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No one ever said IP laws are bad/wrong.

Actually, quite a few people have said that. Among them are Eben Moglen and Brian Martin. If you look at just a subset of the IP laws then there are a whole lot of people who've said they're bad... including the Free Software Foundation and The League for Programming Freedom.

Without them, the global economy would collapse

That's speculation. Perhaps you're right. Perhaps not. Even if you're right, is this really so terrible an outcome? Will there be riots in the streets of Paris if they can't get American movies? Will American college students invade Washington DC with firearms if they can't get Japanese anime?

The purpose of the GPL is to protect property and limit it's [sic] use

Others have already responded to this part, but it's important enough to warrant reiteration. The purpose of the GPL is to promote free software which is, at its core, the freedom to share with your friends and with the whole of society. The only denial of freedom in the GPL is the part that denies you the right to deny other people the right to share. A lot of people don't seem to grasp this, which is why we see this debate over and over (ad infinitum) on slashdot.

[...] reflect the new and drastically lower price of duplication and distribution and LET US LISTEN TO THE MUSIC WE'D GLADLY PAY FOR

Here, I think you're absolutely correct.

Suppose an integrated system is developed that measures sugar levels in the blood stream and has a piece of DNA or RNA, or a whole bacteria, that can generate insulin, then you wont have to go get injections or have your system flushed every other day. I guess some smart people will think up ways to adapt such circuitry to use the citric acid cycle to get its own energy.

It simply means you can generate tightly controlled amounts of substances where needed, when needed, in the amounts needed.

• Mach was the "granddaddy" of distributed OS work, with most of the recent efforts going into GNU Hurd.
• There's Mosix that builds a NOW atop Linux
• The MIT Parallel and Distributed OS Group should be mentioned; efforts include the Exokernel
• Plan 9 has an interesting model for splitting work across "compute servers" and "file servers" and "display servers."
• Distributed Operating Systems lists lots of them...
• Sun's Spring was the basis for much of what is in CORBA;
• Sprite provided a Unix-like distributed OS that provided much of what is being used now to build journalling filesystems
• Amoeba was Tanembaum's successor to Minix; note that Python was one of the side-effects of the Amoeba project...

Each has some somewhat different insights to bring to the table; there is no unambiguous way of saying "this is all vastly superior."

I'm writing a script in Perl (using RecDescent)
that translates C code to English sentences that correctly describe what the original C code does.

Here is an early version, which at the moment I am abandoning since it became unwieldy by my neophyte knowledge of Perl. Run it against whatever code you feel like. Set STDERR to /dev/null.


Here is my currently worked on version. (Not even close to running just yet).

I'm writing a script in Perl (using RecDescent)
that translates C code to English sentences that correctly describe what the original C code does.

Here is an early version, which at the moment I am abandoning since it became unwieldy by my neophyte knowledge of Perl. Run it against whatever code you feel like. Set STDERR to /dev/null.


Here is my currently worked on version. (Not even close to running just yet).

If you want a computer screen - not TV - right in your face, there's this company called xybernaut that makes "wearable PC's", so you dont have to leave your (or a) computer behind when you go grocery shopping.

It appears they're shipping a Pentium MMX type computer with a head mounted 640x480 resolution monocular display (errrr no 3d graphics but your shopping list is right there with you projected into the store) - has voice recognition.

It however doesnt appear they've really come out with some grand new improvement over the last year - their processors are all pentium MMX from 200 to 233 mhz... Maybe they're cash strapped.

Also the Yahoo index on wearable PC's doesnt really show a lot of promise - most of the companies manufacturing hardware need a lesson making websites, so you'd wonder where we're heading with this kind of technology.

For too much info on this visit the temple of geeks at http://www.mit.edu and search for wearable computer.

If you want a computer screen - not TV - right in your face, there's this company called xybernaut that makes "wearable PC's", so you dont have to leave your (or a) computer behind when you go grocery shopping.

It appears they're shipping a Pentium MMX type computer with a head mounted 640x480 resolution monocular display (errrr no 3d graphics but your shopping list is right there with you projected into the store) - has voice recognition.

It however doesnt appear they've really come out with some grand new improvement over the last year - their processors are all pentium MMX from 200 to 233 mhz... Maybe they're cash strapped.

Also the Yahoo index on wearable PC's doesnt really show a lot of promise - most of the companies manufacturing hardware need a lesson making websites, so you'd wonder where we're heading with this kind of technology.

For too much info on this visit the temple of geeks at http://www.mit.edu and search for wearable computer.

Although it doesn't necessarily replace a CLI, the nice folks at MIT's Lab for Computer Science have set up Jupiter, a voice interface for weather information. Give it a call at 1-888-573-TALK if you're in the US and have nothing better to do on a Saturday afternoon. You can ask it simple questions like "What is the weather in Seattle today?" and "Will it rain tomorrow in New York?" and it will respond after a couple of seconds with the answer. Usually it's pretty good, if you're used to the back-and-forth interface. You have to know how it works, though -- you can only speak after the tone it gives, you can't cut it off, and its English isn't that good.

