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2001

The Rental Home Efficiency Problem

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There is a fundamental problem with energy conservation as it relates to homes that are rented from a central organization, such as a realtor. It's a very simple problem: the realtor pays for infrastructure, but the renter pays for the utility b...

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Rethinking Computer Interfaces

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The first dot-com boom has come and gone and we now find ourselves in the gritty interim period, where only innovation, cunning, and realized profits will save us and bring us back to prosperity. Gone, thankfully, are the lucrative days when anyone w...

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2000

Philosophy: The Necessity of Subversion

4 min read

I occasionally undertake mildly subversive activities, like posting documents describing how proprietary protocols are organized1, setting up MP3 sites2, explaining to people how to get around bans3, describing anonymous file exchange possibilities4,...

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Unfreezing The Site

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In the coming days, the now-familiar "frozen" sign should be disappearing from the site. That's right, I'm back1 and I've got an itching to do some cool things with this site....

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Adventures In Housing

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Whoo, boy. I just got housed! I hope to share with you some of the joy of finding a house in Silicon Valley here. =...

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Why I Came Back

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Well, I'm back. I spent two weeks in New York, two weeks in Italy and France, two months in Sweden, two weeks in Boston, and have now arrived back in the...

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Censored.

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I found out from an anonymous email account that my website is being censored / blocked by the University of Central Florida, i.e., students at UCF can no longer read my site. I just sent the following letter to the UCF student government in response...

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Client as Server: A New Model

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A new model is emerging from the Internet. It represents the culmination of years of incremental evolution in the structure of the network and the clients that feed upon it. It is based upon the same principles upon which the Internet was founded. It...

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Why XML Will Fail

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There has been a fair amount of hype surrounding XML, or the eXtensible Markup Language, over the past year and the hype is slowly but surely growing. I decided it would be a prudent thing to think about, and chewed it over. I came to the following c...

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Why SDMI Will Fail

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Hounded by open formats like MP3 that encourage free copying of music, record companies have been praying for an escape: a high-quality, secure digital audio format that could be sold to consumers everywhere online and without a risk of piracy. Unsat...

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On Collaborative Filtering

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A recent set of technologies have been devised to help websites learn about their users and take intelligent actions accordingly. These technologies, called "recommendation engines" or "collaborative filtering," examine a user&821...

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