devalued by free offerings. It used to be that when you bought a computer, you pretty much had to buy Office too. Sure, some people got by with the low-rent Works package, but that was not the same."
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 25 Nov 15
     
    "What was once the crown jewel of software, Microsoft Office, has arguably been devalued by free offerings. It used to be that when you bought a computer, you pretty much had to buy Office too. Sure, some people got by with the low-rent Works package, but that was not the same."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

GNU Ethical Repository Criteria - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation - 0 views

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ethical repository criteria free software ethics freedom openness software life the open source way GNU FSF

shared by Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 17 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 17 Oct 15
     
    "We developed these criteria to judge services for hosting parts of the GNU operating system, but we recommend them to everyone that wants to use a service for publicly hosting free source code (and optionally executable programs too). The criteria emphasize protection of privacy, functionality without nonfree JavaScript, compatibility with copyleft licensing and philosophy, and not rejecting any users."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Net Neutrality: BEREC on the Right Path, Let's Keep the Pressure on | La Quadrature du Net - 0 views

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BEREC Net Neutrality right way but let's keep pressure citizens technology balance democracy speeds

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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 02 Nov 16
     
    "Paris, 30 September 2016 - Net Neutrality is one of central challenge in the application of fundamental rights in the digital space. Too often it has been only considered as a technical or commercial issue, but it has serious impact on the real e"
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Rightscorp Revenues Collapse, Pirates Too Hard to Track - TorrentFreak - 1 views

torrentfreak.com/rates-too-hard-to-track-160517

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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 19 May 16
     
    " By Andy on May 17, 2016 C: 118 Breaking Anti-piracy outfit Rightscorp has just turned in another set of dismal results. During the past three months revenues plummeted 78% versus the same period last year with the company recording a net loss of $784,000. Pirates, it appears, are becoming harder to track and threaten."
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 19 May 16
     
    " By Andy on May 17, 2016 C: 118 Breaking Anti-piracy outfit Rightscorp has just turned in another set of dismal results. During the past three months revenues plummeted 78% versus the same period last year with the company recording a net loss of $784,000. Pirates, it appears, are becoming harder to track and threaten."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Unlimited Data Plans Are Back-With Some Big Catches | WIRED - 0 views

www.wired.com/...e-one-sprint-unlimited-freedom

warning unlimited data plans telecommunications mobile telcos

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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 18 Aug 16
     
    "That's good! But don't get too excited just yet."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

How The Internet Is Destroying Our Lives Too | LinkedIn - 0 views

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internet destruction our lives cyberchondria

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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 09 Nov 16
     
    "Govindraj Ethiraj Founder, Ping Digital Broadcast, IndiaSpend Imagine visiting your doctor one day complaining of a headache. And your doctor says, just as you sit down, "Well, you could have anything from a hangover to a brain tumour.""
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 09 Nov 16
     
    "Govindraj Ethiraj Founder, Ping Digital Broadcast, IndiaSpend Imagine visiting your doctor one day complaining of a headache. And your doctor says, just as you sit down, "Well, you could have anything from a hangover to a brain tumour.""
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Inside Eve: Online's propaganda machine-from Photoshop to DDoS | Ars Technica UK [# ! N... - 0 views

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Inside Eve online propaganda photoshop ddos inside machine danger from to Real Life check warning informationknowledge #NoFear

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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 06 Sep 16
     
    "As the virtual war intensifies, so too do attacks on players in the real world. Nick Cowen - Sep 6, 2016 7:27 am UTC"
Paul Merrell

Senate narrowly rejects new FBI surveillance | TheHill - 0 views

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surveillance state FBI web-search-metadata NSLs

