User: Potlucker

Re:You know this world is in trouble

On: Tracking The (English) Words We Use

i love lamp.

GovStat Project at UNC and UMD

On: Hacking Congress

this project aims to bring visualization and understanding to the masses through the statistics coming from the US government.

http://www.ils.unc.edu/govstat/

Re:corporate donations - bigger deal

On: Mozilla Foundation Now IRS 501(c)(3) Approved

and you get a bigger write-off if you can speel.

the government rewards smart people.

corporate donations - bigger deal

On: Mozilla Foundation Now IRS 501(c)(3) Approved

this allows corporations as well to donate and take the write-off.

this is big since it makes the foundation significantly more likely to recieve large donations.

IRS Tax Information for Charitable Organizations

actual project link

On: Video Chat Via Transparent Desktop Overlay

here's an Endeavors article about the project at UNC

FaceTop

prediction

On: BIND Strikes Back Against VeriSign's Site Finder

Did no one predict this a couple days ago?

I put great faith (sadly?) in the collective intelligence shared here. Who gets credit for calling this one?

Re:Being well known isn't always good

On: Network Solutions Take 2

I think it's a male plane...

http://www.atlyrics.com/quotes/t/threeamigos.html

Re:P2P and freeloaders...

On: Cooperation Works if Majority Can Punish Freeloaders

'Freeloading' usually implies that those who are not 'freeloading' are losing something to those who are. Your application of this new study to P2P I think loses this distinction.

Remember that digital copies don't follow the zero-sum rules that dollars follow.

Yes, 'freeloading' on napster sucked bandwidth, perhaps hurting the server in some measurable way, and perhaps others in the middle somewhere, but otherwise, the server had everything after the download that he/she had before the download.

Re:Backwards compatability big advantage

On: More Details Emerge on AMD's Hammer

Surely you're not suggesting Microsoft Bob is joining forces with Clippy to help predict the future?!

The end is truly near.

Re:On Afghanistan

On: Afghanistan Is Like Nothing You've Ever Seen

I received this email before the Salon article was published.

This email was also read on NPR this week by Tamim himself.

web authentication across platforms/servers

On: EPIC Makes Privacy Case Against Windows XP To FTC

WRAP

http://www.sentrisystems.com
http://sysnews.ncsu.edu/wrap

the Palms have it

On: Statistics, Elections, Frustration

Palm Beach =? Palm Pilot