2002-06-01»
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Archive for June 1st, 2002
smart contracts»
Nick Szabo, one of the more precise extropian thinkers, has sketched out a formal language for defining contracts. I’d love to hear what a lawyer (preferably a lawyer with some knowledge of computer language theory) thought of this. He also has a lighter piece on Medieval clocks and economics. – from Seth
all change: stanton and declan moving on; rss >link< added; java haiku!; brewster is god»
Brewster “Internet Archive” Kahle is God; and a hardworking God at that. Latest project: digitising and distributing the receding edge – that’s to say, all the public domain stuff that existed prior to the Web.
“Public Access to the Public Domain” is a step towards Raj’s “Universal Access to Human Knowledge”. How hard can it be?
– from Aaron
We have to use the
next value from each node to
get to the next node.
Allen B. Downey, co-author of the How To Think Like A Computer Scientist (libre edition here): has written a Java version of haiku, and ran his book through it.
I’ve added that <LINK> thing. What mime type should RDF be anyway? I have it down at application/xml. Is that right?
Movements in the politech world. Stanton ‘mech’ McCandlish is leaving the EFF. Like old movie stars who you can only imagine in black and white, I can only see Stanton’s name in non-proportional Courier font, sitting on top of e-mails from the Blue Ribbon era EFF. Declan McCullagh is moving from Wired News, too.
There are big changes occurring in the UK cyberrights scene this week, but can’t talk about those quite yet.