CVS as a means of keeping track of your life
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Keeping track of suspects
Keeping track of suspects
06/09/2004 11:36 PMUSA Today Jun 10 2004 3:45AM GMT
More parents keeping track of teens
online
More parents keeping track of teens
online
03/19/2005 02:55 AMAmerican parents are latching on to filters, other methods to prevent
their kids from accessing objectionable content, study shows.
The Tour de France bl0g is once again
keeping track of cycling's main event
The Tour de France bl0g is once again
keeping track of cycling's main event
07/07/2004 07:57 AM 2004 .. a non-official blog .. Franke
Steele
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Internet can be a means to finding
balanced life
Internet can be a means to finding
balanced life
04/17/2004 03:39 AMSeattle Times Apr 17 2004 8:22AM GMT
Robot destroyed in action means a life
saved
Robot destroyed in action means a life
saved
04/12/2004 07:26 PMCNN Apr 12 2004 11:11PM GMT
Mourners from around the world turned to
the Internet to track the waning hours
of Pope John Paul II's life an
Mourners from around the world turned to
the Internet to track the waning hours
of Pope John Paul II's life an
04/03/2005 05:24 PMBaku Today Apr 3 2005 9:19PM GMT
From keeping threats out to keeping data
in
From keeping threats out to keeping data
in
06/18/2004 05:29 PMQualys scans networks for holes in their defenses. Now it's looking to
help companies comply with law by stopping leaks.
Pentagon Can't Even Keep Track Of The
Systems That Keep Track Of Stuff
Pentagon Can't Even Keep Track Of The
Systems That Keep Track Of Stuff
07/08/2004 12:33 PMThe Pentagon certainly isn't known for efficiency in their business
processes, and no one ever said they needed to be run in the same
manner as a profitable business, but the fact that they
can't
even track the thousands of different databases and logistics
systems that are supposed to keep track of all of their purchases
and assets is a bit worrisome. At the very least it's a huge recipe
for fraud, with plenty of already greedy enough defense contractors
clearly abusing the system for great profit to themselves -- at the
expense of our own tax dollars.
If this is the right track, don't show
us the wrong track
If this is the right track, don't show
us the wrong track
09/23/2004 08:02 PMOne of the more fascinating moments of today's
White House press conference with Bush and Allawi came when the
president, who claims to pay scant attention to public opinion polling
(that's something Clintons do), referred to "right track/wrong track"
polling in Iraq like he was George Gallup himself:
Half-Life facial expressions used in
autistic life-skills classes
Half-Life facial expressions used in
autistic life-skills classes
05/14/2004 07:41 PMHere's a novel use for a First-Person Shooter:
An autism institute apparently is interested in using Half-Life 2's
facial animation capabilities to help teach autistic children how to
recognize expressions, according to PC Gamer magazine.
LinkLifeBio.coms Road of Life Adventure
Seeks Ordinary People with Extraordinary
Life Stories
LifeBio.coms Road of Life Adventure
Seeks Ordinary People with Extraordinary
Life Stories
07/23/2004 09:58 AMLifeBio, Inc., the leading online personal history company, believes
that everyone has a story to tell and they need to tell it. From
August 2 to August 7, the company will conduct free audio interviews,
present workshops on why and how to tell life stories, and give away
old-fashioned wooden YoYos, traveling through the Midwest. People they
meet will pick LifeBio questions from a traveling treasure chest and
share memories through audio and written recordings. [PRWEB Jul 22,
2004]
Life Imitates Seinfeld Imitating Life
Life Imitates Seinfeld Imitating Life
01/02/2004 04:48 AMWoman Files $10M Suit Vs. Starbucks .. suing each
other
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20 New Half-Life 2 Screenshots @
PlanetHalf-Life
20 New Half-Life 2 Screenshots @
PlanetHalf-Life
08/15/2004 05:34 PMWired News: Campus Life Comes to Second
Life
Wired News: Campus Life Comes to Second
Life
09/25/2004 09:11 AMIt has by no means been proven
It has by no means been proven
09/20/2004 03:16 AMWhat fucking morons ..
Orcinus
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Living Below Your Means
Living Below Your Means
02/12/2004 03:39 PMMoney-saving tips from your friendly pharmacist.
Means for ends
Means for ends
01/07/2004 06:04 PMDave Pollard calls
World of Ends #1 among the Ten Most
Important Ideas of 2003.
"It has by no means been proven"
"It has by no means been proven"
09/21/2004 02:33 AMIBM minimizing ROI - what it means to
you
IBM minimizing ROI - what it means to
you
11/04/2003 12:09 PMReader revolt
"If _, that means the terrorists have
already won!"
"If _, that means the terrorists have
already won!"
07/01/2004 03:35 PMLa La means I love you.............
La La means I love you.............
08/07/2004 01:53 AMI love last minute plans because often times those are the best ones!
I'm headed to LA tomorrow for a...
