Regulators on four continents are preparing for a long-awaited "showdown" with Facebook - One gets the impression that there is a certain amount of relishing of the situation going on in the old media circles, not content with their astonishingly large portion of the pie, they are trying to gobble up even more, leaving us startups scrambling for the remaining (highly regulated) crumbs, thanks old media, it's not like it was already virtuallty impossible - What good is regulation in changing behaviour anyway, it sure hasn't changed the old media appetite for pie, if anything it's made it worse - They say it's about changing behaviour, it's not about changing behaviour, it's about pie, and even if it is about changing behavior it's only about changing behaviour so that they get more pie nytimes.com #

Huawei row - Top civil servant demands leak inquiry co-operation - how is it that the network antennas are non-core? Surely the antennas are a rather crucial part of the network? It's like saying that the roads aren't a crucial part of the transport network bbc.com #

Some entity is messing with my internet connection again, APIs that I use are disapearing from DNS, but when I check online the APIs are definitely still up, just my daily kick in the teeth, nothing to see here please move along... en.wikipedia.org #

Ecuador legalized gangs - Murder rates plummeted - Really they are just pie clubs vox.com #

The Beach Bum should start a cult -- and not just the midnight movie kind boingboing.net #

Defibrillation is a treatment for life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias, specifically ventricular fibrillation and non-perfusing ventricular tachycardia - A defibrillator (good name for a movie) delivers a dose of electric current (often called a countershock) to the heart en.wikipedia.org #