Glyn Moody, Linux Journal, writes in “Online Censorship Is Coming – How to Fight It” on dealing with the heinous copyright laws coming from the EU. Mentions Eben Moglin’s FreedomBox, of which I run a personal web server (not this one yet). FreedomBox lets me build my own social network stack, and let’s me share information with friends and family.

I received the following unsolicited email: Hi Steven, I landed on your site and noticed you have a number of useful resources relating to digital rights management listed here – http://nomadicoder.com/2005/07/05/the-trouble-with-drm/. I hope you don’t mind me sending you a short email to tell you about our beginner’s guide to DRM. Here’s the link – [URL Elided]. It provides an introduction to the topic and a good overview that I’d hope many of your visitors would find useful.

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29°F riding to work. How much longer?

Move to Washington DC or Seattle a study on the best places to live in the small. It was a struggle for me when I lived in big-home and car-centric Los Angeles.

Years ago, when I worked in a PC only shop, people asked me what computer I used at home. I replied that I use a Mac. They were incredulous. When they asked why, I replied that when I go home, I didn’t want to have to work. Based on this Quora reply, I’m not alone. Answer by Ansel Halliburton: I have built PCs and Linux boxes from parts. I built and ran a distributed Linux cluster.

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