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Friday, October 14, 2005
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More spyware...NOW! "Security experts are saying that the computing world is facing an escalating spyware threat. [...] I can't wait for the US government to pass some useless laws that don't stop it." [Spamroll]
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Re: genotype, How is everything going? "Oh, my genotype is fine, thank you. Hasn't changed much recently, but one never knows. I might evolve a few more twirls on the short arm of chomosome fourteen. Maybe I'll even change phylum, if it strikes me one day." [Ming the Mechanic]
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Hot interest in open source Elmer -- Comment()
I wrote here earlier about the open source (GPL) version of Elmer (computational tool for multi-physics problems). Seems that going open source made the software popular. A least the visits to the Elmer web site have increased 20-fold.
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Is the blog community becoming a monoculture? -- Comment()
I reread the article Weblogs on the borderline of control and chaos, which I wrote 2 1/2 years ago. "Too much winnowing caused by, e.g., dominance by a few weblogs will kill the community." Is this becoming true? Are there just a few weblogs which dominate the scene? What about this suggestion: "To make weblogging sustainable, there should be tools for discovering new and active communities, mapping them, and telling others about them. These tools could function as a travel agency for deciding on what island to take a vacation, and on what island there is good food for thought." I don't think such tools exist. On the other hand, perhaps they are not needed. Despite some concern, I feel that the blog community has survived well, although perhaps is becoming too much oriented on how things are said, or how popular a subject generally is - instead of looking looking critically at the society and humanity. But even with these topics the blog community tends to suprise every now and then.
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New Finnish technology will prevent unauthorized use of mobile devices: "The new technology developed by VTT, Technical Research Centre of Finland makes it possible to identify the user based on her or his physical movements such as walking style. This feature prevents unauthorised use of portable devices such as laptops or mobile phones. In the future, credit cards may also verify user's identify based on their physical movements before approval of payment transactions."
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