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Yay infoworthless.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I can't believe it. It is a revolution!!! I just spun around in my chair. [PROOF]
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Hallelujah! This is a complete 360 degree shift from status quo!
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Details of a new NSA program have emerged from Wired's meticulous Snowden profile this morning. As part of the interview, Snowden described an ongoing NSA project called Monstermind, planned as a new cyberdefense capability. The system would scan web metadata for signs of an attack in progress, then respond automatically to blunt the attack and potentially even retaliate. When turned on, it will shut down the agency
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Kent Sharkey wrote: When turned on, it will shut down the agency
And then self-desctruct.
I'd say it's a malware-replacement. You only need ours, not the other ones.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: I'd say it's a malware-replacement. You only need ours, not the other ones. Spot on - that is definitely the purpose/idea behind it.
TTFN - Kent
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Help me help you help me.
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But, what if I don't wanna help you help me help you, for, in helping you, I don't necessarily believe it will help me when I help you.
Besides, this is a free country (well, or so we're told... what, with nearly $18 trillion in debt, over 90% debt to Gross Domestic Product output, of which, when such a ratio is reached, in all of history, the nation crumbles).
As such ~ Help yerself, there, NSA! (actually, not really.)
Besides, you did just that to my computer, cell phone calls, emails, and everything else digital.
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Bah. I worked at REDACTEDResearch 20 years ago and they had this tech in the can.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: When turned on, it will shut down the agency
Hopefully the whole freaking government. Everywhere.
Marc
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The USB Promoter Group announced today that it has finalized the design of the USB Type-C plug, a new type of USB plug that's designed to completely replace every size of all current USB connectors. And by the time I have a machine with one, it will be out of date
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That xkcd perfectly expressed my thoughts when I saw the new USB connector.
No need to think any longer, just reference appropriate web link.
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Yay - a connector that, in a few years, will be ubiquitous enough to be used generally and will support 10Gbps.
...while in the meantime Thunderbolt 2 is already at 20Gbps.
Sigh. Just as long as USB 3.0 Type-B dies a quick, but painful death.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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A rare day where there are not one, but two obligatory xkcd[^] references.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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(I particularly liked the string).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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And the Gas Nozzle
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Your organization may be unintentionally biased against free software. "Free your mind and the rest will follow"
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A recent Future of Open Source Survey [7] found that 72 percent of respondents use open source software because they believe it provides better security than proprietary alternatives, and 80 percent believe it offers better quality than proprietary software.
And 99% of that software is most likely the Chrome engine or Firefox. The remaining 1% is probably the entire remaining landscape of open source apps & OS's.
Marc
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I was at a one time, a Windows-centric developer, purchased tools (mostly Microsoft) and despised open source...fast forward 10 years. My entire tool chain, development environment, IDE and soon operating system (Ubuntu is hard to beat -- it's what Google uses) are all open source, of the GPL variety.
I assure you that open source proponents, pundits, evangelists, whatever you want to call us, use more than just Chrome -- unless I misunderstood your remark.
OSS is the future of everything outside of the bubble known to many as Microsoft. PHP is one example of open source success, which Drupal, WordPress, Joomla (and about 1000 others) are built on. Combined, these CMS frameworks power something to the effect of 30% or more of web sites.
Apache still holds like 60% market share in HTTP hosting...
I am proud to say, closed source, proprietary software is a receding practice...open source will eventually win out. Maybe not today, or tomorrow, or next year or next decade, but mark my words, it's going the way of the dinosaur...
p.s-The numbers or stats I provided were ball parked or quickly Googled...
Consider Windows developers defect to Linux and open source...but I have yet to meet an open source Linux guy make the reverse decision. :p
Regards,
Alex
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A NASA spacecraft hurtling toward a 2015 rendezvous with Pluto has captured an amazing video of the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon. If you squint, it kind of looks like a planet
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I see Bob! I see Bob!
Marc
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Was that a comet towards the end?
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Yeah, I too was wondering what that was.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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The technologies that bring the biggest paychecks. Keep writing code until you either get bought or run out of cash?
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