a few - from the looks of it, maybe 40 (10 per side per floor) get to look out the forward facing windows, and the other 760 passengers get to look at the back of people's heads.
I have a friend who works for CyCorp - pronounced the same as a dangerous cult in Babylon 5 - pretty cool I thought.
BTW, Doug Lenat & Randy Davis wrote a book I found useful while implementing a small expert system twenty years ago (whew!) called _Knowledge Based Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence_. When Cyc appeared on the scene a few years later, I could see clearly how it was an extension of the work presented there. I'm sure it's evolved a bit, though...
OK, so there probably are some bluetooth cell phones out there (I sure don't have one) but why don't cell phone manufacturers/distributors and/or wireless carriers offer a service that downloads a simple CSV phone list to your phone?
Heck, I'd pay $10 per shot to email my phone list to some address that would download it to my phone. OK, so there are some privacy implications, so don't download any numbers you don't want someone else to know.
I've had a google popup in Mozilla since, well, since I was still using Netscape. I've also got a dictionary popup in my toolbar, and one for FOLDOC. See bookmarklets
It always amuses me that so many languages love to tout their
object-orientedness that allows for language extensions. Lisp is
inherently extensible, and by its very nature enables the programmer
to design the language to fit the application. As far as debugging
facilities go, Lisp is the gold standard. And WRT portability, I think
Scheme runs just about everywhere.
People always think about AI when they think of Lisp, but don't forget that
some everyday
applications are written in Lisp, such as Yahoo! Store.
There may be more, but what I'm thinking is that if we created an Open Source
project - perhaps like the primer suggested above - then maybe in 2005
all kids could get this rather than just 3,000...
... it might be a good idea to build an "Illustrated Primer" open source project that could build Open Source content for children with geeky relatives:)...
As a new father, I've been thinking about this a lot, too. What is there currently for kids other than Mindstorms? With all the talent (and kids, I'll bet) between us, where is the Sourceforge project for tots? And what would it do?
About ten years ago at a Hackers conference at Lake Tahoe I met a CIA agent
named Robert Steele who regularly spent huge amounts of tax dollars to buy
proprietary information from closed sources and provide it to various
government intelligence agencies. I told him about the Internet and for
several hours toured him though many open, free resources that I had come to
know using FTP, Gopher, etc. (Not much was yet available by web.) He was
blown away and spent most of the rest of the conference surfing the 'net.
Not too long after that quit his government intelligence gathering job to
create Open Source Solution which provides
most of the same data to the same agencies at a much lower price
point, saving taxpayers millions of dollars a year.
I don't like most of those three-letter-acronym agencies, but I think this is
a Good Thing.
At TerabitCorp, Alan Huang employed
what he calls a Galois Network using many standard off-the-shelf
routers to create a fault-tolerant, open platform terabit meta-router
with some very cool properties. Not sure if the idea ever flew, though...
Disposable batteries are terrible for the environment, but people seem to be buying more all the time. With the motors in this bug, it'll eat batteries like roach food.
I'd like to see a story on Slashdot about using rechargables instead - and how can we spread the meme to get others to use them? I like the NiMH batteries I get from Thomas Distributing - I've used two sets I bought for my digital camera for over two years and over 14,000 pictures - and they recharge in two hours!
At OpenPrivacy, we are building a framework to separate who you are
from what you do, so that you can contract with an agent (via a
pseudonymous nym, so even the agent doesn't know who you are) to act as your
"book recommender." This agent could be loaded with not only the books
you're bought from Amazon, but also relevant magazine subscription, web
sites, and, of course, books bought from other sources online or in
meatspace. This agent would present this info to Amazon - perhaps via a
Passport - as representing person X (or a demographic segment of size Y with
Z tastes). After Amazon makes its recommendations and this information is
returned to the user via an onion-routed delivery path, the user could go to
Amazon and buy what they want. Or somewhere else, if Amazon won't play
unless you have a Passport, which I doubt will happen.
In 1933, the German Parliament (Reichstag) burnt down. Newly appointed
chancellor Adolf Hitler used that event to effectively invoke marsall law,
suspending civil liberties, freedom of the press, right to assembly and
more. A supplemental decree created the SA (Storm Troops) and SS (Special
Security) Federal police agencies.
