Facebook e la "trasparenza radicale" (uno sfogo)

Danah wrote a wonderful post about Facebook and the recents changes in the privacy settings and rules: "Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant)". I loved it and I made the decision to translate it to italian.

I'm not a professional interpreter (and my english kinda sucks) so it's likely I made some mistakes: feel free to correct me and suggest a better version. Nonetheless I got Danah's OK to publish it on my blog: probably she doesn't read italian so she can't realize how I ruined her piece, but still :) 

So, after the jump for "Facebook e la trasparenza radicale" (uno sfogo)", the italian translation of Danah Boyd's "Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant)".

Read it if you're interested in how Facebook can be evil, how they're tricking us (yeah, I'm on facebook) and how we can fire back.

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orangeek | Monday 17 May 2010 at 9:49 pm | | pop, tech | One comment

The Little Brother is here

Did you read Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother" ? Do you have kids in school age?

Continue after the jump, then.

[ "One Nation Under CCTV", picture by Herschell Hershey ]

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orangeek | Monday 08 March 2010 at 12:33 pm | | pop | No comments
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2010 MotoGP and World SBK Season Calendars

Behind the longest and worst-sounding (and possibly wrong) post title ever there is my coming back on this blog, after more than 4 months.

Well, I don't really know if copying and pasting a few links count as 'blogging', but at least I hope my work can be useful for someone.

Here below the links to the calendars for the 2010 MotoGP and World SBK seasons, in xml, ics and html format.

Enjoy.

Spoiler: the first race is Phillip Island, Australia, for the SBK! :)
and yes, no calendar this time for the Formula 1 ! :(

orangeek | Monday 22 February 2010 at 9:57 pm | | bloggin | Four comments

Super nerdy powers at xkcd

"Surgery"

[click for the big image]

LOL

orangeek | Friday 02 October 2009 at 10:03 pm | | pop | No comments
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Some Videos

Here below some videos I liked lately. I will not embed videos here because I'm lazy and the you can just click on a link, don't you? :)

Monkey Island 2 in 3d, using the Cry Engine

If you are afraid of the Big Brother, now you have yet another reason: traffic live on Google Earth using surveillance cameras

On October 6th holy DVD John and his Doubletwist will free your iTunes and media devices

orangeek | Friday 02 October 2009 at 5:26 pm | | bloggin | No comments

Old style nerdy fetish

[ "Inside DMG", picture by drop1410 ]

I'll be in my bunk. :)

orangeek | Wednesday 30 September 2009 at 2:17 pm | | pop, tech | No comments
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How Google Street View really works

Directly from Google Japan a nice video showing how Street View works.

orangeek | Tuesday 29 September 2009 at 8:59 pm | | bloggin, pop | No comments
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Public water and public schools

Public water and public schools... mmmh, whaaat? What do public water and public schools have in common?

[ "Robinet cadenassé / Locked tap", CC licensed picture by nitot ]

According to doyle at "Science Teacher",

Public fountains are disappearing because the concept of public is disappearing.
Public water fountains are not dangerous (unless cooties are real). Tap water is safe, and the spigots are designed to prevent contamination.
The rise of bottled water here in the States shows how a public institution can be demonized and replaced by a much more expensive privatized solution.

[...] Charter schools are like bottled water--they're believed to be superior, and their standards are less stringent that their more public counterparts.

Public Water and Public Schools


orangeek | Tuesday 29 September 2009 at 2:46 pm | | pop | No comments
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I told you so... the Ass Bomber

Remember when I was writing

[...] they (the policy makers) let the citizen face daily the fear of a very-rare [terrorist] attack and they manage to take your rights apart [because of that].

I ended with a

I just hope that no one will try to blow a plane with his underwear...

Oooops. I hope I will not be considered the mind behind the stupid ass who tried to assassinate a Saudi prince by exploding a bomb stuffed in his rectum.

Let's see if they will begin to search our asshole before boarding a plane just to be sure... this shit already happened, ya kno'

More on boingboing by Cory Doctorow and by Bruce Schneier.

orangeek | Tuesday 29 September 2009 at 11:48 am | | pop | No comments

Non lo meritiamo

Semplicemente non ci meritiamo, come Paese, che i nostri ragazzi combattano, e muoiano, per l'Italia.

