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There is no place for humor or overly subjective terms like "evil" in a software license or other legal document, and the problem with Douglas Crockford's license is that he fails …

This makes no sense. Is Stallman so focused on software that he isn't considering the implications of continuing to apply broken software patents to hardware? FPGAs? Is an algorith…

A very nice networking feature has landed in 3.5: CODEL AQM packet scheduler to fight bufferbloat. It is mainly relevant for routers. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2209336

With a modern pcre library version and nginx, instead of location ~ ^/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/ { set $username $1; you can use named captures location ~ ^/(? [a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/ {

Yeah, I think me_myselft meant rights in terms of social justice, and not "fundamental rights" in the sense of abstract political philosophy. So many arguments get caught up over s…

Government doesn't create the principles of nuclear physics that allow fission and fusion to occur. We can't get rid of the nuclear threat as long as the knowledge of nuclear physi…

This is another attempt at segmenting a market for goods depending on the price that can be extracted for that good in a particular market, while keeping the cheap versions from be…

Over-achievement also fits into the clueless tier. The clueless can't get rich or into upper management except by accident, but they can have successful careers as long as the psyc…

I think Oracle has gone round the bend, but does the anti-Oracle view of APIs mean basically that all GPL software is LGPL? When you call a function, why should that function's cop…

Maybe this will light a fire under the registrars and DNS hosting companies, because some of them still don't support IPv6 glue records (for registrars) or AAAA records (for DNS ho…

Hint to law enforcement: It doesn't matter whether copyright infringement is ethically good or bad. It doesn't matter whether these sites are legally liable for copyright infringem…

This is not about some new vulnerability. It is a survey of collected public keys. The main security-relevant conclusion is that some key generators are not using enough entropy. D…

One aspect I've never thought about before is the selection of representatives for parliament/legislature. In the U.S., they're pre-selected in primary elections per party, but the…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS_frequency_bands#UMTS-FDD (scroll up slightly from there to see the five "major" UMTS bands identified. NOTE: GSM/EDGE band support is different fr…

I've followed the discussion of the AF447 investigation on several flight discussion forums. The PF (Bonin) apparently never became aware of his angle of attack (once the airplane …

(tl;dw for the video: it's about the dramatically improved detection of breast cancer particularly in dense breast tissue (where mammographies often fail to visibly differentiate t…

Could google vary the crawling rate on each site and see what effects that has on response times, and develop an algorithm to adjust crawl speed so as not to affect site performanc…

By casual observation, probably 90% or more of the driving population violates speed laws regularly; only the people who exceed the limit by 10-15mph or more, or who get caught in …

The Asus Transformer Prime might be disqualified because it's not chromeos and it doesn't have a built in hardware keyboard, but it's a quad-core tegra tablet running gingerbread a…

I didn't know what skyrim was, beyond a vague awareness that it was a game, so I went to elderscrolls.com, only to encounter a flash-wrapped video with no volume control . I see th…

The capsule could have been from some industrial entity that should have protected the capsule until it was handed off to a recycler (one who knew what they were getting), but didn…

I absolutely hate that. Google needs to introduce a www.google.com/adv interface that doesn't respond, "I think you meant salt water, Dave," when you query for [sat water].

http://caniuse.com/#compare=y&b1=firefox+7&b2=chrome+16 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3251 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=6606 No, Chrome still does n…