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by ErrantX 15y ago
I disagree; Google should have strong rules to filter out crap and give me great search results. In this case we have something of an edge case; the site is useful, but the auto-generated pages cause potential problems for search results. I
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by ErrantX 15y ago
But, you can't sell the idea that shark attacks were orchestrated by from Iran or anything like that. Probably you could. From my observation of the Arab world (which includes travelling there for work fairly extensively in the last few y
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by ErrantX 15y ago
But it does the job :) Which at the end of the day is the most common benchmark of utility.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
That's what being a visionary/genius is This is the authors point :)
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by ErrantX 15y ago
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-Octob... Modifications have been accepted to the proposal; although it still has to go through parliament.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
The government appear to have caved :)
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by ErrantX 15y ago
In actual fact; neither is the Italian government.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Yes; he just posted to that effect on his en.wiki talk page. Disappointing, I feel. What next; English Wikipedia suspended till the US government sort out copyright laws? Worrying precedent!
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Communication has been oblique from the Italian community, so I can only give my "best guess" answer here. Practically speaking there is no way this can affect Wikipedia itself, because the servers are in the US. The Italians appear to be c
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by ErrantX 15y ago
The language Wikipedia's a fairly autonomous (which is good, FWIW, except when it goes wrong) with the Foundation trusting them to follow the core community ideals As to how they did this; MediaWiki has a Commons.js that is editable by admi
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Why don't they just shut down wikipedia as a whole then? This is an action purely by the Italian community. The foundation were not even aware of it till a few hours ago :) I see no reason why they should abide by this law It's a protes
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by ErrantX 15y ago
This came to the attention on the foundation wide discussion list earlier today (I think this is the first time the foundation were aware of it too...) & I've been digging into it. The law they are protesting basically says as follows:
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by ErrantX 15y ago
This. My osteopath calls it "programmers bump" :) Pains in the back of the head, or down the side of the face it is almost certainly neck/back related. After suffering a couple of years with on/off head pain I finally figured this out &
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Apparently it does offer an opt out. Which is nice.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I buy as much as I can on Amazon now - with Prime it is a no-brainer... This is after wondering why I could order books from Amazon and they arrived 9am the next day (the joys of living in a teeny country like the UK :P) but when I ordered
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Given the, uh, spelling commonalities (mistakes..) on both, I am going to guess both blogs might be the same person :)
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Yep. Bridgeman v. Corel.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Not necessarily. In the US, for example, this is not true (and this is the only place I know of it being tested in court). It was ruled that faithful reproductions of 2D works lacked originality (even if they required work to produce) and
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by ErrantX 15y ago
And yet, on a site that is saying (essentially) that there is more to life than Google... You'd have thought they would have shown off that technology... (which does exist; there are decent Analytics alternatives on the market)
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by ErrantX 15y ago
no no. It's literally feral pigs; I can see how you might be confuse though ;)
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Fair point. I am not 100% sure how high these fly; but you can put together an open-source arducopter for a lot cheaper than in that link (about $300 or so) and they can be programmed/automated. So if you could get them high enough for the
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by ErrantX 15y ago
It confuses me somewhat how they can claim copyright over documents that are thousands of years old :S http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/terms_pg Copyright in the digital images of the manuscripts, created by the Israel Museum and displa
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by ErrantX 15y ago
A quadrocopter would probably be a better bet for hovering/stability http://www.quadrocopter.us/
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by ErrantX 15y ago
True; and I agree this is theoretically a nice thing. However the net result of this is that, to take an example, school IT services range from the sublime to the dire. Almost all of them are hugely expensive contracts to major firms (say,
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by ErrantX 15y ago
They seem to have misread his letter as proposing that the DOE support/fund/promote Raspberry Pi - I think. The department does set the curriculum; which means they legislate on what subjects should be taught, what topics within that subj
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Indeed. Compare that with the other article about this currently on the first page of HN: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BREAKING_LIGHT_SPE... Which is less cautious and more of the standard fare of not-very-well-reported scien
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Yes, there will be many more hits for the next days stats. Random example: http://stats.grok.se/en/201108/Pierre_de_Fermat That doodle was from Aug 17 2011 - 2.3M hits
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by ErrantX 15y ago
shrug In my experience PHP or Ruby is generally a better/easier web programming experience (I tried Python but it never really clicked with the kids). Python is a good general purpose language though.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I think the former has value to people with no aspirations in CS (a lot of value, really, everyone needs basic IT skills in the modern world). But you're right... they need to divide them - so teach "Basic IT Skills" (or w/e) and Computer S
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Python sure. Moving into... Ruby possibly, or potentially PHP (if you combine it with one of the better/easier frameworks) and then HTML. The latter ones because you can start to get them to deploy/work on websites. Being able to write webs

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