Authored by: 400guy on Friday, July 13 2012 @ 09:47 AM EDT |
Economic Stocks and Flows — A
Lecture Using a Phillips MONIAC Economic Analog. The embedded video
of the lecture shows the computer in action. And I bet the inventor did
not use a GUI library <grin />.
Patentable? Nyah, I
say. Water and pipes and valves and tanks: just mathematics, differential
equations this time. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
|
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 13 2012 @ 10:13 AM EDT |
Shuttleworth and his Ubuntu ARE cheap. Perhaps not as moneymakers, but at least
they don't count as decent people. Reading
the argument that it was too expensive to help out the "upstream" Debian, the
volunteer source for Ubuntu's success:
Canonical remains
unwilling to support PPAs (Personal Package Archives) via Launchpad for Debian,
but only Ubuntu. Canonical's reasoning for not supporting the building of PPAs
on upstream Debian is that it's an expensive service to
operate.
That is a sad attitude, given that Debian assembles more
than 99% of the software Mr El Cheapo Mark Shuttleworth's company Canonical rips
for Ubuntu.
I think the Ubuntu staff's attitude towards their
benefactors in Debian is worrying. Why does Canonical hurt their source? It
cannot be good in the long run.
[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
|
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 13 2012 @ 02:23 PM EDT |
The cops in Tasmania, Australia have informed the general public that it's not
illegal to call people nasty names on Facebook, and that they don't want any
more complaints on those lines: "If this behavior occurred in a public
place it would not be a reportable offence. It is not the role of Tasmania
Police to censor internet content." -- Cory Doctorow
http://boingboing.net/2012/07/13/tasmanian-cops-to-world-its.html[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
|
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 13 2012 @ 04:09 PM EDT |
isc.sans.edu
[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
|
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 13 2012 @ 05:54 PM EDT |
Newspick
MIPS is stated to be a practicing entity, yet none of
those it is prosecuting are direct
competitors. Also none of those going after
MIPS to invalidate the patents are in the
"innovation space" about those
patents.
I get the feeling that patents on these functions may be part of the
reason why financial
systems display frequent security problems, as the makers
and operators try to avoid or
workaround the patents. Yet more evidence in
favor of Open Source Security.
[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
|
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, July 13 2012 @ 07:48 PM EDT |
Link
Stone issued
subpoenas to Internet service providers, hoping to unmask those who had
downloaded Mick Haig's pr0n [ed]—but he did so before the judge in the case had
agreed. When some of the Does contacted the attorneys provided by the court to
defend their interests (from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public
Citizen), the gambit was revealed, and the attorneys moved to sanction Stone.
Stone dropped the case, but it wasn't enough to halt the sanctions bid. The
district court judge agreed that Stone's conduct had shown "staggering chutzpah"
and fined him $10,000 in addition to other penalties. That sanction was
appealed and has now been upheld by the Fifth Circuit.
“The court
characterized Stone’s actions as a ‘grave’ and ‘wanton’ ‘abdication of
responsibility,’ transforming the use of subpoenas ‘from a bona fide
state-sanctioned inspection into private snooping,’ and noted that Stone has
abused the subpoena power before in other cases,” the judges wrote in the Fifth
Circuit decision.
The Fifth Circuit court also has required that a copy of
this decision be filed in all of Stone’s other cases, involving defendants all
over the country.
Warning: Bad Lawyer Language at
link.
---
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
|
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 13 2012 @ 08:27 PM EDT |
Hey, LOCOG! I think you're
a bunch of greedy, immoral corporatist swine who've sold out London to a bunch
of multinationals and betrayed the spirit of athleticism and international
cooperation. You're a disgrace. And
I'm linking to you. In a most
derogatory manner.
What are you going to do about it?
Cory
Doctorow, Boing Boing[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
|
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, July 13 2012 @ 08:45 PM EDT |
Link
---
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
|