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Comment Re:Would this be good news? (Score 4, Insightful) 1251

I for one welcome this monument. Tolerance and acceptance of those with whom we might disagree has been a principle in our country for many years. I hope that the courage shown in the original decision continues to be the guiding light by which all future decisions are based against.

The problem with your logic is it's too good to ever see the light of day.

Submission + - Attracting developers to abandonware? 1

Submitted by phlawed
phlawed writes: I am a Linux users since the previous millenium. I came from OS/2, which I really liked. I quickly felt at home with icewm, with a suitable tweaked config to give me something resembling Presentation Manager. I may have commented on that before.

Again, I find myself in the position where my preferred 'environment' is eroding. The only force keeping icewm rolling these days are the distribution package maintainers.

I can't code in any meaningful way, nor do I aspire to. I could easily pay for a supported version of icewm, but I don't care to pay someone just to keep it alive. I want someone to take a personal interest in the code, to ensure that it remains up to date, to make it run on Wayland or whatever. I want someone to own the code, be proud of it. Is there a general solution for this situation, apart from whoring for attention on Slashdot?

Submission + - Boulder's tech workers cope with historic flood (computerworld.com)

Submitted by dcblogs
dcblogs writes: Boulder Co. was recently ranked first in nation for its "high-tech start-up density," for cities of its size by the Kauffman Foundation. The ranking is based on a ratio of start-ups to population. But the tech community has left its downtown offices, some of which are flooded and others under threat. Normally there are 70 people working in Gnip's office, but Chris Moody, the CEO, in response to request from the city to get traffic off roads, closed the office. In another part of downtown, TeamSnap's building was flooding, and Dave DuPont, its CEO, said his only commute option was "by boat." The city's decision to ask businesses to close was a sign "that the worse might still be in front us," said Moody.

Submission + - Stock market crashes and spikes caused by 'predatory' algorithms? (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by KindMind
KindMind writes: According to researchers at the University of Miami, "automated 'predatory' robot bankers caused a number of serious glitches that sent the global financial system shuddering to a halt".

According the the researchers, they found that "squadrons of 'ultrafast' and out of control trading algorithms caused major spikes and crashes in the market.", and that "These dramatic events took place in less than 650 milliseconds".

The original article "Abrupt rise of new machine ecology beyond human response time" is found in Nature here.

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