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mkohleron Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal

As far back as 2011, Matt Blaze was pushing for changes to the copyright policies of IEEE and ACM. http://www.mattblaze.org/blog/copywrongs

mkohleron Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B

http://wiki.c2.com/?WhyIsPayrollHard

mkohleron Boustrophedon

I first encountered the word in the excellent book, Expert C Programming, by Peter van der Linden, who explained that declarations in C are read boustrophedonically.

mkohleron Controlling vehicle features of Nissan LEAFs remotely via vulnerable APIs

I bought a used Leaf two weeks ago from a dealer. From the dash computer, I saw the previous owner's CarWings username and password, as well as his address book, Bluetooth details, and lots of other history. I called Nissan to register the car with the Owner's portal (https://owners.nissanusa.com) and remember being surprised that I didn't have to give Nissan anything that proved I owned the car.