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Digital rights Law & Freedom

How Orwell’s 1984 novel is very accurate for 2013

George Orwell published his dystopian novel 1984 in the year 1949 guessing a scary version of what the society might be in the future. His predictions have become so accurate to today’s world that we can almost say that if he was trying to predict the future, he only missed by some decades. Big Brother […]

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News

Google Keep shadowed by Google Reader and Notebook

Google released Keep, a note-taking application that allows you to save your todo lists, notes, web clips, audios, photos, etc. and it stores everything in your Google Drive account. With the recent notice of Google Reader being shut down, this new application release has been badly received by users that are questioning Google’s trust on […]

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Events Photography

Occupy San Francisco images

Last week I went to San Francisco to do some business, and having some extra days I decided to get outside and take a few shots around the city. Little did I know that there was an Occupy San Francisco movement over at the Federal Reserve bank building. It was an interesting and shocking thing […]

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Digital rights Law & Freedom

Youtube Copyright School video

This video is horrible! It reminds me of the 50’s anti socialism/communism propaganda with the voice, tone and the graphic tactics used in it. And while it doesn’t omit the topic of Fair Use, it does try to avoid it, or so it seems, by speeding up the audio and moving the letters so you […]

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GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source

A message from Richard Stallman on Software Freedom Day

Richard Stallman, the initiator of the Free Software movement, published a very easy to understand video message on what software freedom is about. Your browser does not support the video tag. Use the download link below. If you can’t see the video, you can download Richard Stallman’s video message here. If you wonder why there’s […]

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Digital rights Law & Freedom GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source News

More ugly stories about depending on cloud computing

Depending on “the cloud” to provide all software has increasingly shown some of its issues. What’s strange is that not many people are concerned about it. Google marking all sites as unsafe Google marked all search results as unsafe websites, and when you clicked on the link, it warned you again and you had to […]