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- diversITy: can being gay hold your career back?
- diversITy: can being gay hold your career back?thank uGood article and great research. Somthing different from usual posts. It is very sad that not all people are treated the same at work.Free will...Orientation may or may not exist in terms of genetic factors, but that does not take away the...
- Tags: Professional development, career
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- The tyranny of the majority
- The tyranny of the majorityHi Paul, too true.What OS you use should be driven by the requirements specification matched to the particular strengths and weaknesses of each potential solution... not dogma.All operating systems have differing capabilities, and until someone produces something akin to HAL-9000 or Star Trek's LCARS no one...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, tyranny
- Discussion threads 2008-03-17
- Pakistan blocks YouTube over cartoons
- Pakistan blocks YouTube over cartoonsPeople will stop using the internet?Yeah. Sure. That's what'll happen.Probably best if he's right, though - the internet could do with a few less homicidal maniacs.They're not even particularly good cartoons, and neither are they all that clever...Self-control, people! Murdering random innocent people because someone drew...
- Tags: INTERNET, YouTube Inc., cartoon
- Discussion threads 2008-02-24
- JuicyCampus.com+pushing+the+limits+of+free+speech%3F
- JuicyCampus.com+pushing+the+limits+of+free+speech%3FMight be better......to confront the racists, anti-semites, etc, head on... by refuting them instead of by trying to drive them off campus. The latter has been attempted for more than a generation and all it's succeeded in doing is driving the haters underground, and encouraging extremism by creating a...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Litigation, JuicyCampus
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- SEC urged not to revive 'terrorist' watch list
- SEC urged not to revive 'terrorist' watch listGee, now I wonder why they did that?Could it be because people think they are scum? Yeah, just might be...lolState sponsors of terraism bad.Except when sacred profits are at stake.:o)It's true...The greed of these people knows no bounds.They are busy selling off...
- Tags: Homeland security, terrorism, SEC
- Discussion threads 2008-01-18
- Open source values: openness
- Along with transparency and consensus, a third key open source value is openness. (Poetree from the 2005 Labyrinth Guild of New England festival. Click here for the poem.) Openness means the simple availability of the resource. All the resource. When someone violates openness, the rent is obvious....
- Tags: Religion, Simple Availability, Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- Ethanol isn't a magic word
- Ethanol isn't a magic wordDissapointing articleI was actually hoping the article would delve into the flawed science behind the ethanol craze. Ethanol is a stupid alternative fuel, driven by government edict, pork and artificially created oil shortages brought on by environmentalist extremism.It's inefficient, results in food shortages and is a...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Ethanol, food
- Discussion threads 2007-10-04
- NY police commissioner: 'Internet is the new Afghanistan'
- NY police commissioner: 'Internet is the new Afghanistan'I agreeMan this guy is on top of things! Free expression and individual rights are defiantly problems. When people have the ability to share ideas and express them selfs they sometimes come up with ideas that go against the mainstream. What we really...
- Tags: Homeland security, censorship, terrorism, Internet, INTERNET IS, tower, 9/11 commission
- Discussion threads 2007-08-15
- News to know: iPhone software update; FCC and open wireless; Facedown
- Notable headlines:Jason O'Grady: iPhone software update 1.0.1 released. Gallery below.Ryan Naraine: Apple monster update fixes iPhone, Safari, Mac OS X flaws.FCC approves some open wireless requirements. Google public policy blog: Signs of real progress at the FCC.Dan Farber: Facebook becomes Facedown. Techmeme. Facebook, Tagged and Bebo outpacing MySpace growth rate.Mary...
- Tags: News to know, Google, General, Facebook, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- TorrentSpy lawyer battling 'copyright extremism'
- TorrentSpy lawyer battling 'copyright extremism'If someone ordered me to give the contents of my RAMI'd pull the RAM from the machine and send it to them.Smart manThe effectiveness of any law depends on public buy-in and voluntary compliance this is particularly true of taxation and franchise monopolies, so it stands...
- Tags: Memory, RAM, TorrentSpy
- Discussion threads 2007-07-31
- GPL 3 release set for Friday
- GPL 3 release set for FridayThis is going to be a very special moment in the history of Free Software.A big thanks to Richard Stallman, Eben Morgan, and all of the others working behind the scenes to make the GPL3 the best license on the planet. It will be very...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., GPL 3, GPL 2, GPL
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- A thank you from a Microsoft employee
- A thank you from a Microsoft employeeHaven't read the update?John - do a quick search on the topic and you'll find that the guy who proposed the idea has already backed down. Basically it came down to what my thought was on it in the first place. "You...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Linux, ATi, Free Software Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Andrew Morton, software, kernel, open source, GPL
- Discussion threads 2006-12-15
- Al-Jazeera: Web-inspired business strategy?
- The Economist is knocking Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based television news network, and other upstart 24-hour news services, saying they seem to want influence more than profits. Fox News and before it CNN have followed the same path, growing audiences and influence prior to turning up the revenue. Come to think of...
- Tags: Al-Jazeera
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
- FSF rebuts anti-GPLv3 claims
- FSF rebuts anti-GPLv3 claimsWho needs to listen?FSF says everyone need to listen to them and participate but from what I see it is Stallman that is refusing to listen to anyone.There should not be any ambiguityIf the GPL3 is not sufficiently clear to remove the possibility of such "misunderstandings", it...
- Tags: GPLv3, GPLv2, Free Software Foundation, OSS, Bill Gates, Richard Stallman, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-09-27
- Verizon heeds call of fuel cells
- Verizon heeds call of fuel cellsThe NSA should look into this.Recently, it was reported that the NSA's spying programs would suffer if a blackout occured. Worse yet, BGE is going to jack off... I mean, jack [i]up[/i]... electrical rates some 72% since price caps expired. As of July,...
- Tags: Fuel cells, fuel cell, Verizon Communications Inc., NSA, natural gas, BGE, hydrogen
- Discussion threads 2006-08-07
- Bill Gates, charity and ending poverty
- Bill Gates announced his "retirement" plans live on Microsoft's corpnet an hour before I headed for LAX to make a week-long trip to Mexico. It wasn't your typical trip, as it started in Mexico City and veered into Vera Cruz state by way of Orizaba (the site...
- Tags: poverty, Bill Gates, Jeffrey Sachs
- Blog posts 2006-06-27
- To save Net Neutrality, here's why The Torrents must die- and then be reborn
- Two weeks ago, when fellow ZDNet blogger George Ou and I started having our lively debate about net neutrality legislation, George pointed out that because Bit Torrents and allied technology (a.k.a. "The Torrents") are such a giant bandwidth-suck on the Internet, that the huge amount of bandwidth they consume...
- Tags: Torrents
- Blog posts 2006-06-23
- Net neutrality extremism versus common sense economics
- Net neutrality extremism versus common sense economicsGreat analogyThe analogy to FedEx is the right one. Premium services push the market forward. No one thinks that FedEx somehow slows down the postal services, do they? Instead, the existence of this priority, paid service is that big investments are made in infrastructure...
- Tags: lane, Google Inc., telecommunications company, Net Neutrality
- Discussion threads 2006-06-08
- Net neutrality extremism versus common sense economics
- [Updated 6/18/2006 2:00 AM] In my last blog, I stated that "Net neutrality and politics don't mix" and tried to move the debate beyond fear mongering but no one answered the call to answer some tough questions. Organizations like MoveOn.org and companies like Google have latched on to a...
- Tags: Net Neutrality, Craigslist, Authentium, Markey Amendment
- Blog posts 2006-06-08
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