All language is but a poor translation.
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where the fuck do all these people come from? 2,000+ people have pledged433,467 THOUSAND DOLLARS to pay $229 for a polaroid camera that takes a picture of your phone’s screen.
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The 21st Century version of "blood diamonds" are in our electronics →
The 21st Century version of “blood diamonds” are in our electronics Most people are familiar with the illicit trade of “blood diamonds”, but few are aware of the “other” blood trade: illegally sold minerals. These minerals are crucial to the aerospace, electronics, and manufacturing industries, and their illegal sales are used to finance political militias that murder civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Until now, there’s been no way to “fingerprint” these materials to determine their origin. But now scientists may have found a way… using lasers. Back in 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act to prevent companies from inadvertently funding wars through the purchase of what are called “conflict minerals.” The Act requires firms to verify that their products contain no cassiterite, columbite-tantalite, wolframite, or gold obtained from the DRC and its neighbors. This has proven easier said than done, because legitimate mining operations are often located near militia-controlled ones.
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‘I’m going to stick it to the computer. I’m going to make it do this!’ And the computer throws up an error like ‘No, I’m not going to do this.’ It’s really a male thing to say, ‘I’m going to make you do this!’
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Hotz likes to hack according to the early definition of the word: getting inside a machine to see how it works, and changing it. To him, hacking is almost a sport, played against someone in a position of authority. “It’s a testosterone thing,” he told me. “It’s competitiveness, but it isn’t necessarily competitiveness with other people. It’s you versus the system. And I don’t mean the system like the government thing, I mean the system like the computer.
George Hotz, AKA ‘Geohot’, the first person to defeat the iPhone’s baseband security. The article was supposed to be about the hacker mindset, technology, etc. but all it managed to do was disturb me. If you have to ask how prevalent this shit is in society…
Source: newyorker.com
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What the fuck even is this?
No. This exactly what appropriation is, what makes you think you can decide what is and isn’t appropriation?
white folks stay taking L’s
oh lawd
“this is not cultural appropriation”
“the sky is lemons”
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(via Photo of phones before and after the iPhone - Boing Boing)
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Zynga exec 1: I’ve got a fun idea. Let’s see how much useless, distracting shit we can put into Words With Friends before people stop using it.
Zynga exec 2: How about we make it all marketing for our other games, and in app purchases?
Zynga exec 1: I knew there was a reason I hired you! Get over here and gimme five.
No, but really, this shit is ridiculous.
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God, I hate the tumblr iPhone app. It’s just a wrapper for the web app. And not a particularly good wrapper, either.
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But it won’t help you find an abortion clinic.
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