Sharing indecent images to embarrass former partners will carry up to two years’ imprisonment.
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Replacing Neelie Kroes, who was seen as being broadly in support of net neutrality, is Günther Oettinger. He recently made comments that show a very different view of the issues—and a surprising belief that car safety systems will be using the general Internet to exchange real-time data.
via After victory for net neutrality in the US, the battle moves to Europe | Ars Technica.
The academic job market is structured in many respects like a drug gang, with an expanding mass of outsiders and a shrinking core of insiders.
via Impact of Social Sciences – How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang.
In order to understand things like power outages and bank failures, you still need electrical engineers and economists — but today you also need anthropologists and data scientists, too. Our ability to collect and aggregate data is already well beyond our ability to understand what it could tell us — and no single discipline, on its own, holds the keys to solving this problem.
via Deans announce new Institute for Data, Systems, and Society | MIT News.
A “don’t be evil” empire is still an empire.
Finalement, le Code civil, cest une partie du code source de la France. Et le code source, ça va sur un source control. Point.
Les assaillants avaient pris soin de repérer le terrain : cela faisait plusieurs semaines qu’ils étaient présents dans le réseau de la chaîne.
via TV5 Monde : les pirates ont infiltré la chaîne plusieurs semaines avant l’attaque.
What if more of the web worked the way that BitTorrent does? Project Maelstrom aims to answer that question with a web browser that powers a new way for web content to be published, accessed and consumed.
via Project Maelstrom Enters Beta | The Official BitTorrent Blog.
We all end up being shaped by what we imagine.
Creating great content and finding an innovative way to monetize content are two different disciplines. Because of this, we’re stuck with display advertising until an equally universal approach presents itself. For the time being, ad blockers are dangerous.
via Is ad blocking theft? | VentureBeat | Marketing | by Gerhard Stiene.