Earlier this year, I was dining with a coworker when I mentioned a new proposal for speeding fines. Since the potential damage from a speeding vehicle is defined in terms of the kinetic energy, really fines should be based on the delta of the energy from the speed travelled at of the vehicle versus the kinetic energy at the posted speed. This makes the fine proportional to the square of the speed, and directly proportional to the mass. The damage caused by a collision with a speeding motorcycle versus a speeding loaded dump truck are different orders of scale and therefore the fine adjusted accordingly.
Architects of Air Exhibit has very interesting interior spaces made of light, shapes and color.
Tomy games were a lot of fun. They should re-release these again.
As a kid, I went around collecting these whenever my parents went to garage sales. I ended up having like 10 of them, which I too sold at a garage sale. They didn't require batteries, they were all mechanical. But that makes them a little more versatile. If you had one in the car you could play it whenever you wanted, unlike an electronic game which might have dead batteries.
I have an idea for a Spring theme generator. It would allow variable substitution, and would generate spring-themed theme files (CSS, folders).
http://www.springframework.org/docs/api/org/springframework/ui/context/Theme.html
http://oldwww.springframework.org/docs/api_1.2/org/springframework/web/context/support/StaticWebApplicationContext.html
Detects themeSource bean from the context.
Has getTheme method.
My last day at BCBS, Architect Andrei Filiminov gave a talk about the Burton Group conference he attended in early summer 2006.
There were two main sections: future internet trends, and future identity trends.
Future internet trends
The first section dealt with how the Internet is changing. Security policy and crime is a major concern, the next is who is deciding where trends are going - are they politicians and big business, and the changes that Web 2.0 bring.
Is the open internet at risk? Today freedom of access is taken for granted. Tim Wu coined the term net neutrality, representing non-discriminating access. Types of ways to change away from that model include rate shaping, traffic blocking, creating a tiered internet. The technology issues are whether the network is dumb vs. intelligent. Providers argue that they need a tiered internet to continue to provide quality of sservice. Opponents argue that innovation requires a level field. A tertiary diagram would include economics, freedom, and innovation.
There is a conglomerate called the high-tech broadband coalition, consisting of google, amazon, and microsoft.
Packaging of services that you might have are service bundling, net networks. The economics problem of network consumption is the Tragedy of the Commons. Who regulates the network - is it the government or commercial regulation?
Consumer trends in Web 2.0 include VOIP, games, music, and video, network improvements, and wireless home neworks.
Security
How to control technology, without killing it? Compromising, email, network, DNS, search engines. 3 Ph's - phishing pharming and phear. Control is costing the enterprise. Killing spam, working with law enforcement, international law, costs companys millions of dollars. What they want to provide is reliable, trustworthy systems.
Oneof the fundamental security issues is identity management. Everyone has IDs - contacts on their buddy lists. They also have an IP Address, email. An important point is that it is not purely a technological, but a social problem.
Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is not a single software, or a single technology. Rather it is a loose phrase meaning the next generation of applications and services. A continuation will be the network effect. Web 2.0. Open Source Software. Keywords of this new economy include:
Another feature of Web 2.0 are rich internet applications. These are powered by AJAX, Adobe Flash, Flex 2, Open Lazlo, Windoes Presentation Framework (WPF), XUL. They use W3C standards such as XHTML, SVC, SMIL, XForms, CDF, APIs, WAF, RSS, Atom, Rest, and Web Services API. They use semantic web technology such as XML, RDF, and the Web Ontology Language (OWL).
Future Identity Trends
Identity Management
Prosocial ID management. Identity is a social dilemma, not a technology problem. Anxiety. New technology: promote social problems. IdM is a hassle today: Ids, admins, technology. What are the costs of implementing IdM, versus the costs. IdM is really not that secure. Economics mean that administrators can be corrupted.
The effect on the web environment is that there is ID pollution. There are millions of people, but there could be trillions of ids out there. One solution might be a form of CPR common pool resources. The public domain necessitates that your identity is validable by some means, or else your identity can be assumed.
Draco was an athenian politician, who proposed extreme measures, circa 621 B. C. Draconian measures destroy innovation and natural solutions.
Users want stability, but time attacks required instablility to keep secrets truly private. Internet transactions typically include credit, mailing addresses. It would be dangerous to have a google search that gets you someone secrets. Today the SSN is overused. It is used throughout the public domain. The NPI used for medical privacy will probably by compromised in 5-6 years as well.
