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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...o find a few flaws. What would happen if they were exploited? Their PowerPoint slide title may only slightly exaggerate: “Biggest Botnet Ever.” 102 Skyp... ..., useful software from any corner of the globe. We also eliminate the safety valve that keeps those information appliances honest. If TiVo makes a dig... ...rform these tasks, most con- sumers will not see their merit, and the safety valve will be lost. If the PC ceases to be at the center of the informati... ...ialized PC modes—like those found in “kiosk mode” at a store cycling through slides—cannot have their given task interrupted or changed, and they are ... ...hise) or technology (as in the linearity of a After the Stall 92 PowerPoint slide show and the straitjacket of some of its most favored tem- plates).... ...ion at Black Hat Europe: Silver Needle in the Skype 95 (Mar. 2–3, 2006). For slides, see http://blackhat.com/presentations/ bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-bion... ... I 25 (1988); Eric V on Hippel, Christoph Hienerth, & Peter Kragh, Slides: Users as Innovators: Implications for Denmark’s User-Centered In-...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...ternational free speech guarantees? In this view, fair use provides a safety valve that allows copyright to coexist with the First Amendment, property... ...ony Vaio running Windows, for example. It has a slot in the side for DVDs to slide in and software that comes along with it which allows the DVD reade... ...mance styles and characteristic sounds: the warm guitar that came out of the valve amplifiers of early funk, the thrashing (and poorly miked) drums of ... ...lt around a notion of the romantic author can sometimes operate as a one-way valve vis-à-vis traditional and collective creative work. 8 There is a I ... ...e break- ing of a minor taboo that presages a Victorian literary character’s slide into debauchery, once that first wall protecting the public domain w... ...using processes and parts that are as standardized and as well understood as valves, screws, capacitors, or resistors. The electrical engineer told to... ...o on. Of course an engineer understands the principle behind a ratchet, or a valve, but he does not have to go through the process of thinking “as par...

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Aus Com

By: Christine Jones

... knowing what to think, he turned in his seat to observe through the open slide window into the back. David snapped to attention with the light tube ... ...el storage tanks were under the last level, yet Shaun could shut down the valves from here if only he could get to them. Sprinkler systems were dousi... ...n tank fed the smaller tanks on the different levels. Each had a shut off valve, which Shaun asked his friend if she thought to turn off first. "I'm... ... and Air Force garb. Roxanne asked what was up. Keating placed the glass slide down on the table. Evidently, the chip was cause for alarm. "It is a ... ...lish accent." He remained standing with Stephen gesturing to look at the slide. "Where did you find it?" David asked. "In Atlas's leg, well, the par...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...roliferation of nuclear weapons. If the human species is to stop its suicidal slide into the destruction of the planet it lives on, it must be educa... ...ive. Another example is the steel guitar. It is tuned harmonically. You can slide an iron bar anywhere: and it will still sound beautifully harmon... ...ive. Another example is the steel guitar. It is tuned harmonically. You can slide an iron bar anywhere: and it will still sound beautifully harmon... ...ing our finger on a fret board, and shortening its sound. By using elaborate valves and tubes to cut off sound waves coming out of artificially mad... ... result of the concept of imaginary abstract personal ownership is the logical slide into everyone trying to own everything, all fighting and bickeri... ... tested against both of the other side’s two players, then the opposing hikers slide down after two plays… until you play against every single player...

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Narcissism Book of Quotes

By: Sam Vaknin

...e site call it 'N-dipping'. It is like fighting an addiction. So, if you are tempted to slide, it's entirely understandable. At one time you felt gr... ...or am I putting effort into this selective amnesia. It happened serendipitously, like a valve shut tight. I feel proud of this ability of mine to un... ...tudy Modules regarding the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Narcissism At Work Slide presentation by Dattner Consulting regarding narcissism...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...types, and societal indifference; and the interest in avoiding a possible slide toward voluntary and perhaps even involuntary euthanasia. ―Ju... ...‘s or a heart attack, it would be welcomed. They are already making heart valves for infants and adults from their own tissue. ―You know of t...

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When the Sleeper Wakes

By: H. G. Wells

...n the wasp uniform stood aside like a well-trained servant, and closed the valve behind him. Compared with any of the places Graham had see thus far, ... ...ompany Ostrog through several miles (as it seemed) of passages, lifts, and slides to the closing scene of the White Council’s rule. The way ran deviou... ...ed and gathered here, a complex system of special pas- sages and lifts and slides, for the convenient interchange of people and luggage between stage ... ... hull, and stood below on the stage waving his hand. Suddenly he seemed to slide along the stage to the right and vanish. The engine was beating, the ... ...ronaut set the engine gliding slowly forward along its rail and opened the valve of the leeward wing until the stem of the aeropile was horizontal and... ...the air with strenuous squealing and an idiotic slang. “Skin your eyes and slide,” “Gewhoop, Bonanza,” “Gollipers come and hark!” The place seemed to ... ...ent, felt cool and delib- erate. He lifted the stem still more, opened one valve on his left wing and swept round and up. He looked down with a steady... ...esolu- tion was taken. His momentary lethargy was past. He opened two more valves to his left, swung round, end on to this hostile machine, closed his... ...alves to his left, swung round, end on to this hostile machine, closed his valves, and shot straight at it, stem and wind-screen shielding him from th...

