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   by fpp 15y ago

   As one of the founders of a new IT start-up in London I can certainly assure everyone that London again has a lot that's positive for creating new companies here. But this thriving climate of innovation, creativity and new companies is most
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   by fpp 15y ago

   there we go again - after two major brownouts / outages the last months
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   by fpp 15y ago

   This one is written by Ira Winkler. Eight pieces of common sense that everyone should always keep in mind before sharing the next intimate little secret of their lives for a bit of attention on Facebook & Co.
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   by fpp 15y ago

   With the telcom example I've provided above there is no generic OS used for that - the protocol (e.g. TCP, IP or even HTTP) is (pre-)processed within the hardware and not further up in the OS. Generally Linux / Unix (carrier grade / HA) is
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   by fpp 15y ago

   As you rightly said - the key limit if you get to such high I/O levels is first with OS processing - the implementation of the network stack on the iron - with performance above 50k the limit comes from the "pipes" moving the data up from t
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   by fpp 15y ago

   For a comprehensive list of the best icon fonts around have a look at simurai's list at http://www.delicious.com/stacks/view/SC3hpq
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   by fpp 15y ago

   Should fit in nicely with HTML5 slides and online Powerpoint replacement - very neat, great that you added the display path feature.
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   by fpp 15y ago

   Welcome to Russia with love
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   by fpp 15y ago

   Article was updated: "...the NYT has three sources telling them that there are indeed ‘advanced talks’ being held about a potential acquisition of Mashable by CNN, but that a deal could still fall through..."
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    by fpp 15y ago

    Hold your horses - you're trying to kill the messenger! This is what the congressional hearings with AT&T reg. Bush Mark 2 interceptions were all about - now its all legal so no press on that anymore. And I guess you know that what can
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    by fpp 15y ago

    Well, this is now called lawful inspection. The deeper meaning of this is that all I-Net traffic can / is inspected through special interfaces at the ISPs (that could of course also be on the edge of the networks) and all (larger) ISPs have
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    by fpp 15y ago

    see page 31: "...An FBI TOR network expert analyzed the data from the Pen/Trap and was able to determine that a significant portion of the traffic from the CHICAGO RESIDENCE to the Internet was TOR-related traffic..." Guess they did not wan
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    LulzSec indictment published(scribd.com)

    84 points by fpp 15y ago|64 comments
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    by fpp 15y ago

    The only critic allowed to officially voice concerns during the hearings last week was Canadian law professor Michael Geist. He provided a very good and detailed overview on the issues and dangers already foreseeable. When people applauding
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    by fpp 15y ago

    Very informative - I do recall to have seen quite some reference to Stratfor on the Atlantic, sometimes also just mirroring their opinions on some subjects without mentioning them, but can't recall if those where all from one person. Nevert
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    by fpp 15y ago

    This article - besides what was already rightly said that it lacks substance and is full of lame comparisons - is downplaying Stratfor's role and influence on many decision makers in governments and industry. This seems to be in line with S
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    by fpp 15y ago

    now declared invalid: RE38,104 remaining patent: 6,061,520 removed patent: 6,192,476 Oracles original complaint: http://www.scribd.com/doc/35811761/Oracle-s-complaint-agains... (original patent pool: 6,125,447, 6,192,476, 5,966,702, 7,42
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    by fpp 15y ago

    now only one of the patents brought into the battle by Oracle against Android remains valid - all others have been declared invalid by the PTO (and one removed by Oracle)
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    Oracle vs Google: PTO declares 5th Oracle patent invalid(groklaw.net)

    88 points by fpp 15y ago|6 comments
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    by fpp 15y ago

    Sure - read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_royal_candidate_theory and then I guess you know better what this story is all about. I'm almost certain if you go back a few more dozen generations they are all related to that black couple
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    by fpp 15y ago

    No damages to the film industry in the U.S. could be proven - outside of the U.S. up to 7%, mainly for films for which the release is substantially delayed. "... By contrast, we do not see evidence of elevated sales displacement in US box o
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    Scientists can't find evidence for damages by Online Film Piracy (papers.ssrn.com)

    3 points by fpp 15y ago|1 comments
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    by fpp 15y ago

    And then there were the software licences and cost to develop software. As a rule of thumb you could calculate those like: PC (1) - minis like e.g. AS400 (multiply by 10-50) - mainframe (multiply by 100+). For example in the early days of M
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    by fpp 15y ago

    While there are 2 known workarounds for this "patent" (1. like MS did require an extra click or 2. create the tags dynamically e.g. with JavaScript) one should read Perry Pei-Yuan Wei (ViolaWWW) comments on that he wrote tmk when the MS vs
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    by fpp 15y ago

    Sounds interesting - would make it about the size of Microsoft Some market cap vs annual revenue ratios: Microsoft (MSFT) $255bn market cap - $72bn revenue - ratio 3.54 Apple (AAPL) $437bn market cap - $128bn revenue - ratio 3.41 IBM (IBM)
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    by fpp 15y ago

    Maybe it's time to have a closer look at the numbers that matter here and who it is that is pushing so hard to get these kinds of licenses to collect money through. Certainly none of these oppressive regulations with all their side effects
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    by fpp 15y ago

    From Paulo Coelho's blog: ( http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2012/01/20/welcome-to-pirate-my-b... ) "...Nowadays, I run a ‘Pirate Coelho’ website, giving links to any books of mine that are available on P2P sites. And my sales continue to grow —
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    by fpp 15y ago

    http://xkcd.com/713/
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    by fpp 15y ago

    Furthermore they are doing this with full knowledge that it is solely threatening civil rights / creates censorship and does not provide any real benefits or would otherwise be required. Out of the 27 EU states only 11 were recently able to
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    by fpp 15y ago

    I believe, besides the great success that Apple has with its mobile devices, the most interesting here are the enormous sums the mobile carriers are spending to subsidize this growth - up to US$300 per device. This is certainly not somethin