http://www.wetmachine.com The Blog of author John Sundman and Friends en-us Nucleus CMS v3.23 © Weblog http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.wetmachine.comnucleus/wetmachine_icon.jpg http://www.wetmachine.com http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1430 Our David is cute. While testing today that the material editor was working, he captured the display material of the Python timer application running on the display stand, and then applied the material to the floor. The floor, the running applica... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1430 Tue, 6 Jan 2009 01:20:34 -0500 http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1426 I was reading once, I think it was in an article that Douglas Hofstadter (“Doug” to us intimates) wrote, in the New Yorker of all places, about the art of translating literature from one natural language to another. At least, I think i... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1426 Sat, 3 Jan 2009 10:05:11 -0500 http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1425 As I observed back awhile ago when describing possible scenarios for the FCC, Commissioner Deborah Tate would need to depart when the 110th Congress expired and the 111th Congress convened at Noon on January 3, 2009. So, at the FCC's pro forma m... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1425 Fri, 2 Jan 2009 05:07:43 -0500 http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1424 I am seeing in a few places such as App Rising and Slashdot that Fairpoint is planing to force subscribers to use its webmail portal even if they get Yahoo, MSN, or AOL email. This would, of course, be a major violation of the FCC's “Four F... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1424 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:57:08 -0500 http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1422 In what Rob Friedan accurately describes as an obtuseness so thorough it looks suspiciously like deliberate misinformation, the Wall St. J. has yet another piece on what it imagines the network neutrality fight is about and why the best thing in t... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1422 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:20:27 -0500 http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1423 On of my favorite die-hard Libertarian writers these days is David Friedman. Part of that is because we have known each other 20 years or so (albeit in a somewhat different context), and it is in part because if he can teach law and economics wit... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1423 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:59:49 -0500 http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1421 One of the sad legacies of the Clinton Administration is the never ending circus of internet governance known as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN. The idea, in those optimistic “anything not government is go... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1421 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:10:27 -0500 http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1420 I was able to go to the 40th Anniversary celebration of “The Mother of All Demos.” The 1968 live demo is most famous for introducing its hardware, including the mouse, but it was quite a bit more than that... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1420 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:07:00 -0500 http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1419 Why do we have laws? It seems to me that the only good reason for creating a law or regulation is to protect an identifiable victim. Other arbitrary purposes, such as defining or imposing morality, are simply not good enough. But is this distinc... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1419 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:45:23 -0500 http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1403 Harry Jessell over at TVNEWSDAY has this story about a possible interference problem between operation of 3.65 GHz band equipment and the neighboring C-Band satellite receiver operated by CBS-owned KYW in Philadelphia. According to the articl... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1403 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:58:54 -0500