Most of the problems that CPT addresses are the result of corporate control
of our government which stem from the 1886 Santa Clara v Southern Pacific
Railroad decision which in fundamental ways first declared that
corporations were persons. Thanks to the wonderful SF Mime Troupe I have just become aware of
POCLAD (Program on Corporations, Law
& Democracy) that is working to educate activists such as myself in ways
to contest the authority of corporations to govern.
Are you aware of POCLAD? Do you think they can help in the creation of new
ways to fight the injustices that CPT is targeting? And ultimately, how
best can we help?
From the POCLAD web site:
What should be the legal, political and cultural relationships between
people and corporate bodies? Who decides?.... Should a business
corporation be regarded as a citizen? As private? Should it have free
speech? Are there constitutional rights differences between the NAACP and
the US Chamber of Commerce?.... Why does General Motors Corporation have
more rights than the United Auto Workers Union?.... Why do environmental
laws regulate environmentalists? Why do labor laws regulate unions?
POCLAD is not building a big national membership operation. Rather, we are
working with existing groups to launch democratic insurgencies to render
corporations subordinate.
what you are saying would be ideal - except it's almost anti-capitalistic
Ah, but once you can develop strong reputations (and associated reputation capital) then whole new vistas of capitalism arise. Do not forget that true Capitalism is Anarchistic - just like the net! - in that there is no one in charge other than "The Market" (and what the market will bear).
OpenPrivacy enables the Anonymous Digital Marketplace.
Think about it: if you want to build a distributed system (say, one that you can use on the Internet) in what organization or company do you want to place your most valuable personal profile information? Would you trust Microsoft's Hailstorm (subject, at the very least, to FBI probings)?
Or how about an open source, cryptographically secure system that is regularly audited by the community using it?
donating dollar for dollar to the EFF for every product I buy from the RIAA or MPAA member companies
While I agree with another poster that it's sad that justice costs so much, it's sadder still that many reading this will support the bad guys - by buying their products - and forget to help those trying to make a better world.
Thanks for this idea - I'm committing to this also!
In 1978 (or so - my brain was somewhat fuzzy then - and perhaps fuzzier now)
when the M.I.T. AI Lab was building their first bit-mapped terminals (known
as Knight TVs) they came equipped with excellent keyboards designed for the
uber-emacs user that not only separated the left and right CONTROL and META
keys but also included a TOP key, resulting in a 12-bit character set.
Some of these keyboards had been hacked - well, the bottom half had been
hacked off and replaced with a soft bean bag. The user could position the
keyboard at any angle on the desktop and it would more-or-less remain in
that position. But the kicker was that it was comfortable to have the
keyboard on your lap!
I've wondered why I haven't seen the return of the bean bag keyboard. A
quick Google search turned up the
Power Board - but that's all I can find. Has anyone seen anything like
this on the market? (Anyone want to go into business with me building and
marketing them?;-)
In 1988 I built a system called SmarTV that consisted of multiple VCRs and a
"set top" controller box. The controller pulled local TV listings down via modem
and displayed custom filtered show lists on-screen. A remote control
allowed the user to choose programs to be recorded while (possibly)
simultaneously watching others. A mechanism was described that would allow
automatic background tape-to-tape copying of pre-recorded shows while stripping the
commercial breaks - or any other programmed objectionable sections (such as
sex or violence).
There's not much documentation online but I have a box
full of paper docs that I have brought to the attention of Hughes in their
fight against Gemstar's patents of on-screen TV guide displays. Perhaps it
may be useful to refute at least a few of TiVo's claims, too...
Ya, on Linux (debian woody w/ kernel 2.4.4) my.netscape works with Communicator 4.76 but not Mozilla 0.8.1 or any recent nightly build (well, it blinks the display a lot and finally displays the channels spread horizontally across the window). On Win2K, it seems to work fine with IE and Communicator (haven't downloaded Mozilla to Windoze yet)...
Slashdot Mirror
I wish we could get a president with brains...
BTW: Join the EFF!
a few - from the looks of it, maybe 40 (10 per side per floor) get to look out the forward facing windows, and the other 760 passengers get to look at the back of people's heads.
I have a friend who works for CyCorp - pronounced the same as a dangerous cult in Babylon 5 - pretty cool I thought.
BTW, Doug Lenat & Randy Davis wrote a book I found useful while implementing a small expert system twenty years ago (whew!) called _Knowledge Based Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence_. When Cyc appeared on the scene a few years later, I could see clearly how it was an extension of the work presented there. I'm sure it's evolved a bit, though...
