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by bediger 16y ago
That only seems fair, since, as law enforcement and the last 20-odd years of Supreme Courts have reminded us, no mere human has a right to privacy. Indeed, the Supremes seem intent on slicing the constitutional basis for privacy (4th amendm
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by bediger 16y ago
On the whole, I don't believe this. It reads like an outline of a rejected Dan Brown novel. It puts the 'F' in FUD.
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by bediger 16y ago
I'm reminded of those "Catholic church absolves Copernicus" articles that pop up now and then.
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by bediger 16y ago
Surprise! Making every technical job available for outsourcing means that nobody enters technical job markets if they can help it! Getting an engineering degree is no longer a way out of the mines, the farm or the factories! Lots and lot
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by bediger 16y ago
Potentially an interesting topic, but it seems more of an advertisement than anything else.
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by bediger 16y ago
This smells fishy. The Digital Economy Act isn't harsh enough, so something even more draconian must be done! Think of the children! Given that the Digital Economy Act passed in that weird way that didn't get any discussion, and that a va
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by bediger 16y ago
I haven't had a chance to use this, but the Smith-Wenkle method seems like it should work well: http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipman/org/noel.html
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by bediger 16y ago
If LockMart is shadowing anyone, they're probably doing a poor job of it: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/04/littoral-combat/ http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=115 http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?documentid=458
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by bediger 16y ago
Does any one seriously believe that US defence/aerospace companies can actually perform feats of technology any more? Personally, I blame this on the inability of the US to provide for career paths for technical employees, and discouraging
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by bediger 16y ago
What I want to know is how can we tell? How can we tell if some topic is totally spun by a larger entity? Just as an example, most folks who read Linux-related web sites firmly believe that Microsoft and/or Wagg-Ed have paid shills that di
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by bediger 16y ago
OK, great. Another "Gee, Whiz!" article about aerospace technology. What about a little context? How are the current drones used that these new drones constitute an improvement? Without this information, all we get is the "Gee, Whiz!" p
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by bediger 16y ago
You'd be better off going to the Steve McConnel blog entry that this article links to: http://forums.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2011/01/09...
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by bediger 16y ago
The proposed policy is nominally one of the "Think of the Children!" type things, ostenibly to promote "student safety". But it also reads like one of those policies designed to enforce "traditional" schooling, like the no-school-between-M
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by bediger 16y ago
Why in an earlier age, did DCE fail so miserably? It was amply backed by ginormous corporate interests.
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by bediger 16y ago
Wow. I think that programming articles, like modern mathematics, can't be distinguished from the ravings of a madman, except by a very few specialists in the field.
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by bediger 16y ago
Why did SOAP win, and XMLRPC not win?
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by bediger 16y ago
This is a great essay. This, along with the "Newspeak" appendix of "1984" should be required reading for all programmers. Why? Because these two essays should make the reader aware of what limitations a particular language imposes on the (
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by bediger 16y ago
Google for "pink contract". You'll find at least this: http://news.cnet.com/ATT-admits-spam-offense-after-contract-... I recall, but can't find confirmation, that the old Uunet UUCP and usenet hub had "pink contracts", but denied them un
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by bediger 16y ago
How can you tell? The "black budget" is hidden in various DoD line items.
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by bediger 16y ago
Bah, Humbug! This is the worst kind of High School English teacher nit-picking. -1 point for an upside-down period! I exagerate, but only slightly. The distinction this pollyanna made between a plural and a singular pronoun for referring
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by bediger 16y ago
I think you have to take into account the "menu" of browsers that is available to EU Windows users. There's no way that Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc would be in any kind of position without that, I think.
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by bediger 16y ago
Rather arrogant and snobbish about "hard core C developers", no? Also, sets up a strawman version of C developers in order to contextualize the "magic".
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by bediger 16y ago
How much of this growth derives from uptake of IE 8 or 9, whichever comes standard with Windows 7? I bet there's a direct correlation.
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by bediger 16y ago
This paper might have some answers: http://www.usenix.org/event/woot08/tech/full_papers/drewry/d...
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by bediger 16y ago
I hate to write this down. I was born in 1961, and I watched all the Apollo launches, moon landings and splashdowns. I got a degree in Aerospace Engineering. I worked for 2 large defense/aerospace companies. NASA spends the money in the
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by bediger 16y ago
Somebody alert the guy who collects amazingly complicated infographics right away!
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by bediger 16y ago
So, how did they cook the grains? I don't think Neanderthals had pottery, so they weren't boiling up oatmeal or any soup.
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by bediger 16y ago
In the case of Big Business, it can't happen soon enough. I have to note that this is the sort of thing that the "cypherpunks" foresaw back in the early 90s. I'm not sure this is the form in which they foresaw the death of big governments
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by bediger 16y ago
Alan Ralsky ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Ralsky ) is a case in point of the "unconventional methods" of deterring spam. Once Ralsky's postal address got around, he received every kind of postal junk mail imaginable. He said: "They'
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by bediger 16y ago
I would have to say "probably not". Shell scripts (ksh in big corporations, bash elsewhere) get a lot of use, but managers typically see them as almost throwaway, one-shot code. For some reason, Immoral Megacorporation managers do not lik

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