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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 11:06 AM EDT |
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| Authored by: hardmath on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 12:08 PM EDT |
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PJ's
parenthetical note mentioning the Saudi expulsions of
men who were too handsome
brought to
mind Kurt Vonnegut's collection of short stories Welcome
to the
Monkey House, esp. the title story and another,
Miss Temptation (the
latter originally published in
the Saturday Evening
Post).
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 01:03 PM EDT |
CISPA Is Dead (For Now)
"I think it's dead for now," says
Michelle Richardson, legislative council with the ACLU. "CISPA is too
controversial, it's too expansive, it's just not the same sort of program
contemplated by the Senate last year. We're pleased to hear the Senate will
probably pick up where it left off last year."
That "for
now" part is the problem...
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- For Now - Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 01:24 PM EDT
- You know. - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 29 2013 @ 04:44 PM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 04:30 PM EDT |
I knew
exactly how she felt and I'm a guy. I've experienced it time and time
again. Even as a guy, I'm looked at strangely when I talk about electronics,
robotics, wearable computers, etc.. I guess it is the price I pay for living in
farm country instead of one of the great technology centers. One of
them told her to stop making them feel stupid all the time. I
think all of us who bother to learn a great deal about the world around us get
that from time to time. Sadly, one learns to shut up. In doing so, one won't
as likely be talking tech when somebody who is interested is around so you pass
like two ships in the night. If somebody asks about the techniques used in
one of my sculptures, as soon as I go past it's computer controlled, their eyes
glaze over even when I use the simplest terms. I might as well be speaking a
foreign language. It's technology, they think they can't possibly understand.
I think it is a difference in attitude. I have an attitude that if somebody
else can understand it, so can I. Yeah it may take a bit of time to learn
the base concepts needed to understand something very complex, but it can be
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| Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, April 27 2013 @ 03:50 PM EDT |
FWIW, we've had free WiFi hot spots in Canada for years. A few of the major
ISPs, including mine, have them in coffee shop chains etc. At first, they were
for customers only, but now anyone can connect. I can also go across the street
and get free Wifi at McDonalds or Subway Sandwich. Or I can go a few blocks
down the street to the library and use it there. The local mall has free WiFi
too. Even the deli where I meet some friends every Saturday morning has WiFi,
as do many other businesses So, for us, this is old news.
BTW, there was the "Linux Cafe" in Toronto, which had open WiFi about
10 years ago. Unfortunately, the owner decided to go back to his previous
career and let his son run it. It's no more. :-(
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 27 2013 @ 04:37 PM EDT |
and redirects it to ibliblio login???
Here is the ESOP PR in
English and the original
Portugese
More
comment from Portugal.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 27 2013 @ 05:02 PM EDT |
Stop right there.
Smith & Wesson, known for murder ...
Newspick slashdot, refers
to the Wrap
As some comments at /.
observed Cinedigm is giving away an ad for their movie, but they'd get more
eyeballs and faster viral spread from
Youtube. Could be Hollywood politics
behind the studios' fulmination.
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| Authored by: jbb on Sunday, April 28 2013 @ 01:12 AM EDT |
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I remember when this decision was
handed down. I had traveled across the country to visit some friends and we
were having dinner at the house of the parents of one of my friends. They were
of retirement age. The father was a well known head of a department at a
prestigious hospital.
I was rather cynical even back then so I wasn't
surprised by the decision but I was very surprised by how shocked the older
people were. They would not have been more surprised if aliens had landed. It
was sad to see their faith in the US system crumble right there before our
eyes.
In his book With Liberty and Justice for Some, Glenn Greenwald
says that lawlessness at very highest levels really got rolling with the pardon
of Richard Nixon. I'm in no position to argue with him about that but I still
think Bush v. Gore was another big turning point. I believe I quoted
from Joseph Heller's Catch-22 that night:
Catch-22 says they
have a right to do anything we can't stop them from
doing.
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contexts
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| Authored by: complex_number on Sunday, April 28 2013 @ 12:57 PM EDT |
| news.cnet.com
This might be true
until the great hobnail boots of MS come a calling for their patent dues. Then
we might see $300 devices (or more if they can have their way).
Until
someone has the guts to standup to MS and their patent arsenal we are not going
to see Linux and by implication Android develop to their full potential. Who
will be brave enough to do it?
Sadly, IMHO Android has a long way to go to
become what I call a secure O/S. At the moment, I don't see Google even trying
to stop all this malware that is out there and a definite threat to all
users.
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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 Monday, April 29 2013 @ 04:03 AM EDT |
| Clickety
I didn't read the article, but want to
comment on PJ's typically thoughtful response. As a male, I've never understood
the bit about males preferring females who play dumb - ISTM the equivalent of
girls being attracted to 'bad boys,' and I think there's a strong argument for
letting both preferences be bred out of the population rather than pandering to
them. I can totally understand the desire to learn to code in private though,
so if it suits the female mind even more then I salute Github for making it
easier. --O4W [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: JamesK on Monday, April 29 2013 @ 08:14 AM EDT |
"The Koch brothers reportedly see “the media” as a next phase in their
“10-year-strategy” to shift the country toward their political goals of no
taxes, no regulations and no unions to interfere with the pursuit of
profits."
One only has to look at the recent factory collapse in Bangladesh to see what
could happen if they get their way. They seem to forget that many of those laws
and regulations were brought in to protect the people and environment from
"the pursuit of profits". Of course, no taxes means no government,
military, police, fire fighters, public education and so much more. It will be
a world where only the wealthy can have a decent life. We might as well go back
to the days of land owners and peasants.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 29 2013 @ 08:23 AM EDT |
Link
CBC News showed Woodland
just how easy it is to steal the information — even from a card inside a wallet
or inside someone’s pants.
The whole process only took about one second, not
30.
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