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by bediger 16y ago
What part of Linux' greater immunity to malware comes from the more logical permissions, and the more free-form naming? By that, I mean that "executable" comes from a permission, not from an "extension", and that "extensions" in Linux are r
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by bediger 16y ago
This seems like setting up a strawman version of atheism, and then logically destroying the strawman as a method of apologetics. I'm not buying it.
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by bediger 16y ago
I make no judgments about the moral worth of parasites. After all, RNA parasites may have driven the jump to cellular life. I just want to see the similarity between Balsam and both natural and artificial life hyperparasites noted and expl
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by bediger 16y ago
Two things wrong with this article: 1. By not using the harshest terms possible to denounce spam and the thieves who spam, this article tends to promote spam as something we all "just hate" but have to get along with. 2. This article does n
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by bediger 16y ago
Another PR Hit for Men's Wearhouse, eh?
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by bediger 16y ago
To paraphrase that eternal optimist William Gibson, the technological and social windows for becoming Steve Jobs are very narrow. Also, does Obama know about Jobs early "blue boxing" days?
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by bediger 16y ago
I always assumed that The Internet would turn into a broadcast medium, with big media companies broadcasting to The Masses, at a highish price. But I figured that it would happen by mandating a new, improved replacement for TCP/IP that had
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by bediger 16y ago
Decent article, but isn't billing yourself as "SQL Rockstar" just a tad pretentious?
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by bediger 16y ago
Actually, I was just trying to point out that the word "quality" means different things to people. I was only giving a rather flip example. As you point out, my definition has a trivial degenerate case. But if I want to make a point abou
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by bediger 16y ago
I've heard this kind of quine called an "ouroboros program". This one goes through 11 generations it is said: http://asiajin.com/blog/2009/09/22/uroboros-programming-with...
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by bediger 16y ago
That's super catchy, I've used it myself when arguing against late-in-the-cycle requirements additions, but... "Quality" isn't something you can define readily. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_quality lists 20 things, some mutuall
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by bediger 16y ago
Because they were seized without due process? "Copyright" is such that it takes a trial to decide whether something is or is not infringing, so you can't just administratively seize a domain. You think some site is serving up copyrighted ma
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by bediger 16y ago
The telling quote from the article: "But the amount of stuff we are finding is horrible. We shouldn't be dealing with this many issues this late in the program." You don't suppose this "amount of stuff" or "this many issues this late" der
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by bediger 16y ago
Of course the Mobile Carriers dream of charging per page, or for a tiered service or whatever. Just as I dream of getting a salary of one billion dollars a year! But I don't get a billion dollars a year. Why not? Perhaps because other
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by bediger 16y ago
This point: Monopoly Economics and Culture: Microsoft's 2 core businesses -- Windows and Office -- are natural winner-take-all monopolies. What it takes to maintain these businesses in a financially successful way is very different than wh
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by bediger 16y ago
Inhumane treatment of mere suspects is what we get when we excused "enhanced interrogation" of suspects in the name of The War on Terrorism. Well, along with abrogation of any rights regarding search and seizure. When we let "terrorism" be
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Battling Wikileaks And The Art Of War(techdirt.com)
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by bediger 16y ago
This is an interesting article with a catchy phrase. But it must also have been an easy article to write, as it comes entirely from the "Us versus Them" viewpoint. The author assumes that his or her employer is always right. Worse, the au
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by bediger 16y ago
The following might be rubbish, but it also might be very relevant: http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/18 If you believe (I do), this one might give some pointers to you: http://www.transhumanist.com/volume7/simulation.ht
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by bediger 16y ago
I heard this interview on the radio. Quite interesting, especially when you find out that Darth Vader's breathing sounds are scuba-regulator-breathing, slowed down somewhat. I don't know what the viewpoint was in 1977, when "Star Wars" cam
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by bediger 16y ago
Wow, that makes sense. But isn't "asking users questions" the rationale for UAC in Vista and Windows 7?
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by bediger 16y ago
This is the biggish pile of rubbish I've seen in a while. "Intellectual Ventures" has patents, but has never made anything tangible, or even written a progam embodying something intangible. Every single one of the "infringements" is almost
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by bediger 16y ago
Look at the chart in the article. The title should read "Raises are the key to employee engagement". Or something like that. Just as the site name indicates, this is for the "rah rah" type of manager.
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by bediger 16y ago
This didn't work on an Arch linux (x86) box. I think I did pacman -Syu last weekend, so it's reasonably up to date. It also doesn't work on my Slackware server, which has a pretty heavily modified 2.6.23.14 kernel. In the context of the ot
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by bediger 16y ago
I have had experience of a couple of HP laptops and an HP mini-tower PC. HP follows best practices. Apple relies on good design.
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by bediger 16y ago
I use twm. It's pretty lightweight, it doesn't conflate "being on top of everything else" with "focus", and it's highly customizable. Oh, you can also handle ongoing-process-icons in a sensible manner that doesn't eat up screen space.
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by bediger 16y ago
I changed my facebook icon to a picture of Craig Shergold. He's a poor English lad, dying of kidney disease, and if you send him the pull-top rings from aluminum cans, you can help fund his dialysis. He's trying to set the record for most
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by bediger 16y ago
Russ Cox: heir to the Thompson and Ritchie throne of systems programming? Maybe, maybe not, but he sure writes a mean technical blog entry.
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by bediger 16y ago
Have these folks just re-discovered what Russ Cox lays out in http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html ?
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by bediger 16y ago
Wait, first the apologists and fraidy-cats told me that I had no right to travel by air, that it was "put up with the nudatron and grope, or take the bus or train or drive". Hey, now taking the bus makes me a suspect, worthy of a police pat

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