1 Best: Basic Instructions http://basicinstructions.net/
2 Single Best: too many to choose from
3 Best Art: Girl Genius http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/
4 Most Relevant: Dilbert http://dilbert.com/

I've used it. I liked it. For a long time my email sig was "The more I use C++, the more I like Ada".

In US military projects and military software, the term "Joint" has the same meaning as your observation about "Enterprise".

Roughly, yes, he does.

If he is directly directing or controlling the investment in any way, yes he does.

On the other hand, if he owns shares in a "technology contra fund" with independent fund managers, and that fund shorts in MSFT, then he doesn't. On the third hand, if the SEC or some pissed off MSFT investors think he is overinvesting in this hypothetical technology contra fund as a way to get around the reporting rules, then he has to report that too. There is no escape, and very few safe harbors.

If you work for a publicly traded company, and you are subject to the lock-out rules and disclosure rules, there will be someone in your HR's legal and investor relation groups who will explain this all to do you deep and exhausting detail.

I find that Boston does have a distinctive smell. Maybe it *is* the faint trace of methyl mercaptan floating around.

The tech press thinks that OpenStack needs a Linus because the press likes telling narratives about colorful quotable characters because those are easy pieces of content to write, and they sell copy.

The OpenStack project has a number of mutually cooperating teams of people with advanced "groupware" tooling that are doing Just Fine at performing the kind of operational day to day tech direction leadership and patch selection and merging that Linus does for the Linux project.

I was there, I helped write v1.

The reason you had to sort the parameters etc etc was because OAuth 1.0 was designed to be implementable by a PHP script running under Apache on Dreamhost. Which meant you didn't get access to the HTTP Authentication header, and you didn't get access to the complete URL that was accessed. So we had to work out a way to canonicalize the URL to be signed from what we could guarantee you'd have: the your hostname, your base url path, and an unsorted bag of url parameters. Believe me, we *wished* for a straightforward URL canonicalization standard we could reference. None existed. So we cussed a lot, bit the bullet, and wrote one that was fast and simple as possible: sort the parameters and concatenate them.

Go yell at the implementors of Apache and of PHP. If we could have guaranteed that you'd have access to an unmangled Authentication: HTTP header, the OAuth 1.0 spec would have been 50% shorter and a hell of a lot easier to implement.

Somewhere in the bowels of the archives of the US Government is the paperwork regarding Qian Xuesen's attempt at naturalization, his enprisonment, and his deportment. On those papers will be the names and signatures of the US Government bureaucrats who decided to do this. I wonder if any of them are still alive?

I would like to confront them with the results of their ignorant stupidity.

Well, no, what I *actually* would like to do is throw them and their supervisors into a large bonfire...

That sounds like a problem you have there. That is not my experience. The makerspaces I know well in Seattle: Metrix and ALTSpace, are nothing like that. All are truly welcome and encouraged to come play. And the same for the O'Reilly makerfairs. And not via some politically correct faux-welcoming "outreach" either. We have a lot of different kinds of people, working on all sorts of different kinds of projects.

Projects similar to what you describe do happen at spaces like this, and in fact *AT* this very space.

One of the regulars at Metrix is currently working with some friends to build a UAV quad copter.

The widely reported FireSheep project was written and demoed at Metrix.

Recently a class was taught at Metrix on how to pick locks.

A team of geeks working at different space in Seattle launched a balloon to the edge of space.

Your ignorance and apathy is showing. What about trying showing up, looking at what people are doing, and doing something really cool yourself.

If only there was some sort of worldwide network of computers full of information. And if some organization would regularly read all that information into their own computers, and then index it, and give us some sort of simple UI where someone could type something like "hackerspace cleveland" and get a list of all the hackerspaces in Cleveland. Or maybe just one of the computers in that big worldwide network could have a name like "hackerspaces.org", and someone could connect to that machine via some protocol designed to carry hypertext, and find documents about hackerspaces in each city.

That would be great.

Too bad there is nothing like that.

Didn't LiveJournal have this years ago?

How's that Hope & Change working out for y'all?

It has taken Google ten years, a huge study, and suffering under what is their #1 cause of employee turnover, to learn something that is in nearly every good book on management? Most other companies can't do it because they are too stupid to be wise. Google can't do it because they think they are too smart...

If your ISP claims to have IPv6, and isn't advertising their DNS servers over the DNS IPv6 anycast address, they are stupid. If they claim they can't, they are lying. If they claim it's someone else's fault, they are evil.

Why are you believing them?