Robotic Freedom
Marshall Brain has a long but interesting article about what might happen when robotics and automation become as cheap as computers did in the late 1990s....
August 2003 archives
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AppleLore
The Computer History Museum is hosting an event to celebrate Apple Computer's historical contribution to the computer industry. The event is named AppleLore....
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Location based services
MIT's Technology review profiles some interesting location based devices and their use....
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Tethered by a high-tech leash
MSNBC has a series of articles on "punching the clock in the new economy." Especially interesting to me is Tethered by a high-tech leash. "[P]eople with Web access at home log in and work an extra 5.9 hours per week on average." What causes someone to stay constantly connected? Fear of losing their job? A hope that doing so might single them out as an exceptional employee and get them the bonus, raise, promotion they desire?...
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O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
I would love to go to the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. I downloaded most of the audience videos I could find last year and read the write-ups of the speeches. Now to actually place myself in the room and have some great ideas. Call for Participation proposals are due September 24. I will aim towards social software and see where it leads....
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Did Blaster Cause the Blackout?
Did Blaster Cause the Blackout? "there is a very good plausibility that the recent East Coast power outage was due to an attack by an MSBlaster variant on the SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system at the power plant master terminal, or more likely at several of the remote terminal units (RTUs). SCADA runs under Win2000 / XP and the telemetry to the RTU is accessible via the Internet."...
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Irish Fat Tax
Reuters covers a move by some to cut down on obesity in Ireland. Cutting Irish alcohol and happy hours seems like a very dangerous endeavour for any politician....
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Microsoft’s Big Role on Campus
Washington Post covers the molding of campus curriculum by Microsoft. Any language where the IDE is not free or relatively cheap to students will stifle learning. In one of my econometrics classes at UCLA students were offered scaled down versions of Stata for $50. I do not know one person who purchased the program for use at home. The professors were bound by lab hours and available workstations and their curriculum suffered as a result. Visual Studio .Net 2003 Academic is $100 at the UCLA Store. Visual C# .Net is $60. Yes, you could have students write in Notepad, vi,...
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Java is a language, .NET is not
Philip Brittan writes that Java is a language, .NET is not....
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Soccer Conditioning
I just bought Sigi Schmid's book on soccer conditioning. Looks like I will have to wait until October 25 until I get it autographed. It should come in handy as a refresher as I work towards my coaching license....
