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Cool Ideas for Mobile Applications or Clusters?
kernel2 asks: "I'm currently doing my MSc. degree here at the University of Westminster in London and I need some ideas for my upcoming masters thesis. I'm mostly interested in the areas of clusters, agents, mobile applications, or any cool ideas you guys may have in the area of networking. The idea in the end is to come up with some cool topic and implementing it by either adding to existing software or writing something from scratch. For example, is there something that irks you about the way Beowulf or Mosix clusters work? Something you wish your WAP-enabled mobile could do that it currently can't? I've had an idea about an agent that automatically takes care of transferring files and synchronizing them for you in the background. It would automatically determine the best network to use to transfer the files and would know where to store the results. Has anything like this been done? Does it sound interesting and is there anything cooler that this could do? Any ideas? " -
Cybercommunism and the Gift Culture
A number of readers alerted us to the latest Andrew Leonard piece over at Salon. He's covering the latest Richard Barbrook book "Cybercommunism". One of the salient points of Barbrook's latest arguement is that all of this free-software/open-source is "superseding capitalism". For those who remember, Barbrook was the author of The California Ideology, a 1996 screed.