From “FOSS folk who make us proud“:
Samba developers Andrew Tridgell, Jeremy Allison and Volker Lendecke have, along with some intrepid investigators from the European Union, wrested an agreement with Microsoft that specifies that every one of Microsoft’s network protocols which are used to work with Windows Server will be provided to a newly formed body, the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation.
This is great news! Three years in the making.
From “The Internet Brain Implant: Why We Should Say No“:
This Fall pollsters Zogby International released the results of a survey that asked nearly 10,000 US adults the following question. “How likely would you be to implant a device into your brain that enabled you to use your mind to access the internet if it could be done safely?” 11% of respondents said they were very or somewhat likely to do so.
Two-for-two from ReadWriteWeb today, and not entirely unrelated if you think about it.
From “Technology Review: What Your Phone Knows About You“:
Sifting through cell-phone data to get at the truth of people’s social interactions falls under the umbrella of an emerging field that Pentland has dubbed “reality mining.” And he thinks that social networks are just the beginning. The same techniques can be applied to other sets of cell-phone data to help people communicate more effectively, manage their time better, and even make their neighborhoods more livable. And it’s all thanks to the ubiquity of cell phones–the ultimate data-collection machines.
Via ReadWriteWeb.
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