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Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/david.htm 2. http://www.econ.umn.edu/~mboldrin/index.html 3. http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/papers/ip.ch1.pdf 4. http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/papers/ip.ch2.pdf 5. http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/ iTV Standard v1.1 Released http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1929210 [0]mbstone writes "The iTV Standards Initiative this week [1]announced the release of version 1.1 of its proposed [2]iTV Production Standards, an open XML-schema-based scheme for interactive TV. In other words your set-top box or PC TV card would use the proposed standard to let you click on something displayed on your TV screen, for example, to answer a poll or buy the product featured in a commercial." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.itvstandards.org/iTVPublic/news.aspx 2. http://www.tvspy.com/nexttv/nexttvcolumn.cfm?t_nexttv_id=1121&page=1&t_content_cat_id=10 Computer Scientists Rally for Reliable Voting System http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1948247 [0]Kim Alexander writes "Silicon Valley computer scientists, led by Stanford professor David Dill are asking Santa Clara county to purchase a new computerized voting system only if it provides a voter verified paper trail. Their [1]concerns are based on the lack of adequate testing of these voting systems, and the fact that the software is closed-source and proprietary. Requiring a voter-verified paper trail will mitigate many of these problems. Dill's '[2]Resolution on Electronic Voting' has been endorsed by prominent computer scientists from all over the country, including Ron Rivest. Counties all over California and the US are going through a similar process. Patriotic nerds who want to do something to help protect our fundamental right to vote with confidence that our votes will be counted can help by contacting their state and local reps, writing letters to supervisors and getting informed!" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.calvoter.org/cvfnews 2. http://verify.stanford.edu/evote.html A Tale in the Desert http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/2231246 Sandy99 writes "A Tale in the Desert is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (mmorpg) that has been in development for 4 1/2 years and goes live tomorrow. There is no killing in this game. It is all about cooperation to unlock the knowledge of Egypt. A basic overview is at [0]the official site. Discussion forums are at [1]atitd.net. Maps of Egypt and construction knowledge are at [2]atitdmaps.com. Everything has been produced by a handful of independent developers and a bunch of volunteers. This is also the first mmorpg to debut with both windows and linux clients." Links 0. http://www.atitd.com/ 1. http://www.atitd.net/ 2. http://www.atitdmaps.com/ More on the Mars Ice Cap http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/190221 [0]bfwebster writes "In a striking example of how a preliminary (but wrong!) scientific conclusion can persist for decades, [1]Space.com has a story about how [2]the south polar ice cap on Mars is mostly water, not mostly carbon dioxide (dry ice), as has been stated since the late 1960s. The new finding is based on analysis of Mars Observer readings that show that the souther polar ice cap is too warm at certain seasons to be dry ice. This finding has negative implications both for those claiming that [3]liquid flow structures on Mars were caused by C02 instead of H20, as well as those who were hoping to [4]use all that CO2 for terraforming." Links 0. http://bfwa.com 1. http://www.space.com/ 2. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_ice_030213.html 3. http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0104/01co2gullies/ 4. http://science.howstuffworks.com/terraforming2.htm 'Selfish Routing' Slows the Internet http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1827216 Smaz writes "[0]Science Blog reports that a little love could speed things up on the Net. "Self-interest can deplete a common resource. It seems this also applies to the Internet and other computer networks, which are slowed by those who hurry the most. Fortunately, say computer scientists at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. , there is a limit to how bad the slowdown can get. And after developing tools to measure how much the performance of a particular network suffers, they say, the way to get improved performance on the Internet is the same as the way to maintain air and water quality: [1]altruism helps." Links 0. http://www.scienceblog.com/community/index.php 1. http://www.scienceblog.com/community/article1018.html Goodbye, Dolly http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1755200 goombah99 writes "Dolly, the famous cloned sheep has been put to death after being diagnosed with a progressive lung disease, according to many [0]reports. This follows on earlier reports that she was prematurely aging, including developing arthritis. While one should be cautious about drawing conclusions from a single data point, its interesting to speculate." Here is a link to her [1]birthplace courtesy of [2]Captain Large Face Links 0. http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/02/14/dolly_obit030214 1. http://www.roslin.ac.uk/ 2. http://.ofni.tnargnahtanojdivad. .ta. .todhsals. Power Laws, Weblogs, and Your Given Name http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1512257 [0]gummint writes "After contemplating the blogsphere and pondering whether [1]"diversity plus freedom of choice creates inequality", consider an old-media domain name: the one your parents gave you. How did they choose it? How many other persons have the same one? Get [2]some facts, or [3]a lot of facts. Or just comment anyway. The good news is that the extent of inequality can change massively over time: the popularity of the most popular given names has decreased dramatically since the Industrial Revolution." Links 0. http://www.galbithink.org 1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/1740233&tid=149 2. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=366240 3. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=286288 Some Geek Guides for Dating http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1336211 An anonymous reader sends in this: "In honor of upcoming V-day, here are some geek guides for help in finding your geeky match: [0]Guy's Guide to Geek Girls, [1]Girl's Guide to Geek Guys, [2]advice from a she-geek, [3]Engineer Your Love Life and [4]Bart's Dating Guide for Geeks. And for those of you who are absolutely hopeless, well, there is always [5]Coincidence Designs... It's not too late, so good luck!" Another [6]reader has some good news: "An article in [7]Discover magazine reports on research done by scientists at the [8]University of Toronto about how males attract mates. The [9]cited article claims that when males are young, the show offs are actually the ones who are least likely to succeed later on. This causes a "revenge of the nerds effect:" the football players burn out but the nerds become sexy!" And if all else fails, you can try a [10]Valentine's Day Form Letter. Links 0. http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~masterma/GuideToGeekGirls.html 1. http://college.antioch.edu/~totally/geek.html 2. http://web.mit.edu/luminea/www/geekdate.html 3. http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/1285/syspaper.html 4. http://www.linuxhelp.ca/guides/geekguide/ 5. http://www.coincidencedesign.com/ 6. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. http://www.discover.com/mar_03/breakmen.html 8. http://www.utoronto.ca/ 9. http://www.proulxresearch.org/papers_how_males_mate.htm 10. http://valentine.uacs.ca/formletter.php Satellite Hackers Charged Under DMCA http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1424247 RexHavoc writes "'Invoking the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a federal grand jury has [0]indicted six people on charges of developing software and hardware designed to hack into paid TV satellite transmissions.' My guess is that for those who haven't already plead guilty, they will have a tough time proving that they had good intentions, unlike Dmitry Sklyarov's e-books case." 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