Green Means Go
Green Means Go
11/07/2003 08:48 AMAndrew Gumbel has an article at The Independent titled, "Infra-red
device gives drivers the green light." Basically, he reports on the
sale (still legal at the moment) of Mobile Infra-Red Transmitters,
little boxes that plug into your car's cigarette lighter, giving you
the power to change (certain) red lights to green. Washington Post
reported on it last Friday. With more Googling, I found out MIRTs
were reported on earlier than Halloween even.
Wi-Fi Means: Never Having to Say "I'm
Not Working"
Wi-Fi Means: Never Having to Say "I'm
Not Working"
01/16/2004 11:01 AMThe New York Times offers this cheery piece that suggests you can
still ignore your kids while in the same room [reg. required]: I'm
sounding cynical, but this article does extol the virtues of being
able to be connected all of the time and work all of the time, even
when in physical proximity to your family. Seriously, however, the
notion that you can get necessary work done and not have to hole
yourself up in a basement or at a specific location is one of the
great benefits of a home wireless network. Oddly, the piece opens
looking at Oren Michels, identifying him as the president of a human
resources benefits administration firm. I knew that name, so I perform
a Google search, and find that he is also president and CEO of
WiFinder, a Wi-Fi directory site. (Disclosure: I'm the senior editor
at JiWire, an editorial and directory site focused on wireless that
competes for ad/sponsor dollars with WiFinder.) I shot a note to Oren
to confirm that he was still in that role at WiFinder, which he is.
Like WiFinder's chairman and founder Scott Rafer, Oren wears a few
hats. My point here is not that it's odd that Oren has multiple jobs,
but rather it's an odd choice of the reporter to not mention that Oren
Michels is the head of a company that's devoted to spreading
information about Wi-Fi. It's not bias; it's just a strange omission,
n'est c'est pas?...
What It Really Means to Save
What It Really Means to Save
05/25/2004 02:43 PMA simple story from the other side of the world shows how everyday
dreams come true.
Politics by other means
Politics by other means
02/10/2004 06:47 AMThe Internet may have made Howard Dean, but Dean didn't make the Net
-- and his campaign's woes don't faze digital democracy's true
believers.
Shark Tank: So THAT'S what it means
Shark Tank: So THAT'S what it means
03/23/2005 05:33 PMThis IT shop has a chargeback system, billing other departments for
the amount of disk space they use. But this user wants to know: What
day is disk usage calculated?
This Means War... or at least a good
noogy-ing!
This Means War... or at least a good
noogy-ing!
01/18/2004 08:08 AMemptybottle.org/glass/2004/01/this_means_war_or_at_least_a_good_noo
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"World War IV: How It Started, What It
Means, and Why We Have to Win"
"World War IV: How It Started, What It
Means, and Why We Have to Win"
08/17/2004 03:41 AMOn e-mail as a means of exchange...
On e-mail as a means of exchange...
03/06/2004 01:55 AMI've had lots of conversations over the last few years about ways
in which rising marginal cost could deal with grotesque abuses of
online services. There are probably a dozen posts in this blog about
that subject alone. Now the obvious example of a place where this kind
of thing has been proposed has been e-mail - people have been talking
about ways to get people to pay for e-mail "stamps" for years as a
possible means of avoiding spam. Bill Gates has proposed another version of this scheme recently. His idea -
ten-second pieces of computing time on the machine that sends the mail
being given to some worthy cause (or to just solve some abstract
puzzle). This would - apparently - be a gesture of good faith on the
part of the sender that a spammer couldn't possible match.
Now, my personal opinions about rising marginal costs have mainly
been about how to deal with noise, distance and abuse in online
communities. I once touched on the issue in connection with e-mail
(only because e-mail was a suitable jumping off point) and ended up in
an almighty fight with Cory
Doctorow about it. Since that time, I'm still of the opinion that
exponential graphs of effort or diminishing causality over space or
increasing marginal costs (all features of the real-world) still have
a role to play in how we solve gross abuses online. On the other hand
I've seen no evidence that there's a model that works particularly
well with regards to e-mail. Certainly my experience of sending the
fifty or sixty e-mails I send from my personal account a day (and the
other fifty or sixty that I send at work) wouldn't be radically
improved by having my various computers churn through puzzles for
twenty minutes a day.
With regards to the 1p-per-e-mail approach - I'm still of the
opinion that a more successful version would be about the
redistribution of money rather than the paying of it. What if the
person you sent your e-mail to got the 1p you spent to send it to them
and could then use that penny to send an e-mail in turn to whosoever
they wanted. In those circumstances, most users (who get as much
e-mail as they send) would be financially unaffected, the spammed
would get a financial reward for all the rubbish they were forced to
consume (there might even be a legitimate business model in collecting
spam) and the spammers would end up paying much much more money than
before.
This is not a new idea either, and nor do I think it's a
particularly practical one, but it does present some interesting
opportunities to think about e-mail in very different (ludicrous?)
ways - perhaps eventually even as a unit of currency that you write
upon and distribute. After all noted currency is only an abstraction
of value written on a rectangular piece of paper - why shouldn't our
future currency be based upon the transactions of plain text
files...