Here's what I heard when I handed the phone to a relative of mine who is hardly computer savvy:

"What's the weather in Baltimore today?" (pause, gets answer) "What about in New York?" (short pause) "New York. NO, not Utica, just New York City. Hello? I don't want to hear the weather in Utica, I don't LIVE in Utica! Just give me the weather for New York City! Oh, I give up." (click)

With all due respect, Artificial Intelligence has a long way to go before it catches up with natural stupidity. :)

I attended a presentation he made at Purdue on Monday, 7/24/00 to the PLUG (Purdue Linux Users Group). He gave an hour presentation and dealt with an hour of formal questions and more than an hour of one-on-one questions. Several things struck me about his presentation:

1) In the hour presentation, he spent 40 minutes talking about Unix history. Sadly, he was wrong about lots of little things, such as Unix was designed to be a time-sharing system -- NOT. I would have hoped for 10 minutes of history and 50 minutes of NOW.

2) In the remaining 20 minutes, he described NOW. It sounded much like Athena and especially Plan-9. It is problematic that Plan-9 solved many of his problems and took 10 years to do that while they have far less time than that. He was "not familier" with MIT Oxygen

3) NOW's time-line seemed unrealistic. NOW's lack of core PhD class CS problem solvers was notably missing. NOW's goals (given the time line) should have been aggresively well defined and yet "we're looking at that" was often an answer.

4) He was factually incorrect about the features of Plan-9. If he'd even read and absorbed Plan 9 from Bell Labs he'd have been in better shape.

5) The company is missing a definitive business plan. It shows already and they're barely off the ground.

6) The office location they've selected in Indianapolis, is one of, if not the most expensive locations in the entire city. This means their venture capital burn rate will be extremely high. Within 5 minutes of that location there are places that cost 25% of that location.

7) The presentation was an un-abashed hunt for warm bodies that know something about Unix (Indianapolis is a nice place, but far from a hot-bed of computing -- Unix or otherwise).

So I came away with the feeling that they'd not done their homework before they started. Further that their venture capitalists said, "Linux is hot, who is available? Ian? oh good. Let's give him buckets of money and see if he can do 'stuff'."

In the end, they're destined to fail. They have a poor grasp of Linux pre-history (Multics & Unix real history) and lack good technical management to judge wisely how to spend their finite amount of money.

Too bad. NOW as a concept doesn't seem like a clunker as little as we were told about it.

One particularly neat thing about Joanoupolis's group is that they also developed photonic band gap simulation software for linux. Check it out.

Also of interest, might be the following web-page concerning the research group of one of the principal investigators (John Joannopoulos of MIT): ab-initio.mit.edu.

Actually, when I was at MIT, I took one of Joannopoulos's graduate courses in solid-state physics and can vouch for his teaching abilities in addition to his well-known reputation within the field of electronic structure calculations.

Also of interest might be the webpage of Prof. Tomas Arias at Cornell (whom I work for now), who was a collaborator of John's at MIT up till last year: www.ccmr.cornell.edu/~muchomas.

For a little more background:

Many of the computational calculations that are used by these investigators, in situations like the one where the perfect mirror was postulated, fall into the category of "ab-initio electronic structure calculations". The "ab-initio" part, latin for "from first principles", denotes that the calculations attempt to simulate actual resultant macroscopic behavior from the much more fundamental precepts of the quantum mechanical interactions between the atoms and electrons in the material under investigation. This has some very interesting advantages, not the least of which is that the resulting calculations do not have to justify higher level assumptions, whose applicability might be less assured. That's not to imply that no assumptions are used in this process (if NO assumptions were used, even most modern supercomputers would be unable to calculate the resultant quantities of interest for any more than 4 or so atoms). As it is, typical experiments generally are able to consider 100-150 atoms, which is usually sufficient to determine many properties of interest. The main approximations that are still necessary are the free electron approximation (which mandates that atomic nuclei and core non-valence electrons are immobile compared to the much lighter valence electrons which are important for conduction) and the independent electron approximation (which stipulate that the potential felt by a valence electron is not specifically dependent on the impact of every other electron [as it would be ideally], but is instead affected by a sort-of mean-field approximation of all the other electrons' potentials). However, this independent electron approximation necessitates that the resulting Hamiltonians (energies of the system) must be found by iterative self-consistent methods, whereby each successive output is computationally fed into the algorithm as input until the result converges within certain error limits. The independent electron approximation is usually implemented in terms of either the Hartree or Hartree-Fock theories (in case you want to search for more info).

Anyway, that's all I have the energy to write about, but the websites I spoke of above, probably give links to lots more material. They also have some amazing photos of the ab-initio simulations.

