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Three Things That Caught My Attention

• The New Economy via slashdot

  Marvelous. What am I going to do when the system protecting this site from link spam comes under the tender mercies of an army data entry experts getting paid near-slave wages?

  Kids, once the intertubes was a cooperative effort; it was fun, pleasant, and useful. I predict a future with many distributed IP bulletin board systems—essentially miniature, invitation-only internets. They will run below the real internet, at a relatively low bandwidth, exchanging data with trusted peers. They will be inhabited by those of us who remember 1992 and before, as well as enlightened, newer netizens. Bad behavior will be dealt with swiftly and decisively. There will be less data, but more content. (Save your 56K modems; read up on uucp.)

  Alternatively, look for cryptographically isolated virtual networks piggybacking on the global IP infrastructure.

• In better news: Spammer Loses Felony Appeal

  See above. And send his cellmate a supply of v1agr4 and c|al15.

• Dog Poop on the Bridge

  Imagine my surprise when I suddenly had swerve across the double-yellow in the cage that encloses the 27th & Hwy 2 overpass. Fortunately, nothing was coming the other way. To whoever didn't clean up after: kudos, really.

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:19

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