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by humdumb 14y ago
- hackers don't read source code All one has to do is look at the source for ping and questions like these are answered.
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by humdumb 14y ago
"excessive meetings" Based on that criteria we could probably cut some 15% of the total workforce. For many employees, that's all they do is attend meetings, all day long. We call these employees managers. :) Startups where almost everyon
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by humdumb 14y ago
I'd say this is a flaw of the "web" and relying on hyperlinking and "HTML forms" as a means to access all content. That's what web crawlers do. Better would be putting databases on certain known ports, with no "hostname" requirements and l
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by humdumb 14y ago
Check out the Merck v Integra case on the page you linked to. That was what I was thinking of. Section 271. Subsection (e) and maybe another one or two.
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by humdumb 14y ago
Bacteria vs. Human body^1. 1. Specifically, teeth and saliva, but you must always consider the whole organism. Drink soda pop --> Advantage, Bacteria. Don't drink soda pop. --> What do you think? Bacteria need acidic conditions and
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by humdumb 14y ago
So, _hypothetically_, what if you don't use a third party email provider? That is, all your mail is delievred directly to you and is stored on your local machines/devices. Does that give you more privacy protection than keeping messages st
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by humdumb 14y ago
The title could be better. What he's describing with the term "dark social" is not the "Web", it's the internet. That's a distinction that is important to understand. There is much you can do over the internet that is difficult to do ove
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by humdumb 14y ago
Someone correct me if this is wrong but I think Dylan's Infidels was the first digitally recorded LP. I should probably Google it. Anyway, that was released in 1983, the same year as Zappa wrote this.
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by humdumb 14y ago
Blah, blah, home taping, blah, blah, CD's, blah, blah. "Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar" :) Some people miss Steve Jobs. I miss Frank Zappa. Genius.
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by humdumb 14y ago
Maybe I'm reading the story you linked to incorrecty but wasn't that a quote from his friend, Lars Wirzenius? The gist of what I was trying to say, poorly perhaps, is that in 1993 Linux was available, it was free and it worked on previously
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by humdumb 14y ago
"cleaner, consistent.. better documented" I think that sums it up. Why should I use Linux? BSD definitely can't do everything that Linux can do, but it can do most things, normally the most important things, and it can do some interesting
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by humdumb 14y ago
Actually because of senior managment who told the company lawyers to take action. But yeah, this is the correct answer. Go figure it's at the bottom of the thread. Linus was a 386BSD user, or hoped to be. A lawsuit stopped people like hi
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by humdumb 14y ago
"... without authority makes, ..." There are exceptions, e.g., for research and development. Would printing a prototype of a product to be produced overseas (and never imported) be infringement? When patent trolls start being linked to loss
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by humdumb 14y ago
I have done good. =D Laughing is healthy. I probably shouldn't have phrased the statement as I did. What I meant was projects that are _potentially_ open to anyone, but which are highly selective about who is allowed to contribute.
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by humdumb 14y ago
The numerous references to hardware in your comment only serve to illustrate my point. Of course there have been some new algos and improvements to existing ones since 1984. But nothing approaching a Moore's Law. The dramatic changes the
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by humdumb 14y ago
I love the PWB! [line break] Sometimes the best stuff does not have the best marketing. Any chance the author can post a copy of the documentation his father had saved for the Documenter's Work Bench? So many UNIX utilities are line-based,
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by humdumb 14y ago
The "threat" of 3D printing is not piracy it's prototypes. Potentially anyone can make a prototype, find a manufacturer in Asia and start a business. In other words, it spreads the power of creativity to more people. Patent trolls, the p
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by humdumb 14y ago
My theory: He's a wannabe lawyer. As CTO at Microsoft he probably had to deal with lawyers and patent issues constantly. Maybe they upset him? Or they excited his curiousity? I could be wrong, but with IV, he is running what amounts to a
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by humdumb 14y ago
I liked this blog entry a lot. A wee bit of multi-core/threads anti-hype is healthy. The comment about people wanting a single absolute measure of something is also spot on. The biggest bottlenecks to me were (and still are) memory and the
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by humdumb 14y ago
Could you define "practical OS"? What specifically do you want this OS to be able to do? (Note that we've reached a point where no user necesarily needs to restrict themselves to a single OS. They could use different OS's on the same comp
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by humdumb 14y ago
I think we need more open source projects that are not open to contribution from anyone. This may upset some people but will keep the bar for quality high. Linus' original work has been tarnished by too many eager but unqualified contribu
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by humdumb 14y ago
"That's progress." Yes, but not in software. It's the hardware that's improved. So the sw can be sloppy and inefficient and most people won't notice. Hardware has improved. Software has not. This is hard for some folks to accept. But i