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I would like the motion to pass so I can watch the RIAA face plant as they try to maintain such flimsy cases in the face of common sense and reason. The fact that they have stopped pursuing any additional Individual cases shows us just how futile their efforts really are... even they recognize it. Do they have any more legs to stand on?

Yes but are you so sure they've "stopped pursuing any additional individual cases"?

I'm not

You do realise that the Germans used the same argument - that collective punishment of the locals meant that they were less likely to help or join the resistance, and hence collective punishment helped to protect German lives?

First of all, that isn't true. Germans never made such an argument. Secondly, the germans were trying to commit genocide, using the Jews as scapegoats, not protect themselves. Third, Israel isnt sanctioning the palestinians in an effort to shut down resistance, but rather to protect both Israeli and palestinian lives.

And you do realise that sanctions on food, fuel, medical supplies and electricity lead to indiscriminate deaths? Hospitals need electricity and medicine, without it innocent people will die. And people need food too, without it, innocent people will die: "So too have the Israelis reduced the calorie intake of the Palestinians in Gaza. According to a UN report, it is presently at 61 percent of the average daily requirements." source, "Palestinians in Gaza were being "starved to death" and received fewer calories a day than people in the poorest parts of Africa." source

While I realize that any area that has a lack of food, fuel, medical supplies or electricity can lead to death, that is due to the govermental system of the plo. Hamas does not properly distribute food, fuel, medical supplies, or electricity. If there were no economic sanctions by Israel, palestinians would still have these issues.

If a child is poking you with a stick, and you ask him to stop, and he doesnt listen, you take away the stick. You don't let him keep poking you, even if some idiot standby person says you are stifling his creativity. You certainly dont replace the stick with a baseball bat.

Do you know why people in the poorest parts of africa dont have economic sanctions from Israel? I have a couple of guesses, but I'll give you a chance to figure it out for yourself.

You do realise that the Germans used the same argument - that collective punishment of the locals meant that they were less likely to help or join the resistance, and hence collective punishment helped to protect German lives?

And you do realise that sanctions on food, fuel, medical supplies and electricity lead to indiscriminate deaths? Hospitals need electricity and medicine, without it innocent people will die. And people need food too, without it, innocent people will die: "So too have the Israelis reduced the calorie intake of the Palestinians in Gaza. According to a UN report, it is presently at 61 percent of the average daily requirements." source, "Palestinians in Gaza were being "starved to death" and received fewer calories a day than people in the poorest parts of Africa." source

You aren't the only one thinking that way: http://genxy.blogspot.com/2008/12/peak-oil-and-transportation.html

http://diehimmelistschoen.blogspot.com/

If you RTFA (I know, a big assumption -- Google can take you to the no-registration-required SciAm version), they say that scientists suspect there are other pathways where the info is getting into his brain, even though his visual cortex is totally destroyed on both hemispheres. This is the first blindsight demo with NO visual cortex, and thus seems to suggest strong that there are some alternate pathways going on. He can also react to facial expressions.

I think the original report was merely propaganda. They haven't stopped bringing lawsuits, they don't have any deals in place with any ISP's, and what the heck does the NYS Attorney General have to do with this issue? Which New York law was he enforcing? And against whom?

"IP Watch" couldn't get any confirmation on any of this stuff.

It was just some kind of propaganda. Ask the lawyer in Greensboro, North Carolina, who has 15 cases to defend whether anything's changed.

This is the solution, you're exactly right! Use generated papers as the way to score whether reviewers are doing their job well or not. A short write-up on the idea; it shouldn't be too hard to automate since most submissions are electronic nowadays.

Desperately needs a link!

http://gnomestyle.blogspot.com/2007/05/make-ubuntu-look-like-vista.html

Google make ubuntu look like * where * is obviously what you want it to look like.

XP and Mac are other examples. Vista is linked on top.

Douglas Hofstadter has spent a lifetime thinking about the way we think. He's written about it perhaps more than anyone else in the past century. Even if someone out there has beaten him in sheer quantity of words on the subject, nobody has come close to rivaling his style or his impact on programmers everywhere.

All of his books are wonderfully imaginative and are loads of fun to read, but if you're a programmer and you haven't yet read Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (usually known as "GEB"), then I envy you: you're in for a real treat. Get yourself a copy and settle in for one of the most interesting, maddening, awe-inspiring and just plain fun books ever written. The Pulitzer Prize it won doesn't nearly do it justice. It's one of the greatest and most unique works of imagination of all time.

