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by Maarten Goldstein, Apr 17, 2000 7:19am PDT
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Hey hey, had a good weekend? No? Well sucks to be you then. Just kidding..I think ;) Check this crazy story on ZDNet (thanks Badman) which talks about export control of the Playstation2 by the Japanese government. Apparently its so sophisticated that it could guide a missile according to the government. Yeah I kid ya not, this is what they think. It's the first console ever to face export controls. "Rip out those Playstations boys, we're going to war!"


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    By: Saeger x
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    In the future, there will be no need for centralized services. All content will be available on this peered network. Strategies for "partial consumption" such as letting people read the first few paragraphs and charging for the story or hearing the low-quality song and charging for the audiophile version will be adopted along with anonymous payment schemes. It will be possible to send intelligent agents to this network to search for books, music, or other merchandise. Clients (such as Amazon.com, CDNow, eBay, your neighbor, etc.) that have a match for the merchandise will communicate with you through the peered network, preserving your anonymity. You will be able to make an anonymous payment (or merely a secure payment if you prefer) and your goods will be on their way to you. No more URLs. No more servers that crash, email that is unavailable, Web sites that you can't get to, or data that you can't find. It will truly be the end of the server as the line between what it means to be a "client" and a "server" on the network becoming increasingly blurred to the point of indistinguishability. - http://www.freshmeat.net/news/2000/04/16/955943940.html

    Nice article. Glad to know I'm not alone in having this fresh evolutionary view in the back of my mind.
    Apr 17, 2000 12:30pm PDT