-Daniel

If your main means of locomotion is "stumbling", you won't get far in this world... CL-HTTP is just one HTTP server in Lisp. And finding that took all of 30 seconds in Google.

A similar setup exists (with a very interesting photo database) at http://www.stileproject.com/rnd/index.php3 . Oh, I should warn you -- don't go to that link unless you're seriously deranged.

Although I've got to say that a UI which could detect when I hadn't had enough coffee and brew me a fresh cup would be a huge improvement.

wish
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If I were you, I'd try out IPsec and PGP.net. IPsec is included with the default OpenBSD install(if you can install Debian you can install OpenBSD) and PGP.net is a component of the free Windows PGP client. They interoperate just fine with eachother, and the client will work on a standalone computer or as a gateway for a VPN linking two LANs into a WAN.

The famous Robert Morris Internet worm of 1988 did precisely this.

It worked beyond the author's wildest dreams - but the worm didn't do a good job "staying out of sight." Once a machine, it did *nothing* except try to infect another machine. The problem was that it was too good of a cracker: The worm spread like wildfire, spamming the network and bring many machines to a crawl by infecting them thousands of times. Read more here.

Haskell has CGI and animation libraries, as well as a system for writing music. There are foreign library interfaces and highly optimizing compilers, database interfaces and graph visualizers.
Libraries and Tools in Haskell
Haskell in Practice
Here are some books and papers about how to program in Haskell and functional languages in general.
I particularly recommend Hudak's book; Paul himself is a very clear teacher and lecturer, as is Zhong Shao, who does research in ML (Standard ML of NJ). I think SML is the only functional language around whose semantics are completely specified.
Follow these links and learn about Erlang (in massive production use at Ericsson), high level abstraction through functions defined via structural induction over datatypes, monads, layered functionality used to build parsers (via parser combinators), and a type theory for object-oriented programming.

Look; not only are the FBI monitoring your network traffic, so are the Internet pedophile police, your ISP, the ACLU, Russian spy satellites, the National Baseball League, and my Aunt Bonnie.

So please, all you sysadmins and DSL-packin' home-web-server 'l33t out there, please try to learn about the benefits of retiring legacy protocols like Telnet and FTP (which happen to send your password in plain-text), in favor of newer, robust, secure data types like SSH, scp, IPsec, and PGP.

And if you're really gonna get all worked up about "ooh, the FBI is spying on me using meat-eating computers co-located at my ISP", then consider using a secure operating system.

*Warning* Shameless plug about to follow: From "The Electric Vehicle Unplugged", Technology Review:

The energy density of lead-acid batteries-the kind used in conventional cars for startup and auxiliary power-is about 35 watt-hours per kilogram, less than one-three-hundredth that of gasoline, which is about 12,000 watt-hours per kilogram. As a rule of thumb, 1 gallon of gasoline, weighing about 8 pounds, has the same energy content as a ton of lead-acid batteries.

IOW, gasoline has a rather incredible energy density, particularly when you consider the fact that it can be (relatively) safely handled by the public. In fact, you have to work pretty hard to make it explode.

As has been cited elsewhere, the infrastructure today is the thing that governs the fuel that we use. Cost of delivery is a real fraction of that cost, and setting up another infrastructure to handle some new fuel is a real bear. That's why there's so much work going into figuring out how to convert liquid fuels (with their high energy density) into something that a fuel cell, which doesn't incur the thermodynamic losses inherent in combustion, can use.

Otherwise, the only really credible mechanism for increasing fuel efficiency using an "alternative" fuel is the diesel engine - stratified charge diesels can achieve +45% efficiencies, while the Otto cycle pretty much tops out in the high 30s.

Methane/propane are certainly cleaner burning, but the tanks impose huge space constraints on vehicle design and the distribution and refueling issues are huge. A big gasoline spill is an environmental mess; an LNG spill in an area with a storm drain system is an incredibly effective way to think about blowing up a city!

OpenSSH runs great on my Red Hat boxen. The source and executable .rpms are downloadable .

FiSSH is being turned over to MIT, and as soon as they unscramble their (currently hosed) distribution and apply the known patch for Win98 compatibility (thot Win95/98 ran the same apps? think again) there will be a freely available SSH client for Winblows lamers, um, I meant mainstream users, built from True Free Open Source! Yay!

TeraTerm SSH is another Win32 client, but not really open source, because Teranishi-san has disappeared and the license is oddly written, but it does work for most purposes.

For file transfer, don't use FTP, use rsync.

Only authorized voters vote. No forgeries.

Authorized voters vote at most once.

Voters remain anonymous with respect to their votes. While it is possible to determine who voted, it is not possible to determine what their vote was.

Voters can verify thier vote was counted.

Elections can be co-administered by parties with opposing interests (i.e. political parties), to prevent collusion.

The question in my mind is, does Election.com use a protocol which provides this level of security? And even if they do, why do they seem so opposed to independant security audits?

