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Basics:

1. Anyone should be able to run an RoomWare installation
2. Runs out of the box
3. Simple installation (standard Windows / Mac setup scheme)
4. No expertise needed
5. Expandable set of services
6. No local webserver required
7. Neither the RoomWare- nor the AnyWhere Server / Identity Broker makes any call to any Web2.0 service. That is done by the Local or Remote Web Applications

Read more: Do It At Home RoomWare / AnyWhere flow

De thrash metal band Slayer is lange tijd erg populair geweest onder Amerikaanse soldaten. Nummers als The Antichrist en Mandatory Suicide (over het leven van een militair) appeleerden kennelijk aan de soldaten. Of anders wel het nummer Jihad, geschreven vanuit het perspectief van een terrorist.

Toen de Amerikaanse componist en universitair muziek Jonathan Pieslak las dat tijdens de Golfoorlog veertig procent van de fanmail van soldaten uit het Midden-Oosten kwam, raakte hij geïntrigeerd. Het resultaat daarvan is zijn onlangs verschenen boek Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War.

Lees meer: NRC - Heavy metal en andere martiale muziek in Irak

Anaconda, a giant rubber “snake” that floats offshore and converts wave energy to electricity, is a step closer to commercialisation. An 8-metre long, 1/25th scale version is currently undergoing tests in a large wave tank in Gosport, UK, and a full-size working version could be a reality in five years.

Des Crampton, CEO of Checkmate Seaenergy, the firm commercialising the flexible wave harvester, says a full-size Anaconda 200 metres long could generate enough energy to power 1000 average homes. “Anaconda captures more energy than all existing wave energy devices,” he says.

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Recently McNamara has died. He has been an influential person in history. As well described here, here and here. However, its worth to watch the documentary (1 hour and 40 min) regarding him “The Fog of War“, view here: Read the rest of this entry »

Wordpress has been updated again. Short update in the video.

Amerikaanse wetenschappers zijn erin geslaagd de geheime formule voor het genereren van de ’social security numbers’ gedeeltelijk te ontrafelen. Ze zeggen in veel gevallen te kunnen voorspellen hoe deze nummers tot stand komen. Dat vergroot het gevaar voor identiteitsfraude.

Lees meer @ Automatiseringgids.nl

Lees meer: Nog voor aanvang van de Slag van Veere klinkt roep om herhaling

A nice view inside the regulatory government apparatus rounding Goldman.

“Intellectual property” is one of those ideologically loaded terms that can cause an argument just by being uttered.(..) Fundamentally, the stuff we call “intellectual property” is just knowledge - ideas, words, tunes, blueprints, identifiers, secrets, databases. This stuff is similar to property in some ways: it can be valuable, and sometimes you need to invest a lot of money and labour into its development to realise that value.
But it is also dissimilar from property in equally important ways. Most of all, it is not inherently “exclusive”. (..) Once you know my song, once you read my book, once you see my movie, it leaves my control. Short of a round of electroconvulsive therapy, I can’t get you to un-know the sentences you’ve just read here. It’s this disconnect that makes the “property” in intellectual property so troublesome.
Trying to shoehorn knowledge into the “property” metaphor leaves us without the flexibility and nuance that a true knowledge rights regime would have.
There are plenty of creations and facts that fall outside the scope of copyright, trademark, patent and the other rights that make up the hydra of Intellectual Property, from recipes to phone books to “illegal art” like musical mashups. These works are not property - and shouldn’t be treated as such - but for every one of them, there’s an entire ecosystem of people with a legitimate interest in them.”

More at P2P foundation.

Meer @ hierzo

Li Wenxing:
52 year-old music teacher in China who can sing across 6 octaves. Just for comparison, the average person sings 1-2 octaves, professional singers with extensive training can sing about 3 octaves unstrained, and Mariah Carey is able to reach 5 octaves.

More great (and not so great) comics @ XKCD [via]

Today there is a horrific article in the Dutch newspaper ‘Telegraaf‘ stating that an anonymous source confirms what is long feared: Irans Basij elite troops rape virgins who are sentenced to death just before their execution takes place.

In Iran it is illegal to sentence virgin woman to death, therefore Basij members marry these woman and rape them in jail just before their sentence actually takes place. The marriage prevents these Basij members to get convicted themselves for the rape.

Horrific story … @#$!!

Please note that the story is originally from FOX news and the Jerusalem Post. Meaning it is not clear if it is actually true or propaganda. Similar stories were broadcast, without checking the source, to bash Sadam’s regime.

One of the most important challenges in leverage an offshore team for an IT implementation is to communicate effectively. If this is not taken seriously, all the efforts surrounding making the offshore strategy successful could be wasted.

Good article: Offshoring SPM - Communication Challenges more here

The new keynote “Rebuilding the World” by Don Tapscott from Sander Duivestein on Vimeo.

While his talk is full of probably known topics. The talk as a whole gives a nice overview of many web 2.0 subjects.

David Mitchell and Robert Webb hit the issue of identity theft with a large comedic cosh.

Fox host Glenn Beck accused President Obama of being “a racist.” The group was discussing the recent Gates controversy, and Beck exclaimed that Obama has “over and over again” exposed himself as “a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture. I don’t know what it is…”

Source: Fox Host Glenn Beck: Obama Is A “Racist” (VIDEO)