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Megaupload
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 08:20 PM EDT
Very strange. Not only does the US government somehow manage to completely shut
down and destroy a company that they have just admitted is not in US
jurisdiction, but they now want to delete most of its data while legal action is
pending. I thought deleting data while a court case was under way was a big no
no.

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Microsoft Patents 'mood searches'
Authored by: complex_number on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 09:01 PM EDT
[www.geekwire.com]

The ''boffins' (pah!) at Microsoft have applied for a patent that will skew the search results B(l)ing returns by using your latest Facebook posts.

Apart from YET another reason never to use Bing and most ceetainly never to sign up to FaceBook this is getting rather silly.

So you enter something you later regret on FB (who did what to wehom last night) and your seach for 'Granny nightdresses' only gives you links to places like Victoria's Secret. That might prove somewhat embarrasing and could even lead to divorces etc.

This is all getting rather out of hand all this linking of sites and posts. If the politicians suceed in making pseudonyms a thing of the past I don't think I will be exagerating when I say that those seemingly innocent posts can (and will) come back to haunt you.

Will these people stop at nothing to monetize every aspect of our lives?

You won't find me on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter or LinkedIn.

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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?

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PJ: another analogy
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 09:01 PM EDT
I am surprised no one has suggested this yet - in ALGEBRA:

Ax+Ay+Az FACTORS into A(x+y+z)

In the computer language FORTH:

JSRadd1,JSRadd2,JSRadd3 FACTORS into JSR(add1,add2,add3)

The early books on FORTH even described the removal of the Jump to Sub Routine
instructions from the code stream leaving just the destination addresses as
factoring and compared it to algebra.

Dan

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What are Blueprints?
Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 10:02 PM EDT
The next time someone says an API is a blueprint, I wish Google would ask them
if they know what a blueprint is.

You see blueprints are an obsolete technology for making copies of paper or
linen documents, usually large format engineering or architectural drawings. The
drawings are what tell someone precisely what to make, the blueprints are merely
a copy of the original hand drawn documents (blueprinting went out of general
use before CAD became widespread).

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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.

"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk

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Don't ignore your dreams/don't work too much/say what you think/cultivate friendships - be happy
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 11:54 PM EDT
How do you avoid mistakes you make by default? Ideally you transform your life so it has other defaults. But it may not be possible to do that completely. As long as these mistakes happen by default, you probably have to be reminded not to make them. So I inverted the 5 regrets, yielding a list of 5 commands
Paul Graham

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An API is....
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 09:16 AM EDT
The bit between a butterfly flapping it's wings in Brazil
and a Tornado starting in Texas.

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  • Careful... - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 01:34 PM EDT
    • Careful... - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 05:13 AM EDT
Precious Eye Pee
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 09:56 AM EDT
link

US chamber of commerce threatens trade war if tobacco companies are forced to put their cigarettes in plain packaging. Lovely. Clearly the right of a company to put its trademark on the package when selling lethal substances to its addicted customers is obviously of paramount importance. I'm sure all US citizens will agree and are prepared to back their government as it imposes trade sanctions to support this fundamental principle.

End Sarcasm. ( This message sarcasm captioned for the humour impaired. )

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Did you change any of the APIs?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 12:49 AM EDT
Q. Did you change any of the APIs?

A. No, you can't. It would make it incompatible. That's something Microsoft
would do - Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

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Java is derived from C
Authored by: symbolset on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 05:14 AM EDT

Title, and the java libs are derived from c libraries. The very functions at issue in this case, max() and so on, are derived from c, given in c context and so forth.

They are neither original, nor unexpected. They are implementations of the art known 40 years and more.

JAVA itself is a JIT wrapper (Just In Time compiled interpreter) for the traditional C libraries that actually do the useful things. 90% of the execution time of a Java app actually happens in the C libraries, as it is for a C app. Java libs extend C libs of course, and some time is spent in Java-only libs but it's minor, and the Java-only libs call the C libs for much of their work.

The java language itself is, as most programming languages are, "syntactic sugar". It's designed only to attract programmers, and doesn't do the real work, which is done in the libraries.

That means that the company that really owns Java is... Attachmate, who bought Novell and with is Unix Systems Labs, which owns C. And SCO rears its ugly head again.

Attachmate's ghostly owners (by now you know who they are) have thoroughly Euchred Oracle. This is what it costs to dance with the devil.

If Oracle wins copyright protectability of APIs and languages, they will have given all of their IP to Attachmate and IBM. They will have committed judicial suicide. They were better off to settle.

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Patent 5,966,702 re-granted to Oracle?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 05:53 AM EDT
heise news just recently announced, the PTO reclaimed patent 5,966,702 to
Oracle.

Is that true?

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FBI: Linux users are safe!
Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 09:24 AM EDT
FBI: Linux users are safe! But PCs and Macs users aren't...
The FBI is warning that hundreds of thousands of individuals could lose access to the internet come July 9 unless they disinfect and remove a malware Trojan off their computers. DNS Changer can infect both Windows and Mac systems. Linux users are safe

So, isn't it about time they upgrade to Linux? ;)



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Wired: Patent Nonsense
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 11:04 AM EDT
Wired Article

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Cool video
Authored by: Gringo_ on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 11:21 AM EDT

There is a cool video from Intel embedded in this article by PCWorld about the Quad-Core Intel Ivy Bridge Chips, featuring Intel's new 3D transistors. These achieve 20% MORE SPEED WITH 20% less power than the previous Sandy Bridge chips. In the video, an Intel engineers shrinks himself 20 million times smaller so he can go inside a chip and show us how the transistor works. I think he said it can switch at speed of up to 100 billion times a second. That's incredible!

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  • Cool video - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 11:29 AM EDT
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