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smogzer··on Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz’ Prosecutor Reaches Goal
Which is a eye opening to show the hipocrisy of the white house.
smogzer··on Aaron Swartz: The Book That Changed My Life
I recommend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_%28book%29

Btw in Lost why did sayd was nice guy in the beginning and died as an evil torturer ? And why does every action series and movies, event toy story 3 promotes torture ?

smogzer··on IBM Exec Husband of Aaron Swartz Prosecutor Takes to Twitter to Defend His Wife
This one needs a post of it's own, not to live under some thread.
smogzer··on In memory of Aaron Swartz: a collection of PDFs from PDFtribute
Cool effort.

But ... its a score to jstor. It's unorganized.

But ... science if full of noise and crappy publications these days anyway. Lots of ways to do the same thing, unprooven and only exists because everybody has to publish to stay relevant.

Now: How to really improve science ? My suggestion: A big python framework for each field of study. That has implementations of the real algorithms and models for comparison and benchmarking and even real life implementation.

See as example in the robotics field, ROS ( Robotics Operating System) . Ros is like a basis glue framework where universities and individuals can publish their code. Its decentralized, it has simulators so that scientists do not need to own the physical robots and can even compare(diff) results and algorithms in a very fast way.

The simulator can have a embedded browser + wiki + quora that explains X.

evolution: physical paper -> PDF -> simulator.

smogzer··on Aaron Swartz commits suicide
In April 2011 i was accused of a small crime that could have given prison also. I was judged in January 2012 and accused to pay a fine of 500€ despite the accusation had no proofs. Every day i though about how to prove my innocence despite being a small accusation, it destroyed my work and mood for the whole year.

How to fix ? if no damage was done there is nothing to accuse of.

And distribution of knowledge should be free, or ransom ware the release of that info to the public should be made available upon compen$ation for the work done, ransomware maybe.

Aaron ideals of greater good and sharing are nobler than any politician or any other bullshitter that get media coverage and have the power to change the world for the better.

smogzer··on Aaron Swartz commits suicide
https://www.google.com/search?q=doj+presecute gives me : DOJ Will Not Prosecute Goldman Sachs in Financial ... - ABC News 9 Aug 2012 – The Justice Department has decided it will not prosecute Goldman Sachs or its employees for their role in the financial crisis...

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivity

Share the load Even if your friends aren’t cheerful, just working on a hard problem with someone else makes it much easier. For one thing, the mental weight gets spread across both people. For another, having someone else there forces you to work instead of getting distracted.

smogzer··on Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released
I would like to include a speech recognition in my commercial projects, but the license is GPL and is tied to KDE. I've also tried sphinx before but the recognition is kind of poor and it lacks a gui for user/developer configuration of the grammars.

I wonder if speech recognition software can be developed with a : - Dynamic Time Wrapping (DTW) algorithm for comparing utterances/words. - A recording device for the users to record their words. - Context separation like simon uses for limiting the phrases to listen at any time and improving accuracy.

smogzer··on QT 5 launched by new owner, Digia
People from hacker news, check out qtquick or QML, it's like html but without the legacy and the bad parts, just powerful syntax for developing apps, and thanks to network transparency QML can be downloaded from the web also.

QT5 is a dream come true, and when it becomes omni-deployable (android, ios, raspberry pi) it will be even better.

smogzer··on From Idea (Saturday) to Build (Sunday) to TechCrunch (Tuesday). And Now?
you should define some filters for the target repliers and to notice that is a real question. e.g. #q.code.java .

Listeners/repliers would subscribe those.

smogzer··on Make legal documents subject to software patent laws
Why not model laws as UML patterns ?
smogzer··on Apple patents the page turn
The photoshop plugins: Kai power tools and alien skin. Already did page turn effects back in +-92.
smogzer··on US Government: You Don't Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time
It should be quite the contrary. The government(that represents the public) data should be open, like in a stream, where anybody can see what's "flowing", gov emails should be shouted to the stream. Then the public or some algorithm should analyse the stream to maximize global happiness, resources, prosperity.
smogzer··on L'Aquila quake: Italy scientists found guilty of manslaughter
If the data (plots, spectograms, etc) was made public on realtime the opinions/warnings would be issued by independent scientists or ordinary people or algorithms that would issue the chance of something happening and nobody would get punished.