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What a Weak Dollar Means
What a Weak Dollar Means
04/28/2004 01:10 PMA weak dollar can actually be good for many American companies.
Pricing software by means
Pricing software by means
01/09/2004 09:51 PMAmong the many responses to my post on
piracy was one which suggested I price my software by country.
The general idea is that it's unfair that someone in the United States
is charged the same price as someone in, say, Russia, where economic
conditions are much harsher.
I have to say that I agree with this sentiment. Russia isn't such
a warez capital because it's a dishonest country - it's a country with
many skilled people thrown into chaotic times. In order for some of
them to maintain these skills, they may need to stay up-to-date with
the latest software. But in order to be ethical, they need to shell
out a week's pay to register one measly program.
I've actually talked with other shareware authors about this in the
past, and a number of them shared my belief that charging a lower
price in certain countries would be a better way to do business.
Several of us discussed ways to handle this, but in the end it was
decided that it would be so hard to manage that it wouldn't be
feasible. Verifying the country of origin and weeding out fraud would
simply require too much time. There are ways to automate this, of
course, but most of us need to rely on third-party ordering services
so we don't have much control over the purchasing process - so it
would be up to us to handle the extra work.
Most shareware companies are one-person outfits such as my own, and
we all find it difficult to balance the many demands of running our
businesses. We tend to shy away from anything that's time-consuming
simply because we often have no time left at the end of the day. In
my case, I'm not going to implement something if it means I have less
time to spend with my kids.
One possible solution is to skip charging by country and instead
ask each customer to pay what s/he believes the software is worth. A
minimum price would be required to make sure the order processing fees
are covered, but the final price would be determined by the customer.
This sidesteps the need for any verification, and could
potentially even increase earnings since I'd get orders from
those who previously couldn't afford our software.
On the surface I really like this idea, but the more you
think about it the more it seems just as problematic. First there's
the fear factor: I rely on software sales to feed my family, so I'm
scared to try such a thing. But even if I ignore this (not to mention
the issues involving third-party ordering services), there are still a
boatload of issues involving corporate sales, etc., that would eat
away at my time.
I'd like to hear other thoughts on this so I've enabled comments
for this post. However, I'm going to disable them once the comment
spammers hit, so if you have your own blog you'd be better off posting
there and sending a trackback ping.
BTW, I should add that my posting about this does NOT mean that I'm
about to implement such a system, since the ordering services for both
TopStyle and FeedDemon are already in place. I'm simply thinking out
loud about how such a system might work in case I want to try it with
future software.
Ma Bell Means Business?
Ma Bell Means Business?
07/22/2004 01:13 PMThe telephone provider focuses on declining business customers.
What the Attack on Abu Ghraib Means
What the Attack on Abu Ghraib Means
04/04/2005 12:46 PMAs I
mentioned
earlier, the attack on Abu Ghraib is proof that al Qaeda is now
officially in Iraq. The execution followed a classic al
Qaeda pattern. Here are some things that the press missed in the
little coverage they provided:
- The level of sophistication. Swarming and feints.
- Large number of attackers (50).
- Low casualties for attackers killed (~1 maybe).
- No prior intelligence on a large, well planned attack of this
size.
- Weapons mix: RPGs, VBIEDs, and small arms.
This is problematic. This attack demonstrates that Al Qaeda
can now mount an attack of the size and sophistication necessary to
over-run a large number of US troops.An over-run could
produce significant US casualties and captives.
A consideration of what it means to be
secure
A consideration of what it means to be
secure
07/23/2004 09:43 AMUnbreakable means Hackable
Unbreakable means Hackable
12/08/2003 03:29 PMApparently, Oracle isn't as "unbreakable" as we've been brainwashed
led to believe. Oracle confirmed that a variety of its server products
could be tampered with through vulnerabilities via the OpenSSL
protocol. The flaws could potentially open the door for a remote
hacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, execute arbitrary
code, and gain access privileges. Read all about it in Oracle Issues
High-Severity Vulnerability Warning. I always wonder if vendors will
just give up someday, realizing that no product is...
What Google's Gmail Means for the Web
What Google's Gmail Means for the Web
05/03/2004 03:44 AMTechfocus May 3 2004 7:41AM GMT
Peoplesoft: No means no (TheDeal.com)
Peoplesoft: No means no (TheDeal.com)
05/27/2004 04:48 AMTheDeal.com - The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based business software
developer rejects Oracle's fourth bid, this time $7.7 billion.
No visible means of support
No visible means of support
12/31/2003 12:01 PMI just got carried away and stared making stuff, said Byrne. It
communicates within certain limited parameters really well and very
easily. The genius of it is that it was designed for any idiot to use.
I learned it in a few hours, and thats the idea. Its not a serious
statement about anything.
Dell means business with new PCs
Dell means business with new PCs
02/01/2005 09:06 PMLine of six new office models, including five notebooks and a desktop,
continues computing titan's Intel-only policy.
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