S. McCarthy asks "what if we change to p2p systems when the majority of 'energies' are in the industrial paradigm/structure?"

Sam notes: Yochai Benkler discusses in the "Wealth of Networks":

There is no guarantee that networked information technology will lead to the improvements in innovation, freedom, and justice that I suggest are possible.

That is a choice we face as a society.

The way we develop will, in significant measure, depend on choices we make in the next decade or so.

more notes to come here

Concurrent computing is a form of computing in which programs are designed as collections of interacting computational processes that may be executed in parallel.[1] Concurrent programs can be executed sequentially on a single processor by interleaving the execution steps of each computational process, or executed in parallel by assigning each computational process to one of a set of processors that may be close or distributed across a network.

"Two researchers, Dan Kaminsky and Moxie Marlinspike, came up with exact same way to fake being a popular website with authentication from a certificate authority. Wired has the details: 'When an attacker who owns his own domain — badguy.com — requests a certificate from the CA, the CA, using contact information from Whois records, sends him an email asking to confirm his ownership of the site. But an attacker can also request a certificate for a subdomain of his site, such as Paypal.com\0.badguy.com, using the null character \0 in the URL.

Today I successfully generated some documentation directly from commented Flows code in both php and python, and I also found that Doxygen ought to work with Ruby (we'll see). In a Flows-like way, Doxygen generates the documentation in XML, HTML, RTF, etc.

I learned enough about the process though to realize that it might be smarter to write a Flows component that generates the documentation you need when you are looking at it in the browser, instead of pre-generating static files of documentation.

Will have to contemplate....

Opera Unite is a unique technology that turns any computer or device running Opera into a Web server. In other words, your computer (running Opera Unite) is truly part of the fabric of the Web, rather than just interacting with it, and it’s something anyone can use. With Opera Unite, everyday non-technical users can serve and share content and services directly from their own computers in the form of intuitive applications. That sounds kind of cool from a technology point of view, but what can you do with it, and why is it important?