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Tuesday, November 19, 2002

Practicing in public: apologies - I'm working on a new look and feel for the gulker.com home page.... visitors this evening will likely see some anomalies as I debug the templates and automated publishing system based on Dave Winer's excellent Radio 8.0...
Comments 7:11:22 PM    

"You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream-the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path." - posted on Daver Farber's IP list today. The author.. are you ready... Ronald Reagan, in a 1964 speech "A time for choosing'. Full text is here... I wonder who actually wrote this speech...
Comments 6:59:44 PM    

" [Technology] implementation is slowing, but the rate of fundamental innovation is not slowing. Whether it's a good economy or bad, people come up with good ideas. You just have to be creating a much bigger technological advantage now to get funding, but that's not a bad thing." - Vinod Khosla quoted in a USA Today article. Ph.D's, not entrepreneurs, are the people getting attention at VC firms these days...
Comments 8:15:50 AM    

Court Erodes Constitution, Ashcroft Applauds [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] Are we giving up way too much of what makes this country tick for the illusion of security?
Comments 8:03:56 AM    

This Is Your Computer on Brains. IBM announces plans to build a pair of supercomputers so fast and powerful that they'll begin to approximate some functions of the human brain. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] If Moore's law economics continue, $1000 desktop PCs will have human-brain processing power sometime in the next decade...
Comments 7:54:01 AM    

SuSE plans 2003 Linux desktop push. The software maker plans to bring the open-source operating system to desktop computers, in an attack on Microsoft bolder than similar initiatives from Red Hat and Sun. [CNET News.com] Good luck... but the apps are still too hard for all but the geekly few...
Comments 7:49:43 AM    

Kevin Werbach: "One-third of the 30 billion e-mails sent worldwide each day are spam." [ On Slate, via Scripting News] The death of email as we knew it...
Comments 7:46:50 AM    

Particularly good essay on DMCA and why it's just bad for the economy, for civil liberties and even for Mac owners. From Adam Engst, the quintessential Mac user...
Comments 7:42:14 AM    



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