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http://powersunfiltered.com [Powers Unfiltered] Since early 1999 (at least), there have been prizes related to grid computing.  There were prizes offered by RSA to crack various encryption methods.  There were prizes offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to find the first prime number with more than a million digits (and there’s still one for ten million digits outstanding).  There were bubble-era startups that offered cash prizes for participation in other grid projects while they fumbled around looking for an actual business model. 

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http://powersunfiltered.com [Powersunfiltered.com] Powers Unfiltered: there’s Open Source projects, and Open Source projects.  Linux, Apache, Firefox and others that have gathered a critical mass of users and developers offer some very interesting advantages.  Alchemi is a small project with few users and fewer developers.  It is an interesting proof of concept with some fine technical capabilities, and I’m sure it has some enthusiastic supporters.  I am NOT anti-open-source; find someone else to flame about that.  But when a business decides to adopt a software product (regardless of licensing model), the main costs are not in licensing but in the cost of implementation, integration, training, and daily user experience.  There has to be a certain level of QA, support, and commitment to a roadmap of future enhancements before most businesses will adopt any product, and Alchemi has not crossed that threshhold for any business we’ve encountered;

http://enerlinx.com [Enerlinx.com] Ballot Debris: And so: The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings) The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% savings) The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7 (28% savings) The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings) The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings) The tenth now paid $49 instead $59 (16% savings) Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to eat for free.

http://ntouk.com [Ntouk.com] National Technology Officer UK - Jerry Fishenden: The Indie’s story was about allegations that some civil servants have sold or been misled into providing the personal details of hundreds, possibly thousands, of people to criminal gangs. Apparently, personal details are being taken from government databases and provided to criminals, who then build a fake social footprint: getting utility bills that bear the names and details of the stolen identities, opening new bank accounts, obtaining “replacement” birth certificates – and then using all of these as evidence for a “replacement” passport.

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