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Tell that to Tanya Andersen.

thus enabling the chicken's ancestor to produce the first chicken egg

The chicken's progenitor did not produce a 'chicken egg', by any meaningful definition of 'chicken egg'. So the chicken came first!

First was egg.

Bzzt, wrong.

Tonight I plan to open my autographed copy of The Difference Engine, paste a picture of myself to the inside flap of the dust jacket, and gaze upon it while masturbating furiously for approximately 20 minutes. I will be away from electro-mail and text-casting during that time. If anyone needs to reach me, please contact my agent.

Ref Canada v China:

Just as I posted my last story on New Zealand I noticed the following in Editorial: The spy business is alive and well:

SIS head Warren Tucker said government computer systems had been hacked into by foreign states. Information had been stolen and hard-to-detect software installed that could be used to take control of computer systems, he said.

Mr Tucker would not name the culprits. But he did refer to recent comments by Canada's security service about Chinese spying. Canada's spy-meister, Jim Judd, has said that almost half his security intelligence efforts were focused on that country's spies.

Canada, eh? Next I found China is top espionage risk to Canada: CSIS:

Almost half the effort the country's spy-watchers put into monitoring suspicious foreign activity in Canada is devoted to Chinese operatives... Jim Judd, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said... 15 countries account for most of the concern when it comes to foreign intelligence-gathering or interference in Canadian affairs.

He wouldn't identify all those countries, but did tell senators that China tops the list...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, when he was still Opposition leader, claimed there were up to 1,000 Chinese agents in Canada.

He quoted a CSIS official as saying that Chinese spies stole $1 billion worth of technological secrets every month...

However, it's likely that once the buyers bring the unit home, a bootleg version of Windows gets loaded on it. Linux is preloaded just to show that the unit is working.

On the other hand, netbooks aren't really living up to the name. They're coming in with more memory and more disk space -- case in point is the Deep Blue H1 (not sure what the designation is in other countries): 1GB memory and 40GB hard disk, and all of $300.

I blogged about the idea of 'transparent synchronisation' today.

I think it's interesting that the next killer mobile application may not be a mobile application at all, but rather, an application that makes it completely irrelevant and transparent that I am mobile. Regardless of whether I sit down at my desktop at home, my laptop in the airport lounge, or my phone on the go, I get the same, live, consistent view of all of my electronic stuff. This is a hard problem, that's been done quite poorly for the most part. I wonder if Apple has cracked it with Mobile Me?

M@

Nothing about my life goes unblogged.

I prefer to call it memecasting! I love to coin neologisms.

Sorry,

Your number 2 is not going to fly...

Here is a counter proposal...

http://zotzbro.blogspot.com/2007/04/some-thoughts-on-copyright-offensive.html

all the best,

drew

The article gives a false impression of climate security based on the premise that higher concentrations of CO2 are leading to increased plant growth. While everything else in the article is wrong and/or misleading, it is true that increased CO2 increases plant growth, up to a certain point. The problem is, this is low-quality plant growth.

This Nature Journal article (2 Aug 2007, subs. required) describes research confirming increased CO2 concentration increases the mass of crop output. However, the nutritional content of the crops dropped and the growth of crop-destroying pests doubled.

This article in New Scientist reports research showing increased CO2 levels increase pollen production in ragweed. The researchers report a strong correlation between increasing CO2 concentration and increasing rates of asthma.

Similar findings, along with additional information, are described in this blog post.

http://lawactually.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-moon.html

Aww, are you butt hurt that your brilliant crank works have been rejected time and time again? Surprise surprise.

It is irresponsible for law and legal practice to bury consumers with an excessive number of data breach notices. The notices happen so frequently that their meaning is diluted. --Ben hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/12/does-lost-tape-equate-to-lost-data.html

It is irresponsible for law and legal practice to bury consumers with an excessive number of data breach notices. The notices happen so frequently that their meaning is diluted. --Ben hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/12/does-lost-tape-equate-to-lost-data.html

i like this articles...can i put it in my site?

http://the-digital-asset-management.blogspot.com

No, the best evocation of gamer geeks, ever, was in the late, lamented series MTV's Downtown.

Here's a little taste...

The two kinds of people in the world.

