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Revolution in Graphics?
wilton writes "A technology genius has Silicon Valley drooling - by doing things the natural way, writes Douglas Rushkoff in today's Gaurdian. This project has been going on for a couple of years now, they have demo's for Windows and Be. The ideas is to not use rendering and polygons to create scenes. Instead build it up from a molecular level, with apparently amazing results. " -
Finns Build a Virtual Helsinki
Anonymous Coward writes "Having already pioneered the mobile phone-operated vending machine, those well-wired Finns are constructing a virtual Helsinki, heavily integrated with the real one (Article from The Guardian). Broadband for all and techno-houses à la Gates... track your pizza delivery online, netcast from public booths, and keep tabs on your kids via their mobile phones. Futuristic techo-democracy with just a hint of 1984. It seems that the future will be... fun." -
UK Drafts Crypto Bill
np-complete writes "The UK Guardian has an article here giving details of the governments proposed new crypto laws. The draft bill includes provision for decryption notices to be served on companies, and also allows for a prison sentence of up to two years for tipping people off that their comunications are being monitored. (Site may need free registration if their guest login doesn't work). " Gosh, perhaps the Brits and the FBI have been talking. *sigh* -
New Eric Raymond article on IntellectualCapital
coats writes "ESR has written a new article, "Open Source: Programming as if Quality Mattered" on the Internet politics-and-policy site Intellectual Capital. This article starts off with the Netscape OpenSource release, describes how it fits in with the way the Internet was built, mentions Linux, and then goes on to wonder whether staking the corporation on some one else's closed-source software is not the height of irresponsibility-- Let's say you are a chief technical officer (CTO) at a Fortune 500 company and you have just spent millions of dollars on a strategic business system with software you cannot see inside and cannot modify, software that depends on a single vendor to service. Now are those systems going to change to serve your business plan or your vendor's business plan? " While it does not say anything new, it's phrased more towards a business audience. The comment below it also gives an interesting perspective. In a related story, Recoil wrote in with this interview of ESR.