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by Create 18y ago
Siemens elevators have a (~n unsurprising) default code of "0000". But this is nothing new. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs588/safecracker.pdf
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by Create 18y ago
VC-s cut both ways: see Eric Brewer for the good and Ferguson (S.C.H. High Stakes, No Prisoners) for the ugly.
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Some physicist will correct me, but I think this is more of an accounting trick than a technological one: it serves to ask for more money. I have no evidence, but my impression is, that aerogel is used to track the ageing of the decaying wa
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The children's bedtime story [from a former(?) Russian satellite] version of this parable is a projector film slide series titled "The coloured pencil", from the same era. It cheekily teaches the parents on how a "cost driven market based"
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The Internet Archive was served a National Security Letter by the FBI demanding information about a patron of the Archive. The Archive fought it with the help of the EFF and ACLU. We won. We can now talk about it, and what it is like to get
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no need to look to Japan for this. "Roger & Me is a 1989 American documentary film directed by independent filmmaker/author Michael Moore. With sarcasm and irony, Moore illustrates the negative economic impact of the late General Moto
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by Create 18y ago
the long answer is in the classic: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
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the real irony is, that the heading Open Source Apps Should Start Innovating - Not Recreating (cli.gs) also made it to the front page. Charles H. Ferguson has a nice take on this VB/.NET/Java(script)/HTML misery in his book ...not that I
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by Create 18y ago
It has been well articulated (with some of the consequences) in James Burkes' Connection series during the "good old days" of the beeb. Would people know why is it cold inside the fridge, while it is hot outside? Or what makes the cold stay
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As a general note, consumers are not supposed to fiddle with the product , since customizations are supposed to be sold as services related to the mass market item. Exploration and learning should be restricted as much as possible (s
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by Create 18y ago
I think pg is entirely missing the point: it isn't about identity. It is about [exercising] power, and its subjects. Identity, like technology (mentioned javascript) is just a tool for it. He might like http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2
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"Most schools define computer literacy as being able to operate Microsoft Office and maybe do a little web design. They're missing the point. That's like saying, "If you know which end of a book to hold up, and you know how to turn to Chapt
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I don't know why he got downmodded: noise filtering can be quite artful and effective, and this "noise generator" is certainly quite weak in terms of providing anonymity in a cryptographic sense/strength. Actually, the situation just gets w
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by Create 18y ago
Having read the thing, two quotes come to mind. "In biblical terms, there is nothing new under the sun": "You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all th
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by Create 18y ago
this wasn't the real thing, as opposed to: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., giving his “Beyond Vietnam” speech at Riverside Church in New York on April 4, 1967. http://www.democracynow.org/2006/1/16/dr_martin_luther_king_...
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by Create 18y ago
If you are optimistic, it will spread in your entourage (it appears to be contagious in a way nobody understands, see oxytocin). Not only it gets rid of being upset and ungry, it will restore trust with time, if and only if it is sincere* (
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by Create 18y ago
It may even be justified, because I was mad at him for things that no longer matter. If it was just a friend, it may no longer matter, being similar enough to you. Anything more involved (the $SUBJ of the article) implies that everything
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by Create 18y ago
"possibly build tools to take a chunk of writing and try to remove your fingerprint from it, i.e, protect anonymity," The standard procedure to do this, is to chain translations to other languages and back. The message remains, but the word
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by Create 18y ago
For those who vote down: take your time to also put down what is factually wrong; or what is untrue nor real in the above.
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by Create 18y ago
Then the "free" world on the net is more Orwellian, than you could imagine in your wildest dream. All the scare stories about China internet surveillance are a joke in comparison to what goes by in the name of advertising. And this is the t
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by Create 18y ago
You have a point: I am very sad to see (and this is not news, I admit), that the problem "The Right to Read" is not perceived as a problem for people. Ten years ago, it was a problem for the ACM community, and imho the problem only got wors
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I strongly stick to "The Right to Read". To quote from the old-new thing, the cisco affair: "I fear the Cisco experience has done unseen damage to Stanford in the form of creating inhibitions against sharing ideas, information and developme
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Toshiba will ship flagship laptops with OpenSolaris(itexaminer.com)
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... the other take-away: "I fear the Cisco experience has done unseen damage to Stanford in the form of creating inhibitions against sharing ideas, information and developments with possible commercial value among our groups which have need
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by Create 18y ago
"Yeager recalls, two support staff members, Bosack and Kirk Lougheed, asked him for his original program so they could modify it for the new system. Bosack and Lougheed removed its ability to route non-Internet protocols, keeping its networ
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"it's more reasonable than it seems... someone convince me?" it isn't remotely what it seems, because it is intentionally "hidden in plain sight" [google for this techtalk] "Flu Trends, the company said, uses nothing but "anonymized" data.
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by Create 18y ago
So what we have in the first place is major corporations which are parts of even bigger conglomerates. Now, like any other corporation, they have a product which they sell to a market. The market is advertisers -- that is, other businesses.
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by Create 18y ago
I always believed, that it was a shameless borrowing (as do "great artist") of Macsyma -- living on free as Maxima. Octave, Scilab and python driven C++ (e.g. Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software, ATLAS) can do just as good, if not t
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by Create 18y ago
http://www.copacobana.org/gallery.html ...and all other areas of data processing, where stuff needs to be done fast [and within a pure R&D environment, where the only constant thing is change].
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by Create 18y ago
it is starting to make sense: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/28/sun_dziuba_tm/print....

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