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Comment Fiber length? (Score 1) 321

Some facilities such as the Mahwah, New Jersey, NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) data center have rolls of fiber so that every cage has exactly the same length of fiber running to the exchange cages.

That just seems silly. They should be charging higher rents for the shorter cables.

Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 94

Google isn't hiring people to actually look at the code and submit changes if problems were found (either internally patched/unreleased, or publicly available; The license allows for either). That would be the truly responsible thing to do.

Maybe they plan on hiring people, but they're establishing the market wages for that job in advance.

Submission + - ZXX: A Font to Annoy the NSA 1

timothy writes: NOTE: THIS MIGHT BE AN OK QUICKIE ON AN NSA STORY, OR ABBREVIATED ...

Edward Snowden isn't the only former NSA contractor who should annoy the agency ("No Secrets Allowed" remains my favorite expansion of the TLA): Reason reports that Sang Mun has created a font called ZXX: 'The font is named after the Library of Congress code ZXX, which labels a document as containing “no linguistic content.” The goal is to make the contents of a document unreadable by text scanning software while still being intelligible to a human reader.' This is probably more of an awareness-raising art project than an important privacy tool (not that raising awareness is a bad thing); I'd like to see a dynamically changing font along the same lines."
http://reason.com/archives/2013/09/14/a-font-to-discourage-nsa-snooping

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