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Prof. Srinivasan:

While I thought your talk was interesting (and I really dig all the great work Counsyl is doing), it sounded like a 13 year old who just discovered Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" for the first time and thought they had everything figured out. Your Silicon Valley neoliberalism is nothing new.

Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron predicted this back in 1995 in their essay, The Californian Ideology: "Their politics appear to be impeccably libertarian - they want information technologies to be used to create a new 'Jeffersonian democracy' in cyberspace where every individual would be able to express themselves freely. Implacable in its certainties, the Californian Ideology offers a fatalistic vision of the natural and inevitable triumph of the hi-tech free market - a vision which is blind to racism, poverty and environmental degradation and which has no time to debate alternatives."

The original California Ideology Essay published in 1995: http://w7.ens-lyon.fr/amrieu/IMG/pdf/Californian_ideology_Mu...

Kevin Kelly on The California Ideology: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/07/the_californi...

"That Deep Romantic Chasm": Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, and the Computer Culture by Thomas Streeter http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/romantic_chasm.html

gadgetdevilon San Jose State suspends online courses

A bigger red flag would be if almost all of the students passed the final. I'm not an advocate for deliberately failing students: the exam should be designed so that an A shows true mastery and understanding.

gadgetdevilon Ask HN: Can use the #1 supercomputer for any project I want. What should it be?

Try something with Cellular Automata or something akin to Conway's Game of Life. I don't think there are any hard scientific applications for CA, but you could make some pretty nice wall art, and you could probably finish it in a semester.

gadgetdevilon Dear Canonical: please let me pay for Ubuntu

Why not donate to the maintainers of Debian, Software in the Public Interest? http://www.debian.org/donations They are the root of all those awesome dpkg's that we all know and love.

gadgetdevilon Inception Explained: a really cool scrolling animation of the plot

How would it dramatically destroy the movie? The term is existentialism. It may all be a dream, but that doesn't mean that you can't give your life (or the movie for that matter) its own meaning. I personally find this more liberating, than the idea that life is a game to played.

>It's already not real. Dreams are real while we are in them.

gadgetdevilon Inception Explained: a really cool scrolling animation of the plot

It's a red herring. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ginQNMiRu2w

gadgetdevilon Enough with the QR Codes

If you have an Android phone, you can create a QR code for a WiFi hotspot with a WEP/WPA2 encryption key. https://zxing.appspot.com/generator/

gadgetdevilon Khan Academy: It’s Different This Time

This article is a joke. There is no evidence offered to support his conclusions, it's basically a long slander article that his peddling his shitty startup.

gadgetdevilon Go nuts with CSS3 hover effects

If you hate Animations, then have your browser disable CSS3 animations. Any website worth its salt will use Modernizr & jQuery to gracefully fall back.

gadgetdevilon The Little ISP That Stood Up to the Government

I switched to sonic about a week ago, and I feel dumb for not doing it sooner.

gadgetdevilon Mouse without Borders: multiple PC control, one keyboard and mouse

Nice, they took Synergy's idea and made it proprietary, without even a mention of where they got it from. The article nor the Microsoft website mention that Synergy has been doing this for over 10 years.