You can find his original post, and you can obviously find the book on amazon.

From a security standpoint I would repeat the advices that I given on the Network Security Blog:

- The **most** effective thing is using a "non-standard" environment. You can take a look at my post titled "Windows XP High Security Configuration". Applying the listed security measures will prevent 99.99% of the malware from running!
- don't let them run as admin!
- if possible, use Vista (again, because XP is much more widely spread, most malware currently targets XP)
- don't use mainstream programs! Use FoxitPDF reader, not Adobe Reader. Use Firefox (or Opera) instead of IE.
- Use software restriction policies to set where programs can be run from.
- Keep the PC up to date! Run Windows Update regularly and use something like the Secunia PSI to check for vulnerable software!
- Use a hosts file to block sites in combination with OpenDNS.
- Configure the firewall to block all incoming connections if possible
- Disable Autorun (http://hype-free.blogspot.com/2008/09/autorun-malware.html)
- And, lastly, just for defense in depth, use an AV. Here are my configuration guides for Avast (http://hype-free.blogspot.com/2008/10/installing-avast.html) and AVG8 (http://hype-free.blogspot.com/2008/10/installing-avg-8.html). Probably I should also do one for Avira, but last time I've tested them, they were very ad-loaded (admittedly this was several years ago).

If you use these methods, the chance of the computers getting malware is almost nil.

From a security standpoint I would repeat the advices that I given on the Network Security Blog:

- The **most** effective thing is using a "non-standard" environment. You can take a look at my post titled "Windows XP High Security Configuration". Applying the listed security measures will prevent 99.99% of the malware from running!
- don't let them run as admin!
- if possible, use Vista (again, because XP is much more widely spread, most malware currently targets XP)
- don't use mainstream programs! Use FoxitPDF reader, not Adobe Reader. Use Firefox (or Opera) instead of IE.
- Use software restriction policies to set where programs can be run from.
- Keep the PC up to date! Run Windows Update regularly and use something like the Secunia PSI to check for vulnerable software!
- Use a hosts file to block sites in combination with OpenDNS.
- Configure the firewall to block all incoming connections if possible
- Disable Autorun (http://hype-free.blogspot.com/2008/09/autorun-malware.html)
- And, lastly, just for defense in depth, use an AV. Here are my configuration guides for Avast (http://hype-free.blogspot.com/2008/10/installing-avast.html) and AVG8 (http://hype-free.blogspot.com/2008/10/installing-avg-8.html). Probably I should also do one for Avira, but last time I've tested them, they were very ad-loaded (admittedly this was several years ago).

If you use these methods, the chance of the computers getting malware is almost nil.

I'll take vulnerabilities in the new API for $200, Alex.

That feature sounds neat. Let's hope they manage to get that to ship instead of laying off the team. It sounds like getting definitive testing of that feature would require quite a long time to do right. It would be a drag if a lot of work got lost because the system lost track of a commit or something like that.

Reality is benchmarks. And Wine sucks at 3DMark06 which is the de facto standard for DirectX. In fact while I was searching for numbers I found lots of apologists like you trying to tell people that they shouldn't run the benchmark.

I wonder why

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=882&num=5
While the 3DMark series are synthetic benchmarks, they had worked well under WINE 0.9.46 and served their function of comparing Windows XP versus the WINE performance with Ubuntu 7.10. When using the GeForce 8600GT in these benchmarks comparing Ubuntu 7.10 with WINE to Windows XP, Windows was the clear winner by a landslide. Windows XP was noticeably faster and in some cases was nearly five times faster.

http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/02/wine-vs-windows-xp-benchmarks.html
And not surprisingly, Wine lags behind Windows XP in the graphics test suite which uses DirectX instead of OpenGL.

Plus new games like Crysis don't work.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=658415

The only games that work properly on Wine are OpenGL ones, and that's because OpenGL is hardware accelerated (well so long as you use the closed source NVidia drivers not the freetard ones) on Linux.

So much for everything working in reality. Unless by reality you mean what loudmouth evangelists like you post whenever anyone points out flaws with Wine's approach of emulating DirectX on OpenGL when the graphics card hardware is optimized for DirectX.

i thought Mr. Beckerman Esq. was just that Recording Industry Vs. The People It is my belief that he has become a very large boulder in their collective shoe.

