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• Gates Sketches Out Vision for the Future

  Wed Mar 15, 2006
  • Perhaps soon you'll just have and RFID tag implanted in your hand and you'll exhchange info with whomever you shake hands then dock the information when you touch your computer when you get home. Of course, I hope I don't get and RFID-STD err.. virus.. from shaking hands w/ someone!

• Gates Sketches Out Vision for the Future

  Wed Mar 15, 2006
  • actual I think RFID biz cards would be more futuristic. If you could get one of those access badges as a biz card and then it could exchange data (mate) with other RFID biz cards maybe? I read about stuff like that years ago but it has yet to materialize in any significant way that I've noticed.

• My Beta Backlash: Gmail is almost TWO! *cough* ~still beta~

  Fri Mar 17, 2006
  • Ugh! I've always been a bit outside of normal time... I'll fix that. Thanks!

• Regarding the Amazon S3 Launch

  Thu Mar 16, 2006
  • I think that could be the altruistic motivation. It does allow such a thing. My only real concern is that Amazon would cough up your private data in a heartbeat if subpoenaed. We'll have to wait and see I suppose.

• Gates Sketches Out Vision for the Future

  Wed Mar 15, 2006
  • My only issue w/ this article of the Gates quotes is that he's talking about the past, not the future. Cell phones are already "digial wallets" in some parts of the world. The future is already here in that regard. NTT CoCoMo + Asia trumps anything in the U.S. in that regard.

• Regarding the Amazon S3 Launch

  Thu Mar 16, 2006
  • Jabash, thanks, I fixed the typo. :) Fortepianissimo, it's a distributed grid of commodity hardware running a custom database in which you store and query "objects" in "buckets" by using the S3 web "service"

• States Look to Regional Cloud-Seeding

  Mon Mar 13, 2006
  • So, if a cloud is going by and you seed it and the water drops out then aren't you kind of stealing the water that would have fallen elsewhere natually thereby robbing some other area or river of the water it would have received from rainfall? What effect might large scale seeding operations have …

• 37 Signals Basecamp, not so safe for the poor

  Tue Mar 14, 2006
  • Indeed I have considered something like. I've done a lot of work w/ file sharing services and the like. I'll try to look you up if I get something rolling.

• 37 Signals Basecamp, not so safe for the poor

  Tue Mar 14, 2006
  • I could see that someone might provide an https proxy for use by people using unsecured WAP points. That would eliminate the "local" problem and hide your info from the snooper sitting next to you.