Being "always on" is being always off, to something.
MacForensicsLab 1.0b14 – Mac OS X – VersionTracker
Topic: Technology
10:42 pm EDT, Apr 3, 2006
MacForensicsLab is a complete suite of forensics and analysis tool in one cohesive package. Combining the power of many individual functions into one application in order to provide a single solution for law enforcement professionals.
It would be nice if there were a MemeStreams plugin capability for NNW.
NetNewsWire v2.1 and later has a handy post to del.icio.us command that makes it easy to send bookmarks through applications like Cocoalicious and Pukka. Unfortunately, there are dozens of great social bookmarking services out there that are not supported by NNW. Brent Simmons, the creator of NNW, has publicly stated that he would support posting to other services when other intermediate applications were available. Postr attempts to be one of these applications. It supports posting to several online bookmarking services and includes a system to add others.
According to a significant study published in the prestigious British journal Nature recently, the H5N1 bird flu virus is at least two large mutations and two small mutations away from being the next human pandemic virus. This virus attaches deep in the lungs of birds but cannot adhere to the upper respiratory tract of humans. Since we can't transmit the virus to each other, it poses little immediate threat to us.
So why did the "flu hunter," world-renowned Tennessee virologist Robert Webster, say of bird flu on ABC that there are "about even odds at this time for the virus to learn how to transmit human to human," and that "society just can't accept the idea that 50 percent of the population could die . . . I'm sorry if I'm making people a little frightened, but I feel it's my role."
I'm sorry, Dr. Webster, but your role is to track influenza in the test tube, not to enter into broad speculation on national television. By your way of thinking, we should all be either building an escape rocket ship or killing every bird we see before it can kill us.
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1. The Internet is now a critical infrastructure and a global platform for communication and commerce. What should be the role of governments in its development and management?
2. The Internet is challenging existing business models. How can we ensure there is sufficient investment to meet the network capacity demands of new applications and of an expanding base of users?
3. Innovation is taking place at the edges of the network. How do we ensure that this continues and how can it be enhanced?
4. The Internet is perceived as not being secure, nor does it protect privacy. What steps should be taken to improve security and privacy and by whom?
5. Ubiquitous networks are being deployed. What are the drivers of these developments? What will be the impacts on individuals and society?
Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment
Topic: Business
5:04 pm EDT, Apr 2, 2006
During the past fifteen years, changes in the technologies used to make and store audio and video recordings, combined with the communication revolution associated with the Internet, have generated an extraordinary array of new ways in which music and movies can be produced and distributed. Both the creators and the consumers of entertainment products stand to benefit enormously from the new systems. If the available technologies were exploited fully, the costs of audio and video recordings would drop sharply, the incomes of artists would rise, many more artists could reach global audiences, the variety of music and films popularly available would increase sharply, and listeners and viewers would be able to participate much more easily in the shaping of their cultural environments.
Sadly, we have failed thus far to avail ourselves of these opportunities. Instead, much energy has been devoted to interpreting or changing legal rules in hopes of defending older business models against the threats posed by the new technologies. These efforts to plug the multiplying holes in the legal dikes are failing and the entertainment industry has fallen into crisis.
This provocative book chronicles how we got into this mess and presents three alternative proposals--each involving a combination of legal reforms and new business models--for how we could get out of it.
Chapter 6 outlines the best of the possible solutions to the crisis: an administrative compensation system that would provide an alternative to the increasingly creaky copyright regime. In brief, here’s how such a system would work:
Endorsements from Lessing, Vaidhyanathan, Benkler, and many publications.
The former chief scientist at Xerox goes up against a California high-school senior on whether all this cool technology is bringing people together or keeping them apart.
Worried about India’s and China’s booms? So are they.
Topic: Business
5:04 pm EDT, Apr 2, 2006
A recent Friedman piece.
The more I cover foreign affairs, the more I wish I had studied education in college, because the more I travel, the more I find that the most heated debates in many countries are around education.
