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by bediger 15y ago
I'm faintly amused by this article. It's just an attempt to whip up some clicks with the ol' Hacker Kid On Your Network scenario. And this time, We Mean It, The Hacker Kid Can Do It With His Cell Phone. It's not 100% clear to me, but it lo
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by bediger 15y ago
Great snakes! That's because $100 million is really a 'tweener number: You can be Richie Rich among your upper-middle-class friends or a hanger-on in the superrich crowd. It takes tens of millions to be an upper-middle-class person? That
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by bediger 15y ago
Well, look at the figures for percentage of people who believe something really whacky: creationism. Something like 40% ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/20/40-of-americans-sti... ). It's going to be hard to have a national curriculum
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by bediger 15y ago
I was hoping for an article about fixed point combinators in Combinatory Logic. My Smullyan addiction caused me to feel quite disappointed in an article about early-to-bed, early-to-rise sociology.
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by bediger 15y ago
These are both Windows trojans. Does the FBI/Stasi/Whatever have Mac OSX, and more importantly, Linux trojans? If not, why not? Surely some criminals prefer Macs, or even Linux.
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by bediger 15y ago
First, great criticism of science journalism. Mainstream science jouranlism is mainly of two strains: (1) Don't do this a home, kids! We're experts! and (2) Oh, look, that whacky scientist invented sausages made of poo! Looks like this k
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by bediger 15y ago
Take a lesson from the Kansas City Star, Forbes: Don't feed the Phelps Trolls by reporting on them. That's what Phelps and his other bridge-dwelling clanspeople want: publicity. Please ignore Westboro Baptist Church.
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by bediger 15y ago
I'm almost with him on this: it looks like the amateur rocket folks are getting performance like von Braun and company were getting in 1939, but they have better electronics. My thought is that any better performance will cause them to star
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by bediger 15y ago
The only thing DHS could do to make their image worse is to buy uniforms with shiny boots and brown shirts for all their employees.
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by bediger 15y ago
Excellent nuttiness! Odd sentence structure, some spell-check-acceptable misspellings ("hear" for "here"), inability to see beyond its own prudishness. A fine vintage, indeed!
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by bediger 15y ago
It's best not to give these morons what they want: publicity. Ignore them, The Kansas City Star has a policy of not publishing anything about Phelps and his nutty crew.
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by bediger 15y ago
This is unmitigated apologetics ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologetics ) for some really bad corporate decisions Microsoft made in the mid-to-late 80s. I suppose that's humdrum enough that I don't care about the apologetics per se, but
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by bediger 15y ago
The Internet isn’t just another pipe. The Internet is an open distribution platform available to anyone, a fundamental change to the business landscape in which we operate. And the Internet is bidirectional, which should fundamentally ch
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by bediger 15y ago
I understand what Gizmodo is trying to say here, but... Shouldn't that be "90 percent of potential infringing IP addresses", rather than "pirates"? These suits are not exactly renowned for accuracy of identifying IP addresses that might be
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by bediger 15y ago
Is this supposed to be ironical? "Puff Puff" inhalers for asthmatic children because "Coal Cares"? That's gonna leave a mark.
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by bediger 15y ago
If you want to ignore a % of your users, that's fine. Some of your competitors wont. You know, as a long-time Linux and Firefox user, I've made that point to a number of newspaper web sites, etc etc etc. I usually get the written equivale
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by bediger 15y ago
Wouldn't someone employed by realtors be one of those vested interest parties, who can't make a rational prediction, because they'd loose their job if they did?
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by bediger 15y ago
Isn't this more a rant about why programming languages shouldn't overload '+' to include string concatentation, as well as fixed-point addition and floating point addition?
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by bediger 15y ago
Oddly, this very article is an example of the transparency of the Linux community: reporting on the community's own ties to corruption. Ironical.
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by bediger 15y ago
Doesn't the saying go: "If it exists, there's porn for it on the internet."
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by bediger 15y ago
A step in the right direction: vagueness of fair use chills valuable expression. That is, copyright overrides human rights, and a recognition of the evil that this comprises. This article also recognizes that "infringement" per se is proba
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by bediger 15y ago
Of course not. That's the original purpose of copyright: to limit copying. We're just now finding that out again. Copyright is more important than Human rights, now that copyright is "intellectual property ".
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by bediger 15y ago
It's not the first time we've heard this but it's always a little disconcerting especially from some one so closely involved with the security realm Yeah. This is just "The Commies are coming!" type scare-mongering that we've heard from
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by bediger 15y ago
You're responsible for all content, if you blink at one DMCA takedown? I dunno, that seems a bit extreme. Is this for real, or is this just a lawyerly, overly cautious opinion? Are there cases where this has happened? Does the DMCA itself
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by bediger 15y ago
You may be interested in "The Camel Has Two Humps": http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf and other work by Saeed Dehnahdi: http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/ He thinks that only about a third of the p
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by bediger 15y ago
Simple: AI lawyers will get ruled illegal. Judges systematically favor the interests of the legal profession: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=976478 Very clearly, a lawyer appliance is NOT in the interests of the legal
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by bediger 15y ago
What resource limits The Internet's growth? Human population, perhaps? Since population rises more than linearly, shouldn't internet growth go along with that?
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by bediger 15y ago
How does this "respect" account for independent invention? Many things (telegraph, telephone, Tee Vee, automobiles, Knuth-Morris-Pratt pattern matching) are invented nearly simultaneously by several inventors. If "intellectual property" is
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by bediger 15y ago
Does the legal justification for copyright differ in the EU vs the USA? In the USA, the nominal basis is to give a creator a monopoly over reproduction for a time, to encourage that creator to make more.
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by bediger 15y ago
Wow, the licensing authority could suspend a person's journalist credentials for writing "the wrong thing at the wrong time". This is a great idea! FOR DICTATORS AND FASCISTS, not for the USA. Licensing journalists is most un-American, a

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