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

...es. Bob was a well-meaning idiot, but Garm did not encourage him. He would slide his head round the door panting, “Rats! Come along Garm!” and Garm wo... ...eat colloid underbody port- hole through which I watch over-lighted London slide east- ward as the gale gets hold of us. The first of the low winter c... ...ighted if anything,” says Captain Purnall at the wheel, as Cardiff-Bristol slides under. “I re- member the old days of common white verticals that ‘ud... ...eeps from 6700 to 7300. There is the faint “szgee” of the rudder, and back slides the arrow to 6000 on a fall- ing slant of ten or fifteen knots. “In ... ...tle reflectively. From the low-arched ex- pansion-tanks on either side the valves descend pillarwise to the turbine-chests, and thence the obedient ga... ...y on the table. Suddenly a bell thrills; the engineers run to the turbine- valves and stand by; but the spectacled slave of the Ray in the U-tube neve... ...red across, and rent diagonally. She falls stern first, our beam upon her; slides like a lost soul down that pitiless ladder of light, and the Atlanti...

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Plain Tales from the Hills

By: Rudyard Kipling

... Saumarez, who was standing by me. I heard the girl whisper, “George,” and slide her arm through the arm that was not clawing my shoulder, and I saw t... ...his other trouble. He was weak about the heart also. Both ways. One of the valves was affected, and the fever made it worse. This showed itself later ... ...ng up sick—very sick—on an off chance of recovery. The fever and the heart-valves had nearly killed him. She knew that, too, and she knew—what I had n... ...the Other Man—dead. The sixty-mile up- hill jolt had been too much for his valve, I suppose. The tonga- driver said:—”The Sahib died two stages out of... ...e rest of the proceed- ings—fees, attestation, and all. Then the Registrar slides the blotting-pad over the names, and says grimly, with his pen betwe...

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The First Men in the Moon

By: H. G. Wells

...o use him as a central figure in a good farce and let all this other stuff slide. And then, perhaps, I would catch on again for a bit. At the earliest... ... little complicated; 24 The First Men in the Moon there will have to be a valve, so that things may be thrown out, if necessary, without much loss of... ...ed paper from the bale, lit it, and thrust it hastily through the man-hole valve. I bent forward and peered down through the thick glass for its appea... ...st the bristling thicket, and as I scrambled up after him, the mon- strous valve came into its position with a clang. For a long 65 H. G . Wells time... ...ssed by the idea that the Se- lenites would presently close their lids and valves, and shut us out under the inexorable onrush of the lunar night. It ... ...ailed to find the sphere, we no longer had time to seek it, and once these valves were closed with us outside, we were lost men. The great night of sp...

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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

...tever invention and imagination and the mood can give—a vision of buttered slides on a busy day or of unprecedented worlds. In that spirit of miscella... ...HE STOLEN BACILLUS “THIS AGAIN,” said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, “is well,—a preparation of the Bacil- lus of ch... ... throb of the engines, the rotation of the big wheels, the spin- ning ball-valves, the occasional spittings of the steam, and over all the deep, uncea... ...rous stroke, then dropping it, ran to the bows and leapt. He felt his feet slide over the rock, and, by a frantic effort, leapt again to- wards a furt... ... afternoon, was the practical examination, when sections had to be cut and slides identi- fied. In the morning Hill was depressed because he knew he h... ...ailed to recognise it, of course. Sup- pose Wedderburn too had shifted the slide? He looked up at 192 The Country of the Blind the clock. There were ... .... When the windows were screwed and every- thing was all right, I shut the valve from the air-belt in order to help my sinking, and jumped overboard, ... ... sideways. Quite a start it gave me. I stood up clear on deck and shut the valve behind the helmet to let the air accumulate to carry me up again—I no... ...water. I couldn’t see much, but I saw the game was up at a glance, gave my valve a tre- mendous twist, and went bubbling down again after poor Always,...

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Twelve Stories and a Dream

By: H. G. Wells

...lloons and let the air into its frame, and by an adjustment of its weights slide down the air in any desired direction. As it fell it would accumulate... ...d invented for his contractile balloon was discovered to be useful for the valves of a new oil-engine, and he obtained the means for making a trial mo... ...nd. When the windows were screwed and everything was all right, I shut the valve from the air belt in order to help my sinking, and jumped overboard, ... ... sideways. Quite a start it gave me. I stood up clear on deck and shut the valve behind the helmet to let the air accumulate to carry me up again—I no... ...water. I couldn’t see much, but I saw the game was up at a glance, gave my valve a tremendous twist, and went bubbling down again after poor Always, i... ... you something to stare at,’ I said, and with that I screwed up the escape valve and turned on the compressed air from the belt, until I was swelled o...

