Companies should maximise profit, and maximise the return on their shareholder’s investment. That’s the way it should be, right?

Seth Godin briefly outlines where the idea came from, and offers an alternative.

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I enjoyed this the whole way through.

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I posted before with the news that SSH is coming to Windows 10 (has that happened yet?)

Now Bash is coming too! Wheeeee

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I found this video pretty compelling – cool to see how Da Funk breaks down into sounds. But also weirdly Rube Goldberg: having midi software driving servos that move lego to tap on sensors that make software play a sound…

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This is exciting! No SSH in Windows just seems so odd. Even Apple Macs have an SSH client and server built in!

Microsoft is going to work with OpenSSH to bring its SSH client and server to Windows.

Yippee!

I guess I better learn PowerShell, though.

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Carpet cleaning robots need lots of smarts to navigate around obstacles. And putting all that computing power on every one is expensive, especially when they’re only being used part of the time! With fast networking, there’s a great solution – outsource the heavy thinking to the cloud. Unless David Cameron has his way banning encryption, or we make it too easy for law enforcement and spies to access the servers:

But a camera-equipped networked robot that free-ranges around your home is a fucking disaster if it isn’t secure.

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The media are all getting excited about the tax Amazon will pay now that they’re recording UK sales in the UK. Except they’re forgetting that corporation tax is paid on profit, not revenue. And Amazon barely makes a profit…

It’s the profitable companies that we need to get paying more tax in the UK! Apple, Starbucks and Google. But maybe this will put more pressure on them.

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The conservative government want to rewrite our human rights so that they don’t apply to “extremists”.

It won’t be long before all sorts of groups are rebranded as “extremist”… In fact it’s happening already.

The FBI, on classic environmental protesters:

“Many of these extremists believe the debates over pollution, protection of wildlife, safety, and property rights have been overshadowed by the promise of jobs and cheaper oil prices,” the FBI document states.

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If you agree that surveillance is a huge issue to be addressed by the government, then check out this summary of the major party’s commitments.

The Green Party come out strongly saying surveillance needs to be targeted with judicial approval – i.e. Greens will stop blanket surveillance and bulk collection, and require warrants for targeted surveillance of suspected individuals.

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