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Thursday, October 10, 2002
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk provides two useful articles on his weblog:
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The Microsoft Protection Racket: "Microsoft have a pretty poor track record with regards to their operating system and application security - in some cases acknowledging and resolving serious flaws, many weeks after they have been brought to the public eye." [Google Technology News]
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India moving to Linux: "Department of Information Technology has announced a sweeping initiative to move the entire country to Linux as its "platform of choice" in place of higher cost 'proprietary' software, reports the India Times subsidiary Economic Times." [Google Technology News]
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Two Genes Linked to Congestive Heart Failure: "The findings may help doctors identify drugs that are most likely to help patients and to find people at high risk early enough to arrest the disease. By Gina Kolata." [Headlines From The NY Times]
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A Nobel That Bridges Economics and Psychology: "Two Americans have won this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for trying to explain idiosyncrasies in people's ways of making decisions. By Daniel Altman." [Headlines From The NY Times]
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Drug discovery is slow and expensive. Drug Release to Be Delayed Once Again: "Akzo Nobel announced that it was forced to delay for at least another year the release of an anti-depressant drug it is testing. By Gregory Crouch." [Headlines From The NY Times]
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Nobel in Chemistry Goes to 3 Whose Work Speeded Drugs: "Three scientists share this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing techniques to identify and map proteins, carbohydrates, DNA and other large biological molecules. By Kenneth Chang." [Headlines From The NY Times]
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Chemistry Nobel for protein work. "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded on Wednesday to three scientists whose innovations in protein analysis inspired a revolution in biomedical research." See also Nobel in Chemistry Goes to 3 Whose Work Speeded Drugs. [Google Technology News]
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EU opens the door to 10 states by 2004: "The European Commission recommended Wednesday that 10 countries be admitted to the European Union by 2004 in a historic enlargement toward the East, but it also made clear that it does not yet consider that the largest of the applicants, Turkey, is ready to join." [Google World News]
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Value of group-forming -- Comment()
Seblogging writes: The value of a group-forming network increases exponentially with the number of people in the network, and in inverse proportion to the effort required to start a group.
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Weblogs in Education -- Comment()
Serious Instructional Technology points to Seblogging: "Seb's got some great links, including Hector Vila asking about what makes weblogs a disruptive technology. I'm pretty confident that this article by John Hiler was the inspiration for that characterisation. ... Also via Seb, Sarah Lohnes has a post on a book chapter about weblogs and student writing."
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LawMeme: "Prof. Lessig distinguished the first copyright law of 1790 from subsequent laws and characterized the first law as not truly a retrospective extension. There was a great deal of concern whether or not accepting Eldred's position would lead to the court having to invalidate many previous laws, in particular the copyright act of 1976. Justice Breyer gave Prof. Lessig an out by asking whether or not the court could refuse to invalidate the copyright act of 1976 due to the chaos it would create." [Daypop Top 40]
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More On News Aggregators: "The key point is that I don't have to visit each of these sites to find out what's new. My computer, running aggregator software, does it for me, every hour, automatically. The information is formatted in XML, but I am barely aware of that, as with all compelling apps, the technical details are tucked out of the way. Like all open formats, it's easy to figure out what's going on." [The Shifted Librarian]
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