zmguy

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by zmguy 12y ago
I don't think it is something to fear if it is true. It's just a trend that is talked about. I don't personally care what demographics make up the future population.
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by zmguy 12y ago
While I do want defragmentation of technical and scientific research (imagine the duplication that occurs given that lack of a unified scientific research dependency tree), I specifically qualified myself with "...as a second language.
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by zmguy 12y ago
I don't think this is a solution. We should work to defragment the technology world. A better option is for Arabic speakers to learn English as a second Language. And for English speakers to learn Arabic as a second language but ultima
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by zmguy 12y ago
It's even worse, hackers can mess with anything connected directly or indirectly to the internet.
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by zmguy 12y ago
Sites that want their content linked, reused and cited should use some sort of permalinking strategy. I don't think we should have a unverifiable citation because a publication does not follow sound link generation strategies. Provenan
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by zmguy 12y ago
I think it's interesting the URL citation does not actually include the URL. It seems like the title of the article and the domain. Why is the exact URL of the resource is not important?
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by zmguy 12y ago
This exactly. I think part of the problem is that each of these projects has a corporate backer, Monetas, sponsoring Open Transaction is building a business around the platform. There is some incentive to keep the best doco closed source.
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by zmguy 12y ago
It's not hard. It's time consuming. Scouring 9 different semi-curated resources to develop a clear and concise comparison of the 3 is quite a task, a task someone should take on if any of these technologies are to become mainstrea
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by zmguy 12y ago
I don't agree with not having local repairmen as being a real showstopper. Any new system requires training: fire building, hut building, brick making. They need to factor training into the roll out of the technology, and don't fo
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by zmguy 12y ago
Could someone explain the difference between: Ethereum, Ripple, and OpenTransactions?
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by zmguy 12y ago
What we need to know is when a given system was patched, that would tell you who knew what when. Is the Google fork of OpenSSL publicly maintained? Has anyone identified the commit that introduced the "bug"?
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by zmguy 12y ago
What do you consider when choosing SQLite issues to assigns resources? I would guess it would start with issues relevant to your roadmap. If that's the case with most enterprise FOSS contributors, they most likely trusted the features
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by zmguy 12y ago
This bug was in fact discovered by a Google employee: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt
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by zmguy 12y ago
Stiff, I think you answered your own question. Intel HIRES them, open source projects don't generally hire people. They sit around and wait for someone to contribute. Are you truly surprised that a volunteer created software is not as
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by zmguy 12y ago
You should check out Zoneminder: https://github.com/ZoneMinder/ZoneMinder The development has been re-started and the project seems to be shaping up very well, I'm using it as well as many others.