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"Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been ." Theodore von Kármán
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The LHC was built as a higgs factory. Or a stamp printing press, if you prefer. btw Mathematica would be little more than a DOE-MACSYMA/Maxima ripoff, not to mention the delusional "NKS" including its author.
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"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_Noam_Ch...
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"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper
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a substantial part of their R&D budget is "market development"
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Australia's National Medicines Policy aims to 'meet medication and related needs, so that both optimal health outcomes and economic objectives are achieved for Australians'.3 In response to the rising cost of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Sch
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it isn't the R syntax, as a language, it is rather the package ecosystem and the invested resources it encapsulates.
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Bad Science also does the job. The Emperor of All Maladies gives a candid and almost frank overview on how clinical drug trials are performed "from the inside". Aspirin the Story of a Wonder Drug is also a nice account of "drug development"
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appreciate the thorough burn-in test
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https://code.google.com/p/renjin/
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http://www.nycresistor.com/2012/08/21/ghosts-in-the-rom/
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"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper
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I would be surprised if it would turn out, that Schneier wasn't active in building this stuff at DoD and AT&T etc.
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A completely optional service. You are misled or are misleading. https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-18-archive....
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This is a technocrat description of national socialism based on technology and corporatism. Been there, done that. Eben has already warned about the totalitarianism not of the future, but of the present: http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-a
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It is explicit western policy to use cheap eastern labor: "The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into account realistic labor prices in different countries. The total cost is X (with a western equivalent value of Y) [where Y>X] ISBN
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Current Version of the Android app is now proprietary and it isn't clear whether the source code repository will be getting any more updates.
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Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already. -- http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182
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http://archive.org/details/EbenMoglen-WhyFreedomOfThoughtReq... https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-18-archive....
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just for the record, in order to warn any non-western members: "The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into account realistic labor prices in different countries. The total cost is X (with a western equivalent value of Y) [where Y>X]
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In one of his letters to her he writes down a list of demands: http://www.giagia.co.uk/2010/03/23/ada-lovelace-day-2010/
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...the next step would be to be able to share contacts (WoT) securely, like: http://www.mightbeevil.com/contacts/ using something like http://www.mightbeevil.com/framework/download.html
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(By the way, those people obtained their own wealth largely by hiring what they say they want.) practicing what was called "the mushroom theory of management." It was an old expression, used in many other corners of corporate America. The
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High Stakes, No Prisoners is a sharp, brilliant insider's account of the way Silicon Valley really works: the sharks, powerful incumbents, and old-boy networks who play hardball all the time and the geniuses who make the products that have
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"As our own common sense tells us, Armstrong had discovered a vastly superior radio technology. But at the time of his invention, Armstrong was working for RCA. RCA was the dominant player in the then dominant AM radio market. By 1935, ther
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Endless marketing for an obsolete surplus item (your last phone is likely to be more capable). Just to clarify: - doesn't work without proprietary blobs, ie. you are NOT allowed to learn how it works. - doesn't make use of the hardware w/o
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Android is obviously out of the question since it's just a different flavor of the same garbage Not quite: http://f-droid.org/ http://replicant.us/ http://www.cyanogenmod.org/
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In short: I was tired of spending time on my computer working on my operating system instead of working on my projects. here is the rub: you are not working on your projects, you are working on AAPL shareholders' projects -- AAPL is a pla
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yes -- I was chucked out, and I'm not Nordic. Actually my mother told our new neighbours when they got kids, that it doesn't harm, at all.

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