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Growing a bamboo bicycle(fastcompany.com)
7 points by madmaze 15y ago|2 comments
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by madmaze 15y ago
interesting is also that even after this post got pushed back down, it got 12 votes in 10 min and didnt make it to the front page where as there are 2 posts that have <10 votes in one hr
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by madmaze 15y ago
here is his talk, very inspiring http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8
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by madmaze 15y ago
yes, listening is not the strength of governments. Especially about things they do not understand and are made to fear. There are many computer privacy/copyright/net-neutrality bills that have been signed into law where I was wondering whet
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by madmaze 15y ago
I certainly agree with their Goals and I see very similar flaws in many governments. I am not sure their way is the best way to make governments listen, but it certainly is one way that gets publicity. The issue with their publicity is that
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Googles new look and features?(i.imgur.com)
3 points by madmaze 15y ago|0 comments
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by madmaze 15y ago
more precisely how do we change the curriculum? and how do we ensure that all schools have enough access to computers to use them as a teaching and learning tool
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Conrad Wolfram: What is wrong with our math education (and how to fix it)(good.is)
23 points by madmaze 15y ago|18 comments
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by madmaze 15y ago
Its very interesting that MS is running part of their cloud on AWS. Though Azure is really more a cloud-based service delivery platform where AWS also provides cloud-based server deployment with EC2. I am assuming that is the part that MS u
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by madmaze 15y ago
How about adding IBM's DB2, it seem there are very few companies actually using it.
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FDA reveals bigger, graphic warning labels for cigarette packages(cnn.com)
1 points by madmaze 15y ago|0 comments
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by madmaze 15y ago
If this becomes reality it will seriously set back the value of the internet, its freedom of speech and privacy. It doesnt matter that it is "just" one country. Its a western country and this mindset of censorship and control by such a gove
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by madmaze 15y ago
Yes thats on my todo list.. but its less essential. At the moment my top-of-the list is getting it to copy back logging from each node. I want this to happen automatically after a certain interval so in case the node goes down you still get
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by madmaze 15y ago
That is exactly why I put this together, no more guessing at which nodes have been deployed an which nodes havnt
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Weekend Project: MasterSpore a Simple Cluster Control/Deploy tool for EC2(github.com)
7 points by madmaze 15y ago|4 comments
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by madmaze 15y ago
agreed, though its a great way to get the word out. Posted it in an IRC channel and got 22 people to sign up in about 10 mins hehe, thought i did get a few people feeling like they got scamed aswell
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ArsTechnica on LulzSec's Hacker manifesto(arstechnica.com)
2 points by madmaze 15y ago|0 comments
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by madmaze 15y ago
I think we have found the LulzSec hacker manifesto.
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by madmaze 15y ago
Im already on it, at least for domains that I am a part of or know people in
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by madmaze 15y ago
I think calling it a "large" footprint is an understatement. My conspiracy buddies are going nuts with the idea that its the government trying to convince us to hand over our internet freedom to them. I wish i could laugh at them with conf
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by madmaze 15y ago
that is very true, but the media seems to spin it purely against the big bad hackers. Trust me, I love that these companies are finally getting a reality check! I mean the Citi hack was URL modification. please thats like figuring out if th
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by madmaze 15y ago
depends on which corporations you ask, Comcast would love to be able to sell you just certain websites in a package deal. Starter package, including Fox, CNN and Comcast.com, for 30$/mo next step up is the premium package including Facebook
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by madmaze 15y ago
The other thing to keep in mind is that cia.gov is probably not made to handle lots of traffic, since I cant imagine them having a massive day-to-day userbase.. hence I assume it would be rather easy to get them choked up with traffic
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by madmaze 15y ago
perhaps they were DDOSing it and brought it to a crawl, then all the other visitors streaming in would certainly give it the final blow
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by madmaze 15y ago
It has been appended to my reading list. thanks
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by madmaze 15y ago
I have done some Hadoop in the past on Amazons EC2.. definitely useful data mining tools, but Im looking more for concepts and approaches
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by madmaze 15y ago
Thanks thats exactly what i have been looking for.
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Ask HN: Learning, understanding and applying Data mining
12 points by madmaze 15y ago|7 comments
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LulzSec Hacks Senate(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by madmaze 15y ago|0 comments
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Smarterer: Test your tech skills and compete!(smarterer.com)
2 points by madmaze 15y ago|0 comments

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