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The Privacy Tax

November 3, 2018 November 3, 2018 / English Content / freedom, privacy

In the 1980, privacy was a lot easier to acquire. Banks can harvest information on us, but the limited computer power was a big limiting factor to their analyzing dreams. For years Banks have computed the best credit options (for them) to sell to customers. Now the problem is on privacy. Google Plex can crunch …

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Uber bloccato a Londra: giusto o sbagliato?

September 28, 2017 September 27, 2017 / Italian Content / freedom, uber

Notizia di questi giorni, Londra non rinnova la licenza a Uber. Uber è una società fantastica. Ha creato un business che non esisteva, con un’idea semplice e poi si è guadagnata una pessima reputazione, è stata accusata di sessismo (con prove osì pesanti da trascinare nel ridicolo il su HR), di scorrettezza (con modifiche al …

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Twitter il gradasso

August 25, 2012 July 20, 2020 / Italian Content / api, avvocato del diavolo, bad ideas, development, freedom, mysql, oracle, twitter

C’è una cosa fantastica di Internet: se qualsiasi società prova a fare la furba, inserendo delle righe scritte in piccolo quando revisiona la sua API da 1.0 a 1.1, state certi che ci sarà almeno una persona che si leggerà tutto, troverà la fregatura e sputtanerà la summenzionata società. E’ quello che è successo con …

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Perché Amo Emacs (di nuovo): Org Mode e Visual Line Mode

August 17, 2011 August 17, 2011 / IT Featured, Italian Content / emacs, freedom, great ideas, noxml, org-mode, Software / 3 Comments

Ho iniziato ad usare Emacs quando ero in università. Un volta un mio collega mi disse: “Non ho ancora capito se chi usa emacs è un genio o un folle”.(*) Dopo anni di utilizzo, ho dovuto servirmi spesso di Eclipse, ed Emacs è finito nel dimenticatoio. Ho anche provato a sostituirlo con JEdit e VIM, …

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At last Bing is not so bad

February 7, 2011 February 11, 2011 / English Content, Software / adsense, bad, bing, empire, evil, fear, freedom, google, microsoft

I have used Google in the past 8 years (I know, I am a bit old). Then I was annoyed because of a bad behavior of Google with my AdSense account (shutdown without being able to talk back to someone for explanation). In the last month I tried Bing and I was happy with it. …

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Brelusca World: la finanziaria

July 10, 2010 November 13, 2011 / Italian Content / avvocato del diavolo, berlusconi, brelusca, crisi, economia, freedom, italia, italy, politica, presidente del consiglio

In questi giorni in Italia si sta discutendo sulla manovra economica prossima ventura. Il presidente del consiglio, mr B. ha detto “ghe pensi mi” a far quadrare tutto. Vediamo i fatti. Il ministro dell’Economia Tremonti ha imposto una manovra da 25 miliardi di euro, circa 50.000 miliardi delle vecchie lire. Per fare un paragone, il …

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DRM: a trouble, not a solution

March 12, 2010 March 8, 2010 / English Content / apple, DRM, freedom, games, iPad, petition, relax, ubisoft / 2 Comments

“With Ubisoft's fantastically awful new DRM you must be online and logged in to their servers to play the games you buy. Not only was this DRM broken the very first day it was released, but now their authentication servers have failed so absolutely that no-one who legally bought their games can play them. 'At …

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Slashdot | James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing “Free News”

August 31, 2009 August 30, 2009 / English Content / freedom, murdoch, News

News Corporation’s James Murdoch says that a ‘dominant’ BBC threatens independent journalism in the UK and that free news on the web provided by the BBC made it ‘incredibly difficult’ for private news organizations to ask people to pay for their news. via Slashdot | James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing “Free News”. It is …

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Murdoch: faremo pagare le notizie online – Corriere della Sera

August 10, 2009 January 21, 2010 / Italian Content / business, freedom, libertà, murdoch, News, notizie

NEW YORK – La News Corp., gigante delle comunicazioni che fa capo a Rupert Murdoch, potrebbe far pagare l’accesso alle notizie online a partire dalla metà del prossimo anno, ribadendo un’idea che lo stesso Murdoch aveva già annunciato lo scors0 8 maggio. Inoltre News Corp. potrebbe rompere l’alleanza con Amazon sul lettore digitale Kindle, se …

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Why was adsense disabled on Gioorgi.com?

September 29, 2008 November 16, 2008 / English Content / freedom, gioorgi, google, Site / 1 Comment

On 24th of September, at 6a.m. o’ clock we received an email from Google, saying our Google Adsense (TM) account was discontinued.

Asus EEE-PC better then Mac Air?

May 8, 2008 January 18, 2009 / English Content, Legacy ObjectsRoot.com / ARC, build, car, cluster, code, commercial, development, distributed, easy, eeepc, file, fini, free, freedom, funny, future, games, good, hacking, hard, ideas, internet, italia, italy, linux, monitor, News, nokia, overpriced, pd, performance, reader, rim, search, Site, small, Software, system, telecom, test, trouble, ubuntu, ui, vi, vodafone, war, web, windows, world / 3 Comments

Finally I managed to buy a Asus EEE PC 700 this week. I would thanks a lot Next Store and its kindly clerks, which I will prefer in future to Mediaword :)If you are at Milan and you plan to buy it, Next Store is a good choice. There are a lot of sites and …

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