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Thursday, January 17, 2002
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Robert Scoble points out that Passport should work with any browser, including Mac browsers. Oops! I shouldn't have made that assumption. I'll try it out tomorrow. Just for fun, maybe I'll try signing up with iCab instead of MSIE...
11:30:44 PM 
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Thought for the day:
The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality!
Mordechai Anielewicz
11:09:10 PM
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Proposed Legislation Would Ban Space-Based "Weapons". Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced a bill in the House of Representatives late last year that would ban weapons in space.
But while there have been many similar legislative initiatives in the past, Rep. Kucinich's bill is distinguished by its unusually expansive definition of "weapons."
Among the weapons that it would proscribe the new measure includes "psychotronic" devices that are "directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of ... mood management, or mind control." [Cipherwar]
Apparently the Congressman is afraid of the "orbital mind control lasers." It's nice to see what kind of people are running the country. Still, in a way it's reassuring to see that Rep. Kucinich is not from California!
7:42:38 PM
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Students Tackle Gunman in Law School. Bridges and Besen, a former police officer from Wilmington, N.C., crept down a back stairwell to the parking lot, and Bridges got his gun out of the car. [Yahoo! News]
The Los Angeles Times forgot to mention that one of the students who stopped the rampage was armed. Imagine that.
7:28:03 PM
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Robert Scoble linked to my comment about what makes Radio different. Incidentally, that post was written offline--I wrote it on my Newton while I was waiting for someone in a cafˇ.
6:58:21 PM
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OK, if you look five years down the road you can see that Passport is going to own a large chunk of the world's Web sites. Already if you go to http://msdn.microsoft.com you'll need Passport to download software and do other things.
Now, imagine a world where every Web site is like that. [Scobleizer: Radio 8.0, WinXP News, and More!]
So where would that leave us "stateless persons" who use Macs or Unix? Or will there someday be a Mac version of Passport?
6:42:30 PM
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I created this weblog simply as a test of Radio Userland 8. I didn't expect to make more than two or three posts before abandoning it--after all, that's what happened with similar EditThisPage.com and Free Conversant sites. Much to my surprise, I've been actively posting for six days now, and I will probably continue indefinitely.
What makes Radio 8 different from other weblog tools? I believe it's the news aggregator. The convenience of this feature has kept me using Radio, and as long as I have it running anyway for news, I might as well comment on the news. Thus, the aggregator subtly encourages the user to also maintain a weblog.
Maybe it's all an insidious plot by Userland to increase the number of weblogs.
5:48:21 PM
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Wedding attack in Israel kills five. Five people are killed and about 20 injured after a man attacked a
wedding in the northern Israeli town of Hadera, army radio says. [BBC News: world]
Once again the Palestinians show their commitment to the peace process. This story suggests that Israelis don't normally carry their sidearms at weddings--hopefully this will change now.
2:43:46 PM
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Symantec stock closed at $75.35 today. That means my options are worth almost $4/share! Maybe I should cash out, before the price drops down to $25 again...
2:12:58 PM
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AT&T Broadband Offers Home Nets. To offer wired, wireless net solutions [allNetDevices Wireless News]
The networking is to be installed by the user. In addition to paying $45.95 per month for the basic broadband access and cable modem rental, users must pay $4.95 per month for each additional network node.
I have AT&T Broadband, and I already use a Linksys router and an AirPort base station--both of which I installed myself. So why would I want to pay $10/month to AT&T?
10:24:19 AM
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SJ Mercury: Handspring's phone-PDA combo is a dud. Handspring's much-touted new Treo 180 ``communicator'' at $399 -- the latest attempt to merge a personal digital assistant with a mobile phone -- turns out to be yet another kludge that's too much of a PDA to be a good phone and too much of a phone to be a good PDA. [Tomalak's Realm]
The Treo is apparently the same thing as the Qualcomm/Kyocera combos that have already failed in the marketplace. In a way, the Treo has been proven a dud before it even ships--although Handspring is apparently hoping that their model will magically be different.
10:19:18 AM
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I Am a Criminal. R. Lee Wrights at Rational Review -
I Am a Criminal - Mr. Wrights has done nothing wrong, it's just
that there are so many contradictory laws that you can't breathe
nowadays without bumping into one of them. Why you can't even begin to
know the law, much less abide by it. [End the War on Freedom]
10:08:02 AM
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HIGH TECH DEMOCRATS - Is There Privacy After 9/11? In the post 9/11 Era, will we forsake privacy for security? Can we have safety and a Bill of Rights? [Privacy Digest]
Too bad this is up north. In my opinion, we can have safety and the Bill of Rights. However, the government doesn't want us to have either, because if they can make us less safe they can scare gullible people into willingly sacrificing their freedom.
6:21:36 AM
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Jetpack Flies (Two Feet) High. The jumps for joy probably were higher than the jetpack actually flew, but a Silicon Valley company is thrilled to have gotten its one-person flying machine off the ground. By Farhad Manjoo. [Wired News]
This is a neat idea, but I doubt it will be affordable for normal people.
6:12:44 AM
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