Links for 18-11-2006
Internet politics ‘crisis’, more on the CopyBot flap, Cemetary2.0, Damascene nanotubes, useful Latin phrases…
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“Whether media was left wing or right wing, the message was always that ‘leaders are out there to shaft you’.” I take his point, but evidence to the contrary might help his case somewhat.
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“Should this new, thematically different simulator prove to be a success, it is possible that more city-states could emerge, and that the CDS’ influence could spread to the mainland, annexing landowners there on a strictly voluntary basis.”
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“Replies ranged from the pessimistic but short “Where it’s been going the last year. Downhill” – to the longer but more optimistic “Oh, SL is going through a period of change, things look a lot worse than they really are”.” Dissent in SL.
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“On 17 November, the joint ESA-NASA Ulysses mission reaches another important milestone on its epic out-of-ecliptic journey: the start of the third passage over the Sun’s south pole.”
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“Mexican archeologists announced they have found signs that the tomb of an Aztec emperor could lie beneath a recently excavated stone monolith showing a fearsome, blood-drinking god.”
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“The lawsuit challenges the library system’s policy of using a restrictive Internet filter to bar access to information on its computers and of refusing to honor requests by adult patrons to temporarily disable the filter for sessions of uncensored read
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7 – Cemetery 2.0“Cemetery 2.0 is a concept for a set of networked devices that connect burial sites to online memorials for the deceased.” Just about weird enough to become commonplace. Via BoingBoing.
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“The BioPen has been designed to help soldiers on the battlefield determine whether they have been exposed to dangerous biological agents in under 20 minutes…” Plus many other tricks – once they get the funding, natch.
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“Think carbon nanotubes are new-fangled? Think again. The Crusaders felt the might of the tube when they fought against the Muslims and their distinctive, patterned Damascus blades.” Itz 4ll ab0ut teh w00tz!
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10 – Useful Latin Quotes“Sic faciunt omnes.” [Everyone is doing it.] Cheers, OKfuture.
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“… explain to the average person what DRM means to them: that music they’ve bought from one service that works with one device may not work if they get a different brand of device.”
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“Israel is using nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets…” Ouch.
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“Instead of giving the robot a rigid set of instructions, the researchers let it discover its own nature and work out how to control itself [...] The ability to build this “self-model” is what makes it able to adapt to injury.”
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14 – Cracked it!“3 million Britons have been issued with the new hi-tech passport, designed to frustrate terrorists and fraudsters. So why did Steve Boggan and a friendly computer expert find it so easy to break the security codes?” Told you so.
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