links for 2007-01-16
| 16. January 2007 | | Jure
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Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about what’s gone wrong with globalization.
Elizabeti in Helen
| 16. January 2007 | | Jure
Elizabeta I. in Elizabeta II. Mini serija in film, v obeh pa Helen Mirren, ki je za vlogi odnesla dva zlata globusa za glavni vlogi. V seriji je izjemna, filma pa seveda še nisem videl. Čas bi že bil, da odnese tudi kakšnega oskarja, saj že več desetletij ostaja na samem igralskem vrhu. Poleg Judy Dench zagotovo britanski “national treasure”.
(foto: Mirren v filmu o Lucky Man iz leta 1973)
Fukuyamov obrat
| 16. January 2007 | | Jure
Francis Fukuyama je bil pred iraško vojno precej blizu neokonzervativcem, med drugim tudi kot član (bivši?) razvpitega think tanka Project for the New American Century. Kasneje je postajal prepad med Fukuyamo in nekaterimi neokonzervativci vse večji, Francis pa je leta 2004 celo glasoval proti Bushu ml. Danes? Intervju tukaj.
Senator Ted Kennedy said that Iraq was George Bush’s Vietnam. Is he right?
FF: In a sense, yes. Iraq is undoubtedly the greatest foreign policy disaster since Vietnam.
Višja stopnja kompleksnosti, večja možnost napak
| 15. January 2007 | | Jure
Zakaj alternative fosilnim gorivom, ki so odvisne od prenosa preko električnega omrežja, niso rešitev in kako deregulacija/liberalizacija energetskega trga povzroča nove probleme, ko so zaradi kompleksnosti novih gigantskih omrežij napake in odpovedi v naprej programirane in logične. Tukaj
Ključno:
Prior to deregulation, which began in the 1990s, regional and local electric utilities were regulated, vertical monopolies. A single company controlled electricity generation, transmission, and distribution in a given geographical area. Each utility generally maintained sufficient generation capacity to meet its customers’ needs, and long-distance energy shipments were usually reserved for emergencies, such as unexpected generation outages. In essence, the long-range connections served as insurance against sudden loss of power. The main exception was the net flows of power out of the large hydropower generators in Quebec and Ontario. …
Kasneje:
The new regulations envisioned trading electricity like a commodity. Generating companies would sell their power for the best price they could get, and utilities would buy at the lowest price possible. For this concept to work, it was imperative to compel utilities that owned transmission lines to carry power from other companies’ generators in the same way as they carried their own, even if the power went to a third party. FERC’s Order 888 mandated the wheeling of electric power across utility lines in 1996. But that order remained in litigation until March 4, 2000, when the U.S. Supreme Court validated it and it went into force.
In the four years between the issuance of Order 888 and its full implementation, engineers began to warn that the new rules ignored the physics of the grid. The new policies “do not recognize the single-machine characteristics of the electric-power network,” Casazza wrote in 1998. “The new rule balkanized control over the single machine,” he explains. “It is like having every player in an orchestra use their own tunes.”2
Slovenia’s Vanishing Act
| 15. January 2007 | | Jure
V času, ko se slovenska politična elita sonči ob obiskih pomembnežev in zapira ceste za poslavljanje od tolarja, velja spomniti, da ista elita še vedno ni zmožna rešiti vprašanja izbrisanih. Temen madež še vedno ostaja, še več, kljub novi uradni verziji, ki trdi, da izbrisa sploh ni bilo, še vedno odmeva tudi v tujini. Najnovejši primer je iz ameriške revije MotherJones. Avtor članka je Chris Collins, ki je lansko leto preživel v Sloveniji. Če bi slovenska elita izbris rada čim prej “izbrisala” iz spomina, nam, upam, vsaj drugi tega ne bodo dopustili.
A number of recent developments may force the Slovenian government to finally resolve the matter, though considerable political leverage evaporated once the country was admitted to the EU. In March 2006, the outgoing commissioner for human rights for the Council of Europe reiterated his call for Slovenia to restore full rights to the thousands still without legal status. In July 2005, the United Nations Human Rights Committee called on Slovenia to seek similar resolution, and four months later Amnesty International urged full reparation for the Erased and guarantees they wouldn’t face future persecution. Last July, a group of Italian and Slovenian lawyers filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Erased at the European Court of Human Rights.
links for 2007-01-12
| 12. January 2007 | | Jure
The ‘terror plot’ that didn’t fit
| 12. January 2007 | | Jure
Britanska policija je pri Robertu Cottageu našla največjo količino določene vrste kemičnega eksploziva doslej. Drugi primer: pri upokojenem zobozdravniku najdejo rocket launcher in zaščitno obleko za primer jedrskega-biološkega napada. Niste slišali? Matther Carr pojasnjuje zakaj.
Jonas, kapo dol
| 12. January 2007 | | Jure
Eden redkih, ki je Jobsovo predstavitev iPhona res razumel. Ostali pa se čim prej znebit miške in grafičnega uporabniškega vmesnika. Saj veste, gre samo za “lepši user interface”, lahko vse (khm) opravite brez tega. Hitro v ukazno vrstico kucat.
Seveda je še najmanj pomembno, da gre za mobilca. Zagotovo bo najprej prišel kak pravi video iPod s podobnim vmesnikom (pravi disk, brez funkcij mobilca). Možnosti je potem veliko. Recimo… en dotik s prstom za zagon predvajanja, dotik z dvema prstoma za pavzo, dva hitra dotika za preskok… Nič več iskanja in vrtenja koleščka. In ni vrag, da ne bo nekoč ta vmesnik prišel tudi na nanote. S tem bi Apple konkurenco še bolj zmlel. In, mimogrede, Apple ima za iPhone okrog 200 patentov, ki jih mislijo uveljavljati. Jobs je omenjeno svarilo na predstavitvi ponovil večkrat. Že ve zakaj.
links for 2007-01-11
| 11. January 2007 | | Jure
Pa le glejte, da bo poročanje “primerno”!
| 11. January 2007 | | Jure
Ivo Boscarol je danes slovenske medije osrečil s povabilom na tiskovno konferenco Liste za Slovenijo, ki je namenjena podpori kandidaturi Peterleta za predsednika republike. Vabilo je zaključil z nenavadno formulacijo:
V upanju, da boste o dogodku primerno poročali, Vas prav lepo pozdravljamo!
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