[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Zuckerberg to Give Away Half His Wealth
- [GOOD - Morgan Clendaniel]
Warren Buffet and Bill Gates announced today that Mark Zuckerberg, among others, have signed up for the Giving Pledge, which commits signatories to giving away at least 50 percent of their wealth by the age of 65. Most of Zuckerbergs assets, of course, are tied up until Facebook goes public. To pledge to give away your billions before you even get it is impressive, if not slightly hubristic.
Other new members on the list include investors Carl Icahn and Michael Milken, as well as former AOL CEO Steve Case. The full list of new members is:…
- DREAM Act Delayed After House Passage. Will Senate Reciprocate?
- [GOOD - Amanda M. Fairbanks]
Last night, by a vote of 216 to 198, the House passed the DREAM Act, which would give legal standing to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant students. In total, eight Republicans voted in in favor of the bill, while 38 Democrats voted against it.
- WikiLeaks
- [Schneier on Security]
4. This has little to do with WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks is just a website. The real story is that "least trusted person" who decided to violate his security clearance and make these cables public. In the 1970s he would have mailed them to a newspaper. Today he uses WikiLeaks. Tomorrow he will have his choice of a dozen similar websites. If WikiLeaks didn't exist, he could have put them up on BitTorrent.
5. I think the government is learning what the music and movie industries were forced to learn years ago: it's easy to copy and distribute digital files. That's what's different between the 1970s and today….
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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