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Sunday, August 29th, 2010
Who owns cultural heritage?
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010In this article, my examples will focus only on Europe- anyway, I think that the principles described in the last two sections are universally applicable.
Recently, I was reading some articles about what I could define “a family feud”, as this has been a recurring item on newspapers in Italy.
Admittedly- during the Summer, and mainly in [...]
From cost- to externalities-based pricing
Friday, August 13th, 2010This article is about something really simple, and yet so complex: setting a price.
A puzzling element of the current discussions about global warming is how often carbon neutrality seems to have become yet another marketing tool.
And this is a good starting point to discuss about prices and corporate social responsibility.
Biometric IDs and you
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010First and foremost: I think that adding biometric security features to our legally issued IDs is a normal technological improvement of security- and the matter is only “how” and “when”, not “if”.
“Biometric” IDs include information that is unique (more or less) for each individual.
Of course, it is cheaper to print a piece of paper and add a stamp than adding a chip containing your fingerprints or retina scan, or other information.
Also if I think that biometric chips should not be implanted on people, at least not for official uses, for reasons that will be explained in this short article.
Forecasting the future and number crunching
Monday, August 9th, 2010Well, forecasting the past is a pointless exercise, I assume.
I am restudying statistics, restarting from scratch.
The first time I did it? Few times in school and at the beginning of the university, of course.
Why now? Because I want to understand and review the computations behind some existing models, instead of re-inventing the wheel- with my old models, I needed to understand but not to write computations.
The main difference? Models built on historical data and limited behavioural analysis, vs. models built on historical behaviour and limited data.
From privacy to nationality, via identity
Saturday, August 7th, 2010This week it was reported that the CEO Google predicts the end of privacy on the internet.
But, in part, the announce was an element within a campaign on “network neutrality”, i.e. ensuring that providers cannot filter and decide which content is published and distributed, controlling how the available resources are used.
The interesting issue is: part [...]
Human-oriented steganography
Thursday, August 5th, 2010Somebody says that need is the mother of invention.
As usual, I am following the approach of alternating technology and political articles- today, an article about communication, memory, technology, and the transmission and storage of information.
This lunch-time short article starts as a generic description, in non-technical terms, adds some boring details, and closes again with a generic description.
Let’s say that this morning I had another set of catalysts: need, of course, boredom, and… a cappuccino.
Euro: costs and benefits
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010An interesting, curious article on the Wall Street Journal about the 500 EUR banknotes and seignorage made me think about the headless chicken.
As no revisions to the article have been published, I assume that the information that it contains is confirmed- and I wanted to share some comments.
Cyber-jurisdiction and the cloud: the smartphone case
Monday, August 2nd, 2010A short commentary to share (again) some doubts and ideas about what I could define… the separation of the Cyber-church and the State.
Italian and Balkan news
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Why this title? Because recent Italian news intertwined with the past, present, and future of the Balkans.
At the end, a short story to summarize the article.