Security by obscurity... you know the rest.

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This is really simple. Go get PGP from MIT:

It's free. It's strong. It's open-source. Annoy the government. Use it.

Whoops--you did say client. I saw this while I was there--it's a PPTP client for Linux that appears from a cursory look at the docs in the tar to support MSCHAP.

fsv is though

SPACE WAR can be played right now right here (if you have Java) - it runs the original PDP-1 code in a Java emulator. Story of it's development in early 60's here

(Thanks JL)

Check it out
MIT museum

Check it out
MIT museum

If you're that paranoid, then you need this. Get a home DSL line, then set up an SSL anonymizing web proxy from your work IP to the Internet. Your browser shouldn't be caching SSL web pages. How are the snoops at work gonna sniff your traffic now?

disks, tape, cds... they all have a relatively short lifespan. picture storing data in mice, just feed them and keep them warm. ev en if th e parents die the children will have the artificial chromosomes... (that is unless they recombine, in which case all of your documents or whatever are worthless....)

Thanks for posting something substantial. It's a shame the moderators are giving more and more credit to the drivil instead of encouraging discussion of an otherwise exciting topic. I'll be adding more content to my web site on this subject. See http://www.rulesroost.com

Also, there's a new article at The Register and a Slashdot alert on the main site.

Want to have private voice/voice conversations over the internet?

Enter PGPfone

Perhaps you don't realize how much you can affect the world around you. You say you are making more money than the rest of your family.... You say you are working for a successful corporation... Great!

You are in a position to say those things at the times which they are most agregious. (I sound a little like eliza don't I?) Are you going to say them? Will you even know it if you do?

No seriously, I think that you would be surprised how much more effective leading by example is than preaching to the masses (or even slashdot!). Live a good life, learn about your learned biases, encourage others to live a good life (don't force them)... and then educate all those around you in a passive manner. Sure you wont see it happen all at once but you can make huge changes in people with small pushes.

lead.

-pos

P.S. I think it was nice that Ellen Spertus included the advantages that she saw that women have.

I respect that because it shows to me that she is secure in knowing that she has made a good argument and can point out the other side. She expects to be speaking with an open-minded, intelligent crowd. Nice touch.


The truth is more important than the facts.

It sure doesn't look like the open source community is worried about losing the freedom to innovate, either.

The Media Lab group: MicroMedia

We are constantly bombarded with media images of women who are obsessed with lipstick, clothing, weight, popularity, perfect skin and hair.. and the list goes on and on. Under this constant pressure, and even for reasons completely unrelated to it, many women are indifferent or even contemptuous towards intellectual pursuits.

The media might be responsible for some bad ideas that girls get of what a woman should be like.
However, as women make up about 50 percent of the people at universities, that obviously doesn't keep them away from the intellectual challenges of university. They simply seem to study other things, for whatever reason.

There is an interesting article on that, 'Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?'.

Women Undergraduate Enrollment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT

This is from 1995, but I think many of the issues and criticisms it raises are still quite relevant (at least judging from the male/female ratio in my CS classes)...

In keeping with the topic, I've ported it to MacOS. Enjoy!

Here are links to the Retinal Implant Project which was a joint Harvard-MIT collaboration. Another link here(in German)leads to the page of German researchers on the same project. Here's an article that describes the project in a little detail.

Interesting project, it seems they've been working on this for 10 or more years in joint collaboration with several universities in different countries as well as the government.

Multiple TCP connections don't have to be bad. Look at http://wind.lcs.mit.edu/projects/cm/. A nifty research project that mitigates the negative effects of multiple tcp connections.

Patents are a good thing for their intended use, which is physical goods (including computer hardware). They do not make sense for computer software; in this field, copyright is the best way to secure rewards for authors. Patents on computer programs create a legal minefield for small developers and allow companies to get monopolies on business methods, by phrasing their patent as one on software.

The critique at lpf.ai.mit.edu was written several years ago, but the points it makes are just as true today. Also freepatents.org has some useful links.

People who oppose software patents are not (in general) opposed to patents themselves. It's just that patents are inappropriate for computer software.

I'm posting this here because I think there are many on the open source community that don't realize the immense harm that would come to distributed control of IP if patents are abolished or weakened. If that happens, the guys with the most money win by default, since the smaller guys will have no protections whatever.

The following is a letter I wrote to LWN a few weeks ago outlining part of my argument. It will rub a lot of people the wrong way, but we can't afford to destroy the patent system unless we really want Microsoft and other huge companies to call all the shots. I don't think a lot of people here have thought these issues through.

Letter to LWN (at http://www.lwn.net/2000/0420/backpage.pht ml)

I've gotten several challenges to my assertion about patents as a desirable thing
(mostly asking for examples of small inventors that actually did profit from
patents) so here's my quick response, FWIW:

Anyone saying patents don't do immense public good, and provide worthwhile,
needed, and *effective* protection of small inventors against large corporations
is simply ignorant of the history of even quite recent technology. Many
inventors started small, but because of patent protection were indeed able to
profit greatly from their inventions.

