April 2012 - luv-talk

Re: [luv-talk] Computer parts -> moved to Luv-talk
by Daniel Jitnah 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

I think this thread is more appropriate for luv-talk. Moving it there. Cheers Daniel On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 10:34:16 +1100 stripes theotoky <stripes.theotoky(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Can anyone on the list give me any recommendations for online stores > to buy computer parts or for that matter warnings of places to avoid. > I am looking to build my first system since coming to this country and > don't know any of the suppliers. I always used to use > http://www.ebuyer.com when I was in the UK and am looking for > something similar in Melbourne. > > Stripes. > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > luv-main(a)luv.asn.au > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main -- ---------------------------------------- Daniel Jitnah Melbourne, Australia e: djitnah(a)greenwareit.com.au w: www.greenwareit.com.au SIP: dj-git(a)ekiga.net ---------------------------------------- ** For All your Linux, Open Source and IT requirements visit: www.greenwareit.com.au ** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. For All your Open Source and IT requirements see: www.greenwareit.com.au

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Charles Stross: Not an April Fool - on social media and aggregation
by Brent Wallis 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Hi, On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Russell Coker <russell(a)coker.com.au> wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Apr 2012, Brent Wallis <brent.wallis(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > But lately, I have been deemed a philistine because I refuse to do any > > blog, linkdn, lamebook or google- time wasting....... > > That's a lot of different things. Yes, but they can all be linked together.... > > Blogging is different because people > explicitely publish things that they want to publish, there is no great > pressure to publish more and everyone knows it's world-readable. > Agreed. > > LinkedIn is also presumably different because it's work based which means that > whole categories of personal data are out of scope for it. > True, but when that data is mined and associated with a lamebook profile and twits...the game changes. Information aggregation across many social networks by third parties is a real threat IMHO. > > > Some in the global debate deem my attitude as being criminal.....~"What > > have I got to hide?" > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kx05kU5gZg > http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/pet_shop_boys/integral.html > > # If you've done nothing wrong > # You've got nothing to fear > # If you've something to hide > # You shouldn't even be here > > The Pet Shop Boys sum it up well in "Integral". Am not sure on your stance here. Based on just the quote above I am guessing that you support such a stance? That a person who hides their on line persona has something to hide? Yet the next few lines in the song are: "You've had your chance Now we've got the mandate If you've changed your mind I'm afraid it's too late We're concerned You're a threat You're not integral To the project" Which for me indicates that the first statement was a sarcastic dig at such an attitude. ??...you have confused me Russell...:-) Rgds

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Charles Stross: Not an April Fool - on social media and aggregation
by Rodney Brown 01 Apr '12

01 Apr '12

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/03/not-an-april-fool-1.html Not an April Fool By Charlie Stross There is an app, currently on the Apple app store as a free download, called Girls Around Me. A couple of days ago, computer journalist John Brownlee wrote an essay about it explaining why he found it disturbing. I'd like to propose that it is symptomatic of a really major side-effect of our forced acculturation into Facebook's broken model of human social interaction—a broken model shared by all the most successful social networks, by design—and that it is going to get much worse, until it kills people. Quite possibly in very large numbers. ... The Pythonisters might like (with an Arduino tie-in too) (Video) http://css.dzone.com/articles/militarizing-your-backyard Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes

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