Comments on: Licklider the Seed-planting Antichrist and yOUR Privacy http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/11/licklider-the-seed-planting-antichrist-and-your-privacy.html a site about everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:27:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Derek White http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/11/licklider-the-seed-planting-antichrist-and-your-privacy.html/comment-page-1#comment-659367 Derek White Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:30:20 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=34071#comment-659367 Funny how Byrne can do that...he derailed me a few times, yes, with the vampire reference, but also the bush of ghosts reference, and the part where he goes to that acoustic isolation chamber at Bell-Labs that John Cage used. It's crazy what that man has experienced, and then have the presence of mind to be able to document it all as he goes along. I haven't read his bike book completely, but i find myself picking it up in the various cities i've been finding myself in lately and flipping to the chapter on that city to see what his bicycle perspective of it is... Funny how Byrne can do that…he derailed me a few times, yes, with the vampire reference, but also the bush of ghosts reference, and the part where he goes to that acoustic isolation chamber at Bell-Labs that John Cage used. It’s crazy what that man has experienced, and then have the presence of mind to be able to document it all as he goes along. I haven’t read his bike book completely, but i find myself picking it up in the various cities i’ve been finding myself in lately and flipping to the chapter on that city to see what his bicycle perspective of it is…

]]> By: Sheila Ryan http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/11/licklider-the-seed-planting-antichrist-and-your-privacy.html/comment-page-1#comment-659361 Sheila Ryan Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:20:16 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=34071#comment-659361 Derek, thank you for posting this. I've just begun reading Byrne's meditation, but he hooked me early on with his reference* to one of my forever-favoritest literary manifestations. Faust's poodle. The form assumed by Mephistopheles in Goethe's "Faust". I will consider the merit of anything put forth by a person who alludes to Faust's poodle. _____ *<em>The Internet’s connection to the military, as much as I would love it to be a big secret conspiracy, seems a lot more benign than that. Mephistopheles came to Faust in the form of a poodle. After all…in some versions of the story, he cannot enter your house unbidden — you have to invite him in, like a vampire.</em> Derek, thank you for posting this. I’ve just begun reading Byrne’s meditation, but he hooked me early on with his reference* to one of my forever-favoritest literary manifestations.

Faust’s poodle.

The form assumed by Mephistopheles in Goethe’s “Faust”.

I will consider the merit of anything put forth by a person who alludes to Faust’s poodle.
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*The Internet’s connection to the military, as much as I would love it to be a big secret conspiracy, seems a lot more benign than that. Mephistopheles came to Faust in the form of a poodle. After all…in some versions of the story, he cannot enter your house unbidden — you have to invite him in, like a vampire.

]]> By: Derek White http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/11/licklider-the-seed-planting-antichrist-and-your-privacy.html/comment-page-1#comment-659139 Derek White Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:20:18 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=34071#comment-659139 p.s. sorry to leave you hanging on Lexulous, coop! p.s. sorry to leave you hanging on Lexulous, coop!

]]> By: Derek White http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/11/licklider-the-seed-planting-antichrist-and-your-privacy.html/comment-page-1#comment-659138 Derek White Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:16:16 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=34071#comment-659138 I don't use flickr, but i use youtube, only because hosting videos yourself can be costly, and yeah, for the convenience of it. but i'm sure with both flickr and youtube you are granting them the right to use and reproduce your photos/videos to a certain extent, falling just short of claiming ownership. they control how your photos are displayed, they host them, they can advertise next to your photos, and even if you canceled your account i'm sure they'd keep your information and photos, though they say they won't do anything with it. and then you got to ask yourself who's behind these things (in the case of Flickr, it's Yahoo!) and what's in it for them. the things we give up for convenience. even blogging software makes me worry, and if you trace anything back to it's source, it's worrying. i don't use blogging software, but still some company in China hosts my websites, so that's where the content physical resides. even if you hosted your site on your own servers, there'd be the technology of the computer itself that it's tethered to! I don’t use flickr, but i use youtube, only because hosting videos yourself can be costly, and yeah, for the convenience of it. but i’m sure with both flickr and youtube you are granting them the right to use and reproduce your photos/videos to a certain extent, falling just short of claiming ownership. they control how your photos are displayed, they host them, they can advertise next to your photos, and even if you canceled your account i’m sure they’d keep your information and photos, though they say they won’t do anything with it. and then you got to ask yourself who’s behind these things (in the case of Flickr, it’s Yahoo!) and what’s in it for them. the things we give up for convenience. even blogging software makes me worry, and if you trace anything back to it’s source, it’s worrying. i don’t use blogging software, but still some company in China hosts my websites, so that’s where the content physical resides. even if you hosted your site on your own servers, there’d be the technology of the computer itself that it’s tethered to!

]]> By: Coop http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/11/licklider-the-seed-planting-antichrist-and-your-privacy.html/comment-page-1#comment-659118 Coop Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:53:40 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=34071#comment-659118 I don't have a Twitter account. (Is it proper to say "Twitter account"? I find myself remarkably appalled at the idea of having to type the words "I don't tweet.") I use Facebook mostly to play word games and to announce new issues of elimae or books by elimae authors. So I'm not really putting in a lot of content in any copyrightable sense. I post photos of my drawings at Flickr, but I understand in that case that the ownership is still mine. Maybe I'm wrong. I don’t have a Twitter account. (Is it proper to say “Twitter account”? I find myself remarkably appalled at the idea of having to type the words “I don’t tweet.”) I use Facebook mostly to play word games and to announce new issues of elimae or books by elimae authors. So I’m not really putting in a lot of content in any copyrightable sense. I post photos of my drawings at Flickr, but I understand in that case that the ownership is still mine. Maybe I’m wrong.

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