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"Copenhagen Consensus"

"Copenhagen Consensus" 06/05/2004 03:05 PM

Copenhagen Bloggers' Dinner

Copenhagen Bloggers' Dinner 09/12/2004 12:26 PM
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal has put one together on Wednesday evening in Copenhagen, where I'm speaking tomorrow and Tuesday at several gatherings. Details here.

Ah, Copenhagen in the depths of winter

Ah, Copenhagen in the depths of winter 01/01/2004 01:30 PM
Well, class materials are in, tickets are bought, and I'm off to Copenhagen for NordU in a few weeks. (I get in on the 25th, and leave on the 29th, with the class the afternoon of the 28th) Should be interesting to wander around Copenhagen for a few days, too--I've never been there. (Anyone with recommendations as to what to do, feel free to let fly...)...

Talks aim for consensus

Talks aim for consensus 09/22/2004 02:31 AM
The NI parties and the two governments continue attempts to conclude a deal to restore the assembly.

Nordic Perl Workshop in Copenhagen

Nordic Perl Workshop in Copenhagen 12/13/2003 05:23 PM
jonasbn writes "Nordic Perl Workshop in Copenhagen, 27-28th. of March 2004Copenhagen and Stockholm Perl Mongers and again this year arranging a Perl Workshop in Copenhagen, helped by DKUUG. The workshop will be a two day event in Symbion Science Park in ...

Microsoft behind successful
IT-greenhouse in Copenhagen

Microsoft behind successful
IT-greenhouse in Copenhagen 04/08/2005 01:08 AM
Copenhagen Capacity Apr 8 2005 5:26AM GMT

Copenhagen Public Squares Go Wireless

Copenhagen Public Squares Go Wireless 06/30/2004 12:35 PM
Danish hotspot provider Hotspot Networks is offering Wi-Fi access in many of Copenhagen's central squares and parks: Hotspot Networks has deals with iPass and Boingo, so those subscribers will have access to the network. The release should be available here eventually....

XML-Deviant: Forming Consensus

XML-Deviant: Forming Consensus 06/05/2005 11:54 PM
In his latest XML-Deviant column, Micah Dubinko outlines a plan for combining the XForms and Web Forms 2.0 communities.

A Contrarian Test of the Consensus

A Contrarian Test of the Consensus 04/19/2004 08:26 AM
TheStreet.com Apr 19 2004 12:44PM GMT

Is There a Consensus Web Services Stack?

Is There a Consensus Web Services Stack? 02/12/2003 07:46 PM
Kendall Clark examines recent debate as to whether the "web services stack" is a thing of fact or fiction, and also muses on the latest news in relation to web services patents.

Consensus at talks 'difficult'

Consensus at talks 'difficult' 08/23/2004 10:10 AM
NI Secretary Paul Murphy says it will be difficult for the political parties to agree on a way to restore devolution.

Copenhagen Vows to Press Drug Crackdown
(AP)

Copenhagen Vows to Press Drug Crackdown
(AP) 01/06/2004 09:15 AM
AP - Police vowed Monday to press a crackdown on the sale of illegal drugs in Copenhagen's hippie enclave, even as drug sellers returned to their demolished stands.

reboot7, 10-11 june 2005, copenhagen,
denmark

reboot7, 10-11 june 2005, copenhagen,
denmark 04/15/2005 03:11 PM
reboot7, 10-11 june 2005, copenhagen, denmark .. Reboot 7 in Copenhagen

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ISRO for consensus on putting man on
moon

ISRO for consensus on putting man on
moon 08/12/2004 10:28 PM
123Bharath.com Aug 13 2004 2:42AM GMT

Yahoo! pulls out of Scandinavia, closes
Nordic branch in Copenhagen (AFP)

Yahoo! pulls out of Scandinavia, closes
Nordic branch in Copenhagen (AFP) 01/22/2004 12:48 PM
AFP - The US Internet portal giant Yahoo! will pull out of Scandinavia at the end of the month, closing its Nordic branch in Copenhagen which covers Norway and Sweden in addition to Denmark, a company employee said.

No Consensus on Iraq Bioweapons Labs
-White House

No Consensus on Iraq Bioweapons Labs
-White House 05/19/2004 10:27 PM
Reuters via Wired News May 20 2004 2:50AM GMT

Indian Coalition Seeks to Build Policy
Consensus

Indian Coalition Seeks to Build Policy
Consensus 05/26/2004 04:35 AM
Boston Globe May 26 2004 8:16AM GMT

Annan Says Consensus for Elections in
Iraq Emerging (Reuters)

Annan Says Consensus for Elections in
Iraq Emerging (Reuters) 02/12/2004 12:43 PM
Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday agreement was emerging on direct elections in Iraq but did caution about the timing of any poll.