Dilemmas
Social dilemmas are a collaborative action problem. Can dilemmas can be solved best by a large number of people, where individuals collaborate? This was an assertion, but it also goes against the great man theory. Otherwise, you rely on either Government, Commercial Groups, or Technology to solve the problem. A user-centric approach might lead to an approach that those three might not invent, such as decenralized, privacy, scales - issuer and validation decoupled. Person is and uses an ID provider. Collaboration benefits, collusion (freeloading, theft, vandalism) inhibits. Related issues include rationality, involvement, incoming, enforcement, autonomy.
Trust Problem
Web 2.0 parts such as WIkipedia. Online games. Entropia - a virtual world where virtual properties are stored, bought, and sold. Ebay. Blogs. Commecial Email. Commercial IM. All of these have potential
| Facilitated | Social |
|---|---|
| Identity | Relationship |
| Privilege | Reputation |
| user | participant/contributor |
Metrics of the trust system: facilitiated, user controlled or social.
Flickr is an interest public domain photo site. Of course I prefer my photo organizational tools at guesttime member photos
(To the tune of Closing Time by Semisonic)
Photon time - time for you to go down, go down into component atom(s).
Photon time – lower the shields down over every boy and every girl.
Photon time - one last call to reinforcements, so launch your log buoy and life pod(s).
Photon time - you don't have to go home but you can't stay here (in Federation space).
I know who I want to tractor home.
I know who I want to tractor home.
I know who I want to tractor home.
Tractor home...
Photon time - time for you to go back to the base your ship is from.
Photon time – we'll have some boarding action, 'til some Lyrans or some Klingons
come.
Beam your boarding parties, and we'll move them to the airlocks - I hope you have found
our traps.
Photon time - every new starship comes from some other starship's end.
Yeah, I know who I want to tractor home.
I know who I want to tractor home.
I know who I want to tractor home.
Tractor home...
Photon time - time for you to go back to the base your ship is from.
Yeah, I know who I want to tractor home.
I know who I want to tractor home.
I know who I want to tractor home.
Tractor home...
Photon time - every new starship comes from some other starship's end.
I am sending a new race to the Amarillo Design Bureau that I have had in the works since college. The premise of the race is that they focused on salvaging enemy vessels. Thus their initial vessels had anti-shield weapons, and crew elimination dirty fission beams similar to fusion beams. They could hold their own against the other races, however during the Andromedan invasion circa 180, they were at a disadvantage since the Andromedans had no shields and were unaffected by the concussion torpedo.
Here are links to the different components of the Seldone Entente:
I also am submitting a space dragon scenario today.
Good design site. I liked the studies and comparisons for the usability of sites. He is a good designer that shows by example throughout his site(s).
This morning I was thinking about this video of a guy playing "While my guitar gently weeps on a Ukelele. Better add this link to my blog
http://homepage.mac.com/pockyrevolution/bestofgooglevideo/5.html
or directly:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1352016870638076087&hl=en
Here he is in concert doing a live show.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7857948224329565447&hl=en
It looks like you have to go to Hawaii or Japan to see him though.
http://www.jakeshimabukuro.com/
God as a DJ
http://www.sickflash.com/dj.html
DJ Ted Stevens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhOtlQ8-mcU&mode=related&search=DJ%20Ted%20Stevens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhOtlQ8-mcU&mode=related&search=DJ%20Ted%20Stevens
Star Wars Banjo
http://thebestofyoutube.com/archives/46
Where the hell is matt
http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/index.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oId3bZR3WTQ&search=dancing%20around%20the%20world
Aggregator
http://katamari.namco.com/
Mr. Yuck Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHkT4peQdbs
Epic 2015
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/epic
History of Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg&feature=Favorites&page=1&t=t&f=b
Birds attacking a tree
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6815781973393100875
Firefighter bidding
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6276006618696209992
Bus Uncle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQPIeWuV3VA&search=Bus%20Uncle
Best crunch sound
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1419635484576739854
The site where you can go play games online, that used to be games.com, has moved to games.atari.com.
I just finished revising and creating a PDF supplement containing the SSDs for the Captain's Advanced Missions Space Dragons. Some ideas I have are to then make the dragons more magical, allowing some DND-like spell abilities. Mirror Image, Charm Ship, Web, etc.