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Comment How to fix twitter: increase maximum characters (Score 1) 97

Twitter only allows you to post short terse messages. To fix twitter one has to increase (double) the size of the allowed message you can post.

There we fixed it!

Oops, the internet just doubled in size with twice as much useless information. Moore's law applies to hard drives too, no? Every 18 months, the amount of useless data on a hardrive doubles. The distinction between corrupted data and useful data is murky. Is twitter corrupted?

Oh, brilliant idea: a P2P twitter. All the data is distributed across personal computers of individuals instead of stored on twitters servers.
That would mean storing all other people's useful twitter posts in your uTorrent client, or something, and the more popular the twitter post, the more people share it. Strange.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Is The Free Software Foundation is a modern cult? GNG is Not Gnu.

Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation claim to be about free speech, not free as in cost or beer. A site called GNG questions whether FSF really is about free speech or free cost? GNG proposes that GNU is very much like a religious cult with the free software foundation having a million dollars in the bank even though Richard Stallman has claimed many times that free software can be developed without any money. Eben Moglen's salary

Handhelds

Does Constant Access Shatter the Home/Work Boundary? 321

StonyandCher has passed us a link to PCWorld.au, once again raising the tough topic of work/life separation. A department of the Australian government went ahead with a purchase of dozens of Blackberry communication devices, but is now delaying their deployment. The reason: "Staff expressed fears about BlackBerries contributing to a longer working day and felt it was going a step too far because mobile phones are adequate for out-of-office contact. Not everyone agreed, however, with some senior executives claiming a BlackBerry can contribute to work/life balance by facilitating telecommuting and more flexible schedules. " For the time being this issue is on hold for those staffers, but how does this issue fall for you? Is constant accessibility freeing or just another chain around your neck?
Robotics

Submission + - Robots that bounce in bed (nytimes.com)

nem75 writes: "The NY Times has a review of British AI researcher David Levy's book "Love and Sex with Robots". He claims that within a span of about 50 years the day will come, when people could actually fall in love with life-like robots and want to live with them instead of a human mate. While this may seem far fetched at first, he has some pretty interesting views on this. Like the sexual part being the easyest thing, what with brothels exclusively offering life-like sex dolls already existing in Japan and South Korea. The case he builds goes much further though, and certainly provides food for thought."

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