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The new black?

Megaupload's indictement, in full here. It's unfortunate that it happened just after peaceful collaboration of many, e.g. Wikipedia, etc educating mostly the US government and businesses why SOPA and PIPA are not good bills to pass.  (thanks to http://torbit.com/blog/2012/01/15/stop-sopa-js/) for providing me with the script to blacken this blog last week. 

Bad timing? It is not therefore unexpected for Anonymous to respond by trying to DDOS the US DOJ website in return. Pro-IP Act already has similar powers to shut a website that SOPA and PIPA would have. Some colleagues wonder what effect on bandwidth price does the shutting of Megaupload would have on carriers in months to come?

Mitnick said that after Megaupload's case - data in the (private) cloud is no longer secure, since the government can access it. In 1999 Joe Bloggs did not really care about  'got milk?' 'got crypto?'. Today? Probably the same, but I see that encryption of local disks and P2P could be the new black? And in the UK, hopefully without interesting provisions from RIPA all over again... 

 

 

In addition to my blog

my HTC also decided to go black (but no sign of recovery). Loved the SOPA Protests on streets of NYC.

Hacklab soft launch

took place on Sat Jan 14th in Belgrade.  Am planning on visiting the London hackspace tomorrow and doing a Shoreditch pub crawl on Wednesday. Yeah Yeah Yeahs and more of Jack Conte/ Yeah Yeah Yeahs I knew it all along, I knew it from the very start...

Real Steel

Am watching Hugh Jackman in Real Steel.  A bit slow but I like the phones in a movie, they look like an Iphone 11. 

28c3

I got a glass of Chilean Triple C red (Santa Rita) to end a year on a high CCC note. A take on Cory' 28C3 speech here and FSF values: OS news.  Surprised that the writer is surprised that he has not seen the real value of RMS's point before, but maybe it's necessary to say that to build the story...  In today's world of all available commercial, open and free sw closed hw platforms and physical networks, the FSF could still win... 

In Berlin

rereading david foster wallace's speech... from the bookshelf porn getting ready for few private parties and then about blank.

 

Daily walk

As I rushed through the streets of Belgrade doing some errands yesterday, I passed by an elderly man in his 80s with thick black rimmed glasses and a brown hat and a long brown coat since it was really cold. As we approached each other on the pavement, opposite busy Kalenic market, he looked at me guessingly, as he too, it seemed to me, tried to soak in as much information in that second about my image, face, posture, hair, smile, facial expression, and if not to read thoughts maybe tried to guess where and how I lived and what I did and who I was. It made me a bit self-aware but I was equally intrigued about his life, if he led a rich internal life and how much beauty can he see in this grim town, on his daily walk to the market and back home...do these things matter to him, does he read any books? I will never find out but how nice it is to imagine, invent stories and look around with eyes wide open...perhaps, t'was part of realisation that I *might* grow old one day and I'd be equally now and then trying to look deeper into the faces of young people, see the hope? in their eyes, look for beauty around me and admire few old houses that aged gracefully... or turn around and look for beauty in geometrical spheres, objects and make Op-art and music.

 

Sofa

I've been looking for a new sofa, and this could be it: http://www.igorchak.com/store/... Now I only need to get well by tomorrow and stop looking at the screen/laptop/email...

What is essential?

to stop sopa... in the proposed US legisilation.

Taking notes

of those gem websites I'll forget and not using delicious to do it, I may as well list them here. Wonderful song on Tinwood media, the fact that I opened a producteev account but have not done much with it. The fact that I did own a posterous account and can no longer remember under what alias. And the fact that I missed Estria artists in Miami art but I did find Evlworld.com and the fact that I'm looking for a holiday in March and that fact that I need to test name coin.  And there are always a couple of reads to catch up with, like this one on SOPA, like haddock and books and find those tumblr log-in details. 

And that procatinator website that made my week? Year? 

In sunny Bristol today on my way to ATP and nightmare b4 xmas.