Torch is a delightful browser with embedded bit torrents. Even downloading any Youtube video or directly any torrent is now once click away. No wonder it hits 10 million users- and its based on the open source chrome browser. though I would want to know if it is secure enough 😉 for the boys from Maryland

Try it out here

http://www.torchbrowser.com/about

I look around and I see myself surrounded by people promising a new dawn of a glorious civilization by machine learning, with perfect data capture, incredible computational and remorseless algorithms crunching to give you a glimpse of the future. Some even say a few billion here and there and you could approach a new singularity in time.
So I wonder, and I wonder, if the human race , particularly the common man, the plebians, ever stand a chance against the machine learning plutocrats.
And I am heartened by that old friend of mankind, the sheer elegant romance of random number creation.And of tools like sarcasm, and implied association using lingustic tools that no database can capture.Of for some more randomness, more romantic entropy, onwards to a brave new utopian internet in an increasingly dystopian world.
Quo Vadis, Brutus? Quo Vadis, indeed!!

Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal-Picasso (allegedly)

Just 1 hour ago, someone wrote this

Just some time back, I wrote this

https://decisionstats.com/2013/08/02/how-to-be-a-better-writer/

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But as they say–

Karma is a bitch

The world’s largest internet companies are either in China or USA (except for a few in Japan)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Internet_companies

China’s strategy has helped it in the following-

1. protect it’s citizen’s data from foreign data collection
2. helped safeguard the industrial secrets of it’s own corporations
3. create a domestic ecosystem that benefits it’s own entrepreneurs and investors
4. created basic infrastructure for resisting cyber warfare (et Stuxnet virus)

Rest of the non Chinese World has now the following ignominy-

1. Most of profits from IPOs, Ads flow to US companies
2. US Govt arm spy in active collaboration with US companies including gathering industrial secrets for trade negotiations
3. Almost zero non Chinese non American Internet Infrastructure
4. built a monopoly of California led companies across rest of world
5. led to brain drain of top technical talent to USA
6. Great ecosystem of investors and tech in USA- to the detriment of all other countries

Internet is the new opium, and after getting the rest of the world addicted- USA law makers are abandoning core principles like net neutrality and opting for unrestricted warrant less spying , as well as preparing inroads for cyber attacks

China is correctly safeguarding the future interests of it’s citizens- while the rest of the world is now a cyber colony mostly occupied by USA

Quo Vadis?

Countries have no friends, only interests