From the "gararge-shop" POV, well, just off the top of my head, there are the
examples everyone is familiar with: Bill Hewlett and David Packard (HP,
instruments), Steves Jobs and Wozniak (Apple, home computer), and outside the
computer industry, folks like Edwin Land (Polaroid, polarized materials and
instant camera), Chester Carlson (Xerox, xerography), Henry Ford (Ford,
affordable automobiles), Thomas Edison (GE, light bulb, motion pictures,
phonograph...), and Alexander Graham Bell (AT&T, telephone), all of whom
profited greatly from their patented works. (One could argue for the inclusion
of Jeff Bezos in that list, although around here, that's a bit like whacking a
hornet's nest with a stick...)

But the classic twentieth century example of patents providing exactly the kind
of protection I'm talking about is probably that of Philo T. Farnsworth, whom
you may never have heard of, although you likely use his invention (electronic
television) every day. Farnsworth was the prototypical individualist inventor
who persevered against all odds and eventually defeated David Sarnoff and
Vladimir Zworykin of the immensly powerful RCA. RCA was truly the Microsoft of
its day in terms of control of the market and underlying technologies through
acquisition - often under severe economic and other pressure. RCA had a policy
of never paying royalties for any technology - a policy they managed to uphold
until they met Philo Farnsworth, who just wouldn't give up.

Farnsworth fought virtually alone against all of RCA's power for seven years
before the final court rulings that his patents had clear validity and
precedence over Zworykin's, forcing a tearful RCA lawyer to sign a royalty
payment agreement to Farnsworth. (Farnsworth publicly displayed television
*five years* before Sarnoff unveiled RCA's infringing version to the world
amidst great fanfare at the 1939 World's Fair, leading many to believe Sarnoff
and RCA were the inventors of television - sound like anyone today?)

Farnsworth's experience is, if anything, a case study for the need to
*strengthen* patents and either streamline patent appeals or extend the length
of patents when thier commercial utility is impacted by unsuccessful challenges.
(World War II intervened, and the government outlawed television for the
duration of the war (the technology was needed for radar, night vision and other
inventions Farnsworth then worked on), and so Farnsworth's patents expired
before he could profit from them.

Do you still think patents are a bad idea? I'd argue experience shows that
patents should be strengthened and perhaps that the duration of Farnsworth's
patent should have been extended, due to RCA's clear abuse of the patent system
and the courts. (I also think the government should have been upright enough to
grant extensions in the name of fair play to all inventors whose inventions were
commandeered for the war effort, but that's another issue entirely.)

History clearly shows that often patents are all that stands between real
progress and innovation and the acquisition by force so typical of a Sarnoff or
Gates. Strong patent law is the *only* effective defense against large
companies stealing technology from small inventors. (What RCA tried to do could
be accurately portrayed as theft.) I'm amazed more people don't get this, but
they tend to avoid history, and fail to recognize that our American forefathers
were wiser than we are in pretty much every way.

Although it's not perfect, there are very good reasons the patent system is the
way it is, and we meddle with it at our peril. It would be nice to see a
balanced discussion of this issue rather than the knee-jerk reactions that are
more common in the open source/free software community.

Dub

P.S.: I recommend spending some time browsing through some of the links below
to see how many of the great inventors of recent history were independent - the
protection provided by the patent system allowed them to develop and in many
cases profit handsomely from their inventions. You might be surprised at the
diversity and "ordinariness" of many of these inventors of important
breakthroughs - they're not such an elite group as you might imagine (the list
is somewhat US-centric - our culture celebrates invention, and so links for US
inventors are much easier to find):

National Inventor's Hall of Fame
MIT's Invention Dimension Archive
Good Internet Public Library list of links to Inventor information

His pages aren't very informative, being more an inchoate rant that mixes his political views and half-baked ideas with an (unattributed) recycling of freedom/privacy/ubiquitous-computing issues that others had already put more eloquently.

His megalomania is increasing, too. Lately, he's been claiming to have coined the term "cyborg", which was in fact put into the lexicon by Manfred Clynes.

The only real contributions seem to be his "video orbits" and "chirplet transforms", but you have to dig deep into the noise (and the past) to find them.

It's not just my opinion -- check out an early reaction to steve and his webcams from 1996.

Wearable Web Camera Goes Too Far

Column by Anders Hove

Executive Editor

The first time I ever saw Steve Mann G was during a fire alarm at East Campus a few years ago. The night air was chilly, but nonetheless many students and tutors were standing around in little groups socializing and watching the progress of the fire engines. One hall tutor, a stand-up comedian, was telling some jokes when a man -- Steve Mann, to cut the suspense -- jerkily approached us and pointed his bright light into our faces.