Interesting that as Google cried cash-poor to employees ("current economic crisis requires us to be more conservative about how we spend our money"), it was filing a (paper) Form 40-APP with the SEC asking for an exemption from the Investment Company Act of 1940. Google explained that a past 40-APP SEC filing was necessary so the company could realize 'sustainable competitive advantages' by investing its cash stash in something less conservative than US Government securities.

VirtualBox has supported guest apps running on the host's desktop for a while now, long before Unity was available. I'm glad VMWare has finally caught up, I gave up waiting on them for that feature months ago and just adopted VirtualBox.

The snapshot support in VirtualBox is rudimentary and has some serious undocumented limitations (like not being able to copy a snapshot). But since disk space is cheap and I value the freedom that comes with having source code to the applications I rely on, I just copy the VirtualBox snapshots manually, let them gobble up more room as needed, and continue ignoring VMWare. Having a slicker snapshot interface would be worth $200, but it's not worth making myself dependant on a piece of proprietary software.

VirtualBox can have the same kind of new kernel issues as VMWare. I went over tracking one of those down my blog (and this month went over working around the limitations in VirtualBox that prevent you from cloning a snapshot image).

I've found the stuff that VirtualBox has issues with straighforward to work around for the usual reason that makes open-source software easier to cope with: when I do run into a bug or limitation, it's sometimes possible to poke at the source code to figure out what's going on. In that snapshot cloning case, a quick read of CloneToImage and its associated code gave me a decent idea what was going on. That's why I run it instead of VMWare player: given anything close to feature parity, I'll take a slightly buggy program I can see the source code to over one that's closed.

VirtualBox can have the same kind of new kernel issues as VMWare. I went over tracking one of those down my blog (and this month went over working around the limitations in VirtualBox that prevent you from cloning a snapshot image).

I've found the stuff that VirtualBox has issues with straighforward to work around for the usual reason that makes open-source software easier to cope with: when I do run into a bug or limitation, it's sometimes possible to poke at the source code to figure out what's going on. In that snapshot cloning case, a quick read of CloneToImage and its associated code gave me a decent idea what was going on. That's why I run it instead of VMWare player: given anything close to feature parity, I'll take a slightly buggy program I can see the source code to over one that's closed.

Sarcasm and Hypocrisy

German police seek speeding British Muppet

I think the BBC is one of, if not the, most impartial news source around, personally. Certainly far better than Fox News etc.

Sure, set the bar high.

The BBC is incredibly left-wing and biased. After yet another BBC diatribe, the public outcry was so great they were forced to investigate how biased they are. It was called the Balen report.

The BBC has spent over £200,000 in the courts fighting the release of their own report documenting how biased they are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Balen_Report
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article1575543.ece

If you want a good laugh, read http://www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com/

and I can see why this would be needed. It was 26 in the winter. I would however worry about the effect of some kid digging into a freon tube with a shovel or a leak. Nevertheless, it would make far more sense to use the natural deep water to pipe up onto the sub-beach level to act as a heat-exchanger. Duane Nickull http://technoracle.blogspot.com

Just go to my Index of Litigation Documents, look at the names of the plaintiffs, and you'll have the names of the bad guys. It's as simple as that.

I would love it if you could please clarify the connection between recordingindustryvspeople and Scientology.

There has been an on-going scandal, actually, that the Nobel committee is reticent to award the Peace Prize to a well deserved individual, jailed by the Chinese government for dissidence and crimes against the state, human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng and environmental activist Hu Jia. The bribes were most assuredly given in order that these Chinese freedom activists would be shot down for the award in favor of the Norwegian Ahtisaari. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-10-10-935738050_x.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gao_Zhisheng ---- Sonne Times: Social and Political Commentary http://jsonne.blogspot.com/

Your correct. Remember that palm shaped islands call Palms Island, shouldn't all things be that way, and they just spray sand dredged from the bottom of the Persian gulf and lay the palm pattern.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Islands
I assume they will use breakwaters like this for the hotel but further away to make it more "aesthetic".
I don't know about how they will handle the extremist but I know how they handle the tourist already:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/16/dubai.sex.couple.prison/index.html
http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/04/dubai-rape-victim-faces-prosecution.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/31/africa/dubai.php
I don't know who is worst, the government or the extremist.

Meanwhile, music sales continue to fall. In 2003, the industry sold 656 million albums. In 2007, the number fell to 500 million CDs and digital albums, plus 844 million paid individual song downloads -- hardly enough to make up the decline in album sales."

