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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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links for 2009-05-01
Entire New Zealand Copyright Act to be scrapped "The Copyright Act was written in the pre-internet age, and does not address any...
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links for 2009-04-30
Name of deadly flu virus causes consternation EU officials clearly not considering the impact on the book industry of their proposed...
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links for 2009-04-29
Child behaviour 'linked to sleep' So parents have been right all these years? Who would have guessed. (tags: children...
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links for 2009-04-28
Database Nation : The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century I read this book by Simson Garfinkel when it first came out. It's still...
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links for 2009-04-27
IP Location tools Some very useful building-blocks on this site, both available as web services and as SQL databases you can host...
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links for 2009-04-26
NewsMap If you've never looked at this news visualisation application before, and you are the sort of person who checks pages like...
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links for 2009-04-21
The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison This was the first book I read about Oracle. (tags: Oracle Book Amazon...
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Java Needs A Cloud Profile
Back in 1995 I was a huge fan and advocate of Java - at IBM - because it provided developers and deployers a universal layer that promised to reduce the lock-in...
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links for 2009-04-19
Evidence: Mary Oliver My favourite poet has released another collection of poems - only in the US though. On order.Poetry Books...
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links for 2009-04-17
Police delete London tourists' photos 'to prevent terrorism' The War on Tourism continues. (tags: Photography UK...
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Friday links on April 17
If you lose your Amazon account, your Kindle loses functionality Well yes. This is the reason why, no matter how cool it may be to buy electronic books, the Kindle...
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Five Ideas To Get FOSS Into Governments
Why is it so hard to get governments (especially local government) to use open source software? Here are some ideas discussed during my keynote today in Oslo at...
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The "yes I was on the web over Easter" link selection
Statebook Excellent visualisation of what the government will do with all the data that's being gathered for various reasons. It's not the individual feeds that...
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Lump of Links for April 11
The JRE Class White List - Google App Engine Whether you agree with Sun policing it or not, Java compatibility has served us all very well for over a decade. That...
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Faith Restored in TripIt But Not In BusinessWeek
I couldn't decide where to write about this though, since the two stories span two blogs, so it's over on my personal blog.
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Links and comments, April 9
Video of police assault on Ian Tomlinson, who died at the London G20 protest The guy was unfortunate enough to have the protest in his way as he made his way home...
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On Sun's Board?
On Monday and Tuesday I had calls from a persistent journalist trying to get me to comment on the rumoured IBM/Sun negotiations. My reply was the same as it has...
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Sunday Link Round-Up on April 5th
HADOPI Law Passed - by 12 Votes to 4 Exactly how this can be quorate and just for creating a national law that will offer private business the power to cut citizens...
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