No Consensus on Iraq Bioweapons Labs
-White House (Reuters)

No Consensus on Iraq Bioweapons Labs
-White House (Reuters) 05/19/2004 10:12 PM
Reuters - It remains unclear whether the CIA was wrong about Iraq's purported prewar mobile biological weapons laboratories, the White House said on Wednesday, disputing a comment by Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Economist.com

Economist.com 02/14/2004 08:01 PM
this article on the science of love .. more» .. more

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"The Economist"

"The Economist" 01/02/2005 04:25 AM

The Economist gets it

The Economist gets it 05/11/2004 03:40 AM
That bastion of British Toryism, and the center of what in the 19th Century was called liberalism, and would now be called Libertarian Conservatism, The Economist Magazine, has called for Rumsfeld's resignation, in prose and by its choice of cover photo: From the editorial: The scandal is widening, with more allegations coming to light. Moreover, the abuse of these prisoners is not the only damaging error that has been made and it forms part of a culture of extra-legal behaviour that has been set at the highest level. Responsibility for what has occurred needs to be taken—and to be seen to be taken—at the highest level too. It is plain what that means. The secretary of defence, Donald Rumsfeld, should resign. And if he won't resign, Mr Bush should fire him.... That approach was epitomised by the setting up of a prison camp at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba in 2001. The decision to detain combatants caught in Afghanistan for an indefinite period, with no access to lawyers and no legal redress, was understandable as a short-term response to the threat of terrorism and to ignorance about who might actually be terrorists, but it was nevertheless both wrong and disastrous for America's reputation. It was wrong because it violated the very values and rule of law for which America was supposedly fighting, and soon produced evidence of double standards: some American citizens captured in Afghanistan were allowed to stand trial in American courts in the normal way, but such rights were denied to mere foreigners, every single one of whom was labelled as a dangerous terrorist by Mr Rumsfeld, regardless of any evidence. It has been disastrous for America's reputation because of that hypocrisy but also because it has become a symbol of a "we'll decide" arrogance. The Geneva conventions that have governed the treatment of prisoners of war for decades were waved aside. And the argument used to justify America's rejection of the new International Criminal Court—that its soldiers would be vulnerable to unreasonable persecution, with necessary military actions defined as crimes—looked ever more hollow. Thanks to Guantánamo, critics could argue that America really does need the check of the ICC, and that its claim that abuses would readily be dealt with in domestic courts was also hollow. ... But the culture that it represented, with all prisoners considered guilty until proven innocent, with dubious interrogation methods widely considered to...

Economist.com | Wal-Mart

Economist.com | Wal-Mart 04/18/2004 07:15 AM
more» .. report

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Economist.com | Iraq

Economist.com | Iraq 05/08/2004 02:04 AM
Resign, Rumsfeld .. needs to go .. more

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Economist Set to Become New Leader of
India

Economist Set to Become New Leader of
India 05/19/2004 10:30 AM
Manmohan Singh, who oversaw India's first wave of economic liberalization in 1991, will be the country's next prime minister.

Economist.com | The science of love

Economist.com | The science of love 02/15/2004 09:19 AM
this link about science and it's understanding of love .. the neurobiological basis of love

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Economist.com Latin today

Economist.com Latin today 01/23/2004 08:47 PM
LONG LIVE LATIN .. Roman Rebound .. more»

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Economist.com Coffee-houses

Economist.com Coffee-houses 12/20/2003 05:03 AM
Grave and Wholesome Liquor .. Economist

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the economist on old media and bl0gs

the economist on old media and bl0gs 07/06/2004 09:44 AM
good quote by glenn reynolds at the end

Ex-economist sentenced to nearly 3 years

Ex-economist sentenced to nearly 3 years 04/11/2004 01:09 PM

Economist.com | 100 years of Einstein

Economist.com | 100 years of Einstein 12/31/2004 12:43 PM
On the eve of the 100th anniversary of his annus mirabilis, an overview of Einstein's early career .. Economist .. Quote:

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Economist.com | Coffee-houses

Economist.com | Coffee-houses 12/19/2003 02:34 PM
"The coffee-houses that sprang up across Europe, starting around 1650, functioned as information exchanges for writers, politicians, businessmen and scientists. Like today's websites, weblogs and discussion boards, coffee-houses were lively and often unreliable sources of information that typically specialised in a particular topic or political viewpoint."