If you want more, go to Chris Prynoski's blog and you will find instructions on how to see the entire series. Including the 5th episode, "The Con" which is what this clip I linked to is from.

"NO! She's revealed the secret map!!! The campaign is ruined!!!"

And what will it be next month? Moon dust?

Haysoos Martinez! Didn't D-Wave already announced that they have the final answer to QC and an actual working prototype? If D-Wave already has the answer, why do we need another one? What will it take to convince people that the entire QC things is one of the biggest fraud/snake-oil/crackpottery in the history of science? If you want to know the real truth about quantum computing, read these articles.

I haven't had a chance to play around with Microsoft's "Deep Zoom" thing or Photosynth because I doubt either would work that well on my Powerbook G4 even if it was supported on pre-Intel Macs. But, Panoramio just released something called "look around" that does work on my computer. Google talks about it on its LatLong blog. In a way it reminds me of the Photosynth demo.

It's already being done by Steve Yegge. For reference John Lam and this link .

Gold is about 5 times faster than the regular GNU linker. It will only work on x86 code (64bits included) and ELF targets (linux/solaris)

Ask and you shall receive! Steampunk Dildo

I don't know who this "Cory Doctorow" is... but he is fighting the wrong enemy. Octofascism, and not the ACTA, is the real culprit.

This is something a lot of us in the industry have been writing about. Here's my rant from last October Browser Security: I Want A Website Active Content Policy File Standard!
http://www.cgisecurity.com/2007/11/08

Jeremiah Grossman's thoughts
http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2008/06/site-security-policy-open-for-comments.html

The Google Gadgets developers have already created a Plasma implementation of them, similar to how MacOSX widget support is implemented. The blog of Aaron Seigo, Plasma developer About Google gadgets on plasma

You get to play as an aging Han Solo who finds an artifact and meets aliens..........wait........redundant?

Naaw, still not Star Warsy enough.

So now that Steve Yegge ported Rails to Javascript, is Microsoft trying to act like the henchman who attempts to please the master by trying to axe Javascript in favor of the master's love for Ruby in spite the fact that it was a bad idea to begin with?

http://naruhodojapan.blogspot.com/ have fun.

NewYorkCountryLawyer reads Slashdot, and is involved in RIAA copyright litigation, as well as running a fairly informative site on the subject.. I'd say the odds were pretty good.

It only takes one trusted CA, and that can come from several directions. Here is a artilce describing Blue Coat's SSL proxy, sold specifically to do MITM, although they don't call it that:

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2006/07/think-your-ssl-traffic-is-secure-if.html

In operation, there are a few clues that one might pick up on, but overall, lots of people will never notice that this is happening. Very slick, but in a very dark and scary sort of way...

Does he know about Transparent Walls?

From his blog: http://federley.blogspot.com/

"Vad som kommer att ske den 17 juni? Ja vem vet. Kan ju bli pÃ¥kÃrd, sjuk, vara pÃ¥ resande fot, bli gravid eller bara vara dÃr och rÃsta ja. Vem vet. Den dagen den sorgen."

Translation:

"What will happen on the 17:th of June? Well, who knows? I might be hit by a car, become ill, spend the day travelling, become pregnant or just be there and vote yes. That day, that sorrow..."

The sad fact of life is that Swedish MP:s serve almost entirely on the whim of their party leadership. If they make trouble, they get wiped off the list in the next election, and they're gone.

Found one answer here: the Vice-President Bracket

When it comes to domestic surveillance, frankly I'm more worried about Transparent Walls.

Proving my point about how it's just random when I discover judges ruling against the RIAA in ex parte cases, I just tripped across this gem of a ruling this morning.

Matters of Light and Depth, by Ross Lowell
being one such, better than merely-still lighting, for photogs...

( Strobist Bookshelf: best photographic lighting books )

Lighting, Sound, Cinematography, Post, the *business* of film, etc, what are THE Books?

What are THE training-DVDs to get someone up to speed, as sometimes needs to happen, when someone is filling-in outside of their specialty...

IOW, Where's The Knowledge in portable form?

> Yes because we all know the only real innovation isn't done in multi-million dollar research centers, it's done in dad's garage, duh!

