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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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. --- 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 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.
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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).
---
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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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
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 09:16 AM EDT |
The bit between a butterfly flapping it's wings in Brazil
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- Careful... - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 01:34 PM EDT
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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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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
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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. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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.
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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?
;)
--- ______
IMANAL
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 11:04 AM EDT |
Wired Article [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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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