Episode29

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Matrixstream IPTV

  • Movies / Television channels streamining instantly through any broadband connection up to 1080P resolution over the H.264 codec through best effort network - public internet [1]
  • The claim is HD can be distributed in real time on a 6 meg connection!
  • Works with existing broadband networks with no upgrades or changes.
  • Essentially is a middleware that promises to provide VOD, via push, pull or streaming.
  • uses multicast or unicast to reduce load on the backbone network.
  • How does it work in practice with a large user base? Unknown. As far as we know nobody has deployed this yet.
  • Finally the device cringley has been predicting?
  • Will it recieve the necessary studio support to succeed?

Last Stand For Sanity

  • The Pirate Bay [2]
  • The MPAA's latest sortie against filesharers has omitted one of the most prominent: The Pirate Bay.
  • Founded in 2003 by a group of Swedish file-sharing advocated the Pirate Bureau.
  • Site has provoked a file-sharing debate in Sweden and has even spawned a pro-piracy political party making a credible bid for seats in the Swedish parliament.
  • Sites immunity credited to the basic structure of the BitTorrent protocol. Servers provide only torrent files, which by themselves contain no copyright data -- merely pointers to sources of the content.
  • MPAA spokeswoman Kori Bernards insists The Pirate Bay violates copyright laws around the world."The torrent and torrent tracker is something that points people to various files that make up a copyright that is protected under the law."

MSID

  • Laurence Lessig thinks an MSID might not be the worst idea [3]
  • The system effectively adds an "identity layer" to the Internet.
  • Hard to to falsify an identity and easy to verify your own.
  • Users' computers will hold files called InfoCards that give encrypted sites access to authenticated information about the user.
  • When a Web site requests personal data, you choose whether to release that information, securely and with the verification of the card's issuer.
  • Privacy fears addressed by the fact that the user decides what information is shared.
  • System is also open, it's a protocol, implementable by many, not just Microsoft.
  • It will be distributed with Vista, MS's new OS.

Short Stories

Functional Body Modification

  • The first stage in extrasensory enhansement - elegant lowtech(ist) implementation of superhuman status [4]

Google to purchase writely?

  • Google office rumours get a boost [5]

Google Mars

  • It's out of this world - sorry I couldn't resist![6]
  • You can look down on the red planet with elevation, infra red, and visible views

Webpages That Suck - Worst pages of 2005

  • And heres my least favourite (requires sound) [7]

Gabbly

  • Finally, a painless way to add live & recorded chat to any website
  • Simple put gabbly.com/thesiteyouwant - and begin chatting [8]
  • This is viral methinks

Almost a mental Keyboard

  • A funny thinkable cursor [9]
  • Hope for paraplegics and wanabe cyber people alike.
  • A user must wear a cap containing electrodes that measure electrical activity inside the brain
  • Cap works like an EEG.
  • Device can train itself to new users in about 20 minutes.

Origami

  • Microsoft have finally unveiled their origami project. Unsurprisingly its an ultra mobile PC. [10] [11]
  • These will be even more mobile than the smallest of todays micro laptops
  • The Specs: 7' screen, touch screen interface, 800grams approx,
  • Some models will have: gps, web cam, finger scanner, 40gig hard drives

Isolatr

  • The antisocial network [12]

Science Myths Explained

  • 20 of the most plausible scientific myths explained [13]
  • Our favourite - the five second rule is five seconds too long

Media Pimp

Gareth

  • Langer Land - What have the Brits done for us? [14]
  • Find Me Guilty - Vin Deisel Attempts to Act [15]
  • TV Go Home - Charlie Brookers mad masterpiece [16]
  • Convert to PDF [17]

Francis

  • View from the Sidewalk. [18]
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