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by Andrew McCaskey
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YouTube Leaves Google Vulnerable?
Deep Pockets
YouTube’s policy is to remove copyrighted clips once alerted to their existence.
Content providers say the company needs to be even more proactive
Stock up $10 per share
large market cap of $130 billion
Is Windows Old News ?
Old News- ZDNet
Win still relevant ?
Web 2.0 it’s become fashionable to dismiss Windows as a relic.
older folks who remember the days before Windows and younger folks who have never known anything else
The reality is that Windows remains as important as ever.
system tools, were sold separately
Witness EU Lawsuits Vista/Adobe
Proprietary Parts in OLPC Project Draw Criticism
Some devices require NDA’s to write drivers, and some parts require firmware that cannot be freely redistributed.
{most telling – Thailand politely refused – on ground that US could not show that computers per se increased performance}
Improving Open Source Speech Recognition
“VoxForge collects free GPL Transcribed Speech Audio
Acoustic Model, a very large number of audio recordings of speech and their transcriptions ‘compiling’ them into statistical representations of the sounds that make up each word.
Language Model or Grammar file. The probabilities of certain sequences of words. A Grammar is a much smaller file containing sets of predefined combinations of words.
Acoustic Models used by ‘Open Source’ Speech Recognition engines are ‘closed source’. They do not give you access to the speech audio (the ‘source’) used to create the acoustic model,
GPL-style license distribution of derivative Acoustic Models to include access to the ‘source’ speech audio.
Indian ISPs Taxed for Generating “Light Energy”
Commercial Tax Department, optical broadband providers operate on light energy which is ‘artificially created and sold to customers for the purpose of data transmission and information.’
This classification would make Internet access goods (since you are buying light) as opposed to service — and would be subject to a 12.5% VAT.”
Teen Plays Videogame With Brain Signals
ECoG (ElectroCorticography) researchers from Washington University in St. Louis
analyzing the action potentials created when a neuron fires, they were able to get two-dimensional control of a cursor.
connect an old Atari 2600 to the signal processing computer to see if the young man could control the videogame system.”
implications biomedical devices that can control artificial limbs
Tide turning – telecoms falling back
created or employed “think-tanks” how muni-WiFi socialism
14 states with some restrictions on municipal telecom, U.S. Supreme Court 2004 – states to enact more restrictions.
OTOH Muni victories in Portland, OR over Qwest; Truckee Donner, CA retreat by Ohio from plans to restrict muni-providers.
2004, PA law which so severely limited the ability of municipalities to become involved with broadband, Sen McCain and Lieberman began to work on federal legislation which would override such states restrictions.
Power Scheme
Grid Point – $21m funding
utilities could draw upon 500 megawatts of stored capacity from 100,000 households that had used GridPoints energy storage system.
raw down power during non-peak hours when electricity is cheaper, and keep that power as a backup in cases of high demand.
Like EEstor “parallel plate capacitor with barium titanate as the dielectric” or hypercapacitor
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