Troed Sångberg

"your ego-badge enables a digital bubble that shields you from the flood of data being broadcast at you from every direction, and lets through a tiny trickle of really useful data" - Troed Sångberg

It's trivial to add a sentence on mobile phones going mobile Internet devices here. - Troed Sångberg

"Does this excite you? It does pretty much the opposite to me, because it ensures another level of irritating fragmentation that I wish didn’t exist." - Troed Sångberg

Didn't take long to find published prior art. Personally I remember the technique as being popular in the hacker community in the late 80s as well. http://sephail.net/article... - Troed Sångberg

"Aargh! ;) While I somewhat agree about the name (as did Larry Lessig a while back: http://www.youtube.com/watch... , although I think he's come around*) I've after a while of protesting ("The Private Party" or "The Privacy Party" was a quite common suggestion for a while in Sweden) came to the conclusion that it actually fits quite well in history.Pirate radio broke the stronghold on the monopoly of radio broadcasts, and gave way to commercial radio stations. The same thing happened with TV, and when two famous Swedish authors wanted to break the oligopoly in the Swedish publishing industry they named their own publishing house "Piratförlaget" (The Pirate Publishing Company).And, some would even say that the original pirates were the first to actually run ocean going ships in a democratic way, as opposed to the common authoritarian style: http://brlogsbane.wordpress.com/2008... )/Troed - a proud member of the Swedish Pirate Party, and voted..." - Troed Sångberg

" Climategate has already affected Russia. On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England) had probably tampered with Russian-climate data. The IEA believes that Russian meteorological-station data did not substantiate the anthropogenic global-warming theory." - Troed Sångberg

From the comments, someone asked for an extrapolation of the trend: " Well, a very rough calculation, taking rough figures from the graph and assuming exponential growth (always a risky assumption) gives: 100,000 apps around August 2010 200,000 apps around November 2010 and 747,349,959 by 1st January 2015, but you may find it difficult to find stuff. By 2020 the entire population of earth will be required to write apps for the Google store. (221,500,091,763,684 apps). So use these figures with care." - Troed Sångberg

"Lastly, there's the question of the name of this thing. The Nexus One shares a name with Sony Ericsson's "Nexus" skin for its Android phones, which is a bit like HTC's "Sense" and Motorola's "Motoblur" - adding a little extra functionality on top of the Android base. We gave Sony Ericsson a call, who told us that the two products are in no way related. That could present an issue for the phone manufacturer, especially if the Nexus One takes off in a big way, as some predict that it might. Either consumers get confused, Sony Ericsson has to rename, or Google has to rename - none of which are good things." - Troed Sångberg

"It’s “known” that solar activity (and let’s accept that TSI alone might not be all of the influential factors) correlate well with climate over long timescales as well as shorter. It’s “known” that this correlation starts to break up in the 20th century, most places say it’s well broken after 1975. Does this still hold water if we use non-adjusted temperature records? I.e, if the correlation matches for all possible timescales including the recent if we remove the adjustments then this should be a strong argument in support of the adjustments being based on faulty hypothesises." - Troed Sångberg