See their selinux page.
...for a Big Brother Award bestowed during this year's Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference.
Also, many IBM machines run Linux - I wish all their laptops did!
I am concerned about the fractured effort. Lobbying Congress takes not only a lot of money, but also a lot of focus.
OK, so there probably are some bluetooth cell phones out there (I sure don't have one) but why don't cell phone manufacturers/distributors and/or wireless carriers offer a service that downloads a simple CSV phone list to your phone?
Heck, I'd pay $10 per shot to email my phone list to some address that would download it to my phone. OK, so there are some privacy implications, so don't download any numbers you don't want someone else to know.
I've had a google popup in Mozilla since, well, since I was still using Netscape. I've also got a dictionary popup in my toolbar, and one for FOLDOC. See bookmarklets
People always think about AI when they think of Lisp, but don't forget that some everyday applications are written in Lisp, such as Yahoo! Store.
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There may be more, but what I'm thinking is that if we created an Open Source project - perhaps like the primer suggested above - then maybe in 2005 all kids could get this rather than just 3,000...As a new father, I've been thinking about this a lot, too. What is there currently for kids other than Mindstorms? With all the talent (and kids, I'll bet) between us, where is the Sourceforge project for tots? And what would it do?
Not too long after that quit his government intelligence gathering job to create Open Source Solution which provides most of the same data to the same agencies at a much lower price point, saving taxpayers millions of dollars a year.
I don't like most of those three-letter-acronym agencies, but I think this is a Good Thing.
At TerabitCorp, Alan Huang employed what he calls a Galois Network using many standard off-the-shelf routers to create a fault-tolerant, open platform terabit meta-router with some very cool properties. Not sure if the idea ever flew, though...
Disposable batteries are terrible for the environment, but people seem to be buying more all the time. With the motors in this bug, it'll eat batteries like roach food.
I'd like to see a story on Slashdot about using rechargables instead - and how can we spread the meme to get others to use them? I like the NiMH batteries I get from Thomas Distributing - I've used two sets I bought for my digital camera for over two years and over 14,000 pictures - and they recharge in two hours!
At OpenPrivacy, we are building a framework to separate who you are from what you do, so that you can contract with an agent (via a pseudonymous nym, so even the agent doesn't know who you are) to act as your "book recommender." This agent could be loaded with not only the books you're bought from Amazon, but also relevant magazine subscription, web sites, and, of course, books bought from other sources online or in meatspace. This agent would present this info to Amazon - perhaps via a Passport - as representing person X (or a demographic segment of size Y with Z tastes). After Amazon makes its recommendations and this information is returned to the user via an onion-routed delivery path, the user could go to Amazon and buy what they want. Or somewhere else, if Amazon won't play unless you have a Passport, which I doubt will happen.
Check out e.g. http://www.weyrich.com/political_issues/reichstag_ fire.html.
Most of the problems that CPT addresses are the result of corporate control of our government which stem from the 1886 Santa Clara v Southern Pacific Railroad decision which in fundamental ways first declared that corporations were persons. Thanks to the wonderful SF Mime Troupe I have just become aware of POCLAD (Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy) that is working to educate activists such as myself in ways to contest the authority of corporations to govern.
Are you aware of POCLAD? Do you think they can help in the creation of new ways to fight the injustices that CPT is targeting? And ultimately, how best can we help?
From the POCLAD web site:
OpenPrivacy enables the Anonymous Digital Marketplace.
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Now that I have a DSL line and Debian's apt-get, who needs to buy anything?
First post?
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Or how about an open source, cryptographically secure system that is regularly audited by the community using it?
The latter is what OpenPrivacy is all about...
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Thanks for this idea - I'm committing to this also!
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Some of these keyboards had been hacked - well, the bottom half had been hacked off and replaced with a soft bean bag. The user could position the keyboard at any angle on the desktop and it would more-or-less remain in that position. But the kicker was that it was comfortable to have the keyboard on your lap!
I've wondered why I haven't seen the return of the bean bag keyboard. A quick Google search turned up the Power Board - but that's all I can find. Has anyone seen anything like this on the market? (Anyone want to go into business with me building and marketing them? ;-)
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There's not much documentation online but I have a box full of paper docs that I have brought to the attention of Hughes in their fight against Gemstar's patents of on-screen TV guide displays. Perhaps it may be useful to refute at least a few of TiVo's claims, too...
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