For this exercise, I'm going to use the information located here: http://futureofthemusicindustry.blogspot.com/2005/01/music-downloads-jupiter-research.html (which is also backed up on many other sites)

For an album costing $15.99:

* $0.17 = 1.06316% : Musiciansâ(TM) unions
* $0.80 = 5.00312% : Packaging/manufacturing
* $0.82 = 5.1282% : Publishing royalties
* $0.80 = 5.00312% : Retail profit
* $0.90 = 5.62851% : Distribution
* $1.60 = 10.00625% : Artistsâ(TM) royalties
* $1.70 = 10.63164% : Label profit
* $2.40 = 15.0038% : Marketing/promotion
* $2.91 = 18.19887% : Label overhead
* $3.89 = 24.3277% : Retail overhead

Using that, if we apply it to their 656 million albums sold in 2003, we get 1.70 x 656,000,000 = $1,115,200,000
But, just a note, that this number is likely smaller due to the constantly decreasing costs of CD production (The production costs and overhead were likely more in 2003 than what is outlined in this chart)

Also, if we apply that to the 500 million albums today, we get 1.70 x 500,000,000 = $850,000,000
Another note, that this number is likely higher due to some of those album sales being digital. I can't tell by how much due to lack of information (or at least what I'm willing to research)

While this is obviously a much smaller number, we have to take digital sales into account. Using the chart above, we can eliminate Retail Profit, Retail Overhead, Packaging and Distrubtion from the mix and replace it with a 35% itunes cut (lets just pretend itunes is the only reseller so I dont have to research the cuts from Microsoft and the like). Label overhead is also going to drop significantly, but by how much, I can't be sure.

Regardless, we're looking at AT LEAST a 5% increase in profit for the record labels. Apply that to the 844 million songs and we get $126,600,000 (At minimum) profit for downloaded songs (as opposed to the $84M using the old album profit breakdown)

This leaves us with: 126 600 000 (at minimum) + 850,000,000 (at minimum) = $976,600,000 (at minimum x 2)

So they're most definitely not losing the same amount of money as they are trying to claim. They are making more profits on a different business model. When you break it down you'll see that their profits have either barely been dented, or more likely have stayed the same or even increased.

And when you tack on the $400,000,000 estimated money coming from copyright settlements you'll see that the RIAA = Full of Shit (of all my shitty math in this post, this is about the only equation I can say with certainty is completely accurate).

I'm wondering how our friend NewYorkCountyLawyer feels, waking up to discover the legal war is over? Or is it? We're all suspicious of the RIAA but my mind harkens back to the pictures of the liberation of Paris in World War II. Wonder if NYCL feels that way?

Well my initial reaction is this:

If it's true... it's about time. Meanwhile, what about the unfortunates who are presently entangled already in these unjust lawsuits? Why won't the RIAA drop those cases too? If it was bad business to start them, why isn't it bad business to keep on throwing good money after bad? I hope consumers will remember this 5 1/2-year reign of terror, and will shun RIAA products, and I hope the legal profession will place a black mark next to the names of those "lawyers" who participated in this foul calumny.

If I have any additional thoughts I'll be appending them here in my "Editor's note".

2. If you'd read the next sentence right after your bold line, you'd notice they were talking about a kernel lock. Not a lock in memcached. Thats a totally valid reason to blame linux.

How do you hope to architect a fix for this?

UDP is out of order, so using one lockless queue per processor and then having the kernel pick off whatever is handy and shipping it to the network seems as a reasonable architecture.

Thought I don't know the specifics, they said that they were using the same UDP socket to transmit from multiple threads. That means you have one kernel space data structure across the entire UDP/IP stack being shared by multiple threads. Therefore you need a lock around updates to that data structure.

You should be less bombastic. All your recent comments are either wrong or are based on so little information ("Then you were not taught functional programming") that neither you nor I can know if you were wrong.

Hmm, I guess you could start here

http://petesplace-peter.blogspot.com/2008/04/peer-reviewed-articles-skeptical-of-man.html

Just something that I found spending 20 seconds on google. There are probably some bad articles in there, but then again there is bad science on both sides...... Both sides, what a misnomer. Many skeptics are just that, skeptics. They are tired of the obvious propaganda spouted from all directions. And yes, it is obvious. IPCC for example has so lost its credibility that even though they do have many good scientists that work with them, the way they handle the research makes the whole process and organisation useless.

And I know I am not providing anything useful in this post except the link I posted, but sometimes you just need to vent, and slashdot is as good a place as any.

>use Applications->Add/Remove, for unsupported download a .deb and double click on it)

I still cannot get firefox 3 installed because of bullshit like this.

