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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 23 2012 @ 03:29 AM EDT |
This weekend was DEFCON 20, the largest and most
famous hacker[1]
conference in the world. I didn’t go to
DEFCON because I’m a woman, and I
don’t like it when
strangers grab my crotch.
[...]
Every time I
read about something cool happening at DEFCON,
I wanted to jump on the next
flight to Las Vegas. But I
didn’t, because of my own bad experiences at
DEFCON.
[...]
Many conference organizers have told us that they had
record
women’s attendance after they adopted a policy aimed at
reducing
harassment (and often higher overall attendance as
well). One conference
organizer said that the first year
they worked hard to invite 30% women,
everyone enjoyed the
conference so much more that they’ve done it every year
since. When women feel welcome at a conference, everyone
enjoys the
conference more.
Valerie Aurora, The Ada
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 23 2012 @ 05:54 AM EDT |
“The BBC uses Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act for
the detection of
television licence evasion alone,”
“It is only used as a last
resort once other enforcement
methods have been exhausted.The reason we do not
release
more details on how and when it is used is to ensure people
without a
valid TV licence don’t use this information to
their advantage when attempting
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, August 23 2012 @ 01:01 PM EDT |
They probably only spent a few million on
these cosmetic changes that an 8 year old
would have done for free.
Now they get to spend milions more on
the rollout.
Must be fun to own their stock.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 23 2012 @ 01:12 PM EDT |
I was reading the LWN (Linux Weekly News) story The GNOME project at 15, and one of
the reference links was to an earlier LWN
story on Gnome from the year 2000 . What I found particularly interesting
was the two older stories which followed it on the same 2000 page. These
were:
SCO may be purchased by Caldera
SCO may
be purchased by Caldera, reports this ZDNet article. This is reminiscent of some
predictions that one of the post-IPO Linux companies would pick up SGI. SCO has
been around for almost twenty years and has a long track record. Now it might be
purchased by a veritable "upstart". Nonetheless, this looks like a potential
good match. SCO's emphasis on reseller channels matches Caldera's long-term
philosophy and their support services would put Caldera on a much better footing
in competition with Red Hat, particularly in the international
markets.
Meanwhile, the rumored price, $70 million in stock, seems
incredibly small given the prices for small Linux startups only a few months
ago.
Complete rewrite planned for Perl
6
At the ongoing Perl Conference 4.0, a meeting of the
perl5-porters list was held to discuss Perl's long-term future. As a result,
Larry Wall and Nathan Torkington announced plans for a complete rewrite for Perl
6. Frustration has developed as Perl has become increasingly difficult to
improve, extend, and embed. The core will be reimplemented, to improve speed,
and they'll try to take the opportunity to remove "cruft" from the current
implementation.
Simultaneously, they are trying to revamp the Perl
development community as well. Personality issues caused problems on the
perl5-porters list during the last development cycle -- changes will be
implemented to try and change that. Perl will be moving from following Larry
Wall's vision to becoming a community-driven development effort. That speaks for
some pretty large potential growing pains. The alternative, though, would be to
allow Perl development to stagnate.
And today ... Gnome
is in version 3, the SCO lawsuit story is still staggering along, and Perl 6 is
still "under development". It's an interesting perspective on progress.
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Authored by: Tkilgore on Thursday, August 23 2012 @ 02:52 PM EDT |
What is happening with the Motorola ITC complaint against Apple? What is
happening with the parallel actions which the Motorola ITC complaint says are
filed in federal court, in Delaware? And, no, I am not raising a complaint that
the case is not followed up, here. I mean that I have not seen a single article
elsewhere which even briefly mentions the matter.
The silence is deafening. The only thing I have seen recently in the press about
Apple, Motorola, or for that matter Samsung is a piece in the NWT which
described what a valuable company is Apple. That was on Tuesday, but as far as I
can see nothing at all is said about the Motorola complaint.
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