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@bluejekyll .. A very well thought out piece, which begs the question as to why it was down voted.

Regarding Takedown (2000) and the Kevin Mitnick John Markoff relationship. Seems to me a more apt movie would be the 1951 movie "Ace in the Hole". https://slashdot.org/story/03/02/…

> Does anyone else get a Fahrenheit 451 vibe from mixed reality? No doubt it is completely awesome and I'm very excited. I can't help but feel like we'll all end up like Millie Mon…

"Since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011" It isn't a 'civil war', it's a US instigated invasion of a sovereign nation. The reason being to prevent a Syria-Iran alliance tha…

> We ban accounts like this one that are created just to violate the guidelines. Please don't do this. Surely you mean, rather than come back with a logically worked-out refutation…

Yes I have read the article, but I'm still confused as to the who and the how of his $50 million fortune vanishing. Could someone please put the salient details into a single parag…

The problem is - some people never come back from their ayahuasca trip. https://youtu.be/uzpey20hQwE

"Within 10s of the forward stick input, the A330 had reached a 17˚ nose-down attitude. Its automatic high-speed protection system was triggered 3s later" What exactly did this 'aut…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_T._Martin_III "Prosecutors have stated that the stolen classified information includes the names of covert intelligence officers" Just who in t…

> Not sure what your comment has to do with mine. Someone doesn't agree with your comment, but rather than come back with a refutation they voted you down instead :) And someone el…

I do appreciate long form writing, but not when it's done badly, as in all the salient details are scattered about the page. That article would be good as part of a biography. Havi…

According to my limited understanding, some time back Poettering called for udev to be subsumed into systemd. When systemd.udev breaks something his response is. It shouldn't be in…

"Goldman Sachs automated trading replaces 600 traders with 200 engineers" You mean 600 traders replaced with a High Frequency Trading (HFT) computer. http://bertdohmen.com/hft-algo…

In this article, the opening paragraph actually tells us why Jane Jacobs is culturally relevant. without all the irrelevant digressions. I mean what the heck does her boss being un…

'What Killed the Linux Desktop' by Miguel de Icaza

"Ric Weiland, Bill Gates and Monte Davidoff at Microsoft wrote MOS 6502 BASIC" as copied from the source code for BASIC for a PDP-8 .. http://www.voteview.com/gates.htm http://theb…

> What's still not known is if Thiel has dual citizenship. Hey, if they can elect a Muslim born in Keynya, President of the United States of America, then what's wrong with Thiel t…

Microsoft Research: 'Each year Microsoft Research hosts hundreds of influential speakers from around the world including leading scientists, renowned experts in technology, book au…

> Identity politics are garbage. I agree, stand-by to be down-voted into oblivion. Besides journalists should report the news instead of being the news or creating non-issues as in…

"Was Snowden a Russian Agent?" .. no, he was an outside contractor with a conscience, illustrating the perils of outsourcing your spying. Why an IT functionary would need access to…

Pardon my confusion, but I thought that some time back Microsoft abandoned the effort to write all their stuff in managed code under .NET ..

> First product that comes to mind is facebook and their gender selection. Personally I could care less as to what gender identifier you would want to be designated as. But I'm sur…

"there is a challenge and responsibility to build products in a way that serves and supports customers who are the most vulnerable." No product is going to cure people of anything …