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Kill the Internet-and Other Anti-SOPA Myths | The Nation - 0 views

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in the wake of protests by dozens of websites and large numbers of their users, as well as a virtually unanimous chorus of criticism from leading progressive voices and outlets, including Michael Moore, Cenk Uygur, Keith Olbermann, Alternet, Daily Kos, MoveOn and many people associated with Occupy Wall Street. Judging by the fervor of the anti-SOPA/PIPA protests, a casual observer might think the advocates of the anti-piracy bills were in the same moral league as the torturers at Abu Ghraib.
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But before we celebrate this “populist” victory, it’s worth remembering that the defeat of SOPA and PIPA was also a victory for the enormously powerful tech industry, which almost always beats the far smaller creative businesses in legislative disputes. (Google alone generated more than $37 billion in 2011, more than double the revenue of all record companies, major and indie combined.)
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One example of anti-SOPA rhetorical over-reach was a tendency by some to invent sinister motives for the sponsors. On his usually brilliant show The Young Turks, Uygur said that SOPA’s sponsors were “pushing for a monopoly for the MPAA and to kill their competition on the Internet.” This is untrue. They wanted to kill those entities that steal their movies and make money off them, either directly or indirectly. There really is a difference
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that stopped allowing children to put up their own drawings of characters like Mickey Mouse because of fear of copyright lawsuits. Examples such as this, or of a theoretical risk of parents being charged for the right to have kids sing “Happy Birthday”, are demagogic. The underlying issue is scale. There is a profound moral difference between loaning a friend a book and posting, without permission, the content of bestsellers for commercial gain—and people and legislators ought to take that distinction into account.
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since iTunes and Amazon and are surviving, Napster’s original model was legally killed and Kim Dotcom was apprehended, no new laws are needed. The status quo may be what we end up with, but that doesn’t make it inevitable or right. Human beings have created the piracy problem and although, like any kind of crime, society can’t eliminate it entirely, we can decide whether or not to seriously try.  
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What is good for Google and Facebook is not always going to be what’s best for the 99 percent. (And of course Microsoft and Apple et al. are extremely aggressive when it comes to protecting their intellectual property rights).
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on the content of some of the Kool-Aid that has recently been served and help swing the pendulum back, if only a little, in a direction in which intellectual property can be nourished. Otherwise, we will be complicit in accelerating the trend of the last decade, in which those who write code get richly rewarded, while those who write the music, poetry, drama and journalism that are being encoded have to get day jobs.
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To be sure, the legislators who crafted the ill-fated bills and the film industry lobbyists who supported them have little to be proud of.
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In a widely viewed anti-SOPA/PIPA speech on Ted.com, Internet philosopher Clay Shirky similarly attributed dark motives to the studios. The targets are not Google and Yahoo
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If he means a friend sharing Marianne Faithfull’s version of &ldquo;Visions of Johanna&rdquo; with me on Facebook, then the accusation is absurd.
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ek in his 25,000-square-foot compound surrounded by a fleet of Merced
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Slaves to the Internet » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names - 3 views

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his description of modern slaves cum “hostages” is particularly applicable to our relationship to the internet.
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Moreover, much of non-work related internet use is actually work insofar as it generates wealth for others.
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as well as networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, that we are held hostage.
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Yet, most people cannot permanently quit these sites, let alone the internet as a whole, as doing so would introduce huge practical burdens – as well as social alienation
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better virtual company than none at all
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the more people there are who try to make it only ensures that relatively fewer will
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The internet’s exponential acceleration of capitalist penetration means that we’re all hostages now
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workers’ vulnerability, making them work harder while intensifying competition and reducing wages for everyone. Notably, Yelp affects small businesses more than large ones, and
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Kukiji, piškotki ali tudi kolački | Dnevnik.si - 0 views

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piškotki varnost uporabniki

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Kukiji, piškotki ali tudi kolački (angl. "cookies") so majhne datoteke, ki jih pošlje strežnik obiskane spletne predstavitve v računalnik obiskovalca. Na tej osnovi ob naslednjem obisku prepozna obiskovalca (natančneje, njegov računalnik). Ko se obiskovalec vrne na spletno predstavitev, od katere je že prejel piškotek, strežnik prikliče informacije o tem uporabniku: kdaj je stran že obiskal, po katerih straneh oziroma vsebinah je brskal, na katere oglase je kliknil; skratka, prikliče podatke o njegovem gibanju po spletni predstavitvi. Če pa kukije uporablja oglaševalski posrednik, ki servisira oglase na več spletnih mestih v svoji mreži (na primer Httpool ali Central Iprom) v svetovnem spletu, pa se zbira bistveno več podatkov, in sicer gibanje uporabnika po vseh spletnih predstavitvah, ki so v mreži.
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Piškotki torej omogočajo prepoznavanje novih in vračajočih se obiskovalcev, štetje ponovnih obiskov ter kaj si obiskovalci ogledujejo na tej in drugih spletnih straneh. S takim identificiranjem obiskovalcev je možna učinkovitejša komunikacija med tržniki in (vsaj potencialnimi) kupci.
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Piškotki omogočajo prikrojevanje sporočil v skladu z interesi in potrebami potrošnikov ter personalizacijo in s tem večjo funkcionalnost spletnih strani, poleg tega pa se lahko podatki o obnašanju potrošnikov povežejo z bazami podatkov, s čimer se učinkovitost kukijev še dodatno izboljša.
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Piškotki po drugi strani povzročajo drugačne težave. Kot prvo, nad takim ciljanjem večina uporabnikov ni posebno navdušena. Ravno nasprotno, nadzor nad obnašanjem v spletu dojemajo kot ogrožanje svoje zasebnosti.
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nekatere oglaševalske mreže, ki že ponujajo storitve brez kolačkov ("cooky-free")
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Z njihovo uporabo se namreč ciljanje oglaševalskih segmentov bistveno izboljša. Kukiji služijo tudi za oceno različnih obiskovalcev, čeprav pri tem nastaja nekoliko več težav.
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Druga nevarnost, ki kukijem grozi s strani uporabnikov, je dejstvo, da jih podjetja, organizacije in uporabniki občasno brišejo. V takem primeru uporabnikov računalnik ob naslednjem obisku nastopa kot nov uporabnik, prejme nov piškotek in s tem temeljito zmede statistike
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V primeru porasta zaskrbljenosti za varnost bodo piškotki razmeroma hitro izginili tudi iz domačih računalnikov.
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Piškotki so torej idealno orodje za spletno oglaševanje in za siceršnje marketinško komuniciranje v internetu. Za zdaj se sicer zdi, da njihova uporaba še ni ogrožena in da daje znatne rezultate, vendar v prihodnosti utegnejo nastati večje spremembe.
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Ali je internet luknjast kot švicarski sir? | Dnevnik.si - 0 views