This was clearly a delicate social situation. Though he wasn't saying anything, the Mann with the light had interrupted the tutor's line of jokes. How could we listen when faced with this new curiosity?

Mann's apparatus has advanced considerably since then. At the time he had to wear tens of pounds of cables around his waist, and what looked like a large, black bike helmet on his head. The wires and helmet were connected to each other and to several blinking boxes and a visor that Mann wore over his eyes. In his right hand he held a large area light, and he pointed this at whatever he looked at, just as he was pointing it at us right now.

"Oh, this is great," said the tutor. "Allow me to introduce you to Steve Mann. He wears this thing on his head all the time. He's filming you right now, and the images he gets are put on the World-Wide Web."

The Mann and his light continued to silently stare at us at point blank range.

"Hello," I ventured.

The Mann said nothing.

My friends and I exchanged a nervous glance.

"I don't know if he can talk to us or not," said the tutor, leadingly.

The Mann slowly turned his visored head and began walking toward the firemen. Still he said nothing. The firemen continued to discuss their progress with one another, occasionally glancing at Mann.

I decided then and there never to talk to someone with a camera on their head again. I also decided to look at Mann's Web page to try and understand why he behaved in such fashion.

...

• Wearable Computer
• Wearable Computing Intro Page
• Wearable Computing Portal
• Wearable Computing Resource Page
• WearableGear.com
• Wearables Central
• Wearables WebCrawler Search Engine
• Wearables Webring
• WearableTech Corp.
• Wired News: Annotated Reality
• Wired News: Intel Chips In On Future Devices
• Wired News: Waiting For Wearable Wearables
• Wraith Projects
• Xybernaut

Impossible means no one's done it yet.

Here I have a whole bunch of links to further information about wearable computers and "enhanced reality" for anyone interested:

• A Brief History Of Wearable Computing
• Affective Computing
• BBC News: Japan Eyes Wearable PC
• Charmed Technology
• CNET.com: 10 Technologies That Will Take Over - #8
• CNN: Excuse Me, Is That A Monitor On Your Head?
• CNN: MIT 'Cyborgs' Bridge Gap Between Man And Machine
• CNN: Turn On, Jack In, And Geek Out With Wearable PC
• CNN: Wearable Systems May Cut Labor, Save Time
• CNN: Xybernaut Now Has Linux For Wearable PCs
• CNN Poll: Do You Want A Wearable Computer?
• Computer For The 21st Century, The
• ComputerWorld: Wearable Computers - Digitally Attired
• Context-Aware Computing
• CTHEORY: Body Delirium
• DisplayWear Incorporated
• Extreme Computing
• Handykey, Inc. Wearable Computing Page
• Houston Chronicle: Future Phones Home, The
• ICBorg
• Intelligent Information Filters And Enhanced Reality, by Alexander Chislenko
• ISWC- International Symposium on Wearable Computers
• Marvin Elizondo's Wearable Computing Page
• MicroOptical
• MIT-IDEO Wearables Intro
• NetWork Fusion: Armani, Karan, Xybernaut? 02/01/999
• PBS: Scientific American Frontiers Transcripts - Inventing The Future (Aired Fall 1996)
• PC World News: Wearable PC To Debut At Comdex
• PopSci.com Headlines: CyberFashions
• Slashdot Articles: Wearable PCs Under Linux
• Smart Rooms
• TechWearable
• TekGear
• Wearable Computer
• Wearable Computing Intro Page
• Wearable Computing Portal
• Wearable Computing Resource Page
• WearableGear.com
• Wearables Central
• Wearables WebCrawler Search Engine
• Wearables Webring
• WearableTech Corp.
• Wired News: Annotated Reality
• Wired News: Intel Chips In On Future Devices
• Wired News: Waiting For Wearable Wearables
• Wraith Projects
• Xybernaut

Impossible means no one's done it yet.

Here I have a whole bunch of links to further information about wearable computers and "enhanced reality" for anyone interested:

• A Brief History Of Wearable Computing
• Affective Computing
• BBC News: Japan Eyes Wearable PC
• Charmed Technology
• CNET.com: 10 Technologies That Will Take Over - #8
• CNN: Excuse Me, Is That A Monitor On Your Head?
• CNN: MIT 'Cyborgs' Bridge Gap Between Man And Machine
• CNN: Turn On, Jack In, And Geek Out With Wearable PC
• CNN: Wearable Systems May Cut Labor, Save Time
• CNN: Xybernaut Now Has Linux For Wearable PCs
• CNN Poll: Do You Want A Wearable Computer?
• Computer For The 21st Century, The
• ComputerWorld: Wearable Computers - Digitally Attired
• Context-Aware Computing
• CTHEORY: Body Delirium
• DisplayWear Incorporated
• Extreme Computing
• Handykey, Inc. Wearable Computing Page
• Houston Chronicle: Future Phones Home, The
• ICBorg
• Intelligent Information Filters And Enhanced Reality, by Alexander Chislenko
• ISWC- International Symposium on Wearable Computers
• Marvin Elizondo's Wearable Computing Page
• MicroOptical
• MIT-IDEO Wearables Intro
• NetWork Fusion: Armani, Karan, Xybernaut? 02/01/999
• PBS: Scientific American Frontiers Transcripts - Inventing The Future (Aired Fall 1996)
• PC World News: Wearable PC To Debut At Comdex
• PopSci.com Headlines: CyberFashions
• Slashdot Articles: Wearable PCs Under Linux
• Smart Rooms
• TechWearable
• TekGear
• Wearable Computer
• Wearable Computing Intro Page
• Wearable Computing Portal
• Wearable Computing Resource Page
• WearableGear.com
• Wearables Central
• Wearables WebCrawler Search Engine
• Wearables Webring
• WearableTech Corp.
• Wired News: Annotated Reality
• Wired News: Intel Chips In On Future Devices
• Wired News: Waiting For Wearable Wearables
• Wraith Projects
• Xybernaut

Impossible means no one's done it yet.

Here I have a whole bunch of links to further information about wearable computers and "enhanced reality" for anyone interested:

• A Brief History Of Wearable Computing
• Affective Computing
• BBC News: Japan Eyes Wearable PC
• Charmed Technology
• CNET.com: 10 Technologies That Will Take Over - #8
• CNN: Excuse Me, Is That A Monitor On Your Head?
• CNN: MIT 'Cyborgs' Bridge Gap Between Man And Machine
• CNN: Turn On, Jack In, And Geek Out With Wearable PC
• CNN: Wearable Systems May Cut Labor, Save Time
• CNN: Xybernaut Now Has Linux For Wearable PCs
• CNN Poll: Do You Want A Wearable Computer?
• Computer For The 21st Century, The
• ComputerWorld: Wearable Computers - Digitally Attired
• Context-Aware Computing
• CTHEORY: Body Delirium
• DisplayWear Incorporated
• Extreme Computing
• Handykey, Inc. Wearable Computing Page
• Houston Chronicle: Future Phones Home, The
• ICBorg
• Intelligent Information Filters And Enhanced Reality, by Alexander Chislenko
• ISWC- International Symposium on Wearable Computers
• Marvin Elizondo's Wearable Computing Page
• MicroOptical
• MIT-IDEO Wearables Intro
• NetWork Fusion: Armani, Karan, Xybernaut? 02/01/999
• PBS: Scientific American Frontiers Transcripts - Inventing The Future (Aired Fall 1996)
• PC World News: Wearable PC To Debut At Comdex
• PopSci.com Headlines: CyberFashions
• Slashdot Articles: Wearable PCs Under Linux
• Smart Rooms
• TechWearable
• TekGear
• Wearable Computer
• Wearable Computing Intro Page
• Wearable Computing Portal
• Wearable Computing Resource Page
• WearableGear.com
• Wearables Central
• Wearables WebCrawler Search Engine
• Wearables Webring
• WearableTech Corp.
• Wired News: Annotated Reality
• Wired News: Intel Chips In On Future Devices
• Wired News: Waiting For Wearable Wearables
• Wraith Projects
• Xybernaut

Impossible means no one's done it yet.

Here I have a whole bunch of links to further information about wearable computers and "enhanced reality" for anyone interested:

• A Brief History Of Wearable Computing
• Affective Computing
• BBC News: Japan Eyes Wearable PC
• Charmed Technology
• CNET.com: 10 Technologies That Will Take Over - #8
• CNN: Excuse Me, Is That A Monitor On Your Head?
• CNN: MIT 'Cyborgs' Bridge Gap Between Man And Machine
• CNN: Turn On, Jack In, And Geek Out With Wearable PC
• CNN: Wearable Systems May Cut Labor, Save Time
• CNN: Xybernaut Now Has Linux For Wearable PCs
• CNN Poll: Do You Want A Wearable Computer?
• Computer For The 21st Century, The
• ComputerWorld: Wearable Computers - Digitally Attired
• Context-Aware Computing
• CTHEORY: Body Delirium
• DisplayWear Incorporated
• Extreme Computing
• Handykey, Inc. Wearable Computing Page
• Houston Chronicle: Future Phones Home, The
• ICBorg
• Intelligent Information Filters And Enhanced Reality, by Alexander Chislenko
• ISWC- International Symposium on Wearable Computers
• Marvin Elizondo's Wearable Computing Page
• MicroOptical
• MIT-IDEO Wearables Intro
• NetWork Fusion: Armani, Karan, Xybernaut? 02/01/999
• PBS: Scientific American Frontiers Transcripts - Inventing The Future (Aired Fall 1996)
• PC World News: Wearable PC To Debut At Comdex
• PopSci.com Headlines: CyberFashions
• Slashdot Articles: Wearable PCs Under Linux
• Smart Rooms
• TechWearable
• TekGear
• Wearable Computer
• Wearable Computing Intro Page
• Wearable Computing Portal
• Wearable Computing Resource Page
• WearableGear.com
• Wearables Central
• Wearables WebCrawler Search Engine
• Wearables Webring
• WearableTech Corp.
• Wired News: Annotated Reality
• Wired News: Intel Chips In On Future Devices
• Wired News: Waiting For Wearable Wearables
• Wraith Projects
• Xybernaut

Impossible means no one's done it yet.

