Office Suite from Apple Computer (more)

the Network that's Always On - UbiComp (more)

Diaspora gave a status update. (more)

space for discussing feature ideas for Wiki spaces (more)

Some interesting/scary notes on Security of the AutoMobile's electronics. They also mention some external avenues of attack to hack into the car remotely. One is that things like music players become attached to the cars internal network, and that potentially includes things like iPhones which are connected to cell networks and have well-known vulnerabilities of their own. Also, some cars have remote cellular connection to services like onStar, which goes to a component on the car's internal network. And then they found no fewer than five wireless interfaces on the car, and, "While outside the scope of this paper, we wish to be clear that vulnerabilities in such services are not purely theoretical. We have developed the ability to remotely compromise key ECUs in our car via externally-facing vulnerabilities, amplify the impact of these remote compromises using the results in this paper, and ultimately monitor and control our car remotely over the Internet." The second paper looks specifically at wireless tire pressure sensors which are now being required on new cars. They show that the wireless interaction between the tire pressure sensors and the antenna on the back window of the car can be intercepted up to 10m away with a cheap antenna, and the protocol is not secure and can be intercepted and interfered with.

set of software for generating "office" documents - Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation Software, etc. (more)

Office Suite from Microsoft. (more)

Known for the Rise Of The Stupid Network. And now the Paradox Of The Best Network. (more)

Bob Frankston concept related to OpenNet. (more)

Continuity Of Care Record (more)

a VoIP vendor (more)

The FCC announced its National Broad Band plan. The FCC has been leaking bits and pieces of the plan to the public over the past couple of weeks. And much of what is in the final version is not surprising. For example, the plan calls for expanding the $8 billion Universal Service Fund, which provides subsidized phone service throughout the U.S., to also include broadband. The plan also calls on the FCC to make 500MHz of new WireLess spectrum available within 10 years for licensed and unlicensed use. The plan recommends that 300MHz of that spectrum should become available within the next five years. One of the most controversial issues to come out of the plan is the reallocation of wireless spectrum. While the report recommends that the FCC reallocate about 20MHz of underutilized government spectrum, it also recommends that the agency get about 120MHz of spectrum from TV broadcasters. Officials who worked on developing the plan said Monday that they hope TV broadcasters will voluntarily give up a good portion of the spectrum. The plan proposes incentives to encourage TV broadcasters in the biggest markets, where new spectrum will likely be needed first, to reauction their licenses. But TV broadcasters, who caught wind of the proposal months ago, have rallied to oppose it.... Officials said the plan is a road map. The FCC, the Obama administration, and Congress will now be tasked with taking action on the recommendations.

David Isenberg gives lots of links/summaries of the secret talks the FCC's Julius Genachowski is holding on Net Neutrality. We can only hope that these attempts to shine some sunlight into the secret negotiations at the FCC will shame Chairman Genichowski into standing up for the citizen-users of the Internet. And even if he does, we can expect that unless the telcos and cablecos get what they want — a legal way to use their last mile access to the Internet like a toll booth — they will lobby, litigate, legislate and use the best PR money can buy to distort the issue to the public. Until, that is, we the people reorganize the access providers into a utility-like provider of connections without ties to applications like TV, telephony, payment processing, etc. (OpenNet)

Reviews of Jared Diamond's Collapse by David Brin and Malcolm Gladwell. (more)

Erica Goldson, gave a ripping High School valedictorian-graduation speech. I cannot say that I am any more intelligent than my peers. I can attest that I am only the best at doing what I am told and working the system. Yet, here I stand, and I am supposed to be proud that I have completed this period of indoctrination. I will leave in the fall to go on to the next phase expected of me, in order to receive a paper document that certifies that I am capable of work. But I contest that I am a human being, a thinker, an adventurer - not a worker. A worker is someone who is trapped within repetition - a slave of the system set up before him. But now, I have successfully shown that I was the best slave. I did what I was told to the extreme. While others sat in class and doodled to later become great artists, I sat in class to take notes and become a great test-taker. While others would come to class without their homework done because they were reading about an interest of theirs, I never missed an assignment. While others were creating music and writing lyrics, I decided to do extra credit, even though I never needed it. So, I wonder, why did I even want this position? Sure, I earned it, but what will come of it? When I leave educational institutionalism, will I be successful or forever lost? I have no clue about what I want to do with my life; I have no interests because I saw every subject of study as work, and I excelled at every subject just for the purpose of excelling, not learning. And quite frankly, now I'm scared. (Educating Kids)

Game Rule that the Corporation Is A Person.

affects Income Tax, Limited Liability, etc. for the Corporation and its owners, etc (more)

Douglas Rushkoff's Program Or Be Programmed book is available for pre-order now (at 15% discount) (and is available as Paperback Book or EBook). Rushkoff picks up where Marshall McLuhan left off, helping readers come to recognize programming as the new literacy of the digital age––and as a template through which to see beyond social conventions and power structures that have vexed us for centuries. This is a friendly little book with a big and actionable message. Since the Real World is a Real WorldGame, you don't want to find yourself stuck as an NPC.

concerned with Wealth Inequality (more)

Being a Free Agent gives you challenges in Time Management, etc. I ran a shell script to compare my productivity (commits, A-B Test-s, etc) prior and post quitting. I thought it would show me spinning my wheels. Turns out I am getting more done than ever. This is normally the point where I would paste a graph but, sorry, iPad. Suffice it to say I have run more A/B tests this summer than in the last year. (Interesting finding of today: Google Checkout really does increase conversion rates over having only Paypal as an option. I strongly suspected that, but now I know.) Sales are up, too. Why doesn’t it feel this way? I think after a couple of decades of living by the clock I have become habituated to measuring my productivity that way. Insane and irrational, I know.