Tuesday, February 19, 2002

Some Thoughts on the Economics of Terrorism. For anyone who's interested about the economics of terrorism the following short piece might be of interest. Being something of a nascent political scientist, my field has been swamped with a lot of issues relating to terrorism since 9.11. Economics is only one of them. I worked on this a few months back as a reasearch item, and thought I'd take the intro bits and post them to see what you all thought, if anything at all, about the topic. [kuro5hin.org] A very interesting article.  I didn't know specifically about hawala.  This rekindles some of my interest in the orignal ideas behind Tenth Mountain Systems and tracking money launderinging. 7:14:56 AM

NY Times: Protecting Intellectual Property. that competitors have access to it, of course. But many companies say the competitive risk is outweighed by the benefit of making it difficult for someone else to win a patent -- a patent that could give the holder the right to demand licensing fees from all other users of the technology or technique. [Tomalak's Realm] A very interesting IP strategy.  We may consider this for Simile. 6:59:46 AM

[Hack the Planet] X-Bit Labs: High-End IDE RAID Controllers Roundup Part 2. [rosewater] Excellent... still gathering info for my GDC.  I hope to build it for under $2K. 6:46:04 AM

[diveintomark] 12 things. Brushstroke.tv: 12 things no one tells you about having a weblog [via Elkit in Wonderland, 2/18/2002] "#5: There really are two webs, and this one is better." [rosewater] I really like the design of the Brushstroke.tv site.  Clean, simple, and clear.  I hope to emulate it someday in my own webserver/log. 6:35:13 AM

[Scripting News] The Circle is a "scalable decentralized peer to peer application."  [rosewater] 6:32:14 AM

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