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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 03:21 PM EDT |
'Four years ago, students created a Wikipedia page detailing the exploits of
Edward Owens, successfully fooling
Wikipedia's community of editors`
This isn't as difficult as it
sounds, Wikipedia is the same place that states that Windows NT wasn't designed
for the Internet.
"Windows NT
and its successors .. were not initially designed with Internet security"[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: YurtGuppy on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 03:34 PM EDT |
Oracle has posted some HP internal documents.
I have read a few, not all. I found one that
affirmed my prior opinion and I quit in disgust.
Document 10-1623014.pdf is a presentation regarding
future roadmap of HP-UX, Itanium, etc.
According to the slides, HP already had scheduled Itanium offerings through
2015. They proposed shifting to an x86 platform over that period.
Oracle dropped Itanium development in March 2011, 4 years ahead of end of life
for the Itanium platform.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 04:20 PM EDT |
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C
lick here
LOL . Oracle, though, is behind SAP and ClickSoftware in terms of
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 05:05 PM EDT |
from the trial tweets
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/174132/software-developer-revives-d
ebate-about-whether-journalists-should-learn-to-code/
my opinion: everyone should learn at least as much coding as they know being a
plumber or electrician.
this doesn't need to be much, but the current level of knowledge about
programming is pretty much non-existent.
It's like not understanding enough of the concepts of being a plumber to
understand that when the toilet clogs up you use a plunger, when the washing
machine starts spraying water all over the floor you turn off the faucets to the
washer.
It's like not understanding enough about electricity to figure out how to
replace a light bulb, or to reset a circuit breaker (or replace a fuse)
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| Authored by: MadTom1999 on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 02:13 AM EDT |
| Car crashes are just part of the natural ebb and flow says pathetic road law
supervisor.
PTO Director... [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 07:36 AM EDT |
RHEL "...focusing on what Linux can deliver rather than on
Linux per se"
So, their middleware is where they see growth, Linux business
will still be what it is, plodding along, but they are
looking for the short term rocket ship to add onto that base?
Is that what they meant?
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| Authored by: StrangeAttractor on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 08:20 AM EDT |
I believe that the effect of patents and the legal system on the development of
radio in the first half of the 20th century was like today's smartphone wars.
The "sorting out" then was unjust and held back economic and
technological progress.
I agree with PJ's claim that patents and the legal system are particularly bad
for software, but they have a long history of retarding development in other
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 09:04 AM EDT |
There's some irony here.
Microsoft has to put up a bond for $100 million in case they
lose their lawsuit relating to selling Xbox in Germany in
their lawsuit with Motorola.
That's probably 200 times more than Google will end up paying
Oracle, if Google ends up paying anything at all.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 11:45 AM EDT |
| I don't know if anyone else have pointed to the Wright/Curtis patent wars. They
irrepairably damaged the Wright aircraft company (when was the last time you
heard about a "Wright" aircraft), and cause the US aviation development to
lag.
http://en.wik
ipedia.org/wiki/The_Wright_brothers_patent_war
Lots of links in the
wikipedia pages.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 11:55 AM EDT |
If a cut of meat is patented, then I know the whole patent system is broken. And
if the patent is granted, can someone go back and patent all the other cuts of
meat under the first to file rules now in effect in the United States?
And for the vegans, the methods and processes of cutting vetagbles for better
cooking and nutrition could probably be patented.
Crony capatalism at its best!
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 12:19 PM EDT |
And where is the middle ground?
I want to have an income when I retire. Social Security isn't. Savings is
taxed. The stock market is risky? If you're paying more on the interest than
you earn, why save money?
You want me to start a business, without any hope of making money? Do you want
to give your produce away?
What is socialism? If the overachievers have there work given to someone who
doesn't want to work so that everything evens out, why overachieve?
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| Authored by: complex_number on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 02:20 PM EDT |
| [www.insidehighered.com]
So Universities are in bed with IV then. Well the recent saga over UF and
the dropping of CS in order to save $1.5M when their American Football
budget is more then $50M says it all.
I seems that a good number of US
Universities are no longer primarily concerned with the Education of young
people but the generation of Money for Sports.
Truly a sad state of affairs
but IMHO one that reflects what many of my American friends are
saying.
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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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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 03:58 PM EDT |
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Well-written
concise summary of the case thus far: Courthouse
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