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Environment

Stellar Fingerprints

When you look at the night sky from your backyard, do you sometimes think that there is no order to all of those stars out there? If the star isn’t part of a well known constellation, is it nothing more than a point of light in a sea of other points of light? Nothing that […]

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Just Shelley

New York, New York

It isn’t Fall without trees changing color, birds flying south for the Winter, and being in New York to speak at the Internet World conference — this time as part of the Webmaster Forum. However, this time, I stayed in New York for a few days. What an adventure. New York Cabbies The cab that […]

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Technology

O’Reilly P2P Presentation Proposal

Title: Smoke: An Infrastructure supporting Distributed Peer Services Length: 60 minutes Focus of Talk: Technical/Tutorial Subject Matter: Infrastructure/Distributed Computation Abstract The sale of large scale control systems — such as those used with mass transit systems or to control multi-national pipelines — often requires a marketing and engineering effort that demands the input of several different people, many of […]

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Semantics Specs

Opinion: Australian Censorship Bill Could Impact P2P

Recovered from Wayback Machine. Australia’s been in the news before about Net censorship legislation, but the South Australian Parliament may have gone a little extreme even for this Net-conservative country. A bill introduced in November would make it illegal for content providers to post material that is considered “objectionable viewing material” for children. What’s objectionable […]

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Technology

Australian Censorship bill could impact on P2P

Originally published at O’Reilly Australia’s been in the news before about Net censorship legislation, but the South Australian Parliament may have gone a little extreme even for this Net-conservative country. A bill introduced in November would make it illegal for content providers to post material that is considered “objectionable viewing material” for children. What’s objectionable […]