O brave new quantum world!
Second Life, the virtual community, bans banks which aren’t banks in the real world.
Since the collapse of Ginko Financial in August 2007, Linden Lab has received complaints about several in-world “banks” defaulting on their promises. These banks often promise unusually high rates of L$ return, reaching 20, 40, or even 60 percent annualized.
Second Life imitating the first?
Does anyone know of an RSS reader which adjust the order of your feeds depending on which feeds you tend to click on / spend time reading?
Speaking of airports, why can’t there be more airports like Albuquerque’s Sunport: free wireless and even nice places to plug in and lay out your laptop:
Continue reading “Why Can't They All be Sunports?”
Video from the keynote at CES:
The real question is, now that Bill is working for the foundation, which is opening an office in lower Queen Anee, will Bill be buying us a new bridge to aid his commute?
As we move ever closer to the day where using a computer involves flapping your hands around in the air:
More from Johnny Chung Lee on hacking the wiimote system to produce a very cool multitouch display:
Startup weekend will be coming to my backyard in January (literally in my backyard, Adobe is just down the hill from Villa Sophia.) Startup weekend, you say? What the heck is that?
Continue reading “A Startup in a Weekend?”
Via John Cook’s Venture Blog, a song on web 2.0 mania:
Since I got into trouble for posting about the need for more, not less, funding for science and engineering, (and, I might add, a reengineering of our approach to what it means to produce a successful Ph.D.), I thought I’d continue the trouble by linking to a post over at the Computing Research Policy Blog, “Computer and Mathematical Science Occupations Expected to Grow Quickest Over the Next Decade.”
Seems it ’tis the season for warnings about the security of cryptosystems. The New York Times has an article on the latest issue here. It seems that Adi Shamir (the S in RSA) has a note out describing how faults in chip hardware could render cryptosystems insecure. It’s not at all clear to me how this differs from analysis where the faults are injected into the hardware (such as described here) because the article doesn’t contain any real details.