{"id":5687,"date":"2014-01-19T11:28:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=5687"},"modified":"2014-01-19T11:28:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T16:28:54","slug":"the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2014\/01\/19\/the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-206\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/523606\/net-neutrality-quashed-new-pricing-schemes-throttling-and-business-models-to-follow\/?utm_campaign=newsletters&amp;utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=20140115\">Net Neutrality Quashing Will Mean New Pricing Schemes, Throttling, and Business Models | MIT Technology Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Susan Crawford gets it.<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nThe theoretical downside is that the Internet devolves into a kind of \u201cpay to play\u201d system, with smaller companies tending to be squeezed out, and prices tending to rise overall.<\/p>\n<p>That is the dystopia envisioned by people like Susan Crawford, a visiting professor of law at Harvard University and a co-director of Harvard\u2019s Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society. \u201cWe\u2019ve got very powerful market actors in America who want to make more money from the same infrastructure, without expanding it,\u201d Crawford says. \u201cThe way they do that is to divide markets and then steadily charge more. And on the other side, they want to charge people who want to reach subscribers different rates.\u201d<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/net_neutrality\">net_neutrality<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/mit_techreview\">mit_techreview<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/susan_crawford\">susan_crawford<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/internet\">internet<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/blog\/this-sex-offender-spotting-app-sounds-like-a-really-bad-idea\">This Sex Offender-Spotting App Sounds Like a Really Bad Idea | Motherboard<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">What with Google buying Nest (learning about people&#8217;s private preferences for how they heat or cool their homes \u2013 potential privacy invasion, much?), and apps like this (NameTag), you have to wonder where we&#8217;re headed. Creepy creepy.<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nPerhaps the most cynical part of the whole idea, though, is that the creators do plan to offer people a way to avoid being face-scanned like this\u2014but it looks like you have to sign up to their site to do it. \u201cPeople will soon be able to login to www.NameTag.ws and choose whether or not they want their name and information displayed to others,\u201d Tussy explained in the release. Is the true idea behind NameTag, then, a social network that you have to opt out of?<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/privacy\">privacy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/apps\">apps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/google\">google<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/glass\">glass<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/facial_recognition\">facial_recognition<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/socialnetworks\">socialnetworks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/victoria_turk\">victoria_turk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2014\/01\/chris-christie-new-jersey-suburban-sprawl-102101.html#.UtS30mQW0vH\">Chris Christie\u2019s New Jersey Is Everything That\u2019s Wrong With America &#8211; James Howard Kunstler &#8211; POLITICO Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Something worth reading from Kunstler (for a change).<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nTo me, the danger of a President Christie is that he is about the last politician one might expect to recognize the nation\u2019s tragic predicament and he is exactly the figure who will mount America\u2019s deadly final campaign to sustain the unsustainable. He represents what amounts to a sort of national debt slavery: We will pay any price to stay where history has marooned us. One vivid example of this was Governor Christie\u2019s decision in 2010 to cancel New Jersey\u2019s participation in building a new commuter train tunnel under the Hudson River to relieve the unsustainable pressure on the existing 100-year-old train tunnels. He derided the project as \u201ca tunnel to the basement of Macy\u2019s.\u201d Christie then diverted $4 billion from the tunnel project to New Jersey\u2019s transportation trust fund in a bid to keep the state\u2019s gas tax the second-lowest in the country. (New Jersey\u2019s transit system, meanwhile, ranks among the country\u2019s worst, and Christie has cut its funding.)<\/p>\n<p>This little maneuver highlights one of the nation\u2019s most lamentable political failures of recent decades: the lack of will to invest in public transportation, in particular, upgrading and rehabilitating our conventional passenger railroad system. Governor Christie represents the majority of Americans who have no idea how close we are to the twilight of mass automobile motoring.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/chris_christie\">chris_christie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/james_kunstler\">james_kunstler<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/motordom\">motordom<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/peak_oil\">peak_oil<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/177614\/coming-instant-planetary-emergency\">The Coming \u2018Instant Planetary Emergency\u2019 | The Nation<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">File under &#8220;Uh-oh&#8221;?<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nNASA scientists, along with others, are learning that the Arctic permafrost\u2014and its stored carbon\u2014may not be as permanently frosted as its name implies. Research scientist Charles Miller of NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the principal investigator of the Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE), a five-year NASA-led field campaign to study how climate change is affecting the Arctic\u2019s carbon cycle. He told NASA, \u201cPermafrost soils are warming even faster than Arctic air temperatures\u2014as much as 2.7 to 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 to 2.5 degrees Celsius) in just the past 30 years. As heat from Earth\u2019s surface penetrates into permafrost, it threatens to mobilize these organic carbon reservoirs and release them into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and methane, upsetting the Arctic\u2019s carbon balance and greatly exacerbating global warming.\u201d<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/climate_change\">climate_change<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/methane\">methane<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/global_warming\">global_warming<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"diigo-ps\">Posted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Net Neutrality Quashing Will Mean New Pricing Schemes, Throttling, and Business Models | MIT Technology Review Susan Crawford gets it. QUOTE The theoretical downside is that the Internet devolves into a kind of \u201cpay to play\u201d system, with smaller companies tending to be squeezed out, and prices tending to rise overall. 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