The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde On Running for European Parliament and Innovating Past Democracy
"Even though I'm a candidate for the Pirate Party, I'm not actually a member."
Articles tagged "europe"
Greece Is Trying to Kill Its Biggest Anti-Government Website and Radio Stations
The Athens branch of Indymedia, an independent open network of journalists who report on political and social issues, was shut down last Thursday.
When Governments Take Your Money, Bitcoin Looks Really Good
European officials are proposing directly picking the pockets of their citizens by going straight for their banking deposits. Incidentally, it's also turning furious (and fearful) Europeans to cryptocurrency.
Millions of People Have Given up Cell Phones in Spain
Blame the financial crisis.
Phantasmagoria Were the 18th Century Suicide-Scary Theaters That Gave Us Movies
Imagine: You’re in 18th century Europe in a candlelit shack watching skeletons magically dancing on the wall. How creepy it must have been.
Motherboard TV: A Death on the Frontier
The hunt for the Higgs boson, god particle or goddamn particle, the one that gives things mass, came closer to an end on July 4. Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Europe, the world's largest particle accelerator, found evidence of the par…
With Euro Instability, Can Bitcoin Now Compete with Hard Currency?
It is at once the ‘net’s most inspired invention or its most dangerous project ever depending on who you ask.Bitcoin might be nothing more than the latest Internet scam, a virtual ponzi scheme designed to enrich early adopters, while adding no real v…
E-G8: THE GIANT SUCK OF AN ELITIST INTERNET SUMMIT
It would be with great pleasure if I could report that the latest bubble has popped. But an inflationary spirit, it seems, is alive and well in the latest site for exuberant over-investment: the summit bubble. TED, Davos, Aspen Ideas Festival, TechCr…
At e-G8, "Wild" Silicon Valley Bigwigs and "Civilized" European Fogeys Make Plans for Your Internet
Nicolas Sarkozy has organized a 2-day "e-G8 Summit," bringing together some of the world's most powerful companies, in an attempt to address the unchecked growth of the web. "Critics are claiming":http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,764…
