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by bediger 16y ago
Excellent! Karsten Self's prediction ( http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Rants/piracy.html ) about prices in the face of software piracy is true!
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by bediger 16y ago
Things to think about: 1. Keeping the credentials (account number, name, telephone number, credit card number, routing number and account number, etc etc). You may have legal duties to perform certain things, or to delete them every so oft
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by bediger 16y ago
Bear in mind that Hayden is now 'currently a principal at the Chertoff Group' ( http://chertoffgroup.com/cgroup/ ), a security consulting thing. As well as having headed the NSA during the initiation of the massive wiretapping program, he
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by bediger 16y ago
You mean like Xerox, or the old AT&T (pre-SBC takeover)? Xerox has PARC, and AT&T had Bell Labs. Xerox is still in business, still making copiers, but where's AT&T? Bought by SBC, that's where.
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by bediger 16y ago
Very good! I'll buy it. But then I'm a NetBSD refugee. Should we all scrap the infernally complex Win32 interface? Or PHP? I guess that since DCE and CORBA have gone by the wayside, all we need to do is wait by the river long enough, an
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by bediger 16y ago
If you'd stopped at "Managers love Excel", I'd agree with you. Unlike the lucky duck up above, I've never seen a manager write a spreadsheet that included a single macro, active cell or calculation. I've only seen managers use Excel to for
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by bediger 16y ago
The blog says: "The blog’s end is a result of limited resources in a medium where any number of worthy projects are possible, and where new priorities continually emerge." What in sam scratch does that mean? I can apply my Corporate Krem
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by bediger 16y ago
Are we really that sure Tannedbaum was right? http://kernel.org/doc/ols/2007/ols2007v1-pages-251-262.pdf
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by bediger 16y ago
They're going to want to read Fred Cohen's "Computer Viruses - Theory and Experiments" ( http://all.net/books/virus/index.html ) and maybe some of his other papers, first. After understanding that paper, they might want to lower the bar a
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by bediger 16y ago
I thought the first panel was the funniest. "I carved a pumpkin" is true in at least two ways for the character, and untrue in the "This is not a pipe" Rene Magritte way.
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by bediger 16y ago
Airships: like flying cars, jetpacks and hydrogen fusion reactors, they're always Just 10 Years Away! And They're So Gee Whiz I can hardly Stand It.
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by bediger 16y ago
They're walking a mighty fine line, not unlike a tobacco products company might walk. It's pretty obvious by now that tobacco products cause a lot of health problems. But a tobacco products company can't officially sneer at public health e
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by bediger 16y ago
Isn't the really interesting thing that they're proposing fuselage and wing shapes that you can't design without using "modern" (developed after 1965) methods? The cylindrical fuselage standard passenger jet design is something you can des
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by bediger 16y ago
Did you read the "CustoMalloc" paper? It's more of the same. Just to illustrate, the paper you referenced has the title "CustoMalloc: efficient synthesized memory allocator". That is, "CustoMalloc" takes a look at memory usage patterns of
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by bediger 16y ago
I blame Benjamin Zorn in this paper: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/department/publications/reports/d... for the whole "programmers shouldn't manage memory" myth. Clearly, if you know what you're doing, you can do better than the OS and/or ma
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by bediger 16y ago
At the risk of Going Where Angels Fear To Tread... This seems like a Big Business wish list. Dump all federal spending that's not directly going to Big Business via DoD spending, and Damn The Consequences. For example, how about that DoD s
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by bediger 16y ago
Re: "stealing ideas" vs "improving on them". Doesn't your comclusion here go against the USA's entire full-court-press on maximal "intellectual property"? I mean, we've extended copyrights, we've allowed just about every vague pipe-dream t
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by bediger 16y ago
Won't the on-line Porn Industry have to adopt this for large scale adoption to take place? I'd think that the size decrease alone would sell the Porn Industry.
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by bediger 16y ago
You can set this to X-style, Middle-button-pastes: Double-click "putty.exe" icon to get "PuTTY Configurtion". Click the saved session to highlight. Click "Load". Click "Window"->"Selection" category item. Honestly, I can't think why tha
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by bediger 16y ago
It's worth looking at Rob Pike's (one of the Plan 9 inventors) paper, "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant": http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf My own view is that Linux is Good Enough for most people. And that "good enough" beat
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by bediger 16y ago
This is a direct consequence of the global near-real-time credit card payment authorization system being the Biggest Ball of Mud design you can imagine. Clearly, at each and every stage of getting to where we are now, people did the bare m
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by bediger 16y ago
For a while last year, and into this year, the Denver Post newspaper would put a little side-bar by Krugman columns, advising people that the "Cafe Hayek" web site could provide an anti-dote to Krugman's editorial. They did this for no othe
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by bediger 16y ago
Noble goals, and I'd probably run it, if it were available for download.
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by bediger 16y ago
Contrary to the comments on the article, I think this is good. It reflects on a broader use of good coding practices, and other software engineering practices. Once malcode writers get into process, the arms race between them and the "anti-
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by bediger 16y ago
I love this sort of article. You know, the "Researcher Gets Patent on Urine-Powered Battery", that sort of thing. Gee whizz! A fuel cell powered by Rat's Blood! I'm going to get into the Rat Blood business on the bottom floor! There's go
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by bediger 16y ago
I don't think the blogger pulled this one off well. S.J. Gould did a far better version: http://www.monmsci.net/~kbaldwin/mickey.pdf I believe that PDF comes from a book of Gould's, but I recall an article in "Nature" or "Scientific Ameri
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by bediger 16y ago
First, every fault mentioned is probably true. NASA channeled money into the Ares program, which got scrapped. The "Jupiter" thing is a Mr Potatohead. Second, I don't think you can blame NASA-the-agency for these problems. I think this is
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by bediger 16y ago
Wow! And here I thought they were using a paywall to prevent load from rising too high.
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by bediger 16y ago
Well, of course! It's much easier to track the activities of groups that have public meetings, have public screenings of movies, etc etc. It's quite hard to track the activities of groups that have private meetings, don't publicize themse
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by bediger 16y ago
> What problem was HDCP trying to solve, again? The problem of the price of goods in a competitive market falling to the marginal cost of production. That's a problem for the people who produce goods that a new technology is busy reduci

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