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Personalities like the one that Steve Jobs shows to the world and his employees have their only chance for success in the top seat within an organization. As the summary hints, acting like Steve Jobs would get you fired pretty quickly if you were in middle-management somewhere, or just a worker-bee.

The psychopaths must have absolute control around their environment-- they cannot be held to orders from a boss. Some of the psychos are lucky, some are just personable enough to get things done, some are obsessive yet gregarious enough to build a company.

Steve Jobs got where he is because he never worked for anyone else-- he's never been homogenized inside the corporate zoo. Same goes for Sergei, same for Jerry Yang, Jeff Bezos, and the others: they never knelt at the trough of corporate life and got the stink of doing "just enough to not get fired" on them.

how long it will take his little chair to get him there. Does that thing have snow treads?

mollyhackit writes "Here's a how-to guide for building a keyless entry that uses color identification instead of numbers. All eight buttons are initially blue; as you press the individual buttons they change color. Cycle the colors to your particular pattern, and you're in. This lock obviously wasn't designed for high security use since anyone in the same room would be able to see you and your amazing technicolor dream lock's pattern; it's just a fun project and will keep the youngins out of your workshop (timer prevents brute forcing). The RGB buttons are monome clones from hobby shop Sparkfun."

Differences in the type of memory and I/O controllers used in USB drives can make one device perform two or three times faster and last 10 times longer than another, even if both sport the USB 2.0 logo, according to a Computerworld story. While a slow USB drive may be fine for moving a few dozen megabytes of files around, when you get into larger data transfers, that's when bandwidth contrictions become noticeable. In 2009, controller manufacturers are expected to begin shipping drives with dual- and even four-channel controllers, which will increase speeds even for slower drives.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9093718&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_feat

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers Design Band-Aid-Size Tactile Display

Currently, we get most of our information from computers through visual and audio features. But as researchers from Korea point out, the most widespread sense on the human body is touch. While some tactile ..."
http://physorg.com/news131968663.html

Chemisor writes "BlackLight Power announced the successful testing of a 50kW power generator running on hydrogen from water. Many of you already know about BlackLight Power and its owner Randall Mills as associated with his Classical Quantum Mechanics and hydrinos. Due to lack of an actual working generator, people were naturally skeptical of his claims, and nothing much has been heard about them over the last ten years. Now it appears they are ready with actual commercial production of a hydrino power plant, and if that works, it would be the most important event in the history of physics since 1937."

Kifoth writes "It's Metallica vs The Internet again.

It seems as though the band have tried to strong arm early album reviews off the web.

From the article: "The Quietus and other websites ran pieces on the album, but were quickly contacted by Metallica's management via a third party and told to remove the articles. The Quietus kept our article up the longest and, as no non-disclosure agreement had been signed, [was] not prepared to remove it merely due to the demands of Metallica's management. We only eventually removed the article earlier today to protect the professional interests of the writer concerned"

Metallica: 0 — Google Cache: 1"
http://www.comcast.net/music/blindedbythehype/1462/metallicaalbumpreviewcoverup/

thefickler writes "People who partake in illegal file-sharing in the US have been targeted by ISPs, and the RIAA for a few years now, but British citizens have so far avoided the same levels of copyright control, until now."
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2008/06/06/british-file-sharers-beware-virgin-media-bpi-following-riaa-blueprint/

An anonymous reader writes "HardOCP is a place for hardware enthusiasts to gather and exchange computer wisdom, populated with over 100,000 users and six million posts. However, mere mention of Adblock in any context on HardOCP's extensive forums is rewarded with a permanent IP ban. The Editor-in-Chief Kyle Bennett has taken a hardline stance on a site that includes subforums specifically dedicated to software discussion and even has monetary subscription forums as well. Everyone knows many sites only exist because of funding from advertising, but is this really a rewarding stance for an administrator to take?"

The COROT project of the French Space Agency has detected an object described as defying categorization as a planet, star, or brown dwarf. Although only 0.8 times the radius of Jupiter, it is over 20 times as massive, giving it a density twice that of the metal platinum. If it is a star, it would be the smallest of those ever discovered.
http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=5512

steelneck writes "This is from from the leader of the Swedish Pirate party Rick Falkvinge, who has been running a pull-down-their-pants series on how the national security agencies have been violating the Swedish Constitution for several years. He even had the former minister of defense to visit and comment on his swedish blog about what he is now writing about in english.

The fuss is about a bill in the Swedish Parliament that will mandate the national security agency (FRA, Försvarets Radioanstalt, translates roughly to Radio Agency of the Defensive Forces) to wiretap all phone calls and all Internet communications that happen to cross one of about 20 key points in the national infrastructure, typically placed along the Swedish borders.

All communications will be screened in real time according to automatic criteria. All of it. The communications that match will be automatically saved for manual inspection. These criteria are known only to the FRA and to an equally secret political oversight board, and will be changing constantly depending on what the FRA wants to find.

What this does is to change the default from "you have a right to privacy" to "all your private communications is always wiretapped". The only difference between this and when the East German security agency Stasi opened all letters and selected some of them for closer inspection, depending on a number of criteria, is that the capacity and scale of this system is immensely larger.

The way it looks now, this bill will pass in a vote on June 17. The parties have put so much prestige into passing this bill they can't back down without crashing hard.

Read it all on Ricks blog.

Ohh BTW.
The FRA recently bought one of the 5 most powerful computers in the world from HP. Gee.. wonder why?"
http://english.rickfalkvinge.se/2008/05/25/

hackingbear writes "Starting on June 1, China, the whole country, bans all free plastic shopping bag. Businesses will be fined for giving out thin plastic bags, instead consumers are encouraged to bring reusable bags when shopping. It has been estimated that over 300 million plastic bags were given out everyday in China. When will the US catch up on this?"
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/06/01/vo.china.bag.ban.ap

neomage86 writes "A George Washington University Law professor, John F. Duffy, discovered a constitutional flaw in the appointment process over the last eight years for judges who decide patent disputes.

His paper (at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1128311) shows that patent judges have been appointed by a government official without the constitutional power to do so. This seems likely to undo thousands of patent decisions concerning claims worth billions of dollars since 2000.

Basically, every government official and law professor agrees that this is a major problem, and without retroactive legislative intervention every patent decision of the last 8 years is invalid. Blatantly ignoring the constitution like this may be one of the worst mistakes of the current Administration."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/washington/06bar