Archive for the 'EN' Category

RIP Mr. Wright

And I am not frightened of dying. Any time will do; I don’t mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? There’s no reason for it—you’ve gotta go sometime. I never said I was frightened of dying. .

2007

Tous mes voeux de succès et de bonheur pour 2007. C’est peut-être l’occasion de méditer ce propos de Margot Wallström, vice-présidente de la Commission européenne, sur son blog : The older I get – the less I am sure about knowing all the answers. The “higher-up” in my career – the more I need to be anchored [...]

Protecting the internet from privatization

There’s an old article by Bill Gates somewhere (an e-mail to Dave Winer if memory serves) where he doesn’t believe attempts to own the internet are likely to succeed. This doesn’t prevent a lot of people from trying, including some parts of Microsoft, probably. The candidate du jour are the telecom companies, since they own the pipes. Susan Crawford [...]

WEAPONS: The RFID zapper

Via John Robb: The intentional disabling of these chips can cause supply chain disruption. The best method is to HERF (high energy radio frequency, usually microwaves) the chips using a small transmitter (read more about home made microwave weapons or herfing). The German branch (privacy activists) of the global guerrilla innovation network has developed a simple [...]

News aggregator by feed priority?

I’m looking for a news aggregator with the following features: feed priority. Face it, some blogs are high priority and I should read every post. others are nice to have in my reading list, but I won’t die if I don’t have time to read them. sophistication of the preceding feature : analysis of my reading habits [...]

PBS Nova in streaming

PBS Nova programs available in streaming. Note that NOVA programs are not available for downloading due to rights restrictions. Continue reading ‘PBS Nova in streaming’

two-sided markets

“Two-sides Markets: An Overview”. Jean-Charles Rochet, Jean Tirole, Elegant. “The Antitrust Economics of Two-sided Markets”. Davis S. Evans, Entertaining.

Asterisk@Home

The Asterisk@Home project enables the home user to quickly set up a VOIP Asterisk PBX.