I have found that this cut up engine has some interesting properties. Properties which were probably not forseen or intended by the authors.

Use a mouse to drop a Requirements Document, as written by, say, a member of the Sales staff into the upper box. Then visit the CPAN site, grab a couple of relevant Perl modules and drop them into the bottom box. Activate the 'Cut It Up' button, grab the results, drop it in to your source code file and fire up the Perl interpreter. Voila! you now have a well structured Perl program which conforms to spec.

Sometimes you will have to try it a couple of times. It seems to work with Bugzilla reports, too. It doesn't seem to work with lisp since it has trouble keeping the parentheses balanced properly.

grazulis - william s. burroughs - cutup machine

] BERKELEY, Calif.--Attempts to protect copyrighted
] material have strayed from their original purpose, say
] lawyers, technologists and academics, but few can agree
] on the solution.
]
] Speaking Friday at a University of California at Berkeley
] conference on the law and policy of digital rights
] management, experts from all circles seem to agree that
] more is going wrong than right with the current approach
] to protecting digital content. Moreover, they argue that
] current laws such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
] (DMCA)--which makes cracking copyright protections
] illegal, even when otherwise acceptable under other
] laws--are serving the extremes, not the mainstream
] populace.

Some comments from Microsoft:
] "We have a clear focus that we don't want to restrict what
] people can use their computers for," said John Manferdelli,
] general manager for Microsoft's Windows Trusted Platform
] Technologies group. "We have found out in talking to
] customers that whatever the methods that you use, they
] cannot impose policy. It should be under the nuser's control."

They are currently not singing that song in regard to XBox hacking.

Experts: Copyright law hurts technology | CNET News.com

A great article on how the spooks are finding it difficult to keep up with technology.

These Are Not Your Father's Wiretaps

For "Net-genners," Microsoft learned that using the Internet for socializing is a way of life.

Microsoft aims to tap 'Net generation' | CNET News.com

] Approved just two months ago, the program represents a
] significant departure from the traditional method of
] drawing a simple circle around a target to show a bomb's
] estimated blast effect and determine what civilians might
] be at risk nearby, Air Force officials said.
]
] Instead, Bugsplat generates blob-like images --
] resembling squashed insects -- that military officials
] say more precisely models potential damage by a
] particular type and size of bomb dropped by a particular
] aircraft flying at a given altitude. This enables
] commanders to fine-tune attacks and, in some instances,
] can embolden them to order bigger bombs than they would
] have employed relying on less sophisticated modeling
] methods, the officials said.

Military Turns to Software to Cut Civilian Casualties (washingtonpost.com)

] "What we're seeing now is the weaving of electronic
] warfare, psyops and other information warfare through
] every facet of the plan from our peacetime preparations
] through execution," said Maj. Gen. Paul J. Lebras, chief
] of the Joint Information Operations Center, a secretive
] military agency based in Texas that has sent a team of
] experts to join the Central Command info-warfare team for
] the Iraq campaign....

] "We are trying very hard to be empathetic with the Iraqi
] military," said a senior American information warfare
] official. "We understand their situation. The same for
] the Iraqi population. We wish them no harm. We will take
] great pains to make those people understand that they
] should stay away from military equipment."

Firing Memes, US Wages Information War

Packed with 24 small motors to manipulate the artificial skin of its face, the cyborg - called K-bot - has a pair of cameras in its eyes designed to analyse the facial expressions of the people it sees.

Its not a cyborg. Cyborg implies a human is one of the components. Steve Mann is a cyborg. This is a robot head.

IOL : K-bot the sociable cyborg is wired to smile

] Since they were enacted in 1998, the “anti-circumvention”
] provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”),
] codified in section 1201 of the Copyright Act, have not been
] used as Congress envisioned. Congress meant to stop copyright
] pirates from defeating anti-piracy protections added to
] copyrighted works, and to ban “black box” devices intended
] for that purpose.[1]
]
] In practice, the anti- circumvention provisions have been
] used to stifle a wide array of legitimate activities, rather
] than to stop copyright piracy. As a result, the DMCA has
] developed into a serious threat to three important public
] policy priorities:

EFF Unintended Consequences: Four Years under the DMCA

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]
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]
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Fuel Cell Store.com offers fuel cells and related products

] You'll be able to buy a humanoid as early as next
] year.

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