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by grej 13y ago
Yep I agree. They're now employing the "code like hell" strategy, but it rarely works - especially when a project has undergone as little integration testing as healthcare.gov appears to have undergone.
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by grej 13y ago
From Politico: The Obama administration Sunday said it’s called on “the best and brightest” tech experts from both government and the private sector to help fix the troubled website at the root of the Obamacare enrollment problems. The unus
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HHS calls in high-tech cavalry for Obamacare website fixes(politico.com)
3 points by grej 13y ago|3 comments
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by grej 13y ago
It's probably only a short time until we start seeing automation within large swaths of the labor market. Besides baristas, there are lots of other industries that will be completely changed from an employment perspective. For instance
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by grej 13y ago
TL:DR - A Northeastern University study shows that with the shutdown of Megaupload, the U.S. Government took down at least 10.75 million legitimate files
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by grej 13y ago
I'd also be interested in the legal ramifications of withholding source code. Don't take my advice without consulting legal sources because I'm NOT a lawyer. Still, I don't see how you can be sued for not delivering some
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Megaupload Raid ‘Destroyed’ (Way) More Than 10,000,000 Legal Files(torrentfreak.com)
4 points by grej 13y ago|1 comments
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North Korea’s “secret cyber-weapon”: brand new Red Star OS(rt.com)
2 points by grej 13y ago|0 comments
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by grej 13y ago
"because they’re not allowed to mess up we’ve created a system where it’s also very hard for them to do things that are new and innovative. The rules all favor incumbents." So true. From this article: http://www.infoworl
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by grej 13y ago
Agree with both sentiments. There needs to be some mechanism to pierce the shell corporation and get to the beneficiaries, whether they are the representing legal firm or the licensing entities, in egregious cases.
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by grej 13y ago
This is potentially positive, but many times the patent troll shell companies deliberately hold very few assets. Even if the Supreme Court makes it easier to capture legal fees from them, there may not be a lot to capture (if anything).
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by grej 13y ago
Interesting article. Particularly this: "The way this entire arrangement evolved had the structure of a Ponzi scheme. China and other countries invested money in various kinds of American financial securities including government bonds
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by grej 13y ago
This is a facinating interactive tool to navigate through the transaction history of the blockchain
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Bitcoin blockchain in redis visualized with d3.js(btclook.com)
2 points by grej 13y ago|1 comments
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by grej 13y ago
Eisenhower warned about the military industrial complex. This is just the latest manifestation of the government-industrial complex. I'd be willing to bet that CGI Federal (the contractor) has some very well connected cronies to have c
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by grej 13y ago
Professor Myung and his group at KAIST set out to develop a robot to deal with this issue, and last month, they tested out their solution, the Jellyfish Elimination Robotic Swarm (JEROS), in Masan Bay on the southern coast of South Korea. T
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These Robots Will Stop the Jellyfish Invasion(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by grej 13y ago|1 comments