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Well, essentially your first idea is another iteration of trying to construct a Dewey decimal system for content; lots of people have been working on taxonomy stuff for a while, but I don't think you'll see much success - look how fragmented Yahoo, for example. Any working taxonomy is at the very least going to have to allow a concept like "aliases" or keywords in the tree, for things which map to multiple locations -- just like a pizza house appearing under "take away food" and "restaurants" (yummy).
As you point out, RealNames was a sadly proprietary first attempt at a directory-cum-search engine, but if you want to build a non-commercial version of anything like this, you need to look at SOAP, UDDI and WSDL. The corporate interests are forging ahead on this one.
There's been talk about a UDDI registry run "at first" by IBM and its partners... sadly I don't have a link better than this rather lame news item. Anyone care to oblige? Perhaps thats an 'upcoming' interesting registry that we ought to be keeping an eye on...?
Although this is getting off-topic, can anyone explain to me why a suitcase nuke scenario isn't more likely than an obvious ballistic attack, even from a rogue state?
: Intel's Thermal Design Guide has revealed that the absolute maximum power dissipation of the 1.5GHz P4 is actually 72.9 watts. This is 33% higher than the published system design specification, and essentially identical to the 1.33 GHz Athlon. If power dissipation is sustained at a level higher than 54.7 watts thermal overload can occur. In order to deal with this, a mechanism called thermal throttling is used. If performance critical applications drive the CPU above a predetermined temperature, the CPU is halted with a 50% duty cycle (alternating 2 microseconds on; 2 microseconds off) until it cools down. This effectively turns your 1.5GHz processor into a 750MHz processor - just at the moment you demand peak performance. On the other hand, you will probably still be able to check your email at 1.5GHz. This scheme is described on page 23 of Intel's P4 Thermal Design Guide....
Intel's motto... "1.7GHz. Its there. Unless you need it."
I wouldn't claim to know what the current social assumption is, but in the US, material created after 1/1/78 is automatically protected by copyright, by default. People mark material anyway to be more sure that notice has been provided if it came to a dispute.
Also, take a look at some related activity -
Copyright's Commons at Harvard Law. Interesting parallels with their [cc] "counter-copyright" device. These appear to be the same folks doing the opencode and openlaw initiatives.
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Well, essentially your first idea is another iteration of trying to construct a Dewey decimal system for content; lots of people have been working on taxonomy stuff for a while, but I don't think you'll see much success - look how fragmented Yahoo, for example. Any working taxonomy is at the very least going to have to allow a concept like "aliases" or keywords in the tree, for things which map to multiple locations -- just like a pizza house appearing under "take away food" and "restaurants" (yummy).
As you point out, RealNames was a sadly proprietary first attempt at a directory-cum-search engine, but if you want to build a non-commercial version of anything like this, you need to look at SOAP, UDDI and WSDL. The corporate interests are forging ahead on this one.
For example, check out this web services toolkit on alphaWorks.
There's been talk about a UDDI registry run "at first" by IBM and its partners... sadly I don't have a link better than this rather lame news item. Anyone care to oblige? Perhaps thats an 'upcoming' interesting registry that we ought to be keeping an eye on...?
Although this is getting off-topic, can anyone explain to me why a suitcase nuke scenario isn't more likely than an obvious ballistic attack, even from a rogue state?
Here's the comment from a Inquest white paper:
It's still on the ArsTechnica home page.
I wouldn't claim to know what the current social assumption is, but in the US, material created after 1/1/78 is automatically protected by copyright, by default. People mark material anyway to be more sure that notice has been provided if it came to a dispute.
Also, take a look at some related activity - Copyright's Commons at Harvard Law. Interesting parallels with their [cc] "counter-copyright" device. These appear to be the same folks doing the opencode and openlaw initiatives.
And they've got a bunch of stuff on the Eldred v Reno. copyright extension argument, and the old Jack Valenti v Lawrence Lessig debate as an added bonus :-)
ObDisclaimer: I am not a lawyer.