The distro repositories are always immediately out of date because after release, a distro never upgrades packages for that release.

Download a .dab? Are you kidding? Have you ever even tried that? Let me save you some time. It doesn't work. There is no binary compatibility between distros, so it's almost impossible to write a third party binary package that works on more than 1 version of ubuntu. A few commercial guys do it by statically linking everything, but there are *no* open source third party binary packages that work like that.

>The only time it's hard is if the third party software doesn't bundle a .deb, preferring to distribute as source or something similar.
Are you new to Linux? The answer is source. If you want to install 3rd part software you have to use source.

>But the same is a PITA under Windows, more of one indeed because Windows doesn't ship with a development environment.

Windows doesn't *need* to ship with a dev environment because they keep binary compatibility with libraries. So an .exe compiled for windows 95 still will run on Vista. Compared to Ubuntu, where binaries are incompatible 6 months from now, this is *way* better.

Look, I use Linux every day, and the number one thing I'm sick of is compiling shit. I don't want to have to spend 2 hours compiling my god damn e-mail client just to get it installed, when I know I could do the same thing on windows or osx in 30 seconds.

I've used and like Linux for years, but this is why I can't *stand* Linux fanboys. They are the most ignorant Linux users out there, and are too busy talking about how awesome to actually *use* Linux for anything meaningful, or to understand toe problems it faces.

Every Linux user should read:
http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/

They're not. They're growing again. All websites stating that a) glaciers are growing and b) ice caps were larger than they were last year at this time.

Of course, you'll probably just say that this is because you're driving a hybrid and it fits your convienent model of "climate change" perfectly. Climate change? It's been changing forever. Hello, "Ice Age" anyone? Trust me, there were no moto-cars back when the mammoth wandered the frozen tundra. Funny how Global Warming enthusiasts are trying to call it "climate change" now. What? You worried you might be wrong or something? Sounds like a PR stunt to cover your ass. "No, no, no. It's climate change! That includes cooling! See, it's what we're always saying!". yeah right!

Enjoy that kool-aid do you?

Surely sharks will like "Santa Jaws". (mp3 here).

Perhaps the Earth's magnetic poles are about to flip.

Supposedly it won't kill us all....

Indeed, for those of us who suffered through the fads of the 1970's, there is a horrid piece of kitsch called "Santa Jaws", a parody of A Visit From Saint Nicholas, brought to you by the same source as the slightly more famous Mr. Jaws.

"Santa Jaws" is so (deservedly) obscure that it doesn't appear on YouTube nor are its lyrics available anywhere except here and only from memory, and only due to being unavailable anywhere else.

Yet, it appears to have finally had a purpose after all. :^p

Let's hope not. Biofuels based on corn and other food crops are bad for obvious reasons, but even non-food biofuels have their risks - among them degradation of the American/Canadian Great Plains, ecological degradation in the Third World, and the risk of invasive species (most of these non-food biofuels are fast-spreading grasses).

The most ecological energy policy is to stop the government from subsidizing oil (by building suburbia with land use restricitons), subsidizing coal, and subsidizing water. There is no magic fuel out there that will allow us to consume infinite amounts of cheap energy - nature made extracting energy expensive for a reason, and the government needs to get out of the business of trying to make it easier.

Let's hope not. Biofuels based on corn and other food crops are bad for obvious reasons, but even non-food biofuels have their risks - among them degradation of the American/Canadian Great Plains, ecological degradation in the Third World, and the risk of invasive species (most of these non-food biofuels are fast-spreading grasses).

The most ecological energy policy is to stop the government from subsidizing oil (by building suburbia with land use restricitons), subsidizing coal, and subsidizing water. There is no magic fuel out there that will allow us to consume infinite amounts of cheap energy - nature made extracting energy expensive for a reason, and the government needs to get out of the business of trying to make it easier.

I'm sure Google was one of the first to make search data Anonymous in March last year unlike how the author of the summary tried to make out it wasn't the case.

I don't see where Google is in a risky position given the facts above. Please point out if I am wrong however I am very certain this is the case.

Lets not forget this is the same Google which fought with the US gov to keep user search data secret. This is the same Yahoo which helped jail a Chinese blogger for many years when they could have just said the data was corrupted, didn't keep it, etc.

So Google might not be the shining example of "Do No Evil", however anything is better then Yahoo's censorship and helping arrest people over censorship laws.

My question is, why has it taken Yahoo so long to do this since Google has been doing it for almost a year.

