Internet Archive reached the milestone of offering 3 million freely downloadable texts yesterday. Our 3 millionth text is a Galileo pamphlet from the rare book collection of the University of Toronto.
See 3 million texts for free « Internet Archive News for more.
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot.
I could have had a four-digit slashdot number, but never bother registering until I had something to say. So I’m a five-digit member, #18607. For me, Slashdot was essential for years. Then it stopped being essential several years ago. But it never stopped being worth following.
James Grimmelmann’s neat description of the Telex project and its implications is the most interesting thing I’ve read today this week this fortnight in some time.
Must reading for anyone interested in crypto policy, free speech, or internet freedom generally.
Now it’s real:
Boingo Wi-Finder is asking whether it can accept Terms of Service on my behalf. What does this mean?
Boingo Wi-Finder is asking whether it can accept Terms of Service on my behalf. What does this mean?
Boingo Wi-Finder may detect some third party companies operating Wi-Fi networks that may require acceptance to a user agreement, Terms of Service or other click-through contract (“TOS”) before access is granted to their networks. You can use Boingo Wi-Finder to automatically accept these agreements on your behalf.
The first time you use Boingo Wi-Finder at a free hotspot location, you’ll receive a pop-up notification, which will ask whether you want to use the Boingo Wi-Finder tool to automatically connect you to free third party Wi-Fi networks.
If you check the Terms of Service box, Boingo Wi-Finder will automatically accept all Terms of Service agreements on your behalf. Please keep in mind that if you select this option, you (and not Boingo) will assent to the Terms of Service of any third party Wi-Fi providers to which Boingo Wi-Finder connects.
If you prefer to review all Terms of Service agreements yourself, please do not check this box. You will still be able to manually search for third party Wi-Fi networks.
Can you give your software the capacity to validly contract on your behalf? Boingo thinks you can. On the one hand, this makes some sense — you want the fast automated service. But in classical contract terms, is there any meeting of the minds? Is advance agreement to basically anything (subject only to unconsionability?) really valid? Should an implicit term of reasonableness be read in here somewhere?
The important and imperfect WikiLeaks knows how to do video:
It’s called What Does it Cost to Change the World?.
Spotted via From Nader and Gravel to Assange: There Are Some Parodies Money Can’t Buy.
I got interviewed for this article on Microsoft seeks patent for spy tech for Skype
‘Legal Intercept’ would allow it to silently record VoIP communications, and said a few things.
Jotwell Blenderlaw