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Thursday, May 16, 2002
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The New Yorker: All I really needed to know I learned when a polar bear ripped my arms off.
8:08:28 PM 
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The BBC: "India looking in ancient texts for help with military defense" (Those crazy Indians. Shoes made out of camel skin and smeared with owl and vulture meat will allow a soldier to walk hundreds of miles. Read it for yourself. Its quite something.)
8:02:08 PM
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The Register : Gummi Bears Defeat Fingerprint Sensors (very cool story)
7:57:11 PM
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Boston.com - At MIT they really can put words in your mouth
7:53:18 PM
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Lessig's ETCON Commons speech notes. Larry Lessig just announced that he's finished his brief to the Supreme Court on the Eldred case, which will challenge the indefinite extension of copyright (Irving Berlin's copyright will last for 140+ years).
He describes the value of Creative Commonw with an hilarious anaecdote: He set up a Morpheus server in his office at Stanford to distribute the transcripts of his speech, and he got a panicked call from the Network Police. "There's illegal activity going on in your office! Someone is running a Morpheus server!" His response:
Look, it's still legal in the United States people people to voluntarily make their content available online. The network police clearly thought that this is bizarre, the idea that someone believes that content can be made avialable for free to others. Most people don't distinguish between perfect control and no control.
When Valenti describes "The terrorist war against the most important industry in America," he's right, but he's got the wrong industry. The entertainment borg is attempting to crush the most innovative, valuable industry in the country: the technology industry.
Tim O'Reilly's announced that he's going to offer his authors the ability to put their material under a 14-year "Founder's Copyright," which, for authors that agree, will put all O'Reilly books into the Creative Commons public domain license in 14 years. He got a standing ovation.
Now, David Reed is talking about Open Spectrum, and the idea that radio-waves pass through one another -- interference is what happens when a receiver is confused. With good technology, the capacity of a slice of spectrum increases with the number of transceivers operating in that spectrum . This is a commons in which the sheep shit grass. The FCC regulates spectrum as though use of spectrum reduces it, but the reverse is true.
When our radios collaborate with software-defined radio spectrum scarcity vanishes. We need spectrum that we can do anything we want to, a "spectrum commons."
(The EtherPEG view of the zeitgeist is full of digital photos of the stage, which someone is uploading to his/her site, presumably) Link Discuss [bOing bOing]
5:12:04 PM
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Airport Face Scanner Failed. Little more than half of Palm Beach International Airport employees used in a test of a facial-recognition system were identified, the ACLU discovers. By Julia Scheeres. [Wired News]
5:04:41 PM
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I was interested by this article at O'Reilly - Previewing Windows .NET Servers, in particular the enhanced process model in IIS 6.0. I've advocated for a long time that complex server applications should be partitioned into separate processes, wherever feasible, to isolate different components of the server into their own address space. ...In IIS 6.0 inetinfo.exe is now a separate process with no apps running in its address space. This process controls multiple worker processes, each process running one or more apps. ... .NET App Domains are a method of partitioning .NET applications. An App Domain is the .NET equivalent of an OS process. [Cook Computing]
Cook gives an excellent description of the changes in IIS 6.0 and .NET App Domains. [Sam Gentile's Radio Weblog]
5:03:51 PM
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Protect Private Data with the Cryptography Namespaces of the .NET Framework.
In this article, the author explores the System.Security.Cryptography namespace and the programming model used to apply cryptographic transformations. He discusses reasons why cryptography is easier in .NET than it was before, including the easy programmatic acccess developers have to the cryptography APIs and the difference between symmetric and asymmetric algorithms.
Article. May 16, 2002.
Another great MSDN articles. They seem to be rising in quality. [Sam Gentile's Radio Weblog]
5:02:49 PM
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Ephox: EditLive! for Java empowers business users with an easy-to-use, intuitive interface for creating and publishing web content.
4:59:03 PM
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NY Times: 3 CEO's who arranged for loans through their companies are out of work and hundreds of millions in debt.
7:44:36 AM
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Wired: Why is this man smiling? - Digital animation having a hard time with the human face.
6:53:34 AM
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