Archive for the ‘LINKS’ Category.

Dr. Aibo, You’re Wanted in O.R.

Dr. Aibo, You’re Wanted in O.R.. You’re in the operating room, about to go under, when you spot two mechanical arms coming your way. Don’t worry, it’s just your robotic brain surgeon. Charles Mandel reports from Canada. [Wired News]

Information Wants to Be Worthless

Priceless 

  As RageBoy points out, Bruce Sterling’s Information Wants to Be Worthless is an approximately perfect piece of writing. There’s a quotable line in just about every paragraph, and he drives every nail home with a perfect whack. He even works a cluetrain reference (albeit in lower case) in his ultimate paragraph.

[Doc Searls Weblog]

PGP is dead! Long live PGP? Maybe

Java RMI, CORBA, XML-based RPC

Book review: Java RMI
“With the rise of XML-based RPC (e.g. SOAP, XML-RPC, APEX), the distributed computing world is starting to really unsettle from the CORBA-RMI-DCOM oligopoly of the 1980s and 1990s. Yet, XML-based RPC is not a panacea (though it is quite cool), especially for those of us involved in the legacy and client-server worlds. Now, what is fascinating: the publishing world is revving up the engines on not only the XML-based RPC stuff, but also the RMI and CORBA stuff — while rarely applied to the tech industry, the old adage, “what was old is new again,” seems to fit well here. This review describes this über-cool trend from the RMI perspective, with a focus on Java RMI (O’Reilly) by William Grosso.” [Slashdot]

Google Time Bomb

Kazaa: A Copyright Conundrum

Kazaa: A Copyright Conundrum. File trading turned into a tale of international intrigue after a seemingly impervious sharing network went down last week. Now, complex corporate relationships in four countries could spell trouble for everyone involved. By Brad King. [Wired News]

A radio on every chip in 10 years

Sharpei Virus Written In C#

Online virus generator causes concern

Deep Linking is Good Linking

Useit.Com: Deep Linking is Good Linking. Some Internet marketing managers just don’t want hot leads to visit their website. I conclude this after hearing that website owners actually call search engine customer service departments complaining that users are daring to enter sites directly on pages they’re most interested in. [Tomalak’s Realm]