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Elon Musk: "Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in"

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Here's a sign the world may be getting sick of social media apps

It looks like the world may be experiencing serious app fatigue. People aren’t spending as much time on Facebook (FB), Instagram (FB), Snapchat and Twitter (TWTR) apps, according to new data analysis from Tel Aviv-based digital marketing firm SimilarWeb.

The study aggregated data from hundreds of millions of Android devices across nine countries — Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, India, South Africa, Spain, the UK and the US — and compared app data from the first quarter of 2015 to the first quarter of this year.

Go to Google Maps, find yourself an area with lots of roads, and click the big Pacman icon on the bottom left. There you go!

HBO Still Doesn’t Get It: Game of Thrones Again the Most Torrented Show

Three seasons in and Game of Thrones still continues to set records — both legitimate and otherwise. After hitting ratings milestones earlier this year, it now has yet another accomplishment to boast about: the most pirated show of 2013.
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For the last decade evidence has mounted that, while some measure of media piracy is inevitable, it thrives on inconvenience: given the means, viewers will generally pay for a legitimate source, but only if they can get to it more easily than an illegal one. That’s the backbone of services like iTunes and Netflix: making those transactions easy and, critically, fast.

http://www.celebjihad.com/

LOL. This site kicks ass! :-D

Facebook to pay $10 million to settle suit

Facebook Inc has agreed to pay $10 million t o charity to settle a lawsuit that accused the site of violating users' rights to control the use of their own names, photographs and likenesses, according to court documents made public over the weekend.

The lawsuit, brought by five Facebook members, alleged the social networking site violated California law by publicizing users' "likes" of certain advertisers on its "Sponsored Stories" feature without paying them or giving them a way to opt out, the documents said.
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Facebook shares closed at $30.01 on Friday, down 21 percent since the company's initial public offering last month.

The more the Internet advances into social life, the more blurred the issues of privacy and security are becoming. As the time passeds we're going into an uncharted territory: which is "valid" and by which standards? A Moroccan guy was detained by state services because posing as a member of the royal family is a crime in Morocco (duh). What if a Saudi woman poses for a pic while driving a car? That's practically a crime in Saudi Arabia. A lady holding hands with a man who isn't her husband is a crime in a number of countries across the Middle East. Public nudity is a crime even in some "Western" countries. Should internet footage serve as evidence in such cases? To what extent should employers, family, law enforcement authorities, etc, be able to dig into people's personal stuff online and use it against said person? All slippery-slope questions that need addressing ASAP in the next years.

The riots in UK were coordinated via FB, Twitter, etc. The Arab revolutions, too. Extremists download bomb-making manuals on the interwebz. Breivik was spreading his maniacal ideology on the webz for months before he committed the massacre in Norway. Perhaps he could've been stopped in time, but should've he been detained for posting things on his webpage? Should there be regulations on hate speech, and when should those kick in? Should there be specific investigative and law-enforcement authorities to monitor internet activity? Where's the line between freedom of expression and security that shouldn't be crossed? I don't know, and I doubt anyone knows the answers to those questions. But the more time passes without them being addressed, the bigger the problem will be getting.

On the other hand, a general rule of thumb though is that the internet is NOT a private or secret area, and you shouldn't put something online if there's someone who you would not want to see it.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Oh, you're so sweet...


From the blogosphere:

"I feel sory for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, there is nothing worse than getting accused of attempted rape. It means you failed."

"I just heard that Silvio Berlusconi has been asked to head the IMF and restore its integrity at this difficult time."

"Dominique Strauss-Kahn should look on the bright side. It's probably not the last time he'll be picking up the free soap before being involved in a sexual assault."

""IMF head in US custody" Sure, America has reached its debt limit but isn't this rather drastic?"