Open Wide: Decoding the Secrets of Venom

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Decoding the Free/Open Source (F/OSS)
Puzzle

Decoding the Free/Open Source (F/OSS)
Puzzle 05/13/2004 05:19 AM
Decoding the "Free/Open Source (F/OSS) Puzzle" - a Survey of Theretical and Empirical Contributions by Maria Alessandra Rossi
http://opensource.mi t.edu/papers/rossi.pdf

Abstract:
F/OSS software has been described by many as a puzzle. In the past five years, it has stimulated the curiosity of scholars in a variety of fields, including economics, law, psychology, anthropology and computer science, so that the number of contributions on the subject has increased exponentially. The purpose of this paper is to provide a sufficiently comprehensive account of these contributions in order to draw some general conclusions on the state of our understanding of the phenomenon and identify directions for future research. The exercise suggests that what is puzzling about F/OSS is not so much the fact that people freely contribute to a good they make available to all, but rather the complexity of its institutional structure and its ability to organizationally evolve over time.

Open source cracks publishing wide open

Open source cracks publishing wide open 06/17/2004 11:24 AM
Once upon a time, publishing was the domain of large corporations. Then came desktop publishing and the tools to produce a book shrank from the cost of an aircraft carrier to the price tag of a PT boat. Now, small publishers on the bleeding edge of technology are fomenting a revolution that may change the publishing market forever. Open source publishing tools, long derided as not being ready for battle, are proving themselves in the trenches of small publishing.

Red Hat frees Wide Open

Red Hat frees Wide Open 05/16/2004 12:24 PM
For all of the FUD that some are eager to spread about Free Software and Open Source, the real truth is that the purveyors of such tripe are truly fearful that you might learn the simple object lesson: a long and happy life is filled with learning. They want you to believe that you are too ignorant to understand new ideas, and that your capacity for learning has eluded you. They need you to believe that you are too lazy to make an effort to think for yourself. Don't buy that idea, for it is nothing more than an abdication of your obligations. Try to learn something new every day, no matter how small, for it will sharpen your mind and rejuvenate your spirit.

CAN-SPAM Leaves Lid Wide Open

CAN-SPAM Leaves Lid Wide Open 05/20/2004 04:06 PM
Almost five months after Congress passed a law to reduce the amount of junk e-mail flooding the nation's in-boxes, industry experts widely agree that the opposite has occurred: We're getting more spam than ever before.

Stealing with Mouth Wide Open?

Stealing with Mouth Wide Open? 04/02/2005 10:51 PM

Last night, I've been thinking about Russell's post on PSP in which he wrote:

So I snagged Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow this weekend via BitTorrent and then converted it to run on my PSP.

Actually, it wasn't that he snagged a major movie off BitTorrent that had me thinking.  He wouldn't have been able to unless it wasn't a common albeit illegal and shadowy activity.

What had me thinking was his response to the obvious questions:

I simply described an activity that many, many people are already doing with or without me. Do you really think that not talking about this sort of illegal use of BitTorrent is going to somehow protect it?

While my answer to his question is no, I do think talking in public about illegal activities does somehow cause changes, changes which the affected or interested parties (i.e. MPAA, FBI) may consider extremely harmful and thus proceed to counter by setting examples.

Based on my mutated theory of ying and yang, what belongs in the shadow should stay in the shadow.  Failing to do so leads to chaos.

Mind Wide Open excerpt

Mind Wide Open excerpt 02/18/2004 10:53 AM
Salon is running a long excerpt from Steven Johnson's mindblowing new book, Mind Wide Open, which I read last week and have been returning to in my thoughts several times a day. Johnson takes apart the jargon and theory of various kinds of brain and mind science and exposes us to a bunch of aha! moments about the physiological, evolutionary and non-material bases for our thought processes. Reading this book, you get this curious form of vertigo in which you begin to see your brain as a collection of chemicals and processes and physiological serendipities, and then realize that that very same collection of goo is the thing that is having this realization, and boy, that's a weird goddamned feeling. As for me, after reading this I'm in the market for a cheap travel-sized USB neurofeedback EEG.

Areas that do show noticeable changes appear on the images as a cluster of bright yellow pixels, fading out to orange and red at their peripheries. The images look strikingly like the Doppler radar images you see on the Weather Channel. (If you blur your eyes a little, you might think that yellow patch on the image was a thunderhead, not a brainstorm.) The image is projected over a grid with numbers running along each axis. The numbered grid and the slices create a three-dimensional system of coordinates, the latitude and longitude of neuromapping. The grid is made up of small cubes called "voxels," and each voxel has a specific address.

