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griftahon If you use Google+, you could become an ad next month

Your comments on Blogger are fair game already. They are not private in any way.

griftahon No, I still don't want to work for Google

Why?

griftahon No, I still don't want to work for Google

It isn't a critique. It's about her project Growstuff which she considers more important and valuable than Google's self-driving cars and Project Glass.

griftahon No, I still don't want to work for Google

She is building a social network for hobbyist gardeners. Apparently this is what humanity needs more than geek toys like self-driving cars and augmented reality sunglasses.

griftahon It Is Time To Stop Pretending To Endorse The Copyright Monopoly

Mozart was very popular.

griftahon Amazon’s Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. I’ve Seen It, Played With It.

Programming is not a content creation.

griftahon Chromebook

There are much better devices for consuming content.

griftahon BMI: one person listening to his own music via the cloud is public performance

Except the lawn is really his.

griftahon The Future Of Libraries In The E-Book Age

I fail to see how blogs can replace novels.

griftahon Europe Plans To Ban Petrol Cars From Cities By 2050

> but if you remove the option to drive, then you get around this problem

Isn't it nice to dream about removing options people have?

griftahon Europe Plans To Ban Petrol Cars From Cities By 2050

Do you have better sources?

griftahon Europe Plans To Ban Petrol Cars From Cities By 2050

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_u...

griftahon Europe Plans To Ban Petrol Cars From Cities By 2050

> I reckon we have about a decade of reasonably affordable petrol left before we hit the wall in a big way.

Citation needed. We have at least two decades of cheap oil ahead.

griftahon All private Google Profiles will be deleted after July 31, 2011

World would be a very sad place if everybody were afraid to do anything publicly.

griftahon Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"

There is no such thing as "Symbian feature phone". Every Symbian phone is a smartphone.

griftahon Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (DST)

No. USSR was always divided into several time zones. Moscow time is just a soviet analog of GMT. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Russia#Developments

griftahon Microsoft backs H.264.

But not before Google.

griftahon Microsoft backs H.264.

Carriers will put it back.

griftahon Microsoft backs H.264.

Of course Firefox and Opera support WebM. Revenues of Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software depend on Google.

griftahon Microsoft backs H.264.

Android supports H.264.

griftahon Why 37signals is falling into obsolescence

Agree. Mediocrity always wins.

griftahon What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2011?

Do we really need to blur difference between art and fanfics even more then?

griftahon What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2011?

Do we really need more fanfics?

griftahon What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2011?

Copyright didn't seem to stop authors of D&D or many derivative fantasy novels that have more in common with Lord of the Rings than West Side Story with Shakespeare.

griftahon What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2011?

Why having Lord of the Rings in public domain is so important?

griftahon Court affirms jail time for Pirate Bay founders

The whole notion of 'freedom' is an artificial and very recent creation. We functioned fine as a society for so many millennia with slavery.

griftahon Court affirms jail time for Pirate Bay founders

All human rights are "figments of our collective imagination". Should we abolish them too?

griftahon German vandals target Street View opt-out homes

So you are vandal. You are vandalizing Street View.

griftahon German vandals target Street View opt-out homes

Do you understand that image of your house is public domain information?