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by bediger 16y ago
You can tell that legalists helped Huang prepare the slides he shows in this article. Everything has a (TM) or an (R) on it, to the detriment of readability. Only "IP" lawyers do that sort of thing so very consistently, I believe partly t
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by bediger 16y ago
Studying Zheng He and the reasons for China's deliberate withdrawal from exploration and the outer world seem particularly relevent at this time, especially in the USA. The USA is apparently giving up on manned space flight, we haven't put
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by bediger 16y ago
Is this case the best that the Feds could do? It sounds like a real farce, where the witnesses were at least as culpable as the accused, and maybe even committed more crimes than the accused did. So, really, is this the best case to try ha
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by bediger 16y ago
I upgraded a Visa Level 1 merchant's credit card system a few years ago. It was an unholy mess of C++ servers, Java servers, large amounts of semi-comprehensible PL/SQL, and Korn shell scripts. Real time authorization was handled by one sy
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by bediger 16y ago
Will they do the "enhanced patdown" on all bus travelers? I haven't traveled by bus in 20-odd years, but I would bet money on the personal hygiene of the average bus passenger being Not As Good as the average airplane passenger. If the TSA
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by bediger 16y ago
Oregon should also do the "work done after hours is your own" thing that allows Californians to do "startups in their garages". Literally.
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by bediger 16y ago
You mean this story: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html It ran Dec 16, 2005. Apparently, "Late October 2004: Top Administration officials convince NYT to spike the NSA domestic spying story." from http://emptywh
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by bediger 16y ago
Some biologists have made a case for DNA replication evolving twice, independently: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC148579/pdf/27338... Apparently you can also make a case for the evolution of DNA itself, possibly from a 2-let
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by bediger 16y ago
Someone "caught" one of those SSH scans recently. It's the "Chuck NOrris" botnet, which apparently runs on MIPS-based DSL, wireless routers: http://www.muni.cz/ics/research/cyber/files/chuck_norris.pdf That's not exactly the tidal wave o
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by bediger 16y ago
CNN? Really, seriously? That's almost certainly CD or album sales, from a source at least as reliable as CNN: http://www.pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2010/01/07/704350... But it looks like overall, sales are up: http://www.prsformusi
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by bediger 16y ago
This article leaves unasked the real question: Why doesn't linux attract the plague of malware that Windows does ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/13/malware_threat_lansc... )? Sure, Windows runs most of the desktop computers, but it
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by bediger 16y ago
Which basically proves the point that "Intellectual Property" isn't property: not everybody has even a similar view of what the phrase denotes.
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by bediger 16y ago
piracy is probably a big enough problem to make the aforementioned potential solutions a lesser evil. Got any particular citations for that? I happen to think exactly the opposite, that we've already gone way to far to mititage an almost
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by bediger 16y ago
The more cynical among us would point out that an election is very nearly an auction, and if the item for auction could bring that big of a price, there must be money in it for the buyer.
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by bediger 16y ago
Amusingly, that page says it was last updated November 1996. It still renders decently today, probably due to eschewing anything but the barest of HTML.
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by bediger 16y ago
This isn't the actual source code. As far as I know, only a small piece of the real worm's code ever got published, and that was in the Cornell Report, Cornell University's post mortem. This isn't the code in the Cornell Report. Someone i
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by bediger 16y ago
I have used the "Better Bow Knot" ( http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/betterbowknot.htm ) for over 20 years. I found it in some book about knots ages ago. This Better Bow Knot is harder to tie, and harder to learn to tie, but it rarely come
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by bediger 16y ago
I'd like to note that this particular article uses the word "rightsholder" as almost a title. If you substitute "aristocrat" or "noble" for "rightsholder" in the article, you make it a quite unsavory read. Will "rightsholder" become the eq
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by bediger 16y ago
Why does this surprise anyone? Does anyone really think that surveillance cams on building corners really look for terrorists or lawbreakers? No. The porno-xray-cams and building corner cams just get used to ogle young women with shapely
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by bediger 16y ago
This article, while quite a different point of view, has a problem. It keeps referring to "illegal" services like Napster, KaZaA, maybe others. I don't think they were really "illegal" when they started, they only became illegal along th
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by bediger 16y ago
I would want to know two things that aren't always clear at the beginning of a project; 1. A 50-words-or-less summary of what the project is all about when it's finished . Scope creep and lack of clarity often prevent this sort of thing a
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by bediger 16y ago
This seems like a silly article to me, in that the author (and his subject, Kevin Kelly) assumes we all have a very similar definition of the concept "technology". The article doesn't make sense for some sets of technology, for example, the
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by bediger 16y ago
Two questions from a parochial, isolated US citizen: 1. The newspaper article uses the phrase "know to be haughty". My intuition tells me that phrase informs the British public about aspects of Baroness Neville-Jones' personality, but it m
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by bediger 16y ago
This is such a predictable reaction to the threat. 9/11 - ban all sharp edges, nailcutters and knitting needles included. Richard Reid - make everyone take off their shoes. The bipartite liquid bomb plot - strict controls on amount of liq
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by bediger 16y ago
I don't care to have a login for nytimes.com, but I did notice that the word "Microsoft" gets a big, fat "TM" mark in the first sentence of the article. For an article about pirates, not bad. But maybe someone with the patience to read th
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by bediger 16y ago
I think this is one way that J.P. Lewis' "Large Limits to Software Estimation" ( http://scribblethink.org/Work/Softestim/softestim.html ) comes out in reality. Naturally, there's an uncountable infinity of ways that comes out in reality, bu
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by bediger 16y ago
This doesn't read like reporting or editorializing, it reads like sports-page-writing, the ugly mishmash of unholy love and a thesaurus.
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by bediger 16y ago
I had the exact same experience when I realized you got to down vote when you had "enough karma". That is, I found that just a total karma had the same effect. I've only just noticed the average karma, so call me slow.
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by bediger 16y ago
Holy cow, what an astonishingly biased article. It's all from the viewpoint of "Intellectual Property" maximalists, with no examination of the Hadopi law itself, or the possible consequences of the law. It doesn't even examine the "125,000
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by bediger 16y ago
Right around half of "all threats" are only found on one machine. I'm assuming that's one Windows machine. What's the point of a signature-based detector again? Also, I'd like to see the same kind of figures for Linux.

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