Wednesday, January 30, 2002

DigitalGlobe

DigitalGlobe is building a constellation of high-resolution earth imaging satellites and a comprehensive geo-information product store.

Someday I will have a use for this...

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Time to rewrite the DMCA

Rick Boucher
At the time, libraries, universities, consumer electronics manufacturers, Internet portals and others warned that enactment of the broadly worded legislation would stifle new technology, would threaten access to information, and would move us inexorably towards a pay per use society. That day is now close at hand.

posted at 7:37:54 PM — permalink

Dead Man Walking

Thomas L. Friedman
The only thing keeping Mr. Arafat afloat today is that no one wants to own his demise - neither Israel nor America nor the Arabs nor his own aides wants responsibility for finishing him off. [ ... ] Too bad he eats yogurt and takes regular naps.

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From sprawl to smart growth

[Public] support does not hinge on selling Americans on sacrifice or on demonizing suburban living. Rather, it hinges on making all Americans understand that they must pay the true cost of their transportation and land use decisions.

posted at 4:52:41 PM — permalink

Already winners

Derrick Z. Jackson
If the Rams are the ultimate in taxation without representation by taxpayers in the stands, the Patriots are one of the few teams in pro football that starting next year will play in a privately financed stadium.

Amen! Now about those Red Sox...

posted at 4:38:59 PM — permalink

No Founding Fathers? That's our new history

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are not included in the revised version of the New Jersey Department of Education history standards...

When I have kids I've been thinking that it might be fun to homeschool them...

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The SEC and Fake Investment Sites

The Securities and Exchange Commission [ ... ] was announcing Wednesday that it has seeded the Internet with a series of [ ... ] Web sites laying in wait to say gotcha to naive investors...

My favorite comment is this one... (hint - what very large energy company has been in the news recently?

posted at 3:06:29 PM — permalink

OK, this is weird. I lost my cable connection a few minutes ago (that's not the weird part; in fact, it's all too common...). I wasn't surprised that I couldn't connect to external sites, but I was surprised that I couldn't connect to Radio (at 127.0.0.1). I'm using Internet Explorer 5.1 on Mac OS X 10.1.2. When I tried to connect to Radio the Explorer status bar displayed the message looking for 127.0.0.1. Now, my mental model of how this is supposed to work is probably way too simplistic, but I don't understand why Explorer should have to look for 127.0.0.1 - isn't that just the localhost? Does anyone know if this is a problem with Internet Explorer? (my first guess) Or is there a setting in the OS that can be adjusted?

Note that this really isn't a big deal to me. I just get curious when things don't match my expectations. I've been avoiding learning too much about Mac OS X because it seems like that could turn into a big tangent, but maybe if I just poke around a little bit...

I think I'll post this to the discussion group.

posted at 2:32:09 PM — permalink

Government, Big Business battling another foe: liberty

Dan Gillmor
That was before Sept. 11, when so many Americans decided that liberty mattered far less than safety. Since then, Big Brother has reasserted his increasingly absolute right to snoop and pry and invade the deepest recesses of our bank accounts and private lives.

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