RAW DATA NOW.

smogzer··on Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof
They have to do it like this:

- emule like dht.

- keep a cache of 1000 of ips that had trustworthy content in different ip neighbourhoods.

- provide a pub-sub of new content + hot/top files.

- seed one-to-download one file. Host encrypted content, freenet style to have faster speeds on other files. Never allowing a file to go seedless.

- the software could be provided as a chrome+firefox sandboxed addon or something like that.

Go hackers go.

smogzer··on Why Marissa Mayer should acquire IFTTT and go all in on Yahoo Pipes
There is also http://tarpipe.com which is similar to ifttt but with a gui more like yahoo pipes.
smogzer··on Google Glass: Apple Granted Patent for Head-Mounted Display
It's just one patent in a field that has been producing patents for a long time. Take the example of Microvision that is on the top 20 of patent receivers in America and has been doing HUD for the military for a long time. They also have done research for projection directly on the eye retina, i guess that's hard to top.
smogzer··on From MIT, a cure for all viruses?
Go to kickstarter or some other funding method that will NOT patent or copyright this. Something like the JOBS acts would provide. This is too disruptive to have in the hands of big pharma.
smogzer··on Google's Android 4.0 ported to x86 processors
So is Ballmer starting to throw tables out of the windows ?
smogzer··on Python Ecosystem - An Introduction
Nice list. I would replace django with web2py, it is closer to the python philosophy imho.
smogzer··on What If We Paid Off The Debt? The Secret Government Report
Report From Iron Mountain is similar: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Report_fr...

Anyway money is just a tool to keep the populus occupied. And since without problems or debt there would be no need for governments and banksters, they shall exist to create problems(government) and debt(money) and therefore assure they survival.

smogzer··on Is Nokia's CEO a Microsoft mole?
I never got to understand all that maemo, symbian, meego operating system differences. Couldn't they just use linux and get some QML frontend in front of it. It seems really a lack of direction/duplication of efforts.
smogzer··on Trader: I dream of another recession (and Goldman Sachs rules the world)
If everybody goes shorting the market like the meta-morph in there advises; skeletor, the guy controlling the markets from it's castle will make a short squeeze by buying those shorts and pretend to be he-man. Saving Europe and the likes and postponing the apocalipto, at least in the stock markets.
smogzer··on Samsung Galaxy S 2 (International) Review
Maybe they use Europe for testing. Maybe because it's a huge market that request must be filled all at once. Imagine there was a problem and they had to return the devices to factory.
smogzer··on Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki
I also use a dokuwiki installation. It has lots of plugins like rendering to openoffice, pdf, presentation (s5 system). It has access control lists, code formatting, a hierarchical document system, it is very intuitive to use also.

It needs php but no database.

smogzer··on Get $40k grant for your startup. Live in Chile for 6 months.
Free lunch ? Or do they want equity ? Can't leave Chile for X years ? Must have headquarters there ?
smogzer··on Poll: Do you visit the 'new' section of Hacker News?
yes, since the community is more cohesive/engineer/enterpreneur than reddit that has lots of noise/funny/look_at_me these days. So in Hacker News, the news tend to be "faster".
smogzer··on Ignored disabled man builds his own damn elevator
A friend of mine used to say i live in a building for disabled people. This is because my building has ONLY ramps and no stairs, also very handy for taking the bike.

Since the public space in the building is open, no windows :) the rain also wipes the floor clean.

smogzer··on Poll: Android developers, what IDE do you use?
Anybody here developing in C++ with Qt + QDevelop + Necessitas ?
smogzer··on OOP in Bash
does anybody know if it works for zsh also ?
smogzer··on Government Debt (chart)
It's about survival.

For politics:If everything is well we wouldn't need politics to make it right. Therefore politics must assure that everything is screwed for them to prosper.

For banksters: they must assure that that everyone is indebted and even entire countries in order for them to survive.

Don't expect solutions from those that thrive on the misery of others.

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