...Corporations are neither physical nor metaphysical phenomena. They are socioeconomic ploys - legally enacted game-playing - agreed upon only between...
It's odd that cell phones are tied to a specific network access provider. Imagine that you had to buy a different PC when you switched from AOL to MSN, or that...
Lucas, Was just browsing through these sites when I read your post!! http://www.ncoretech.com/simputer/index.html http://www.simputer.org Simputer is a step...
note that this is not the case in most european countries -- we also use one common standard, btw ;) -- even though the operators would like to do so. what...
Nikolaj Nyholm
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Jan 8, 2003 4:33 pm
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... When it comes to cell phones, I always forget that the US is a backwater. ... That's completely sensible if they subsidize the phone in the first place. ...
Lucas Gonze
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Jan 8, 2003 4:40 pm
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... All questions are shallow given enough eyeballs. :) I love the net. ... Hm. ... ... Let me ask a question for anybody who has the chops (unlike me) to...
Lucas Gonze
lgonze@...
Jan 8, 2003 4:51 pm
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I think you should be able to do it with an Speak and Spell, lots of wire and an umbrella. I have the greatest confidence in the feasibility studies which...
... Let me put this a slightly different way. Nokia, Motorola, Samsung et al produce generic cellphones. Included in the design is the ability to lock the...
... So the blocking factor isn't locking, it's unlocking? Does that mean that carriers will gladly accept calls via hardware they didn't sell? In blue sky...
Lucas Gonze
lgonze@...
Jan 8, 2003 6:33 pm
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As long as you have a SIM card that allows your "open" cell phone to access the carrier's network... Actually, in Spain, (I am not quite sure about other...
... (unlike ... I dunno bout putting one together, but not too long ago I disassembled a circa-1998 Motorola Startac... they're pretty crammed on the inside,...
Kevin Prichard
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Jan 8, 2003 7:17 pm
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... There are a variety of barriers. Radios have to be approved by the FCC before they can be sold. Some providers have phone serial number access control...
... no. (i believe wes covered why in discussing sim cards and accounts). ... i'm not sure it would be efficient to pack the protocols and security in the ...
Nikolaj Nyholm
nikolajn@...
Jan 8, 2003 9:29 pm
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As Jon Chance said ... Simple: we little humans did just this on 6 April 2001. Thanks to the "cock-up" theory of History or the Law of Unintended Consequences,...
... Well, that's debatable. Consider the dynamics of software market, in which initial purchase prices are generally lower in cases where the vendor gains A)...
http://radio.weblogs.com/0114726/2002/12/30.html#a167 ... Social Identity Distribution The debate over the meaning/implementation of digital identity has ...
There's this idea floating around that an identity holder should be able to limit the ability of other people to record and report on actions taken under that...
Lucas Gonze
lgonze@...
Jan 9, 2003 9:00 pm
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Doc's ideas on Identity bug me. The commercial splitoff of pingId bugs me. I think identity over networks is impossible without a secure vault for your keys...
... I feel very strongly that this is the case. It's so obvious to me that you just can't have a reliable identity that can't be tracked. The best you can...
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Lucas Gonze
lgonze@...
Jan 12, 2003 4:35 pm
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I found this quite interesting. My hope is that something like this will start occuring in other cities as they realize the value of owning communications...
We had one example of a de-centralized data pattern. Now we seem to have at least three. The most successful of these in terms of installed base is RSS[1]. ...
The eco framework aimed at this space 1998 or so. http://eco.commerce.net/specs/index.cfm It put the business metadata in a file on the webserver' root, called...
... Tantalizing pattern... I can see why you brought it up. Is this pattern different from the semantic web?...
Lucas Gonze
lgonze@...
Jan 14, 2003 12:13 am
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... FOAF is one aspect of the semantic web. And FOAF ought to fit this pattern. I get the feeling that the semantic web goal is broader than this with the end...
I guess big "de-centralized data patterns" can be found in scientific literature. Decentralized because every journal or author can make available informations...
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