As long as the p2p network uses cryptographic hashing (bittorrent, edonkey etc) I don't really see the problem. This incidentally also removes the need for special quality filters to be built into the p2p software, as users can easily create communities that do this filtering process.
that's not really fair on google. so far they've kept ads well seperated from actual content, and their page-rank system does not favor google customers.
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If you're interested in finding out more about the Carlyle group, there is a documentary made by the dutch tv program tegenlicht. The first two minutes is in dutch, the rest of the program is in english. Highly recommended.
Another book I would recommend is Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson. From Amazon:
This is a vast book: a chronicle of the exploration of Mars with some of the most engaging, vivid, and human characters in recent science fiction. Robinson fantasizes brilliantly about the science of terraforming a hostile world, analyzes the socio-economic forces that propel and attempt to control real interplanetary colonization, and imagines the diverse reactions that humanity would have to the dead, red planet.
I was wondering, does a website exist that lists these settlements? The FSF has a website for reporting GPL violations, but I cannot find any page that lists the outcomes of such disputes. I did find this mailing list posting suggesting the GPL might be unenforcable in Germany.
Other potentials: Amazon, Ebay? I could imagine those companies having similar company cultures to Google, which always helps with mergers&acquisitions. The big media deal seems unlikely to me, especially looking at what happened to AOL, which swallowed Time Warner only to emerge as... Time Warner. I think if Google swallowed a very big company the "thing" that makes google google could easily get lost.
Well, I don't think this will ever change. Commercial entities simply have the most to gain by being at the top of the Google PageRank. So even if Google doesn't make any distinction in to who gets the highest PR, commercial entities will simply make the biggest effort and eventually take the top spot.
These days I always include other search terms like "epinions" (for reviews) or "wikipedia" for information to get the most out of google. Someday there will be a search engine where you can specify "no commercial s$*t", but till that day...
You don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to realize it's in Microsoft's interest to point to vulnerabilities in Linux. I'm sure they've got a team of hackers hidden away somewhere dedicated to doing just that. Corporations don't have to disclose everything they do, so they will resort to some pretty nasty tactics to achieve what they want. This isn't really a conspiracy, just a fact of live. The best we can do is make sure our security kicks ass.
In the end we could perhaps thank microsoft for pointing out these vulnerabilities, since I am of the opinion that security through obscurity doesn't work.
A good hack will leave no traces behind, so law enforcement will have a hard time protecting us from corporate hackers.
I never understood why everyone loves iTunes so much either. I still use winamp2, winamp3 seemed too bloated for me. Heck I just want a player that will play my mp3s for me. I don't need it to calculate the BPM for me, or how often i've listened to a song. I love winamp, especially because of the key mappings. It means i can easily program my bluetooth phone to be a remote control for my music. Great!
Inventors: Glasser; Daniel S. (Seattle, WA); Liffick; Stephen M. (Seattle, WA) Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) Appl. No.: 327384 Filed: December 20, 2002
Remember, California is not only the state of Hollywood, but also of Silicon Valley. As professor LawrenceLessig has previously argued, there is a battle going on in California, with media companies on one side and tech companies on the other.
Media companies would like the internet to be heavily regulated so that things like copyright law can be strongly enforced, whereas tech companies recognize that the unregulated nature of the internet is the very reason that all sorts of innovations can happen on the network. If you think about it, things like napster were very innovative. Never before was it possible to try out new music. I for one never really enjoyed listening to cds in cd stores, trying to decide if the album was worth buying. With napster, though, I could sit in the privacy of my home and try anything.
I think that we have not nearly come close to exploring the possibilities that the internet can offer us. As user interfaces improve and mobile devices become more ubiquituous (i can never spell that, sorry not a native english speaker...kuro5hin has spell checking...) new innovations will spring up that nobody can think of right now...
I wonder, if Konqueror claims to be IE, does the OS then also get counted as Windows? And what is the default setting? I'd imagine most people simply use the default setting.
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As long as the p2p network uses cryptographic hashing (bittorrent, edonkey etc) I don't really see the problem. This incidentally also removes the need for special quality filters to be built into the p2p software, as users can easily create communities that do this filtering process.
that's not really fair on google. so far they've kept ads well seperated from actual content, and their page-rank system does not favor google customers.
If you're interested in finding out more about the Carlyle group, there is a documentary made by the dutch tv program tegenlicht. The first two minutes is in dutch, the rest of the program is in english. Highly recommended.
