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The Government Information Awareness Project: needless to say, an essential component of a modern democracy. Voters have to observe, and understand what government is actually doing, as opposed to what it's merely saying if they are going to make informed choices. Modern US governments are so large that even government employees don't understand them: it makes sense for citizens to use technological tools to help understand what's going on, and who's responsible for it. "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both" as James Madison said... Comments 1:35:50 PM 
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OS X new hard drive question: the HD on this Web server is almost full. It's been very stable, and I'd like to just take the whole config, users, passwords, directories et al. over to a new, larger HD. Anybody done this? Will Apple's Disk Copy do the trick? Any other strategies? Comments 1:26:59 PM
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Radio 8.0 runs a lot better on Mac OS X 10.2.6 than it did on Mac OS X server 10.1.5. Moved it to a new machine 2 weeks ago, and no crashes... Comments 1:24:33 PM
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 Lone Genius Hacker of all time? Sir Isaac Newton was, in the words of James Gleick "born into a world of darkness, obscurity and magic; led a strangely pure and obsessive life, lacking parents, lovers and friends; quarreled bitterly with great men who crossed his path; veered at least once to the brink of madness; cloaked his work in secrecy; and yet discovered more of the essential core of human knowledge than anyone before or after. He was chief architect of the modern world."
Newton's magnus opus Principia was printed in a run of only 1000 copies: almost no one in Newton's time understood it, and Newton quarreled publicly with the few who did, including Gottfried Leibniz, who had simultaneously and independently discovered the Calculus. Newton was an obsessive loner who rarely emerged from his room while at Cambridge. He secretly conducted experiments in alchemy, and doubted that Jesus was divine and a part of the Trinity (a heretical viewpoint in his time).
But, by redefining the world as a place where reliable laws of physics, governed by mathematics could be repeatedly observed and verified, Newton set the stage for everything from space probes to global networks. Even Einstein was an outspoken admirer, comprehending the leap Newton had made from a world dominated by alchemy, mysticism and ignorance. I see the first post was popular with regular readers... will have to research some of the candidates... |
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