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I must h/t Matt Simons for bringing my attention to this act, which would significantly curtail the salaries of many IT professionals. His blog post asking for additional input can…

> Why do you assume Americans are more deserving of Apple's manufacturing jobs than the Chinese? Because the consumers of every nation on earth, deep-down, are superficially patrio…

I have seen the light and been converted to the Church of SSD. The expense /is/ worth it. I routinely run Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 (running Windows Deployment Server to re…

Could enterprise software development become "fun" if WebOS fulfills it's potential? Funny to think of BeOS and BeIA becoming HP's NextStep. There's a lot riding on this at HP. I'm…

Edit: I mean, it's 403'd, not 404'd...

A few days ago a neat looking perl script for tracking fares via Kayak made the front page. I can't seem to find the article and the Google code hosting has 404'd: http://code.goog…

Thanks for the leads. I'm in the Washington, DC area so I'll be looking into ShmooCon. I had never heard of it. The other's are on my "too investigate" list, too.

I've only ever been to one conference in my lifetime. I'd like to go to more because I had a fairly positive experience. My primary motivation is that I want to meet new, interesti…

The back-and-forth potshots that faculty members take at each other in the Chronicles comments are even more insightful than the original article. The Chronicle moderators had to g…

Every time I read what comes out of Steve Ballmer's mouth I wonder if that guy has ever touched a computer. Microsoft's employees need to acquire some parrots and eye patches. It's…

It's not that non-university students are immoral or stupid. The article says nothing of the sort. Plagiarism is a basic lesson of university students on day one. You're being too …

Chrome, so far, is the only browser I can keep open with a bazillion tabs for days, weeks, MONTHS without seeing my system take a slow, deadly, performance hit. I'm sorry I didn't …

Every time I hear about this game I'm intrigued. I read a year-or-so-ago about one of the most powerful guilds in the game being infiltrated, it's armories ransacked, and then deci…

If the attack vector is petty theft the following would be more than sufficient: * Encrypt the user data portion of the hd. * Password protect the bios, hard drive (if it has that …

I disagree that search is the only answer and that Google with get AppStores right first because that is their expertise. Everyone is on the "better search" bandwagon because we wa…

While I do think it's a bad idea for the military to outsource computer networks this article uses terrible evidence to back up it's critique and complaints. * "Worse, HP — which a…

This is the part of the obituary that I found the most powerful: Though inventing filled his working hours, Mr. Gundlach was enthralled with canoeing, hiking, skiing — activities h…

Ohlife reminds me of a prettier, and less clever version of 100words. http://www.100words.com/ There's some really interesting creative work coming out of 100words based on folk's …

Note that the course's textbook, which is also called Street Fighting Mathematics, is available via Creative Commons Noncommercial Share Alike: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item…

Anyone have a verifiable citation on this credit to Dyson? Initially my spider sense tingled when something so perfunctory was attributed to a CEO of Coca Cola (a common theme to c…

O'Sensei's thought and style evolved throughout his life. In his younger days, pre-WWII, yes, he was rough and tumble. Movements were sharper and more direct. Break bones, crush yo…