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by bediger 15y ago
Why bother to threaten? Why not just expose them? The Jester believes he has hacked "known-bad" people. His list of "known-bad" may not coincide withe people guilty of crimes, and probably coincides even less with people chargeable with c
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by bediger 15y ago
That's great, studies and evidence suggest that patents and copyrights result in decreased innovation. Are we going to do away with patents and copyrights? No? Why not? Cap-and-trade may or may not have other effects that make the result
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by bediger 15y ago
And if everyone took a shower at the same time? This is just scare mongering. Also, the famous slogan was "The network is the computer", not "The internet is the computer". That was Sun Microsystem's tagline or slogan. Given that "The Inter
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by bediger 15y ago
I have not read this book, but I did hear him on NPR's "Science Friday" last week. I think Tyson misses something huge. The USA actually had a large number of career engineers to do the Space Program with. From 1945 to 1960, a lot of WW2
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by bediger 15y ago
Given all the other noise about QU8K's rocket reaching 120,00 feet ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvDqoxMUroA ) and other relatively sophisticated rockets based on off-the-shelf electronics and model rocket technology, when do we see a wa
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by bediger 15y ago
Great Snakes! This was almost exactly my experience with LFS, and I just installed Arch on my laptop, after running it on servers for a while.
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by bediger 15y ago
Still live 19:34-0700. Is this for real, or just some DNS trickery? The HN post says "1 hour ago", wouldn't PandaSecurity respond faster than that?
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by bediger 15y ago
The purest of propaganda gibberish. Available from "your Mercedes partner" on the 15th of June. "Partner". Really? Don't you mean "member of the price-fixing cartel"? Because that's what a car dealership is in the USA.
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by bediger 15y ago
This article's title is sarcastic, apparently. Sure, some mathematics is outside the purview of programming. Certainly some programming activities are only loosely mathematical. But to say that the clerical part of programming is all that m
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by bediger 15y ago
You could bing for incidents like this.
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by bediger 15y ago
Ah ha! A Dutch auction ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction ). This might be a good thing for people who can get away with less-powerful servers (and who can't these days?). I can't find the reference I want to find, but a little
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by bediger 15y ago
Interesting things to ask, to be sure. But why all the cuts? I mean, I'm sure they had to edit out the usual number of "ummm" and "ahhhh", and "wait, wait!" phrases. But the director had at least 3 cameras on him, from different angles, an
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by bediger 15y ago
Charles Petzold has elucidated a lot of the same ideas in: http://charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.htm... Since that's got a 2005 date, can we agree that there's a trend here?
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by bediger 15y ago
high-ceremony Java enterprise folk - is that a way of not including a "lightning rod" or layers of linkbait and trolling? Because I think of the work of "Java enterprise folk" in different terms. "Bloatware", "boilerplate", "marching mor
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by bediger 15y ago
This article contains a good observation: he wraps his key idea in layers of link-bait and nerd-traps, shallow but emotionally charged ideas that side-track all but the strongest minds . Hey, this idea is my Intellectual Property! I inven
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by bediger 15y ago
The author takes the idea of "intellectual property" for granted. What about the problem of independent invention? The telegraph, telephone and lots of other major inventions had multiple pretenders to the throne of "inventor". I think that
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by bediger 15y ago
Anybody who has used Linux at home, and Windows at work can tell you that. In fact, Windows has only recently caught up with Linux in OS reliability. X11 is still vastly more reliable than Win32. Now, about the Windows performance issues.
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by bediger 15y ago
This article illustrates what's wrong with "enterprise" type software: HiPPO rules in that context, and it costs too much to do testing to validate any design choices. In fact, most "enterprise" development managers believe that software is
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by bediger 15y ago
could very well be ahead of public research - does that mean you've had meetings with groups of 3 federal employees, one of whom does nothing but ensure the other 2 don't say too much? You know, like the feds that visited IBM to make DES
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by bediger 15y ago
How about something like this for the "Card Services" scams? These are the robo-calls with the female voice telling you that you can lower your credit card's interest rate, but it's only for a limited time, so press 1 to talk to a service r
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by bediger 15y ago
Very informative, in that it answers the question very precisely. It's like the old joke about a helicopter pilot lost in pea soup fog over Seattle, somewhere. A building abruptly looms out of the fog, and the pilot holds up a sign saying
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by bediger 15y ago
What the hell is going on in the USA? The USA Feds learned a lesson from the Chinese: "One eye open, one eye shut". See http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/051208-china-internet.... That kind of ambiguous policy conditions people to
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by bediger 15y ago
Yes. I've come to the conclusion that chimps, gorillas and orangutangs (at least, maybe some monkeys, too) qualify as "human", or at least close enough. They need to be protected and allowed to prosper.
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by bediger 15y ago
I have two thoughts: 1. Wow! I didn't know that the FBI had intercepted (as opposed to cultivating) that many "terrorists". They must have quite a database (like the serial killer database) of behavorial traits built up to be saying some
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by bediger 15y ago
In a larger sense, this is rubbish. It's a man-made rule that you can't take bottled drinks (or can't take X for any X) on a flight. Not allowing bottled drinks on flights is particularly stupid in light of exactly how the "two part explosi
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by bediger 15y ago
I realize that traditional consulting companies hitch themselves to particular vendors or sets of vendors. I was surprised that consultants would act as Party Commissars, reporting developers or groups that depart from their preferred ven
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by bediger 15y ago
I'm not a .NET person. Heck, I'm not even a Windows person. I found this sentence interesting: Things like the Microsoft "professional engineer" who advises you at your invitation, and then sends e-mails behind your back to executives to
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by bediger 15y ago
If there's a legal (or standards-organization) mandate for DRM (and there have been legislative pushes for such in the past: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Broadband_and_Digital_... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Protectio
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by bediger 15y ago
"There will always be people with more time than money" - doesn't that mean "so-called pirates will always exist"? If that's the case, why should the rest of us pay money for enforcement actions (in the form of taxes) and why should the res
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by bediger 15y ago
My family needs really great health insurance (USA, where job and health care go hand-in-hand).

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