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FYI - Abstract This paper will look at some of the differences between the FreeBSD and OpenBSD operating systems. It is not intended to be solely technical but will also show the d…

Says in stock on Adafruit https://www.adafruit.com/product/2885

Fun with Lorem Ipsum: http://52.90.112.133/recommend/app/getSummary?query=http%3A%...

I showed some of these to my daughter in middle school and we both found the submissions hilarious! We then had a talk about about trolls and the internet and how we could implemen…

Hmmm...A "brillant" shirt, anyone? shirt.codes/? source=package%20test%3B%0Apublic%20class%20paulaBean%20%7B%0A %20%20private%20String%20paula%20%3D%20%22Brillant%22%3B%0A%20 %20pu…

Actually, that sounds pretty awesome.

Oracle is entrenched far too deeply within the inner workings of IT operations of corporations worldwide to ever truly be doomed.

Interesting to know! In my mind, counterfeit == fake == placebo. Thanks.

FTA: "The customers get the products they were paying for (albeit counterfeit versions)." They're fakes!

Granted, I'm not in Canada, but I'd be curious to see why a particular service isn't available.

Cool! http://scri.ch/1in

"The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage" by Clifford Stoll was a great read. The title gives away the premise of the book, but to think - it was al…

Agreed. I mean, according to his Wikipedia article, he was the CTO of En2go a company "that delivers music, video and other digital content to desktops." Most definitely shenanigan…

Interestingly enough, if one goes to votetimgobble.com, the logo in the upper right (which appears throughout the site) shows timgobble.com

I wonder - what could be some non-evil things to do with easy access to all of this information?

If you'd like to join in the header-sniffing fun, here's a bookmarklet that will show a site's HTTP headers in a popup: http://pastebin.com/pTDun3GT

I think it's a lot like Robin Hood. Piracy is viewed in some ways as "rob from the rich and give to the poor" which people in general can get on board with. However, breaking the G…

Unless I'm reading this wrong, one takeaway is that the pool of people with RoR experience is so low that anyone with some time to spare can sweet talk their way into a developer p…

I don't know if it would completely "kill" Facebook, but there would be a dramatic drop in usage if Zynga (Farmville,Mafia Wars,etc.) fell off the face of the earth.

Add another zero to the end?

If you're only starting out, I would be less concerned about the technical pros/cons and figure out which ever is easier for YOU to pick up. Check into whatever your nicest techy f…

Apparently ;-)