mattyfo

I love this paper, only thing that blows my mind is the two formula's he came up with to calculate correlation matrix and adjacency matrix...anyone know where I can begin to learn such things?

This is pretty cool, it seems a lot of developments in the wireless world has approached things from a macro level (whole networks) but what about the micro (a room full of cellphones)?

I.E. my cellphone can connect me to all sorts of things out there in the "cloud' but what about what's in front of me?

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_(publishing)

Article (publishing): An article is a stand-alone section of a larger written work. These nonfictional prose compositions appear in magazines, newspapers, academic journals, the internet, or any other type of publication.

Semantically speaking it may not be an article digested by some 'dude' at a 'desk' at a 'newspaper'. Nonetheless, it does reveal useful insight, particularly how Obama perceives the global economy and how to get ourselves aligned with it so that we stay #1 in the years to come (which means us hackers have jobs).

Regardless of that, you are right, the headline is misleading, so help the community, here's some advice on writing headlines: http://www.copyblogger.com/how-to-write-headlines-that-work/

ScottW, what's with the violent rejection of this article? Was this article Political? Yes. Does it deal with 'hacker culture'? Yes. Should it be discussed? Certainly.

What's important to remember is that while we are hacking away at our latest Facebook App, politicians & lobbyists have been hacking away at our culture. Indeed the PATRIOT ACT was probably one of the greatest hacks against our Constitution whereby it greatly altered how some things functioned. These issues that Obama brings up will affect you, me and the next generation of hackers to emerge.

Don't encourage the apathy that has come to plague a generation of American's and at the very least don't be apathetic about the government that regulates the things that you care about because one day you may just get screwed over.

I apologize for the general assumptions I've made about your character but the character of your remark was disconcerting, maybe you could explain a little further in detail why we should be "piss[ing] off with this stuff here"?

Try closing some doors, if you have stuff that you won't use or don't enjoy, get rid of it. Otherwise be careful of ending up with too little stuff and then realizing: "shoot I really need a can opener".

Also, chicks don't dig an apartment that looks like a dorm room and they don't dig sharing a hammock.

I've just started programing myself and I'd love a more concise answer then this article. (it rambled and didn't answer the question!)

For the most part I want to design webpages and mashup social networking API's. Of course I've been picking up my HTML and CSS, should I jump straight into PHP at this point or should I go another route? (Python/LISP/etc)

This entire article is based on the statement that "90% of bandwidth is being used by 5% of users for p2p sharing". Seems baseless, am I the only one that is disappointed with the reporting of our newspaper industry?