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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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The FT and the App Trap
I got an e-mail from the Financial Times yesterday, announcing their new “FT App”. That sounded unusual; after all, the FT has had an iPad/iPhone app for some time...
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links for 2011-06-15
First TDF Advisory Board members demonstrate wide corporate support for LibreOffice The Document Foundation continues its steady progress with news of a Gnome-style...
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? OpenOffice.Org and the LibreOffice Imperative
As expected, the Apache Software Foundation took the first steps to admitting the OpenOffice.org project to the Apache community, following Oracle’s IBM-designed...
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? New Cat
It was with huge sadness that we discovered last month that our cat Toby had died suddenly in a neighbour’s garden. He was in perfect condition. He had breakfast...
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British BBQ
Ever wondered why barbecues aren’t the staple of summer life for the British that they are for Californians? It’s because any time you try to plan one (like we...
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links for 2011-06-10
Music and film industries split over pirates My own conversations of late suggest that wiser minds (or rather, minds that can make the reptile see the difference...
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links for 2011-06-09
Investors Speaking Up About Patents Harming Innovation | Techdirt One of the things I keep hearing some advisors saying is that VCs won't invest in your startup...
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Happy IPv6 Day
The why and wherefore of IPv6 Day, as well as plenty of handy links, are over on my blog at ComputerWorldUK.
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Another year older
No chickens, and not the peregrine falcon I had hoped for, but the owl I was given for my birthday is splendid and we get on fine.
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? Ending Division
LibreOffice Conference, Paris, 12th-15th October, 2011 The LibreOffice community is organising a conference. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all the various strands...
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links for 2011-05-29
Can We Kill Off This Myth That The Internet Is A Wild West That Needs To Be Tamed? | Techdirt Excellent article. — "The internet does not exist as untouchable....
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links for 2011-05-28
John Perry Barlow Tells Copyright Maximalists That They've Got The Fundamentals Wrong Great stuff from JPB here. Shame of it all is despite hist stature in all...
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? eG8, Control Points and NameCoin
As the pressure on and from political leaders to “regulate” the internet mounts, the need for basic infrastructure to switch from hierarchical to distributed control...
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? Future-proofing
NameCoin at The Dot-bit Project With internet-control-freak politics everywhere now – just look at eG8 and PROTECTIP for example – the need for distributed infrastructure...
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links for 2011-05-25
Product Notification: Skype for Asterisk – end of sale – July 26, 2011 Unless Microsoft are going to surprise us all by releasing the Asterisk modules as open source...
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? A liberating betrayal?
Having suspended disbelief for as long as I could, my ability to take Microsoft at their word over Skype was shattered today by the announcement by Digium, sponsors...
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