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Category Archives: Internet
How Do You Change Your IP Address?
guest4: Luke are you there? It’s… *waves* Do you know how to change an IP? guest4: I’ve unplugged my computer for hours and still the same freaking IP. I’m asking everyone and posting on tech forums but nothing yet that’s … Continue reading
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Tagged anonymous browsing, best buy, blog, comcast, how do you change your ip address, proxies, waves
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Getting The Full Story
From page 230 of the book The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain: The Harvard Kennedy School’s Joseph Nye has suggested a site like urban legend debunker snopes.com be instituted for reputation, a place … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Journalism
Tagged future of the internet, Google, google news, jimmy wales, jonathan zittrain, joseph nye, s joseph, silicon valley ceo, snopes
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Finding A Cantor Online
From YnetNews: Every year before the High Holidays, synagogues all over the world search for cantors who will stand up in front of the congregation and amaze the audience with stirring renditions of renowned prayers. Until now, leaders of the … Continue reading
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Tagged cantors, giant database, jewish connections, tooth comb, voice pitch, ynetnews
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Netflix Rocks
I have the three DVDs at once $17 a month subscription. It also gives me unlimited access to instant downloads from Netflix’s 12,000 plus title library through the ROKU player ($100) that I installed last night. I was having some … Continue reading
Posted in Hollywood, Internet
Tagged customer service, dvds, rocks, roku, title library
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Free Criminal Record Background Check
Brad Stone writes: WANT to vet a baby sitter? Need to peek into the background of a prospective employee? Curious about the past of a potential date? Last month, PeopleFinders, a 20-year-old company based in Sacramento, introduced CriminalSearches.com, a free … Continue reading
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Tagged criminal archives, criminal record background check, free criminal record, minor infractions, page databases, peoplefinders
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Email Overload
From the Los Angeles Times: Nor is e-mail always friendly — it can be confrontational in a way that talking usually isn’t. "If we’re having feelings with someone else that we need to confront," says therapist Firstenberg, "many times we’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged e mail, half a day, information bites, information overload, Los Angeles Times, technical advancement
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My Dialogue With Marc Gafni About Reputation Online
The videos of our dialogue are here and here and here and here and here. The book (The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet) underlying our discussion is here. Here’s a selective transcript of what I … Continue reading
Posted in Gossip, Internet, Judaism, Marc Gafni, Personal
Tagged internet vigilantes, marc gafni, roman coliseum, satire 3, subway rider, vigilante group
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The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet by Law Professor Daniel Solove
I read this book on Shabbos. The prof feels bad for people who did bad things and got caught and publicized on the internet, such as South Korea’s dog poop girl, who refused to pick up her dog’s poop on … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Internet, Predators
Tagged dog poop girl, kenny the shark, libel laws, public speakers, responsible citizen, ted frank
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From Porn to Bibles to Puppies
Brad Stone writes for the New York Times: TRIBUTES on the Web site of Richard J. Gordon‘s company strike all of the uplifting chords one would expect of a digital maverick. He is described as a “trailblazing businessman” who is … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, broadway show, caribbean island, clublove, credit card transactions, ebay, entertainment one, explicit web, global marketplace, pamela anderson, pamela anderson tommy, pamela anderson tommy lee, pamela anderson tommy lee sex, pamela anderson tommy lee sex tape, profitable network, rsquo, sexual entertainment, start ups, tommy lee sex, tommy lee sex tape
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Judge Shuts Down Web Site Specializing in Leaks
From the New York Times: In a move that legal experts said could present a major test of First Amendment rights in the Internet era, a federal judge in San Francisco on Friday ordered the disabling of a Web site … Continue reading
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