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Why bother to threaten? Why not just expose them? The Jester believes he has hacked "known-bad" people. His list of "known-bad" may not coincide withe people guilty of crimes, and …

That's great, studies and evidence suggest that patents and copyrights result in decreased innovation. Are we going to do away with patents and copyrights? No? Why not? Cap-and-tra…

And if everyone took a shower at the same time? This is just scare mongering. Also, the famous slogan was "The network is the computer", not "The internet is the computer". That wa…

I have not read this book, but I did hear him on NPR's "Science Friday" last week. I think Tyson misses something huge. The USA actually had a large number of career engineers to d…

Given all the other noise about QU8K's rocket reaching 120,00 feet ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvDqoxMUroA ) and other relatively sophisticated rockets based on off-the-shelf …

Great Snakes! This was almost exactly my experience with LFS, and I just installed Arch on my laptop, after running it on servers for a while.

Still live 19:34-0700. Is this for real, or just some DNS trickery? The HN post says "1 hour ago", wouldn't PandaSecurity respond faster than that?

The purest of propaganda gibberish. Available from "your Mercedes partner" on the 15th of June. "Partner". Really? Don't you mean "member of the price-fixing cartel"? Because that'…

This article's title is sarcastic, apparently. Sure, some mathematics is outside the purview of programming. Certainly some programming activities are only loosely mathematical. Bu…

You could bing for incidents like this.

Ah ha! A Dutch auction ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction ). This might be a good thing for people who can get away with less-powerful servers (and who can't these days?)…

Interesting things to ask, to be sure. But why all the cuts? I mean, I'm sure they had to edit out the usual number of "ummm" and "ahhhh", and "wait, wait!" phrases. But the direct…

Charles Petzold has elucidated a lot of the same ideas in: http://charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.htm... Since that's got a 2005 date, can we agree that there's a…

high-ceremony Java enterprise folk - is that a way of not including a "lightning rod" or layers of linkbait and trolling? Because I think of the work of "Java enterprise folk" in d…

This article contains a good observation: he wraps his key idea in layers of link-bait and nerd-traps, shallow but emotionally charged ideas that side-track all but the strongest m…

The author takes the idea of "intellectual property" for granted. What about the problem of independent invention? The telegraph, telephone and lots of other major inventions had m…

Anybody who has used Linux at home, and Windows at work can tell you that. In fact, Windows has only recently caught up with Linux in OS reliability. X11 is still vastly more relia…

This article illustrates what's wrong with "enterprise" type software: HiPPO rules in that context, and it costs too much to do testing to validate any design choices. In fact, mos…

could very well be ahead of public research - does that mean you've had meetings with groups of 3 federal employees, one of whom does nothing but ensure the other 2 don't say too m…

How about something like this for the "Card Services" scams? These are the robo-calls with the female voice telling you that you can lower your credit card's interest rate, but it'…

Very informative, in that it answers the question very precisely. It's like the old joke about a helicopter pilot lost in pea soup fog over Seattle, somewhere. A building abruptly …

What the hell is going on in the USA? The USA Feds learned a lesson from the Chinese: "One eye open, one eye shut". See http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/051208-china-internet.…

Yes. I've come to the conclusion that chimps, gorillas and orangutangs (at least, maybe some monkeys, too) qualify as "human", or at least close enough. They need to be protected a…

I have two thoughts: 1. Wow! I didn't know that the FBI had intercepted (as opposed to cultivating) that many "terrorists". They must have quite a database (like the serial killer …

In a larger sense, this is rubbish. It's a man-made rule that you can't take bottled drinks (or can't take X for any X) on a flight. Not allowing bottled drinks on flights is parti…