I'd also like to point it that is doesn't matter how long Yahoo keeps data since they regularly hand it all over to the US gov what's the difference?

Well a lot of the rest of us work here.

Here's a copy of the picture: http://toolmans.blogspot.com/2008/12/xmas-platter.html
And in case that does something bad, Google cache: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ajUtxPi4cb8J:toolmans.blogspot.com/+http://www.nzgames.com/forums/showthread.php%3Ft%3D81672

Merry Christmas. NTFS-3G is more than fast enough to read documents from your Windows partitions. The only time its slower speeds will really be a noticeable problem, in my experience, is if you run OS X applications from your NTFS disk. But why would you keep your OS X applications on an NTFS volume?

. . . I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counter-reformist and has been influenced by the ratio studiorum of the Jesuits. It is cheerful, friendly, conciliatory; it tells the faithful how they must proceed step by step to reach -- if not the kingdom of Heaven -- the moment in which their document is printed. It is catechistic: The essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation.

. . . You may object that, with the passage to Windows, the DOS universe has come to resemble more closely the counter-reformist tolerance of the Macintosh. It's true: Windows represents an Anglican-style schism, big ceremonies in the cathedral, but there is always the possibility of a return to DOS to change things in accordance with bizarre decisions: When it comes down to it, you can decide to ordain women and gays if you want to.

As if having a bunch of saccharine coursing through your veins is healthy.

It isn't and it might make you fat.

Data breach notices have a scalability problem. As the number of notices soars, we need to better define what is a serious breach and what is not. Otherwise, the public drowns in breach notices, many of which are insignificant. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/12/does-lost-tape-equate-to-lost-data.html

Sorry you have the information incorrect. Cyan is going to allow access and to share some of the source code but not total open source. Fortunately they will oversee and keep the rescources protected from wild and chaotic exploitation, something a small minority of the game community for URU have tried to do for years. The URU story is a wonderful one and one of the best Multiplayer games developed yet for there is no killing, no violence, no greiefing, no faction boring resource grinding, and a wonderful and deep story line and beautifully created 3D world. It is really a work of art. This move by Cyan will allow the very large international community to return to the game world and for the chance to add some new content that will be regulated internally by the Guilds that are part of the game world. This is NOT open season free for all or a model for such for other games. Any mod work should reflect and continue the intent of the original game and honor the effort put into it. Most modders know this and honor it. You can find a good summary of the first year of MOUL Myst Online URU Live here: http://chris-today.blogspot.com/

I disagree. First of all, the semantic web is just about allowing content creators to associate context with their content to facilitate a context sensitive search. The semantic web has lackluster adoption because google does a great job at context sensitive search without the context providing meta-data markup.

A more limited version of semantic web has achieved some notable traction. Microformats are another way of associating context with content that is more agreeable with content providers.

A more compelling technology offering than Nepomuk for advancing semantic web would be Reuters' OpenCalais project. That's the one you should be watching. Another interesting trend to watch is how semantic web is affecting the more popular collective intelligence movement.

I disagree. First of all, the semantic web is just about allowing content creators to associate context with their content to facilitate a context sensitive search. The semantic web has lackluster adoption because google does a great job at context sensitive search without the context providing meta-data markup.

A more limited version of semantic web has achieved some notable traction. Microformats are another way of associating context with content that is more agreeable with content providers.

A more compelling technology offering than Nepomuk for advancing semantic web would be Reuters' OpenCalais project. That's the one you should be watching. Another interesting trend to watch is how semantic web is affecting the more popular collective intelligence movement.

I disagree. First of all, the semantic web is just about allowing content creators to associate context with their content to facilitate a context sensitive search. The semantic web has lackluster adoption because google does a great job at context sensitive search without the context providing meta-data markup.

A more limited version of semantic web has achieved some notable traction. Microformats are another way of associating context with content that is more agreeable with content providers.

A more compelling technology offering than Nepomuk for advancing semantic web would be Reuters' OpenCalais project. That's the one you should be watching. Another interesting trend to watch is how semantic web is affecting the more popular collective intelligence movement.

Obama planned his first public appearance since his presidential victory for Friday -- a meeting with economic advisers to discuss the nation's financial woes that Americans listed as their top concern on Election Day. Obama plans to talk to the news media Friday afternoon following the meeting, aides said. He and his wife, Michelle, will visit the White House on Monday at President Bush's invitation, aides said. http://kingpahat.blogspot.com/