Joy begins by laying down the twenty-five slices for stage one of our experiment, the dreaded checkerboard. The pattern of activity is immediately visible, even to my untutored eyes, mostly because there's literally nothing going on in 95 percent of my brain. Only a thin band wrapping around the back of my head, roughly at ear level, glows yellow.

"We know that the flashing checkerboard is a very salient stimulus for just the visual processing areas of the brain," she says. "And that's exactly what's happening here."

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300 Holes Capped in IE - Still Wide Open

300 Holes Capped in IE - Still Wide Open 09/13/2002 05:26 AM
Despite fixing 300 holes in IE on Monday, security testers are saying that "You can do anything...it's wide open".

In the New Age of Parity, Shinnecock Is
Wide Open

In the New Age of Parity, Shinnecock Is
Wide Open 06/16/2004 04:35 PM
Domination is out and parity is in, giving players who have yet to win a major even more hope as they prepare for the United States Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.

UK wide open to identity theft

UK wide open to identity theft 03/25/2005 04:56 PM

iTunes DRM cracked wide open

iTunes DRM cracked wide open 01/06/2004 04:24 AM
A lot of work going on behind the scenes to capture and encode streaming Video & Music. Links to a...

NetGear Also Has Remote Access Wide Open

NetGear Also Has Remote Access Wide Open 06/05/2004 10:22 AM

How Gluecode led Debisys into the wide
open spaces

How Gluecode led Debisys into the wide
open spaces 05/26/2004 12:02 PM
Debisys, a prepaid phone transaction service processor, thought it would be a Windows shop forever. Debisys runs Windows 2000 servers, a SQL Server database, and Windows desktops. "There was a perception that we'd always buy Microsoft software," says MIS Manager Mike Figeuroa. But that is all about to change. "We are doing a complete migration to open source."

Eyes Wide Open Over Anime Piracy

Eyes Wide Open Over Anime Piracy 07/27/2004 06:16 AM
Amid proliferation of counterfeit Japanese animation products, an American distributor fights back in court. Randy Dotinga reports from San Diego.

iTunes DRM cracked wide open for
GNU/Linux

iTunes DRM cracked wide open for
GNU/Linux 01/07/2004 01:54 PM

Thousands of security webcams wide open

Thousands of security webcams wide open 01/05/2005 09:02 PM

peter's Mind Wide Open diagram

peter's Mind Wide Open diagram 06/02/2004 05:11 PM
this is arranged well, but i'm not sure how it informs what i read in the book

iTunes DRM cracked wide open for
GNU/Linux. Seriously.

iTunes DRM cracked wide open for
GNU/Linux. Seriously. 01/05/2004 04:19 PM
Exclusive DVD Jon unpicks locked music

Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not

Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not 09/09/2004 05:25 AM
Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not by Brian Lamb/strong>
http://www.edu cause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0452.asp

In 1999, the World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee looked back on the previous decade and lamented: “I wanted the Web to be what I call an interactive space where everybody can edit. And I started saying ‘interactive,’ and then I read in the media that the Web was great because it was ‘interactive,’ meaning you could click. This was not what I meant by interactivity.” That vision of a genuinely interactive environment rather than “a glorified television channel”—one in which people not only would browse pages but also would edit them as part of the process—did not disappear with the rise of the read-only Web browser.1 It’s churning away more actively than ever, in a vivid and chaotic Web-within-the-Web, via an anarchic breed of pages known as “wikis.”. This has been added to my Wikis section in Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators web page.

Google gets cash but future wide open

Google gets cash but future wide open 08/22/2004 05:52 AM
Pe.com - Sun Aug 22, 09:39 am GMT

Open Source Business Software One of
Best Kept Secrets On the Web

Open Source Business Software One of
Best Kept Secrets On the Web 04/10/2005 03:26 AM
Linux-based open source business applications are growing in number, popularity and usability. As their popularity grows, so does the threat to existing enterprise software business models. [PRWEB Apr 10, 2005]

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the
Neuroscience of Everyday Life

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the
Neuroscience of Everyday Life 09/01/2004 12:15 AM

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Open
Mobile Alliance (OMA) Establish Formal
Relationship

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Open
Mobile Alliance (OMA) Establish Formal
Relationship 08/01/2004 06:29 AM
W3Reports Aug 1 2004 10:12AM GMT

Electric Venom:We Be Snarkin'!

