killerswan

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by killerswan 15y ago
Exactly my thought. My introduction to Scheme, incidentally, came while I was learning JavaScript, and it was through a book that hadn't originally been written in Scheme, either: http://javascript.crockford.com/little.html
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by killerswan 15y ago
I have seen lots of companies add that button, and I have never seen a company remove it!
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by killerswan 15y ago
So I suggested one kind of contract to write which would ensure payment of that sort, rather than the usual.
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by killerswan 15y ago
Possibly: ownership of the IP only transfers upon final payment.
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by killerswan 15y ago
I suspect that Neanderthals were smart enough and talented enough that we'd call them human and give them civil rights, today, if any were around. They mind be kinda odd, and incredible football players, but who knows.
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by killerswan 15y ago
I wonder at the legal status of this digital copy of the original article. Words seem smaller and lighter than seeds...
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by killerswan 15y ago
Yeah, _access is ownership_, after all.
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by killerswan 15y ago
s/MD5/SHA-256/ or some sort of PGP signature...
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by killerswan 15y ago
Yeah, the free market would work effectively if no producer and no consumer had the power to set the price... An alternative model, though, is mailing addresses: bureaucratic, cheap, and a primary part of civilization for 2500 years. It wou
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by killerswan 15y ago
Legal code and computer code can have more in common than either politicians or programmers usually want to admit... It is some sort of miracle that the USA has lasted this long at all!
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by killerswan 15y ago
Exactly. This is one of the best copyright disputes I've seen in years.
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by killerswan 15y ago
That is true, but you know that if a McDonalds employee used his fryer at work to do that, the headline and litigation would be about them, too. :P Regarding Anonymous, most of these cases will probably never be solved: there is probably f
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by killerswan 15y ago
You assume this wasn't done by the USA's military, like the anthrax attacks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
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by killerswan 15y ago
Due to the anonymous nature of these things, some of these recent attacks could easily be from within the USA's govt, just like the anthrax letters were. It does seem clear, though, that we all have a lot to learn about protecting informati
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by killerswan 15y ago
D: I've also heard things about how, for example, simply walking regularly for exercise can sometimes be more effective than chemotherapy.
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by killerswan 15y ago
Yeah, IIRC, a lot of the apparent loss in brain function is really just cardiovascular.
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by killerswan 15y ago
Yeah, that is the most amazing part!
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by killerswan 15y ago
Personally, I'm not surprised the name came from IRC...
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by killerswan 15y ago
> It is Google+ not providing the ability to hide your gender on your profile ... Seriously, what am I missing?
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by killerswan 15y ago
I think they unambiguously want to be indexing everyone's whole social graph. Facebook and others certainly do it anyways, but under the pretense that some people are to remain hidden and others are not...
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by killerswan 15y ago
Mandatory labeling of race, religion, and, yes, gender is rarely wise...
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by killerswan 15y ago
As far as the terms themselves, O'Reilly was talking about a change in focus from software to data ... http://twit.tv/floss73 From that angle, then: SourceForge is a great place to download installers, while GitHub is a great place to
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by killerswan 15y ago
This age range, 15-24, is really diverse, but here we have college graduates, college students, high school graduates, high school students, and younger dropouts, all mixed into the same statistic. What percentage of college grads are unemp
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by killerswan 15y ago
So what? Gender isn't relevant to every online activity. A century ago we didn't have any gender neutral clothing, either: if we need better pronouns, then let's make some up.
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by killerswan 15y ago
What protocol is it that routes around censorship, exactly? What is the software that automatically prevents a server from being unplugged by a co-location facility? What about TCP/IP prevents a blogger from being beaten unconscious in fro
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by killerswan 15y ago
Elected politicians have to aim for the short-term goal of getting re-elected. Money, and both monetary and fiscal policy, are based on collective hallucinations that people rarely think clearly about. No politician wants to be seen idle,
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by killerswan 15y ago
With all the stuff on circuits, state machines, and probability, this course may be easy to sell EEs on teaching and taking.
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by killerswan 15y ago
Exactly. Right now we're only beginning to explore this stuff.
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by killerswan 15y ago
VLC is another tool I had trouble memorizing the name of. "VideoLAN? That must be something different..."
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by killerswan 15y ago
There's a lot of similarity between their ~censorship of Wikileaks and the censorship performed by ISPs and search engines like Baidu, in China. Certain members of the government simply make unofficial suggestions, and the private companies

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