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Google and the Myceliation of Consciousness. Let me introduce myself. I am RoseRose, doing business on Google Earth 2007 as an alien paleoanthropologist from another timeframe, studying the heirloom code of Homo Sapiens. I’m focusing on your critical position at the beginning of the psychedelic age, with the emergence of the first psychedelically informed superpower: Google. If you were to call yourselves Homo Sapiens v1.0, I lie somewhere around v4.5 – same basic architecture on the wetware, but with key bugs fixed, a re-wired brain and a new linguistic OS. These technological advances occurred through learning how to use psychedelics, the fires of the mind. I have the advantage of hindsight, but I’ve noticed even the best-traveled psychonauts, the navigators and pilots of the interdimensional transport systems, the manufacturers and distributors of the fuel, have trouble holding the knowledge that this changes everything—in baseline consciousness.

Take Google snagging Larry Brilliant to run Google.org. First things first. Flame and Stuxnet: Two cyber weapons unleashed by same master. Anonymity Online. How to Destroy the Internet. PcDfJ.jpg (1023×801) 'Ctrl+C me, my brothers' - Piracy preachers paste themselves in US. The Internet Is My Religion: Jim Gilliam on the Divinity of the Web. Internet preferred to sex and chocolate as its GDP share soars. The Internet is a Major Driver of the Growth of Cognitive Inequality. Apropos of yesterday's post about using Google to convert joules to electron volts, a friend of mine emailed this morning to say that Wolfram Alpha would be an even better choice.

It's one of his favorite time wasters, he said. Well. I remember using Alpha back when it first came out, and then giving up because it didn't seem to live up to its hype. But I haven't used it in quite a while, so I headed over to try it out. But what to ask? The price of a gallon of milk? But does Google do any better? Another hit was from Yahoo Answers, which informed me that the price of milk was "OUTRAGEOUSLY TOO HIGH," and then provided a range of prices from around the country. In a way, this is the internet in a nutshell. Moral of the story: the internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter. 1Yes, I know that's not really what Wolfram Alpha is for. UPDATE: Via comments, it turns out that if you type "How much does a gallon of milk cost? " Swiss Govt: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal.

One in three people in Switzerland download unauthorized music, movies and games from the Internet and since last year the government has been wondering what to do about it. This week their response was published and it was crystal clear. Not only will downloading for personal use stay completely legal, but the copyright holders won't suffer because of it, since people eventually spend the money saved on entertainment products. In Switzerland, just as in dozens of other countries, the entertainment industries have been complaining about dramatic losses in revenue due to online piracy. In a response, the Swiss government has been conducting a study into the impact downloading has on society, and this week their findings were presented.

The overall conclusion of the study is that the current copyright law, under which downloading copyrighted material for personal use is permitted, doesn’t have to change. Hotspot Shield. Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Here’s An Easier, Faster Way To Embed Tweets. As we had noted earlier, Twitter yesterday launched a new tool that allows you to easily embed tweets into a website or blog post.

The tool, called Blackbird Pie, simply asks you for the URL of a tweet and lets you “Bake it,” meaning you get a preview of how it will look on the Web and a box with the code you need in it. Simple enough as far as I’m concerned. But as Xavier Damman from Publitweet points out, it takes eight steps (not 9 like he says in his tweet) to use Blackbird Pie for embeddable tweets, and that is just unacceptable. Well, it’s acceptable, but there should be an easier way. Also cool: if you use the bookmarklet instead of Blackbird Pie, the embedded tweet will display the exact date and time of tweets instead of “X minutes ago”, which is admittedly rather pointless as it doesn’t update the timestamp going forward.

AT&T, TW, Verizon Make Case Against Net Neutrality. Regulation intended to ensure net neutrality will actually kill Internet innovation and crush an industry that has operated effectively through market forces alone, according to major telecom companies like AT&T, Verizon and Time Warner Cable. Net neutrality advocates have asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to "medicate the Internet with a preemptive cocktail of experimental regulatory tonics," lawyers for AT&T wrote in an FCC filing. "Internet regulation proponents have asked that the commission wade into a competitive marketplace driven by a fierce pace of technological innovation and pick winners and losers by regulatory fiat," added attorneys for Qwest Communications. At the request of Free Press, the FCC is investigating whether "degrading peer-to-peer traffic" violates FCC rules for reasonable network management.

The FCC is also examining a petition from file-sharing company Vuze that asks for clarification on what constitutes "reasonable network management. " .onion. Format[edit] The "onion" name refers to onion routing, the technique used by Tor to achieve a degree of anonymity. WWW to .onion Gateways[edit] Proxies into the Tor network like Tor2web, onion.to and onion.lu allow access to hidden services from non-Tor browsers and for search engines that are not Tor-aware.

By using a gateway, users give up their own anonymity and trust the gateway to deliver the correct content. Both the gateway and the hidden service can fingerprint the browser, and access user IP address data. To use a gateway, replace the domain suffix .onion of any hidden service by .tor2web.org,[1] .onion.to[2] or .onion.lu.[3] .exit[edit] The syntax used with this domain is hostname + .exitnode + .exit, so that a user wanting to connect to through node tor26 would have to enter the URL Users can also type exitnode.exit alone to access the IP address of exitnode.

See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Deep Web.