You've undoubtedly investigated Autodesk Founder, John Walker's, long-running online experimental results from his Retropsychokinesis Project.

What is your Chi squared estimate applied to those results? That is to say, the probability that those results are due to chance?

You've just got penis envy because you got screwed.

Only immigration politics could come up with a concept like a "cap" that "would be allowed to automatically rise with demand" during a jobless recovery.

Yeah, only creatures like Morgan Freeman are meant to play at god.

And he's a professor who is pissed that the coeds he used to be able to nail because of the "inefficient market" are all taken.

Aside from the fact that there were undocumented MS-DOS calls that were used by MS applications, MS's applications wing was able to anticipate new directions in the soon-to-be public aspects of new versions of the API.

This rendered it impossible for competitors to write MS-DOS clones the way Phoenix wrote a clone of the IBM-PC bios.

The bid must be cash escrowed at an effective 0 rate of return. If the asset is something like land, yes, the tax rate is going to be "high" because just about anybody can extract rent from land at the same rate. If the asset is something like stock in some startup that is having trouble raising capital, clearly the cash value to others is going to be close to zero while the actual value may be as large as Google.

Baxter is correct in his prediction that Java isn't going away anytime soon but otherwise he's off on his reasoning hence predictions.

Java will dominate the server side and a lot of other places simply because Vinod Khosa made it the instructional language of India combined with the drive by the Fortune 1000 to lower programming wages regardless of quality or long-term consequences.

Java failed on the client side. Javascript/HTML5/CSS won.

Even in the new mobile devices, with all the weight of Google and Apple thrown behind Java and the JVM, Java will, once again, lose to Javascript/HTML5/CSS.

Yes, Java is the new MS-DOS of the server world and if someone could actually own it by keeping secret the API (hence upward compatibility paths), the way Gates owned MS-DOS, they'd be the new richest man on Earth regardless of the fact that Java and its entire culture is basically about throwing gibbering hoards at a problem. Java is a jobs program for Indians. I suppose distributing the wealth in a jobs program has merits compared to giving a bunch of money to one guy.

From TFA: "Uncontrolled flight is possible over most of the US (except for cities, which are going to miss out on this, like so many other post-industrial innovations)."

Also, Aviation Week reports that:

Karlsruhe-based E-volo says the Ministry has commissioned a two- to three-year trial program to create a new category of ultralight aviation to cover the two-seat VC200 rotorcraft now in development. In Europe, ultralights are aircraft weighing less than 450kg and carrying up to two people.

In place of a conventional helicopter rotor, E-volo's Volocopter has a fixed branch-like structure on which is mounted an array of battery-powered, electrically driven, individually controlled, multiply redundant mini-rotors.

Under the trial program, the German Ultralight Aircraft Association, Sport Aircraft Association and Federal Aviation Office will work with E-volo to create a manufacturing specification, legal regulations and training requirements for the new "Volocopter" ultralight rotorcraft category.

What this means is that the payload capacity of Dronet is potentially large enough to provide personal transportation given a standardized passenger "shipping container".

IPv6 wireless mesh networking between the drones for 3 reasons:

1) Drones keeping each other informed of their vectors for distributed traffic control.

2) Additional revenue for Internet service provision to wide area near-lines-of-sight of sight to the drones current aloft. This has the added benefit of actually bootstrapping Paul Baran's original intention of packet-switching: route around the damage which, in this case, is damage to the Internet now potentiated by increasing centralization of internet infrastructure.

3) IPv6 offers the potential to finally put into place what I called "the primary discipline of network architecture" when I was designing Knight-Ridder/AT&T's multi-city videotex architecture back in the early 80s: "The terminal is merely the host computer nearest the customer." Getting rid of the client-server paradigm is key to recapturing the internet's potential.

Get in touch with David P. Reed regarding the strategic approach to take for wireless mesh networking in this new regime.

"I'd strongly encourage people today to ignore the IETF, and get focused on mobile, unlicensed wireless, highly reconfigurable and pervasive networking. Pursue overlays and co-existence, and create the next bigger "Internet" - the universal glue for networking things together. "

-- David P. Reed

Open Cobalt's synchronization architecture is a good option for an open peer-to-peer network synchronization standard currently in operation. But, as I said about the wireless mesh standard, contact David P. Reed, as this synchronization standard is based on Reed's PhD thesis, which, with minor modifications, I adopted for videotex architecture clear back in 1982 and it still has no RFC.

The primary problem with "violent uprising and revolution" is that fifth generation warfare (what might be called Web 2.0 warfare) depends on the "plausible promise" which must be simply and transparently stated so that it can organize action toward its realization.

Here's a proposed plausible promise.

"Sorting proponents of political theories into governments that test them."

Any system opposed to that can be considered an enemy to be neutralized by any means available to individuals acting alone or in concert with each other.

I don't know whether you failed to do the arithmetic or to understand the proposal. First of all there is no requirement that anyone sell their property. There _is_ however a requirement that everyone pay tax. In this, there is nothing distinguishing this from other forms of govenance. Secondly, even if one has no income, one needn't sell one's property so long as the accumulated tax liability does not equal or exceed the liquid value.

The Curse of the Network Effect is obvious enough in real estate that there is an entire school of political economy geared toward a single tax on land value -- a school most identified with the 19th century political economics author, Henry George.

Again, the real solution is to stop taxing economic activity (capital gains, income, sales, value added, etc) and instead tax market-assessed liquid value of assets.

And, again, of course, not many people are going to really understand this idea so it must be demonstrated by those who do get it.

That's why we need Sortocracy.

I'm not sure why anyone would care about "nytimes.com" let alone some guy who blogs there. What the hell is a nytimes anyway?