Hmm well I meant to reply to Netfu's post about The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet by Robert Zubrin. But I recommend the book anyway
Another book I would recommend is Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson. From Amazon:
This is a vast book: a chronicle of the exploration of Mars with some of the most engaging, vivid, and human characters in recent science fiction. Robinson fantasizes brilliantly about the science of terraforming a hostile world, analyzes the socio-economic forces that propel and attempt to control real interplanetary colonization, and imagines the diverse reactions that humanity would have to the dead, red planet.
I was wondering, does a website exist that lists these settlements? The FSF has a website for reporting GPL violations, but I cannot find any page that lists the outcomes of such disputes. I did find this mailing list posting suggesting the GPL might be unenforcable in Germany.
Other potentials: Amazon, Ebay? I could imagine those companies having similar company cultures to Google, which always helps with mergers&acquisitions. The big media deal seems unlikely to me, especially looking at what happened to AOL, which swallowed Time Warner only to emerge as ... Time Warner. I think if Google swallowed a very big company the "thing" that makes google google could easily get lost.
I know HP made a tablet pc with a Transmeta processor. some other applications.
Well, I don't think this will ever change. Commercial entities simply have the most to gain by being at the top of the Google PageRank. So even if Google doesn't make any distinction in to who gets the highest PR, commercial entities will simply make the biggest effort and eventually take the top spot.
These days I always include other search terms like "epinions" (for reviews) or "wikipedia" for information to get the most out of google. Someday there will be a search engine where you can specify "no commercial s$*t", but till that day...
go to the official site.
You don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to realize it's in Microsoft's interest to point to vulnerabilities in Linux. I'm sure they've got a team of hackers hidden away somewhere dedicated to doing just that. Corporations don't have to disclose everything they do, so they will resort to some pretty nasty tactics to achieve what they want. This isn't really a conspiracy, just a fact of live. The best we can do is make sure our security kicks ass.
In the end we could perhaps thank microsoft for pointing out these vulnerabilities, since I am of the opinion that security through obscurity doesn't work.
A good hack will leave no traces behind, so law enforcement will have a hard time protecting us from corporate hackers.
I never understood why everyone loves iTunes so much either. I still use winamp2, winamp3 seemed too bloated for me. Heck I just want a player that will play my mp3s for me. I don't need it to calculate the BPM for me, or how often i've listened to a song. I love winamp, especially because of the key mappings. It means i can easily program my bluetooth phone to be a remote control for my music. Great!
from the patent form:
Inventors: Glasser; Daniel S. (Seattle, WA); Liffick; Stephen M. (Seattle, WA)
Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA)
Appl. No.: 327384
Filed: December 20, 2002
I use Newsmonster, which integrates into Mozilla.
HP labs has something similar to the MS robot.
Could anyone point to open source/commercial systems of this nature?
Media companies would like the internet to be heavily regulated so that things like copyright law can be strongly enforced, whereas tech companies recognize that the unregulated nature of the internet is the very reason that all sorts of innovations can happen on the network. If you think about it, things like napster were very innovative. Never before was it possible to try out new music. I for one never really enjoyed listening to cds in cd stores, trying to decide if the album was worth buying. With napster, though, I could sit in the privacy of my home and try anything.
I think that we have not nearly come close to exploring the possibilities that the internet can offer us. As user interfaces improve and mobile devices become more ubiquituous (i can never spell that, sorry not a native english speaker...kuro5hin has spell checking...) new innovations will spring up that nobody can think of right now...
Everybody loves the Iraqi Information Minister!!!
The site is actually here :)
Also, if you install tweakui you can get cool search prefixes for the adress bar. For example (configure this in the tweakui window):
g http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s
imdb http://us.imdb.com/Find?%s
image http://images.google.com/images?q=%s
dict http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=%s
then in the adress bar you can type "imdb monty python" and it will search. Pretty nice.
I wonder, if Konqueror claims to be IE, does the OS then also get counted as Windows? And what is the default setting? I'd imagine most people simply use the default setting.
Though the 64-Bit Windows does not have all the features of the 32-Bit version...
...is of course Chandler, from the Open Source Applications Foundation.
This was featured earlier on Slashdot: Mitch Kapor's Outlook-Killer
katakana, as stated in the wikipedia article i linked to.
Actually, "anime" is not a japanese word at all. "Anime" is the french word for "animated", although no japanese person seems to believe this...