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20 Nov 09

NYRblog - Glorious Ghosts - The New York Review of Books

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07 Nov 09

Information Arbitrage: Barking Up the Wrong Tree

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And which entities are receiving the most heat? The exchanges. The least? The OTC derivatives markets and the rating agencies. Why is this?

21 Jan 09

Open the Future: Dark Clouds

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All cloud content should be in open formats, so that alternative tools can be used as desired or needed. Ideally, a personal system should be able to replicate data to multiple distinct clouds, to avoid monoculture and single-point-of-failure problems.
it offers them more ways to lock users in to proprietary formats and utilities.

15 Jan 09

Not Your Father's Censorship - ChronicleReview.com

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Ironically for the American pioneers who expected the Internet to foster unprecedented information freedom, its rapid and ubiquitous adoption has created a flexible and effective mechanism for thought control.
Congress has responded by prohibiting American courts from enforcing libel judgments in nations lacking U.S. free-speech standards. But that won't prevent journalists from being detained or publishers' property from being seized abroad to settle such claims.
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- People are happy with the commercial services that search engines provide, but it is hard to think of anything else that we depend on so heavily yet know so little about.
- At the urging of the recording industry, the French government is making plans to inspect every Internet communication in the nation before delivery — even though France also affirms people's basic right, as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to "receive and impart information and ideas through any media."

15 Dec 08

The End of Secrecy

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Yet precisely because transparency represents such a profound change--both
in the distribution of power and the way in which it is exercised--its spread
has provoked resistance from some quarters. To governments or corporations
that are just doing what they have always done, the expectation that they
should now report on their activities to outsiders can seem like an affront
or an inconvenience, if not an outright threat.
the prevailing attitude held that
states, even aggressors, had a right to military privacy.
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- A fundamental norm of democracy is,
  after all, the consent of the governed, and consent is meaningless unless
  it is informed.
- Some in the private sector seem to agree that transparency is in their
  self-interest. Increasingly, foreign companies are listing their stock on
  U.S. exchanges because American accounting standards, which demand transparency,
  provide a seal of approval for investors. When officials from Nippon Telegraph
  and Telephone announced that the company would list on the New York and London
  exchanges, they echoed this point: "By listing in the United States, where
  disclosure rules are stricter than in Japan, we hope to win trust from
  investors."
- Transparency
  reveals behavior, but not intent.
- Because regulation by revelation only works if revelation sparks
  action, it requires a mobilized, or at least mobilizable, public. Transparency
  merely raises the costs of delinquency; it does not render such behavior
  impossible.
- Because it is so hard for governments to enforce
  compliance across national borders, it makes sense for them to take on a
  different role: that of an enforcer, not of specific rules, but of diligent
  transparency.