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Pierrette

By: Honoré de Balzac

...lored in- sects, they gathered flowers, they gardened; in winter they made slides, they built snow-men or huts, or pelted each other with snowballs. W... ...ut you.” “How’s that?” demanded Sylvie. In the provinces there is always a valve or a faucet through which gossip leaks from one social set to another... ...t the colonel’s.” “Pooh!” said Gouraud, alarmed, “little girls know how to slide their eyes into everything.” “Ah!” exclaimed Sylvie. “Yes,” continued... ...aying only, when the four pieces were joined together,— “Make the cover to slide; her poor grandmother will not hear the nails.” At daybreak Brigaut w...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...bered with coils of rigging. Going forward to the forecastle, we found the slide of the scuttle open. Seeing a light, we went down, and found only an ... ...d goadings to gain the top of the oppo- site hill; the headlong, sled-like slide down its other side;—all these, with the cries of the headsmen and ha... ...e Captain and his posse leaped the barricade, and rapidly drawing over the slide of the scuttle, planted their group of hands upon it, and loudly call... ...ng the heavy brass padlock belonging to the companionway. Then opening the slide a little, the Captain whispered some- thing down the crack, closed it... ...ght Whale, that rolls his black weedy bulk in the sea like some mossy rock-slide from the Patagonian cliffs. His jets are erect, full, and black like ... ...nly denoted his extreme exhaustion. In most land animals there are certain valves or flood-gates in many of their veins, whereby when wounded, the blo...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...bered with coils of rigging. Going forward to the forecastle, we found the slide of the scuttle open.Seeing a light, we went down, and found only an o... ...and goadings to gain the top of the opposite hill; the headlong, sled like slide down its other side; — all these, with the cries of the headsmen and ... ...e Captain and his posse leaped the barricade, and rapidly drawing over the slide of the scuttle, planted their group of hands upon it, and loudly call... ...g the heavy brass padlock belonging to the companion way. Then opening the slide a little, the Captain whispered something down the crack, closed it, ... ...ght Whale, that rolls his black weedy bulk in the sea like some mossy rock slide from the Patagonian cliffs. His jets are erect, full, and black like ... ...nly denoted his extreme exhaustion. In most land animals there are certain valves or flood gates in many of their veins, whereby when wounded, the bloo...

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The Princess

By: Alfred Lord Tennyson

...Art And Science, Caryatids, lifted up A weight of emblem, and betwixt were valves Of open-work in which the hunter rued His rash intrusion, manlike, b... ...ot he. He has a solid base of temperament: But as the waterlily starts and slides Upon the level in little puffs of wind, Though anchored to the botto... ... columned entry shone and marble stairs, 50 The Princess And great bronze valves, embossed with Tomyris And what she did to Cyrus after fight, But no... ...oke, and with the babe yet in her arms, Descending, burst the great bronze valves, and led A hundred maids in train across the Park. Some cowled, and ... ...tree the blossom wavering fell, And over them the tremulous isles of light Slided, they moving under shade: but Blanche At distance followed: so the...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

...screw revolved forty-three times a minute, and the steam poured out of the valves. We heaved the log, and calculated that the Abraham Lincoln was goin... ... were curved, to afford the greatest comfort. Light movable desks, made to slide in and out at will, allowed one to rest one’s book while reading. In ... ...ufficiently long, and its curves pro- longed enough, to allow the water to slide off easily, and oppose no obstacle to its passage. These two dimensio... ...re, was rather large. It served as a reservoir for compressed air, which a valve, worked by a spring, allowed to escape into a metal tube. A box of pr... ... slightly.” Indeed the situation was dangerous, but the Nautilus seemed to slide like magic off these rocks. It did not follow the routes of the Astro...

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The Confidence- Man

By: Herman Melville

... A Sick Man, After Some Impatience, Is Induced to Become a Patient THE SKY slides into blue, the bluffs into bloom; the rapid Mississippi expands; run... ...r just then the boat touched at a houseless landing, scooped, as by a land-slide, out of sombre forests; back through which led a road, the sole one, ... ...y wiping from his lips the beads of water freshly clinging there as to the valve of a coral-shell upon a reef, he turned upon the cosmo- politan, and,...

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The Poems of Emily Dickinson

By: Martha Dickinson Bianchi

...n her mat. I ’ve known her from an ample nation Choose one; Then close the valves of her attention Like stone. XIV SOME things that fly ... ...ir— An almanac’s aware. Was it the mat winked, Or a nervous star? The moon slides down the stair T o see who ’s there. There ’s plunder,—where? T anka... ... Thomson’s sheaves. Still is the bustle in the brook, Sealed are the spicy valves; Mesmeric fingers softly touch The eyes of many elves. Perhaps a squ...

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Women in Love

By: D. H. Lawrence

... was as unreal, and circumscribed, as a magic-lantern show. She wished the slides could all be broken. She wished it could be gone for ever, like a la... ... could all be broken. She wished it could be gone for ever, like a lantern-slide which was broken. She wanted to have no past. She wanted to have come... ...s, the motion was his own. They explored the great slopes, to find another slide. He felt there must be something better than they had known. And he f... ...rom confessing. And yet her large, grave eyes upon him seemed to open some valve in his veins, and involuntarily he was telling. ‘My father was a man ... ...es. In the distance a slope sheered down from a peak, with many black rock-slides. It was like a shallow pot lying among the stone and snow of the upp...

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