Mark Oeltjenbruns' Radio WeblogThe glass isn't half full or half empty, it's too big!(Untitled)- March 19, 2003 Pablo Picasso. "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." Quotes of the Dayhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0106094/2003/03/19.html#a1570 (Untitled)- March 19, 2003 Thomas Jefferson. "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." Quotes of the Dayhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0106094/2003/03/19.html#a1569 (Untitled)- March 19, 2003 Leaderless Resistance. I was reading this quote from an article called Leaderless Resistance Today: "The new communications technologies make it possible for a movement to exist solely as an ideology, with no membership lists, no financial records, no direct communication between the operatives and no "off" switch. There is no way to negotiate with such an ideology, no way to compromise....Because there is no formal "group" with assets, interpersonal relationships, or other stabilizing factors,.http://radio.weblogs.com/0106094/2003/03/19.html#a1568 (Untitled)- March 19, 2003 Nokia Mediamaster Makes Phone-TV Connection. With consumers clamoring for mobile phones that double as digital cameras, letting users capture and share snapshots of their latest trip to the mountains or send photos of their darling little sons and daughters, Nokia has come up with a way to offer photo-phone "slide shows" on TV. osOpinionhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0106094/2003/03/19.html#a1567 (Untitled)- March 19, 2003 Frank Scully. "Why not go out on a limb Isn't that where the fruit is" Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Webloghttp://radio.weblogs.com/0106094/2003/03/19.html#a1566 (Untitled)- March 19, 2003 Who Needs a 100 Million-Pixel Cell Phone Camera. I don't think I need one, but apparently Mitsubishi Electric Corp. built one and demonstrated it at CeBIT 2003. The company showed a prototype mobile phone handset with a digital camera having a resolution of about 100 million pixels and wireless LAN capability. The new mobile phone model comes with a small digital camera attachable to the hinge of the folding handset. The digital camera has a MPEG4 encoding capability to take photos of...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106094/2003/03/19.html#a1565 (Untitled)- March 18, 2003 Ultrawideband might push out Bluetooth physical layer: As I've predicted in various forms, if UWB proves itself, the radio part of Bluetooth could disappear, while Bluetooth's top-level protocols remain. The IEEE 802.15 working group on Personal Area Networking had made great progress with 802.15.1 by approving a subset of Bluetooth's spec with the Bluetooth SIG's involvement. The 802.15.2 task group had several months ago worked out a co-existence plan for living in the same place as...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106094/2003/03/18.html#a1564 (Untitled)- March 18, 2003 Smartgun with authentication and minicam. A new South African gun comes equipped with a biometric authentication system (so it can only be fired by its owner) and a built-in minicam (so you can document the circumstances of each shot fired). Link Discuss (via .) Boing Boing Blog Great, I can just see the new TV series now, "Gun Shot." Showing all the footage of people getting shot at from the gunners POV, of course for TV, no one ever dies. Maybe the cops can review the footage.http://radio.weblogs.com/0106094/2003/03/18.html#a1563 (Untitled)- March 18, 2003 Airport luggage inspectors policing thoughtcrime. A traveller flying to San Diego from Seattle found his luggage had been opened by the Federal Transport Security Authority, who had left behind a note telling him so, on which was scrawled "DONT APPRECIATE YOUR ANTI-AMERICAN ATTITUDE" -- a reference to the "No Iraq War" signs he'd picked up in a shop in Seattle. So, the Feds are not only inspecting our bags -- and invading our privacy -- to ensure that they are bomb-free; they're now taking it.http://radio.weblogs.com/0106094/2003/03/18.html#a1562 (Untitled)- March 18, 2003 RFID Cards Big in Tokyo. I still have a couple hundred yen left on the railroad card I bought in Tokyo last September. New York Times reports that these slim, metallic, RFID-based cards are growing more popular in Japan. Some think they are the forerunner to electronic cash. All I know is that it was convenient to charge a card with cash at a vending machine, then simply slap my wallet down on the turnstile at the entrance to any Yamanote line train.Smart Mobshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0106094/2003/03/18.html#a1561 |