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Sunday, January 09, 2005 |
 A little flailing here. Tactical OODA loops under pressure?
10:10:38 PM 
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Code 46. Interesting movie on a potential informational dystopia. In a world awash in personal information (from your genetic data to all your financial activities), an extremely detailed risk profile could be developed. Instant insurance to "cover" this risk would become a requirement for everything -- from travel to jobs. This kind of organic and global market-based system could overwhelm nation-state sovereignties. Well done and worth thinking about.
6:19:07 PM
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It seems to me that the Tsunami relief might have been a great way to bootstrap the development of a true "sys admin" miltiary force for disaster relief/nation building. So, I checked Thomas Barnett's weblog for thinking on this. I found very little but tidbits about his professional success etc.. So, if the concept's biggest advocate doesn't jump on this opportunity to promote its development, there isn't a hope in hell it will ever see the light of day.
5:58:57 PM
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CSM. Coastal mangrove forests as a way to mitigate the impact of Tsunamis.
4:53:36 PM
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Pakistan's tribal Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) blow up a critical gas pipeline again. They also hit a pumping station, powerlines, and a telephone exchange. More signs of the decline of the state.
3:31:06 PM
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CNet. Stratton is talking about a combination of physical disruptions (systems sabotage) and virtual attacks collapsing the Internet. Fortunately, in most cases, global guerrillas don't target the Internet. It's a system they rely upon too.
3:16:05 PM
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Doc, while on the floor of CES, wades into the PC home theater debate. I agree with him that Microsoft is going to have some problems here. If I remember correctly, the biggest reason early TV/PC integration trials failed was due to the crappy resolution of TVs (text looked horrible). NOTE: I am still trying to figure this out myself...
1:29:08 PM
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More than a little deja vu going on. Dave's description of his conversations with Adam in 2000 are EXACTLY like the discussions I had with Chris Hassett (PointCast) and Mike Homer (Netscape) back in 1996. At the time, I was writing and working on a concept I called "Personal Broadcast Networks" -- a vision for an open system for delivering large media files to the desktop for rapid playback. They were working on building ways to make this possible. Hence the interest in collaboration. Unfortunately, while it was a close run thing, it proved to be too early. In 2001, when I saw that Dave was working on an open system that would revive this idea, I naturally jumped on board. Mike went in another direction and built a P2P system called Kontiki -- a good effort but it was flawed (I should have helped them, but didn't). Of course, this is some history of podcasting that would be lost if not for a weblog.
1:02:13 PM
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