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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:jonkatz@slashdot.org">JonKatz</A> on Thursday September 28, @11:30AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the rebels-against-the-digital-revolution dept.</B></FONT><BR>
The Luddites have returned, dominating the presidential campaign, attacking technology and culture on many fronts, from ruining work to despoiling the environment to endangering children. Although the term "Luddite" gets kicked around a lot, few people understand who the first Luddites really were. Compared to the current crop of moral poseurs and wannabe anti-technology intellectuals, the originals were genuine heroes. They were fighting for a way of life, not for moral control or cultural power.
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:jonkatz@slashdot.org">JonKatz</A> on Tuesday September 26, @11:10AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the Arthur-Clarke-was-right-again dept.</B></FONT><BR>
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(<i>Note: First in a series.</i>)Maybe those manifesto-spouting <i>Wired</i> gurus were right after all. The modern political campaign as an entity is increasingly surreal and remote, especially from the perspective of this corner of the world, where nobody seems to be paying any attention and virtual reality is taking on a whole new meaning. Are these the last days of politics? I think so, and I'll be posting (with permission) your e-mail and threads responses and thoughts in subsequent columns.
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:jonkatz@slashdot.org">JonKatz</A> on Monday September 18, @10:30AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the the-flexible-hi-tech-workplace dept.</B></FONT><BR>
Temporary staffing positions have tripled in the last decade, according to an MIT/CDI study, which suggests IT workpractices are mainstreaming, spreading well beyond Silicon Valley.
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="http://roblimo.com/">Roblimo</A> on Sunday September 17, @01:00PM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the open-source-is-more-than-software dept.</B></FONT><BR>
The iBiblio.org domain name is so new that Google still doesn't show it, but a search for the site's previous name, MetaLab.unc.edu, turns up over 600,000 responses. To Linux users, it is the home of the Linux Documentation Project and the world's largest repository of downloadable Linux and Open Source software, but that is not what it started out to be and it is still not iBiblio's primary purpose, although Linux and Open Source and the community concepts behind them are integral to iBiblio in many ways.
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:jonkatz@slashdot.org">JonKatz</A> on Wednesday September 13, @10:35AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the hellraising-on-the-Net dept.</B></FONT><BR>
A new survey in <i><a href="http://www.businessweek.com">Business Week</a></i>, of all places, finds that Americans are getting ticked off about corporate power. In fact, a whopping 72% of Americans feel that big businesses have gained too much control over many aspects of their lives.In a variety of ways, abuse of technology is the reason for their unease, the Net the vehicle by which they're expressing it.
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:jonkatz@slashdot.org">JonKatz</A> on Monday September 11, @10:30AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the the-problem-isn't-the-book-stupid dept.</B></FONT><BR>
New York's big multinationally-owned publishing houses have been waving wolfbane and crosses at the Net for a decade. Now they've started hyping their e-book offerings as proof that they are becoming hip, responsive, interactive. "E-books" is the latest buzzword in publishing, made up of companies that are about as open as the NSA. Maybe the publishers ought to consider the real lessons of Net and try being as open and innovative as some of their successful young interactive writers. After all, there's money in it.
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:jonkatz@slashdot.org">JonKatz</A> on Thursday September 07, @11:45AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the Sovereign-Individual-Part-Two dept.</B></FONT><BR>
In their book <i>Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition To the Information Age</i>, authors James Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg predict the inevitable rise of merchant republics in cyberspace, functioning largely beyond the control or taxing powers of nation-states. A few years ago, this might have seemed loopy; today it seems almost inevitable. <i>(Note: Second in a series.)</i>
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:jonkatz@slashdot.org">JonKatz</A> on Wednesday September 06, @11:15AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the the-mystical-corners-of-cyberspace dept.</B></FONT><BR>
It's amazing to encounter so prescient, political and imaginative a worldview as was brought us some years ago in -- of all things -- a paper-and-paper game called "Mage The Ascension." Like "Shadowrunner" and other compelling works, "Mage" is one of the memorable folktales of this culture, the sort of tales which now mostly seem to have taken sophisticated electronic form.
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="mailto:jonkatz@slashdot.org">JonKatz</A> on Tuesday September 05, @11:15AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the mastering-the-transition-to-the-info-age dept.</B></FONT><BR>
First in a series of columns inspired by the <i>The Sovereign Individual: Mastering The Transition To the Information Age,</i> by authors James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. As the Information Revolution picks up steam and supplants the Industrial Age for good, will it undermine the great civic myths of the 20th century? This book argues that individuals are going to be liberated at the expense of the increasingly fatigued nation-states that have governed for centuries. (Part two upcoming: Virtual Merchant-States).
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</A> <B>Posted by <A HREF="http://CmdrTaco.net">CmdrTaco</A> on Friday September 01, @10:21AM</B><BR>
<FONT size=2><B>from the in-a-world-full-of-lawyers dept.</B></FONT><BR>
On Aug. 30 several folks who have written Linux drivers and apps relating to the <A href=http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/2140248>free barcode scanner mentioned here</A> a few days ago were sent <A href=http://www.flyingbuttmonkeys.com/useofthingsyouownisnowillegal/>cease and desist orders</A> demanding that they stop distributing the code. <strong>[updated by timothy 20:00 GMT:</strong> <i>Please note that what flyingbuttmonkeys received is not officially a "cease and desist" letter; instead, it merely says that the longer the drivers are available, the "longer damages will accrue," citing "intellectual property rights owned by Digital Convergence."</i><strong>]</strong> The barcode scanner is called a CueCat (with some lame marketroid colons that I'm not using because it irritates me when people name things like that). The code included a device
driver written by Pierre-Philippe Coupard and a reader/decrypter written by <A href=http://www.flyingbuttmonkeys.com>Michael Rothwell</A>. The code is afaik unavailable, but hopefully folks who downloaded it will have mirrors soon. I asked Michael to describe to me what his decoder did, and a few other questions.
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