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  • The Senate narrowly rejected expanding the FBI's surveillance powers Wednesday in the wake of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.  Senators voted 58-38 on a procedural hurdle, with 60 votes needed to move forward. Majority Leader Mitch McConnellMitch McConnellOvernight Finance: Wall Street awaits Brexit result | Clinton touts biz support | New threat to Puerto Rico bill? | Dodd, Frank hit back The Trail 2016: Berning embers McConnell quashes Senate effort on guns MORE, who initially voted "yes," switched his vote, which allows him to potentially bring the measure back up. 
  • The Senate GOP proposal—being offered as an amendment to the Commerce, Justice and Science appropriations bill—would allow the FBI to use "national security letters" to obtain people's internet browsing history and other information without a warrant during a terrorism or federal intelligence probe.  It would also permanently extend a Patriot Act provision — currently set to expire in 2019 — meant to monitor "lone wolf" extremists.  Senate Republicans said they would likely be able to get enough votes if McConnell schedules a redo.
  • Asked if he anticipates supporters will be able to get 60 votes, Sen. John CornynJohn CornynSenate to vote on two gun bills Senate Dems rip GOP on immigration ruling Post Orlando, hawks make a power play MORE (R-Texas) separately told reporters "that's certainly my expectation." McConnell urged support for the proposal earlier Wednesday, saying it would give the FBI to "connect the dots" in terrorist investigations.  "We can focus on defeating [the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria] or we can focus on partisan politics. Some of our colleagues many think this is all some game," he said. "I believe this is a serious moment that calls for serious solutions."  But Democrats—and some Republicans—raised concerns that the changes didn't go far enough to ensure Americans' privacy.  Sen. Ron WydenRon WydenPost Orlando, hawks make a power play Democrats seize spotlight with sit-in on guns Democrats stage sit-in on House floor to push for gun vote MORE (D-Ore.) blasted his colleagues for "hypocrisy" after a gunman killed 49 people and injured dozens more during the mass shooting in Orlando, Fla. "Due process ought to apply as it relates to guns, but due process wouldn't apply as it relates to the internet activity of millions of Americans," he said ahead of Wednesday's vote. "Supporters of this amendment...have suggested that Americans need to choose between protecting our security and protecting our constitutional right to privacy." 
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  • The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) also came out in opposition the Senate GOP proposal on Tuesday, warning it would urge lawmakers to vote against it. 
  • Paul Merrell on 24 Jun 16
     
    Too close for comfort and coming around the bernd again. 
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

The New Payola: Deals Landlords Cut with Internet Providers - Backchannel - 1 views

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new payola landlords deals internet providers

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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 28 Jun 16
     
    "I live in an apartment. Chances are good that you do, too: Tens of millions of Americans live in apartment buildings, and in medium-to-large cities these structures account for between a quarter and a half of all housing units. More people are renting these days than ever before. And when you move into an apartment, you need the essentials: Water. Heat. And Internet access."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

MediaFuturist: A gift for you: free PDFs of my last 3 books: Music 2.0, The End of Cont... - 2 views

www.mediafuturist.com/...freebooks.html

free pdfs music 2.0 end control Gerd Leonhard

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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 30 Nov 11
     
    [I want to start 2011 in a renewed spirit of generosity and sharing, so here are the complete PDFs of my last 3 books, for free; provided under a Creative Commons,non-commercial, share-alike, attribution license (see below). If you still want to buy the dead-tree versions of these books (or donate something for the free PDFs - yes, that's an option, too;), you can visit my Lulu Store, or go to Amazon.com, or check out my 'Paying for Gerd' page. You can also return the favor by blogging or tweeting of Facebook-liking my stuff. Thanks, and enjoy, and have a great 2011. Update: my free videos (50+ keynotes and presentations) are here, the iTunes podcast feed is here (just subscribe to download all videos to your iPod / iPad / iPhone, or computers), and my free slideshows (90+) are here, on Slideshare :)]
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Why Linux Is Future | Rare Input - 0 views

www.rareinput.com/why-linux-is-future

linux future reason open source free software

shared by Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 24 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 24 Dec 13
     
    "7th June 2013 / Blog, Linux, Open Source, Operating System, Tutorial / 3 comments Linux is the name of revolution in the field of open source technology. Ever since its advent it has grown leaps and bounds and continues to conquer the open source world. What make Linux so desirable are the features which comes with it that too for no cost. Linux was developed by "Linus Torvalds". His aim was to develop an operating system which was free from the hassles of proprietorship and should be free to use, so he developed Linux and the rest is history!"
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