] Innovation Futures does not use real money, although top
] players win great awards. We make a prediction and allow
] players to buy and sell contracts based on whether they
] believe the prediction will come true.

This looks like a LOT of fun....

Innovation Futures

] The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) issued on Wednesday a
] draft criticizing visual verification tests Web-based
] e-mail services and other Internet businesses use. The
] tests are designed to prevent software robots from
] registering numerous accounts and harvesting information
] for spam schemes and the like.

This is something that you are likely to see on MemeStreams soon, so any discussion here is pretty timely... Fortunately, there is an easy solution for me, which is to ask visually impaired people to email me.

I'm not sure how reasonable the web really is for the visually impaired. It is a visual medium. You scan with your eyes and pick out what you really want to read. If you had to have all of the extraneous menus read to you every time you viewed a page I think I'd skip it and listen to TV instead. RSS feeds that we produce are probably a 1000 times more helpful to blind people then the web pages themselves. Anyone up here know anyone who is visually impaired?

As for federated id systems, any identity like that is either going to have to employ one of the systems we're discussing here, or its going to have to use some sort of personal verification which will be intrusive from a privacy perspective. We could get rid of all the spam in a jiffy if we wanted to eliminate anonymnity. The problem is retaining anonymity while eliminating spam.

W3C criticizes antirobot tests | CNET News.com

] "Received a missive this morning from the Red Hat
] Network, stating that they will discontinue maintenance
] on Red Hat Linux 7.x and 8.0 by the end of 2003, and on
] Red Hat 9.0 by the end of April, 2004. And, more
] ominously: 'Red Hat does not plan to release another
] product in the Red Hat Linux line.' "

Redhat is forcing all of it's users to:
A. Cut all their machines over to Fedora. (Port + Crash)
B. Cut all their machines over to RedHat Enterprise. (Port + Bling)
C. Cut all their machines over to another linux distro. (Port + Crash + Annoy)
D. Never have security updates again. (Own + Crash + Annoy)

The move probably does make sense for them financially. The approach, however, in simultaneously dropping support for 4 versions of their operating system all at once, is bound to piss a lot of people off. RH8 is hardly cold yet and they are already yanking support. There are less then two months between the dot oh release of Fedora and the end of life for the old redhats. Not enough time for a migration in a real environment. They are going to loose customers over this.

Slashdot | Red Hat Linux Support To End

] Using a phone with Bluetooth, you can create a phonebook
] contact and write a message, eg. 'Hello, you've been bluejacked',
] in the 'Name' field. Then you can search for other phones with
] Bluetooth and send that phonebook contact to them. On their
] phone, a message will popup saying "'Hello, you've been
] bluejacked' has just been received by Bluetooth" or something
] along those lines. For most 'victims' they will have no idea as to
] how the message appeared on their phone.

bluejackq.com: What is Bluejacking?

] I long ago let my ARRL membership lapse. I lost
] interest in dealing with the on-line prima donnas that
] frequent their ranks. All the fun radio stuff (e.g.,
] truly random FFH in HF for anti-fade) is prohibited in
] the ham bands. Any radio enthusiast who wants to advance
] the radio arts will likely be playing in the unlicensed
] bands or operating outside the regulations in the amateur
] bands.

I don't really care enough about ARRL to comment on it frequently, but it is basically bad news. The FCC gives people a license which grants them special rights as long as they follow certain rules. So, they become obsessed with enforcing rules, and they become obsessed with special rights. They argued against the 5 gig wifi bands basically because they were opposed to letting commoners use radios. They predicted wifi would be like CB. I agree with these commentators. We should start cutting chunks out of that spectrum.

ARRL's 'private game preserve'

] John Perry Barlow: Dump the Doodads, and Retrofit
] the Brain
]
] Scott Adams: Puss Can Run, but He Can't Hide
]
] Michael K. Powell: Zap! The Form's Filled Out
]
] Donald J. Trump: Your Wish Is My Command
]
] William Gibson: Lies Exposed in Telltale Colors
]
] Moby: A High That Wouldn't Hurt
]
] Bill Joy: Memo to My Borsalino: Quiet!

Ideas Unlimited, Built to Order

] Mie's cellphone can tag each photo she takes with the
] latitude/longitude coordinates. Last night she tried
] sending a geotagged jpeg for the first time, so this
] morning I started researching how to get the coordinates
] out of the jpeg. It turns out that the data is stored in
] EXIF headers.

Eventually you'll leave notes around in the real world, which your friends will be able to access at that location when they are there. Coming soon, actually... This is all very easy to do today, its just a matter of access and cost.

AkuAku SF: gps tagged jpegs

] Satellites, pagers, cell phones and electrical grids
] could be affected Friday afternoon by a powerful stream
] of energized gas and particles from the sun.
]
] The coronal mass ejection, or CME, is expected to reach
] Earth about 3 p.m. EDT and its effects could last 12 to
] 18 hours, according to space weather forecasters.

Phreaknic not responsible for electronics problems in Nashville this weekend

] Host Identity Protocol [3] (HIP) defines a mechanism that
] decouples the transport layer from the internetworking
] layer, and introduces a new Host Identity namespace. When
] a host uses HIP, the transport layer sockets and IPsec
] Security Associations are not bound to IP addresses but
] to Host Identifiers. This document specifies how the
] mapping from Host Identifiers to IP addresses can be
] extended from a static one-to-one mapping into a dynamic
] one-to-many mapping. This enables end-host mobility and
] multi-homing.

Abaddon and I spent some time last summer working on a protocl called Adaptive Addressing Protocol (AAP). It was an attempt to make Mobile IP less silly by allowing hosts to change their IP addresses without dropping connections. It did so by associating connections with a unique identifier, secured by a Diffie Hellman key exchange. Last night, Jeremy points me at this. This is APP, basically. Its amazing how close our designs are. Its also *really* frustrating. We were going to have a working demo this weekend for Phreaknic.

I'm going to read through this stuff and see if there are any design decisions that we made that might be of value to this working group. Having said that, its worth memeing this documentation. This is the right answer for mobile IP and it will probably be the answer we end up with for multihoming of small networks because deploying something like this is less expensive then renumbering the internet geographically.

Host Identity Protocol

] ICANN does not successfully put a stop to it, the single
] most likely outcome is for the community to view ICANN as
] irrelevant and impotent. Once this happens, the
] inevitable result is a fragmentation of the DNS,
] disparate roots, and, loss of the convention of a single
] recognized authority at the root of the tree.

Finally a commentary that makes me happy: someone who gets it.

NANOG: Re: data request on Sitefinder