Sei parà italiani sono rimasti uccisi, e quattro feriti, in un attentato a Kabul, dove hanno perso la vita anche dieci civili.

Ora un altro motivo per spengere la televisione sarà quello di non sentire quei maiali scannarsi con polemiche strumentali alla loro lotta di cortile.

orangeek | Thursday 17 September 2009 at 12:28 pm | | pop | No comments

The cloud. again.

Why we should be worried about the cloud

It's not the first time I write about Cloud Computing; I began commenting the ridiculous Terms of Service of some web applications to edit and store online office documents, like Google Documents, Zoho, Acrobat. Then, some months later, after reading the angry as usual comment by Richard Stallman about storing your documents in the Cloud ( the ""It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign" rant :) ), I described my view:

Best thing to do would be to have a fast internet connection at home (with simmetric speeds too, upstream and downstream) and some nice opensource software for webmail and for some documents writing and sharing. Mix that with IPV6 and we're all connected with our cloud, powered by us.
The final ingredient could be some huge webservice where we could upload our nightly backup of our home server. And those backups should be encrypted too.

When it will be the time of some opensource gmail?

Now, Cory Doctorow writes about Cloud Computing again, more from a businness/money perspective for the user than from a technical or ethical point of view.

More after the jump.

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orangeek | Friday 11 September 2009 at 10:50 am | | pop, tech | No comments

Starred Pictures

Where "starred" refers to the google reader feature...

orangeek | Tuesday 08 September 2009 at 2:58 pm | | pop | No comments

After vacation post

mmmmh, almost one month passed after my last post.

What happened in the mean time? Well, I spent most of the time in Chicago with Jackie. It was molto nice, sì sì sì.

For the nerdy updates hit the jump.

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orangeek | Thursday 03 September 2009 at 4:07 pm | | bloggin | No comments

del battesimo e della circoncisione

Cena dal Pano ieri. Abbiamo toccato livelli culturali mai immaginabili.

Ad un certo punto si parla di circoncisione; ci si sposta sul tema religioso. Pippo se ne esce con un "alla fine è un po' come il battesimo... è una violenza che comunque il bambino subisce senza poter realmente decidere"

E io: "beh, magari proprio uguale no. Da una parte ti tagliano un pezzo di cazzo e dall'altro ti bagnano la testa. vedi te".

Ah, beh.

orangeek | Monday 03 August 2009 at 2:12 pm | | bloggin | One comment

The Little Ladybug: The Good Lord’s Beast

The Little Ladybug: The Good Lord’s Beast

Supinfocom short movie - Romain Carlier from Romain Carlier on Vimeo.

orangeek | Wednesday 29 July 2009 at 1:55 pm | | bloggin | No comments
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Swine Flu Party: let's hope in the natural selection

So this is the story. Some people around the world (I've read about US and UK) are organizing "Swine Flu Parties" to contract the virus.

Yeah, exactly. Their point is the virus is "pretty weak now" but it will be stronger next autumn. Obviously, because of their goal, people who contracted the virus are warmly welcomed and, possibly, will have free drinks.

Let's hope in the natural selection.

[ "Pooh Bear Swine Flu Cartoon", cartoon found by Dr J C Bullas ]

orangeek | Thursday 16 July 2009 at 10:36 am | | pop | Three comments
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First Person Shooter Disease

I dont know any medic, is someone of you going to write a Wikipedia page about this disease?

First Person Shooter Disease

LOL.

[ via boingboing ]

orangeek | Sunday 12 July 2009 at 4:21 pm | | bloggin | No comments

Bunch of links again

After the jump some links I collected in the last days...

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orangeek | Tuesday 07 July 2009 at 7:51 pm | | bloggin | No comments
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godo [Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burton]

Goooooodo.

New Images From Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland!

orangeek | Thursday 25 June 2009 at 10:35 pm | | pop | No comments

Foho... on board! [v2]

A slightly edited version of the same video.

Foho on a Ducati Hypermotard [v2] from orangeek on Vimeo.

Motorbike: Ducati Hypermotard 1100
Music: Rage Against the Machine, "Wake Up"
Camera: Oregon Scientific ATC2K
Location: uhm ;)

orangeek | Monday 22 June 2009 at 3:08 pm | | whoami | No comments