Again with this argument, this time in disguise. MS does a lot of cool research and they hire loads of interesting and smart people. None of this is actually ever sold as a product. The closest they are is with the touch screen, which is nice, but when it'll finally come out it won't be very cool or innovative, it'll merely be "neat." At least on that they dropped the ball with regards to time to market.

My point: if MS has all this R&D and all these millions to fund it, why is Vista all they have to show for it?

The answer: read the blog about the guy in the Vista shutdown menu development team.

And that is the point the OP was trying to make. At least MS has become inept with size and age.

(P.S. if you're trying to have a decent argument, make sure to refrain from patronizing remarks like your last one.)

Some tips: http://thesingularityblog.blogspot.com/

This was a really interesting article about the kind of optimizations javascript is getting. Btw, it still amazes me that after the GUI class library wars of the 90s, and all those Java ui frameworks in the early 2000s, "javascript over http" is state of the art in human-computer interfaces. Anyone who would have accurately predicted this future would have been labeled a madman.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/05/dynamic-languages-strike-back.html

"Why JavaScript? Well, it was Ajax. See, what happened was... Lemme tell ya how it was supposed to be. JavaScript was going away. It doesn't matter whether you were Sun or Microsoft or anybody, right? JavaScript was going away, and it was gonna get replaced with... heh. Whatever your favorite language was.

I mean, it wasn't actually the same for everybody. It might have been C#, it might have been Java, it might have been some new language, but it was going to be a modern language. A fast language. It was gonna be a scalable language, in the sense of large-scale engineering. Building desktop apps. That's the way it was gonna be.

The way it's really gonna be, is JavaScript is gonna become one of the smokin'-est fast languages out there. And I mean smokin' fast."

There are a number of cases at district court levels that have backed EULAs and a few appellate court cases too.

My impression was that the case law remains somewhat patchy, with still-substantial room for interpretation. Is this incorrect? And are you (or is anyone else) able to expand on EULA legality / enforceability in other places, such as Canada or the EU?

And I'm not sure what is imperiled about the bounds of copyright. If anything, they're about to be extended: http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2008/06/acta-call-to-arms-no-more-secret.html

By "imperiled", I meant from the point of view of the end user, mostly regarding fair use. I should have made that explicit.

Whining about not getting a free ride just makes people look like wankers. Whine, whine, whinge. Meh.

While I'm sure there are some that would like to commercially exploit the work of others, this is NOT the usual posture in which most companies encounter GPL/OSS. It's usually because some 3rd party contractor used it in a package the company intended to commercially sell or because an employee decided it would make their life easier. Then the problems become VERY acute.

Interesting. Does this suggest then that the main threat to corporations is more from any management failure in due diligence in controlling a company's code assets?

Cheers,

there is as-yet little legal precedent in the US backing up any sort of EULA-type "agreement" that restricts how end users can actually use the end products.

As such, *all* end users are essentially free to do what they want with software under *any* license, within the (admittedly obfuscated, and currently imperiled) bounds of copyright.

The GPL in all its various forms simply attempts to define that proper permission. If folks don't like what such permission entails, fine -- bloody well don't use GPL-covered code.

Whining about not getting a free ride just makes people look like wankers. Whine, whine, whinge. Meh.

Cesar Noragueda

The law of signatures places more emphasis on the ceremonial aspect of signing than on security. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/04/text-message-investigations.html

The law of signatures places more emphasis on the ceremonial aspect of signing than on security. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/04/text-message-investigations.html

Well, most of this information is buried in dry industry and government reports. So save you some hunting I will link you to some articles that I got the quotes from that ALSO have links to the reports in them:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/05/020571.php

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/04/despite-energy-crisis-dems-vow-no-new.html

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=296435488187160

http://www.americansolutions.com/General/?Page=d4b72449-7edb-493d-88ff-76bfe669e0f2

Enjoy!

I see it more as the next generation on marketing research.

• Release an episode with a "cliff hanger" ending.
• Schedule a similar event in game.
• Study the crowd to gauge their reaction.
• Air follow on episode with most popular outcome.
• Watch ratings increase.

I'm putting together an online petition to start a new STEAMPUNK channel. Watch this space for more!