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Monday, March 22, 2004
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Privacy and camera phones are a hot topic in Finland right now. Today I noticed a column on this topic at the Sonera Plaza site (in Finnish, Kamerakännykkä: lelu, hyötykapine vai kotirauhan rikkoja?). What are the limits of acceptable behaviour? It seems that in Japan camera phones have already caused embarrasing situations.
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Teaching parallel programming with MPI -- Comment()
Next week I'll lecture on a two-day course on parallel programming with MPI. This time the course will be lectured in English, although about half of the participants speak Finnish. Last December we organized the same course in Finnish, and received several requests for the course in English.
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EC-MS talks failed over Longhorn fears: "Brussels is concerned that Microsoft will bundle even more features into Longhorn and thereby exclude even more competitors. The EC is already investigating Windows XP. Longhorn is due for release in 2006." [The Register]
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Microsoft's involvement in the SCO: "BusinessWeek has learned that Microsoft [...] did play matchmaker for SCO Group (SCOX ) and BayStar Capital, a San Francisco hedge fund which made a $50 million investment in SCO last October." [Living Without Microsoft]
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Against All Enemies: "For years, bin Laden had been producing propaganda saying that the US wants to invade and occupy an oil-rich middle eastern country. So what did we do? Invade and occupy an oil-rich middle eastern country. As a result, it's not surprising that Al-Qaeda and its offshoots are recruiting more and more." [Aaron Swartz: The Weblog]
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RFID: Could Big Brother be watching someday? "Privacy advocates fear that RFID tags attached to retail merchandise might be left "active" after a sale, with the data stored on them still accessible." [Computerworld News]
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Record Stores: We're Fine, Thanks: "The recording industry may protest, but some owners of independent music stores say file trading is good for business. Katie Dean reports from the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas." [Wired News]
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