Schlagwort: Technik

The Farmer Bay.

  • 2015-04-26

The pièce de résistance in John Deere’s argument: permitting owners to root around in a tractor’s programming might lead to pirating music through a vehicle’s entertainment system. Because copyright-marauding farmers are very busy and need to multitask by simultaneously copying Taylor Swift’s 1989 and harvesting corn? (I’m guessing, because John Deere’s lawyers never explained why anyone would pirate music on a tractor, only that it could happen.)

And, somehow, the notion of actually owning the things you buy has become revolutionary.

Kyle Wiens: We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership, In: WIRED 04.21.15

Schnappschluss.

  • 2015-04-08

Can we please get rid of artificial camera shutter sounds?

Te(a)chnology.

  • 2015-03-30

"We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch. He'd never seen an on/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs [in English] in the village. And within five months, they had hacked Android. Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera! And they figured out it had a camera, and they hacked Android.

Nicholas Negroponte about leaving children alone with technology

Techma(c)ker.

  • 2015-03-12

It makes me sad when the gender of the person behind the counter decides whether I can pay with bitcoin.

Free as in Freedom.

  • 2015-02-06

Exactly one year ago I switched from Ubuntu to Debian and never looked back.