Electric Venom:We Be Snarkin'! 01/25/2004 09:24 AM
has produced the latest edition of the Snark Hunt .. We Be Snarkin'!

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Sun's McNealy hit with venom from
European vipers

Sun's McNealy hit with venom from
European vipers 12/03/2003 12:09 PM
We want profits now!

Please Direct Your Bile, Loathing, Venom
and Displeasure at SBC

Please Direct Your Bile, Loathing, Venom
and Displeasure at SBC 01/23/2003 06:05 PM
Please Direct Your Bile, Loathing, Venom and Displeasure at SBC They've got to be kidding: SBC Communications Inc is enforcing a patent it owns that, it claims, covers the use of frame-like user interfaces in web sites, it emerged this week Kevin Murphy writes. . If your web site uses a frames or a persistent user interface, then you could be in infringement. Using SBC’s interpretation of its patent, hundreds of thousands of web sites, including those of many SBC’s own hosting customers, many of the web’s biggest sites, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office itself, could be in infringement. ... "SBC Intellectual Property currently is working with several commercial web site owners regarding patent licensing agreements related to specific techniques for enabling consistent navigation features from different pages of a web site," SBC said in a statement yesterday. ... It is believed that a small number of sites have so far been contacted, likely in the tens. SBC is asking between $527 and $16.6m per year to license the patented technology, depending on the annual revenue of the company concerned and what kind of license they sign up for. [_Go_] Well if you haven't come up with a reason to remove frames from your site yet then here it is. It does make me wonder about Open Source projects like SquirrelMail and PHPMyAdmin that use frames extensively.

The Claim: You Can Treat a Snakebit by
Sucking Out the Venom

The Claim: You Can Treat a Snakebit by
Sucking Out the Venom 07/13/2004 02:04 AM
The bottom line: Venomous snakebites require emergency medical care.

Prisoners Breed Spiders for Venom High
(AP)

Prisoners Breed Spiders for Venom High
(AP) 09/07/2004 08:04 PM
AP - Inmates in an Australian prison have been caught breeding deadly redback spiders that they milked for venom to inject themselves for a high, according to government records.

Baby's Diaper Absorbs Snake Venom
(Reuters)

Baby's Diaper Absorbs Snake Venom
(Reuters) 06/25/2004 06:56 AM
Reuters - A diaper proved to be a life-saver when a venomous snake bit an Israeli infant, a doctor said Friday.

PicoGRIB: GRIB decoding sw

PicoGRIB: GRIB decoding sw 08/12/2004 09:33 AM
New release: 2.04!

Other News: iTMS Decoding

Other News: iTMS Decoding 05/06/2004 10:07 AM
What exactly are the codes Apple exchanges between your computer and the iTunes Music Store?

"Decoding Rice's self-serving testimony"

"Decoding Rice's self-serving testimony" 04/10/2004 02:22 AM

DNA Key to Decoding Human Factor
(washingtonpost.com)

DNA Key to Decoding Human Factor
(washingtonpost.com) 03/29/2005 05:31 PM

Notes and Tips: AirTunes Decoding

Notes and Tips: AirTunes Decoding 08/17/2004 11:27 AM
Discussion continues about AirPort Express's encryption system.

Genetic decoding moves beyond humans

Genetic decoding moves beyond humans 06/07/2004 05:30 PM

GdkPixbuf Suffers Image Decoding
Vulnerabilities

GdkPixbuf Suffers Image Decoding
Vulnerabilities 09/16/2004 07:02 PM

Notes and Tips: Serial Number Decoding

Notes and Tips: Serial Number Decoding 08/04/2004 10:02 AM
Here's a Mac serial number decoder that works with old models.

Science is decoding the Classical Holy
Grail

Science is decoding the Classical Holy
Grail 04/18/2005 07:46 AM

So what do you do with 400,000 scraps of Papyrus that has ancient wittings on them that have up until recently been un-readable. Those of you that a history buffs are going to want to read this. [The Independent]

HOW WIDE IS THE WORLD WIDE
WEB?................

HOW WIDE IS THE WORLD WIDE
WEB?................ 02/10/2004 05:01 AM
How wide is the World Wide Web?

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2005: Early warning systems and decoding
nature

2005: Early warning systems and decoding
nature 01/06/2005 04:59 PM
ZDNet Jan 6 2005 8:10PM GMT
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