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varnost internet požarni zid

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The Daily Trap, When Will Information Find Me? The State of the Personalized Web - 0 views

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Under the regime of precarity: bring your own device | openDemocracy - 0 views

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At one and the same time technocracy and financial oligarchies find here an ideal medium to extend their influence and their control of individuals in space and time.
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At one and the same time technocracy and financial oligarchies find here an ideal medium to extend their influence and their control of individuals in space and time. This explains the fierce struggle going on among key market players.
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Today large communities use devices like smartphones, tablets, e-readers and ultrabooks to navigate this new ecosystem.
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The growing dynamic of mobile internet, today accounting for 12% of all internet traffic,[ii] signals a new ecosystem where living bodies, machines, networks, code, data, territory and time interact.
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as a way of consolidating their strictly neoliberal economic policy.
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The hundreds of thousands of apps, available in just a few years, originate from the intersection of two factors:
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The desire and necessity to have simple, functional and fast devices able to do specific tasks on the go.
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the operative skills to develop apps for popular mobile platforms such as Iphone Operating System (IOS) or Google Android. 
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Apps galore
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Apple likes to play on the ambiguity in a form of propaganda that exalts the “revolutionary” spirit of technological innovation
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The first iPhone, in 2007, inaugurated the new phase of the cognitive era, just as the PC heralded the decline of the industrial phase. Five years later, Apple no longer has a monopoly: hundreds of millions of smartphones and tablets are sold every year and the total number of these active devices will be soon 2 billion. It took the PC thirty years to reach this level of diffusion.
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War over the immaterial
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Often these machines play opposite functions: as a tool to create new forms of horizontal communication and social interaction or as bait for a capillary exploitation.
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A political analysis of mobile devices
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The PC became a liberating tool for social cooperation in the workplace of a booming third-sector.
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In the following phase, the spread of the first mobile devices – cellphones and laptops – provided an initial impulse for a blurring of life and work, imposing with mobile calls, emails or SMS a new type of real-time processing, regulating the rhythms of life
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In the new biohypermedia environment, the key change lies in the combination of miniaturizing and mobilizing these pieces of equipment, allowing them to always be within the body’s reach in any context.
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they augment physical reality[ix] with every kind of information – commercial, cultural, ecological – and act more and more as biomedical sets for the control, correction and support of our vital biological functions.
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The PC has a central function as the medium for linguistic and written processes - its typical uses often tied to the logical concatenation of thought and the priority management of sequences over time.
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But mobile devices concentrate complex perception of stimuli in terms of spatial organization and intervene in emotional responses. PC work in this way occupies our left hemisphere, while the continual interactions of a smartphone engage the right hemisphere.
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In contemporary neoliberalism, these devices become an essential means of rent and profit, through a fine capture of what we generate by living with them and using them. At one and the same time technocracy and financial oligarchies find here an ideal medium to extend their influence and their control of individuals in space and time.
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Marketing and communication campaigns portray these devices as commodity fetishes, characterizing a new phase of capitalism often described as cognitive because based on knowledge.
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In the sphere of multinational ICT[x] Corporations a war is being waged over the design and deployment of immaterial enclosures
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Even though all this is based on freeware and open source, they trick us into believing that the iPhone 5, Windows 8 or Jellybean[xi] are miracles that descend from Mount Olympus and for which we should be grateful as to the gods.
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Unlike automobiles or, to a lesser degree, PCs, the use value of new mobile devices is no longer determined merely by the initial design but can be moulded by the final user.
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The innumerable websites, blogs and forums in every language globally blooming and growing are a workshop for worldwide exchange where the digital means are developed that could be used to withdraw workers both from precarity and  from total submission to a life of labour.  
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Microsoft is no less defensive of its monopoly: with Intel and other accomplices, they introduced a new firmware to boot Windows 8 PCs that, substituting the old BIOS,[xv] makes it impossible or very complicated to install Linux or other operating systems on new laptops.
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Despite hesitations related to “security” problems, today companies allow or even oblige people to use their own devices
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So, if you were one of those many who found the latest tablet, smartphone or hybrid touch device under the tree this year, be aware that you won’t be the only one pleased: under the regime of precarity, bring your own device if you want to survive. 
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nensic on 05 Mar 13

"Bring your own device (BYOD) is a business policy whereby employees bring personally owned mobile devices to their place of work and use them to access privileged company resources such as email, file servers and databases as well as their personal applications and data."

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