World: r3wp

yeah making media player work inside a mac border, doesn't make it 
any better.

First, Cringley is a little off here. What he suggests is basically 
a description of Wine, but he says it is not like Wine because of 
a complete misunderstanding of what Wine is. Stupid.

http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6064016.html?part=rss&tag=6064016&subj=news
<--- US Congress to prepare a new and tougher DCMA

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/<--- 17" Mac Book Pro is out

Re. DMCA, I guess the entertainment industry have the better lobbyists, 
perhaps not the better brains?

and more money

The problem in this case is that the software itself became illegal, 
which is similar to lock picking tools being illegal.


Then the transport of these tools (links on websites) were made akin 
to transport (trafficking).


The solve is simply to fracture all software into so many pieces 
that it is impossible to point in any one direction.


A paperclip here, a tin of graphite there, etc.  And in theory, it 
may be possible due to the web not to have any group of these items 
in your possession at the same time.


Another option is much simpler…send the files out (to some other 
country), have them return unlocked.  This would pose an interesting 
problem since clearly you are receiving a copy some IP.  So then 
one should receive a "protected" copy using a different protection 
system.  No that part has to be proven as well.


It is all very interesting…but in the end we must abide by the law 
until we can vote it to change.

I'm just a little baffled that it would have to go in the direction 
where words like "fighting terrorism" need to be used. I remember 
an ad that ran here a few years ago with footage of Columbian drug 
dealers, terrorists and animal smugglers that said if you bought 
pirated access cards for satellite TV viewing, you'd be supporting 
drug dealers, illegal trading and terrorists. (Geomol has probably 
heard of TV3 and Viasat) I couldn't believe a private company would 
play on that, but they really did. Of course it changed nothing, 
since people are not that stupid and out of touch with reality.


But doing the same kind of lobbying to a government could be very 
dangerous. Are the people in the government easier to affect? Probably 
if you are waving enough money in front of them.

R: Vote to change?  I'll bet at least 50% of Dems will vote for the 
revision.  Lobbyists are the constituency that counts.

Speaking of lobbyists, are we all ready for the end of network neutrality? 
-- http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/29086

To me, it is all very simple. I just install a program that protects 
all content on my computer before *anything* comes on my PC. Now, 
every piece of software that tries to get anything of my computer... 
of course the protection I offer is cumbersome, so most software 
will circumvent it... and I can sue them. Of cousre I can publish 
something to protect me, espscially from a non-US country.

What I try to say: the solution will be to fight them with their 
own weapons.

Imagine that people would run such a piece of software when the sony 
rootkit came out.

yes, the first to install his protection raquet is the one that is 
right.  anyone that trie to go around it can be sued if you catch 
them.

so basically run our PCs in diskless mode, and use remote networked 
disks on which we can really protect the content.

Set up an old box as webserver and use browser and rebol?

actually I meant to use SAN disks ;-)

Does rebol run there? :)

Javeline DeskRun: Run Ajax Apps as Native Windows Programs
http://www.javeline.org/modules/products/deskrun.php

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YtiCHtHxc48<-- I want one of those

Cool. It almost seems like there is a real person inside the suit. 
:-)

I'm waiting for the double head kick at the end of the exercises. 
:)

But you know what the first application of this technology is going 
to be - military - killing people.

The next application will be smaller  - robbing a convenience store.

Maybe I'm too cynical and it really will be used to teach people 
how to dance.

actually in Japan it's expected that these robots will be used to 
aid older people in their homes. the number of young Japanese people 
is on the decline and there will be a shortage to help elders in 
a few decades, so Honda started a humanoid robotic development program 
20 years ago. Asimo is where they are now.

That sounds alright - but wait, my cynical brain is in action again 
- I think there are going to be some very interesting murder cases 
coming up.

machines won't probably be so much better than humans; nor should 
we expect them to be much worse, engineering problems aside (but 
engineering will eventually disappear; life forms are not engineered, 
they evolve)

Engineering is much faster than natural evolution, so I don't think 
it will disappear. But you could think of engineering as evolving 
in the space of ideas, rather than natural evolution evolving in 
the space of genes.

if you restrict evolution to biological evolution, you are right 
:)

software will eventually start creating software. the universe is 
just information after all.

I'm with Anton....No matter what good it is used for, it will be 
used always for bad.

Three scariest things on this planet: Terrorist, old people, and 
robots.  


It will start with robots helping old people be terrorists.

Danger Will Robinson!

Yeah... "You better listen to your grandma !!  or ELSE..."

i disagree, the scariest things on this planet are humans. (they 
can be terrorists, they become old people eventually, and they even 
create robots.)

I thought ignorant, powerful people would top that list?

I think educated  people can still make bad decisions. For me the 
problem starts with the people that don't measure the consequences 
of their actions, however they move forward. Second by the ones that 
don't value life.

I think we may surprise ourselves to discover just how far "normal" 
people will go under certain circumstances.

It often go bad, when people don't think for themselves. And agreed, 
many lack the ability to see the consequences of their actions. Finally 
many can't distinguish between facts and opinions. Some things come 
down to facts, other things depend on the eyes seeing.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-05-02T172703Z_01_N02271704_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-MICROSOFT-VISTA.XML
<--- Vista likely to be delayed 3 more months.

<<Vista likely to be delayed 3 more months.>>
Five year old mention of REBOL3.0:

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/ml-display-thread.r?m=rmlGGJS

In which Carl stated "REBOL modules will be added for 3.0."

Strange, but interesting: http://secretgeek.net/WSCG.asp

a look at Symbian & UIQ Motorola 1000 SmartPhone - http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=14558

does anyone think, that they need Rebol for some apps? I can imagine 
IOS like product (Altissimo?), where users buy small applets from 
you, they can look-up another users, share data, etc.

Rebol is a PERFECT match for Cellphone aps.

Yes, and that since... 4 years? No further comment...

REBOL is a tiny download, but a very large memory footprint when 
running.
I remember that was one reason for it never being ported to PDAs.

Cellphones also have memory limitations -- both in maximum megs and 
underlying mapping models.
Has the hardware curve caught up with REBOL's needs yet?

hasn't Carl just blogged with "I want Rebol on my cell phone and 
I want it now" or something like that?

we still haven't heard the strategy for opening-up rebol parts for 
community to help etc. though ...