If you're interested in that idea, you may also want to check out a remarkable paper by Raphael Rubenstein that was published in American Poetry Review five years ago, called "Gathered, Not Made: A Brief History of Appropriative Writing". Rubenstein traces a long and rich literary tradition of "remixes" that re-appropriate and recombine "found words" into new creations.
Public safety agencies rely increasingly upon GPS-based vehicle tracking -- in fact, federal authorities tended to encourage this in the weeks after 9/11/2001 with their hightened concerns about the possibilites that terrorists could steal emergency vehicles and use them as weapons. Moreover, Phase II Wireless 9-1-1 systems have been developed around the principle that metdata from GPS-enabled mobile handsets would help guide rescuers to those who need help. It seems to me that if the terrorists were to succeed in getting us to take down our GPS system, it could actually *produce* chaos and casualties over and above those that might be inflicted directly by an attack.
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Response to Ted Rall's column, including details about which of his conclusions are supported by Rashid's book and which are not.
Big Mexican banker fingered by investigative journalists as major drug trafficker loses libel suits in Mexico, then turns around and sues in New York State for comments journalists made at public forums in New York **and** on a Mexican-based investigative website called NarcoNews.com. Judge has yet to rule on the jurisdiction question.
Guess what? Looks like at least one of the "virtual billboards" CBS put up over Times Square covered up the "astro-vision" which was showing ads for NBC -- and now NBC is "shocked and outraged" (i.e. pissed because somebody else did it first)! Suddenly Dan Rather is contrite. Oh brother.
As someone who diverges from the Slashdot party line on this topic, I have this question: If you're going to ask two people to participate, mightn't it be more informative to get two viewpoints?
As someone whom you would probably characterize as closer to the "Slashdot party line" [sic] I nonetheless agree that this interview would be more informative if it were to include a representative from "Enough is Enough," "Citizens for Community Values," "Family Friendly Libraries," or some other organization of their ilk. I strongly disagree with these organizations' views on censorware, but I think we must all understand their arguments & rhetoric, and examine their responses to ours. If you check their websites, you will see that they are closely monitoring the American Library Association and the ACLU for the same reason.
I believe their would be high enough signal-to-noise even on such a contentious topic that it would be worthwhile. Perhaps on a future occasion...
In one 90-minute presentation at the Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco on 9 December 1968, Doug Englebart and his team from SRI simply turned the computing world upside-down. Not only did that demo introduce the computing world to many great Englebart innovations, but it presented an even more radical concept: the computer as a tool to augment an individual human being's ability to manage the increasing complexity of his/her world. My vote for the top 10 great hacks of all time.
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If you're interested in that idea, you may also want to check out a remarkable paper by Raphael Rubenstein that was published in American Poetry Review five years ago, called "Gathered, Not Made: A Brief History of Appropriative Writing". Rubenstein traces a long and rich literary tradition of "remixes" that re-appropriate and recombine "found words" into new creations.
Public safety agencies rely increasingly upon GPS-based vehicle tracking -- in fact, federal authorities tended to encourage this in the weeks after 9/11/2001 with their hightened concerns about the possibilites that terrorists could steal emergency vehicles and use them as weapons. Moreover, Phase II Wireless 9-1-1 systems have been developed around the principle that metdata from GPS-enabled mobile handsets would help guide rescuers to those who need help. It seems to me that if the terrorists were to succeed in getting us to take down our GPS system, it could actually *produce* chaos and casualties over and above those that might be inflicted directly by an attack.
Call it another benefit of hypermedia.
interesting solution, i'm impressed that your administrators are even computer literate enough to understand your request.
but then again, i guess somebody decided to shell out all that dough for legally licensed copies of adobe acrobat.
Big Mexican banker fingered by investigative journalists as major drug trafficker loses libel suits in Mexico, then turns around and sues in New York State for comments journalists made at public forums in New York **and** on a Mexican-based investigative website called NarcoNews.com. Judge has yet to rule on the jurisdiction question.
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The text of Mr Billington's 14 April remarks can be found on the LoC website: http://www.loc.gov/today/trans cripts/041400-npc.html Nothing about his remarks in the Q & A session, though.
Guess what? Looks like at least one of the "virtual billboards" CBS put up over Times Square covered up the "astro-vision" which was showing ads for NBC -- and now NBC is "shocked and outraged" (i.e. pissed because somebody else did it first)! Suddenly Dan Rather is contrite. Oh brother.
- Union for the Public Domain: their page on Business Practice Patents.
- The League for Programming Freedom: their page on Software Patents
- freepatents.org for activism in the EU
- Phil Karn: his "The US Patent System is Out of Control"
Any others? If all of these forces could be united with help from slashdotters...As someone who diverges from the Slashdot party line on this topic, I have this question: If you're going to ask two people to participate, mightn't it be more informative to get two viewpoints?
As someone whom you would probably characterize as closer to the "Slashdot party line" [sic] I nonetheless agree that this interview would be more informative if it were to include a representative from "Enough is Enough," "Citizens for Community Values," "Family Friendly Libraries," or some other organization of their ilk. I strongly disagree with these organizations' views on censorware, but I think we must all understand their arguments & rhetoric, and examine their responses to ours. If you check their websites, you will see that they are closely monitoring the American Library Association and the ACLU for the same reason.
I believe their would be high enough signal-to-noise even on such a contentious topic that it would be worthwhile. Perhaps on a future occasion...
In one 90-minute presentation at the Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco on 9 December 1968, Doug Englebart and his team from SRI simply turned the computing world upside-down. Not only did that demo introduce the computing world to many great Englebart innovations, but it presented an even more radical concept: the computer as a tool to augment an individual human being's ability to manage the increasing complexity of his/her world. My vote for the top 10 great hacks of all time.
Of course, it's not just email that goes astray, just ask J. D. Salinger.
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