killerswan

Exactly my thought.

My introduction to Scheme, incidentally, came while I was learning JavaScript, and it was through a book that hadn't originally been written in Scheme, either: http://javascript.crockford.com/little.html

I have seen lots of companies add that button, and I have never seen a company remove it!

So I suggested one kind of contract to write which would ensure payment of that sort, rather than the usual.

Possibly: ownership of the IP only transfers upon final payment.

I suspect that Neanderthals were smart enough and talented enough that we'd call them human and give them civil rights, today, if any were around. They mind be kinda odd, and incredible football players, but who knows.

I wonder at the legal status of this digital copy of the original article.

Words seem smaller and lighter than seeds...

Yeah, _access is ownership_, after all.

s/MD5/SHA-256/ or some sort of PGP signature...

Yeah, the free market would work effectively if no producer and no consumer had the power to set the price...

An alternative model, though, is mailing addresses: bureaucratic, cheap, and a primary part of civilization for 2500 years.

It would have been interesting if the USPS had jumped on this idea about 20 years ago, but now it is too late.

Legal code and computer code can have more in common than either politicians or programmers usually want to admit... It is some sort of miracle that the USA has lasted this long at all!

Exactly. This is one of the best copyright disputes I've seen in years.

That is true, but you know that if a McDonalds employee used his fryer at work to do that, the headline and litigation would be about them, too. :P

Regarding Anonymous, most of these cases will probably never be solved: there is probably far less evidence than the fragments the FBI had on Ivins or Hatfill.

All I'm saying is that Anonymous could really be _anyone_.

You assume this wasn't done by the USA's military, like the anthrax attacks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks

Due to the anonymous nature of these things, some of these recent attacks could easily be from within the USA's govt, just like the anthrax letters were.

It does seem clear, though, that we all have a lot to learn about protecting information...

D:

I've also heard things about how, for example, simply walking regularly for exercise can sometimes be more effective than chemotherapy.

Yeah, IIRC, a lot of the apparent loss in brain function is really just cardiovascular.

Yeah, that is the most amazing part!

Personally, I'm not surprised the name came from IRC...

> It is Google+ not providing the ability to hide your gender on your profile ...

Seriously, what am I missing?

I think they unambiguously want to be indexing everyone's whole social graph. Facebook and others certainly do it anyways, but under the pretense that some people are to remain hidden and others are not...

Mandatory labeling of race, religion, and, yes, gender is rarely wise...

As far as the terms themselves, O'Reilly was talking about a change in focus from software to data... http://twit.tv/floss73

From that angle, then: SourceForge is a great place to download installers, while GitHub is a great place to get the nitty-gritty details about making a bit of software.

This age range, 15-24, is really diverse, but here we have college graduates, college students, high school graduates, high school students, and younger dropouts, all mixed into the same statistic.

What percentage of college grads are unemployed? What percentage of high school dropouts are unemployed? Several decades ago, when the 55+ crowd was under 24, what were their employment rates? What are these trends across gender?

Given how few sectors feature competition between 55- and 15-year-olds for the same work, the given comparison is far less interesting...

So what? Gender isn't relevant to every online activity.

A century ago we didn't have any gender neutral clothing, either: if we need better pronouns, then let's make some up.

What protocol is it that routes around censorship, exactly?

What is the software that automatically prevents a server from being unplugged by a co-location facility? What about TCP/IP prevents a blogger from being beaten unconscious in front of his children, then taken away by plainclothes 'police'?

(I sometimes think that only a totalitarian government's propaganda minister would keep repeating this trope about routing around in the age of China's firewalls, etc.)

Elected politicians have to aim for the short-term goal of getting re-elected. Money, and both monetary and fiscal policy, are based on collective hallucinations that people rarely think clearly about. No politician wants to be seen idle, and killing projects makes enemies, so they make new projects and spend more money.

As Bob Kerry once pointed out, sometimes it can be truly heroic to simply do nothing.

With all the stuff on circuits, state machines, and probability, this course may be easy to sell EEs on teaching and taking.

Exactly. Right now we're only beginning to explore this stuff.

VLC is another tool I had trouble memorizing the name of. "VideoLAN? That must be something different..."

There's a lot of similarity between their ~censorship of Wikileaks and the censorship performed by ISPs and search engines like Baidu, in China.

Certain members of the government simply make unofficial suggestions, and the private companies _voluntarily_ block things.