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Stream Control Transmission Protocol |
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3:28 am EST, Jan 3, 2002 |
This is fucking awesome. It totally solves the multi-homing problem with no need to rework IP addressing, and extensions to allow for dynamic changes to associations will fix the mobile IP roaming problem as well. You will not use TCP anymore in 5 years. Stream Control Transmission Protocol |
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8:33 pm EST, Dec 29, 2001 |
ok, so i was just looking around aimlessly on the internet and i found this and it made me laugh until i had tears streaming down my face. sorry tom! die tom die |
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The Fading Altruism of Open Source Development |
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8:30 pm EST, Dec 29, 2001 |
"If this hypothesis is supported by future research, a reinterpretation of the entire history of the free software movement will be necessary. For this analysis suggests a starkly different logic to open source development than is contained in most of the popular literature on the subject. In particular, it offers support for the hypothesis that early open source work thrived because its development took place in an immature and publicly-subsidized market.... Is free software truly free? It may be something for which developed countries have already paid: through early funding for academic research and development, and support for public research at times when the market for certain types of software was immature. It is hardly accidental that early "hacker" communities emerged at organizations with the resources and will to subsidize long-term development." The Fading Altruism of Open Source Development |
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CNN.com - Federal judge orders new sentencing for Abu-Jamal - December 18, 2001 |
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2:49 pm EST, Dec 18, 2001 |
"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A federal judge threw out the death sentence of Mumia Abu-Jamal on Tuesday, ruling that the former journalist and Black Panther is entitled to a new sentencing hearing for killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981. " I refuse to have an "opinion" on Abu-Jamal's guilt, but he certainly is a compelling writer. CNN.com - Federal judge orders new sentencing for Abu-Jamal - December 18, 2001 |
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3:14 pm EST, Dec 17, 2001 |
MemeStreamers in the SF Bay Area may be interested in this upcoming conference. Deadline for submission of papers is 1 Jan 2002. The Program Committee includes Jamie Zawinski, Bram Cohen, Iag Grigg, and others. "CodeCon 2002, scheduled for February 15, 16, and 17 in San Francisco, California, is the premier event in 2002 for the P2P, cypherpunk, and network/security application developer community. It is a workshop for developers of real-world applications that support individual liberties." CodeCon 2002 |
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Equal Opportunity Recession: Almost Everyone Is Feeling It |
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3:21 pm EST, Dec 16, 2001 |
... The downturn has quickly become one of the broadest on record. ... [Nearly] every large industry ... is shrinking. Almost every state is losing jobs. Unemployment has risen for nearly every group, climbing most sharply for college graduates and others who usually escape the brunt of a downturn. ... For many younger people, who have known nothing but prosperity since they entered the work force, the new situation has come as a shock. Many without work are unsure how soon they will be able to find a job that pays as much as their old one did. ... [A Boston-area temp agency] has purged a lot of the not-so-good workers and has been placing the best ones in jobs that they might not have taken before. "People will do stuff today that they would not do even a year ago." ... [Healthcare is] the single strongest sector in the United States economy today. "... never seen [personnel shortage] as bad as it is now. ... The demand is just incredible." ... For a long time ... many better-known Silicon Valley companies ... resisted the notion that the bursting of the dot-com bubble last year would affect ... plans. ... CIOs remain pessimistic. ... It is all a vivid illustration of how Silicon Valley's technology firms succumbed to their own mantra that the new economy was unstoppable. ... Equal Opportunity Recession: Almost Everyone Is Feeling It |
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New Scientist | Mobile Phones | Write here, write now |
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3:49 pm EST, Dec 15, 2001 |
Rock. HP is playing around with augmented reality technology that allows you to tie audio messages to a physical location. Ultimately I'd like to see this sort of system tied into display technology such that you can create virtual objects that exist in real places. New Scientist | Mobile Phones | Write here, write now |
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