Lawrence Lessig gets more inspiring every year.

Originally shared by David Brin

Lawrence Lessig gets more inspiring every year.  This is important. It is more important than anything I say.  It is important. 

     Any of you who watch this with curled lip and cynicism, go and look at what that does  — has done — to your face.  To your citizenship and soul.

     Any of you who find excuses for gerrymandering and oligarch control over elections and other cheating… are you proud?  Seriously? 

     Rise up folks.  This is not left vs right.  It is citizenship vs feudalism and willing confederate shills of feudalism.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=895871270453732

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=895871270453732

This isn’t exactly news, but in case you didn’t already know it, here’s a low budget #concealed #pentest …

Originally shared by Sakari Maaranen

This isn’t exactly news, but in case you didn’t already know it, here’s a low budget that is easy to carry around or hide in an office or data center. This isn’t a very eventful video, so no need to watch it, unless you are interested in the details. These days fifty bucks is enough for a physical bug like this and it’s only going to get cheaper and smaller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cue4LtSYTzg

Tell me how “special” the USA is to explain these statistics?

Originally shared by Sakari Maaranen

Tell me how “special” the USA is to explain these statistics? This is NOT police vs. crime… This is way more serious than that. Please do wider comparisons. We are talking about oppression by deadly force.

These statistics speak of a war zone and the rise of something sinister. Normal, civilized countries would not allow anything even remotely like this. These numbers are through the roof many times over. No, I am not exaggerating, unfortunately.

You are looking at statistics, not individual cases here. However, if you do read about cases, it only gets more worrying.

If this was happening here, I would expect something like ethnic cleansings coming soon and be packing my stuff to get out with my family when we still can. Oh, I forgot that the US is so special it’s perfectly alright there.

Here’s more on the topic:

https://plus.google.com/115353300954648237355/posts/LxEvyS7EpzC

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-do-us-police-kill-so-many-people-2014-8

If you can’t wait for the launch of the official #Ubuntu smartphones (the first models are supposedly due later this…

Originally shared by Linux News Here

If you can’t wait for the launch of the official smartphones (the first models are supposedly due later this year), don’t want to shell out for a new phone anyhow, or would prefer to use a different version of Linux on a portable device, there is an alternative. It’s possible to run a variety of popular distros on a standard Android smartphone or tablet – everything from a simple toolset right up to a full distribution with a desktop environment. You don’t even need to root your phone for some of the methods that we explore in this feature.

http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/features/run-linux-on-android-part-1