Economist: Buggy whipped

Economist: Buggy whipped 07/04/2002 02:19 AM
The problem, as they saw it, was the complexity of modern software—especially operating systems and productivity suites. “Twenty, or even ten, years ago, software was actually reliable,” one software developer admitted. That was because the cryptic operating systems on desktop computers at the time (CP/M and MS-DOS) were far smaller and more tightly coded than today's graphical beasts. The software written for bigger machines used to be more reliable, too. Before IBM was forced to “unbundle” its software, computer makers controlled both the program code and the hardware it ran on—and could thus integrate them properly. That was one of the reasons why IBM's mainframes and Digital Equipment's minicomputers had such a reputation for reliability.

Readers had no trouble identifying the two leading culprits. One was the practice of re-using chunks of old software for doing set things. “Over time, code-reuse leads to massively complex and prodigiously huge software programs, full of ‘magic code' that nobody understands or wants to touch,” said another programmer. Analysing such programs was more like archaeology than computer science. “They are full of ‘midden piles' and ‘rock strata' containing artefacts and fossils that once had a clear purpose but whose function is now lost to history.”

"zeldman.hgr"

Economist.com | Future of flight

Economist.com | Future of flight 12/16/2003 07:49 AM
Buducnost zrakoplovstva .. The Future of Flight .. High Times .. Economist .. piece

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Economist.com | Saudi Arabia and oil

Economist.com | Saudi Arabia and oil 05/31/2004 12:38 PM
"This theft is indeed the biggest theft ever witnessed by mankind in the history of the world." .. this excellent Economist article .. The threat to Saudi oil supply

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The Economist says Fire Rummy

The Economist says Fire Rummy 05/07/2004 11:58 AM

There's no shortage of news articles about abuses of prisoners in Iraq. And now several publications, including the New York Times and The Economist are calling for the resignation of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The Economist's op-ed, Resign, Rumsfeld has a clear premise, "Responsibility for errors and indiscipline needs to be taken at the top."

The scandal is widening, with more allegations coming to light. Moreover, the abuse of these prisoners is not the only damaging error that has been made and it forms part of a culture of extra-legal behaviour that has been set at the highest level. Responsibility for what has occurred needs to be taken-and to be seen to be taken-at the highest level too. It is plain what that means. The secretary of defence, Donald Rumsfeld, should resign. And if he won't resign, Mr Bush should fire him.

Sounds about right to me.

Economist Tackles WiMax

Economist Tackles WiMax 02/01/2005 09:13 PM
And I mean tackles! Pins it to the mat: This article lays out the land in a way that I appreciate: WiMax is an incremental enabling technology not a radical shift in view. No WiMax equipment has been sold yet. None will be sold for at least six months. When it does--and pre-WiMax turns into true WiMax--customer premises equipment will still be pretty steep compared to commodity devices available today. I had a long talk with SkyPilot the other day, which uses 802.11a-like technology to offer fairly good broadband speeds across long distances. Their tech is totally commoditized. Their CPE cost is $349--for a single unit. It goes down quite a lot (they wouldn't say how much) in quantity. They're about to announce some big customers for their production gear. WiMax isn't about whether broadband wireless is a viable service to offer. It certainly is. There's no question about that. It's whether a particular instanciation of that technology has any bearing on the deployment unless is has particular advantages that make something possible that wasn't. (That's part of the issue with early MIMO gear for the home, too.) As I read this Economist article, the real issue isn't whether a company like Qwest would choose SkyPilot's 802.11 over Alvarion's pre- or post-certified WiMax. Rather it's whether "plenty good enough today for real deployment" trumps "much better but much more expensive in the future until we deploy a lot of it." WiMax has a huge array of benefits for carriers that want to roll out WiMax in the same way they deployed DSL: few truckrolls (because of good non line of sight protocols) and lots of ratcheting in bandwidth offered to provide discrete services that mimic DSL and cable modems. These benefits are more appealing to carriers that are trying to integrate broadband wireless into an existing portfolio. These carriers are also in a better position to bundle applications on top of WiMax thus making it more reasonable for them to eat or subsidize a $500 CPE cost than even a large regional ISP or municipality. WiMax might be the flavor that telcos and related firms opt for because of consistency, standardization, and technical features. But it doesn't mean that potentially billions of dollars of other gear might not be sold in the meantime that has a very similar function and utility for the non-operator market. The article also walks...

Economist.com | Space station

Economist.com | Space station 03/17/2005 02:49 AM
how the Iran Non-proliferation Act could very well kill the International Space Station .. No plan B for outer space .. Funding

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"Economist magazine is skeptical"

"Economist magazine is skeptical" 02/10/2004 04:15 PM

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