Here I have a whole bunch of links to further information about wearable computers and "enhanced reality" for anyone interested:

• A Brief History Of Wearable Computing
• Affective Computing
• BBC News: Japan Eyes Wearable PC
• Charmed Technology
• CNET.com: 10 Technologies That Will Take Over - #8
• CNN: Excuse Me, Is That A Monitor On Your Head?
• CNN: MIT 'Cyborgs' Bridge Gap Between Man And Machine
• CNN: Turn On, Jack In, And Geek Out With Wearable PC
• CNN: Wearable Systems May Cut Labor, Save Time
• CNN: Xybernaut Now Has Linux For Wearable PCs
• CNN Poll: Do You Want A Wearable Computer?
• Computer For The 21st Century, The
• ComputerWorld: Wearable Computers - Digitally Attired
• Context-Aware Computing
• CTHEORY: Body Delirium
• DisplayWear Incorporated
• Extreme Computing
• Handykey, Inc. Wearable Computing Page
• Houston Chronicle: Future Phones Home, The
• ICBorg
• Intelligent Information Filters And Enhanced Reality, by Alexander Chislenko
• ISWC- International Symposium on Wearable Computers
• Marvin Elizondo's Wearable Computing Page
• MicroOptical
• MIT-IDEO Wearables Intro
• NetWork Fusion: Armani, Karan, Xybernaut? 02/01/999
• PBS: Scientific American Frontiers Transcripts - Inventing The Future (Aired Fall 1996)
• PC World News: Wearable PC To Debut At Comdex
• PopSci.com Headlines: CyberFashions
• Slashdot Articles: Wearable PCs Under Linux
• Smart Rooms
• TechWearable
• TekGear
• Wearable Computer
• Wearable Computing Intro Page
• Wearable Computing Portal
• Wearable Computing Resource Page
• WearableGear.com
• Wearables Central
• Wearables WebCrawler Search Engine
• Wearables Webring
• WearableTech Corp.
• Wired News: Annotated Reality
• Wired News: Intel Chips In On Future Devices
• Wired News: Waiting For Wearable Wearables
• Wraith Projects
• Xybernaut

Impossible means no one's done it yet.

Here I have a whole bunch of links to further information about wearable computers and "enhanced reality" for anyone interested:

• A Brief History Of Wearable Computing
• Affective Computing
• BBC News: Japan Eyes Wearable PC
• Charmed Technology
• CNET.com: 10 Technologies That Will Take Over - #8
• CNN: Excuse Me, Is That A Monitor On Your Head?
• CNN: MIT 'Cyborgs' Bridge Gap Between Man And Machine
• CNN: Turn On, Jack In, And Geek Out With Wearable PC
• CNN: Wearable Systems May Cut Labor, Save Time
• CNN: Xybernaut Now Has Linux For Wearable PCs
• CNN Poll: Do You Want A Wearable Computer?
• Computer For The 21st Century, The
• ComputerWorld: Wearable Computers - Digitally Attired
• Context-Aware Computing
• CTHEORY: Body Delirium
• DisplayWear Incorporated
• Extreme Computing
• Handykey, Inc. Wearable Computing Page
• Houston Chronicle: Future Phones Home, The
• ICBorg
• Intelligent Information Filters And Enhanced Reality, by Alexander Chislenko
• ISWC- International Symposium on Wearable Computers
• Marvin Elizondo's Wearable Computing Page
• MicroOptical
• MIT-IDEO Wearables Intro
• NetWork Fusion: Armani, Karan, Xybernaut? 02/01/999
• PBS: Scientific American Frontiers Transcripts - Inventing The Future (Aired Fall 1996)
• PC World News: Wearable PC To Debut At Comdex
• PopSci.com Headlines: CyberFashions
• Slashdot Articles: Wearable PCs Under Linux
• Smart Rooms
• TechWearable
• TekGear
• Wearable Computer
• Wearable Computing Intro Page
• Wearable Computing Portal
• Wearable Computing Resource Page
• WearableGear.com
• Wearables Central
• Wearables WebCrawler Search Engine
• Wearables Webring
• WearableTech Corp.
• Wired News: Annotated Reality
• Wired News: Intel Chips In On Future Devices
• Wired News: Waiting For Wearable Wearables
• Wraith Projects
• Xybernaut

Impossible means no one's done it yet.