The gradual disappearance of open wireless networks is a tragedy of the commons, with a confusing twist of privacy and security debate. This essay explains why the progressive locking of wireless networks is harmful — for convenience, for privacy and for
The Contact Summit will take place October 20, 2011 at the Angel Orensanz Foundation in New York City. Doors open at 7:30am. The summit will commence promptly at 9:00am.
"Digitaaliset palvelutuotteet perustuvat yhä useammin avoimista ja suljetuista lähteistä yhdisteltyyn ja jalostettuun informaatioon..." "Kaksipuolisilla markkinoilla palvelu tarjotaan tyypillisesti ilmaiseksi toiselle puolelle markkinoita, eli vaalidata-esimerkissä kuluttajille ja ReittiGPS:ssä liikenneyhtiöille, ja toinen puoli maksaa (tavalla tai toiselle) alustan tarjoajalle."
in a Swedish book about libraries I found this reference to Vinton Cerf's lecture "The Future of Information and Communication Technology" However, the lecture is presented in a commercial format, which is not accessible with the web browser I use. I wish the new library of Alexandria would offer this lecture, and all web content, also in formats which are compatible and readable with open standards and free software.
Ett exempel från Vroniplag. Exemplet handlar om avhandlingen "Harmonisierung des europäischen Rüstungsmarktes im Spannungsfeld zwischen Art. 296 EGV und Art. 17 EUV"
HTML 5 is part of the future of the Web. Its new elements enable clearer, simpler markup that makes pages more obvious. Div and span still have their places, but those places are much more restricted than they used to be. Many pages will no longer need to use them.
Yle uutiset 20.1.14: Skog kertoo myös, että Kieku-järjestelmässä havaittujen puutteiden korjaaminen on vaatinut lisätyön tilaamista järjestelmää toimittavalta Logicalta. Pelkästään työvuorosuunnitteluun liittyvän ohjelmisto-osan korjailu on maksanut satojatuhansia euroja. Skog kuitenkin korostaa että lisätöiden hinta on varsin pieni, kun sitä verrataan hankkeen kokonaisbudjettiiin, noin 125 miljoonaan euroon.
camille - February 7, 2014 "A theoretical question on my mind: has anyone ever tried putting a voluntary botnet at work to mine crypto-currencies for philanthropic fundraising purposes? "
Boris Zetterlund: För att våra bibliotek skall hävda sig som en spelare bland många, krävs det enligt Boris Zetterlund, affärsområdeschef på Axiell, att de är offensiva och lyckas skapa interaktion mellan sig själva, allmänhet och studenter. ”Ett sätt att göra det kan vara genom att skapa bättre utrymme för egen produktion. I framtiden skulle biblioteken t ex kunna stötta ungdomars text- och musikproduktion, publicera och göra det sökbart. Men då vill det naturligtvis till att systemleverantörerna kan bistå med lösningen.”
There are so many hackers involved, even at this early stage, because FLOK (which stands for “Free/Libre Open Knowledge”) proposes a fundamental disruption of society. FLOK’s reason-to-be is to create a legal, economic and social framework for an entire country (Ecuador) that is consistent with principles that are the basic foundations of the Internet: peer-to-peer collaboration and shared knowledge FLOK Society is, at its core, a research project occurring within a university: Ecuador’s post-graduate-focused state school the IAEN.
Nir Eyal 23.6.2012: “What people aren’t telling you,” Peter Thiel taught his class at Stanford, “can very often give you great insight as to where you should be directing your attention.” - "monetizable secrets" abt "user behavior", and network effects - "software continues to eat the world"
visone is a software for the visual creation, transformation, exploration, analysis and representation of network data, jointly developed at the University of Konstanz and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology since 2001.
J. Xu, Y. Gao, S. Christley, and G. Madey. HICSS '05: Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 7, page 198. Washington, DC, USA, IEEE Computer Society, (2005)